SUBWAY TRAIN creators

JOSHUA KOBAK (Jericho/Book, Music and Lyrics) attended University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music for 4 years. While at CCM he performed, directed and produced his first musical The Colors of Love at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, later staged at the first annual New York International Fringe Festival. He moved to NYC with his band SWIM, and gigs out regularly. He recorded SWIM's CD "Above and Beneath" while on tour with the RENT Benny Company, which he followed up with a 6 week solo acoustic tour. The following year he made his Broadway debut in RENT. He composed the musical scores for A&E's "Troy: The Passion Of Helen," independent film "While Awake I Dream" and shorts "Rain" and "In The Ether" by William Miller, and music in Richard LeMay's film "London's Bridge" (2002 New York International Independent Film And Video Festival). Other credits include the rock musical film "Temptation" and the workshop of Disney's Tarzan with Phil Collins.

KATY PFAFFL (Flight/Book, Music and Lyrics) is a Manhattan based voice teacher, vocal coach who taught herself guitar and performs regularly at the Living Room in the East Village. A violinist since age 6, Katy went on to compete as a classical pianist, and became a Downbeat Award winning jazz vocalist. She acted and studied composition for orchestra and choir at High School of the Performing Arts in WI, and went to University of Cincinnatiâs College Conservatory of Music for musical theatre. Katy performed with VH-1's Save The Music in NYC, placed 3rd at the 2003 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Songwriting Contest, appeared on the cover of Maximum Ink Magazine, and was named Artist of the Month of Independent Songwriter magazine. She recently released "As She Stands" the acoustic soul-folk follow-up to her 2001 self-titled debut album and her music can be heard on radio stations across the US and Europe.

MICKEY FISHER (Sensei/Book, Music and Lyrics) is a native of Ironton, Ohio. He majored in Musical Theatre at CCM. He spent a year in Chicago acting on stage before moving to NYC where he wrote, produced, directed, and performed many plays including The Colors Of Love, Subway Train, and the one-man show Random Acts. His first full-length play Iron Town Trilogy took 6th place in The Writerâs Digest National Playwriting Contest. He played a lead role in the black and white independent film noir "Blind Justice." His screenplay "Grace Of A River Rat" finished in the top 10 percent in The Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition. In 2002, "Cool As Hell" placed in the top 250 screenplays for Project Greenlight 2. He recently completed his first feature film as a writer/director. The King of Iron Town is now playing at film festivals across the country. He has written several new screenplays and another play that continues his series of Iron Town Stories.

DANTON BOLLER (Bass/Music) has recorded and toured worldwide as bassist in Exegesis, SWIM, and the progressive improvising trio The Jazz Mandolin Project since January 2000. He has performed live with Billy Higgins, Wallace Roney, Mulgrew Miller, the Jazz Mandolin Project, Duffy Jackson, Anthony Wilson, Kurt Elling, Joshua Redman, Mark Shim, Mark Turner, Greg Tardy, Joe Labarbara, Alex Acuna, Kei Akagi, Sunship Theus, Roy McCurdy, Lawrence Marabele and many others. He attended California State University Long Beach and has received many awards including The Shelly Manne New Talent Award in 1997 and won first place in the Charles Dolo Coker Jazz Scholarship in 1994. He has recorded three albums with Anthony Wilson, the first one receiving a Grammy nomination, appeared on "Red" and "53 W. 19th" by the Matt Otto Quartet, featured on "Ron Stout Quintet" (1998), Stephen Chopek and Chris Lovejoy's 2001 "Braintrust," and guitarist Adam Rafferty's "Kush" (2001).

SEAN DIXON (Drums/Music) of neo-soul band The Chesterfields, also provides drums and percussion for the Katy Pfaffl Band and SWIM. He attended the High School of the Performing Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when he won the Downbeat Magazine Jazz award his senior year. He moved to New York to attend the New School for Jazz. He is an active member of Kiki Da Bahia's Capoeira group in NY, and has traveled and studied the djembe in Guinea Africa and Brazil. In addition to playing the drums and djembe, Sean also plays bass and keyboards.