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

Kathryn Kulaga (Stage Manager) is a freelance stage manager based out of New York City. She holds a BFA in Design & Technology with an Emphasis in Stage Management from The University of Arizona, and recently completed the Juilliard Professional Apprentice Program in the Stage Management Division. Regional: Maine State Music Theatre, Music Theatre Wichita, Saguaro City Music Theatre. All the love to Suzanne, Jim, Dad, and Jimmy! https://www.kathrynkulaga.com/

Stephen Cole (Director/Choreographer) is a theatre director, educator, actor, choreographer, and Vital Theatre Alum. He holds an MFA in Theatre Directing and Pedagogy from the University of Idaho and recently concluded five years as Education Director at Arizona Broadway Theatre, where he directed numerous productions and mentored hundreds of young artists. Directing credits include Pippin, The Drowsy Chaperone, Big Fish, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Best of Times: Jerry Herman (J2 Spotlight, Off-Broadway), Manhattan Rep, and The Newtwork NYC. He has also served as Associate Director for Disneys Newsies and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Arizona Broadway Theatre) and Milk and Honey (J2 Spotlight).

David Mallamud (Composer) is an Emmy-nominee, a MacDowell, Dramatists Guild, and Leonard Bernstein Fellow (Tanglewood). He is currently writing What Do You See with Craig Lucas, and Spittoonia on the Erie with Nathan Christensen for Northern Sky Theater. Other projects include Dr. Seuss The Sneetches: The Musical, written with Philip Dawkins (Childrens Theatre Company, MN) an EP of songs from the musical Off on a Comet, featuring Kelli OHara, Santino Fontana, and Heidi Blickenstaff and Pandoras Jar, written with Janine Robledo. Their song Heights Unknown was named a 2026 winner of Taylor Loudermans Write Out Loud. His concert work includes orchestrations, arrangements, and additional music for R.E.M.s Mike Mills Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and Orchestra, A Night of Georgia Music, which won a regional Emmy, and R.E.M. Explored (Atlanta Symphony, St. Louis Symphony). His album The Wild & Whimsical Worlds of David Mallamud won a BroadwayWorld Album Award. davidmallamud.com

Peter Morris (Book & Lyrics) is the co-author and co-lyricist of Howard Crabtrees Whoop-Dee-Doo!, winner of the 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue. His musicalization of The Adventures of Mottel, based on Sholom Aleichems last book, was commissioned by the Kaufman Cultural Arts Center of New York and performed at Merkin Hall in March 2007. Other produced works include Frankly, Scarlett, a farce co-authored with Phillip George, about the making of Gone with the Wind The Remarkable Ruth Fields, a musical comedy about the trials and tribulations of a bearded lady, which received five 1992 Backstage Bistro Awards Listen to the Wind, the 1995 revival of the 1955 British musical for which he fashioned a new libretto Escape from Pterodactyl Island, seen on the London Fringe and at the NY Fringe Festival and High Hair & Jalapenos, an original musical revue lampooning Texas. His musical version of William Makepeace Thackerays fairy tale novella The Rose and the Ring premiered in London in December 2001, and had an international tour of Canada, England and Australia in 2004. He has written numerous one-act plays, winning the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition for The Worlds Longest Kiss. His full-length play No Place Like Home premiered at South Carolinas Trustus Theatre in 2004. He served as script consultant for My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs, which was performed at NYs City Center and subsequently aired on PBS. Currently, his musical for young audiences, Kid Frankenstein, will be produced by NYCs Vital Theatre in October 2017 and his dance musical, Gotta Getta Girl, is under option to Amas Musical Theater. Mr. Morris is an alumnus of the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop.