School of Rock Young Artists Edition

Julian Fellowes (book by)

Julian Fellowes is creator, sole writer and executive producer of the worldwide television series Downton Abbey, which has received 69 Emmy Award nominations, winning 15, including writing and Outstanding Miniseries or Movie for Fellowes. His theatre writing credits are: School of Rock – The Musical (Broadway/Tony Award nominee, Best Book), Mary Poppins (West End, Broadway/Drama Desk nominee, Best Book), Half a Sixpence (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End) and The Wind in the Willows (The London Palladium).

His film writing credits are: Gosford Park (Academy Award winner, Original Screenplay), Vanity Fair, Piccadilly Jim, Separate Lies (National Board of Review Directorial Debut Award), From Time to Time (directed, Best Picture – Chicago Children’s Film Festival and Fiuggi Family Festival in Rome, Youth Jury Award – Seattle International Film Festival, Young Jury Award — Cinemagic in Belfast), The Young Victoria, The Tourist, Romeo & Juliet, The Chaperone, the Downton Abbey movie, Downton Abbey: A New Era and the upcoming Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. His television writing credits include Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Prince and the Pauper, Titanic (miniseries), Doctor Thorne (miniseries) and most recently, The Gilded Age.

He has authored the international bestselling novels Snobs, Past Imperfect and most recently, Belgravia; the children’s book The Curious Adventures of the Abandoned Toys and Downton Abbey scripts. Fellowes is also a screen and stage actor. He and his wife, Emma, live in London and Dorset, England. They have a son, Peregrine.

Glenn Slater (lyrics by)

Glenn Slater’s first show (How I Survived High School) was produced off-Broadway when he was just 17 years old. Since then, he has become one of his generation’s most celebrated lyricists, and an omnipresent fixture in theatre, film and television for over two decades. With his frequent collaborator, legendary composer Alan Menken, Slater has written the songs for four Broadway hits: Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Grammy winner, Tony nominee), Sister Act (Tony nominee), Leap of Faith and A Bronx Tale. With equally legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, Slater penned the lyrics for the international juggernaut School of Rock (Tony nominee), and both book and lyrics for Love Never Dies, the long-awaited sequel to Phantom of the Opera. His most recent show, Clueless (with pop-star composer KT Tunstall) is currently playing to sold-out audiences on the West End. Other notable stage works include Newyorkers at the Manhattan Theatre Club (Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk nominee), and the book for Beatsville (with composer/lyricist/wife Wendy Wilf) at the Asolo Rep.

For the big screen, Glenn co-created Disney’s instant-classic Tangled (Grammy winner, Oscar and Golden Globe nominee), as well as films as varied as Disney’s animated Western Home on the Range, the R-rated global smash Sausage Party and the pop-driven Uglydolls. His latest animated film, Spellbound (with music by Menken), is currently featured on Netflix. For the small screen, Slater wrote the lyrics for every song in both seasons of ABC-TV’s ground-breaking cult-hit musical series Galavant (Emmy nominee), as well as for all three seasons of the Disney Channel’s beloved series Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure (Emmy winner, two-time nominee). Slater also wrote the lyrics for “The Compass of Your Heart”, the theme for the wildly popular ride Sinbad’s Storybook Voyage at the Tokyo DisneySea theme park.

Slater’s songs have been recorded by a dizzying array of artists – from Broadway luminaries like Donna Murphy, Raul Esparza and Sierra Boggess to Nashville giants Tim McGraw, k.d. lang and Bonnie Raitt, to contemporary pop stars like Kelly Clarkson, Janelle Monae and Nick Jonas. In addition to his Grammy and Emmy statuettes, he has been honored with the prestigious Kleban Award for Lyrics, and ASCAP’s New Horizons Award. Glenn is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild and lives in NYC.

Andrew Lloyd Webber (new music by)

Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS and The Phantom of the Opera, he equaled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.

In New York, hard on the heels of the Tony Award-winning revival of Sunset Boulevard, Lloyd Webber recently opened Masquerade, which brings audiences closer than ever before to his global phenomenon The Phantom of the Opera, and CATS: The Jellicle Ball, the Harlem Ballroom reimagining of his iconic musical, which recently opened to rave reviews on Broadway.

Lloyd Webber owns six London theatres, including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Reopened in July 2021, the latter was completely restored and renovated at a cost of over $80 million. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theatres is put back into the buildings.

Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. In Britain, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects, such as the Music in Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre. In the United States, the American Theatre Wing’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative provides grant funding directly to under-resourced public schools for their theatre programs and provides scholarships to grade school and university students pursuing studies in theatre.

In 2023, Andrew Lloyd Webber partnered with Michael Harrison to produce new productions of existing work and his future musicals. His latest, The Illusionist, will be produced in London in 2027.

Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992, created an honorary life peer in 1997, and made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by King Charles III in 2024.