Loose Cattle is led in tandem by Michael Cerveris and Kimberly Kaye - a onetime couple, enduring friends and lifelong working artists. Kaye is a native Jerseyite, conservatory-trained in trumpet, jazz vocals and musical theater; she also has a checkered past as a teenaged ska punk, touring on the Warped Tour circuit in the late ‘90s with her first bands. Cerveris, who grew up in Appalachian West Virginia, garnered his first Tony Award nomination originating the title role in the Who’s Tommy on Broadway under the mentorship of Pete Townshend and later stepped into the lead character’s iconic platform boots for off-Broadway and West End runs of Hedwig and the Angry Inch; he also played guitar on tour with Husker Du’s Bob Mould. He received a Grammy for the Tommy cast album, and later won a matched pair of Tonys for the musicals Assassins and Fun Home.