Briana Harris is a Brooklyn-based librettist, lyricist, and occasional composer. A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, she is a member of both the BMI Advanced Bookwriting Workshop and Theatre Now New York’s Musical Theatre Writers Lab. Her musicals, including PLUTO: A Rock Opera, Pompeii Rising, The Spectacle of Spectres: An Evening in the Green-Wood Cemetery, and The Axeman’s Jazz, have been featured in concert at venues across New York. She is the co-producer and host of Verse Intro Cabaret, a monthly series spotlighting new voices in musical theatre. She's also the creator of three board games: No Reservations (Anthropologie exclusive), Smokoland: The Friendship Trail, and Act Your Age (Barnes andNoble exclusives). 

Chaz Cardigan is a versatile creator who has thrived in the age of algorithms. He’s created music for the YouTube Audio Library, had a top 15 Alternative radio hit with “Not OK!” in 2020, contributed “As I’ll Ever Be” to the NETFLIX film To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, and has amassed 24+ million streams across all platforms. Cardigan composed the upcoming musical The Brass Teapot — a timely and magical dark comedy. Cardigan’s original score takes influence from show tunes and alternative rock, opening a new chapter of his career.

David is a NYC based playwright and director specializing in new musicals. With his brother Paul he has written Awaken: a Sleeping Beauty musical, Get the Duchess, We Were Wild, You Heard It Here (NY Winterfest Best Musical Score). He wrote The Holy Cows of Credence South Dakota and Facing East with frequent collaborator Mark-Eugene Garcia. David directed Wild Women of Planet Wongo, All Star: the Best Broadway Musical, Nutcracker! the musical, and his own award-winning You Heard It Here. His plays include What We Deserve (Next Stage Press), Not the Same Old Story & Life Lessons with Susan Gail (both Wide-Eyed Winks semi-finalists), and more. David co-hosts the official Drama Book Shop podcast with Mark-Eugene Garcia.

Doug Reside is the Curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, where he oversees archival acquisitions, the Theatre on Film and Tape video documentation program, exhibitions, programs, and researcher support. He also founded a musical theatre writing program in 2013 for emerging theatre makers. Reside holds a PhD from the University of Kentucky (2006). His book, Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.

Erik Kaiko is a creative producer, general manager, and arts marketer. He is proud to be leading the Brass Teapot musical development team. Chicago: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Filament Theatre, Writers Theatre, Token Theatre. New York: Joey Parnes Productions, Invisible Wall Productions, Snug Harbor Productions, New York Theatre Workshop. B.S. Northwestern University, MFA Columbia University.

Kit Goldstein Grant is a New York City based composer, lyricist and librettist. She recently wrote the musical MICRO-FACE, for NPR podcast PLANET MONEY, and her musicals have been seen in South Africa (THE NOSE) and at various venues in NYC including Theater Row (THE GIANT HOAX). Five of her musicals for young audiences have toured schools with the Schenectady Theatre for Children, includingIT’S RAINING TAMALES!, which is published by YouthPLAYS.Kit has studied at Juilliard, the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, and holds a M.M. in Composition from Brooklyn College. She is also a teaching artist, working with NJPAC, New York City Children’s Theater and the Metropolitan Opera and with her own company, Paper Kite Arts. Kit is a member of ASCAP, the Dramatist’s Guild, Composers Collective, and Theatre Now New York's Musical Writers Lab -www.tnny.org. 

Paul Rigano is a composer, arranger, and music director, and the half of the Rigano Songbook that's more often sitting at the keys. As a pianist, he's gotten to tickle the ivories all over the world, including New York, Chicago, Texas, California, Italy, France, and Spain, mostly working on theatrical projects. Favorites include the world premiere of Be More Chill at Two River Theatre, Broadway Bounty Hunter at Barrington Stage, and sailing around the Mediterranean Sea as a dueling pianist aboard the MSC Seashore. On Broadway, he's served multiple roles in the music departments of the recent revivals of West Side Story, The Music Man, and Funny Girl. His arrangements can be heard on Ian Brodsky’s second album, Friendly Neighborhood Something or Other. He is very fortunate to get to make a lot of art that he's proud of with people he's proud to know.

Ramaa Mosley is a filmmaker and activist who directed her first documentary at the age of 16. Since then, she has directed feature films and hundreds of award-winning commercials and is a director and showrunner on premium television series. Ramaa has been named one of Shoot Magazine’s top 10 Female Directors and is the founder of the youth-focused advertising agency Adolescent Content. A vocal advocate for girls’ and women’s rights around the world, she is also known for launching the U.S. social media campaign behind Bring Back Our Girls.

TeamHAB is a musical theatre writing team featuring composer Henco Espag and book and lyric collaborators Andi Lee Carter and Briana Harris. The trio met as students in the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Their epic time-travel musical Pompeii Rising has been presented in concert at Judson Memorial Church. They have been members of the Theatre Now NY Writers’ Lab since 2021. Originally from South Africa, Henco Espag is on the faculty at St. Peter’s University and serves as music director and conductor for the Queer Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band and Judson Memorial Church. Andi Lee Carter is an alum of the American Opera Project’s Composers & the Voice program. Briana Harris is a member of the BMI Advanced Bookwriting Workshop. Since 2023, Andi and Briana have co-hosted and produced Verse Intro Cabaret, a monthly series that spotlights new work by emerging musical theatre writers.

Tim Macy is an author, screenwriter and playwright. His work has been performed at The Kennedy Center, and two of his stories have been adapted into films. Currently, he has two feature films in pre-production. Tim lives in Kansas with his wife and two children. MFA University of Kansas.