Arthur

Rhoda Levine is the author of seven children's books and is an accomplished director and choreographer. In addition to working for major opera houses in the United States and Europe, she has choreographed shows on and off Broadway, and in London's West End. Among the world premieres she has directed are by Viktor Ullmann and X- and , both by Anthony Davis. In Cape Town she directed the South African premiere of in 1996, and she premiered the New York City Opera productions of Janácek's , Zimmermann's , and Adamo's. The New York Review Children's Collection publishes her books Three Ladies Beside the Sea and He Was There from the Day We Moved In, both illustrated by Edward Gorey. Levine has taught acting and improvisation at the Yale School of Drama, the Curtis Institute of Music, and Northwestern University, and is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music. She lives in New York, where she is the artistic director of the city's only improvisational opera company, Play It by Ear. Everett Aison is a co-founder of the School of Visual Arts Film School in New York and the former art director of Grossman Publishers. He has written several produced screenplays and designed the opening titles for numerous films, including Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water. In addition to Arthur he has illustrated the children's book The American Movie and in 2006 published his first novel, Artrage.