Eddie Shapiro grew up singing music from every cast album he could get his hands on. He is the author of Noth­ing Like a Dame: Con­ver­sa­tions with the Great Women of Musi­cal The­ater, Queens on the King­dom: The Ulti­mate Gay and Les­bian Guide to the Dis­ney Theme Parks, and hun­dreds of arti­cles in mag­a­zines includ­ing Out, Back­stage West, In The­ater and Instinct. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles.