Faye Chiao (composer) is a composer and performer of opera, concert music, and musical theater. Chiao’s work has been commissioned and presented by Lunar Ensemble, Boston Chamber Symphony, Zeider’s American Dream Theater, and Playwrights Realm. Chiao received The Presser Award to write and perform To See the Stars, a multi-media song cycle celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope, presented at the Maryland Science Center and Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. As a founding member of the Corvus Ensemble, Chiao, an accomplished mezzo-soprano, has toured the country performing original programs of art song and chamber music. Chiao holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Peabody, and is a member of The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.  fayechiao.com

Anton Dudley (librettist) is a librettist and playwright whose work has been produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Realm, Second Stage, Cherry Lane Theatre, and at Theater Row, and regionally by LaJolla Playhouse, Signature Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Walnut Street Theater, Adirondack Theater Festival,  NY Stage & Film, and the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theater  Conference. Anton’s work has been commissioned by Manhattan Theater Club, Williamstown Theater Festival, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Cherry Lane Theatre, and Toronto’s Musical Stage Company. His works are published by Sam French, Vintage, Playscripts, Heuer, Backstage Books, and Applause. His play Letters to the End of the World was Finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Drama. antondudley.net