… for Sony Pictures Entertainment EMEA, writing a screenplay for Cinetrain Films (Switzerland), co-writing a series for Clara Films (Chile), and writing documentary bibles for the Annenberg Foundation. A short film Gabriel wrote, produced, and directed about racial violence in Italy – titled PAURA DELL’IGNOTO – won the “Special Award for Socially Impactful Filmmaking at the 22^nd Siena International Film Festival. He is a producer on the forthcoming feature film THE JULIA SET (starring Gillian Anderson, Chase Infiniti, and Jason Isaacs), writer/EP on TV show POTLUCK, and executive producer on THE PIT (starring Ron Perlman). Peter Luo-backed incubator Stars Collective selected Gabriel as one of 50 emerging filmmakers participating in its program, mentored by Sam Raimi and James Wan.

His non-dramatic writing engagements span multiple mediums. He has written speeches for former Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino, the president of the Com.It.ES (legislative body for Italian expats in California), and a speaker in the Korean National Assembly. During the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, he wrote a series of guest columns for popular film industry publication Sydney’s Buzz. One of his poems was published in London-based literary magazine Captain Hale. He has also written professional copy for many businesses, primarily in the entertainment industry. While working for the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Gabriel co-authored peer-reviewed academic research on algorithmically predicting likelihood of armed conflict globally, titled Dynamic Conflict Risk Index, which was published by the European Union Publishing Office.

His acting credits include “Chris Jr.” in Pursuit of Happyness: the Musical (American Conservatory Theater workshop), “WW” in For Black Boys (Eleanor Frost Film Festival), “George” in Intimate Apparel (Hopkins Center for the Arts), “Lord Brounker” in The Living (Hopkins Center for the Arts), “Antonio” in Ctrl, Alt(Right), DELETE (Jagfest), “Narrator” in M.E.A.T. (VoxFest), and “Cory” in Fences (JAG Productions)—the latter of which won the New England Theater Conference Regional Award for Outstanding Performance. He was also honored with the Seguso Prize (Emerging Actor Award) by the Italian delegation at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

In his “day job,” Gabriel serves as Vice President of Strategy & Business development at strategic advisory firm Entertainment Media Ventures (where he advises corporations, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds on their entertainment industry mergers and acquisitions), as well as Co-Founder & Principal of EMV’s film sector development-focused affiliate company Hollywood Ventures Group (where he is in charge of all finance and operations).

Gabriel graduated with honors from Dartmouth College with a degree in political science and was a 2022 Rhodes Scholar Finalist.

… in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, Birdland Jazz Club, and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. A graduate of Oxford University and The Juilliard School, Landau’s work is published by Just A Theory Press, while select pieces are published by G. Schirmer and Edition Peters.

After writing fantasy novels as a child, Landau turned to the closest thing to magic he could find in real life: music. At age 16, he was accepted to Oscar-, Grammy-, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano’s studio at The Juilliard School. At Juilliard and as a Composition Fellow at summer institutions including the prestigious Aspen Music Festival, he created his core body of work in contemporary classical chamber and vocal music. At the same time, he worked in premiere pop music studios, experimental queer nightclubs, and as a pianist for both opera and Broadway productions. This unusual background led him to a sound that at turns explores and ignores genre, in which hit-factory hooks interact with the concept-driven architectures of classical music—all in service of a theatrical world-building lifted, in abstract, from fantasy novels.

After his formative studies with theater composer and lyricist Lawrence Rosen, Landau earned his bachelor’s degree at Juilliard under John Corigliano. One year later, he graduated from Oxford University with a master’s degree and First Class Honours.

Recent significant premieres include his musical adaptation of Brecht/Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, which premiered Off-Broadway under the name 3PENNY Opera to a new book and lyrics by George Abud. Starring Tony Winner Katrina Lenk and nominees Barbara Walsh and Mary Testa, 3PENNY featured complete transformations of Weill’s original music by Landau.

His first opera, Pietà, debuted in an innovative film format documenting the show’s delayed opening due to COVID and subsequent reading in New York. Filmed in 2020, Pietà went on to win the “Best Music Documentary” laurels at such festivals as The People’s Film Festival, RAGFF New York City, and Malabar Music Festival. The full production of Pietà was mounted in 2021 at The Narnia Festival in Italy with the composer conducting from the piano, while the American premiere was held in 2023 at Oklahoma City University’s prestigious opera and musical theater department. His second opera, a companion piece to Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas titled & Aeterna, premiered at the same festival in Italy the following year; then in America in 2024 in Boise, Idaho; and finally in reading format in New York at Opera America. A 2026 production is planned with Off-Brand Opera in New York. This opera uniquely combines period performance practice with contemporary compositional ideas, built on a libretto by Emily Garber, with whom he would go on to write the musical PSYCHE. Around this time, Landau would also resume work on his first musical, ROSIE, about the iconic riveter, with bookwriters Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton and Sara Gottlieb.

Beyond these two operas and two musicals, Landau’s The Coin Toss was premiered at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club by Broadway’s Sam Gravitte and has since been performed at Lincoln Center (THEATRE NOW’s Soundbites Festival), as well as at a revue of his music featuring 2024 Tony-winner Maleah Joi Moon and Joel Perez. A song cycle with music, lyrics, and orchestrations by Landau, The Coin Toss garnered the following review from Broadway World: “though one is reluctant to use The S Word, Mr. Landau’s composition is so creative and innovative that one cannot help but be reminded of another musical theater titan whom everyone admires [Sondheim].”

In addition to his composing, Landau is an accomplished lyricist, orchestrator, music director, and Early Music keyboardist. In these capacities he has arranged concerts for a wide range of performers, from Baroque cellists and indie rockers to leading Broadway stars, including Katrina Lenk and George Abud at iconic venues like The Duplex, The Greenroom 42, and 54 Below.

Landau is the youngest-ever winner of the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; one of NYFOS’S (New York Festival of Song) “9 under 34” composers; a board member of experimental theater company Off- Brand Opera; founding director of The New Voice Festival’s Composers Studio; a Clarendon Scholar of Oxford University; and an Extension-Division faculty member at Juilliard in New York, where he is based full-time. He is represented by UIA Talent Agency.

… where he studied under the tutelage of Lynn Nottage and David Henry Hwang. A few of his playwriting and musical theatre writing credits include: The Fly & Incredibly Dope Adventures of Tyrone Jenkins: A Detroit Hip Hop Musical (CMU and the Detroit Fringe Festival), Thin Places (115 Short Play Festival), The Bridge (Columbia University), and his thesis play with music, written and structured as a choral requiem mass, Leo’s Requiem (Columbia University). His play in verse, 18, won the 48th Samuel French Off Off-Broadway Short Play Festival and was published and licensed by Concord Theatricals. He was honored to serve as David Lindsay Abaire’s writing associate for the 2024 reimagined National Tour of Shrek the Musical and the librettist assistant for the revival of David Henry Hwang’s opera, Dream of the Red Chamber at the San Francisco Opera.

His literary publications include Wonder Boy: A Science Fiction Short, Only The Golden Sky Knows, and his first novella, HAZE: Book One.He’s currently developing a docu-play about the displacement of the historic Oak Grove Cemetery with Mouths of Babes Theatre in North Carolina and a musical about the Exonerated Central Park Five with composer, Brandon Jackson Baird, for the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop. He’s a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America.

… Perry is a 2025-26 recipient of New Music USA’s Creator Fund Grant allowing her to record and release her singer-songwriter album, “Gilly’s Garden.” In 2023, Perry won the Ravinia Breaking Barriers Call for Scores where her orchestra piece I’m Sorry to My Body, was rehearsed and performed by the Chicago Philharmonic. In addition to the Chicago Philharmonic, Perry’s work has been performed by the Tennessee Valley Music Festival Orchestra, the Mostly Modern Orchestra, Euclid Quartet, Aperture Duo, and members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Perry’s work has been described as “sweet and sensitive” (Parterre Box) as well as “gentle, introspective, caring, important, and beautiful” (Music City Review).

Perry graduated from Southern Methodist University with degrees in both music composition and film and is greatly influenced by art forms outside of music–such as film, dance, and theatre. An avid poetry reader and writer, Perry is also influenced by text and how text can interact with music in both spoken and unspoken ways. Perry holds an MFA in music composition from The California Institute of the Arts and is currently a DMA candidate at the Peabody Institute.

… the Kennedy Center New Musical Theatre Award and the National Latinx Playwriting Award, his work stands at the intersection of queer-culture and mestizaje questioning systems of power through plays, musicals, poetry, and stand-up comedy. An alumnus of The Second City Chicago, the Primary Stages Einhorn Playwriting School in Manhattan, and Indiana University (MFA), he’s a charter member of Musical Theatre Factory, the Latinx Playwrights Circle, ThePlayGround Experiment, and the son of a preacher man.

His works include Manuel Versus The Statue Of Liberty (NYMF, O’Neill finalist, Princeton University, Gallery Players, Constellation Stage & Screen), Aztec Pirates And The Insignificance Of Life On Mars (Landing Theatre, San Diego Rep, Brooklyn Cultural Arts Center), Hotel Puerto Vallarta, A Legitimate Work Of Dramatic Theatre (Variations Theatre, The Egg and Spoon, San Diego Rep, Stages Houston), Promesa: A Mariachi Musical (Musical Theatre Factory), Animal Husbandry (New York Fringe Festival, Feast, BarnArts), Pyramid (Lincoln Center, AACR), Vox Pop! A Post-Democratic Musical (Musical Theatre Factory, Indiana University), 1970’s College Sex Comedy (Variations Theatre, Del Rey Players), #52songs (Beechman, West End, UnderGround), Tales From HWY 281 (Intar), Adan Y Julio Y La Frontera 2003 (O’Neill semi-finalist, Lone Star Theatre, Viva Theatre), The Mesquite Tree, An AMERICAN TRAGEDY (Teatro Audaz, O’Neill semi-finalist), The Invisible Hand Of God Touched Me In A Bad Place (The New Group, Intar) The Piñata (Indiana University), and more.

He’s a Playwrights Horizons Artist Grant Recipient, a Roundabout Theatre Company SpaceJam Resident, and a Primary Stages Rockwell Scholar. His streaming series Most Likely To premiered at the Warner Bros New York Latino Film Festival, with subsequent screenings at festivals across the country and won a Silver Telly award for excellence in film. As a director and dramaturg Davila specializes in new play development and has developed and directed dozens of plays through his New York City based indie-theatre company, Lone Star Theatre. Starting as a high school director in Texas he has gone on to work with San Diego Rep, Public Theatre San Antonio, The PlayGround Experiment, ExLibres Theatre, NYMadness, Dramatic Question Theatre, Teatro SEA, and many more. As a performer Davila has run the gamut from improv in basements to Carnegie Hall soloist, playing dozens of leading roles in New York City and regionally. Some of his favorites include Bruce (Fun Home), Finch (How to Succeed…), Claude (Hair), Radames (Elton John’s Aida), King Henry VIII (The King’s Wife Musical), and countless more. In 2020 he founded the Voices of America Writers Workshop focused on centering the stories of historically marginalized communities. He serves as Assistant Professor of Playwriting at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

… including the James E. Croft Grant for Emerging Wind Band Composers, the Dr. Gerald Kemner Prize Orchestra Composition Competition, the ASCAP Louis Armstrong Scholarship, the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, and the eighth Esko Linnavalli Big Band Composition Competition in Finland. He is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory under Dr. Chen Yi’s guidance. He completed his Master of Music at Brooklyn College under the supervision of Tania León and Jason Eckardt, where he cultivated his cosmopolitan approach to music composition. He also studied jazz composition with Michael Mossman, who helped to build his musical identity. In 2025-26, Chung will pursue a postdoctoral degree as a Fulbright Scholar at Kunstuniversität Graz.

… Jung (Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival), and Plague Year (Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival). He assisted Scott Rudin during the Broadway productions of Three Tall Women and To Kill A Mockingbird; he has also worked in television production at MTV and Netflix. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. He was a Writer in Residence at The New Harmony Project 2025 and is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting at Yale University.

Her work reflects her interest in feminism, neurodiversity (Rebecca is autistic), queerness, bilingualism and the dark silliness that pervades modern life.

Gray’s creativity, energy and perfect pitch are sought after in the creation of new work, and she has performed with Pacific Opera Victoria, Musique 3 femmes, Tapestry Opera, OperaQ, Esprit Orchestra, Highlands Opera, and Code D’accès. She also premiered the lead in Pomegranate (2019) with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. She is a member of FAWN chamber creative with whom she performs genre-bending vocal music, and has appeared as a finalist at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Contemporary Music Competition in Manitoba. With Pacific Opera Victoria she composed, performed and directed an original opera video. This video Jess was recently named a winner of Opera America’s Awards for Excellence in Digital Opera.

Equally at home in classic repertoire, Rebecca is a graduate of the University of Toronto Opera School, where she appeared as Donna Elvira in the university’s Don Giovanni, and Diane in Orphée aux enfers. She has performed Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs with Toronto’s Counterpoints Orchestra.

Her unique compositional voice is appreciated by audiences and musicians alike for its marriage of tunefulness and experimental music making. She received an Opera America Discovery Grant and Canada Council support to develop BUS Opera, an absurdist fantasy about millennial alienation on public transit, excerpts of which were premiered by New Music Concerts in Toronto. She has composed unique, narrative-driven choral work for Voces Boreales, Pro Coro, Soundstreams, and the Capital Chamber Choir.

Heaven was not Home, a Wuthering Heights inspired choral work, was a 1st prize winner in the 2024 SOCAN awards for Young Composers. A winner of the Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes, she collaborated with writer Rachel Gray to compose Raccoon Opera – a fable of the housing crisis, which involves an aimless tenant, a perverse landlord and a ruthless raccoon. Excerpts of Racoon Opera were presented at Salle Bourgie in Montréal in 2024, (with Rebecca performing title role) at the Banff Centre, and at Highlands Opera. Rachel and Rebecca also collaborated to create “TransBliss TM” a fantastical Love is Blind meets Star Trek dystopian opera, which was named runner- up in The Atlanta Opera’s 96-Hour Opera Project competition.

… Some of his opera work includes Visions in Drag (with composer Ziyan Yang), the story of vaudevillian drag queen Burt Savoy; The AstroCat (with composer LJ White), the true story of the first cat in space; and Seahorse Dads Club (with composer Mark Evans), a rom-com about pregnant trans men. Andi holds an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has been a member of the Theatre Now New York Musical Theatre Writers Lab since 2019. He was recently a librettist in American Opera Projects’ Composers and the Voice fellowship and the NYU Advanced Opera Lab, mentored by Mark Campbell, Steven Osgood, and Randall Ng. Carter is the founder and Artistic Director of Fish Out of Water Productions, a cross-cultural collective created in Beijing, China in 2008 and working from one of the only independently run theaters in the country. He is also a founding board member of Musical Theatre Factory in 2017, which has fostered many musical theatre artists who have gone on to win Tonys, Grammys, and more. Carter co-produces and hosts Verse Intro Cabaret at the Soho Playhouse, a monthly cabaret series featuring emerging musical theatre writers. He stays active in his local community by performing with the Harrisburg Gay Men’s Chorus, Theatre Harrisburg, and Center Stage Opera. He also loves outer space and started a blog and podcast about sci-fi musicals.