Sherman & Hull are Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull. Their writing partnership, in which they co-write book, music, and lyrics, consists of several musical theater compositions, including the original musicals Empire, Goodney's Ghost, Byzantium, and Diggy Hoffen Pepper Zee and The Colors Of The Rainbow.

 

 
Creative Team, The dreamers and doers of EMPIRE the musical

Caroline Sherman (Librettist, Lyricist, & Composer)

has written for CBS primetime specials, developed a sitcom with Infront Productions/20th Century Fox, and created single-camera television pilots for Tavel Entertainment, Angry Dragon/Sony, and Concentric Entertainment. Caroline has also written infomercials, composed marketing jingles, performed and recorded original cello parts for singer-songwriters, and ghost-written several bestselling finance and business books for Harper Collins, McGraw-Hill and Wiley. She is a graduate of Colgate University and received an MBA from Kellogg/Northwestern.  Caroline worked in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs and in marketing at Procter & Gamble, and is a licensed helicopter pilot, professional ski instructor, and has cycled across, and up, the country.  She directed a production of The Pajama Game when she was 17.

 

Robert Hull (Librettist, Lyricist, & Composer)

has had his music licensed for TV and film by MTV, HBO, ESPN, New Line Cinema, NBC, and Apple Computers. He has also been the musical director for several theater productions and performed his own songs extensively in New York and California. Robert has worked also on the business side of the music industry managing national radio promotions for BMG/RCA Records as well as licensing intellectual property, directing record distribution, and managing music publishing royalty processes for Morgan Creek Productions. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music from The New School University in New York, and a law degree with honors from Pepperdine School of Law where he was an editor of the Law Review and a recipient of the prestigious Faculty Scholarship. He is a bar-certified attorney in CA, NY and CT.

 

Joey McKneely (Director and Choreographer)

was chosen 11 years ago to direct and reproduce his choreography for West Side Story at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy, his directorial debut. His productions of West Side Story have been produced throughout the world, including the Chatalet in Paris and at the Saddler Wells Theater in London summer 2008. On Broadway, Joey's choreographic debut was Smokey Joe's Cafe, followed by The Life, Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, The Wild Party, and The Boy From Oz starring Hugh Jackman. He has earned 2 Tony Award Nominations, 2 Outer Critics Circle Nominations, an NAACP Image Award, and a LA Ovation Award. He has also directed/choreographed US national tours of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie Get Your Gun, Crazy For You, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and the off-Broadway production of Jerry Herman's revue, Showtune. In addition, he has directed Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton's The Beautiful Game in Tokyo, Japan. Other theatre credits include Whistle Down The Wind, A Wonderful Life, Time Of Your Life, Juno, Making Tracks and the national tour of Jolson, The Musical. McKneely's feature film choreography can be seen in IQ and Ben Stiller's Zoolander, as well as a TV episode of "Hope and Faith." As a performer, McKneely was in the original casts of Starlight Express, Roza, She Loves Me (Revival), and of course, the endlessly infamous Carrie.