Dear Evan Hansen

Val Emmich Author
Val Emmich is a writer, singersongwriter, and actor whowas dubbed a Renaissance man by the New York Post. He has hadrecurring roles on Vinyl and Ugly Betty as well as a memorableguest role as Liz Lemons coffeeboy fling, Jamie, on 30 Rock. His debutnovel, The Reminders, received rave reviews, with Popsugar deeming itbeautiful and beguiling and Huffington Post saying Emmichperforms a bit of creative magic...in his warm and winning debut. Emmich livesin Jersey City, New Jersey, with his wife and their two children.

Justin Paul Author
Benj Pasek andJustin Paul are the Tony,Oscar?, and Golden Globewinning songwriting team behind the Broadway musicals DearEvan Hansen Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Obie Award, Outer Critics CircleAward, Helen Hayes Award and A Christmas Story: The Musical Tony,Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, London Evening Standard award nominations, Jamesand the Giant Peach, and Edges. Film projects include La La LandLionsgate and Trolls DreamWorks Animation. Recent and upcoming filmprojects include The Greatest Showman 20thCentury Fox Snow White Walt Disney Pictures Medusa SonyPictures Animation and Aladdin Walt Disney Pictures. TV creditsinclude Smash, Sesame Street, The Flash, and Johnny and the Sprites,and FOXs A Christmas Story Live musical. Additional honours: RichardRodgers Award American Academy of Arts and Letters ASCAP Foundation RichardRodgers New Horizons Award Jonathan Larson Award. Both are graduates of theUniversity of Michigan Musical Theatre program and members of the DramatistsGuild of America, Inc.

Steven Levenson Author
Steven Levenson is the Tony Awardwinning book writer of DearEvan Hansen. His plays include If I Forget, The Unavoidable Disappearnceof Tom Durnin, Core Values, The Language of Trees, and Seven Minutes inHeaven. Honors include the Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, OuterCritics John Gassner Playwriting Award, Drama League Award, Drama Desknomination, HullWarriner nomination, Lucille Lortel nomination, and the HelenHayes Award. A former Artist in Residence at Ars Nova and a member of theRoundabout Leadership Council, he worked for three seasons as a writer andproducer on Showtimes Masters of Sex and is a founding member of ColtCoeur and an alumnus of MCCs Playwrights Coalition and Ars Novas Play Group.His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts. A graduateof Brown University, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.,and the WGA.