Lawrence Kasha produced in the theater for twenty years. He won the Tony Award for the musical hit Applause starring Lauren Bacall. He received an Emmy nomination for the television version.

LEE POCKRISS has written pop songs, film scores and Broadway shows.

Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others.

LESLIE BRICUSSE - (Composer/Lyricist/Librettist) Double Oscar and Grammy winner Leslie Bricusse was a writer-composer-lyricist who has contributed to many musical films and plays during his career.

Joseph Dougherty s plays have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club and Lincoln Center Theater, receiving Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations.

Joseph Stein won the Tony Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for Fiddler on the Roof. His other musicals include Zorba (Tony nomination, Drama Critics Circle Award); Rags (Tony nomination); The Baker's Wife (Olivier Award nomination, London); Take Me Al

Joshua Logan (1908-1988), a director and writer, was best known for Broadway and Hollywood shows such as MISTER ROBERTS, PICNIC, and SOUTH PACIFIC.

Julie Shannon, (composer, lyricist) is a Chicago songwriter, pianist and singer.