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• Steve D'Angelo Composer Steve D’Angelo, an award-nominated and winning music composer with over 25 years experience, began his career as a composer and guitarist for advertising. He has lent his expertise on over a thousand commercials for clients such as: GM, Ford and Molson. D’Angelo currently leads EggPlant’s Music division, where he is responsible for all development and production of music themes and scores for EggPlant Long Format (LF). On the television side, D’Angelo has written songs for children’s shows including: Rocket Monkeys, Thomas and Friends, Cat in the Hat, Doozers, Beyraiderz and more. He has also composed scores for numerous news shows on the CBC network including: The National, The Fifth Estate, The Passionate Eye and Marketplace. He composed the powerful and evocative score for CTV’s edgy police drama The Bridge. Throughout his career, D’Angelo’s work has garnered him both Canadian and international recognition. His first animated series Peep and the Big Wide World received an Annie nomination (2005 for Best Music in a Children’s Show. In 2008, D’Angelo’s catchy theme song for the series Fetch won him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song – Children’s & Animated series. Also, his ultra hip lounge score for Naughty Naughty Pets was nominated for a Gemini award in 2007. In 2011, D’Angelo contributed the score to the acclaimed animated short film hometown based on Yoko Ono’s poem. In addition, D’Angelo has also written, arranged and conducted for: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Dr John, Taj Mahal, Slovakian radio Orchestra and the Dublin Philharmonic.

• Terry Tompkins Producer/Partner An accomplished musician and producer, Terry has been working for many years crafting songs and music for shows such as Cat in the Hat, Babar, Thomas and Friends, Curious George and many more. With an Emmy and much acclaim under his belt, he continues to produce great musical content with Eggplant LF. Terry is also active as Executive Producer for Eggplant TV, producing content such as Hollywood Death Trip (E!), My Hometown (Yoko Ono), The Untitled work of Paul Shepard (Superchannel), Monster in a Box (Teletoon) and more.

• Joe Coupal Producer/Engineer Starting fresh out of college (Recording Arts Canada), Joe has been engineering at Eggplant LF since 2009. In that time, he has assumed many rolls in audio production such as mix engineer of themes/songs for Cat in the Hat, Thomas and Friends, Almost Naked Animals, Sesame Street and more. Full program mixes include Hero Dogs of 9/11, Monster in a Box, and Kit and Kate. He has also done extensive music editing on shows like The Bridge, Hollywood Death Trip, Travel Guy, Japanizi: Going, Going, Gong!, Crash Canyon, Doozers, Artzooka, My Life Me, Tati's Hotel and more. Along with music mixing and editing, Joe has also done a fair amount of SFX work on shows like Hockey Night in Canada, Monster in a Box, and Kit and Kate. In recent years, he's expanded his work with Eggplant as a song writer, winning A SOCAN Young Composer's Award for his theme song for True and The Rainbow Kingdom.

• Lorenzo Castelli Composer As a film scoring graduate from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Lorenzo returned to Toronto and quickly began writing music for television and advertising. His music can be heard on such productions as Sesame Street (PBS), Rocket Monkeys (Teletoon), Japanizi: Going Going Gong! (YTV), Hollywood Death Trip (E!) Gourmet Escapes (Travel & Escape) to name a few. Lorenzo has also written music on advertisements for Nissan, McDonalds, Jackson Triggs, Yellow Pages and many more.

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