MANDO ALVARADO (Co-book) is a playwright, screenwriter and an actor from South Texas. His play Post No Bills received its Off-Broadway premiere at Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater in November 2009. His play Splitting Mama was selected to participate at the Black Swan Lab at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He was a Hispanic-Playwright-in-Residence at INTAR and was a company playwright for Theater 167. His play (o)n the 5:31 which was commissioned for Rising Phoenix Rep's Cino Nights at the Seventh Street Small Stage. He is currently developing Basilica with Rattlestick Playwright's theater and is slated for their 2012 season. He is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts. (www.cruzandothemovie.com, www.tgtgfilms.com) Much love and thanks to the bear.

JAIME LOZANO (Co-Lyrics, Co-Music, Musical Arrangements, Co-Orchestrations) Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Jaime’s musical theatre works include Tlatelolco (composer, lyricist and librettist), The Yehuatl (composer and lyricist), Lightning Strikes Twice (composer), Children of Salt (composer), which is currently being developed with director/choreographer Luis Salgado for its New York City début.  Albums: Carols for a Cure 2010 (arranger/orchestrator), Dare to Go Beyond (arranger, orchestrator and music director). He is a teacher and activist for the not-for-profit organization R.Evolución Latina.  BFA: Music & Composition, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; MFA: NYU/Tisch, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. "Ely Aimé te amo"

TOMMY NEWMAN (Co-book, co-lyrics, co-music) is a bookwriter and composer-lyricist—O’Neill Theatre Center Fellow, Frederick Loewe Award, Lois Garren Award, ACTF People’s Choice Award —Kennedy Center, 2004. Recent projects include book, music and lyrics for Band Geeks! (Goodspeed Musicals, NAMT 2009), Tinyard Hill (Theatreworks—Silicon Valley, Red Mountain Theatre, Human Race Theatre, Goodspeed, NAMT 2007), We the People and The Yellow Brick Road (Theatreworks, USA),“29” (Provincetown Playhouse), and several new musicals currently in development, including The Book of Love with Gordon Greenberg.  BS, Music Ed, Theatre and Business, Troy University. MFA, Musical Theatre Writing, NYU Tisch. www.tommynewman.com

DEVANAND JANKI (Director, Co-Choreographer) Off-B'way: Zanna, Don’t! (Winner Lortel, Callaway and GLAAD Awards), Junie B. Jones (Lortel nom.), Henry and Mudge (Lortel nom.), Cupid and Psyche and Romantic Poetry. Broadway concerts for the Actors Fund: Hair, Funny Girl, Dreamgirls (Assoc.) and Seth Rudestky's Broadway 101. Lincoln Center: Amahl and the Night Visitors, Babes in Toyland and Anything Goes in concert (Choreo. Assist.); Artistic Assoc. for BC/EFA's Broadway Bares. Regional: Rent, Aladdin, Barrio Grrrl!, Asphalt Beach, Full Monty, Scarlet Pimpernel, Man of La Mancha. TYA tours: Nate the Great, If You Give a Pig Pancake, Jack Sprat Low Fat World Tour, Berenstain Bears. www.devanandjanki.com

ROBERT TATAD (Co-Choreographer) has choreographed and staged numbers featuring Chita Rivera, Bebe Neuwirth, Jane Krakowski, Kristen Chenoweth and Gwen Stefani as well as corporate events for T-Mobile, Walmart, Coty, and Vidal Sassoon. Other choreography credits include productions of John Patrick Shanley’s Romantic Poetry (NYS&F), Funny Girl (Actors’ Fund Concert), Miss Saigon (Foothills Theatre), Broadway Bares (editions X-XIV), Junie B. Jones (Associate Choreographer). On Broadway, Robert was the Assistant Choreographer for the 2005 Tony Award winning revival of La Cage Aux Folles and currently the Associate Choreographer for the Broadway, National Tour, Toronto, and Australian productions of Rock of Ages.

ROGER HANNA (Scenic Design) recently designed A Little Journey (Mint Theatre), Fallstaff  (Mannes Opera), and Fyvush Finkel Live! (Yiddish Theatre).  He is currently designing productions directed by Tommy Tune and Nilo Cruz, both produced at the University of Miami.  Awards include a Lortel for The Glass Cage and a Drama Desk nomination for Walking Down Broadway.  Collaborators of note include Laura Alley, Jack Allison, Tracy Bersley, Joseph Colaneri, Robin Guarino, Ron Jenkins, Susan Marshall, and Eleanor Reissa.  Visit www.rogerhanna.com

SYDNEY MARESCA (Costume Design) recently designed costumes for  Buddy Cop 2 (The Debate Society), The Little Death, Vol. 1 (Incubator Arts Project), Nostradamus Predicts the Death of Soho (Soho Think Tank), The Zero Hour (13P), OMG, I am so Thirsty (Little Lord) and MilkMilkLemonade (The Management).  Sydney has an MFA from NYU/Tisch and is part of the The Hazzards, New York's baddest ukulele band.

JEFF CROITER (Lighting Design) Recent credits include: Peter and the Starcatcher (NYTW); The Pee-wee Herman Show (Broadway and LA); Next Fall (Broadway); Silence! The Musical; Devils Music; Meet Vera Stark; Knickerbocker; Side Effects; A Lie of the Mind; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; and Jennifer Muller The Works.  He is happy to be working with Theatreworks again.

CARL CASELLA (Sound Designer) For more then twenty-five years Carl Casella has worked as a designer and producer for some of New York's busiest studios and theaters . Broadway credits include: Baby It’s You; Little House on the Prairie; Story of My Life, A Tale of Two Cities, American Buffalo, Xanadu, Moon for the Misbegotten, Ring of Fire, Sly Fox, Little Shop of Horrors, Raisin in the Sun, Sexaholix. A Member of Sound Associates, Inc.  Love to Karen, Andy, Chelsea and Kylie.

ZACHARY DIETZ (Music Direction, Additional Arrangements) is delighted to be back in Oz with Yellow Brick Road! Recent credits include In The Heights, Wicked, Pretty Filthy (Center Theater Group), and Dogfight (LCT). Much love to C and the cast!

SALOMON LERNER (Orchestrations) is a composer in NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program. He studied Film Scoring at the Berklee College of Music and Composing at the Ars Nova (Caracas). He’s had original compositions performed at Barrington Stage and served as a music director for the 24-Hour Musicals in New York. He has worked professionally as a music director/conductor, a composer for film, TV, and theater, and a record producer and arranger in his native Venezuela.

BYRON F. ABENS (Production Stage Manager) joins The Yellow Brick Road having previously stage managed The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Seussical, and Skippyjon Jones for Theatreworks. Off-Broadway credits include Gates of Gold (59E59) and Tales from the Tunnel (Bleecker Street Theatre). Favorite regional credits include Doubt (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), A Little Night Music (Stages St. Louis), and Carmen (Cleveland Opera). Byron holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is a proud member of AEA since 2004.