Germono Toussaint – Founder/Artistic Director

Germono Toussaint is a playwright, composer, arranger and lyricist. Toussaint’s first musical Caged premiered at the Broadway Theater Center in Milwaukee and was featured in the Not for Broadway Theater Festival in New York City in 2006. Toussaint and playwright and advisory board member Marcus Gardley have also had a workshop of their new musical (L)imitations at the Lark Play Development Center. An article about this musical was featured in American Theatre Magazine. In 2010, a 10 minute version of Toussaint’s play The Anointed was featured in The Fire This Time playwright’s festival, co-produced by Horse Trade Theatre and Freedom Train Productions.

As an active composer/arranger Toussaint has transcribed original music for Katori Hall Inc, and Common Thread Theater. He has also composed music for Skylight Opera Theatre, Handful Players, Fishgrease Productions, Diversity Players of Harlem, New Dramatist’s Nocturnal Commissions,Tripping: The Musical and productions of The Pied Piper, Hansel and Gretel, The Laramie Project andLove Rides the Rails. In 2011 he was hired as arranger and orchestrator for Daniel Beaty’s musical Breath and Imagination.

 

Zach Woolford – Marketing Director

Zach Woolford has a varied background in marketing and graphic design for an array of public and private companies in the fields of advertising, publishing, promotions and architecture. After having graduated from the University of Missouri – School of Journalism, he spent a brief period of time in the banking/financial world before moving to New York. In New York, he focused on applying his marketing and graphic design skills in different positions.  Then decided to apply those skills and try something new in Los Angeles. After a brief time spent in Los Angeles, he returned to New York and is currently working on starting his own business.

 

Cameron Bernard Jones – Events Coordinator

Cameron Bernard Jones, is a growing performance artist who sings, dances, and acts.  A graduate of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, he has cultivated his passion for the performing arts in various ways.  At Northwestern, he has performed in productions of Sweeney Todd, Moby Dick: An American Opera, and Parade.  He is one the founders of Soul4Real, the university’s first soul a cappella group.

Mr. Jones has traveled around the world to study and perform.  He studied dance at the Barat Foundation for the Arts in Provence, France, as well as participated in the Danse à Aix Festival in Aix-en-la Provence, France. He has also held liturgical dance workshops and has danced at various venues at World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany.  Recently, he studied opera and performed with the Music in the Marche program in Urbania and Piobbico, Italy.

 

Mary Carson – Development Consultant

Dr. Mary Carson is Chair and Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, WI. Her teaching load focuses upon nonprofit management, organizational communication, public relations, and advertising. Her research focuses on communication in illness and hospice settings, and publications include an examination of terminally ill patients’ use of online journals to create meaning of their illness experience.

Prior to teaching, Mary worked with various nonprofits for about 15 years as both an employee and consultant, especially the YMCA of the USA. She gained extensive experience with program development and evaluation, marketing plans, fundraising and grant writing, and member services. She also designed and facilitated a variety of training programs related to those areas.

 

Bobbie L Crow III – Assistant Arranger/Orchestrator

Bobbie Lee Crow III is a conductor, arranger, composer, and cellist of classical, musical theatre, and popular music. Since graduating in 2010, he has arranged and performed for Suzy Sellout, Crystal Monee Hall, Japanese pop singer KIYOTAKA, Grammy award-winning composer David Tolley, fashion designer Tara Subkoff, and Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper.

Bobbie began his music studies at the age of 12. He achieved principal and leadership positions in local and regional orchestras including the Houston Youth Symphony under direction of Dr. Michael Webster. Bobbie attended Otterbein University and studied under Columbus Symphony cellists Richard Bell and Cora Kuyvenhoven. He also received chamber music instruction from QUBE members David Edge and Steve Wedell; jazz improvisation (vocal and instrumental) from Gayle Walker, Jay Miglia, Karl Wohlwend, and Chris Howes. He received his Bachelor’s of Arts in Music from The Ohio State University in 2010.

Upon graduation, Bobbie moved to New York City and has since formed iconiQ String Quartet, a wedding and special events ensemble performing in the tri-state area. He has performed in several Off-Off Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including The Lost Boys, or An Awfully Big Adventure, The Gallery Players’ Oliver!, Overground Physical Theatre Company’s Urban Tao, and Voice Afire’s Butterfly’s Trouble. Bobbie is also a member of the Queer Urban Orchestra and Richmond County Orchestra.

As an arranger and composer, Bobbie debuted new orchestrations and works at his American Red Cross cabaret benefit concert “Wishful Thinking” (featuring Tracie Franklin, Trey Mitchell, Andrew Overcash, Chelsea Picken, Katherine Wright singers and a 20-pieces orchestra) and “QUARTET,” a concert of his instrumental works and arrangemtns. Bobbie is also working on his first musical based on Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji.