Rachel Klein (Founding Member, ITC) is a NYC based director, whose work The New York Times has praised: "What makes this show pop is the bracing vision of its director, Rachel Klein." Off-Broadway Direction: RED ROSES, GREEN GOLD (Minetta Lane Theatre/featuring the music of the Grateful Dead/Music Supervisor Jeff Chimenti of Dead and Company); AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (The Davenport Theatre); THE ANTHEM (The Lynn Redgrave Theatre/starring Randy Jones, the Original Cowboy from the Village People); GAY BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (iStar Theatre Lab). Selected NYC Theatre: TINK! (New York Musical Festival); MORE THAN ALL THE WORLD (adapted from Marlowe's Edward II); SYMPHONY OF SHADOWS (Jerome Robbins Foundation commission for Dixon Place); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Shrunken Shakespeare Co); CIRCUS OF CIRCUS (The House of Yes); THE TRAGEDY OF MARIA MACABRE (Tides Foundation commission.) Selected Regional and Workshops: THE SUFFRAGIST (World Premier at Gallagher Bluedorn PAC); DEAD CERTAIN (composed by Air Supply’s Graham Russell); HAIRSPRAY (Jenny Wiley Amphitheater); SNOW (Playwrights Horizons); TONYA AND NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA (Lucille Lortel Theatre); 54 THE MUSICAL (The House of Independents, Asbury Park); HELEN (A musical adapted from the Euripides play); WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (Moxy Theatre Co.) Audio Series: Rachel is the director, showrunner, and co-creator of the hit audio series THE WORLD TO COME. Ms. Klein has served as artistic director to Belle Reve Productions and Rachel Klein Productions, and has directed the charity roast of Michael Musto which raised funds for the Callen Lorde Community Health Center, featuring Rosie O'Donnell, Bruce Vilanch, Bianca Del Rio and Jinkx Monsoon. For more info: http://www.rachelkleindirector.com/

Andy Peterson (Founding Member, ITC) is an award-winning New York based composer, musical director, arranger and orchestrator originally hailing from the Land Down Under. He holds a Bachelor of Music (Composition) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. As a Broadway conductor and musician, Andy has conducted and/or played shows such as SUFFS, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE, DANCIN’ and TOOTSIE as well as the rehearsal pianist for Roundabout’s concert of MY ONE AND ONLY (starring Sutton Foster and Gavin Creel at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre). He was also the Musical Director, Orchestrator and Arranger for SPELLS OF THE SEA and the Kennedy Center. Other New York theatre credits include RED ROSES, GREEN GOLD (Musical Director/ Arrangements/ Orchestrations at Minetta Lane Theatre with Music Supervision from Jeff Chimenti of Dead and Company), ATOMIC (Musical Direction / Arrangements /Orchestrations at Theatre Row). NIGHT TIDE (Musical Direction/ Arrangements/ Orchestrations at Playwrights Horizons), MORE THAN ALL THE WORLD (Musical Direction / Arrangements/ Orchestrations at Theatre for the New City), SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED (Musical Direction/ Arrangements/ Orchestrations at The Django and The Cutting Room). He has also installed new entertainment at UNIVERSAL BEIJING RESORT and UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN as well as creating new shows for UNIVERSAL EPIC UNIVERSE and CELEBRITY CRUISE LINES.
As a composer, Andy was a co-creator on the hit musical audio series THE WORLD TO COME for which he wrote over 50 original songs and over 3 hours of musical scoring. He also wrote the music for the critically acclaimed two person musical RAZORHURST which played successful runs in Sydney and New Jersey and AN ENTIRELY ORDINARY TOWN which played runs in New York, Chicago and Sydney as well as the film musical MAKE AMERICA SAFE which won Best Score 2019 at the World X Short Film Festival in Rome.
https://www.andypetersoncomposer.com/

Erik Ransom (Founding Member, ITC) is an award-winning, internationally-produced playwright, composer, lyricist, performer, skáld and epicist. Erik wrote both music and libretto for his risqué opus “GRINDR The Opera”, which has played across the U.S. and beyond to great acclaim. In 2019, after two sold-out runs in London, the opera was the recipient of the coveted Offie Award for Best New Musical on the Off-West End stage in London."COMING: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions” was Erik’s first foray as a playwright/composer/lyricist and, within a year of starting the first draft, he was fortunate enough to see it fully produced for a sold-out run at The Prince Music Theatre in Philadelphia and later revived in NYC at Theatre 80. Erik wrote songs for the feature film "Happy Yummy Chicken" in which he also stars alongside Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) and Diane Guerrero (Doom Patrol). The world-premiere production of Erik’s musical “MORE THAN ALL THE WORLD” inspired by Marlowe’s “EDWARD II” was produced at Theater for the New City in November, 2016, after successful readings at The Musical Theatre Factory and The York Theatre. As a lyricist, Erik penned the lyrical content of the Off-Broadway Sci-Fi musical spectacular “THE ANTHEM” and for “SHOOTING STAR: A Revealing New Musical”, which recently ran at Hudson Theatres in Los Angeles and earned Erik a 2019 Ovation Award Nomination for Best Lyrics/Composition of a Musical, alongside his collaborator the celebrated German composer Thomas Zaufke. Erik plays the recurring role of François on the Emmy-nominated Amazon Prime/PopstarTV series “Tainted Dreams” and is a two-time champion of the Tune-in-Time improvised musical theatre writing competition and served as Head Comedy Writer for the Roast of Michael Musto, hosted by Bruce Vilanch and presented by Rosie O’Donnell. Erik’s most ambitious project to date is “The World to Come” an epic, episodic audio adventure series created with frequent collaborators Rachel Klein and Andy Peterson who, alongside Erik, make up the creative triumvirate that leads The Iconoclast Theatre Collective.