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Thank you to all the amazing friends, family and community that have inspired and help make this musical a reality.

Thank you to Alec Viera, Ukiah Reynolds, Dr. Andrew Crane, CJ Madsen, Kirsten Busse, Lisa Despain, Maria Mello, Margaret Ingmanson, Jessica Costas, Camille Iorio, Emma Nulton, Hanna Eyre, Sierra Livermore, Isaac Carlin, Cameron Robbins, Emma Davis, Nathan Finney, Jessica Slattery, Andrew Northrop, Jared Bledsoe, Alec Snell, Carson Snell, Weston Smith and many more for being some of the first friends years ago to hear and critique the music and script. 

Thank you to Kelsey Lloyd for turning my symbol design of the musical into actual stained glass, and to Brinnley Ashton for turning it into an album cover. 

Thank you to friends and mentors, Jacob Hanna, Todd Peterson, Gavin McMahan, Nicole McMahan, Adam Keith, Alec Viera, Andy Brewer, Zach Griffen, Kyra Vanhoven, who helped me learn and develop skills in music production the be able to create this project.

Thank you to Korianne Johnson for her immense support and vocal critique, and for helping make this night possible. Thank you to Professors Stephen Jones, Rob Moffat, Ray Smith, Emily Castleton, Brett Yorgason, Kerilyn Johnson, Aaron Merrill, Ron Saltmarsh, Sam Bostwick, and Diane Reich who have provided critique and guidance over time to parts of this project. 

Thank you to Alex Joyner, William Gardner, McCade Matheson, Curtis Casperson, Ethan Groberg, David Todd, Alex Vaughn, Sam Paepke, and the Nauvoo Performing Mission of 2019, who helped inspire a lot of the prayer songs whether or not they knew it. Thanks to the elders in my house who listened as I wrote the songs after our shows at night. Thanks to Charity Cordova for helping me workshop the vocal range and technqiue of "Natalie."

Thank you again to Dr. Andrew Crane, and BYU Singers of 2019-2020 who taught me community and love within the space of music. Thank you especially to the bass section that provided support, friendship and blessings of comfort and healing throughout that year as I wrote the music and experienced life, unfortunate and joyful, that inspired a lot of the show. Thank you to Emily Merrell and BYU Syncopation of 2018-2019 for teaching me a better appreciation for vocal harmony and rhythm, as well as helping me cope with what happened that year. Thank you to Jake Smith, Mark Usevitch, Zach Williams, Jacob Fields, Kristen Bromley and BYU Jazz Combos for elevating my standards for well arranged tracks. Thank you to Mark Geslison and Lindsay Davis and the BYU American Folk Ensembles 2019 for giving me more experience in live performance and finding the beauty of collaboration and the simple power of storytelling in music. Thank you to the cast and crew of Weirder Stuff: A Musical Parody of Stranger Things, and PVC Pipedream, without which I don't know if I would have known where to start when creating a musical. 

Thank you to my wonderful roommates over the years at BYU that inspired the characters Travis, David, and Ian. Your support and friendship carried me through this school and taught me humility, charity, and fun. Thank you to the men who inspired Matt and Farid for helping me learn to love as well as move on when it doesn't work out. Furthermore thank you for teaching me how to change.