Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Gerry Goffin met Carole King at Queens College, and their musical collaboration began almost immediately. They married in 1959, and that same year wrote their first hit song “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” (The Shirelles). The duo penned over fifty Top 40 hits including “The Locomotion,” “Natural Woman,” and “Up On The Roof.” In 1987, Goffin and King were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Goffin has left an indelible mark on American music.

Pop music would be very different without the contributions of Carole King, who wrote her first #1 hit at age 17 with Gerry Goffin, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” for the Shirelles. The dozens of chart hits Goffin and King wrote during this period became legendary, but it was 1971’s Tapestry that took King to the pinnacle, speaking personally to her contemporaries and providing a spiritual musical backdrop to the decade. More than 400 of her compositions have been recorded by over 1,000 artists, resulting in 100 hit singles and 6 Grammys.

Barry Mann has written the melodies of some of the most influential pop songs in musical history. In addition to “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” most played song of the last century, and the songs heard in Beautiful, he has composed later standards like “Somewhere Out There” (winner of 2 Grammys), “Here You Come Again,” “Sometimes When We Touch,” “Just Once” and “Don’t Know Much.” Together, he and Cynthia Weil have amassed an incredible 112 pop, country and R&B awards from Broadcast Music Inc. for significant radio air play. He has been inducted into both the Songwriters Hall Of Fame and The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.

Cynthia Weil is known as the lyricist of classic songs such as “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”, most played song of the 20th century. In addition to the songs heard in Beautiful, she has set the words to later standards like “Somewhere Out There,” “Here You Come Again,” “He’s So Shy,” “Just Once,” and “Don’t Know Much” to name just a few. Weil has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, honored with multiple Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards for “Somewhere Out There” as Motion Picture Song of The Year and Song of The Year.

The Explorers Club (MTC), Old Jews Telling Jokes (Westside), Pipe Dream (Encores!), Fanny (Encores!), Ordinary Days (Roundabout), Nerds (NC Theatre), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Paper Mill), 25th Annual…Spelling Bee (PTC/Paper Mill), In the Mood (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Such Good Friends (NYMF Directing Award), High Spirits (York), Glimpses of the Moon (Oak Room) and 6 shows for the St. Louis MUNY including The Music Man, Sound of Music (Kevin Kline nominations), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Legally Blonde, My One and Only, Seven Brides. Associate on numerous Broadway shows and tours including Book of Mormon and Anything Goes.

Broadway/National Tour/West End: Shrek, The Musical (Outer Critics Circle Nomination). Off-Broadway: The Kid, Bunty Berman Presents (The New Group). New York City: Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Fire Island Dance Festival, Career Transitions For Dancers Befit (City Center), Bridge Project (BAM/Old Vic), The Jerry Springer Opera (Carnegie Hall), Camelot (NY Philharmonic/Lincoln Center, PBS), and All Singing All Dancing (Town Hall). London: My Fair Lady, BBC Proms 59 (Dir/Chor Royal Albert Hall), Singin’ In the Rain (Royal Festival Hall). Regional: Kennedy Center Latino Inaugural (w/Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno), Kennedy Center Spring Gala (hosted by Liza Minelli). Josh is the Founder/Artistic Director of The Broadway Dance Lab

Broadway designs include The Heiress, Nice Work, The Best Man, Follies, Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business, Bengal Tiger, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations (Tony Award), Little Women, The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife, The Women. Off-Broadway: The Last Five Years, Ruined, Lie of the Mind, Hurlyburly, Abigail’s Party. He designed the 2013 Academy Awards. Awards: Winner of 1997 and 2004 OBIE Awards, 2004, 2005, 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards; 2009 Tony Award, 2011 Drama Desk Award, 2013 Emmy Nomination.

New York: Old Jews Telling Jokes (Off-Broadway); Manhattan Theatre Club; Radio City Rockettes (including upcoming Spring Spectacular); Atlantic Theatre Company; Primary Stages; MCC; The New Group; Rattlestick. Regional: Alley Theatre; Arena Stage; Cincinnati Playhouse; Cleveland Playhouse; Philadelphia Theatre (including Stars of David); Goodspeed; Guthrie; Hartford Stage; Long Wharf; Old Globe (including Allegiance); Paper Mill Playhouse; multiple productions of Nerds. Opera: New York City Opera; Opera Santa Barbara; Minnesota Opera; Wolf Trap; Chicago Lyric Opera (upcoming).Other: Ringling Brothers Boom A Ring. Recipient of the TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.

Broadway: 50 plays and musicals including No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot, The Assembled Parties, Nice Work, Wit, Venus in Fur, Anything Goes, A View from the Bridge, Grey Gardens, The Producers, Contact, Steel Pier. Extensive Off-Broadway, resident, and regional credits. Opera: Met, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera/North, Maggio Florence, L’Arena di Verona, La Fenice, Bonn, Lisbon. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Dramalogue, Hewes.

Brian Ronan has designed the sound for over twenty five Broadway shows. Some recent designs include Annie, Bring It On, Nice Work (Tony nomination), Book of Mormon (Tony), Anything Goes (Tony nomination, Drama Desk), American Idiot, Promises Promises, Next to Normal (Tony nomination), Grease, Curtains, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, Pajama Game, All Shook Up, 12 Angry Men, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Charlie Brown, Cabaret. Off-Broadway: Rent, Bug (Obie and Lucille Lortel award).

Broadway: After Midnight, Beautiful, Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Soul Doctor, Motown, Jekyll and Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Columnist, Magic/Bird, Bonnie and Clyde, The Mountaintop, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Merchant of Venice, Memphis, Henry IV, Cymbeline, Lombardi, Fences, Looped, Miracle Worker, Superior Donuts, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations, A Raisin in the Sun, Radio Golf.

Makeup designer for Wicked productions worldwide, If/Then, Jekyll & Hyde, The Jacksonian, Into the Woods (Public Theater), Follies, The Normal Heart, Catch Me If You Can, Elf, Lend Me a Tenor, Grease, The Wedding Singer, Into the Woods (key makeup Vanessa Williams). Film and television: “Smash,” E!, Style, Lifetime, PBS, “Access Hollywood.” Joe also teaches makeup for various organizations and is a fine artist.

Recent work includes Arranger/MD for: “The Voice” (UK), 2012 Olympics, George Michael, Robbie Williams. Musical Orchestrations: We Will Rock You, Our House, Daddy Cool. Film Orchestrations: Moulin Rouge, Romeo & Juliet, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Finding Nemo. Emmy nominated for his 79th Academy Awards choir performance and received numerous advertising/recording industry awards working with artists including Amy Winehouse, The Who, Oasis, Muse, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Sting, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder and The Who. www.stevesidwell.com

Broadway: Composer: Little Women; Music Supervisor/Conductor/Arranger: Bonnie And Clyde, Wonderland, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Miserables, The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Taboo, Spider-Man, Jekyll & Hyde Revival, Flashdance, We Will Rock You. Tours: South Pacific (Revival), Beauty and The Beast, La Cage Aux Folles, Memphis, Elf, A Chorus Line, Shrek. Recording Projects: Handel’s Messiah Rocks; Little Women; Taboo; Megumi Hamada Attitude; Ock Joo Hyun GOLD; Jekyll & Hyde (OBC, Revival); The Scarlet Pimpernel (OBC); The Civil War; Linda Eder Christmas Stays the Same and It’s Time. Proud father of Noah and Nina.

Jill is a member of The Casting Directors’ Guild of Great Britain and Ireland. Gordon Cowell joined Jill Green Casting in 2011 and is a probationary member of the CDG. www.jillgreencasting.org facebook.com/jillgreencasting Credits as Casting Director include : London Theatre: Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre 2015), The Scottsboro Boys (UK Casting–Jill Green/Gordon Cowell, Young Vic and Garrick Theatre), Jersey Boys (Prince Edward Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre), I Can’t Sing! (The London Palladium), Rock of Ages (Shaftesbury Theatre and Garrick Theatre), The Human Comedy (Young Vic), The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane and UK Tours), Jack and The Beanstalk (The Barbican), Sinatra at The Palladium, Aladdin (The Old Vic Theatre), Bad Girls (Garrick Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (Wyndham’s Theatre), Contact (Queen’s Theatre), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Shaftesbury Theatre), Fosse (Prince Of Wales Theatre). Tours and Regional: Aladdin (Casting by Gordon Cowell – Cambridge Arts Theatre 2014/2015), Anything Goes (Crucible Theatre Sheffield and UK Tour 2014/15), Jersey Boys (Jill Green/Gordon Cowell UK Tour 2014/15), The Lion King (International Touring Production 2014/15), Rock of Ages (Jill Green/Gordon Cowell UK Tour 2014), Singin’ in The Rain (UK and Ireland Tour and Tokyo Theatre Orb 2013/14), West Side Story (UK and Ireland Tour 2013/14), Finding Neverland(Leicester Curve Theatre), She Loves Me, 42nd Street, Oklahoma!, Music Man, Babes in Arms, Carousel (all Chichester Festival Theatre), Spike Milligan’s Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (Bristol Old Vic / Hampstead Theatre and UK Tour), Wuthering Heights (Bollywood adaptation, Tamasha Theatre Company), The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Liverpool Everyman), Promises Promises (Crucible Theatre Sheffield), My One and Only (Chichester Festival Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre), Fosse (European and International Tours), Cats (UK Tour), West End Story (UK Tours 2000/2001). Workshops: Marilyn (London Workshop 1), Around The World in 80 Days (London Workshops 1 and 2), X Factor The Musical (London Workshop 2), Made in Dagenham (London Workshop 1), Finding Neverland (London Workshops 1 and 2), Queer as Folk, Silk. Feature Film: Beyond The Sea (co-casting, UK dancers). Credits as Casting Consultant: The Tailor Made Man (Arts Theatre), Truth in Translation (Belfast), A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Forum (National Theatre), Some Girls are Bigger than Others (Lyric Hammersmith).

Recently, Matt has been Musical Director for Cilla on ITV and is Musical Director and Co-arranger for The Infidel, playing until early November at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Also, Matt recently worked on Water Babies at Leicester Curve as MD and Vocal Arranger; and is the Associate Musical Supervisor for the North American Tour of We Will Rock You. Other Musical Director credits include: The Prodigals (The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry) for which he is Musical Supervisor and co-arranger, Taboo (winner of Best Off West End Production, WOS awards 2013), We Will Rock You (Stuttgart and Berlin), Never Forget (Savoy Theatre and UK Tours), Footloose (UK and European tours), Bohemian Rhapsody, New Jersey Nights and Celtic Ladies (Supervisor for worldwide touring productions), This Is Elvis (UK Tour), Dancing In The Streets (UK Tour), Vampirette (Manchester Opera House), Aladdin (The Hawth, Crawley & Venue Cymru – Qdos), Robin Hood (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Aladdin, Cinderella and Mother Goose (Palace Theatre, Watford). He has also worked as Assistant Musical Director on Thriller Live (Lyric Theatre).

Mr. Blake is currently enjoying his Emeritus status after 22 seasons as the Executive Producer of the legendary St. Louis MUNY where he produced and/or directed more than 150 shows. In San Francisco, Mr. Blake produced and directed Sammy Cahn in Words and Music and directed and wrote ACT’s memorable Diamond ‘Lil. At the Guthrie Theatre, his Roman Holiday (Book-Writer) played to capacity last summer. Mr. Blake’s Tony-nominated Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Co-Writer & Co-Producer) had two highly successful seasons on Broadway and has become the most highly requested holiday musical in theaters across the country

Established in 1995 as a joint venture between Sony and Michael Jackson, Sony/ATV is the world’s leading music publisher and owns or administers more than 2 million copyrights including those from such iconic music catalogs as EMI Music Publishing, Leiber & Stoller, Mijac Music, Motown and Famous Music. Sony/ATV controls many of the best-known songs ever written, like “New York, New York,” “All You Need Is Love,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “Over the Rainbow” and “Stand By Me.” In addition, Sony/ATV represents the copyrights of such legendary artists as The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Sting, The Supremes, Hank Williams and Stevie Wonder, among others. Its ever-growing list of chart-topping artists and songwriters includes Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, P!nk, Shakira, Taylor Swift and Kanye West.

Jeffrey A. Sine is proud to be a part of a remarkable company that is bringing Carole King’s music and story to the stage. Mr. Sine lives in New York City and has produced over twenty-five Broadway ­­and West End Productions over the past two decades. He has received six Tony nominations and three Tony awards. Love to Samira, Maya, Shailen, Roan & Jon.

With Paul Blake, Mr. Smith has co-produced Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Guthrie production of Roman Holiday, Come Fly With Me, songs by the legendary Sammy Cahn, and a national tour of 42nd Street. Prior to working with Mr. Blake, Mr. Smith spent 25 years on Wall Street with Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Smith left Morgan Stanley in 1992 as a partner and member of the Management Committee after having built the International Equity Department into a worldwide organization.

Mr. Bosner is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut with Beautiful. Previously, he served as Associate Producer of The St. Louis MUNY for five seasons. At the MUNY, Mr. Bosner oversaw more than 135 productions alongside Executive Producer Paul Blake. He is truly honored to be working with this legendary material, inspiring group of collaborators, and his mentor and friend, Mr. Blake. Love to Mom, Dad, and David.

Jeremiah J. Harris is the founder and Chairman/CEO of Production Resource Group, the world’s leading supplier of entertainment technology. Jere has been active in the theater industry since 1970, and has provided production management services for over 500 productions, including Beauty and the Beast, Starlight Express, and Dancing at Lughnasa. As the founder of Scenic Technologies, Jere revolutionized scenic automation with its patented Stage Command® motion control system, used on hundreds of shows, including The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked. Most recently, Jere co-produced with Michael Cohl the successful turnaround of the record breaking production of Broadway’s Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, regarded as the most technically complex production ever mounted on a Broadway stage.

Mark Rubinstein Ltd is an established theatre producing and general managing company working in the West End and on tour both nationally and internationally. Mark Rubinstein Ltd is currently producing and general managing Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre and Tour), Once (Phoenix Theatre, London), Beautiful, The Carole King Musical (Opening in London February 2015), La Soirée (International tour including recent six month season at Union Square Theatre, New York and forthcoming London Season) and the UK tour of War Horse on behalf of the National Theatre. Recent projects include: A Doll’s House (Duke of York’s and BAM, New York), Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man (Temple Studios, Paddington), the West End transfers of the National Theatre’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and of Untold Stories, Sweeney Todd (Adelphi), Blind Date (Charring Cross), Butley (Brighton Festival and Duchess Theatre), the European tour of Fela! (Holland Festival and Sadler’s Wells Theatre). Other projects include: the European and UK tours of The Young Vic Theatre’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane and I am the Wind, several seasons of La Soirée (South Bank Big Top – special installation, Roundhouse and International Tours), The Three Musketeers a new musical with music by George Stiles (UK première Rose Theatre Kingston, Christmas 2010), La Clique (London Hippodrome, Roundhouse and International tour – Olivier Award: Best Entertainment), the West End transfer of the National Theatre’s War Horse (New London Theatre), two productions from South Africa’s Isango Portobello Company – The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo (Duke of York’s Theatre and International tour – Olivier Award: Best Musical Revival) and The Mysteries – Yiimimangaliso (Garrick Theatre), Arturo Brachetti: Change (Garrick Theatre, Olivier Award nominated for Best Entertainment). Other projects include Eddie Izzard’s Stripped (Lyric Theatre), Desperately Seeking Susan – a new musical featuring the songs of Blondie (Novello Theatre), Glengarry Glen Ross with Jonathan Pryce and Aidan Gillen (Apollo Theatre), Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin directed by Rufus Norris (UK Tour and Playhouse Theatre), Teenage Kicks – a new play about John Peel (Edinburgh Festival), The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello Theatre), Bent with Alan Cumming (Trafalgar Studios), Sunday In The Park With George – winner of five Olivier Awards (Wyndham’s), Otherwise Engaged with Richard E. Grant and Anthony Head (UK Tour and Criterion Theatre), Tom and Viv (Almeida Theatre), Stephen Dillane’s solo Macbeth (Almeida and International Tour), the European premiere of David Mamet’s Romance (Almeida), Whose Life is it Anyway? with Kim Cattrall (Comedy Theatre), By the Bog of Cats with Holly Hunter (Wyndham’s), Hamlet directed by Trevor Nunn (The Old Vic), Dylan Moran’s West End run of Monster II (Palace Theatre), Eddie Izzard’s UK Arena tour of SEXIE, David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago with Matthew Perry, Minnie Driver, Hank Azaria and Kelly Reilly (Comedy Theatre), The Bomb-itty of Errors (New Ambassadors Theatre), Macbeth directed by Ed Hall with Sean Bean and Samantha Bond (Albery), Benefactors by Michael Frayn, directed by Jeremy Sams with Neil Pearson and Emma Chambers (Albery), Jesus Hopped The A-Train directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman (Arts Theatre), David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow directed by Peter Gill with Mark Strong, Patrick Marber and Kimberly Williams (tour and New Ambassadors), the world tour and West End run of the acclaimed RSC/Young Vic production of Goldoni’s A Servant to Two Masters adapted by Lee Hall, the West End premiere of Connor McPherson’s Port Authority and several tours of Paul Hodson’s adaptations of Bill Bryson’s Notes From a Small Island and Down Under. Mark Rubinstein Ltd provides consultancy services to The National Theatre, The Royal Opera House, Punchdrunk, the Criterion Theatre and for several years produced the main house productions for the Young Vic Theatre. Mark Rubinstein was the elected President of the Society of London Theatre form 2011 to 2014 and is the current Vice President. He was previously the chair of the Finance Committee of the Society. He is also a member of the board of the Theatre Development Trust and Stage One. He was previously a member of the board of Complicite and The Mousetrap Foundation. Mark Rubinstein has also been producer for Made in Brighton Ltd and Old Vic Productions plc and a consultant for The Old Vic Theatre. For Old Vic Productions plc he produced and general managed the West End runs of Frank McGuinness’s Dolly West’s Kitchen, Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and The Island. For six years he was Finance Director of the Royal Court Theatre and general managed the successful transfers to the West End of Death and the Maiden, Oleanna, Six Degrees of Separation, My Night with Reg and The Queen and I. Previously he was General Manager at the Institute of Contemporary Arts before becoming Senior Producer for Bill Kenwright Ltd where he produced numerous touring and West End productions including Peter Hall’s productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and A School for Wives and the Peter Hall Company in the West End (season included Judi Dench in Filumena and Alan Bennett’s Kafka’s Dick with Julia McKenzie, Eric Sykes, and John Gordon-Sinclair), as well as Broadway transfers of The Dolls House with Janet McTeer and Theatre de Complicite’s production of The Chairs.

The Charlotte Wilcox Company has managed more than 70 productions. Upcoming: Allegiance, Ever After, Houdini, Secondhand Lions. Recent Broadway credits include Jekyll & Hyde, Godspell, On A Clear Day, Catch Me If You Can, Wonderland, Elf, West Side Story, Come Fly Away, [title of show], Grease (all three Broadway productions!), Cyrano, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Wedding Singer, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Bombay Dreams, The Full Monty

Matt left the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1989 and began working in stage management for the Cambridge Theatre Company, Manchester Royal Exchange and the RSC. He also stage managed tours including Tommy and Crazy for You before moving into production management. West End theatre includes: Made in Dagenham, The Commitments, The Book of Mormon, (Prince of Wales), Quartermaine’s Terms, The Bodyguard, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Sunshine Boys (Savoy), Master Class (Vaudeville), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams), The Wizard of Oz (Palladium), Private Lives (Vaudeville), Legally Blonde (Savoy), La Bête (Comedy), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Palace), The Sound Of Music, Kiss Me, Kate,Bombay Dreams, Acorn Antiques, Smaller, Tonight’s the Night and Movin’ Out. Other theatre includes: Monty Python Live at the o2 Arena; Troilus and Cressida, A Month in the Country, The Dispute and Tantalus for the RSC. Number one tours include: Ghost the Musical, The Sound of Music, Grease, Cats, Saturday Night Fever, The King and I, Starlight Express, Fosse and Chicago. International theatre includes: Mamma Mia! (International tour), Sound of Music (Cape Town), Batman Live (world arena tour), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Sao Paulo), Cats (Sao Paulo), Saturday Night Fever (Johannesburg), Mamma Mia! (South Africa and world tour), Starlight Express (New Zealand), Cats (Germany and Italy).