Mark-Eugene Garcia, a Mexican/Honduran playwright and member of the Dramatists Guild and A.S.C.A.P, graduated from the City College of New York. He studied book and lyric writing with the Academy of New Musical Theatre and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. ​ ​His achievements include the 2021 Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre, the 2018 UnFringed Festival Best of Festival Award, a 2016 Vancouver Ovation Award nomination, a 2013 Planet Connections Outstanding Book of a New Musical nomination, and the 2012 Jacob Weiser Playwriting Award for a Fully Realized Drama.