Bad Ass Beauty: The Rock Opera

Stefanie Seskin began her music training at age 9 on flute, then classical guitar then bass guitar.  From her first punk band in San Diego, in NYC she progressed to lead vocalist, bassist, back up vocalist, and/or a member of the horn section (flute, tenor sax)

In 1995, after graduating with an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School, she formed her band blue number nine.  From then until 2009, she self-produced 4 cd's with the band, toured up and down the East Coast, to the Midwest and back, and performed to audiences up to 7,000 strong.  

Freddie Oliver Moises (Assistant Stage Manager) is a musician, singer-songwriter, photographer, poet, lyricist, audio engineer and a theater technician. While a music major at Kean University, Freddie Moises paid for his education working as a theater technician. In 2012-13, he spent his time at The Barrow Group Theater as a stage hand for “Mom, A Rock Concert” and a sound technician for “Lemon Meringue”. In 2015 he moved to Jersey City and he attended the Institute of Audio Research(IAR). He now resides in the heights of Jersey City with his beautiful wife Wendy.

Peter Douskalis is a musician, arranger, and educator. He is a substitute guitarist at the Broadway shows Dear Evan Hansen and School of Rock and Off-Broadway at Desperate Measures. He has arranged music education materials for Hal Leonard Publications and has given two TEDx Talks about multicultural music education. He plays with the rock band Trapped In Static, Greek music with Pericles Kanaris and Synolon where he is also Assistant Director, Armenian music with Hooshere and Cypriot music with Sounds of Cyprus. His solo jazz guitar CD "The Dance of the Sea" received national and international acclaim in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine, Los Angeles Jazz Scene, Jazz Journal (UK), and Cadence Magazine. He can be seen performing regularly around New York City.

Eclectic bassist Jeff Ganz has appeared on Grammy-nominated recordings and in concert with many different types of musical artists such as Johnny Winter, Rita Moreno, Gerry Mulligan,  Vanilla Fudge, Laurie Anderson, Roy Buchanan, Village People, Blood, Sweat & Tears, John Lee Hooker, Frankie Avalon, Lou Reed, Chuck Berry, and The Mamas and Papas. Jeff played in the pit orchestras of many hit Broadway shows and has done countless jingles for TV and radio, as well as appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America” with Stephen Schwartz and NBC’s “Smash”. Jeff also composes original music for various media. His compositions are heard weekly in Investigation Discovery’s flagship show “On The Case With Paula Zahn”. Jeff is currently on tour as a member of The Hit Men (www.thehitmenlive.com). Jeff also enjoys serving as musical director, producer, recording engineer and teacher.

www.jeffganz.com