Composer Frank Churchill is best known for his work on many of Walt Disney's early animated classics, contributing some of the best-loved songs in the company's catalog. Churchill was born in Rumford, ME, on October 20, 1901, a

(Co-author Book and Music Copacobana), has triumphed in every facet of music, including performing, composing, arranging and producing.

“Ollie was a madman,” animator and Disney Legend Frank Thomas once observed, “funny, eccentric, noisy, unexpected—and loved by everyone.” This combination of traits seems to have fated Oliver Wallace to a varied and unconventional career creating music for The Walt Disney Studios.

RAY KELLEY has worked as a professional cellist for over 50 years. At age 18, he worked in Hollywood [his home town] for one season as a cello player in a Country Western band on The Spade Cooley Show, broadcast on KTLA-TV.

Eric Svejcar is a composer and musical director living in Brooklyn, New York. With David Zellnik, he adapted Disney’s Peter Pan Jr. which has been produced by hundreds of schools across the US.

David Zellnik is the author of numerous plays and musicals seen in New York and beyond. 

Broadway as arranger or conductor: Big Fish, Drood, Scandalous, Curtains, and The Apple Tree, Musical supervisor for Dreamgirls at the Apollo (also national tour, Korea, and South Africa).

Musicals: Murder Ballad (book and lyrics); Sarah, Plain and Tall (book); The Mice (book, 1 act of Hal Prince's 3hree). Plays: Boy, Tatjana in Color, St. Scarlet, Smoking Lesson, Dark Yellow, Astrological Quit Claim Deeds , Jones.

Juliana Nash was the rhythm guitarist, and singer-songwriter for the band Talking to Animals, which was signed to Columbia and Velvel Records. Her work has been featured in films such as Rob Morrow's Maze and Eric Schaeffer's Fall. She is the proud recipient of an MTC/Sloan commission.

Brian Crawley is a playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the book and lyrics for A LITTLE PRINCESS (composer Andrew Lippa) which debuted at Theatreworks of Palo Alto in the summer of 2004.