Director and Choreographer
Credits: For over 20 years, Shea was the protégé of Tony Award- winning Choreographer Henry LeTang. She was the assistant choreographer to Mr. LeTang for the Showtime movie, Bojangles, starring Gregory Hines. Shea is currently directing and choreographing Yes! The Musical.

Off-Broadway: Neurosis, R.R.R.E.D. (Chita Rivera Award Nomination), Polkadots (Atlantic Theatre, Off Broadway Alliance Award), and Pageant! (Drama Desk Nomination Best Revival). Regional: The Music Man (Maltz Jupiter Theater, Carbonell Award), Crazy For You (Maltz Jupiter Theater, Carbonell Award), The Producers, The Will Roger Follies; Ragtime, Southern Comfort (Barrington Stage); A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theater), Dames at Sea (Bay Street Theatre). TV: Pan Am (ABC). Shea is a board member of The Ziegfeld Club and a proud member of SDC.

Book
Credits: In 1973, Ithaca College students Susan Denner (actress, English major) and Lloyd Ecker (comedian, business major) went on their first date to see an up-and-coming new singer named Bette Midler. Over the course of the evening, the couple fell in love with the Divine Miss M, her Sophie Tucker jokes, and each other.

With a Grammy nominated CD, The Origins of Sophie Tucker, an award winning book, I Am Sophie Tucker, and a critically acclaimed documentary The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, already under their belts, the Eckers are now taking Sophie’s story to Broadway with a musical. Watch out Hollywood and HBO, you’re next!

Book
Credits: Harrison David Rivers is an award-winning playwright, librettist and screenwriter based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His plays include Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown), The Bandaged Place (Playwrights’ Center, Roundabout), This Bitter Earth (Playwrights’ Center), When Last We Flew (NYFringe, Diversionary, TheatreLAB, Real Live Arts, Out Front) and the musicals Five Points with Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar (Theater Latté Da) and Broadbend, Arkansas with Ellen Fitzhugh and Ted Shen (Transport Group/Public).
His television credits include One of Us Is Lying (Peacock), The Nevers (HBO), Wytches (Amazon) and The Plot (Hulu). He is also adapting E. Lynn Harris’ novel Invisible Life for HBO. Harrison sits on the Board of Directors of The Movement Theatre Company and the Playwrights’ Center. He is a graduate of Kenyon College and the Columbia School for the Arts.

Arranger
Credits: Sam Davis is a composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. Broadway credits as arranger include New York, New York ( Tony nomination) An American in Paris, Big Fish, Holiday Inn, Gigi, Side Show, and the current revival of Company. Film and TV work includes Beauty and the Beast (2017), Hail Caesar!, and A Christmas Story: Live. Other theater credits include Company and Joseph… in London’s West End, Little Dancer at the Kennedy Center and Seattle’s 5th Avenue, and The Beast in the Jungle at the Vineyard Theatre. As composer: Red Eye of Love (Off-Broadway), The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Park). As orchestrator: NY Pops, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Pops.

Sam is a winner of the Jonathan Larson Award for Composition and a graduate of the University of Michigan.