The Authors

Wes Smith has written and arranged music for the Bloomington, IN-based jazz big band Monster Zero Orchestra, the Indianapolis-based Woodsmith Strings quartet, as well as various rock bands. He has done music direction for productions of The Music Man and The Hot Mikado and performed with the pit orchestra for productions of G.I. Jukebox and Cinderella. He has done new or revised orchestrations for productions of The Secret Garden, The Rocky Horror Show, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and a collection of excerpts of operas performed at the University of Florida. He has written incidental music and set lyrics to music for the Hippodrome State Theatre’s production of A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings and the Acrosstown Repertory Theater’s production of Rude Mechanicals. He currently teaches music at F.W. Buchholz High School in Gainesville, FL.

Thomas Puketza studied film and video independently before receiving his BA in Theater from Temple University in 2006. As an actor, he played the lead role of Flan in 6 Degrees of Separation. He also provided sound design for Temple’s productions of Playboy of the West Indies, The Heidi Chronicles, and the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival. In 2004 he wrote, financed, produced, and directed The R Word, which played during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His directing credits also include Serial Killer Barbie and The Geek Wants Out. Most recently, he consulted with the Winstead PC law firm advising a legal team on the production of an independent feature film.