Katell Productions
After a successful career developing over five million square feet of office, industrial and commercial projects as Katell Properties, LLC in Southern California, Jerry Katell embarked on a career in the entertainment business. His Katell Productions, LLC has several completed projects under its belt such as Love & Suicide, Tease, Trailer Park of Terror and McCartney’s Genes and a number of projects in development including The Palio, Wild Blue, Night Witches, Vola Vola and Zippo. He is also a credited actor in Terminator 3, The Ripple Effect, The Retrievers and other movies. He is proud to be part of the team presenting Baby it’s You! and Million Dollar Quartet and future musicals from the American Pop Anthology developed by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott. He spent most of his business career in Los Angeles and then lived in Rome and London. He will be relocating to New York City as the shows proceed to Broadway.
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures
is the live stage play division of Warner Bros. Entertainment and is responsible for developing and producing first-class musicals and other stage productions for the Studio. The division currently has 15 licensed properties in production worldwide and more than a dozen other projects in various stages of development, including co-productions with award-winning Broadway and film producers. WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT, a Time Warner Company, is a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment company and a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of creative content and their related businesses, across all current and emerging media and platforms. The company stands at the forefront of every aspect of the entertainment industry from feature film, TV and home entertainment production and worldwide distribution to DVD, digital distribution, animation, comic books, licensing, international cinemas and broadcasting.
Universal Music Group
is the world’s leading music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group, the industry’s leading global music publishing operation. Universal Music Group’s record labels include A&M/Octone, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, Fonovisa, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Motown Republic Group, Universal Music Latino, Universal Records South and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which includes the last 100 years of the world’s most popular artists and their recordings. UMG’s catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, its new media and technologies division; Bravado, its merchandising company; Twenty-First Artists, its full service management division; and Helter Skelter, its live music agency. Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi, a global media and communications company.