This seminar is free to the public, but reservations are required. To enter the building at 1501 Broadway, one will need to present photo ID.

Hall will guide the conversation, "asking Mills about the process, rewards and challenges of writing for the contemporary American musical theatre." There will also be time for audience questions.

Guild Council member Carol Hall received two Drama Desk Awards for her score and lyrics to The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, directed by Tommy Tune. Her song, "Hard Candy Christmas," recorded by Dolly Parton from the film of Whorehouse, won an ASCAP Award for being one of the Most Performed Country Songs of 1983. Hall served as one of the major composer/lyricists for Marlo Thomas' Emmy Award-winning television special "Free To Be... You And Me," and acted as contributing editor and songwriter to its sequel, "Free To Be... A Family." Other work include contributions to A...My Name Is Alice and A...My Name Is Still Alice, and ten years of songs for "Sesame Street". She also did the lyrics for Paper Moon and the music and lyrics for The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public.

Her new CD, "Hallways: The Songs of Carol Hall," is released by LML Music.

Mills received the 2007 Fred Ebb Award for emerging songwriters, 2006 Drama Desk nominations for his show The Pursuit of Persephone, the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and a 2002 grant from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. He was also selected as an inaugural Dramatists Guild Fellow in 2000. His other shows include Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge, Illyria, The Taxi Cabaret, The Flood, Marco Polo, The Alchemists, Lonely Rhymes, The Rockae and Honor. He supplied lyrics for Iron Curtain, which will be part of the 2009 NAMT Festival. Mills is a founding member of Prospect Theater Company.

For reservations and more information, contact Tari Stratton at tstratton@dramatistsguild.com, or call (212) 398-9366, ext. 20.