Martin Gerald Sherman is an American dramatist and screenwriter best known for his 20 stage plays which have been produced in over 55 countries. He rose to fame in 1979 with the production of his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Bent, which explores the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust. Bent was a Tony nominee for Best Play in 1980 and won the Dramatists Guild's Hull-Warriner Award. It has been produced in 35 countries and was adapted first by Sherman for a major motion picture in 1997 and later by independent sources as a ballet in Brazil. 

Leland Moss was an American theatre director. After studying at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and the Dramatic Arts, Moss moved to New York. He worked with LaMama, Playwrights Horizons, the New York Shakespeare Festival. His acting credits include the Broadway production of Yentl, in which he played five characters.

Moss later moved to San Francisco, California, where he concieved his best known work, The AIDS Show, a series of songs, monologues and scenes. It was presented in other cities under the title Unfinished Business. A documentary about the play was shown in 1986. While in the Bay Area, Moss worked extensively with the Theater Rhinocerous, a gay and lesbian theatre, and was active in San Francisco's gay movement 

During his nine years in the Bay Area, Mr. Moss worked principally with the Theater Rhinocerous, a gay and lesbian theater, and was active in the city's gay movement. His play, Quisbies, as well as other works that he directed, explored the impact of AIDS on the gay community.

Moss died of AIDS at the age of 41.