Alan Govenar (Playwright) is an award-winning writer, playwright, poet, photographer, and filmmaker. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of more than forty books, including Boccaccio in the Berkshires, Untold Glory, Texas Blues, Stompin’ at the Savoy, and A Pillow on the Ocean of Time. His book Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter won First Place in the New York Book Festival (Children’s Non-Fiction), a Boston Globe-Hornbook Honor; and an Orbis Pictus Honor from the National Council of Teachers of English. Govenar’s film, Stoney Knows How, based on his book by the same title, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and was selected as an Outstanding Film of the Year by the London Film Festival. His films, including Extraordinary Ordinary People, Myth of a Colorblind France, and Looking for Home, are distributed by First Run Features. Govenar’s theatrical works include the musicals he has created with Akin Babatundé: Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues (Leon Rabin Award for Best Musical or Play), Blind Lemon Blues, and Lonesome Blues. The world premiere of Govenar’s musical, Texas in Paris, starring Tony Award winner Lillias White, was presented by the York Theatre in New York City and the Festival de l’maginaire in Paris.

Phaedra Michelle Scott (Playwright) is a writer based in New York City. She is a staff writer with CBS/Showtime. Her playwriting credits include Diaspora! (2024 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Play, 2022 Great Plains Theater Conference); Plantation Black (developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm, InterAct Theater Company Playwrights Horizons, 2024 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference); and Good Hair (Commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant & Ensemble Studio Theater, developed with Pipeline Playlab). Her podcast work included Pleasure Machine, developed with Colt Coer. Other plays include The Puritans (commissioned by Sparkhaven Theater Company) and Unity (commissioned by University of Massachusetts, Amherst). Phaedra’s work lies at the intersection between history, fantasy, and science fiction. She is a crocheter, horror enthusiast, and a deep lover of all things obscure.

Edgar Godineaux (Director and Choreographer) is a choreographer and director whose unique and highly stylized work is represented throughout the entertainment industry. Edgar choreographed Jelly’s Last Jam at NY City Center Encores!. He is a Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Award Nominee 2023 for Outstanding Choreography for The Harder They Come at The Public Theater. Barrymore Award for Outstanding Choreography/Movement for Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole at Geffen Playhouse. NAACP nomination for Best Director/Choreography for Larger Theatre in Los Angeles for Memphis. Jeff Awards Nominee for Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical (Studebaker Theater in Chicago). Broadway Associate Choreographer: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, (Tony Award for Best Choreography), Memphis (Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award for Best Choreography), and Leap of Faith. Edgar is currently the Director/Choreographer for HITCity: Temptations Edition, a new Broadway style concert. As a performer, Edgar has enjoyed the opportunity to travel the world touring with artists such as Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Karyn White, and Diana Ross. He has performed on Dancing with the Stars, The Oscars, and Motown 30 (Associate Choreographer to Debbie Allen). Select Broadway performance credits include: Aida, Swing!, The Pajama Game, Dance of the Vampires, and Merrily We Roll Along (The Kennedy Center Honors). Select Film Credits: Associate Choreographer for Idlewild featuring Outkast, Boldin, and The Five Heartbeats. Edgar had the great fortune to learn from and work with Lindy and Swing icons Frankie Manning and Norma Miller while filming the TV movie Stompin’ at the Savoy, directed by Debbie Allen. As Norma, the “Queen of Swing,” always said, “when in doubt, SWING OUT!”

Greg Anthony Rassen (Music Supervisor, Arranger, and Additional Orchestrations) Drama Desk winner and Tony nominee for Bandstand. Other Broadway credits include: An American In Paris, Bullets Over Broadway, Little Mermaid, Book of Mormon, R&H’s Cinderella, A Chorus Line (Revival). Composer: Tulsa Ballet’s Remember Our Song by Andy Blankenbuehler. Arranger/orchestrator: Bandstand (Broadway), Bruce (Seattle Rep), Between The Lines (Second Stages), Jerry Springer: The Opera (New Group), Beast In The Jungle (Vineyard); New York Pops, Boston Pops; Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom, Jr., André Previn. M.M. degree from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

James Noone (Scenic Designer) Broadway productions include Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill, A Time to Kill, Match, A Bronx Tale (play), A Class Act, Jekyll and Hyde, The Rainmaker, The Sunshine Boys, The Gin Game, Inherit The Wind, and many others. Off­ Broadway productions designed include The Boys In The Band, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, White Chocolate, Frankie and Johnny in The Clair de Lune, Ruthless!, Full Gallop, Fully Committed, Three Tall Women, Manhattan Theatre Club, Irish Rep, PlaywrightsHorizons. Lincoln Center Theatre, The Women's Project and Productions and others. Opera Companies he has designed for are The English National Opera, Glimmerglass Festival,Washington National Opera. Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera Of Chicago, Atlanta Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and others. For TV and Film his work has appeared on Live from Lincoln Center, Great Performances, HBO. Awards include the American Theatre Wing Design, Drama Desk, Helen Hayes, and LA Ovation awards.

Devario Simmons (Costume Designer) Devario is an American Costume Designer; his credits include Broadway: Thoughts of a Colored Man; Off-Broadway: Table 17, The White Chip, Bees and Honey, Tumacho, Between the Bars, Emergency!, and P.S. Additionally, Simmons has had the pleasure of being a guest artist at: Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Opera St. Louis. His regional credits include MCC, The Geffen Playhouse, Clarence Brown Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Asolo Rep., TheatreSquared, Geva Theatre, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bucks County Playhouse, The Long Wharf Theatre, Jean's Playhouse, Syracuse Stage and Baltimore Center Stage. Other credits include Rustin (Netflix), three seasons of AMC's television show Turn, the 2nd National Touring production of In the Heights and two seasons of PBS television series Mercy Street. Member of United Scenic Artist 829.

Alan C. Edwards (Lighting Designer) West End: Harry Clarke. Off-B'way: Sally & Tom (Public); Sunset Baby, Fires in The Mirror [Lortel Norn.], Twilight: LA 1992 (Signature NYC); Harry Clarke [Lortel Award] (Vineyard); Kill Move Paradise [Drama Desk nom] (NBT); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night (CTH); Dakar 2000 (MTC). Regional: Appropriate (Old Globe); Beautiful (Asolo Rep); Gatsby: An American Myth, Twilight: LA 1992 (A.R.T.). Dance: In The Same Tongue (Dianne McIntyre); Chasing Magic, NYCC Artists at The Center '23 (Ayodele Casel); Lifted by Christopher Rudd for American Ballet Theatre. Broadway: Assoc. to Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary. Teaching: Yale School of Drama. alancedwards.com

Jon Weston (Sound Designer) Broadway design credits include: The Wiz; Parade; Paradise Square: Prince of Boadway; She Loves Me; Amazing Grace; An American in Paris; On the 20th Century; You Can't Take It With You; The Bridges of Madison County; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; 13: The Musical; Les Miserables (2006 revival); The Color Purple; Caroline, or Change (Audelco award); Nine; Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off-Broadway and Regional: The Connector; Double Helix (Bay Street); Ragtime (Bay Street); The Prompter (Bay Street); Evita (Bay Street); Grey Gardens (Bay Street & The Ahmanson); The Last Five Years (Second Stage).

Brian P. Whitted (Music Director) a North Carolina native, studied Classical Piano Performance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and UNC Greensboro. A church pianist and choir director since age 8, he launched his career in New York City as Music Director for the George Faison Firehouse in Harlem. He worked on If This Hat Could Talk starring Stephanie Mills, Melba Moore, and Tony Terry, and Love Lies featuring Angie Stone and Brian McKnight. He was Musical Director for Phylicia Rashad’s Paul Robeson and Zora. starring Lynn Whitfield, arranging music for both. Brian also worked on Cook, Dixon, and Young (Three Mo’ Tenors), An Evening with Mario Cantone, and Ashford & Simpson’s Invisible Life. He served as Music Director for Jennifer Holliday, Brenda Braxton, and Tituss Burgess and played and conducted for Chicago: The Musical on Broadway for 14 years. He performed in the orchestras of Violet, Shuffle Along, and The Color Purple and toured with Roberta Flack and Bebe Winans. As pianist, arranger, and background singer for Bette Midler, he made his Carnegie Hall debut. Now in Wilmington, NC, he is Music Director of Opera House Theatre Company.

Ciera Miller (Assistant Director) National Tour: Hadestown

Bill Elliott (Orchestrations) Broadway: Bandstand, An American in Paris, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Swing!

Greg Anthony Rassen & Ming Aldreich-Gan (Additional Orchestration)

Zane Mark (Additional Arrangements) Broadway: BOOP! The Musical, Motown The Musical, Bring in ’Da Noise Bring in ’Da Funk

lark hackshaw (Production Stage Manager)

Liz Forrester (Assistant Stage Manager)

Emily McGregor (Assistant Stage Manager) 

Karen Dyer (Assistant Choreographer)

John Millerd (Associate Sound Designer)

M Picciuto (Props Manager)

Ming Aldrich-Gan (Score Supervisor)