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Writers
JILL OHAYON
BOOK AND LYRICS
Jill Ohayon is a Montreal-born librettist, screenwriter, actor, and singer. After spending a few years working as a litigator and human rights lawyer, 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. Her works have been performed at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Symphony Space, The Tank, the African Grove Theatre, and Union Hall. Her musical, The Garden Bridge, written with composer Andy Li, will have its off-Broadway debut this summer at the Classic Stage Company as part of the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival. It has been supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Casa Uno Artist Residency, and The BringAbout with Jennifer Jancuska (Resident Choreographer of Hamilton on Broadway). It has also been a finalist for the Aubrey & Marla Dan Fund for New Musicals, the Manhattan School of Music Lab Series, and a semifinalist for the CreateTheater Series. She was selected for Prospect’s Musical Theater Lab in 2025 and her short musical, Turbulence, was performed as part of the International Human Rights Arts Festival in December 2024. She is a Member of Maestra, the Dramatists Guild, MUSE, and the Law Society of Ontario.
aNDY LI
MUSIC
Andy Li is Chinese American composer based in New York City. He is a winner of the 2025 GCNA Franco Proposal Contest, for which he wrote St Anne’s Garden in a Fading Summer, and a recipient of the NYFA Queens Arts Fund. His original musical The Garden Bridge (lib. Jill Ohayon) will have its Off-Broadway debut at the Classic Stage Company this July as part of the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival. It has been developed at The BringAbout with Jennifer Jancuska, Resident Choreographer of Hamilton on Broadway, and at Casa Uno in Costa Rica. It was a finalist for the Aubrey and Marla Dan Fund for New Musicals and the Lab Series at the Manhattan School of Music, and one of nine semifinalists for the CreateTheater Musical Series. It has been presented at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, and New York City’s Breaking Sound Series. His 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 Tesserae (lib. Patrick Thompson) and What Do You See? (lib. Sravya Saraswatula) for The American Opera Projects. 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). His composition teachers include Matthew Sklar, Thomas Dolby, Christopher Kennedy, Vid Smooke, Martyn Harry, and Travis Hardaway. He is a member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and MUSE.