Will Aronson (Book, Music) and Hue Park (Book, Lyrics) have created the original musicals Maybe Happy Ending (Richard Rodgers Production Award, six Korean Musical Awards, productions running in Korea, China and Japan), IL TENORE (currently running at Seoul’s 1700-seat Blue Square Theater), and the upcoming Ghost Bakery (December 2024, Seoul’s Doosan Arts Center). They also created the musical stage adaptation of the film Bungee Jump (Korean Musical Award for Best Score), which was cited by The NY Times in 2013 as “Korea’s most popular original musical.” In addition to his work with Will Aronson, Hue Park has written lyrics for K-Pop (including the top-20 song 울어도 괜찮아), and has translated many shows for the Korean stage, including The Phantom of the Opera, The Bodyguard and M. Butterfly. Will Aronson’s other work includes the music for My Scary Girl (Best Musical, NY Musical Festival), Mother, Me & The Monsters (Barrington Stage, Boston Globe Critic’s Pick), Pete the Cat (TheatreworksUSA, six national tours), Wind-Up Girl (Ars Nova Uncharted), and Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Günter (Village Theater, NAMT grant). 

Michael Arden was awarded the 2023 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his production of Parade starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, which will have a national tour beginning early 2025. Michael was also Tony nominated for his revivals of Once On This Island and Spring Awakening. Michael wrote and directed Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which played the Nederlander Theatre last holiday season starring Jefferson Mays. Michael is currently co-directing The Preacher’s Wife at the Atlanta Alliance Theater by Tituss Burgess and Azie Dungey. He will also soon helm the new Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino musical The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenowith, and a new musical adaptation of the cult film The Lost Boys. Other directing credits include: Maybe Happy Ending at the Atlanta Alliance, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, and site specific works: American Dream Study and ALIEN/NATION with his company The Forest of Arden. Arden has been named on Variety’s Impact List and is the winner of an NAACP Award for best direction of his revival of Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Annenberg in Los Angeles. In addition to directing theater in America and around the globe, he regularly directs “The Connors” on ABC, and has appeared in numerous features and TV shows, most notably: “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Bride Wars”, “Anger Management”, “Source Code”, and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. On stage, Arden has appeared on Broadway in Big River; The Times, They Are A-Changin’, and King Lear. Arden is a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and alumni of the Interlochen Arts Academy and The Juilliard School.

Dane Laffrey is a designer and creative based in New York City. With Michael Arden on Broadway, Dane designed the set for Parade; set and costumes for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which he co-conceived with Arden and for which he was nominated for Hewes and Tony Awards; set for the 2018 Tony-winning revival of Once On This Island for which he received Henry Hewes, Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations; set and costumes for the Deaf West revival of Spring Awakening. Elsewhere, he and Arden have collaborated on Queen of Versailles (upcoming in Boston), Guys and Dolls (Toho, Imperial Theatre Tokyo), Merrily We Roll Along (Wallis Annenberg), Annie (The Hollywood Bowl) and many forthcoming projects for stage and film. Laffrey and Arden are partners in At Rise Creative, which won a 2023 Tony For Best Revival of a Musical for Parade. He has designed for most major off-Broadway theaters including Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club (also Fool for Love on Broadway), Lincoln Center Theatre, Second Stage, The Public, Playwrights Horizons, others. Laffrey also designs Disney’s Hercules which recently premiered in Hamburg, Germany. Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in set and costume design. www.danelaffrey.com

Clint Ramos is a creative director, designer and producer. He is the Producing Creative Director for Encores! at New York City Center where he led and designed projects like Billy Porter’s revisal of The Life, The Light In The Piazza with Ruthie Ann Miles directed by Chay Yew and Jelly’s Last Jam directed by Robert O’Hara. He was the lead producer for Here Lies Love on Broadway and is the visual director for Lincoln Center’s Summer For The City Festival. In 2023 he designed long-time collaborator Robert O’Hara’s landmark production of X:The Life And Times of Malcom X at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Film credits include production design for Lingua Franca by Isabel Sandoval for Netflix. And costume design for RESPECT, the Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson for MGM. He is the recipient of a TONY Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for Eclipsed starring Luipta Nyong’o, making him the first person of color to win that category. TONY nominations were for his costume designs for The Rose Tattoo, Once On This Island, Torch Song, KPOP and for his scenic design for Slave Play. He also is the recipient of two OBIE Awards, including one for Sustained Excellence in Design, 3 Lucille Lortel Awards , A Drama Desk Award, An Outer Critics Circle Award, 2 American Theater Wing Henry Hewes Awards, TDF Irene Sharraf Young Master Award, Helen Hayes Award, Craig Noel Award, among other honors. He is the recipient of the Ani ng Dangal Presidential Medal for dramatic arts from the President of the Philippines-he received this honor twice. He has designed over two hundred theater, opera and dance productions. Selected credits include the Broadway productions of Grand Horizons, Burn This with Adam Driver and Keri Russell, Six Degrees of Separation with Allison Janney, Sunday in the Park With George with Jake Gyllenhaal, In Transit, Violet with Sutton Foster and The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper (also West End) among others. International credits include designs for The National Theatre, West End and the Barbican (London), O’Reilly (Dublin), Kanon (St. Petersburg), Rijksteatern (Stockholm), Thalia (Bucharest), and Tanghalang Pilipino (Manila). @clintramos

Broadway Credits Include: The Notebook, Mary Jane, Days of Wine and Roses, Goodnight Oscar (Starring Sean Hayes), The Collaboration, A Christmas Carol (Starring Jefferson Mays, TONY nomination), The Rose Tattoo (Starring Marisa Tomei), Derren Brown: Secret, Regina Spektor: Live On Broadway, Fun Home ( TONY nomination), Junk ( TONY nomination), Six Degrees of Separation, Deaf West’s Spring Awakening ( TONY nomination); Fully Committed (Starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson), An Enemy of the People, Seminar. Ben serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, and he’s the founder and principal designer at Stanton Collaborative, a full-service design firm specializing in concerts, events, and lighting installations. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, the projection designer Lucy Mackinnon, and their two children.

Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award Honor for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. A Grammy, Olivier, and eight time Tony nominee, his selected Broadway designs include: Moulin Rouge!, Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Once On This Island, Something Rotten, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway,. Other designs: Awakening, Le Rêve and Lake of Dreams at Wynn Las Vegas. Peter holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

George Reeve is a London based video and projection designer whose work can be seen across the UK and internationally. Upcoming video design credits: OLIVER! (Chichester Festival & West End); The Lord of the Rings (ShakespeareTheatre, Chicago); Hairspray (UK Tour); Sondheim Old Friends (Broadway); A Christmas Carol (The Lowry); Maybe Happy Ending (Broadway). Video design credits include: Hercules (Neue Flora, Disney Theatrical); Tarzan (Stuttgart, Disney Theatrical); Sondheim Old Friends (Gielgud & Sondheim Theatre, West End); Sunset Boulevard (Princess Theatre, Melbourne); In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse/Toronto); The Lord Of The Rings (Watermill); Hey Duggee The Live Theatre Show (Royal Festival Hall and UK Tour); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Turbine Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, West End); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre); Notes From a Small Island (Watermill Theatre); Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Hope Mill Theatre); Dawn French Is A Huge Tw*t! (UK/Australia Tour, BBC); Sandi Toksvig – Next Slide Please (UK Tour); SIX (London & Broadway); The Sound of Music (National Tour); Now Is Good (Storyhouse Chester); Gypsy (Alexandra Palace); Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre); RENT, The WIZ & Hushabye Mountain (Hope Mill Theatre); But I’m A Cheerleader (Turbine Theatre); The Pleasure Garden, The Convert (Above The Stag); Avalanche (Bloom Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (UK and UAE Tour); NoiseBoys & VIVA Club (Norwegian Cruise Line); Cinderella In Concert (Cadogan Hall); Welcome Aboard (Viking Cruises); Musicals In Concert (Palladium, Stuttgart). George won the award for Best Video Design in the 2023 Broadway World UK/West End Awards for his work on The Lord Of The Rings at the Watermill Theatre. He was also an Offie 2022 Finalist for Best Video Design for his work on The Pleasure Garden at Above the Stag. https://www.georgereeve.co.uk

Deborah K. Abramson has served as Music Director for the Off-Broadway premieres of The Gardens of Anuncia, Bernarda Alba, and Broadbend, Arkansas, and the Off-Broadway revival of Vanities. She has also served as Associate Music Director for several Broadway and Off-Broadway premieres, including Spring Awakening, James Joyce’s The Dead, Dessa Rose, My Life with Albertine, and The Glorious Ones. First Children’s Music Director on Broadway, for Matilda the Musical. Music Director for world premiere of The Gardens of Anuncia (Old Globe) and English-language premiere of Maybe Happy Ending (Alliance Theatre). As composer, she has written Old Older Oldest (with William Finn), Young Marco Polo (with Peter Mills), The History of War (with Amanda Yesnowitz and Chip Zien), On the Verge (with Amanda Yesnowitz). Education from Wheaton College Conservatory and NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing. www.deborahabramson.com