* Paul Abdullah, Music Director - What Your Parents Don't Want You to Know..., Hans in LuckOpera (Music Staff): Il Postino, Impressario, Impressario!, The Magic Flute, La Vie Parisienne, Il Trionfo dell'Onore, Captain Lovelock, Meanwhile Back at Cinderella's. Musical Theater: The Sound of Music, Schoolhouse Rock Live, Once on this Island. Musical Theater: Nunsense, Urinetown, Cats, Batboy, Into the Woods, And the World Goes 'Round, My Fair Lady. Companies: Moores Opera Center, Oakland University, Meadowbrook Theater.
* Joshua Clark, Balloon ArtistCompanies: Houston Family Arts Center, Houston Children’s Festival, J & D Entertainment, Josh Clark Creations.
* Megean Edyvean, Stage ManagerAssistant Stage Manager: La Vie Parisienne, The Magic Flute. Musical Theater: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Big River, Les Miserables. Theater: The Crucible, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Companies: Moores Opera Center, Houston Family Arts Center, University of San Antonio Theater.
Kelli Estes, Stage DirectorArtistic Director: Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival. Author/Director: Die Operette mit Schlag!, Your Songs, Imagine That!, The Other Side. Stage Director: The Face on the Barroom Floor; Roman Fever; The Women; Doctor Miracle; Lady of Monte Carlo; Maid to Mistress; The Old Maid and the Thief; Sorry, Wrong Number. Director: Small Voices Children's Choir.
* Afshin Farzadfar, Audio/VideoCompanies: Music Video Productions, Moores Opera Center.
Jeffrey S. Lane, Set DesignerSet Design: Fiddler On The Roof, Footloose, Anna In The Tropics, The Merchant of Venice, Roman Fever, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Companies: Stages Repertory Theatre, Early Stages, The Good Companions Touring Theatre (Pacific Nortwest), Main Street Theater, Main Street Youth Theater, The Junior League of Houston Children's Theatre, Applause Children's Theatre, Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival.
Daniel Polk, Lighting Director
Jeremy M. Wood, Music Director - Simply Grimm Prologue, Clever Gretel, The Man Who Studied FearChamber Opera: The Face on the Barroom Floor; Roman Fever; The Masque: A Grim Little Entertainment; The Women; Sorry, Wrong Number; The Old Maid and the Thief. Operetta: Doctor Miracle, Die Operette mit Schlag!. Companies: Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival.
Oliver Worthington, Co-Stage DirectorMr. Worthington's photo by Claire McAdams Photography
Cast...
* Shelley Auer, mezzo-soprano - The Man Who Studied FearOpera: Cabildo, Manon Lescaut, Die Fledermaus, Hansel and Gretel, Turandot, Cosi fan tutte, Carmen, Gianni Schicchi, Falstaff, Albert Herring, Die Zauberflöte, Little Red Riding Hood. Chamber Opera: A Hand of Bridge, Sibanda, Cinderella in Spain, The Women, The 10th Muse, The Ottavia Project. Operetta: The Pirates of Penzance. Musical Theater: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Camelot, Trouble in Tahiti, Company, Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Better Being Bad. Companies: Unity Theater, Theatre Southwest, Texas Repertory Theatre, Divergence Vocal Theater, Opera Vista, East-end Theater, U of H Theatre Lab, HCC Southwest, Houston Grand Opera, Friends of St. Cecilia, HGO Opera to Go!, Minneapolis Fringe Festival, Opera in the Heights, Seagle Music Colony, Fort Worth Opera Educational Tour, Crowley Theater, Baylor Opera Theater, Waco Civic Theater, Stephen F. Austin Opera Theater.
* Tina Boosahda, soprano - What Your Parents Don't Want You to Know...Opera: The Impresario, The Magic Flute, La Vie Parisienne, Elmer Gantry, The Cunning Little Vixen, Il viaggio a Reims, Cendrillon, Suor Angelica, La finta giardiniera, Acis and Galatea, The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan tutte. Chamber Opera: Tony Caruso’s Last Broadcast (world premiere), Review! (world premiere). Musical Theater: Les Miserables, Into the Woods, Footloose, Oliver. Directors: Buck Ross, David Lefkowich, Martha Collins, Carroll Freeman, Sandra Bernhard, Nova Thomas. Conductors/Coaches: Brett Mitchell, Stephen Sulich, Brian Suits, Jo Anne Ritacca, Brian DeMaris, Marco Balderi. Companies: Moores Opera Center, Ithaca Opera Center.
Sarah Brindley, mezzo-soprano - What Your Parents Don't Want You to Know...Opera: The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair, Gianni Schicchi, Cosi fan tutte, Armide, L'Elisir d'amore, La bohème. Chamber Opera: The Women. Operetta: The Mikado. Musical Theater: Cats, The Misses Pirie and Woods, Into the Woods. Companies: UNC’s Opera Theatre, UNI’s Opera Theatre, Waterloo Community Playhouse, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Opera in the Ozarks, Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival, Mercury Baroque, Houston Symphony Chorus.
Alison Campagna, mezzo-soprano - Hans in LuckOpera: Little Women, Viva la Mamma, Gianni Schicchi, The Crucible, Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, The Grapes of Wrath. Chamber Opera: Sorry, Wrong Number. Opera Scenes: L’italiana in Algeri, La Cenerentola, Lucia di Lammermoor, Alcina, The Tender Land. Musical Theater: Radio Opera Hour. Concert: Requiem (Mozart). Companies: Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival, Elardo Young Artist Training Program, Shepherd School of Music, Pepperdine Concert Choir, Pepperdine Orchestra.
Kelli Estes, soprano - Clever GretelOpera: La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Street Scene, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Susannah, Hansel and Gretel, The Magic Flute, Les Dialogues des Carmélites. Operetta: (i>Die Operette Mit Schlag!, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers. Musical Theater: Li'l Abner, The Most Happy Fella, Lady Be Good, Kismet, Out of this World, Of Thee I Sing, Hello Again. Chamber Opera: Sorry, Wrong Number; The Face on the Barroom Floor; Roman Fever; The Masque; A Grim Little Entertainment; Lady of Monte Carlo; Der Schauspieldirektor; Secret of Susanne; The Telephone; Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters; The Last Leaf. Companies: Opera in the Heights, Shreveport Opera, Opera Company of Brooklyn, Allentown Concert Opera, Philadelphia's Center City Opera Theater, Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival.
* Jared A. Guest, baritone - Hans in LuckOpera: Il Postino, The Impresario, Die Zauberflöte, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Later the Same Evening, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Carmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Wedding. Operetta: The Mikado, La Vie Parisienne, The Pirates of Penzance. Concert: Messiah, Mozart Requiem, Bruckner Te Deum, White This Bitterly Beautiful Land, Saint-Saëns Oratorio de Noël, Haydn Lord Nelson Mass and Theresienmesse. Upcoming: Le Chiavi di Bel Canto Concert of Arias with the Texas Music Festival (Summer 2011).
Danica Johnston, soprano - Clever Gretel, What Your Parents Don't Want You to Know...Opera: Miss Havisham’s Fire, The Tales of Hoffmann, La Boheme, Le Nozze di Figaro, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Don Pasquale, Die Fledermaus, La Finta Giardiniera, Hansel and Gretel, Cendrillon, The Magic Flute, The Ruined Maid, Street Scene, Doctor Miracle, The Old Maid and the Thief. Operetta: HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado. Musical Theater: On A Glorious Day, Wilde, Master Class, The Threepenny Opera, On the Town, Nine, Victor Victoria, A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors, The Secret Garden. Concert: Houston Symphony, London Symphony (Ontario, Canada), Corpus Christi Symphony, Acadienne Symphony.
Jeffrey S. Lane, baritone - The Man Who Studied FearChamber Opera: Maid to Mistress. Musical Theater: Radio Opera Hour. Television: Forever Evil, Apollo 11, Mary Lou's Flip-Flop Shop. Foley Artist: The Old Maid and the Thief; Sorry, Wrong Number. Companies: The Texas Renaissance Festival, Good Companions Touring Theatre, Piccoli Junior Theatre Guild (Seattle), Spokane Interplayers Ensemble, The Granbury Opera House, Express Children's Theater, Children's Theatre Festival, Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival.
* Randolph Lacy, tenor - Simply Grimm PrologueOpera: Il viaggio a Reims, The Magic Flute. Musical Theater: Onebody. Concert: Requiem (Verdi), Carmina Burana, La Resurrezione (Handel), Requiem (Mozart), Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini), Johannespassion, Matthäuspassion. Recording: Threshold of Night (music of Tarik O’Regan). Companies/Orchestras: Fresno Philharmonic, Sacramento Ballet, Ars Lyrica, Boulder Philharmonic, Fresno Community Chorus, Orpheus Ensemble, Houston Bach Society, Houston Baptist University, Conspirare.
* Jason Lester, bass-baritone - Simply Grimm Prologue, What Your Parents Don't Want You to Know...Opera: La Bohème, Faust, Die Zauberflöte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Little Women, The Rake’s Progress, Alcina, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Albert Herring, Street Scene, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, La forza del destino, L’heure Espagnole. Musical Theater: Sweeney Todd. Concert: Requiem (Brahms), Requiem and Vespers (Mozart), Messiah, Ninth Symphony (Beethoven). Companies/Orchestras: Glimmerglass Opera, Berkshire Opera, Opera in the Heights, Houston Civic Symphony, Houston Bach Society, The Woodlands Symphony, Fort Bend Symphony.
* Justin Manalad, bass-baritone - Hans in LuckOpera: The Magic Flute, Elmer Gantry, The Cunning Little Vixen, Il viaggio a Reims, The Grapes of Wrath, Little Women, Les Dialogues des Carmélites. Operetta: La Vie Parisienne. Chamber Opera: The Old Maid and the Thief. Musical Theater: Camelot, Oklahoma.
Nancy Markeloff, mezzo-soprano - The Man Who Studied FearOpera: Falstaff, Hansel and Gretel, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, The Medium, Un Ballo in Maschera, Casanova’s Homecoming, Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Viaggio a Reims, The Dangerous Liaisons, Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Cavalleria Rusticana, La Sonnambula, Peter Grimes, The Ghosts of Versailles, Il Matrimonio Segreto, Albert Herring, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, The Magic Flute, Lucia di Lammermoor, Faust, Buoso’s Ghost. Operetta: The Mikado, The Gondoliers, The Sorcerer, The Yeomen of the Guard, Ruddygore, , Doctor Miracle, Die Fledermaus, Die Operette mit Schlag!. Chamber Opera: The Old Maid and the Thief, Roman Fever, The Masque: A Grim Little Entertainment. Musical Theater: The Threepenny Opera, Into the Woods, Two by Two, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, Dark of the Moon, Radio Opera Hour. Assistant Director: L’Italiana in Algeri. Companies/Orchestras/Series: Amarillo Opera, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston, Houston Grand Opera, Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival, Lyric Opera of Waco, Moores Opera Center, Moores Collegium Musicum, Shreveport Opera, St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society, Hunter Hills Theater. Upcoming: La fille du régiment with Opera in the Heights (Fall, 2011), Scenes from American Opera with the St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society (Fall, 2011).
* Eamon Pereyra, tenor - What Your Parents Don't Want You to Know..., Hans in LuckOpera: The Magic Flute, La Vie Parisienne, Il viaggio a Reims, The Cunning Little Vixen, Gianni Schicchi, The Ghosts of Versailles, Il Sequestro, News From Silence: The Monkey, And Then I Remmber, Vera of Las Vegas. Companies: Moores Opera Center, Opera Vista.
* Laura Riggs, mezzo-soprano - Simply Grimm Prologue, Hans in LuckOpera: Les Plaisirs de Versailles, The Cunning Little Vixen, Il Viaggio a Reims, The Grapes of Wrath, Orpheus in the Underworld, And Then I Remember, Vera of Las Vegas, Bluebeard. Operetta: The Pirates of Penzance. Companies: Moores Opera Center, Ohio Light Opera, Opera Vista.
* Priscilla Salisbury, soprano - What Your Parents Don't Want You to Know...Opera: Don Giovanni, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Saint of Bleecker Street. Concert: Fauré Requiem. Television: Objetivo Fama (Puerto Rico). Competitions: Houston Masterworks Young Artist Competition (Winner). Directors: Paul Salamunovich, Buck Ross. Companies: Moores Opera Center.
* Loretta Seabolt, soprano - Simply Grimm PrologueOpera: The Magic Flute, La Vie Parisienne, The Cunning Little Vixen. Companies: Moores Opera Center. Directors: Buck Ross.
* David Whitney Smith, baritone - The Man Who Studied FearOpera: Die Fledermaus, Don Giovanni, Gianni Schicchi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Cosi fan tutte, The Grapes of Wrath, Il viaggio a Reims, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Cradle will Rock, Les plaisirs de Versailles. Operetta: The Mikado, The Gondoliers. Chamber Opera: Portrait-TV-Man. Concert: Elijah.
* Jennifer Whalen, soprano - Hans in LuckOpera: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Albert Herring, Hansel and Gretel, The Medium, Suor Angelica. Scenes: The Ballad of Baby Doe, Die Fledermaus, Un Ballo in Maschera, Carmen, Falstaff. Concert: Lembit Beecher And Then I Remember, Die Fledermaus, Elijah, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, Schubert Mass in G.
Oliver Worthington, baritone - What Your Parents Don't Want You to Know..., Clever GretelOpera: The Old Maid and the Thief; Sorry, Wrong Number; Lucia di Lammermoor; Le Nozze di Figaro; The Magic Flute; Fidelio; Susannah; Albert Herring; L'Ormindo; Postcard from Morocco; La Traviata. Operetta: Doctor Miracle, Die Operette Mit Schlag!, Die Fledermaus, The Gondoliers, The Sorceror, Countess Maritza, The Gypsy Baron, Naughty Marietta, The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein. Musical Theater: Most Happy Fella, Carousel, Kismet, A Man of No Importance, Curtain Up, Fiddler on the Roof, The Man of La Mancha. Chamber Opera: The Face on the Barroom Floor, The Masque; A Grim Little Entertainment, Der Schauspieldirektor, The Telephone. Musical Director/Conductor: A Man of No Importance, Fiddler on the Roof, Company, Dido and Aeneas, The Telephone, Urinetown, Into the Woods, The Rocky Horror Show. Actor/Director: Jeffrey, Lone Star Lyric 2010, 2011, The Telephone, The Medium, Die Fledermaus. Upcoming: The Man of la Mancha (Austin Playhouse).
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* Crystal AnayaMusical Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, The Wizard of Oz. Companies: TMEA Region Mixed Choir, American Festival for the Arts.
* Samantha ArizpeVoice: Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza. Dance: Las Vegas World Dance Competition, El Dia de La Hispanidad, Dance Houston, Latin Grammys. Instrumental: Mariachi Vargas, TMEA All-State Competition, Side-by-Side. Companies/Orchestras: HSPVA Symphony Orchestra, HSPVA Girls Choir, American Festival for the Arts, Houston Grand Opera Community Outreach, Virtuosi of Houston Chamber Youth Orchestra, Virtuosi String Quartet, Las Altenas of San Antonio (understudy), Greater Houston Youth Orchestra, Ima Hogg Bayou Arts Festival, Go Tejano Livestock Show and Rodeo. Directors: Dr. Hector Aguero Jr., Pat Bonner, Amy Lewis, Andrej Grabiec, Franz Krager, Valerie Vargas, Cirilo Campos, Laurence Wheeler, Dr. Michael Remson, Cynthia Muñoz.
* Jonathan CunninghamOpera: Amahl and the Night Visitors. Musical Theater: Peter Pan, The Naked King. Concert: The Lion King. Companies/Orchestras: The Houston Symphony, Texas Southern University, American Festival for the Arts.
* Ashley TraughberMusical Theater: A Little Night Music. Ensembles: 2010 Texas Regional Choir, 2011 Texas All State Women’s Choir.
* Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival debut