Timothy James Price is an American songwriter, record producer, and the co-founder of the writing and production group Rock Mafia, alongside Antonina

Frank Galati has been a member of the Steppenwolf ensemble since 1985.

Robert L. Freedman won a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Book of a Musical for the Tony-winning Best Musical of 2014, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.

Jenny Laird was a long-time Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, where her first play BALLAD HUNTER premiered and earned a Joseph Jefferson Nomination for Outstanding New Work and won Chicago s Cunningham Prize for Playwriting.

Randy Courts has collaborated with playwright/lyricist Mark St.

Internationally produced and published playwright and book author and respected director, teacher, and actor, Will Osborne s career in professional theatre spans four decades.

Sammy Cahn was nominated for more than 30 Oscars, and won four times. His songs were recorded by virtually every major singer. And he wrote some of the best known of all popular songs.

Walt Disney valued quality artists, like multi-talented Xavier Atencio, who helped animate Disney classics from 1938 until 1965, including "Fantasia".