Hannah Corneau(Music & Lyrics)

Hannah Corneau made her Broadway debut as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway. She most recently starred as Elsa in Frozen this July at The Muny. She has also starred as Edna St. Vincent Millay in the critically-acclaimed Transport Group production of Renascence. Previously, she traveled around the country as Yitzhak in the First National Tour of Hedwig and The Angry Inch. An artist from New York, Hannah blends genres with her sweeping vocal range. With origins from the theatrical world, storytelling is paramount within her composition and artistic expression.

Mona Mansour(Book)

Mona Mansour is a Lebanese-American playwright and TV writer. Her credits include: Unseen (Mosaic Theater, Washington, D.C., Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Vagrant Trilogy at The Public Theater (New York Times Critic Pick) and Mosaic Theater; The Way West (Steppenwolf, Labyrinth); and We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War (Golden Thread). She conceived of the play Beginning Days of True Jubilation, about a start-up gone bust, with the theater company SOCIETY, which she co-founded with Scott Illingworth and Tim Nicolai. With Tala Manassah she has written Falling Down the Stairs. Their play Dressing is part of Facing Our Truths: Short Plays about Trayvon, Race and Privilege.

She started as an actor, performing in the famed Groundlings Sunday Company in Los Angeles. As a writer, she got her start when she was chosen to be part of The Public’s Emerging Writers Group in 2009. Awards and fellowships include an award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters; the Kesselring Prize; the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting; the Whiting Award; Macdowell and New Dramatists. Mona was a writer and producer for NBC’s long-running series “New Amsterdam” and has created a series set in the Middle East for Waleed and Joana Zuaiter’s FlipNarrative.

Shankho Chaudhuri(Set Design)

Shankho Chaudhuri is a designer and artist working across theatre, dance, music and XR. He holds an MEng in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and a joint MA MSc in Global Innovation Design from the Royal College of Art and Imperial.

Shankho is an associate of Poltergeist, an award-winning devised theatre company, and was Staff Associate Designer for New Diorama Theatre 2021–22 and Resident Design Assistant at the National Theatre 2019–20. He was Creative Director of the 2024 ARRIVALS stage at Glastonbury, the festival’s first space dedicated to South Asian artists.

Previous Designer credits include: Hot Mess (Birmingham Hippodrome); More Life, Living Newspaper (Royal Court); Alice in Wonderland, Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan (Brixton House); Traplord (Factory International/180 The Strand/Sadlers Wells); Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse Schools tour); Here, Here, Here (TRSE); Five Plays (Young Vic); Ghost Walk (Poltergeist Theatre); Final Farewell (Tara Theatre); Inside (Orange Tree Theatre); and Art Heist (New Diorama Theatre). As Associate Designer: The Witches (National Theatre). As Associate Set and Graphic Designer: Is God Is (Royal Court). As Assistant: Death of England: Delroy and Death of England (National Theatre).

Ben Stanton(Lighting Design)

Ben is a lighting designer for theater, concerts, dance, installations, and events. He is a five-time Tony Award® nominee as well as an Obie, Lortel, IRNE, and Ovation Award winner.

Ben is currently represented on Broadway by Maybe Happy Ending at the Belasco Theater. Recent Broadway credits include: The Notebook at the Schoenfeld Theater; Mary Jane starring Rachel McAdams;  Days of Wine and Roses starring Kelli O’Hara & Brian d’Arcy James; Goodnight, Oscar starring Sean Hayes; The Collaboration starring Paul Bettany & Jeremy Pope; Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol featuring Jefferson Mays; The Rose Tattoo starring Marisa Tomei; Derren Brown: SECRET at the James Earl Jones Theater; Regina Spektor: Live On Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater; Ayad Akhtar’s JUNK at the Vivian Beaumont; Six Degrees of Separation starring Allison Janney, Corey Hawkins, and John Benjamin Hickey; Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening at the Lena Horne Theater; Fully Committed starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson; and Fun Home (Broadway, Off- Broadway, 1st National Tour, London).

Dominic Bilkey(Sound Design)

Dominic Bilkey is a Tony® and Olivier-nominated Sound Designer and is currently Head of Sound & Video at the National Theatre in London, England.

He is actively involved in the teaching sound and associated technologies at several UK Universities. He is co-creator of Atlas Show Control and specializes in spatialized object-based audio.

Online Designs: Original Readings, Viral – Online Film, Apollo 13, Birdsong Online (Original Theatre).

Recent Designs: This Is My Family (Southwark Elephant, Anthology Productions); Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief Musical (The Other Palace, Bill Kenwright Ltd); The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre, International, West End & Broadway); Iolanthe, Pirates of Penzance (English National Opera); Darker Shores, Three Steps to Heaven (Windsor Theatre Royal); Stumped (Original Theatre Hybrid); Into the Night (Original Theatre Hybrid); Death of a Salesman – Soundscape Designer (Elliott Harper Productions); Pippi Longstocking the Musical (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella & Aladdin (Windsor Theatre Royal); Peter Pan (National Theatre and White City Troubador); Highway One (Welsh Millennium Centre); Shadowlands (Birdsong Productions); Go Bang Your Tambourine (Two’s Company); Flarepath (Birdsong Productions); Jane Eyre (National Theatre/Bristol Old Vic & Touring); Pinocchio (Guy James and Szpiezak Productions); Tommy the Musical (Aria Entertainment, Guy James and Szpiezak Productions); Birdsong (Birdsong Productions/Original Theatre).

As Associate Sound Designer: Great Britain West End (National Theatre); Public Enemy, The Government Inspector and Wild Swans (also ART, Boston) at the Young Vic; Kafka’s Monkey for the Young Vic and International Associates; The Hound of the Baskervilles on UK Tour; and A Voyage Round My Father at Donmar Warehouse.

Awards:
2014 TTA Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Sound.
2022 Outer Critics Award for Sound Design, The Lehman Trilogy.

Nominations:
2019 Olivier Award for Sound Design, The Lehman Trilogy.
2022 Tony Award® for Sound Design, The Lehman Trilogy.

Adam Rothenberg(Orchestrator)

Adam is a music director, conductor, and pianist based in New York City. Broadway: Sunset Boulevard; Illinoise; Sweeney Todd; Spamalot; Company; Miss Saigon; and Chicago. Off- Broadway: Watch Night (music director, PAC NYC); See What I Wanna See (music director, Out of the Box Theatrics); and The Light in the Piazza (Encores). He has served as pianist/music director for Patti LuPone (at Lincoln Center Theater), Josh Groban, Ruthie Anne Miles, and Matt Doyle, and has performed with the NY Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra.

Jerome van den Berghe(Musical Director)

Training: University of Surrey (BMus Music and Sound Recording [Tonmeister]) and ArtsEd (MA Musical Theatre Creative Practice).

Theatre includes: Stereophonic (UK Music Supervisor, Duke of York’s Theatre); Passing Strange (Musical Director, Young Vic); Spitting Image: The Musical (Musical Supervisor, Phoenix Theatre); High Society (Musical Supervisor/Orchestrator, The Mill at Sonning); Clueless the Musical (Music Associate/Cover Conductor, Trafalgar Theatre); 13 Going On 30 the Musical (Music Associate, Manchester Opera House); A Knights Tale the Musical (Music Associate, Manchester Opera House); Crazy For You (Musical Director, UK Tour); Mamma Mia! (Musical Director, RCCL); Beauty and the Beast (Musical Director, The Hexagon, Reading); Bat Out Of Hell (Assistant Musical Director, UK Tour); Calendar Girls (Assistant Musical Director, UK Tour); The Producers (Assistant Musical Director, International Tour); Catch Me If You Can (Orchestrator, Arts Ed); Smile & Time After Time (Orchestrator, Mountview); Big Fish (Associate Orchestrator, The Other Palace); I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical (Co-Arranger, Crazy Coqs, Edinburgh and more); The Girl from the North Country (Music Assistant, Old Vic, Noel Coward Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Copyist, Old Vic) and Matilda (Copyist, International Tour).

Michael Greif(Director)

Michael Greif is a five-time Tony Award® nominee for his original direction of the groundbreaking musicals Rent, Next to Normal (which both won the Pulitzer Prize), Grey Gardens, Dear Evan Hansen, & Hell’s Kitchen. Other notable productions include War Paint (Broadway), If/Then (Broadway), The Low Road, Fucking A, Dogeaters, Giant, Machinal, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (The Public), Our Lady of Kibeho, Landscape of the Body, Angels in America (Signature Theatre), A Parallelogram, Make Believe (Second Stage), Far From Heaven and Spatter Pattern (Playwrights Horizons), Man in the Ring (Huntington). In the 2024 Broadway season, Michael directed Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen and Days of Wine and Roses, and co-directed The Notebook (with Schele Williams). Off-Broadway, he’s received Obie Awards for Machinal, Dogeaters (Public), and Rent (NYTW), and has directed new plays and musicals at Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, MTC, MCC, New York Theatre Workshop and at Second Stage, where he directed Next to Normal and Dear Evan Hansen. Regional work includes premieres and revivals at Williamstown Theatre Festival (ten seasons), La Jolla Playhouse (Artistic Director, five seasons), The Goodman, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Dallas Theater Center, Trinity Repertory Company. Michael holds a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego.