SCOTT FRANKEL’s work as a composer was most recently represented on Broadway with War Paint, starring Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole. The show played the Nederlander Theatre following a record-breaking engagement at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Other credits include:  Grey Gardens (Tony nomination), The Flamingo Kid (Hartford Stage), Far from Heaven (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Happiness (Lincoln Center Theater), Doll (Ravinia Festival) and Meet Mister Future (Winner, Global Search for New Musicals). The Songs of Scott Frankel & Michael Korie were presented as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. Frankel is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation New Horizons Richard Rodgers Award and the Frederick Loewe Award. He is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and a graduate of Yale University, where he teaches musical theatre composition.

MICHAEL KORIE received The Marc Blitzstein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his work in both musical theater and opera. He wrote the lyrics to composer Scott Frankel’s music for the Broadway productions of War Paint and Grey Gardens, both with books by playwright Doug Wright, and the Off- Broadway productions of Far From Heaven, Happiness, Doll, and Meet Mister Future. Korie and Frankel’s scores have been nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards, received The Outer Critics Circle Award, and have been produced on Broadway, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, throughout the USA, in Europe and South America. Grey Gardens had its European premiere in London where it was awarded the Offie Award for Best Musical of the year. His newest collaboration is Flying Over Sunset, book by James Lapine and music by Tom Kitt, at Lincoln Center Theater later this Fall. For opera, he adapted John Steinbeck’s novel for the libretto to The Grapes of Wrath composed by Ricky Ian Gordon. His original librettos to operas composed by Stewart Wallace include Harvey Milk, Where’s Dick?, Kabbalah, Hopper’s Wife, SuperMax set to premiere in 2021, and Harvey Milk which returns in a new production in 2021 at Opera Theater of Saint Louis. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis with composer Ricky Ian Gordon premieres in Autumn 2020 at New York City Opera. His operas have been produced at San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, New York City Opera, BAM Next Wave Festival, Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Michigan Opera, and abroad in Germany and Australia. Korie’s lyrics have received the Edward Kleban Prize, Jonathan Larson Award, and the ASCAP Richard Rodgers Award. His songs with composer Scott Frankel were featured at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, and at The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage Broadway Today. He serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild, co-chairs the Opera Librettists Committee, and moderates the musical theater division of the Dramatist Guild Fund Fellows Program. He teaches lyric writing at Yale, and libretto writing at Columbia. He is a Fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. www.MichaelKorie.com

JONATHAN TOLINS is best known as the author of Buyer & Cellar, for which he won a Lucille Lortel Award, and which was named “Best Unique Theatrical Experience” by the Off-Broadway Alliance when it premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater before moving on to a long, successful run at the Barrow Street Theatre, a national tour, and a London engagement at the Menier Chocolate Factory.  It has since had over a hundred productions and was shown on the WNET series, Theater Close-Up. Other plays include The Twilight of the Golds (Broadway, Booth Theatre), If Memory Serves (Promenade), The Last Sunday in June (Rattlestick, Century Center), Secrets of the Trade (Primary Stages), and The Forgotten Woman (Bay Street Theater). A collection of his plays has been published by Grove/Atlantic. He was also represented on Broadway by additional material written with his husband, Robert Cary, for the revival of On the Town. His film work includes The Twilight of the Golds starring Brendan Fraser and Faye Dunaway, and Martian Child starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet, both co-written with Seth E. Bass. For television, he was a writer for Queer as Folk (Showtime, first season, co-producer), the 2000 and 2002 Academy Awards, the 2003 Tony Awards, Partners (CBS, consulting producer), BrainDead (CBS, consulting producer) and is currently an executive producer for The Good Fight (CBS All Access). In addition, he and Robert Cary wrote the script for Grease Live!, the Emmy award-winning live broadcast based on the classic musical, and A Christmas Story Live!, both for Fox TV. Jon was the author of Pushkin 200: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, acted as script consultant on Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular, and co-wrote The Divine Millennium Tour and The Showgirl Must Go On for Bette Midler. He has written articles for Opera News, Opera Monthly, TheaterWeek, Time Magazine, and The Huffington Post, and is a regular panelist on the Metropolitan Opera Radio Quiz. Jon lives in Fairfield, Connecticut with his husband and their children, Selina and Henry. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America.