Edward Barnes (composer of Punch and Judy Get Divorced) is the composer-librettist of twelve works of opera-music theater, including Old Aunt Dinah's Sure Guide to Dreams and Lucky Numbers seen last season at American Music Theater Festival. His work has been produced by opera companies from Boston to the Philippines, and includes three works created for the Los Angeles Music Center Opera. Other work incudes musical scores for productions by the Lincoln Center Theater Company, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Los Angeles Theater Center, the Guthrie Theater, and the Mark Taper Forum, and music for a singing robotic bird built by Walt Disney Studios. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. He is the 1996 winner of the Stephen Sondheim Award.