Broadway/West End credits include Death Note: The musical (book), Bonnie & Clyde (book), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (additional material), and his comedy, The Cemetery Club, which has been produced worldwide, in over two dozen languages. Regional and international productions include The Surprise Party (UK tours) and the librettos for Smiling Through, The Prince & The Pauper, and Frank Wildhorn’s Xcalibur and Mata Hari.

For the screen, Mr. Menchell co-wrote the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore romantic comedy, Blended, and an adaptation of his play, The Cemetery Club, starring Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd, and Olympia Dukakis. He also served as a writer on Universal’s animated feature, Curious George. His musicals, Bonnie & Clyde (starring Jeremy Jordan) and Death Note, have both been filmed live on stage.

An Emmy nominated television writer & producer, he created the critically acclaimed Showtime series, Bedtime, starring Felicity Huffman, and served as Writer/Producer on the long-running CBS hit comedy, The Nanny, starring Fran Drescher; Time of Your Life, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt & Jennifer Garner; Disney’s Phil of The Future; and JONAS, starring the Jonas Brothers. 

Ivan is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship for his playwriting.

Caroline Kay is a Dublin-born, London-based writer, composer, and performer. 

Caroline has released three EPs of her original music: Notes, tricks, and Overnight – all three of which went to #1 on the iTunes Album Charts in Ireland, with Overnight also being long-listed for a Grammy Award. In 2020, she and West End’s David Hunter wrote, produced, and starred in their lockdown-inspired online musical short, The Space Between, released by WhatsOnStage.com. She has written the book, music, and lyrics for her original musical, Daisy, which is currently in the late stages of development. 

As a performer, some of Caroline’s credits include performing in Drew Gaspirini’s I Could Use A Drink (The Garrick Theatre, West End), The Clockmaker’s Daughter (studio album and concert production at Cadogan Hall), and she was Ramin Karimloo’s special guest for Ramin Karimloo and the Broadgrass Band (The Other Palace). She has also performed her own solo concerts in London, New York City, Dublin, and Cork. She holds a bachelor’s in English and music, and a master’s in performance from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. 

Jeff Calhoun broke new ground on Broadway as director of the critically acclaimed revival of Big River. The show launched an enduring collaboration with Deaf West Theatre that seamlessly highlighted deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing actors working together and, for the first time on Broadway, eliminated interpreters standing on the side of the stage. His 2003 revival won the Tony Award for Special Achievement in the Theater and toured the United States for a year following its Broadway run. Jeff went on to direct the world premiere of the first original American Sign Language Musical, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2007 and in 2009, he directed and choreographed the Deaf West & Center Theatre Group production of Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum. Elephant Shoes reflects both the continuation of Jeff’s vital partnership with Deaf West, and a vibrant leap forward for the art form.

In addition to his collaborations with Deaf West, Jeff’s career as director/choreographer stretches across 17 Broadway productions and 4 decades, earning him two Tony Award nominations, first for Grease, which ran for 4 years on Broadway, and then for Newsies, which received 8 overall Tony Award nominations.

Thirty years after dancing with Dolly Parton in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas motion picture, he directed Dolly’s smash hit stage production of 9 to 5 in London’s West End at The Savoy Theater, which went on to tour across the United Kingdom and internationally.

His choreography for The Will Rogers Follies launched a long relationship and career with Broadway legend, Tommy Tune. Other selected Broadway musicals include Bonnie and Clyde, Jekyll and Hyde, Grey Gardens, Brooklyn, Annie Get Your Gun and Tommy Tune Tonite.

Last year he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for his direction of the Off-Broadway musical Between the Lines, produced by Daryl Roth, based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult.

His work has also been seen internationally in Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea. Jeff is an Associate Artist at The Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. He also served for over a decade on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International before moving to their Latin American Board of Directors to support housing and essential services for children in Central America.