Scott Elmegreen is a playwright, composer, and author based in NYC and Chicago. His play Straight (NYTimes Critics’ Pick Off-Broadway; pub. Dramatic Publishing Company) has been produced across the country and around the world. He wrote the music for Colin Quinn Long Story Short (Broadway/Helen Hayes Theater; HBO Special; national tour); Piled Higher and Deeper, The Movie; and many Off-Broadway shows. His other plays and musicals include Thucydides (Winner, Samuel French OOB Festival; pub. Samuel French); COLLEGE, The Musical (pub. DPC); Vote For Me: A Musical Debate (TheTimesCenter; Off-Broadway; London Theatre Workshop); The Magic School Bus, Live! The Climate Challenge (Bay Area Children’s Theatre; Oregon Children’s Theatre; national tour); Ivy + Bean, The Musical (BACT; South Coast Repertory; Atlantic Theater Company; national tour; pub. Theatrical Rights Worldwide); Hip Hop Cinderella (Amas Musical Theatre, online premiere); Ladybug Girl And Bumblebee Boy, The Musical (BACT; national tour); and Awesome Allie, First Kid Astronaut (Vital Theatre, planetariums tour, pub. TRW). He also writes science fiction novels under a pseudonym (HarperCollins Publishers). Education: Princeton University.