🎶 Meet the Team 🎭

🎭 Richard Gustin - Playwright/Principal Lyricist (AEA - Dramatist Guild of America)

Richard Gustin’s plays include the Chicago Equity Joseph Jefferson Award winning (Best Actor) and FringeNYC Fan Favorite Being Seen, A Sparrow Falls (premiere fundraiser for the Lydia R. Diamond New Play Award Chicago Dramatists), When Life Happens, Surviving the Cycle, Leviathan, WINK, Circle 7, Mercy, Flat World, Someone Like Me, Concentric Circles, Found Objects, Switch, CruciFiction and Everyman.

Being Seen enjoyed a critically acclaimed sold-out run at FringeNYC starring Broadway veteran William Youmans (seen in Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird with Jeff Daniels and WICKED) and Allison Minick. Being Seen also enjoyed a successful run at the OSO Arts Centre London.

Richard is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and has appeared in major roles at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Cleveland’s Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Kansas City Repertory Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Virginia Museum, First Stage Milwaukee, Milwaukee Chamber Theater and the Ivanhoe in Chicago

For more information about Richard’s work please visit: rg-productions.org and richardgustin.com🌟

Secondary lyricists:
Greg Becker, Iris Iglarsh

🎹 Greg Becker - Composer

Gregory Becker is an award-winning songwriter, composer and lyricist/librettist. His works have sold more than 20 million units worldwide and have been recorded by Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts, Leann Rimes, Alan Jackson and many others.

His works have also been featured in major motion pictures, and he has contributed to multiple Grammy-nominated projects. Gregory studied lyric writing, composing and arranging at Berklee College of Music and has been a staff songwriter for Sony ATV, BMG, CAA, Warner-Chappell, Famous Music, and Southern Crossroads.

He currently is signed with Bluewater Music and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.🎼

📚 Iris Iglarsh - Book Author

Because we were all children once, author Iris Iglarsh respects, supports and celebrates children. That's why she writes for a younger audience.

As a storyteller by nature, with a successful career as a writer and editor, the author's first middle-grade novel – Kirby's Dilemma – evolved from a bedtime story she made up and told her son when he was young.

Iris lives in the Chicago area with her husband.