Jay Reiss is playwright. He is a Julliard graduate and provided additional material to the book for THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. Reiss appeared in the original workshops, Off-Broadway cast, and Broadway cast of the musical as Vice Principal Douglas Panch.

Scott Ellis is an American stage director and television director. Ellis has directed numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway productions, including the New York City Opera Company revivals at the New York State Theatre.

Broadway/West End credits: Death Note: The musical (book), Bonnie & Clyde (book), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (additional material), and his comedy, The Cemetery Club, which has been produced worldwide, in over a dozen languages.

Erich Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, and Classics Professor.

Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984) was the son of a lawyer who had his first contact with show business playing piano for the silent films.

BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG, frontman of the rock band Green Day, came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley.

Mr. Mayer made his Metropolitan Opera debut with a celebrated new production of Rigoletto.

Lee Hall was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1966 and studied English Literature at Cambridge University. He has worked as a writer in theatre, TV, radio and film. He has been writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

His life and career: Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Brecht studied medicine and worked briefly as an orderly in a hospital in Munich during World War I. After the war he moved to Berlin where an influential critic, Herbert Ihering, brought him to the attention of a public longing for modern theater.

Rob Ashford won the 2012 Olivier Award for his production of Anna Christie starring Jude Law and Ruth Wilson at London's Donmar Warehouse.