John Kavanaugh is currently serving as songwriter/musical director for Disney's brand new princess, Sofia the First. He took home the Daytime Emmy Award® for _x001c_ Outstanding Song: Main Title_x001d_ for Sofia the First.

Jeremy Desmon (Bookwriter) is an award-winning writer whose stories have played on stages throughout the world.

Jack Murphy has worked on a wide variety of projects as both lyricist and composer. Collaborating with Frank Wildhorn, he wrote lyrics for Linda Eder's EMI album "And So Much More", as well as ten songs for her latest Atlantic album "It's Time".

Best known as a pivotal creative mind behind the renaissance of Disney animation and his work on The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and The Beast (which is dedicated to, "Our friend, Howard Ashman, who gave a Mermaid her voice and a Beast his soul...") Ashman's first love wa

Richard Bean was born in Hull in 1956. After school, he worked in a bread plant before leaving to study Psychology at Loughborough University. Richard has worked as a psychologist and a stand-up comedian. He lives with his partner Erica and two daughters, Tilly and Ruby.

Multiple Grammy, Ivor Novello and BMI Award winning David Arnold is one of Britain’s leading film composers and music producers.

Richard is best known for writing and composing the award-winning Jerry Springer: The Opera (National Theatre/West End/Carnegie Hall/Sydney Opera House). Jerry Springer… has collected awards across the globe including four Olivier Awards in 2004.

Bob Carlton is the Artistic Director of the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. He read Drama at the University of Hull and on graduating won an Arts Council Trainee Director's Bursary to the Belgrade Theatre in his hometown of Coventry. 

HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE in partnership, wrote books for The Sound of Music, Call Me Madam, Happy Hunting, Anything Goes and Red, Hot and Blue; and the plays Life with Father and The State of the Union (Pulitzer Prize).