Thomas S. Hischak is professor emeritus of theatre at the State University of New York College at Cortland. He is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919 (Scarecrow Press, 2011), The Disney Song Encyclopedia (Taylor Trade, 2012), The Jerome Kern Encyclopedia (2013), TheEncyclopedia of Film Composers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), and Theatre as Human Action, Second Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).