Meet the Team

ANNA MIRIAM BROWN (Book, Music, Lyrics). Now 22, Anna started writing His Story: The Musical at the age of 16 while on a mission to Africa. A dyslexic, unable to read or write before 9 years old, homeschooled Anna focused instead on the arts before writing her first songs at 15. As a social-media-savvy Gen Z, she sees a chance to reach her generation with the timeless story of light and hope. Anna is an author and illustrator of over a dozen educational books, some bestsellers, for children, especially kids with Dyslexia and teens with their passions and career goals. Anna currently lives in Dallas and travels often doing research for writing projects, which include several new musicals.

JEFF CALHOUN (Director). Broadway: Disney’s Newsies (Tony Award® Nomination for Best Director), Bonnie & Clyde, Jekyll & Hyde, Grey Gardens, Deaf West’s Big River (recipient of Tony Honor for Excellence and a Tony Award® Nomination for Best Revival of a Musical), Brooklyn, Annie Get Your Gun, Grease (Tony Award® Nomination for Best Choreography), Tommy Tune Tonite, and The Will Rogers Follies. Tour and Internationally: Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 (US National Tour, London, Australia) and Disney’s High School Musical 1 & 2. Mr. Calhoun is an associate artist at The Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International, a not-for-profit helping homeless youth in thirty cities across six countries. He recently directed A Night of Covenant House Stars (2020 and 2021) on Amazon Prime. Twitter and Instagram: @thejeffcalhoun

EAMON FOLEY (Choreographer) is the Artistic Director of Grind Arts Company. Choreography credits include Next to Normal (Writer’s Theater), Annie (The Hollywood Bowl), Merrily We Roll Along (Wallis-Annenberg Theater), Alien/Nation (Williamstown Theater Festival), and the upcoming Guys and Dolls (Imperial Theater – Tokyo). As director-choreographer: Nine, Sweeney Todd, Cyrano, Hero, and The Last Five Years. As a performer, Broadway credits include Gypsy, Assassins, The Grinch, 13! The Musical, and Everyday Rapture. Eamon received his BA from Princeton University.

PAWEL ‘BZIM’ ZARECKI (Arranger) has worked with artists like Anna Maria Jopek, Mietek Szczesniak, TGD, and Pat Metheny. He plays the keys with several Polish artists and recently traveled to the (USA, Israel, & New Zealand) to produce albums. Most of the time he works in his own studio at home, Pueblo People Studios, in a forest a few kilometers from Warsaw.

RICK HIP-FLORES (Orchestrator, Music Supervisor & Arranger) was the musical director of Natasha, Pierre… on Broadway, and music supervisor of In Transit, Broadway’s first acapella musical. He was the Associate Musical Director of Ain’t Too Proud and has conducted seven other Broadway shows, including Fun Home, Come From Away, Bronx Tale, Groundhog Day, Beautiful, Rocky, and the Radio City Rockettes. Rick’s arrangements and orchestrations have been performed by the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and on television. Most recently, he was awarded the Kennedy Center Musical Theater Award for his work on Daddy Issues.

BRUCE LAZARUS (Producer). Broadway: Say Goodnight Gracie (Tony Award nomination – Best Play). Off-Broadway: Only Kidding, Shakespeare’s R&J. Bruce is the former Executive Director of Samuel French, the largest licensor of Broadway and Off-Broadway plays and musicals to the secondary market. He also has the distinction of serving as the original lead legal counsel for the most successful Broadway musical in history, Disney’s The Lion King, and the most successful Off-Broadway show in history, Blueman Group.

WILLIE AND KORIE ROBERTSON (Producers), stars of A&E’s hit reality television show “Duck Dynasty,” owners of their family business Duck and Buck Commander, and their newest venture Tread Lively Productions. Writing credits include NYT Best Seller The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty, American Hunter, American Fisherman, American Entrepreneur, Duck Commander Devotions for Kids, and Strong and Kind: Raising Kids of Character. Married for 30 years, the parents of six and grandparents of five, Willie and Korie live in their hometown of West Monroe, LA.