Jan Roper (Composer) – Jan has 30 years of experience in Los Angeles as a music director, composer and performer. She has MD’d numerous shows, including her own original rock opera, Jerusalem A.D., which enjoyed four full-scale productions during the years of 2002 to 2006. In 2010 the L.A. Weekly Theater Awards nominated her for Best Musical Director for her work in Godspell at the Knightsbridge Theatre. She composed and music directed a one-woman show on the Broadway career of Lane Bradbury (the original Dainty Rose in Gypsy). Jan has music directed for many artists, such as Thelma Houston, Mario Lopez, Toni Basil, Charisse, and Helen Reddy. www.janroper.com
Gabrielle Wagner Mann (Bookwriter) – comes from a professional background of acting and singing. Favorite roles include: Laureen in the acclaimed Divorce! The Musical (Ovation Aware Nominee 2010); Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (Garland nod for Best Lead in a Musical); Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella; Sally Bowles in Cabaret; Sooze in Suburbia to name a few. Film/TV include: “Mad Men”, “Wilfred”, “Firefly” (dir. Joss Whedon), “Strong Medicine”, “Stonerville”, “Unscripted: (dir. George Clooney). As a writer: libretto for iWish which was produced at the Colony Theatre, UC Irvine, and at Studio C in Hollywood; currently book and lyrics for Untitled Faerie Project set in Ireland. www.gabriellewagner.com
Julie Weiner (Lyricist) studied musical theatre at The Einhorn School for the Performing Arts in NYC under Adam Gwon and Kate Kerrigan, and at New Musicals Inc. (“NMI”) in Los Angeles. Julie completed NMI’s two year curriculum and co-wrote the original 15 minute musical, “Bank Shot”, which was produced at The Colony Theatre in 2012 and at the UC Irvine Digital Natives Festival in 2013. Julie was selected for the 2015 ASCAP NYMF Musical Theater Songwriting Workshop and participated in a Master Class with Lawrence O’Keefe.
