Shaun McKenna is an award-winning English screenwriter, playwright and lyricist. McKenna is considered prolific and versatile, known for both original dramas and adaptations. His output ranges from screenplays to prime-time British TV, from large-scale arena spectaculars to straight plays, and from West End musicals to BBC radio and documentaries. A few of his credits include: The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale, Maddie, Heidi, Lautrec, La Cava, Rocky Road, and Return of Peter Pan.

Pippa Cleary is an English musical theatre composer, songwriter, lyricist and singer. She is the only female British composer to have had three musicals produced in the West End and was mentored by Claude-Michel Schonberg. A few of her credits include: Regards to Broadway, The Great British Bake Off: The Musical, My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?), The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, In the Willows, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream – The Musical.