Julia Riew is a writer, librettist, and composer-lyricist best known for Shimcheong: A Folktale which is currently in development for the stage with Tony Award–winning director Diane Paulus and GLAAD Award–winning playwright Diana Son. In addition to the recipient of the 2022 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theater Songwriting, Julia has been Playbill’s Featured Songwriter of the Month, a Woman to Watch on Broadway, a Princess Grace Award Honoraria recipient, the inaugural Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship winner, and the inaugural Musicians United for Social Equity (MUSE) Linda Twine Scholarship winner. Julia graduated magna cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 2022 with a BA in Theater, Dance, Media (TDM) and Music. IG: @juliariew (62K+) TikTok: @juliariew (137K+). More here: JuliaRiew.com
Brad Riew is an MFA candidate in fiction at New York University's creative writing program. He has studied creative writing under Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Claudia Rankine, David Lipsky, Jennifer Clement, Amy Hempel, and others. Brad is co-author of 20 States on Wheels, a disability-friendly travel guide to the United States, which was featured in Lonely Planet. Brad graduated from Harvard College in 2018, where he won the Ecker Short Story Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
