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TAWNI O’DELL (Author)
- Author of multiple New York Times bestsellers.
- Critically acclaimed novelist.
- Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection.
- Her first play, When It Happens to You, received rave reviews during its off-Broadway run in 2019.
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SHELDON EPPS (Director)
- Director of seven Broadway productions, including the Tony and Olivier-nominated Blues in the Night and Play On!.
- Director of more than 150 television episodes including Friends, Frasier, and Everybody Loves Raymond.
- Director of multiple Netflix series. His longstanding relationship with Netflix continues with the current hit series, The Upshaws, starring Wanda Sykes.
- Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse for more than twenty years and now Artistic Director Emeritus.
- Senior Artistic Advisor at Ford’s Theatre.
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MITCHELL MAXWELL (Producer)
- Producer, Director, Author, Entrepreneur
- Pulitzer Prize Winner.
- His productions have been nominated for multiple Tonys, Oliviers, Drama Desk Awards, and Outer Critics Circle Awards.
- He has won such honors in every iteration.
- Produced over fifty Broadway / off-Broadway and West End shows, including regional, domestic, and international touring productions.
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DON FRANTZ (Management)
- Associate producer of Beauty and the Beast and Lion King on Broadway.
- Producer of Disenchanted! Off-Broadway, Latin America, and China.
- General manager of Broadway’s A Class Act, Tale of Two Cities, and Soul of Shaolin, as well as off-Broadway and touring productions.
- 15 years producing, managing and directing theater in China, as well as faculty positions at Central Academy of Drama and Peking University.
- Creative producer of IAAPA Best Show awards at Disney, Seaworld, and Busch Gardens.
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