Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond are an Emmy-nominated writing team for the stage and screen. They wrote more than 150 songs for Disney's VAMPIRINA, an animated musical TV series reaching over 100 million viewers in 115 countries.

Other television work includes Netflix's RIDLEY JONES, DEAD END: PARANORMAL PARK, and SPIRIT RANGERS.

Their stage projects include ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS (Shakespeare's Globe - written with Emma Rice), THE NOTEWORTHY LIFE OF HOWARD BARNES (Village Theater), FINN (Kennedy Center - written with Chris Nee), ORPHIE & THE BOOK OF HEROES (Kennedy Center), THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF PERCIVAL VON SCHMOOTZ (Adirondack Theatre Festival), JUDGE JACKIE: DISORDER IN THE COURT (Pittsburgh CLO), DANI GIRL (Exit, Pursued by a Bear), GOLDEN GATE (Williamstown Theatre Festival), HOMEMADE FUSION (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and JUNIOR CLAUS (Orlando Repertory Theatre).

Michael and Chris have written songs for Patti Lupone, Audra McDonald, Sutton Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Patina Miller, Sara Ramirez, Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells, Santino Fontana, Christopher Jackson, Skyler Astin, James Monroe Iglehart, Anna Camp, Jane Lynch, Henry Winkler, Rachel Bloom, Donald Faison, Alfred Molina, Taran Killam, and Wanda Sykes.

Awards and honors include the Fred Ebb Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, the Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award, the Samuel French Next Step Award, the Burton Lane Award, and the Harold Adamson Award. They are members of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP, and are proud alumni of Carnegie Mellon University.

Their debut album, OUT OF OUR HEADS, and the world premiere recording of THE NOTEWORTHY LIFE OF HOWARD BARNES are now available on iTunes and Spotify.

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