- Creative Team

Howard Ashman followed a distinguished career as a musical comedy librettist, lyricist, playwright, and director with his animated feature film debut, Disney's critically and popularly celebrated The Little Mermaid. Ashman received the 1989 Academy Award® for Best Song for "Under the Sea," written with his longtime collaborator, Alan Menken. Ashman and Menken garnered a total of six awards for The Little Mermaid, including two Academy Awards®, two Golden Globe Awards®, and two Grammy Awards®. Born in Baltimore, Ashman received his education at Goddard College and Boston University, and earned an MFA from Indiana University. He moved to New York in 1974 ... read more Credits include Lysistrata Jones, Sister Act, Xanadu (Tony Nom., Drama Desk Best Book, Outer Critics Circle Best Musical), upcoming Lysistrata Jones. Plays: The Little Dog Laughed (Tony Nom., Olivier Nom. GLAAD Media Best Play), As Bees In Honey Drown (Outer Critics Circle), Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, Music From a Sparkling Planet, The Country Club, Advice From a Caterpillar, The Cartells, upcoming The Nance. Revues: White Lies, Mondo Drama. Screenplays: To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar; Advice From a Caterpillar. Bob Dylan is an American singer and songwriter and is widely considered to be one of the most influential musical artists of all time. He is one of the best selling musical artists of all time and has received many prestigious awards including an Academy Award, ten Grammy Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well as the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Dylan's most influential works are notable for their departure from popular music conventions at the time and their popularity with the ... read more While working as an attorney, Herlihy continued collaborating with Sandler on SNL sketches, including Canteen Boy. They also began working on a screenplay for Billy Madison, which Herlihy wrote at his law firm late at night. Herlihy was hired as a writer at Saturday Night Live in March 1994. He remained at the show after Sandler left in 1995 (being one of five writers to return the next season), eventually rising to head writer and eventually producer. He wrote many political sketches leading up to the 1996 Presidential election, and co-wrote (with Tina Fey) the 1999 sketch in which Monica Lewinsky ... read more David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies called All in the Timing and Time Flies. All in the Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season was the most performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions. His full-length plays include The School For Lies (adapted from Moliere's The Misanthrope and a major hit at New York's Classic Stage Company last spring); The Heir Apparent (an adaptation of J-F Regnard's comedy that was an audience and critical hit at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, ... read more McNally has had a remarkably far-ranging career spanning six decades. In 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won four Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and his musical books for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. He has written a number of TV scripts, including "Andre's Mother," for which he won an Emmy Award. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two ... read more Alan Menken is a Disney legend who has won more Academy Awards than any other living individual, including eight Oscars with 4 for Best Score and 4 for Best Song; 11 Grammy Awards (including Song of the Year for "A Whole New World"); and 7 Golden Globes. He is best known for his work on Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Pocahontas, Enchanted, and Tangled, as well as the onstage musicals Newsies, Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol and Sister Act. He is currently working with Lin-Manuel Miranda ... read more Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, his accolades include an Independent Spirit Award, alongside nominations for three Grammy Awards, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Sandler was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995. He returned to Saturday Night Live as a host in 2019 earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Sandler gained further stardom starring in a string of successful Hollywood studio comedy films that have cumulatively grossed over $2 ... read more Broadway: Disney's The Little Mermaid (2008 Tony Award Nomination - Best Score, Grammy Nomination - Best Cast Album). West End: Sister Act the Musical (2009), Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies (2010, Olivier Nomination - Best Musical). Regional: Leap of Faith (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 2010). Off-Broadway: Newyorkers (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2001, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations). Film: Disney's Home On The Range (2004), Disney's Tangled (2010, Oscar and Golden Globe Nominations - Best Song). Charles put his acting career on hold over thirty years ago, since then he has lit hundreds of shows throughout the UK and across the world. Theatre includes: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Pinter), The Kite Runner (Wyndhams/Playhouse), Queen Anne (Haymarket), Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), Mojo (Pinter), Posh (Duke of York’s), Through the Leaves (Duchess), The River (Broadway), Rutherford and Son, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, A Museum in Baghdad, The Seven Acts of Mercy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Alchemist, Queen Anne, Hecuba, The Christmas Truce (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Donmar), ... read more Phil was the original Music Supervisor/Arranger on the Olivier award-winning Our House (Cambridge) and was also the Original MD on the multi award winning Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace). Since then he has continued to specialise on new musicals and has worked with an eclectic array of composers and other artists. Theatre includes: Local Hero (Edinburgh Lyceum), The Man in the White Suit (Bath/Wyndhams), One Love (Birmingham Rep), The Lorax (Old Vic/Toronto), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), Made in Dagenham (Adelphi), I Can’t Sing! (Palladium), The Miser (Garrick), As You Like It, Hello Dolly!, Gigi (Regents Park Open Air), Human Comedy, My ... read more Lisa had a successful career as a Fashion Editor and Stylist, before completing an MA in Costume Design at the London College of Fashion. Theatre includes: The Normal Heart (National Theatre). Television includes: Hang Ups (Channel 4), Informer (Neal Street Productions), Chimerica (Playground Entertainment). Film includes: Crowhurst (Great Point Media), Been So Long (Film 4), Mangrove, part of Small Axe (BBC). Fashion Editor & Stylist includes: Work for Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Interview. Clint is an acclaimed Director, Writer and Actor. Most recently, he reopened the National Theatre with Death of England: Delroy, which he directed and co-wrote with Roy Williams. Directing credits include: The Big Life (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Apollo, West end), The Westbridge (Royal Court), Kingston 14 (Theatre Royal Stratford East). Writing & Directing credits include: Death of England (National Theatre), Sylvia Plath (Royal Court), The Happy Tragedy of Being Woke (Complicité) – co-directed with Simon McBurney. Writing credits include: The Big Idea – The New Order (Royal Court), Starter Motor – part of Soon Gone Windrush Monologues (BBC), Redacted – The Lock ... read more Theatre includes: Shoe Lady (Royal Court), Poet In da Corner (Royal Court & UK Tour) Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (UK Tour), Jersey Boys (UK Tour), Salad Days (UK Tour), American Idiot (UK Tour), Songs For Nobodies (Wilton's Music Hall & West End), Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall), The Wild Party (The Other Palace), Lazarus (King’s Cross), West Side Story (Bishopsgate Institute), Godspell Concert (UK Tour). As Associate Sound Designer: Dear Evan Hansen (Noel Coward), Tina - The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych, Broadway, Hamburg, Utrecht), Here Lies Love (National Theatre, Seattle Rep), The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales, ... read more Theatre includes: Michael Kohlhaas (Schaubühne), Death of England: Delroy (National Theatre), Death of England (National Theatre), Little Miss Burden (Bunker Theatre), Maggot Moon (Unicorn Theatre), I’ll Take You to Mrs Cole and The Last of the Pelican Daughters (Pleasance Beyond), Education Education Education (Trafalgar Studios), The War of the Worlds (New Diorama), Southwestern at the Tobacco Factory, Prurience (Southbank Centre/Guggenheim Museum) and The Road Awaits Us (Sadler’s Wells). As associate: Beware of Pity (Schaubühne), Pah-La (Royal Court) and The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court). Sean has a classical music degree from Birmingham University and completed a postgraduate diploma in Musical Direction from the Mountview School of Theatre Arts in 2009. Theatre includes: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK Tour), Leave To Remain (Lyric Hammersmith), Jack & The Beanstalk (Hastings/ Qdos), Twelfth Night (The Young Vic), Live Birds Flying Home (Royal Court Liverpool), Sleeping Beauty (Chatham/ Jordan Productions), The Wedding Singer (UK Tour), One Love: The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep/ Playful Productions), Murder Ballad at Arts Theatre (West End), The Buskers Opera (The Park Theatre), Into the Woods (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester), Soul Sister (Hackney Empire/ ... read more Theatre includes: Girl from the North Country (Old Vic, West End, Public Theater, Broadway), Tootsie (Broadway), Kiss My Aztec (Berkeley Rep), Guys and Dolls (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Romantics Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe, Bristol Old Vic), Spring Awakening (Broadway/West End, US/Worldwide Tour), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (West End/Broadway), Whisper House (The Other Palace/San Diego), Side Show (Southwark Playhouse), Company (Sheffield Crucible), Strictly Ballroom (West End/West Yorkshire Playhouse/Toronto), Finding Neverland (Boston/Broadway), One Love (Birmingham Rep). Film includes: Spectre - E-on Productions (The Writing’s on the Wall for Sam Smith). Television includes: Sam Smith at the Academy Awards ceremony 2016 (orchestral conductor). Awards ... read more Lee Hall was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1966 and studied English Literature at Cambridge University. He has worked as a writer in theatre, TV, radio and film. He has been writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne.Theatre: Wittgenstein on Tyne, Live Theatre 1996; Bollocks, RSC Fringe, 1998; Genie, Paines Plough, 1998; Cooking With Elvis, Live Theatre/West End 1999 – nominated for an Oliver Award for Best Comedy; Spoonface Steinberg, Ambassadors Theatre, London 2000; Two’s Company, Live Theatre/Bristol Old Vic, 2001; Billy Elliot the Musical, 2004 – Oliver Award Best Musical; Pitmen ... read more Chloe trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art. Chloe is Associate Designer at the Royal Court Theatre and a resident of Somerset House Studios. Theatre includes: Shoe Lady (Royal Court), The Antipodes (Co-Director & Set and Costume Designer, National Theatre), Hilary and Clinton (Broadway), John, Amadeus, Rules For Living, The World Of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre), Europe (Donmar Warehouse), The Duchess of Malfi (Almeida Theatre), The American Clock (The Old Vic), Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre, West End, National Theatre Scotland), The Crucible (Theatre Basel), Hamilton Complex (Schauspielhaus Bochum), Jubilee (Royal Exchange Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith), 1984 ... read more Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, as well as his distinctive vocal and songwriting style. Marley's contributions to music increased the visibility of Jamaican music worldwide, and made him a global figure in popular culture for over a decade. Over the course of his career Marley became known as a Rastafari icon, and he infused his music with a sense of spirituality. He is also considered a global symbol of Jamaican music and culture and identity, and was ... read more Theatre includes: National Theatre’s Romeo & Juliet adapted for film in partnership with Sky Arts & PBS. Also for the National Theatre, Master Harold...and the Boys, Hansard, Antony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Nine Night (also West End) Tartuffe (Royal Shakespeare Company), Macbeth (Globe Theatre), Faustus (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith/Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith), Grey (Oval House), Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East and West End), King Hedley II (Theatre Royal Stratford East), J’Ouvert (Theatre503), Cougar and Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree), Winter and Why it’s Kicking off Everywhere (Young Vic), Cuttin’ it (Royal Court/Young Vic), A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield/Clwyd Theatre Cymru/English ... read more Theatre credits include: The Waverly Gallery, Indecent, Sunday in the Park with George, The Crucible (Broadway); Network (National, Broadway); My Brilliant Friend (National); Hamlet (Almeida, Harold Pinter); Obsession, Antigone, The Damned, Kings of War, The Fountainhead, Antonioni Project, Roman Tragedies (Barbican); Lazarus (Kings Cross); Indecent (Menier Chocolate Factory), Oedipus, Cries and Whispers, Mourning Becomes Electra, Angels in America, Husbands (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); Edward II, The Misanthrope (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz); Grey Rock, King Lear (Public), Passing Strange (Wilma); Between the World and Me (Apollo Theater); The Undertaking (59E59); Distracted (Roundabout); Little Foxes, Liberty City (New York Theatre Workshop). Opera credits include: The ... read more