About BizzyBum Productions
Wendy Gelsanliter and Andrea Loomis Towey met as teachers in New York City. After realizing their common goal, educating children and creating art, the two teamed up and produced a children's CD titled Ants Wear Underpants. While juggling their responsibilities as mothers, teachers and artists, Wendy and Andrea became so busy, they decided to name their production company after their lifestyle. BizzyBum Productions was founded in 2000 and now distributes both Ants Wear Underpants, Dancin' in the Kitchen and I’m Hungry, I Need a Bandaid.

Wendy Gelsanliter, a singer/songwriter, was born in Africa. Due to the nature of her father's job as Foreign Service officer and newspaper journalist, she lived in a half dozen cities along the east coast of the United States.

As a child, Wendy sang into hairbrushes and stethoscopes while listening to records. In high school and college, Wendy performed in musical choirs, acappella groups and bands. She also started playing guitar and writing songs of her own. After graduating from Hamilton College in 1986, she moved to New York City. In two years, Wendy became a weekend headliner at the Speakeasy, played at many clubs and colleges in the Northeast, and appeared at the First Annual Greenwich Village Folk Festival. During this time, Wendy began teaching, and for the past 21 years, she has worked with young children. A graduate of Bank Street College of Education, she has taught preschool, Kindergarten, first and second grade, headed an elementary school library and taught music and movement. Now Wendy is an Assistant Director at a nursery school in New York City.

In the early 1990's, Wendy released her first recording, Dancin' in the Kitchen, with internationally celebrated singer/songwriter, guitarist and producer, Frank Christian. The title song, co-written by Gelsanliter and Christian, inspired a children's book by the same name. Illustrated by 1996 Caldecott Honor Winner Marjorie Priceman, Dancin' in the Kitchen, was published in 1998 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Wendy's second recording, Ants Wear Underpants, was released in 2000. Among its reviews, Parenting Magazine chose it as a Pick for Toddlers, and more recently, the CD was chosen by Parent's Choice as a winner among a record number of candidates.

Frank Christian is an internationally known singer/songwriter, guitarist and producer who has recorded and toured with such artists as Nanci Griffith and Suzanne Vega. He can be heard playing some of his own songs on his three CDs: Where Were You Last Night, From My Hands and Mister So and So.

"An accomplished guitarist and singer, Mr. Christian commands a wide variety of styles...a distinctive stylist performing distinctive original material...Mr. Christian sings languid, blues flavored songs that conjure up the New York bohemian life with a dreamy, understated sensuality..."

- Stephen Holden, The New York Times

Artist and writer, Andrea Loomis Towey, found music at a very early age. The third of four daughters, Andrea often sought refuge in her neighbor's lazyboy where she listened through large headphones to Bing Crosby and classic Beethoven; at yet another neighbor's house she learned to play the piano. Her teachers always considered art and music a strong part of the curriculum -- given these role models, it was natural for Andrea to evolve into a teacher herself.

A Lafayette College graduate with a double major in Art and English, Andrea began teaching elementary school in New York City. While Andrea taught she studied art education at Parsons School of Design/Bank Street College. Andrea now teaches children of all ages at the children's art studio Paper Scissors Oranges in Darien, CT. She is the author of many of the songs heard on Ants Wear Underpants, as well as the illustrator for both Dancin' in the Kitchen and Ants Wear Underpants.

Influenced by her two children and students, Andrea continues to write and illustrate from her home in Rowayton, CT.