WILL CHASE (Director/Screenplay) is a critically-acclaimed director, producer, and Tony Award-Nominated actor who recently released his award-winning short films TRUNK SHOW (Winner-BEST SHORT FILM-Ridgewood International Film Festival, Official Selection-New York Shorts International Film Festival, Shockfest Film Festival, Santa Monica International Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival) and DAGGER (Winner-BEST SCORE-Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, Official Selection-Manhattan Film Festival), both of which he wrote and directed. His upcoming feature documentary COMING HOME: THE GUGGENHEIM GROTTO BACK IN IRELAND will be released in 2025.
Will can be seen on the new Apple TV limited series THE CROWDED ROOM, starring alongside Tom Holland, and on the Peabody-Award Winning limited series DOPESICK. Other recent appearances include Amazon Prime's IMPULSE, Netflix's STRANGER THINGS, HBO's SHARP OBJECTS, FX'S drama AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE, HBO's THE DEUCE, and starring in the ABC drama TIME AFTER TIME.
Best known as country star Luke Wheeler on ABC's NASHVILLE he is also known as one of Broadway's "most versatile leading men” and received the 2013 Tony Award Nomination and Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination for BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL for his portrayal of John Jasper in the Broadway revival of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. His other Broadway credits include KISS ME KATE, SOMETHING ROTTEN, BILLY ELLIOT, AIDA, LENNON, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, HIGH FIDELITY, THE FULL MONTY, MISS SAIGON, and Roger in RENT, which was captured on the big screen in RENT: FILMED LIVE ON BROADWAY.
Will trained classically as a percussionist and as a conductor with world-renowned conductor Robert Spano at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has premiered countless compositions, working and performing with some of the most important composers and musical luminaries in the world, including Lorin Maazel, John Adams, and John Cage.
KURT ERICKSON (Music and Concept) received First Prize in the 2020 NATS Art Song Competition for his song cycle “Here,Bullet” which has been performed by scores of singers across the globe. He is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence with San Francisco performing arts organization LIEDER ALIVE!, writing and premiering new commissioned works for renowned singers on their subscription concert series.
Considered an entrepreneurial artist and thought leader, Erickson has designed and implemented over ten years of multi-year composer residencies with cathedrals, dance companies, performing arts organizations, and national shrines.
Noteworthy premieres and commissions include: choral works premiered by the San Francisco Girls Chorus at Davies Symphony Hall, his song set CHICAGO SONGS performed across the US, premiere performances and radio interviews at the American Guild of Organists National Convention, and a commissioned work for soprano and orchestra to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra.
BRIAN TURNER (Libretto/Original Poem) is an American poet, essayist, professor and Iraqi War Veteran. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet, the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. His honors since include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and NEA Literature Fellowship In Poetry, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.
His second collection, PHANTOM NOISE, was shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize. Turner received major media attention for Here, Bullet, interviewed or featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Morning Edition and other NPR programs, The Verb (BBC), and many other venues. He was featured in the film, “Operation Homecoming: Writing The Wartime Experience”, which was nominated for a 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary. His works have been included in such anthologies as The Best American Poetry 2007 and A Mind Apart: Poems Of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction.
LOKI KARUNA (Racial Equity Consultant) is a professional bassoonist, lecturer, producer, and radio/podcast host. He is Director of Artist Equity for the American Composers Orchestra as well as Equity Committee Chair of the American Composers Forum. Loki specializes in music and racial equity presentations, offering guest lectures and trainings at the intersection of race, culture, Black liberation, and classical music, collaborating with the Kennedy Center, the Apollo Theater, the San Francisco Symphony, and countless schools, colleges, and universities. Most recently Loki has engaged performance spaces as conductor, and led Marble City Opera’s world premiere of I CAN’T BREATHE by Leslie Burrs and Brandon Gibson. Loki holds a Master of Music from the University of Southern California.
SYBARITE5 (Musical Score Performed by) is one of chamber music’s most dynamic string ensembles, recently dubbed “the millennial Kronos”. Their album OUTLIERS, debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart. In October of 2023 they released their latest studio recording COLLECTIVE WISDOM. Other discography includes LIVE FROM NEW YORK: IT’S SYBARITE5, EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE (RADIOHEAD REMIXED) and DISTURB THE SILENCE.
They have performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust and a decade residency at Nancy Manocherian’s Cell Theatre. In addition to their own groundbreaking, portable music festival, Forward Festival, Sybarite5 has appeared at countless festivals including Ravinia, Caramoor, Wolf Trap, Grand Teton, Aspen, Chautauqua and many others. International appearances include Canada’s Tuckamore Music Festival, the New Dicta International Music Festival in Argentina, and the Osaka Festa in Osaka, Japan. Committed to community engagement and educational activities, Sybarite5 works with over 5000 students annually and is known for their engaging corporate presentations in entrepreneurship and communication.
TANIA STAVREVA (Musical Score Performed by) is an international multi-award winning Billboard Top 10 Artist and Bulgarian-born pianist. She has performed all over the world including Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Lincoln Center, the Grammy Museum Theater, Berlin Philharmonie, Koerner Hall in Toronto, and Wheeler Opera House in Colorado among others. Her 2017 album RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT reached the BILLBOARD Classical Top 10 and is the winner of 15 international music awards including Best Classical Female Artist at the Indie Music Channel Awards and the 2018 Indie Music Hall of Fame Outstanding Achievement Award.
Tania is an active participant in many outreach programs and fundraising campaigns, including the Dana Faber Cancer Institute, MusiCares Foundation, NYU Hospital, Los Angeles Children's Hospital, Centers for Alzheimer Care, and American Forests. She is a graduate of Boston Conservatory as well as the Dobrin Petkov National School of Music and Dance in Bulgaria, where she studied with renowned pedagogue Rositsa Ivancheva.
ROBERT MAILER ANDERSON/THE MINER ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION (Producer) Robert Mailer Anderson is an American novelist, Grammy-Nominated producer, playwright, screenwriter, and activist. He was presented the 2016 San Francisco Arts Medallion for his outstanding leadership in the arts and was also appointed to the California Humanities Board of Directors by Governor Gavin Newsom. The Miner Anderson Family Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 2009 by Robert and his wife Nicola Miner to advance social justice and access to equal opportunity in the United States. Since its establishment, the Foundation has donated to and worked with a variety of prominent non-profits in the Bay Area and nationally, such as Voice of Witness, SF Jazz, and Litquake.
•Written and Directed by Will Chase
•Music, Concept, and Orchestrations by Kurt Erickson
•Libretto by Brian Turner
•Cinematography by Spencer Muhlstock
•Supervising Producer-Chris Santiago
•VFX Supervisor-Brian Magarian
•Previsualization/VFX Producer-Nico Johnson
•Additional Orchestrations-Brian Parkhurst
•Racial Equity Consultant-Loki Karuna
•Musical Score Performed by Sybarite5 and Tania Stavreva
•Recording Engineer-Carl Bespolka
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