WILL VAN DYKE (Music & Lyrics) is a Grammy-nominated musical multi-hyphenate. His musicals include Writing Kevin Taylor with Josh Halloway; (Village Theatre/Meadow Brook Theatre), fuzzy with Jeff Talbott (Barrington Stage Company); Magnificent Climb with Rick Elice; Imagine Harry (NAMT 2015, 2017 O’Neill Finalist), Wintersong (2016 Goodspeed Johnny Mercer Colony, 2017 NAMT Finalist), The Circle and the Wheel (commissioned by Grove Entertainment and Barbara Whitman Productions), and Seven Broken Hearts (2017 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat) all with Jeff Talbott. Other composition credits include: original scores of The Lehman Trilogy, The Messenger, Ass, and i (Pioneer Theatre Company); The 64 Keys (Cleveland Play House); The Gravedigger’s Lullaby (off-Broadway); Straight (off-Broadway); and The Lion King Experience (Disney), among others. Will was the Executive Music Producer for Theater Camp. Broadway music direction: Mamma Mia!, Swept Away, The Heart of Rock and Roll, Pretty Woman (also Orchestrations and Arrangements), and Kinky Boots. Will also serves as the Music Supervisor, Orchestrator and Arranger for the hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors off-Broadway. Will is a founding partner of Joy Machine Records. He has numerous albums, including A View of the River, The Mayor, Forks Don’t Break, and Chasing the Day. WillVanDyke.com @wvdmusic

JEFF TALBOTT (Book & Lyrics) is thrilled to be returning to Pioneer Theatre Company to premiere Ten Brave Seconds, where his plays The Messenger and i both premiered. With Will Van Dyke, Jeff has also written fuzzy, (premiere at Barrington Stage Company – July 2025). Their other musicals include Imagine Harry, Wintersong, Seven Broken Hearts and The Circle and the Wheel. They have released three EPs and various singles (all available wherever you stream music). Together, Jeff & Will were finalists for the 2019 Fred Ebb Award and the 2021 Kleban Award. Jeff’s plays include The Submission (Laurents/Hatcher Award and Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award for New American Play), The Gravedigger’s Lullaby (off-Broadway – TACT/Theatre Row), Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors (commissioned and produced by Montclair State University) and A Public Education (Out of Box Theatre). Other plays: Not-For-Profit, Joseph Cook, Three Rules for the Dragon, How to Build a City, Elliot, All the Stars in the Midnight Sky and Samaritans. PTC audiences will (hopefully) remember Jeff’s work as an actor in The Lehman Trilogy, Oslo, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Odd Couple and Doubt. Jeff graduated with honors from the Yale School of Drama. JeffTalbott.com