Jason Robert Brown (Los Angeles, CA) is the Tony Award-winning composer of the musical Parade, as well as The Last Five Years and Songs for a New World. He is also a pianist and singer and leader of the Caucasian Rhythm Kings.

Dan Elish (New York, NY) is the author of eight novels, including The Worldwide Dessert Contest (for kids'), 'Nine Wives (for grown-up types) and Born Too Short, which won a 2004 International Reading Association Students' Choice Award.

A 20-year veteran of TV and film, Robert Horn (Los Angeles, CA) has written and/or produced such series as Designing Women, Living Single, and High Society, as well as the screenplay for Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure for Disney.