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	Jan Powell, composer, is an ASCAP member and winner of numerous ASCAP Special Awards. He is proud to have been a performing member of Actors Equity Association, and one of the first elected representatives to the Member Advisory Board of the Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. As a musical director in the professional theater, Jan has conducted more than 200 musical productions over the past thirty years. He is a member of the Antaeus Company, where his work as musical director, composer, or arranger includes Trial by Jury and Patience (Antaeus workshop at the Mark Taper Forum), Legal Briefs, Mother Courage and Her Children, A Tale of Charles Dickens (for broadcast on NPR’s The Play’s the Thing), and A.A. Milne and John Achorn’s The Ugly Duckling. Currently Jan serves as a musical director for the historic Temple Theatre in Sanford, North Carolina. His work there includes the 2006 and 2007 Christmas shows, A Dash of Rosemary, Beehive, the ’60s Musical, Godspell, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Winter Wondrettes, Once On This Island, Little Women, and South Pacific. Other work as musical director, conductor, or vocal arranger includes Rosenstrasse at Company Rep (world premiere), The Threepenny Opera at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Inside Out directed by Kay Cole, William Hoffman’s Riga directed by Marshall Mason and produced by Drew Snyder and Venture West Theater, three seasons of A.S.K. Theater Projects’ Nautilus Workshop directed by Ben Krywosz, and The Virginia Avenue Project directed by Leigh Curran. At USC Jan has served as musical director for Mansfield Park, Uncommon Women and Others, and The Threepenny Opera. At UCLA he has been an instructor in musical theater, audition technique, and vocal production during the Summer Institute program. At College of the Canyons he composed the score for a production of As You Like It. In television, Jan worked as musical director for ABC Family Channel’s State of Grace, and composed original music for the CBS show The District. In addition to his many works of musical theater written with Ken Stone, listed below, Jan wrote music for Tom Huey’s It Ain’t the Heat, It’s the Humility, published as one of the ten Best Short Plays of 1982, and words and music for The Ugly Duckling, published by the Dramatic Publishing Company. His musical Miss Vulcan 1939, written with Marian Partee and Noelle Donfeld, premiered at Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2007 and was brought back for a return engagement in 2008. Now at home in Asheville, North Carolina, Jan has composed the score and played piano for the world premiere of Sandra Mason’s play about Thomas Wolfe, Return of an Angel, an annual production of The Occasional Theatre since 2007. This summer, Jan and Ken are putting the finishing touches on Falling in Love Again, a new musical play that follows the lives and loves of German Lieder composers from Schubert to Schoenberg. Jan is the playwright and Ken is providing new English lyrics to the songs of the great composers.	Ken Stone, bookwriter and lyricist, is a UCLA theater graduate, a long-time member of the Academy for New Musical Theatre, the Dramatists Guild, and ASCAP, and the winner of numerous ASCAP Special Awards. In 2005, Ken won the prestigious Kleban Award for most promising librettist. This award, established by the late lyricist of A Chorus Line, seeks to encourage the growth and development of musical theater by awarding yearly grants to “promising lyricists and librettists working in the artistic form known as the American Musical Theatre.” During a more than 20-year collaboration with composer Jan Powell, Ken has written shows that have been performed at La Mirada Civic Light Opera, Theatre Building Chicago, Los Angeles Theatre Center, the North Shore Music Theatre, TheaterWorks, the Powerhouse, the Victory Theatre, the Antaeus Company, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Powell & Stone’s works have been supported by the Frederick Loewe Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Tuners Theatre, and the Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Awards include a Jefferson Citation nomination for new work, an award from the Columbia Entertainment Company, the grand prize of the American Musical Theatre Festival, and an Ovation Award nomination. In addition to his own works, Ken has contributed lyrics and lyric translations to Legal Briefs, Rosie’s, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, The New Normal, A Sensible Girl, and A.A. Milne and John Achorn’s The Ugly Duckling.

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