Joe Slabe is a Calgary-based writer and composer with a Masters Degree in musical theatre composition from the University of London. Joe is well-known for creating themed musical revues and his annual production of Naughty… but Nice! won the 2016 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. Other honours include four Betty Mitchell awards for his musical direction, a Calgary Critics’ Award for Best Production of a Musical for Touch Me: Songs for a (dis)Connected Age, and two writing awards from the New York Musical Theatre Festival for his show, Crossing Swords. Joe’s musical Austentatious is published by Playscripts Inc. and has been produced in London, New York, Calgary, and numerous regional theatres in the US and UK. He is the founding artistic director of Forte Musical Theatre Guild and received the 2004 Greg Bond Award for outstanding contributions to musical theatre in Calgary. His last name rhymes with “The Bay”.