Sam Carner and Derek Gregor received their MFAs from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Their musical Unlock’d won a Richard Rodgers Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was produced at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2007, where it won the “Best of the Fest” audience award and received Talkin’ Broadway Summer Theatre Festival Citations for “Outstanding New Musical” and “Outstanding Original Theatrical Score.” Unlock’d has gone on to workshops at Theatre Works, Palo Alto and the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago.Sing, But Don’t Tell, a concert of their songs, was presented at NYMF in the fall of 2009, and, in February of 2010, 12 cast members from the Broadway revival of HAIR performed an evening of their songs in a show called Buzzed. They have presented a number of other concerts of their songs, including series of concerts featuring a cast of college performers from around the country, entitled Carner & Gregor’s Barely Legal Showtune Extravaganza. In 2011, two of their songs were nominated for Manhattan Association of Cabaret Awards (“Sing, But Don’t Tell” for Best Special Musical Material and “After Hours” for Best Song). A workshop of their song cycle Island Song was presented at the 92nd St. Y Tribeca in October of 2011, and they are currently developing the project. Other current projects include The Great Cookie Quest (a children’s musical with book by Jim Weitzer), a ten-minute musical for the Prospect Theatre, and other projects. Sam and Derek were in residence at Yaddo in 2005. Derek writes country music with Laura Bell Bundy, and one of their songs was recently featured on her cd Longing for a Place Already Gone. He also founded the rock band M-LAB: http://www.mlabmusic.com, whose new cd A Bold And Hopeful Spark is now available. Over the past several years, Sam has lectured regularly on various musical-theatre-history-related topics at Yale. Sam has taught musical-theatre history and analysis courses at New York University and Yale. For more information on Sam and Derek: http://www.carnerandgregor.com.