Question: Who worked with Lynn Ahrens on Dessa Rose and multiple other musicals including "Lucky Stiff", "Once on This Island", and "My Favorite Year"?

full_context: Document 1: Lucky Stiff: Lucky Stiff is a musical farce. It was the first collaboration for the team of Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music). The show is based on the 1983 novel "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" by Michael Butterworth. It was created and performed at Playwrights Horizons off-Broadway in 1988, and won the Richard Rodgers Award for that year. The musical was seen in London's West End in 1997 but has not had a Broadway production. A film version had a limited release in theatres in 2015 but received mostly negative reviews.
Document 2: Sheldon Harnick: Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof".
Document 3: Walker and Williams in Dahomey: Walker and Williams In Dahomey (1903-1905) is a black musical written by Jesse A. Shipp as a satire on the American Colonization Society's back-to-Africa movement. Regarded as "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house”, In Dahomey is lauded as a marquee turning point for African American representation in vaudeville theater. It featured lyrics by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, music by popular ragtime musician Will Marion Cook, and was produced by Harry Seamon and McVon Hurtig. The musical starred leading comedians George Walker and Bert Williams, two iconic figures of vaudeville entertainment at the time. In Dahomey opened in the New York Theater on February 18, 1903. The musical ran for 53 completed performances, including two tours in the United States and one tour of the United Kingdom. In total, "In Dahomey" ran for a combined total of four years.
Document 4: Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Joshua Sondheim ( ; born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer, including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of "The New York Times" as "now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater." His best-known works as composer and lyricist include "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Company", "Follies", "A Little Night Music", "Pacific Overtures", "", "Merrily We Roll Along", "Sunday in the Park with George", "Into the Woods", "Assassins", and "Passion". He also wrote the lyrics for "West Side Story" and "Gypsy".
Document 5: Glenn Slater: Glenn Slater (born 1968) is an American lyricist who collaborates with Alan Menken and other musical theatre composers. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score for the Broadway version of "The Little Mermaid" at the 62nd Tony Awards in 2008, his second Tony nomination for "Sister Act" at the 65th Tony Awards in 2011, and his third Tony nomination for "School of Rock" at the 70th Tony Awards in 2016.
Document 6: Dessa Rose (musical): Dessa Rose is a musical based on the book by Sherley Anne Williams with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. It tells the story of a young black woman and a young white woman and their journey to acceptance in 1847 in the ante-bellum South, as they tell their story to their grandchildren.
Document 7: Stephen Flaherty: Stephen Flaherty (born September 18, 1960) is an American composer of musical theatre. He works most often in collaboration with the lyricist/bookwriter Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for writing the Broadway musicals "Once on This Island", which was nominated for eight Tony Awards, "Seussical", which was nominated for the Grammy Award, and "Ragtime", which was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won Best Original Score. Flaherty was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards with Lynn Ahrens for his songs and song score for the animated film musical "Anastasia".
Document 8: Oscar Hammerstein II: Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II ( ; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalist's and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".
Document 9: Seussical: Seussical is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the stories of Dr. Seuss (mainly "Horton Hears a Who!", "Horton Hatches the Egg" and "Miss Gertrude McFuzz") that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour. It has become a beloved classic for schools, communities, and regional theatres.
Document 10: My Favorite Year (musical): My Favorite Year is a musical with a book by Joseph Dougherty, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. It is based on the film of the same name.
Document 11: Sherley Anne Williams: Sherley Anne Williams (August 25, 1944 – July 6, 1999) was an American poet, novelist, professor, vocalist, Jazz poet, and social critic. Many of her works tell stories about her life in the African-American community.
Document 12: Lynn Ahrens: Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical "Ragtime". Together with Flaherty, they have written many musicals, including "Lucky Stiff", "Once on This Island", "My Favorite Year", "Ragtime", "Seussical", "A Man of No Importance", "Dessa Rose", "The Glorious Ones", and most recently seen on Broadway, "Rocky the Musical".
Document 13: Wonderful Town: Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play "My Sister Eileen", which in turn originated from autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney first published in "The New Yorker" in the late 1930s and later published in book form as "My Sister Eileen". Only the last two stories in McKenney's book were used, and they were heavily modified.
Document 14: Once on This Island: Once on This Island is a one-act musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the 1985 novel "My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl" by Rosa Guy, it is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The show includes elements of the "Romeo and Juliet" story and elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Little Mermaid". It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring together people of different social classes.
Document 15: Dessa Rose: Dessa Rose is a novel by Sherley Anne Williams published in 1986 (New York: HarperCollins Publishers). The book is a neo-slave narrative, incorporating many elements of traditional slave narratives. The book is divided into three sections: "The Darky", "The Wench" and "The Negress". The sections represent a different stage of growth in the life of the protagonist, Dessa Rose.
ground_truth: Stephen Flaherty