Charlotte Cohn (creator and co-book writer) was born in Denmark, the youngest daughter of a Jewish survivor of WWII. She was recently named the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's 2026 Denham Fellow for directing the upcoming production of The Sound, a new musical.  at JCC CenterStage in Rochester (May 2026). She was the lead producer of The New York Times critics’ pick Handle with Care and the critically acclaimed Church & State. Charlotte most recently directed the UK premiere of Canned Goods by Erik Kahn at Southwark Playhouse in London. She has also directed at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Primary Stages and American Theatre Group in NJ, where she will soon become the new Producing Artistic Director. As an actress she has performed on Broadway in Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme and Coram Boy. Charlotte is an Ovation Award Winner and was nominated for a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award for her performance as ‘Hallelujah Lil’ in Happy End at A.C.T. Charlotte has collaborated on numerous projects with her husband Jason Odell Williams including co-writing The Whole Shebang and A Pound of Flesh – both Semi-Finalists for the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill. Charlotte has recently been named the new Producing Artistic Director of American Theatre Group in New Jersey for the 2026-27 season.

She dedicates this musical to the memory of her father, Herluf Cohn.

Jason Odell Williams (co-book writer) is a playwright originally from Columbia, Maryland. He has been nominated for an Emmy Award, an Off- Broadway Alliance Award, and an L.A. Ovation Award. His plays Handle with Care and Church & State both ran Off-Broadway, are published by Concord Theatricals, and have won two Henry Awards and three Theatre Bay Area Awards with over one hundred regional productions collectively. His other plays are published with TRW and Uproar Theatrics and have been performed at The Kitchen Theatre, NC Stage, JCC CenterStage, Williamston Theatre, Circle Theatre, Dezart Performs, Six Points Theatre, Stage West, Theatre, Skylight Theatre, and the Berkshire Theatre Festival, among many others. On television, Jason’s work as a writer and producer has been seen on HBO Max, Discovery, Nat Geo, the History Channel and Netflix. He lives in NYC with his wife and writing partner, Charlotte Cohn. Their daughter is abroad studying to be an actress, naturally.

Christian Douglas (music & lyrics) is a writer and actor based in New York City. He is currently making his Broadway debut starring as “Christian” in Moulin Rouge! The Musical after playing the role on the first national tour. Other recent credits include Charlie Price in the Off-Broadway remount of Kinky Boots  and the first national tour of Pretty Woman: The Musical (Edward Lewis u/s). Christian is a former active-duty soldier and tenor in the United States Army Chorus where he regularly performed for presidents, heads of state and foreign dignitaries. He is a prolific songwriter and was selected as an Artist in Residence at the Strathmore Music Center in Washington, DC where he wrote and premiered new works, including a song cycle based on love stories in the New York Times.