ERIK ORTON is an Emmy Award-winning writer and former-Broadway tour manager. He was raised in Germany and the suburbs of Washington D.C. He has produced various musicals Off-Broadway. His original musical Berlin won an Emmy Award as well as a CINE Golden Eagle Award and Bronze Telly Award. In 2018, he climbed El Capitan—the tallest granite cliff in the world—got scuba certified, and learned to surf.