Will Stone is the President and CEO of Will Stone Music LLC. He is also one of the Founding Members of House OV Mahogany a virtual performance band where he performs and heads the music production department. By trade his skills include music producing, sound mixing, composing for Film/TV/Video Games, singing/songwriting, arranging (specializing in vocal arrangements), sound designing, music directing and acting.
Mr. Stone has received his Masters of Music Production Technology and Innovation at Berklee College of Music. He also has a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Howard University and was in the 35th graduating class (Group35) of the prestigious Juilliard School where he studied drama.
Currently Mr. Stone is composing the music for Shoe Story, a new musical being showcased at the LABrinth Theater Company in February 2023. He just finished composing and arranging the music for the sold out tour New Jack City Live. He is also the in-house Audio Engineer and a member of the Tony Award Honored Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV). Since March 2020 he has helped produce over 20 virtual videos with BIV. In the fall of 2020 and spring 2021 he mixed and sound designed 4 virtual and 2 live musical productions for The New Studio on Broadway at NYU Tisch. Mr. Stone has been Co-Vocal Arranger of Once Upon A Rhyme, previously titled iLLA! a Hip Hop Musical. He has also been a Music Consultant on the project, as well as the Musical Director for 5 productions of the show. During his tenure with Rhyme, it won the New York Musical Festival’s Best of Fest Award both in 2015 and 2016. In addition, in the summer of 2017 it was selected from among 200 musicals to receive specialized guidance from award winning industry professionals at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference, where the show received the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award. In January 2018 Rhyme was selected to be developed at the Johnny Mercer Writer’s Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. The show went on to present at the TheatreWorks New Works Festival in Silicon Valley that same year. Immediately following the TheatreWorks New Works Festival, Rhyme returned to NYC and mounted a production at NYU, starting off their 2018 fall season.
Mr. Stone has served in various leadership roles, including musical director of the Sacred Center Praise Team; minister of music at Expansion Church; director of the traveling gospel choir Voices of Light; musical director of For Vixens Who’ve Considered Homicide When the Video’s Too Much; musical director of Ain’t Misbehavin’; and vocal director and vocal arranger of the Off-Broadway hit revival, The Great MacDaddy, in association with The Negro Ensemble Company. He has produced and starred in his own show at The Triad Theatre in NYC, featuring all his original music.
Currently Mr. Stone serves on the advisory board of Arts On Site, a woman-run nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing artists with opportunities to create and perform new work. In addition to being on the board of Arts On Site he curates the Diaspora Solo Fest, a festival dedicated to celebrating artists of the African diaspora. In 2007, Mr. Stone served as an Advisory Board Member and Program Development Director for The Continuum Project. In 2009 he served as President of The Sacred Center Gospel Choir. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of The Brooklyn Dance Festival.
Mr. Stone’s main instrument is his voice. He has also studied the piano, harp, trumpet and French Horn. Upon graduating from Cass Technical High School in Detroit, MI, he toured Europe playing the French Horn. He has played with the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, The American Musical Ambassadors, The Detroit City Honors Band and The University of Michigan Youth Band.
In 2008 Mr. Stone brought his skills and talents to South Africa. For 3 straight months starting in the fall of 2008, he taught music and theatre at Refilwe Foster Community outside of Johannesburg, South Africa with the organization Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP). He loved it so much he went back the next 2 years.
