JENNIFER BANGS is a multi-faceted storyteller, hailing from DFW and spending much of her career in the Big Apple and Tinsel Town. A writer, producer and performer in two live solo shows, Well and She Bangs She Bangs: Marriage, Adultery, Texas & Jesus, now expanded into a 12-part podcast. Jennifer was a finalist in New York's Center for Faith And Work's annual Cultural Renewal Project, where She Bangs She Bangs was born. Jennifer also hosts the podcast She Bangs She Bangs: For God & Country, and is currently building the first ever Bible podcast narrated entirely by a woman. 
Regional acting credits include Maureen in Rent (Casa Manana), Eliza in My Fair Lady (The Welk & Starlight Theatre), Nancy in Oliver (Casa Manana), Claudia in Enron (Theatre 3), & The Mermaid in The Little Mermaid (Falcon Theatre). She can be seen in the feature film Speech & Debate, and the Netflix special John Mulaney’s Sack Lunch Bunch.
Jennifer is the lead female singer in two bands, Deep Cover and Shaken Not Stirred. Regional directing credits include David Mamet's Oleanna, and upcoming Tony award-winning Children of a Lesser God. She is proud producing partner of Sweet Apple Productions. BFA from NYU. JenniferBangs.com
BILL DEVOE (Music Director live show DFW, DRUMS/ PERCUSSION) is a multi-instrumentalist that has been composing, performing and recording music of all genres since the mid-1970’s. He has worked with such artists as Peter Gabriel, The Ohio Players, and jazz songstress Kiki Ebsen. He is currently performing with popular local groups Tickle & Croon, Center 313 and Deep Cover.
​DeVoe’s compositions can be heard on Spotify, iTunes, and other streaming services. His latest effort, The Van Gogh Sessions can be experienced at billdevoemusic.com.
PATRICK SCHAIDER (BASS, live show DFW) is a native Houstonian but has called North Texas home since 1996. In addition to performing on bass, Patrick is a freelance audio engineer and Sound Designer at Theatre Denton.  He volunteers time at Camp Sweeney, a summer camp dedicated to teaching children with type 1 diabetes the practices of good diabetic control. When not performing music or producing events, Patrick enjoys traveling, cooking, and restoring his grandfather’s 1973 MGB.
TANNER LINSCOTT (PIANO, live show DFW) is a graduate from Berklee College of Music, majoring in Jazz Composition and Guitar Performance. A composer, sound designer, as well as a Jazz/Blues/Gospel/R&B musician who plays guitar, drums, and keys in several bands. Tanner teaches privately, and when teaching, has a strong desire for students to succeed. 
ANDY SLOAN (SOUND, live show DFW) I love my God, my Wife and my Aggies.  I have played piano all my life and it is my passion. I also run sound and am blessed to be in multiple bands with some wonderful people. Music is not just something I do, it is who I am. When I am not making music, I am with my wife and all of our 4 legged children. Life is a song.
 
TANYA MOBERLY (DIRECTOR live show NYC & MATJ Podcast) - Cabaret/Solo Shows: Dan Ruth (A LIFE BEHIND BARS – 2018 Bistro Award Winner for Solo Play & 2018 MAC Award for Spoken Word), Amy Beth Williams (CRAZY TO LOVE YOU / CARRIED AWAY – 2018 Bistro Award Winner for Theme Show, MARNIE KLAR SINGS BOBBIE GENTRY, David Ballard (HAVING IT ALL / TRUE NORTH), LISA VIGGIANO SINGS BRUCE, Kathleen France (LA BELLA VITA) & Kendra Cunningham (THIS COULD BE YOU), and many others. Tanya received a MAC Award Nomination for Director in 2016 & 2018 and has won Six MAC Awards as Producer of The Salon, a unique, weekly open-mic. She has been performing in Cabaret since 1997 and received a MAC Award Nomination for Major Female Artist in 2018 for her most recent Series – SIX DIFFERENT SHOWS * SIX DIFFERENT MUSICIANS * SIX FRIDAY NIGHTS.
www.tanyamoberly.com
STEVEN RAY WATKINS (MUSIC DIRECTOR live show NYC) has been playing the piano for 49 years, and has been working professionally as a performer and musician for 44 years. As an actor he has appeared in THE LAST SESSION, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and in the national tours of BIG, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN and SHOWBOAT. As a musician, he has worked as a session player, as a musical director and vocal director in the theater, and most frequently as an arranger and musical director in the New York City cabaret circuit. He has worked with such names as Hugh Jackman, Beyonce, Patti LuPone, John Turturro, Karen Mason, Louise Pitre, Amanda McBroom, Lennie Watts and Sharon McNight, among many others, and has received 2 BistroAwards and 3 MAC Awards.
DON KELLY (DRUMS live show NYC) was born in NYC and performed with Broadway Greats such as Cy Coleman, Chita Rivera, Eartha Kitt, Lucie Arnez, Dean Regan, Kerry Butler, Charl Brown, and Micheal McCorry Rose. Off-Broadway with Barbara Walsh, Micheal McGrath, Pat Birch. Orchestrated the Percussion book for Lisa & Leo. Worked with Jazz Artists Ingrid Jensen, Lenny Pickett, and Paul Carlon. Opened for Meat Loaf, Patti Smith, Collective Soul, Indigo Girls, and The Band. Favorite venues played; Radio City Music Hall; BB Kings; Bird Land; CBGBs;  Woodstock; The Playboy Mansion; The United Nations. DK teaches at the Dea Music and Art School and performs and records with The Adam Levowitz Orchestra, Charles Buckland, Jack Spann, as well as free-lancing in the NYC Cabaret circuit.
STEVE JACOBS (GUITAR & MIXING/MATJ Ep 4-10) has taught and performed professionally in New York City since 1998. He has degrees in Creative Writing and Education from the University of Minnesota, leading to the creation of his critically acclaimed arts & music programs for kids.
He has studied with some of the great musicians of our time, including Chris Rosenberg and Kenny Wessel of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, Frank Potenza, Dave Stryker, Neilson Matta, Todd Johnson and many more. Steve founded and plays with The Dirty Sock Funtime Band, which has been featured on Nick Jr and PBS and named NYC’s Best Kids Band by Time Out New York.
Steve is also the co-founder of an award winning education company, Kids Creative. These two interests came together perfectly in CJtB. Since then, he’s taught hundreds of kids to play.
LUKE MARKHAM (DRUMS/MATJ Ep 4-10) After years of private studies with mentor Blake Fleming (The Mars Volta, Dazzling Killmen, Laddio Bolocko) during his time at SUNY Oneonta, Markham decided to turn his sights to the thriving music scene of New York City. Relocating to Brooklyn in 2012, Luke has continued his private studies with top local players and perfored the gamut of musical styles and genres across the US and Europe. Luke’s deepest passion has remained improvised music, but his fascinations have also extended to production and composition. His drum set playing has been described as having a “goading, teasing, driving propulsion” (Carol Banks Weber, axs.com).
JOHN SULLY (Sullivan) (Sound Design THE WORD/ Sound Mixer MATJ Ep 7) is a NYSCA awarded composer,  sound designer, and performance artist from New York City. Resident composer for TEMPORARY DISTORTION, Sully has created the music and sound designs for the stage  productions, ONE WILL SPEAK/THE OTHER IS DEAD,  WELCOME TO NOWHERE, AMERICANA KAMIKAZE, NEW  YORK LAND, MY VOICE HAS AN ECHO IN IT and THE  ILLUSION AND THE AFTERMATH, as well as the video  installation AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE MEASURE OF  ABSENCE.  Sully was an artist in residency at Robert Wilson's  Watermill Center and at EMPAC—The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.  Touring member of LA MAMA’s  GREAT JONES REPERTORY, dance company LOCO 7 and collaborator with La Mama Residents PIONEERS GO EAST COLLECTIVE. Sully created the site specific  performance art group AUGENBLICK and was a founding  member of the artist collective WANDERLUST NYC. Sully’s  original video installations IDEAL BEACH, IDEAL VALLEY and  IDEAL AVENUE were featured in NYC Fringe Festival and FABnyc. On Broadway Sully has assisted principle sound designer Fitz Patton for Harvey Fierstein's TORCH SONG directed by  Moises Kaufman, Steve Martin's METEOR SHOWER directed  by Jerry Zaks and Edward Albee’s THREE TALL WOMEN directed by Joe Mantello. MFA Yale University.
RYAN BROWN (PHOTOGRAPHER)is a Dallas/Fort Worth-based freelance photographer specializing in portraiture for commercial fashion, corporate and editorial projects. After receiving a B.F.A. in film in 1997, he moved to New York City, where he spent two decades working on both sides of the camera.Ryan's extensive work as a commercial print model eventually led him back to his first love - working behind the lens. He has shot for numerous top New York commercial print agencies as well as major names in the medical and financial industries. Ryan's passion for photography has led him as far afield as Europe, Africa, India, Australia and the Middle East. The proud father of a college-age son, he now lives in Fort Worth with his two trusty cats.
DAN FURMAN (PIANO/MATJ Ep 10) began playing piano and composing music at an early age. Went on to study composition and jazz piano at Oberlin Conservatory. After moving to New York in 2003 to play jazz, he began writing for music theater as well. He spent four years in the BMI Lehman Engels Musical Theater Workshop.  Furman is director of Brooklyn Tavern Theater; Composer/lyricist/ bookwriter of "Impossible But True"; Composer/ lyricist for Ybor City (with Anita Gonzalez, bookwriter) and Sign In the Six O'Clock Sky (with bookwriter Arnold Schulman).  Dan is currently developing "The Proust Virus," a musical about video game characters who come to life when Proust is uploaded into their game, and the updated “The Joe Hill Revival,” which premiered in Sept/Oct 2021 at Rustik Tavern in Brooklyn.  Dan lives in Brooklyn with his wife, neuroscientist Kim Allen.  He works in Manhattan as a jazz pianist and music director/accompanist.  (www.danfurman.com)
DYAN SHERIDAN (Artwork) Graphic Artist for Law & Order: SVU.  DylanJSheridan.com