Jeff Ward (Book, Music & Lyrics) is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He wrote jokes for Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” from mid-Colin Quinn through mid-Tina Fey, and writes music and comedy for National Public Radio and the comedy group Euphobia. He appeared as an actor in Born Again Again at Joe's Pub and Nico: Underground at Theatre for the New City. His short stories are published in May Contain Nuts (Harper Perennial), Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit (Crown), and The Lowbrow Reader Reader.

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Michael Schiralli (Director) Artistic Director of Half Moon Theatre at the Marriott Pavilion at The Culinary Institute of America, where he has directed:  Yours, Anne, Vanya and Sonia and Masia and Spike, A Christmas Carol, I Love, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, The Fantasticks, It's A Wonderful Life, 2 Ten Minute Play Festivals and Side By Side By Sondheim.  Some recent Off-Broadway credits include: Jeff Ward's Take One (Fringe), Nico Underground (NY Times critic's pick), The critically acclaimed A Chanukah Charol (New World Stages) and David Simpatico's Prom Queen (Playwrights Horizon).  Other notable productions:  Sleepless Variations with Mary Testa & Michael Starobin (Barrington Stage), Jackie Hoffman’s solo shows including The Kvetching Continues (Time Out Award) and The Tragic And Horrible Life Of The Singing Nun (NYMF, 3 awards), Varla Jean Merman shows and videos including Enough About Me: An Unauthorized Biography, Coco Peru shows including: Undaunted (GLAAD Award), The Vendler Television Playhouse (Guiding Light TV Cast), Bob&Carol&Ted&Alice with David Rackoff (Culture Project), Born Again Again! with Tammy Faye Starlite, Valentine’s Day Massacre (Drama Dept.), Nothin’s Easy and Nobody’s Happy with Colette Hawley, Gas, Food, Talent (West Bank), Darlene Love’s True Love (N.Y., L.A.), Songs for a New World (with Beth Leavel and Jason Robert Brown), Damaged Care (U.S. House of Congress), Everything's Coming Up Moses with Seth Rudetsky, MTW’s Holiday Extravaganza with Kristin Chenowith, Free & Equal (Yip Harburg Foundation) the feature film, Varla Jean And The Mushroomheads, and the upcoming new musical Hit Her With The Skates (UCPAC Hamilton Stage), and John Cariani's new play cul-de-sac.

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Tim Hurley (Producer) has been producing and general managing in New York for the last two decades.  He has worked with numerous NYC-based organizations including the Dodgers, Groundswell Theatricals Inc., The Wooster Group, York Theatre Company and The Peccadillo Theatre Company (PTC). Tim general managed Talk of the Town, Ladies of the Corridor and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn for PTC.  As a member of the Dodger Management Group, Tim worked on the Broadway productions of Music Man, Blast!, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into The Woods, Dracula, and Good Vibrations, the Off-Broadway productions of Barbra’s Wedding and BARE, the National Tours of Blast!, 42nd Street and Urinetown, and the international production of 42nd Street in Stuttgart, Germany.  Tim recently produced the short film Counterpoint.
 

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