Jackson Cline (Casting Director) is thrilled to serve as Casting Director for Penguin Goes to Flight School the Musical and Kid Frankenstein the Musical. He has worked extensively with Vital Theatre Company since 2023, acting in four productions: Pinkalicious the Musical, Vitals The Wizard of Oz, Calling All Toys, and Fancy Nancy the Musical. www.JacksonCline.com

Miles Messier (Musical Director) is an actor, music director, and composer. Favorite performance credits include To the Fairest (New York Theatre Festival), Something Rotten! (Island ETC), Forever Plaid (North Country Center for the Arts), and High School Musical (Yorktown Stage). When not on stage, you can find Miles conducting for pit orchestras or cruising around the world with Royal Caribbean as a vocal director. BFA in Music Theatre from The Hartt School. Listen to his original one his website!

Kyle Jack (Director/Choreographer) was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated with an MBA from Grand Canyon University. Some of his favorite credits include Rubble in Paw Patrol Live! The Great Pirate Adventure, Hud: Hair the musical, The Cowardly Lion: The Wizard of Oz Enlightened Theatrics (Won BroadwayWorld.com award for Best Featured Actor), Owen: Owen and Mzee (Vital Theater) and Snoopy: Plaza Theatrics. He wants to thank his family and friends for their support. He is represented by Tsu Tsu Straton at Tsu Tsu Unlimited.

Lita Judge (Author) is the award-winning author and illustrator of sixteen fiction and nonfiction picture books including Good Morning to Me (Simon & Schuster, 2015), Born in the Wild (Roaring Brook, 2014), Flight School (S&S, 2014) and the beloved classic Red Sled (S&S, 2011). Her books have been included on the Kirkus Best Books of the Year List and have received numerous awards including the Sterling North Award, the Jane Addams Honor, ALA Notable, the International Literacy Association Children's Book Award and Michigan Notable Book. Birds of all kinds have long inspired her stories. As a child she spent every summer in Wisconsin with her Ornithologist grandparents, living in a house filled with Eagles, Hawks and Owls. Now she lives with her husband, two cats and a little green parrot named Beatrix Potter in Peterborough, New Hampshire. http://www.LitaJudge.net

David Mallamud (Composer) is an Emmy-nominated composer and orchestrator whose songs, musicals, orchestral works, and arrangements have been performed by leading artists and ensembles. He is a MacDowell Fellow, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Leonard Bernstein Fellow at Tanglewood, two-time ASCAP Morton Gould Award recipient, Charles Ives Scholarship recipient, and a Fred Ebb, Jonathan Larson, and Richard Rodgers Award finalist. His music for Flight School: The Musical was lauded by Laurel Graeber of The New York Times as the shows biggest boon . . . worthy of bigger stages.Current projects include What Do You See, a new musical with book and lyrics by Craig Lucas and music by Mallamud Pandoras Jar, written with Janine Robledo, including the song Heights Unknown, which was named a 2026 Write Out Loud winner and Spittoonia on the Erie, written with Nathan Christensen and in development with Northern Sky Theater. Mallamud also wrote a song with Craig Lucas for his new play Eleanore.Mallamud has worked extensively with Mike Mills of R.E.M., arranging Millss Concerto for Rock Band and Violin and composing additional music for the project. Written for violinist Robert McDuffie, the concerto premiered with Mills, McDuffie, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and has since been performed by major orchestras throughout the United States. Mallamud also collaborated with Mills and Chuck Leavell, keyboardist and musical director of the Rolling Stones, contributing arrangements and additional music to A Night of Georgia Music, a concert program featuring the concerto alongside new arrangements of Georgia-themed songs. Filmed for PBS, the program won an Emmy Award for best long-form arts/entertainment special and earned Mallamud, Mills, and Leavell an Emmy nomination in the composition/arranging category and is scheduled for a Carnegie Hall presentation in July 2026.. Mallamud and Mills continued their collaboration with R.E.M. Explored, a symphonic reimagining of R.E.M. songs premiered by the Atlanta Symphony O www.davidmallamud.com

Joshua H. Cohen (Lyrics) Joshua's honors include a Jonathan Larson Grant, the Anna Zornio Children's Theatre Playwriting Award (lyrics, Keep On Walkin'), the Chameleon Theatre Circle New Play Award for musical Ordinary Island (music/lyrics), and a MAC Award nomination for his cult cabaret hit The Sacrifice of Love (a.k.a. the waxing song). New York has recently seen his play The Thirteenth Commandment (Libra Theater Company, 7 NY Innovative Theater Award nominations, 2 wins) and musical Tamar of the River (Prospect Theatre Company, 2 Drama Desk nominations, world premiere recording from Yellow Sound Label). Other work developed or produced by Emerging Artists Theater, Active Theater, Oberon Theater Ensemble, Jewish Ensemble Theater, Secret Theater, New American, many others. Member, Dramatists Guild 2008-10 Fellow, American Lyric Theatre's Composer-Librettist Development Program August 2012 CAP21 Writers Residency. BA: Amherst College, MFA: NYU-GMTWP. www.JoshuaHCohen.com http://www.JoshuaHCohen.com

Cara Lustik (Book) has written the book for Twinkle Tames a Dragon the Musical and Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas the Musical. She has over 15 years in the entertainment, branding and licensing industries. Previously, she worked with HIT Entertainment for its preschool properties including Thomas the Tank Engine. Cara has worked with Production, Home Entertainment, Creative, Live Events, Broadcast and Digital teams on live events and stage productions, new characters, and digital initiatives. http://www.lustikink.com