Multi-Grammy® and Tony Award®-nominated composer/producer, Frank Wildhorn's works span the worlds of popular, theatrical and classical music. In 1999, Wildhorn became the first American composer in 22 years to have three shows running simultaneously on Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War. Also for Broadway: Dracula, Victor/Victoria, Bonnie & Clyde (opening Fall 2011). Wildhorn produced Harlem Song at the famed Apollo Theatre. International: Cyrano, The Count of Monte Cristo, Carmen, Rudolf, Mitsuko, Never Say Goodbye, Camille Claudel and Tears of Heaven. He currently has his own label deal (Soul Bear Records) with Sony Masterworks. International recording partnership, MWB (Music Without Borders), with MG-Sound/ Vienna. Wildhorn served as music director for the Goodwill Games in New York City (1998). He wrote the song "Gold," the opening number for the 2002 Winter Olympics. He received the prestigious Charles Dickens Award from USC, where there is a scholarship under his name. Among the artists who have recorded and performed Wildhorn's works: Whitney Houston (no. 1 international hit "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?"), Natalie Cole, Kenny Rogers, Sammy Davis, Jr., Liza Minnelli, Julie Andrews, Hootie & the Blowfish, The Moody Blues, Johnny Mathis, Linda Eder, Freddie Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Stacy Lattisaw, Molly Hatchet, Blues Traveler, Trace Adkins, Patti LaBelle, Jeffrey Osborne, BeBe Winans, Stanley Turrentine, Amy Grant, Anthony Warlow, to name a few. Associate artist at The Alley Theatre in Houston. Upcoming: Havana, Casanova, Excalibur, Mata Hari, Zelda and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He is father to Justin Samuel and Jake Ryan. "For you, Mom."

In collaboration with Frank Wildhorn and Gregory Boyd, Murphy wrote the lyrics for The Civil War, garnering him a Tony nomination for Best Score. He returned to Broadway with two songs penned for the hit show, Swing. Over a 20-year collaboration with composer Frank Wildhorn, Wildhorn and Murphy have written several successful shows all over the world: Rudolf, in Budapest, Tokyo and Vienna; Carmen in Prague; The Count of Monte Cristo in Switzerland and Korea. Murphy also wrote and directed Gods of Autumn for the Progress Energy Theater in Raleigh, N.C. Opening on Broadway at the Marquis Theater on April 17, 2011, is Wonderland — with book by Gregory Boyd and Murphy, lyrics by Murphy and music by Wildhorn.

As director: Travesties (Sam Waterston, Tom Hewitt), Long Wharf; Design for Living (Marisa Tomei, Campbell Scott, Steve Weber), Williamstown; Our Town (Hal Holbrook), Hartford; Dear Brutus, Journey's (Westport); Jekyll & Hyde (premiere), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Judith Ivey, James Black), Hapgood (Josie de Guzman), In the Jungle of Cities, Alley Theatre. As artistic director at Alley Theatre, his other productions include Danton's Death (with Richard Thomas, director Robert Wilson), Not About Nightingales (director Trevor Nunn, Tony nomination, Best Play), The Civil War (Tony nomination, Best Musical), Antony and Cleopatra/Julius Caesar (with Corin and Vanessa Redgrave), and premieres by Edward Albee, Eve Ensler, Horton Foote, Rajiv Joseph and Frank Wildhorn. Boyd received the special Tony Award on behalf of The Alley, and is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Eisner Prize.

Marguerite Derricks has had an illustrious career as a choreographer in the entertainment industry. Recently she choreographed the Ivan Reitman film No Strings Attached starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. She won the 2009 Astaire Award for the film Fame. Other films include Little Miss Sunshine, the Austin Powers trilogy and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She won Emmy Awards for three consecutive years for The Goodwill Games, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Fame LA. Other television credits include the opening number for Hugh Jackman on the 81st Academy Awards, the 58th Emmy Awards, VH1 Divas Live and True Blood. Her theater credits include Class Act (Broadway), Sister Act (Pasadena Playhouse) and Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity now in its tenth sold-out year in Las Vegas.

Broadway: Oleanna, [title of show], Ring of Fire, Side Man, 'Night Mother. West End: Side Man, Underneath the Lintel. Off-Broadway: Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts Theater), New York Theater Workshop, Public Theater, BAM, Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons etc. Opera: Opera de Montreal, Vancouver Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Theater St. Louis, Nikikai Opera Tokyo. International: RSC, Parco Tokyo, Theater Archa Prague, Hebbel Theater Berlin. Television/Film: "In Treatment" (HBO). Dance: Shadowland (Pilobolus). 2000 EDDY Award; 1996, 2000, 2003, 2009 Drama Desk Nominations; 1996 and 2001 OBIE for sustained excellence, Helen Hayes Award 2008.

Susan Hilferty has designed more than 300 productions from Broadway to Japan including Wicked (Tony®, OCC, DD awards), Spring Awakening (Tony nominated), Radio Golf, Jitney, Lestat (Tony nominated), Into the Woods (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Manon (LA Opera, Berlin Staatsoper). Roundabout: Bette and Boo, Assassins, Night of the Iguana, Skull in Connemara, Cheapside. Directorial collaborators include Mantello, Mayer, Bobbie, Falls, Kushner, Woodruff, the late Garland, Wright, MacDonald, Sher, Lamos, Galati, McAnuff, Ashley, Jones, McClinton, Taichman, Anderson, Rothman, Hynes, Nelson and Fugard (set/costume designer and co-director). Also designs for opera, film, dance. Chairs Design at NYU/Tisch. OBIE Sustained Excellence in Design.

In his 31 years on Broadway, Mr. Gallo has designed more than 50 Broadway shows. Broadway musicals include: Pal Joey, Man of LaMancha, 42nd Street, The Rocky Horror Show, The Civil War, Triumph Of Love, Titanic, Forum…, Smokey Joe's Café, Guys and Dolls, Crazy For You, City of Angels, Anything Goes, Drood. Broadway plays include: November, A Bronx Tale, Mauritius, Three Days of Rain, The Crucible, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me A Tenor, The House of Blue Leaves, Beyond Therapy, Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean…, Grown Ups, The Little Foxes. Awards: Eight Tony® nominations, 10 Drama Desk nominations (winning one), six Outer Critics Awards and three Obie Awards. His proudest achievement is being married to his beautiful wife, Jody, for 23 years and of his two wonderful children, Francesca and Nicholas.

Sven Ortel designs artwork and projections for theater, musical, opera, dance and beyond. Broadway: Woman On The Verge, The Little Mermaid, Deuce, Jumpers, Faith Healer, The Woman In White (projection realization). Off-Broadway: Hamlet (TFANA). Other: The critically acclaimed A Disappearing Number (with Complicite at LCF 2010, West End, three world tours), Marguerite (West End, Tokyo), The Sea (West End), Measure For Measure (with Complicite at NT, London, world tour), The Ring Cycle (Mariinsky, Covent Garden), Tiefland (Zurich, Barcelona), Swan Lake (San Francisco Ballet), Wonderland (Tampa Bay, Houston), Rebecca (Vienna), Richard II (Old Vic, London), The Blue Rider In Performance (Miller Theatre). www.svenortel.com

Grammy, Tony and Olivier award-nominated. Selected Broadway: Shrek the Musical, Rock of Ages, The Scottsboro Boys, Lend Me A Tenor, Elf, Cry Baby, The Times They Are A Changin',The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Little Women, Brooklyn. Other credits: Le Reve (Wynn Las Vegas), Ragtime (West End), Walking with Dinosaurs, Mame, Opening Doors, Annie. He's designed for Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden and The Kennedy Center. He is also a producer and engineer for film, album and television projects. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Tom Watson is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 45 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include The Addams Family, Promises, Promises, Elling, Million Dollar Quartet, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Wicked, Rock of Ages, South Pacific, Sondheim on Sondheim, A View from the Bridge, and Sunday in the Park with George.

Broadway: Wonderland, Little Women (2005 Drama Desk nomination), Jekyll & Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War. Additional orchestration: Dracula. Other theater: Doctor Dolittle (London), Rudolf (Budapest, Tokyo, Vienna), Carmen (Prague), In Nomine Patris (Munich), Monte Cristo (Switzerland), Handel's Messiah Rocks. Many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Atlanta Symphony. Composed and produced Moozie's Musical Adventures (Summit Records) featuring Chris Botti, Dave Brubeck, Linda Eder, Harvey Fierstein, Sutton Foster, Anne Garrels, Larry Gatlin, Kathie Lee Gifford, Wynonna Judd, Earl Klugh, Trent Kowalik, Kaitlyn Lusk, Jessye Norman, Peter Schickele, Richard Thomas, Ronan Tynan and Ben Vereen. www.KimScharnberg.com "For Will."

Jason Howland is the composer of Broadway's Little Women the Musical; he also composed the score for the off-Broadway hit Blessing in Disguise, and the holiday event Handel's Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise. He also wrote the score for the new webisode series, The Broadroom, created by Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City. Howland served as musical director and conductor for Broadway's Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables, and Taboo, and was musical supervisor for Broadway's The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Civil War. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Atlanta Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Maine State Symphony and the Memphis Symphony and has conducted in concert across the country for such notables as Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Brandy, Bebe and Cece Winans, Carl Anderson, Linda Eder, Sebastian Bach, David Hasselhoff, Rob Evan, Kate Shindle, Lauren Kennedy, Davis Gaines, The Kingston Trio and Lizz Wright. Howland is the proud parent of Noah and Nina.

Music direction: Jersey Boys (Broadway and six additional companies), Imaginary Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel (Broadway), Radio City Sinatra, First Wives Club, The Wiz, Caraboo and Zelda (Broadway-bound). Broadway dance/vocal arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the Year and Cabaret. Associate producer, Jersey Boys original cast album (certified platinum). Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical); Fortune (off-Broadway); The Silver Swan (National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship); theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won't Be Singing); Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou); a gospel-based Requiem; songs for church, choir, cabaret, and "Saturday Night Live." Degrees from Harvard (philosophy) and Westminster (choral conducting). After 32 happy years as a New Yorker, he is now a resident of California.

Recent credits include projects at Primary Stages, The Alley Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, Straz Center for the Performing Arts, Studio Theatre and the NYC Fringe Festival. He has previously been associated with directors Terry Kinney, Joe Calarco and Frank Galati. Northwestern University graduate. Thanks to Gregory and inspiring family, friends and collaborators.

Michelle Elkin has worked in numerous film, television and theater projects. She has served as associate choreographer on such films as Semi-Pro, Tropic Thunder, Austin Powers, 13 Going on 30, Starsky and Hutch, Elizabethtown, as well as the 58th Emmy® Awards and 81st Academy® Awards with Hugh Jackman. Elkin's own choreography can be seen in the feature films Wild Hogs, What Just Happened, Warren The Ape, as well as Emmy award winning shows, "Boston Legal" and "Weeds." "Special thanks to Mom and Dad."

Dave Clemmons, C.S.A., Joy Dewing C.S.A., Alan Lane. Broadway: Driving Miss Daisy, The Boy from Oz, Brooklyn, The Civil War, Ring of Fire. Off-Broadway: Bat Boy, Bare. Dear Edwina, Altar Boyz. U.S. tours: Legally Blonde, Cats, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Fosse, Chicago, Movin' Out, Jekyll and Hyde, Evita, 'Swonderful, I Love a Piano. Other: Notre Dame de Paris (Las Vegas), The Sound of Music (China), 42nd Street (Moscow). Regional: Flat Rock Playhouse.

David Lai serves as music coordinator for the Broadway and national touring productions of Mary Poppins and Lincoln Center's South Pacific. Other Broadway credits include The Woman in White, Riverdance and Jesus Christ Superstar. Lai currently serves as conductor for the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera. A Grammy-winning record producer, Lai has produced cast albums for West Side Story, South Pacific, Grease, The Wedding Singer, Allegro and Promises, Promises (featuring Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes).

Credits include: ELF, Wonderland, Behanding in Spokane, Tale of Two Cities, Xanadu (Tour), Times They Are A Changin', Secrets of a Soccer Mom, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, August: Osage County, Legally Blonde (NY/Tour), All Shook Up (Tour), On Golden Pond, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (NY/Tour), Brooklyn, Thoroughly Modern Millie (NY/Tour), AIDA (NY/Tour/Osaka), Imaginary Friends, Def Poetry Jam, Disney's Berlin Hunchback, Capeman, Show Boat, Spider Woman. Smith lives in N.J. with wife/actress/producer Nancy Ringham, and daughters Caitlyn and Madeline.

Broadway: Lend Me A Tenor (2010), Grease, The Pajama Game, Sweet Charity, Fiddler on the Roof (2004), Noises Off, Stones in His Pockets, Neil Simon's The Dinner Party, CATS, Indiscretions, Guys & Dolls, Cyrano the Musical, Three Men on a Horse, Catskills on Broadway, Fiddler on the Roof (1990). Directing credits include 59th FIFA congress (2009) at Atlantis (Nassau) as well as the most recent national tours of Grease (2008 & 2010).

Gruse is associated with 10 Broadway shows plus A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden (visit ibdb.com for details). Gruse is happy to be doing a fourth show with David and third with Colleen. "Thanks to everyone who's given me a job!" "Life's like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." – The Muppets.

Broadway: South Pacific, Lend Me a Tenor, Grease, Grey Gardens. Off-Broadway: The Cataract, Jump/Cut (The Women's Project). Regional: Many productions over several years at the Vineyard Playhouse in beautiful Martha's Vineyard.

The Charlotte Wilcox Company has managed more than 70 productions. Upcoming: Catch Me if You Can; Wonderland, Godspell. Recent Broadway credits include Elf, Come Fly Away; West Side Story; Grease (all three Broadway productions!); [title of show], Cyrano, The Drowsy Chaperone, Times They Are-A-Changin', Wedding Singer, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Bombay Dreams, Full Monty, Ragtime, Jesus Christ Superstar, On The Waterfront, Damn Yankees, Canton Acrobats and The Peking Opera.

Judy Lisi has been a major Broadway Presenter for more than 25 years. She has presented more than 100 shows and built successful Broadway subscription markets at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Conn., and the Straz Center for the Performing Arts, the largest south of the Kennedy Center. Passionate about arts education, she was Founding Chair of the Broadway League Education Committee and founder of the Patel Conservatory, whose programs reach 50,000 students annually. Utilizing the strong Broadway market and excellent production facilities of the Straz Center, and with Board and staff support for which she will be forever grateful, she launched the Broadway Genesis Project, a development program for new musicals. The inaugural production is Wonderland from its inception four years ago. She is most grateful to the amazing Judy Joseph, project leader and her loving family Ernie and Joel. "To Rachel, my beloved daughter, your light will always shine. This is dedicated to you."

William I. Franzblau produced the touring version of Beatlemania. He served as Executive Producer of the Moscow Circus. He managed several multiplatinum international rock recording acts. He co-produced two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles productions. Mr. Franzblau founded Interfilm Inc., a publicly traded company combining interactive technologies with cinematic art, in which he produced three films. He produced Disney's Virtual Reality Theme Park Ride the Comix attraction in Orlando. He was the Executive Producer of the 2003 Tony-nominated Best Play Say Goodnight Gracie. Mr. Franzblau also produces The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? He co-produced on Broadway: American Buffalo. He produced the musical adaptation of Sam Remi's Evil Dead, entitled Evil Dead the Musical and co-produced the North American tour of Little House on the Prairie, the Musical.

Nederlander Presentations, Inc is a production division of the multinational theatrical entities owned by James M. and James L. Nederlander. Prominent for three generations in management and operation of theaters and productions of distinguished entertainment, they have produced innumerable plays and musicals, operas, ballets and concerts and own a notable chain of legitimate theaters. Currently in their Broadway venues are Wicked, In the Heights, The Lion King, Rock of Ages, West Side Story, The Addams Family, Rain and Million Dollar Quartet. The Spring 2011 season will bring Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Catch Me If You Can.

The Knights of Tampa Bay is a group of stakeholders in the Tampa Bay area with a mission of furthering the development of the arts as a catalyst to a vibrant community. The Knights initial objective is to develop a Tampa Investor Base, in conjunction with the Straz Center, to carry the first Broadway Genesis initiative to Broadway. Spearheaded by visionaries, David Scher and Hinks Shimberg, this investment group has contributed major financial support to this project as well as raising community involvement.

Michael Speyer is cofounder and co-president of StageVentures Inc., a leading Canadian financier of Broadway shows. Credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Finian's Rainbow, Promises Promises, Peepshow in Las Vegas and the upcoming How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Bernard Abrams is cofounder and co-president of StageVentures Inc., an innovative Broadway financier. Credits include the Broadway productions of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Finian's Rainbow, Promises Promises, Peepshow in Las Vegas and the upcoming How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Judy Joseph joined the Straz Center as VP of Programming in 2002, responsible for programming the performing arts center's five theaters, which includes both shows presented and produced as part of the Straz Center's yearly season and rental activities. Since joining the Straz Center, Joseph has managed the productions in the Jaeb Theater, including Diva Diaries and Fully Committed as well as touring those various venues within the state. Since the Straz Center became an independent Broadway presenting theater, Joseph programs the Broadway Series along with President and CEO Judy Lisi. Previously, she was Director of Programming and Production at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale. During Broward's pre-opening phase, she oversaw elements of theater construction, planned and staffed the production department, and managed production activities in the 2,700-seat Au-Rene Theater and the 585-seat Amaturo Theater. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and holds a degree in English Literature with concentrations in French and Theater.

Alley Theatre is one of the flagship American not for-profit professional theaters. Recipient of the Special Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Alley produces a wide ranging repertoire year-round on its two stages, with a Resident Company of artists, artisans and staff in its state of the art complex in downtown Houston. Under the direction of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean R. Gladden, the Alley has also brought its productions to 40 American cities, and to Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg and New York's Lincoln Center, as well as to major European festivals (including two in one season at the Venice Biennale) and Broadway. Wonderland is the third Alley production on Broadway, following The Civil War (Tony Award nomination, Best Musical) and the newly discovered Tennessee Williams drama Not About Nightingales (Tony Award nomination, Best Play). Now in its 64th season, the Alley creates innovative productions of classics, neglected modern plays, and premieres. Notable productions include Jekyll & Hyde (premiere), Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby, Marriage Play (US premieres); Robert Wilson's productions of Danton's Death, When We Dead Awaken, and Hamlet; the epic ten-play The Greeks and Shakespeare's The Roman Plays (with Vanessa Redgrave and the late Corin Redgrave), and premieres by Ken Ludwig (Treasure Island, The Gershwins' An American in Paris) and Horton Foote, Eve Ensler, Keith Reddin, Herbert Siguenza, and new work developed through the Alley's New Play Initiative include Kenneth Lin's Intelligence-Slave and two premieres by Alley Company artist Rajiv Joseph, Gruesome Playground Injuries, and The Medusa Body, which opens May 2011. For more information visit www.alleytheatre.org.

Wonderland is the first production of the Broadway Genesis Project, an initiative by the Straz Center to encourage new work that might tour or go to Broadway. It's the first time the Straz Center has produced a show of this size and importance. "It's been a thrilling process," said Judy Lisi, president and CEO of the Straz Center. "We've been privileged to work with Wonderland as it has developed from a concept to a script to a show. And we've been right there every step of the way." Lisi said the Straz Center could produce other works, but that the Broadway Genesis Project also will involve offering space, staff and other resources to producers who wish to workshop or develop new shows outside of New York. "Broadway is an important part of what we do here at the Straz Center," Lisi said. "We started this initiative so we could become an incubator for important new work." Wonderland will open at the Marriott Marquis Theatre on April 17, 2011, when it leaves Tampa.