PETER GOOTKIND (Book, Music, Lyrics) has written theme music for CBS Big-East Radio, Lane Gainer’s Bullet Belt and the video documentary, Baseball’s Five Hundred Club. His songwriting has been represented in revues at Don’t Tell Mama and Triad in NYC. Most recently, he has co-written a non-musical entertainment, Sketchup: 14 Ounces of Comedy, with his favorite collaborator, Marni Goltsman. Gootkind and Goltsman's “Shemp Fuller” was the winner of Florida Studio Theatre’s 2002 Shorts Contest. Peter’s current affiliations include BMI and The Dramatists Guild.
		MARNI GOLTSMAN (Book) is the author of What Did I Do With the Fish?, a full-length play that has enjoyed successful readings at Waterloo Bridge Theatre in New York City and Theatre With Your Coffee in Miami. Her short play, Bananerry, was produced in the Drop Your Shorts Play Festival in New York City. Marni is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, the Lucy Moses School’s Musical Theatre Writer’s Workshop, and most recently, Donna DeMatteo’s HB Studio playwriting class. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
		DAN FOSTER (Director) is a co-founder of Hudson Stage Company in Westchester NY, a professional theatre company dedicated to the production of new works. For HSC he has directed the world premiere of David Wiener’s Baltimore Star, and the New York premieres of 37 Postcards, Full Bloom, and True Home, a new musical written by Cass Morgan, with a score by Mark St. Germaine, Randy Courts, Stephen Schwartz and Jeanine Tesori. Other directing work has been seen at Playwright’s Horizons, London’s Donmar Warehouse, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Westbeth Theatre Center, The Miranda Theatre, the Theatre Estradi in Moscow, Russia, and Pegasus Players in Chicago. He has directed The Molly Maguires (world premiere), Sunday in the Park with George, Twelfth Night, A Few Good Men, Sea Marks, The Unexpected Guest and Fools. He also directed the internationally acclaimed Sibling Revelry starring Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway, as well as its sequel, Relative Harmony that recently opened in New York and Los Angeles.
		Albert Ahronheim (Musical Director/Arranger) arranged and/or conducted the Off-Broadway productions of The Big Bang, Eating Raoul, Pets!, The Fertilization Opera, Kiss Me Quick Before the Lava Reaches the Village, Love In Two Countries, and Doctor! Doctor!; and regionally: Young Rube at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Eleanor: An American Love Story at Ford’s Theatre, Doctors & Diseases at The Barter Theatre, The Molly Maguires at the Media Center for the Arts, and Peter Pan at Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has orchestrated and produced music for Martha Stewart: Living and for several productions of Shakespeare and Charles Ludlam at Actors Theatre of Louisville. He wrote the music for Voices In the Dark at Seattle’s A Contemporary Theatre and at The George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ, and, while performing as the Drum Major of the University of Michigan Marching Band in the early-to-mid ’70s, co-wrote “Let’s Go Blue!,” a musical cheer used in the films The Big Chill and Primary Colors and now played in arenas and stadiums nationwide. His arrangements are published by Warner Brothers, United Artists, Hal Leonard, Chappell Music, Samuel French and Theodore Presser.

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