Sharon Kenny writes songs and the words that go with them. She lives in New York. Kenny’s music has been prominently featured worldwide on television (Netflix, Lifetime,Amazon), most notably with five placements on the hit show, Dance Moms.  Her song “Hotel Heart” reached #68 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts; her music has cumulatively garnered nearly 30 million views on YouTube.

Sharon’s theatre work has been produced and/or developed at New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, 92NY, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Yale Institute of Music Theatre, The Institute for American Musical Theatre, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Stages Theatre Company.  She is a graduate of The Hartt School and an alumna of The Johnny Mercer Songwriter’s Project, Prospect Theatre Company’s Musical Theatre Lab, Vineyard Arts Project, and Space on Ryder Farm.  She has performed sold out shows to Joe’s Pub, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Gramercy Theatre, and has been a finalist for the Fred Ebb, Jonathan Larson, and Richard Rodgers Awards.

Kenny’s work in Children’s Theatre includes adaptations of the NY Times bestsellers What Do You Do With an Idea?, Maybe (both by Kobi Yamada), Dragons Love Tacos (by Adam Rubin),  as well as commissions for 92NY (The Tempest, Mother Goose, Ice Queen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream).  She and co-writer Cristina Pippa were recently named 92NY’s TYA Resident Artists.

Additionally, Kenny serves as Musical Director to Broadway’s Abby Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Six). As a pianist, she has played extensively on Broadway. www.sharon-kenny.com

Kirsten Guenther’s work has resonated across the globe, from Shanghai to Times Square. She is the recipient of a Richard Rodgers Award, Rockefeller Grant, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Lark Residency, Johnny Mercer Writers Fellowship, and a Lincoln Center Honorarium. Kirsten began her career as a travel correspondent in Paris, writing for USATODAY.com and the dating column Frenched. (Her romantic life wasn’t that interesting, so she made most of it up—an early sign she was better suited for fiction.)

For the screen, she is adapting Elin Hilderbrand’s The Summer of ’69 (Co-EP) with Lara Olsen for SONY/3000 Pictures (Elizabeth Gabler) and recently sold an original romantic comedy series to Netflix (Creator/Co-EP). She also wrote Lionsgate’s Puppy Love (2023). Her stage credits include the book and lyrics for Little Miss Fix-it (as seen on NBC), Benny & Joon (The Old Globe/Paper Mill Playhouse), Paramount’s Roman Holiday (Royal Theatre Bath), and Mrs. Sharp starring Jane Krakowski (Richard Rodgers Award).

Upcoming: Party of the Century (based on Deborah Davis’ book, about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball), and a play on the life of Mary Tyler Moore.

She has also written comedy sketches for performers ranging from James Franco, Jared Leto and Michael Douglas to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Kirsten holds a BFA from USC, an MFA from NYU, is a proud member of the WGA and Dramatists Guild and is represented at CAA and managed by Adam Peck.

Mary Birnbaum is a New York based director of opera and music theater. In 2024, she directed critically acclaimed productions of Rigoletto (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Guys and Dolls (Opera Saratoga), and ÉMIGRÉ (World Premiere, New York Philharmonic). Other credits include new productions of La bohème (Santa Fe Opera), Dido and Aeneas (Juilliard, Opera Holland Park, Opéra de Versailles), L’Orfeo (Juilliard, NYTimes “Best of Classical Music 2021”), Otello (National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan), L’elisir d’amore (National Theater of Costa Rica) and many more.

In demand for her skills as a collaborator on new work, Birnbaum has directed world premieres by contemporary artists including Jeremy Denk and Steven Stucky (The Classical Style at Ojai and Carnegie Hall), Frank London and Elise Thoron (Hatuey at Montclair Peak Performances), Mark Campbell and Kristin Kuster (Kept at Virginia Arts Festival). She directed the premiere of Chris Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann’s In a Grove at Pittsburgh Opera in 2022 and again at the Prototype Festival in 2025.

On the faculty of The Juilliard School since 2011, Birnbaum serves as the Dramatic Advisor to the MMGD program. She coaches at the Lindemann Young Artists Program at The Metropolitan Opera.  In 2023, she became the General and Artistic director of Opera Saratoga in Saratoga Springs, New York.  

A graduate of Harvard College, Mary Birnbaum trained professionally in physical theater at L’École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. www.marybirnbaum.com

Hannah is an NYC-based creative producer.  She currently serves as Artistic Producer for Transport Group, and most recently was a part of the creative team as script writer for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of A Chorus Line at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway.  Other notable collaborations include sold-out concerts of Hello, Dolly! and Follies at Carnegie Hall, over 20 productions with Transport Group including the one-man, six-hour production of O'Neill's Strange Interlude starring David Greenspan and Once Upon A Mattress starring Jackie Hoffman and Lypsinka. As a freelancer, Hannah has worked with clients like Mike & Carlee/Kate starring Kate Berlant, Mind's Eye Productions, illustrator Ken Fallon, The Drama Desk Awards, and more.  hannahoren.com