KEN LUDWIG (Book) is the author of several Broadway and London hits. Crazy for You won the Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Helen Hayes Awards as Best Musical of the Year and was broadcast nationwide in 1999 on PBS "Great Performances." Lend Me a Tenor won two Tonys and an Outer Critics Circle Award and was nominated for England's prestigious Olivier Comedy of the Year Award. On Broadway, Moon Over Buffalo starred Carol Burnett, then Lynn Redgrave, and is in production for the West End in London. Ken's work has been translated into 16 languages and performed in over 30 countries around the world. His newest play, Leading Ladies, will open next season, and he has recently been commissioned to write a new play for the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. His Off-Broadway hits include Sullivan and Gilbert, Postmortem and Divine Fire. For film, he has written All Shook Up for director Frank Oz and Touchstone Pictures and Lend Me a Tenor for Columbia Pictures. He is a founding member of the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington. He is married to Adrienne George and has two children, Olivia and Jack.

DON SCHILTZ (Music & Lyrics) A 1993 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Don Schlitz was one of Nashville's preeminent songwriters and the author of numerous chart-topping hits. He was a native of Durham, North Carolina, and after a short stint at Duke University in the early '70s, he moved to Nashville to seek his fortune, working as a swing-shift computer operator for five years while honing his songwriting skills. Schlitz got his big break in 1978 when Kenny Rogers had a monster hit with his "The Gambler." The number one smash not only became one of Rogers' signature songs, but also spawned a series of TV-movies; later, Schlitz recorded and released his own version of the hit on his debut album, Dreamers Matinee. During the '80s, many other prominent artists recorded his songs, including John Conlee, Alabama, Randy Travis, Tanya Tucker, and Keith Whitley. Schlitz frequently co-wrote songs with Paul Overstreet; one of their most distinguished collaborations was "Forever and Ever Amen," which became an enormous hit for Randy Travis. In 1987, Schlitz wrote or co-wrote five number one singles, including "On the Other Hand," another hit for Travis. He continued steadily churning out hit songs, and was even commissioned by President George Bush to compose a theme for his "Points of Light" campaign in the early '90s.