Gayden Wren (Director, Very Truly Yours, Gilbert and Sullivan & Iolanthe) has been a member of the company since the 1970s. During that time, he has directed The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Pinafore, Patience (twice), Iolanthe (three times), Princess Ida (twice), The Mikado, Ruddigore, The Yeomen of the Guard, The Gondoliers and Utopia, Ltd., as well as A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol; Very Truly Yours, Gilbert & Sullivan; and a number of staged readings of Gilbert plays. He is the author of A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert & Sullivan (Oxford University Press, 2001) and the upcoming Only in Theatrical Performances: Reading ‘The Mikado.’

David Bernard (Orchestral Director Iolanthe) serves as Music Director of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, Massapequa Philharmonic, and the Eglevsky Ballet. He is an active guest conductor, appearing with the Brooklyn Symphony, the Dubuque (IA) Symphony, the Greenwich (CT) Symphony, Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Island Symphony, the Litha Symphony, the South Shore Symphony and ensembles from the Manhattan School of Music. Called “the Johnny Appleseed of Classical Music” by Long Island Weekly, Maestro Bernard has helped the arts thrive through his innovative approaches to audience and orchestra building as music director and guest conductor.

David Bernard is the founder and Director of InsideOut Concerts, Inc., a pioneer and innovator in the design, development and production of immersive classical music events, and is inventor of US Patent No. 11,673,070 entitled “Methods and Systems for Arranging Seats for Audience Members and Musicians.” Bernard’s work using these methods in concerts and events resulted in not only increased tickets sales, but also increased organic new audience acquisition.

Bernard is the First Prize winner of The American Prize Orchestral Conducting Competition (professional division) 2019.

Isabella Eredita Johnson (Rehearsal Director Iolanthe) lives in Northport, and accompanies and teaches piano professionally. She was awarded a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music where she received both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees, studying with Constance Keene. She has won both the prestigious George Schick award for outstanding musicianship and 1st prize at the Mason & Hamlin Piano competition. Among her proudest accomplishments are the presentations of the Diabelli Variations and the Goldberg Variations. Each of these two concerts involved the gathering of over thirty fine pianists, each performing a single variation. Ms. Eredita is an active advocate for the arts on Long Island, and is the founder and director of “Opera Night, Long Island.” www.operanight.org .

Sara Elliot Holiday (Producer/Technical Director, Very Truly Yours) cut her teeth with the Texas Gilbert and Sullivan Company in the 1990s, and went on to Oberlin College and the Gilbert & Sullivan Players there. She made her Light Opera Company debut as Angelina in Trial by Jury in 1997, and has played various roles with the company ever since, including music director of Utopia, Limited and Iolanthe. Her favorite Gilbert & Sullivan roles include Patience, Yum-Yum and Casilda, as well as all the female roles in The World According to Gilbert & Sullivan and Very Truly Yours, Gilbert & Sullivan, Hilarion in Gilbert’s The Princess and, perhaps most of all, Bob Cratchit in A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol. In her spare time she is head of events at the New York Society Library and author of A Thousand Dances: A Novel of the British Blues Boom (Coral Press, 2018)..