Meet The Creative Team

Book, Music, and Lyrics

Neville Grusd

NEVILLE GRUSD was born in Cape Town, South Africa and emigrated to the United States in 1978. Having the choice of the world where to settle, Neville chose New York because of his love of Broadway shows and jazz, and he wants to be where the action is. Trained in accounting and finance, Neville was always involved in theater and musical composition. He has a 100% record of making money in  Broadway musicals, having invested in the 2009 revival of West Side Story. One of his songs, “All at Once, It’s Spring” was featured in the TV show “ Gene Simmon's Family Jewels” in the wedding scene. He has produced a number of jazz albums , with International stars , including his latest: “Passion Flower- the music of Billy Strayhorn”. “My Father’s Play” is his first full-length musical, and a tribute to his father, who introduced him to theater , but discouraged him pursuing it as a career. Neville's play "The Vote" was performed at the New York Theater Summer Festival.

Musical Director

Seth Weinstein

Seth Weinstein wrote the music for the Off-Broadway musical How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes (New World Stages) and The Magic Fishbone (developed at the Broadway Mentors Program). He also wrote and recorded “The Chagall Suite” (eight piano movements inspired by Marc Chagall’s artworks) and “Conversations” (a musical meeting between Chagall and Elvis Presley) and has performed them around the USA and Germany and in France.

Seth has toured internationally with Fosse and Ivan Jacobs’s The Phantom of the Opera and in the USA with Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. He has been the musical director of Black House (Zagreb, Croatia), Do I Hear a Waltz? (Arvada Center), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), and Ben, Virginia & Me (Acorn Theatre, NYC), among other shows. He is the pianist for the MAC and Bistro Award-winning Screen Gems: Songs of Old Hollywood (featuring Sarah Rice) and Operation Opera (featuring Adelmo Guidarelli), and he performs regularly with soprano Jodi Keogan.

Seth has played for Holland America Line and Hapag-Lloyd cruises, has won Scrabble tournaments in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, and is halfway through an endeavor to walk the perimeters of 26 islands from Aruba to Zanzibar. For more information, visit sethweinstein.com.

Director

Dani Davis

Dani Davis is an Emmy award-winning writer, a Tony-nominated Broadway producer, a Helen Hayes Award recipient for producing, an award winning theater director and choreographer, film director, television producer, and  entertainment entrepreneur .She is a graduate of Duke University, lives in New York City,  and is the proud mother of two young artists, Noah and Nina. www.thedanidavis.com.

 Producer

Andi Kolodny

Andi is thrilled to be supporting the cast and creative team as Associate Producer  for My Father’s Play, especially because it is her father’s play!   Andi has taken a lead role in Gemini Music Co., LLC as Executive Vice President. Andi's play "A Shave and A Haircut" was performed at the New York Summer Festival 2024

Andi received her BA in Business Management from Hofstra University, a Master’s in Public Administration from Baruch College,  and a post graduate certificate in health data analytics from Cornell Medical College. Andi is also a conscious parenting coach and is the founder of Parent Do Overs.

Co-Choreographer

Georgia Monroe

Georgia Monroe is a dancer, singer, actress, choreographer, producer and assistant extraordinaire! She is currently making her Broadway Debut in Sunset Blvd. as a Vacation Swing.  She has assistant choreographed musicals at renowned theaters and Universities across the east coast including: Cabaret at Goodspeed Opera House, Cinderella at Shenandoah Summer Theater, and Head Over Heels at Montclair State University. Georgia has experience choreographing for film, awards shows, and stage; most notably the opening number for WBEC Pacific Awards: Honoring Excellence in Business.

Performing credits:  National Tour: Escape to Margaritaville Regional: Cabaret (Goodspeed), Beauty and the Beast (MUNY), The Little Mermaid (MUNY), Rock of Ages (PCLO). Pace University; BFA Commercial Dance. @georgiaemonroe 

Associate Director

Alyson Friedman

Actress, Singer, mover and shaker.  Being part of the creative team and working with Dani Davis, Director and Seth  Weinstein, Musical Director, as the Associate Director on MFP as it continues to grow has been a very rewarding process.  Neville Grusd, writer and composer, is a dream to work with and he continues to deepen this story with poignant and inspiring music.  Here is to bright new beginnings.