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.

Associate 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.