North Port Music & Bird’s Eye Studio
Sarah and Steve met in Tampa Bay in 1980 at Bartke’s Dinner Theatre. Bartke’s is no more but Sarah and Steve are still going strong. Coming back to Southwest Florida after all these years seems only fitting in some cosmic way.
They wrote the score for the critically acclaimed off-Broadway musical, The Immigrant (Sarah, lyrics, Steven, music and orchestration). It has played across the country, including Denver Center, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Northlight Theatre in Chicago, and Arizona Theatre Company. It garnered an off-Broadway Drama Desk Nomination and is published by Samuel French, with a cast recording on Ghostlight Records. (TheImmigrantMusical.com)
Sarah and Steven’s other produced works include Chamberlain: A Civil War Romance and The Library. Works in progress include The Yellow Stocking Play (an adaption of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, with a book by DW Gregory, author of Radium Girls), Back from Black (an Amy Winehouse tribute), and The Kiss of Beatrice (a music theatre piece based on “Rappaccini’s Daughter” which they have been working on for a very, very long time). (Maybe we’ll finish it here in North Port. And you’re all invited!)
Steve Alper
Steven started his musical studies with piano lessons at five years old. He studied musical composition with Rudolph Schramm, and later at SUNY Stony Brook with Peter Winkler and Mannes College with David Tcimpidis and Frederick Perle.
He has composed, orchestrated, and conducted for the NY theatre for decades. He has written for film and television, composing the title music, underscoring, and jingles for the cable TV show, Between the Lines, the score for the feature film, Adrift, the short film, The Wake-Up Call, The Riedel Dance Theatre, a slew of award-winning children’s musicals written with Karen DeMauro, and numerous commercials.
He provided music preparation as Supervising Music Copyist for Broadway shows including, The Lion King, Young Frankenstein, Spring Awakening, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Caroline, or Change, Ain’t Too Proud, and many others.
Sarah Knapp
As a performer, Sarah has appeared on Broadway in The Scarlet Pimpernel, the Broadway workshop of Jekyll and Hyde, the off-Broadway productions of the original Nunsense, The No-Frills Revue, Godspell, Gifts of the Magi, and many more. She has performed all across the country in regional theatre and toured Europe in a theatre piece by the avant-gardist, Richard Foreman, Africanis Instructus. You can also spot her on some Law and Order: SVU episodes.
Scott Angley
Scott Angley has over 30 years experience playing electric guitar, as well as custom guitar design, construction, and repair. He has been in numerous original bands, most notably Love Among Freaks (1993-96) who composed the original film score for Kevin Smith’s cult classic movie, Clerks.
After high school, he studied music at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA. He went on to study guitar construction at Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix, AZ. His love of guitars lead him to work as a guitar technician at Kramer Guitars, Vaccaro Guitar Company, and Musikraft Guitar Manufacturer.
He has been building custom guitars, doing guitar repair, and performing in numerous bands since moving to Southwest Florida in 2003, including Jam Band, Sugar Rockets, and his current band, Tin Can Tourists.
