Gary is a composer, producer, and public speaker who has been creating musical solutions for mainstream media, wellness interventions, and global healing strategies for decades. A winner of Emmy and ASCAP awards for his work in media and music production, Gary co-created the globally acclaimed audiobook, Graceful Passages, which has supported multitudes to embrace their mortality with greater acceptance and compassion. He co-created the award-winning Safe In the Arms of Love: Deepening the Essential Bond with Your Baby with Lisa Rafel and David Surrenda, Ph.D,, supporting parents to form deeper bonds with their newborns. Gary produces Gaia streaming series TV’s Islands of Inner Peace.Having spoken on countless podcasts and webinars, Gary promotes a greater understanding of the power of music to reconnect to what matters most. 
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Liz Frankel is an Austin and New York–based dramaturg and creative producer. She helmed the literary office at the Public Theater for nine years, then became the first Director of New Work at the Alley Theatre, where she founded the Alley All New Festival. Her ongoing freelance work has taken her to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Colorado New Play Summit, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Playwrights’ Center, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Chautauqua Theater Company. With Austin’s Texas Performing Arts, she has worked as an advisor, sourcing projects for its expanding new work development program, and as a dramaturg, guiding multiple musician-driven projects into world premiere story-centered productions. lizfrankel.com