composition, and also trained in the famed BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. He currently lives in NYC with his wife Emilee and their adorable 3 children, who are his proudest achievements: Levi (7), Chloe (5), and Sarabeth (1).
RICHARD ISRAEL (Director) is an LA and New York-based director specializing in the development of original musicals. Directing highlights include Violet (LA Stage Alliance Ovation award for Best Direction of a Musical), Floyd Collins (Ovation Awards for Direction and Outstanding Musical for Floyd Collins), 110 In The Shade (Ovation Award for Outstanding Musical), and Avenue Q (Ovation nomination for Best Musical). Richard is currently working on the development of several original musicals including A Very Brady Musical (in development with the original series creator Lloyd Schwartz) and King of Pangaea, which recently presented at the NAMT Festival of New Musicals. He is proud to have been the on-set theatrical coordinator for the multiple Emmy award-winning HBO series Big Little Lies, directing all of the Avenue Q theatre sequences. Richard is the recipient of the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Career Achievement Award for Directing, and is a member of SDC.
ANTHONY LUCCA (Musical Director) is an award winning music director, orchestrator, and arranger, who develops and music directs new works for theatre and film. World premieres include Bronco Billy (Skylight Theatre Company, LA Drama Critic's Circle Award for Best Musical Direction), Mutt House (Kirk Douglas Theater), Cult of Love (IAMA Theatre Company). Additional music direction credits: Something Rotten!, Mamma Mia! (5-Star Theatricals), Sideways: In Concert (Via Reggia Productions), Evita: In Concert (Palos Verdes Performing Arts Center), Miracle on 34th Street, She Loves Me (Actor's Co-Op), Honeymoon in Vegas (Musical Theatre Guild), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well... (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble), Assassins (Red Blanket Productions, Stage Raw Nominee). Orchestrations and arranging credits include: Sideways: In Concert, Into Light, The Belles Are Swinging (in development). As a guest artist, he has worked with middle school, high school students, as well as collegiate and also teaches and music directs for the Rubicon Theatre Company's Summer Youth Program (Into the Woods, Annie, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!) and Loyola Marymount University (Songs for a New World). He is an adjunct faculty member at USC School of Dramatic Arts, where he has music directed
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productions such as Godspell and Into The Woods. He also serves on the board of the Foundation for New American Musicals. www.anthonylucca.com
ALEX M. CALLE (Scenic Design) A storyteller with environments, Alex is the Principal of hiddenlemons, a creative development firm dedicated to creating immersive entertainment projects around the globe. With a unique approach to developing, producing, and design Calle has created work for Film, Television, Theater,
Themed Entertainment, Theme Parks, and Public Art Installations all over the world. Alex is a graduate of The California Institute of the Arts (BFA Scenic Design) and USC’s Marshall School of Business (EMBA), he sits on the Executive Board for Invertigo Dance Theatre, as well as professes and mentors in design, production, and business at CalState Long Beach, The University of California Irvine, CalArts, and Loyola Marymount University.
JOANIE COYOTE (Costume Design) has enjoyed 40 years as a costume designer. Joanie began her career in Houston TX at the Alley Theatre, moved to NY designing for Westbeth Theatre and constructing costumes for shows including Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, and the Joffrey Nutcracker and then to Los Angeles where she has designed for Theatre West, the Garry Marshall Theatre and more. Joanie is also a History of Costume professor at FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. You can visit her on Instagram @joaniecoyotecostume.
MARTHA CARTER (Lighting Design) is a lighting designer based out of Los Angeles and is the Head of Design and an Assistant Professor at Cal State Long Beach. Martha's most recent lighting credit is her design of a new play, Lottie Pratchett, directed by Jessica Hanna, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Martha will have the opportunity to design for the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festivalin January 2023. Some of Martha's other recent credits include: The Greatest Show (Panama City, Panama), The Revolutionist (Lake Dillon Theatre, Colorado), Don Quixote (Long Beach Ballet), Silent Sky (Perseverance Theatre, Alaska), and She Loves Me (Madison Opera, Wisconsin).
JULIEN RENEAUD (Sound Design) is a music producer, audio engineer, and Technical Director at The Colony Theatre in Burbank California. Julien started at The Colony theatre in 2017 as an intern and progressed into overseeing audio, then became the Technical Director in the years shortly after. Favorite credits include Die Heart, Warrior Queen,
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