TIM WEIL is the author of Making Rent: The Story Behind the Music that Changed Broadway (Apollo Publishers). He is a musical director, composer, arranger, and orchestrator who has worked on more than 100 productions in New York and around the world, including Rent, Shrek the Musical, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, and Sally Marr… and Her Escorts. His work in film includes Camp and The Marc Pease Experience, and he composed songs for the children’s television shows Sheep in the Big City and Bear in the Big Blue House. Weil lives with his wife, the actor Randy Graff, in New Jersey.