AARON ALON (Book, Lyrics, Music, Arrangements, Musical Co-Director) is an award-winning writer, composer, and director-producer. His stage musicals include The Great White Way: the Bert Williams Musical, a 2023 finalist for the Stanley Drama Awards; The Chosen Ones, and Mad!, which he cowrote with Russell Sarre. His feature film musical Bully was screened in film festivals around the world, winning over 20 festival awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Aaron was one of six international finalists for the 2022 Fred Ebb Award for musical theatre creators. His classical music has also been performed around the world, released on five CDs, and awarded numerous national and international composition honors. He is a member of the Recording Academy (voting member for the GRAMMY Awards), ASCAP, and Mu Phi Epsilon, and is a founding member and president of the Board of Directors of Thunderclap Productions, a nonprofit production company based in Houston. Aaron also runs Aaron Alon Productions, LLC, which produces music and video shorts for his YouTube channel, which has had nearly 10 million views. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Rice University and is an award-winning Professor of Music and Chair of the Visual & Performing Arts at Lone Star College-University Park in Houston, TX. Learn more at aaronalon.com.