Team HAB
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.