Leonard Kastle

Leonard Kastle (b. 11 February 1929) is an opera composer, librettist, and director, though he is best known as the writer/director of The Honeymoon Killers, his only venture into the cinema.

His operas include Deseret (1961), on libretto by Anne Howard Bailey about Brigham Young, which he directed for NBC Opera Theater. He writes in a Romantic style that is not held in high regard for composers by the music academy today. Kastle also wrote Pariah, about the sinking of the whaling ship Essex.