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Writers
JILL OHAYON
BOOK AND LYRICS
Jill Ohayon is a Montreal-born librettist, actor, and singer. After spending a few years working as a litigator and human rights lawyer in Toronto and Ottawa, she made the decision to pursue her love of writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. [It is the best decision she has ever made.] She was named the recipient of the Council for Canadian American Relations Award as well as the Shubert Foundation Scholarship. Among others, her works have been performed at Classic Stage Company, Symphony Space, 54 Below, the Green Room 42, Joe’s Pub, the African Grove Theatre, the Broom Tree Theatre, Union Hall, and the New York Public Library. In the summer of 2025, her musical The Garden Bridge (NYFA New Work Grant, the Lab Series at MSM (Finalist), the Aubrey & Marla Dan Fund for New Musicals (Finalist), CreateTheater (Semifinalist)) written with composer Andy Li, received an Equity Showcase at Classic Stage Company as part of the SheNYC Summer Festival. After a sold-out run with an added performance, it took home the awards for Best Music & Lyrics and Best Production. The Garden Bridge has been workshopped at The BringAbout with Jennifer Jancuska, Resident Choreographer of Hamilton on Broadway, as well as with actors Phillipa Soo and James Yaegashi. In May of 2025, it was developed at the Casa Uno Artist Residency in Costa Rica, followed by a NYFA-funded reading at the Broom Tree Theatre. Beyond The Garden Bridge, Her short musical, Turbulence, written with Ryan O’Dea, was selected for production as part of the International Human Rights Arts Festival in December of 2024. She and collaborator Andy Li were also selected for Prospect’s Musical Theatre Lab in 2025 where they wrote a piece called Birthday Presence which was performed off-Broadway at Symphony Space. Ohayon holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a JD and a BCL from McGill University, and a BA from the University of Ottawa, where she graduated as the class’s Gold Medalist. Her legal background and justice-oriented mindset inform her writing, and she is drawn to themes of identity, community, and resilience. She is a Member of Maestra, the Dramatists Guild, MUSE, and the Law Society of Ontario.
aNDY LI
MUSIC
Andy Li is a composer for theatre, opera, and film based in New York City. He is a winner of the GCNA Franco Proposal Contest, for which he wrote St Anne’s Garden in a Fading Summer (University of Kansas – World Premiere), and a semifinalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. His works have been performed at Classic Stage Company, Symphony Space, The Broom Tree Theatre, The Hudson Guild Theater, the Woolworth Chapel at Woodlawn Cemetery, 54 Below, The Green Room 42, Joe’s Pub, The African Grove Theatre, and New York City’s Breaking Sound Series. His musical The Garden Bridge (Phoenix Theatre Company Richard P. Stahl Festival of New American Theatre (Finalist), Aubrey and Marla Dan Fund (Finalist), Lab Series at MSM (Finalist), CreateTheater Musical Series (Semifinalist)) written with librettist Jill Ohayon received its Off-Broadway debut at Classic Stage Company as part of the 2025 SheNYC Summer Theater Festival, where it was awarded Best Music & Lyrics and Best Production. It was also named the recipient of a 2025 NYFA Queens Arts Fund: New Work Grant, the 2025 Mécénat Musica Prix Crowd, and a nominee for Best New Musical (Off-Off-Broadway) at the 2025 BroadwayWorld Off-Broadway Awards. It has been workshopped at The BringAbout with Jennifer Jancuska, Resident Choreographer of Hamilton on Broadway, as well as with actors Phillipa Soo and James Yaegashi. It has also been developed at the Casa Uno Artist Residency in Costa Rica (May 2025), and at Goodspeed Musicals (February 2024). His short musical Birthday Presence (lib. Jill Ohayon) was presented at Symphony Space as part of Prospect’s 2025 Musical Theater Lab. For opera, he has written two pieces for The American Opera Projects: What Do You See? (lib. Sravya Saraswatula), presented at the Woodlawn Cemetery in May 2025, and Tesserae (lib. Patrick Thompson), presented at The Hudson Guild Theater in May 2024. For film, he has scored Pasta (dir. Janey Feingold), Blank Canvas (dir. Xuecong Zhao) and Her Summer (dir. Yunye Chen). He is the sound designer for the audio drama Intrusive Thot (written by Sarah Rossman), which was broadcasted across Glasgow by RADIOPHRENIA. Li holds an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (NYU), a BM in Music for New Media: Film & Game Scoring (Peabody Institute), and BA degrees in French and Medicine, Science, and the Humanities (Johns Hopkins University). He is a member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and MUSE.