Robert Lopez
(Music and Lyrics)

first two Broadway musicals, Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, have both been critical and commercial smash hits and Best Musical Tony Award winners. He shared Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book for The Book of Mormon. He also shared a Tony for Best Original Score and a Grammy nomination for Avenue Q, which he co-wrote and conceived. With wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he co-wrote Finding Nemo: The Musical (playing at Walt Disney World since 2006), the Broadway-bound original musical Up Here and songs for Winnie the Pooh(Disney feature animation, 2011). He shared two Emmy Awards for his music for The Wonder Petsand an Emmy nomination for the Scrubs musical episode. Member BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild, WGA, AEA, Yale grad, native NY'er.

Jeff Marx
(Music and Lyrics)

with Robert Lopez made their Broadway debut with Avenue Q (Music and Lyrics, Original Concept). They began writing Avenue Q in the BMI Workshop in 1999, thinking it was a great idea for a TV series ? three years later it was produced Off-Broadway, Broadway (with three Tony Awards), Las Vegas and London. Bobby and Jeff are currently writing the screenplay and songs for a new movie-musical for Universal Pictures as well as writing a new Broadway musical with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park. Their other works include a new Muppet movie called Kermit, Prince of Denmark (which received the coveted Ed Kleban Award) and Ferdinand the Bull, a children's musical for TheatreWorks/USA.

Jeff Whitty
(Book)

won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Avenue Q, which ran six years on Broadway and then moved to its current home off Broadway at New World Stages. Additional mountings include five years in London's West End, U.S. and U.K. national tours, and dozens of international productions. This fall, his new musical Bring It On kicks off a New York bound national tour at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, with a score by Tom Kitt, Amanda Green, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Whitty's plays include The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler,The Hiding Place, The Plank Project, Balls, and Suicide Weather. Theaters mounting his work include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Alliance Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, Vineyard Theatre, and The New Group, as well as The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, which hosted developmental workshops for Avenue Q and Tales of the City.

(Information from the American Theatre Wing web site)