LYNN AHRENS & STEPHEN FLAHERTY

LYNN AHRENS and STEPHEN FLAHERTY have won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for the Broadway hit Ragtime and were nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes for the animated feature film Anastasia. They also adapted Anastasia for the Broadway stage. Their musical Once On This Island won London’s Olivier Award and Broadway's 2018 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Other theatre credits include Seussical, Rocky, My Favorite Year, A Man of No Importance and The Glorious Ones; and two upcoming shows, Knoxville and Marie. They are four-time Grammy nominees and recipients of the Oscar Hammerstein Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 Ahrens and Flaherty were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO

4-time Grammy Award winner ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO has recorded thirteen albums. Time Magazine called her, "Africa's premier diva" and The Guardian listed her as one of their Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World. She is the recipient of the prestigious 2015 Crystal Award given by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the 2016 Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award. At the G7 Summit in 2019, President Macron of France named Kidjo as the spokesperson for the AFAWA initiative (Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa) to help close the financing gap for women entrepreneurs in Africa. She has also created her own charitable foundation, Batonga, dedicated to support the education of young girls in Africa.