Authors

LISA LAMBERT (Music and Lyrics) received 2006 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her work on The Drowsy Chaperone. Other theater credits include: Cole Escola Live at Joe's Pub;Big Rosemary (co-written with director Blake Edwards); The Ant andThe Elephant; Honest Ed: The Bargain Musical ; Mirth; Levity; People Park; The Irish Musical; An Awkward Evening with Martin & Johnson and An American in Harris. Film and Television: Slings & Arrows (Rhombus Media for Showcase); Skippy's Rangers: The Show They Never Gave (Comedy Network);Do I Come on Too Strong? (BravoFact); Getting Along Famously(CBC TV); The Joe Blow Show (Comedy Network); Pippi Longstocking (Nelvana Ltd.); Blue (Rhombus Media); Highway 61 (Rhombus Media); Battery's Down(New York-based web series); Skinnamarink TV.

BOB MARTIN (Book) has been working as an actor and writer in Canadian theatre, film, and television for three decades. He has had a long association with the Toronto Second City, where he co-wrote and performed in four Second City revues, directed three, and had a stint as Artistic Director. He is a co-creator of The Drowsy Chaperone, and has performed in many of its incarnations: Toronto Fringe, Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto), Elgin/Winter Garden (Toronto), Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles), Marquis Theatre (Broadway), and Novello (London). Bob won a number of awards for his work onDrowsy including an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, an L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre World Award, and a Tony Award. He is co-creator of Slings & Arrows, a critically acclaimed dramatic series about life at a large not-for-profit theatre company, which was recently named one of the Ten Best TV shows of the decade by a number of publications including New York Magazine. His second Broadway show, Elf (Music by Matt Sklar, Lyrics by Chad Begulin), recently completed a successful run at the Hirschfeld Theatre, and will return to Broadway in the late fall. Bob's current projects include Minsky's (music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Sue Birkenhead), a musical about burlesque in 1930's New York; and on Michael; Tuesdays and Thursdays, a prime-time half hour comedy series for the CBC.

DON MCKELLAR (Book) received 2006 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his book for The Drowsy Chaperone. His career began as co-founder of Toronto's Augusta Company, with whom he co-created six critically acclaimed experimental plays. Since then, Don has become a ubiquitous presence in the independent Canadian cinema. His screenwriting credits include the award-winning films: Roadkill,Highway 61,Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin, and Blindness. For TV, he wrote and starred in the CBC series Twitch City (which also played on the Bravo Network in America). As an actor, he has appeared in such films as Exotica (directed by Atom Egoyan), eXistenZ (David Cronenberg), When Night is Falling, Clean, Waydowntown, The Red Violin, The Event, and MonkeyWarfare. He was also a regular on the popular TV series Slings & Arrows.

GREG MORRISON (Music and Lyrics) received 2006 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his work on The Drowsy Chaperone. Canadian Credits: Composer/Musical Director forHello...Hello (Tarragon Theatre); Pochsy's Lips; Oh, Baby; Citizen Pochsy and Pochsy Unplugged(Toronto Fringe premiere, Canadian/U.S. tours); The Drowsy Chaperone (Toronto Fringe premiere; Theatre Passe Muraille; Mirvish Productions at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre); Mump and Smoot in Something Else (Canadian Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre);Mump and Smoot in Flux (Canadian Stage);An Awkward Evening With Martin and Johnson (Tim Sims Playhouse); The Age of Dorian (Artword Theatre). Other: Musical Director for The Second City National Touring Company and the Alumni Caf (Tim Sims Playhouse). Musical Director for The Chimps and The Muckrakers (CBC Radio). TV songwriter credits: Slings & Arrows (Rhombus Media for Showcase/Sundance); Getting Along Famously (CBC); The Joe Blow Show (Comedy Network). Recipient of a Canadian Comedy Award, a Sterling Award for Original Composition and three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.