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NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF BACK FENCE CHOIR Brad has won national awards for songwriting, theater composing, and children's book authorship. Books: Penguin Putnam publishes Brad Burg’s poetry for children. Outside The Lines: Poetry At Play was a 2002 Blue Ribbon award winner, from the Children’s Book Council. Theater: As a theater composer, Brad has had shows produced in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. After Princeton (his Triangle Show was BMI’s "college show of the year"), he worked mostly in theater, where he had shows presented at New York's Public Theater, and by Ellen Stewart at Cafe LaMama.  His collaborators have included world-renowned writer and critic Eric Bentley, and playwrights Thom Babe and Tim Mayer. His songs have been sung on stage by performers such as Tony winners Dixie Carter, Richard Chamberlain, and Stockard Channing, the Oscar-winning Linda Hunt, and Tommy Lee Jones (yes) and James Woods.   On Broadway, Brad was featured in the fifth longest-running hit of all time, as both lead singer and assistant conductor: Oh! Calcutta! Note: Although the show introduced nudity to the Great White Way, Brad sang as a member of the pit band, which was fully clothed (at the insistence of the bands' mothers, legend has it). Pop / Country songwriting. Brad co-wrote several major country hits, including a #1 record, with Hall of Fame songwriter Jeff Barry ("Leader of the Pack," "Be My Baby," etc.), while under contract to legendary music publisher Don Kirshner. With Jeff producing, Brad also co-wrote a solo pop music album recorded by country/TV star Lisa Hartman-Black. In Boston and Los Angeles, Brad occasionally played keyboard, in the bands of Harvard proto-punk-rocker Peter Ivers. Personal: Brad Burg is married, has two children, and lives in Morris Plains, N.J.