Creighton Irons is a composer/lyricist from beautiful Chapel Hill, NC.  His musicals include aliveinsignificance (2001), Ran Together (2003), and Soul Notes (2005), and his original songs have been performed in cabarets across the country.  Irons received his BA from UNC (Morehead Scholar, 2005) and his MFA from NYU-Tisch’s Musical Theater Writing Program (2008).  www.creightonirons.com

SEAN MAHONEY is a New York City-based based composer, lyricist, and librettist for contemporary rock musicals. His works have been performed and staged at Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, New World Stages, Birdland, Goodspeed Musicals, American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, Barrington Stages, and CAP 21. His recent pieces include the original rock musical FACTORY GIRLS (book, music and lyrics co-written with Creighton Irons), which was featured in the 2009 National Alliance for Musical Theater Festival of New Musicals, Sweet Cassandra - A Greek Rock Opera (co-book, music, and lyrics with Amy Burgess), Diaper Derby (music by Sean Mahoney; book and lyrics by Janet Allard) and SKITOWN, a North Country ski movie musical. In his spare time, Sean is an active DJ, rock and funk guitarist, and independent record producer. He earned his MFA in Musical Theater Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and previously attended the University of New Hampshire (B.A., English & Music), and Phillips Exeter Academy. Sean lives in the East Village with his wife Emily and son Tee.

MAGGIE-KATE COLEMAN wrote the book and lyrics for POP!, music by Anna K. Jacobs (Yale Repertory Theatre, December 2009, directed by Mark Brokaw) and From a Childhood, written with Erato Kremmyda (Montclair State University, April 2009). Her work has been featured at The York Theatre Company’s NEO Cabaret (with composer Daniel Maté), Joe’s Pub, Barrington Stage, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Prospect Theater Company, Goodspeed Musicals, The Darlinghurst Theatre (Sydney, Australia), New York Theatre Barn, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Songwriters Showcase. Current projects include Sugarjuice, a songwriting endeavor with composer/lyricist Sean Mahoney; in the floating world, a dance theatre piece with composer Erato Kremmyda and choreographer Clare Cook; a full-length musical inspired by poems from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Images; and five:twenty-two, a new musical with composer/lyricist J. Oconor Navarro commissioned by The Musical Theatre Company in Chicago. She is a founding member of the new theatre collective Three Track Mind, and a member of New York City Opera’s Librettists Project: “Words First?” A graduate of Ithaca College and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program, she also trained at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Member: Dramatists Guild of America.