Bios

Zina Goldrich is an award-winning composer, conductor, musical director, and performing artist. Her romantic comedy and theatre songs have been sung around the world by Broadway stars including Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Sierra Boggess and Alan Cumming. She won the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in songwriting with longtime collaborator, Marcy Heisler. Their musical, Ever After, enjoyed a sold-out run and was the first production on the brand new Coca Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Current projects include a new musical, Yay People Yay! with multi-Emmy Award winning writer, David Javerbaum and Hollywood Romance with Emmy Award winning bookwriters Gabrielle Allan and Jen Crittenden. Other Goldrich and Heisler collaborations include Dear Edwina (Drama Desk Nomination-Best Music) and Junie B. Jones (Lucille Lortel Nomination) which ran successfully Off-Broadway, as well as Goodspeed’s The Great American Mousical, directed by Julie Andrews. She has played keyboards on Broadway for Avenue Q, Bombay Dreams, Oklahoma! and Titanic, where she also conducted. She studied with legendary Oscar winner Jerry Goldsmith, and is a proud graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program. Ms. Goldrich has taught master classes at NYU, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon and elsewhere.

David Javerbaum is a Harvard graduate with an MFA in musical theater composition from NYU, David Javerbaum’s song credits include four Tony Awards opening songs (two with Neil Patrick Harris and two with James Corden), the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Cry-Baby, the Broadway show An Act of God starring Jim Parsons and then Sean Hayes, the Off-Broadway musical Suburb, dozens of songs for TV shows like The Late Late Show with James Corden and Disjointed on Netflix, holiday singles such as Kristen Bell’s "Text Me Merry Christmas” and holiday TV specials such as Stephen Colbert’s Grammy-winning A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All. He wrote nearly 50 songs with the late Adam Schlesinger, his longtime collaborator. David is also a professional comedy writer with 13 Emmys, primarily for his work as head writer and executive producer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. David has written songs for recording artists including Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Feist, Kathy Bates, Toby Keith, Kristen Chenoweth, Katharine McPhee, Adam Lambert and Bebe Neuwirth. In addition, he created and ran the popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod, which though no longer active still has 6.1M followers.