ANDRE CATRINI is a composer/lyricist, repertoire/audition coach and musical director currently based out of NYC. He is a member of the BMI-Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, a graduate of the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (CCM), and a proud ASCAP and Dramatists Guild member. He is the recipient of the 2014 ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award, given “in recognition for his outstanding talent as a musical theatre composer and lyricist,” as well as a 2015 New Voices Project Merit Award. 

Andre is presently developing the music and lyrics for several new musicals, including A Game Called Life (book by Laura Zlatos). Other works include: The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit (book by Allan Knee), The Wolf (book by Joe Calarco) and Whisper, Love. For more information, please visit www.andrecatrini.com

JOEL B. NEW is a composer, lyricist, bookwriter, producer, and performer.  He is the proud recipient of an American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant for his music and lyrics. His stage projects include TO HELL AND BACK, MACKENZIE & THE MISSING BOY, AWAKENING (book: Jenny Stafford, music: J. Oconer Navarro), STANDALONE: A SONG CYCLE, AGATHA IN THE ATTIC, RSVP, and the highly anticipated MONKEY TROUBLE UNLEASHED! Joel’s work has been seen and developed  at  Ars  Nova,  Lincoln  Center, New  York  Theatre  Barn, Prospect Theater  Company, Broadway Au Carre in Paris, Musical Theatre Factory, and the New York Musical Festival. He is also the creator and host of “Something New,” currently in its fifth season and named one of the Top 20 Podcasts for Theatre Fans by BroadwayWorld.com. Joel’s debut solo EP Cabot Cove -- a collection of “theatre pop” songs inspired by the classic TV series Murder, She Wrote -- is available on Broadway Records. For more info, please visit joelbnew.com.

RACHEL PETERS is a Composer/librettist, who's operas include the upcoming Rootabaga Country (Sarasota Opera), The Wild Beast of the Bungalow with Royce Vavrek (Center for Contemporary Opera), Pie, Pith, and Palette with Marvin J. Carlton (The Atlanta Opera), Monkey Do (Rhymes With Opera), Companionship (American Opera Projects, Manhattan School of Music). Musicals: Only Children with Michael R. Jackson (NYU Tisch Mainstage, Lincoln Center Directors Lab), Tiny Feats of Cowardice with Susan Bernfield (NYC Fringe Festival), Write Left with John Walch (Playwrights Horizons Theatre School), Tomato Red (UC Irvine), Octopus Heart (NYU Steinhardt), f2m with Michelle Elliott, Public Domain. Scores for plays: Stretch (a fantasia) (New Georges) and Tania in the Getaway Van (Huntington Theatre) by Susan Bernfield, What God Hath Wrought: A Transatlantic Farce by John Walch (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), and The Bacchae (Asolo Rep Conservatory). Concert works:  Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo (Acoustica21), Jack's Vocabulary (Hartt SPASM), I Live Here (Galapagos Art Space), Canon I (Two Sides Sounding), And Then (BayPath College), and Fronds: The Wisdom of Fanny Fern (Walt Whitman Project). Art songs and cabaret songs performed at Lincoln Center, Second Stage, National Opera Center, Symphony Space, NYMF, Ars Nova, Joe's Pub, cabarets and theatres nationwide. Contributing composer/lyricist to the new generation of The AIDS Quilt Songbook. 2017 Composer in Residence, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. Proud alumna of New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, American Opera Projects' Composers and the Voice, three-time fellow at the John Duffy Composers Institute. Double B.A., Brandeis University; MFA, NYU. www.racheljpeters.com