Marisa Mitchell is a book writer who takes joy in tackling weighty social themes with a healthy dose of comedy. She is based in San Francisco, California, the epicenter of the hubris of artificial intelligence. Other highlights of work include 350 parts per million, a coming-of-age comedic musical about hope in the face of the climate crisis (Gateway Theater, 2024; Finalist, Musical Writers Pitch Competition, 2022), The Hive, a musical about a cult facing an existential threat (Broadwater Theatre, 2025), The Fermi Paradox (Winner, Playhouse Creatures Fight Forward Festival, 2023). Ms. Mitchell also writes and performs corporate musicals in front of audiences of hundreds, poking fun at corporate and tech culture. NMI Core Curriculum (Bookwriting, Composition), MBA, MA, BS. 

David Thomas Jones is a lyricist based in Los Angeles, California. He is the lyricist of Another Door Opens, a short musical about a magical elevator and the power of choice, which premiered at the Broadwater Theatre in Los Angeles in 2025. Mr. Jones has been writing folk songs, pop songs, jingles, and educational lyrics since 2016, and transitioned into musical theater in 2021. NMI Core Curriculum (Lyrics), DC, MS.

Kelly Krebs is a Twin Cities-based composer whose work merges classical art song traditions with contemporary pop sensibilities. Kelly has enjoyed collaborations with VocalEssence, Art Song Lab, and the Source Song Festival. He's a three-time Song Slam Twin Cities medalist (first place 2022, 2023). Kelly's commitment to musical theater deepened through Nautilus Music-Theater's Composer-Librettist Studio (2018) and New Musicals Inc.'s Core Curriculum (2024-25). In 2024, he had a staged reading of "Norman!"—a musical parody of Hitchcock's "Psycho." The NMI program culminated in a July 2025 Los Angeles production of "Another Door Opens”.