American David M Matthews served as musical director for 3 years on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Musical Direction Composition and has continued to write music for TV and film composing the underscore and main title music for Valhalla The Last Frontier Western Avenue and Wave Babes among others He also penned scripts for sitcoms The Nanny and Living Single as well as staff writing and producing gigs on For Your Love Half Half and The Soul Man In film he teamed with Michael Bayouth on the screenplays for A Howl In One and Kidnight and helped produce the documentary A Musical Journey To Freedom On his own he wrote and produced an episodic mockumentary When Actors Need Money for Strike TV directed the indie thriller NSecure and wrote and directed the uplifting comedy Ernestos Manifesto