LEON KO (Composer) received a Master’s degree in Musical Theatre Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His musical Heading East, with book and lyrics by Robert Lee, won the 2001 Richard Rodgers Development Award. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall as well as on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), where he wrote songs for the children's series The Puzzle Place. Leon won Best Score for his three Cantonese-language musicals at the 2003, 2006 and 2009 Hong Kong Theatre Awards. For his work on the film Perhaps Love (2005), he received a Golden Horse Award in Taiwan for Best Original Film Song, as well as a Hong Kong Film Award, an Asia-Pacific Film Festival Award and a Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Film Score. He was also nominated for a Golden Horse Award and a Hong Kong Film Award in 2008 for his contributions to the movie Warlords. Leon was the musical director for Hong Kong pop legend Jacky Cheung’s 2004 musical revival world tour of Snow, Wolf, Lake, which toured over 25 cities in Asia. In 2006 he wrote a new opening song and incidental music for the classic Cantonese opera Princess Changping for the celebrated Chor Fung Ming Troupe in Hong Kong. He recently orchestrated and performed in a medley at the Cultural Show in Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China. Leon is currently working on a stage adaptation of the movie Please Don’t Eat The Daisies for the New York stage.

ROBERT LEE (Bookwriter/Lyricist) is a lyricist and librettist whose original musicals include Journey to the West (music by Ko), Heading East (music by Ko) and The Sweet By and By (book and music by Maria V.S. Seigenthaler). His work as a music director includes the CDs Stage 1 and Stage 2 and the premiere cast recording of Heading East (DINK Records). He and Ko received the 2001 Richard Rodgers Development Award for Heading East and an AT&T First Stage Grant for the musical Chinese Hell, developed with producer Margo Lion and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater. Most recently, he and Ko were commissioned by East of Doheny to create a musical stage adaptation of Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Robert is an alumnus of Princeton University and the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (where he currently serves on the faculty) and is an Artistic Associate at Theatre Royal Stratford East in London, where he leads its Musical Theatre Writing Workshop with composer Fred Carl. The Workshop is the subject of the film Rappin' at the Royal (Blast Films, 2005). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.