Original Creative Team

HARVEY FIERSTEIN is the author of the Tony-winning hit, Kinky Boots, as well as Torch Song Trilogy (Tony, Drama Desk and
Obie Awards), La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Newsies (Tony nominated), Casa Valentina (Tony nominated), A
Catered Affair (12 Drama Desk nominations), Safe Sex (Ace Award), Legs Diamond, Spookhouse, Flatbush Tosca, Common Ground
and more. He has recently rewritten The Wiz for live TV broadcast, and penned a revised book for Funny Girl, currently running in
London. His political editorials have been published in the New York Times, TV Guide and the Huffington Post and broadcast on
PBS’s “In the Life.” His children’s book, The Sissy Duckling (Humanitas Award), is now in its fifth printing. As an actor, Mr.
Fierstein is known worldwide for his performances in films including Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, and Bullets Over Broadway,
on stage in Hairspray (Tony Award), Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy (Tony Award), and on TV shows
such as “Smash,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “The Good Wife,” “Cheers” (Emmy nomination), “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” and
“Nurse Jackie.”

JERRY HERMAN. Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage Aux Folles are home to some of the most popular, most-often performed and
most successful musical hero(in)es of all time, and have given Jerry Herman the distinction of being the only composer-lyricist in
history to have had three musicals that ran more than 1,500 consecutive performances on Broadway. His first Broadway show was
Milk and Honey (1961), followed by Hello, Dolly! (1964), Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Mack & Mabel (1974), The Grand Tour
(1979), La Cage Aux Folles (1983), Jerry’s Girls (1985) and "Mrs. Santa Claus" (1996), a CBS TV special starring Angela Lansbury.
Showtune, a revue of his life’s work, is performing in regional theatres around the country and two of Jerry's classic songs are the
emotional highlights of the hit Disney-Pixar film WALL-E. His string of awards and honors includes multiple Tony Awards,
Grammys, Olivier Awards, Drama Desk Awards, the Johnny Mercer Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, the Oscar Hammerstein
Award, the Frederick Lowe Award, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Theatre Hall of Fame and most recently The Kennedy Center
Honors.