WILL TODD (composer) His output includes opera, musicals, oratorio, orchestral and religious works, and his music has been performed throughout the UK, in Europe and in the USA. Notable works include the opera The Blackened Man which won second prize in the 2002 International Verdi Opera Competition, and was subsequently staged at the 2004 Buxton Festival; the oratorio Saint Cuthbert which has been performed many times and recorded by the Hallé Orchestra; music theatre work The Screams of Kitty Genovese, produced most recently at the New York Musical Theater Festival; and the cantata The Burning Road - written to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Jarrow March.  Will's jazz mass setting, Mass in Blue has been performed more than fifty times around the world since its 2003 premiere, as well featuring on two commercial recordings - most recently by the Vasari Singers for Signum Records.  Recent premieres have included his Requiem for choir, soprano and electric guitar, premiered by the Fairhaven Singers in Cambridge and London in March 2009 and recorded on TYA003; Praise the Lord O my Soul for the Southern Cathedrals Festival 2009; Te Deum for the Vivace Chorus in Guildford under Jeremy Backhouse; and Jazz Concerto for clarinet - a new clarinet concerto for Emma Johnson, co-premiered by the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra and Milton Keynes City Orchestra.

DAVID EDWARDS (director) is a freelance director, writer and presenter. He was born in London and graduated in Classics from Cambridge University. David has directed opera around the world (including San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland, Houston, Minneapolis, Chicago, Philadelphia, London, Milan, Vienna, Singapore and Tokyo). He staged the premiere of Will Todd's The Blackened Man at the Buxton Festival in 2004 and The Screams of Kitty Genovese at the New York Musical Theater Festival in 2006. Theatre work includes The Queen Of Spades and Oh! What A Lovely War (Cambridge). His original scripts have been performed in London and Aldeburgh (Wagner & Berlioz; Verdi in Venice; Wagner, Britten & the Sea, From Bayeuth to Busseto, Verdi's Singers on record) and at the Chicago Humanities Festival (Opera At The Movies, Exiled In America). David visits Tokyo every year to direct a production with the Young Artists at the New National Theatre (most recently Albert Herring and Falstaff) and his production of Falstaff for Diva Opera is currently on tour in Europe. He is Production Director for The Mastersingers and regularly tutors students at the Motley Theatre Design Course in London.

SINGLE MALT PRODUCTIONS (producer) was formed by Staci Levine, Michael Nassar, Pamela Lloyd, and Christian Pimsner for the purpose of producing The Screams of Kitty Genovese.  Individually and collectively they have worked as Producers and General Managers on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on tour and at regional theaters throughout the United States, Australia and in London.

STACI LEVINE (producer) is an independent producer/general manager based in NYC.  She is producing the upcoming US tour of John Lithgow’s one-man show, Stories By Heart and produces the on-going tours of Mandy Patinkin in Concert and An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. Also on her dance card: the upcoming tours of Leslie Jordan’s My Trip Down the Pink Carpet and The Broadway Boys. She is excited to bring Kitty Genovese to the UK, having previously produced the show at the NY Music Theatre Festival.  Staci has produced other works by David Simpatico (Kitty’s librettist) including his play Mary and short film Wish Fulfillment. Other projects include The Drama Desk Awards (Coordinating Producer), events for Just Food, The University of Texas, BBC Radio, Class Productions and a handful of projects in development. Staci was the General Manager for dre.dance, a contemporary dance company created by Taye Diggs and Andrew Palermo and was associated with Dodger Theatricals, working on numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions including Titanic, Footloose, High Society, Blast!, The Music Man, 42nd Street, 1776, Wrong Mountain, Into the Woods, Bare, Urinetown, Dracula and Good Vibrations, as a member of Dodger Management Group.  She proudly sits on the board of directors for chashama and dre.dance.

MICHAEL NASSAR (producer) currently toils away at Showtime on the television shows Nurse Jackie, Dexter, The Big C and Weeds among others. Previously he served as Associate Artistic Director of the National Music Theater Conference at the O’Neill Center (2010 Special Tony Award) aiding and abetting the development of more than thirty new music theater works, the majority of which went on to further productions across the United States and abroad.  Included:  2008 Tony Award winning Best Musical In The Heights; 2004 Tony Award winning Best Musical Avenue Q; Maryrose Wood and Andrew Gerle’s Richard Rodgers Award winner, The Tutor; Maltby/Shire’s newest, Take Flight; David Simpatico and Will Todd’s The Screams of Kitty Genovese; Kirsten Childs’ The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin; Stuart Ross, Ira Gasman, Debra Barsha and Joey McKneely’s Radiant Baby; Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party; Joe Masteroff and Howard Marren’s Paramour; Stuart Ross and Mark Hampton’s The Boswell Sisters among many others.  At the O’Neill, he also had the pleasure of creating The Laboratory, an experiment in collaboration that brought together eight varied writers and composers to create 16 new musical works, which were later assembled into the full-length evening 8 is Enough.  He has served on distinguished panels for The American Academy of Arts and Letter, The Dramatist’s Guild, ASCAP/Disney, and Theatre Resources Unlimited.  In his spare time he is an award-winning journalist. www.michaelnassar.net.

PAMELA LLOYD & CHRISTIAN PIMSNER (producer) formed Sterling Bridge Productions in 2005 to produce 2006 Drama Desk Award Winner and GLAAD Media Award Nominee Christine Jorgensen Reveals. Other projects include a refreshing new look at 1960's Brazilian jazz entitled Conjunto Suor. In development: A film and graphic novel in the horror genre. Since 2002, Pamela has worked for the Dodgers (Jersey Boys on Broadway, and Jersey Boys productions in London, Sydney, Toronto, Las Vegas and on tour in North America.) She is a member of Broad Horizons Theater Company, and graduate of Penn State University and the Commercial Theater Institute. Christian attended Ohio University studying English Literature with a concentration in Shakespeare.  He has worked in the media & entertainment world for 15 years and is currently the Director of East Coast Sales for MOG (www.mog.com) one of the largest music destinations on the web featuring over 1,200 of today's hottest and most influential music sites and blogs showcasing fresh, original content. MOG has also successfully launched the premiere cloud-based subscription music service giving users on-demand access to music 24/7

JULIAN BLACK (Assistant Music Director) was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain on French Horn. He went on to read Music at Christ’s College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Julian held conductorships with the Cambridge orchestras. With Cambridge University Opera Society, he music-directed several staged operatic productions (Hansel and Gretel, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Gianni Schicchi), as well as The Pirates of Penzance at the Cambridge Arts Theatre. He was also Music Director for productions of Anything Goes (2008) and My Fair Lady (2009) at the latter venue. Upon leaving Cambridge, Julian founded the Ardente Opera Company, whom he conducted in a Hindemith triple bill in January 2009. In January 2010, he conducted a semi-staged production of Frank Martin’s Le Vin Herbé with Ardente, described as ‘a notable collective achievement’ by Martin Kettle in the Guardian. In September 2010, Julian starts on the National Opera Studio Repetiteur's Course as well as taking up the post of Director of Music at St. Margaret’s, Putney.

Thomas Gray (electric guitar) studied music at King’s College London and the West London Institute. He has played with artists including Brian May, Roger Taylor, Rod Argent, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Steve Balsamo, Richard Niles and Philip Pope, plays and sings with several bands including his own Thomas Gray Band and internationally renowned Killer Queen, runs music workshops for Streetwise Opera, the Royal Albert Hall, TCT and Surrey Arts and has performed extensively with Live Music Now. Also a composer, musical director and producer, he has worked on many theatrical productions and film scores. Previous work with Will Todd includes Whirlwind and Requiem.

Jim Fleeman (percussion) studied Jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and has since led a varied and extensive career, working with artists such as Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Mark Eitzel, Kenny Wheeler, Omar, Damon Albarn, Jason Rebello and Mike Figgis, as well appearing in many television and radio broadcasts and theatre productions.  He has been performing and recording with Will Todd since 1999 and plays drums in the Will Todd Trio.