Creative Team

Faye Widjaja is a third-year theater major who is so excited to direct her third original musical! Previously, she has written and directed A Minor Inconvenience, which had its most recent workshop as a scholarship winner at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival and Bird! The Musical, the first musical with co-writer Jin! It has been an absolute dream come true to watch this piece come to life, and she is incredibly grateful to all those who have worked tirelessly to put this little Tavern together.

The nights may be long, but the sun has to rise.

Jin Schwabe is a third year theater major in the design and production emphasis, studying stage management. This is the second musical he has written with Faye (shout out Bird! The Musical). It was wonderful to create it and even more special to see it come to life in the hands of this incredible cast, band, and creative team. Jin loves writing stories and music, and hopes you love the show just as much. 

Noe Cervantes is UCLA alum and Los Angeles based music director/producer, musician, and composer. His most recent credit includes music directing the main stage show "Bad Breath: The Stink Inside Me" (by Natalie Grace Lambert) for the UCLA Theater Department. His other credits include playing DJ Silent Marvin in the Fountain Theatre's premiere of "Fly Me To The Sun" by Brian Quijada and playing the Paletero in Mario Vega's "Paletero Days" as part of the Direct Address at The Ford put on by Cornerstone Theatre Co. 

Eliza Feldman is a first year Applied Linguistics major who is so excited to be choreographing this show! She’s had such a blast choreographing for this amazing cast. Her previous experience includes choreographing Little Shop of Horrors, Matilda, and High School Musical. And her first show with UCLA was Merrily We Roll Along this fall quarter. Thank you to Faye for this incredible opportunity! You’ve been such a inspiration to learn from.

Megan Chin is a first-year Theater major at UCLA with an emphasis on stage management and sound. While she has been a performer her whole life, Megan took an early interest in backstage work, and she has dedicated her undergraduate education to the technical side of theater. Besides theater, however, Megan is heavily involved in choir, and is currently singing with the UCLA Chorale! She is absolutely thrilled to be working with her cast on Here’s To You, With Love and dedicates her performance to her loving sister and mom, whom she loves to the moon and back. Here’s to you!

Matt Lee is a third-year theater major with an emphasis in Costume Design; as a deisigner for screen and stage, Matt's favorite projects often revolve around themes of identity and what it means to be human. Outside of theater Matt enjoys thrifting, drawing, and Dj'ing!

Salem Hansen is a third year scenic design and production student. This is their second time working with Jin and Faye on an original musical, and they’re so proud of everyone’s work!

El Bork is very excited to be a part of this production and had a lot of fun sourcing props. Special thanks to the multiple Goodwill employees who diligently wrapped all the delicates without complaint and the bus drivers who drove extra careful on her way home. This is one of her last shows in her freshman year and while she’s sad it’s ending, she’s excited for the audience to experience it. Congratulations to all the talented actors, dedicated creative team, and everyone else involved in this wonderful show!

Arwyn Austin is a sound designer and engineer, currently in her third year at UCLA, pursuing a B.A. in Theater. Most recently, she was the sound designer for Girl on an Altar, and the mixer for Emma: No One But Herself, both for the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television. She’d like to give special thanks to Faye, for bringing her on to such a special project, and to her friends and family attending the show tonight for their support. She hopes you enjoy the show!

Nicholas Hagerman-Holm is a first year Theater-Integrated Studies major. This is his second show at UCLA light design. He has also been playing the cello for about 10 years. He hopes that to gain more opportunities to creatively tell stories cooperatively and looks forward to what happens next.