RON KLIPP is an award-winning playwright, musician, and lyricist. He is one of the three creators of GABRIEL, a musical based on the true story of America’s largest planned slave rebellion. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas and served on the music faculty at a Dallas college while working as a pianist and arranger in local recording studios. He attained an MBA after moving to Richmond, Virginia and continued a career in Information Technology consulting and management, working also as a local keyboardist and a composer, arranger and orchestrator of several large-scale musical theatre productions. Since retiring from I.T. in 2016, Ron has been writing and performing music full-time. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.