LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version* Registered Nurse, motivational speaker, actress, and semifinalist on America’s Got Talent, Christina has taken the stage in major theatrical productions. She has toured as Matron “Mama” Morton in the 25th Anniversary Broadway National Tour of Chicago the Musical. She starred as Medda Larkin in Newsies, Ursula in The Little Mermaid, Sour Kangaroo in Seussical, and Sylvia in All Shook Up—all with Theatre Under the Stars. She also appeared as Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act, Jewel in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray, and Charilee in Honky Tonk Angels Holiday Spectacular. www.ChristinaWells.com

LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version* COMPANIES: Hamburg Staatsoper, Teatro San Carlo, Salzburg Festspiele, Graz Oper, Edmonton Opera, Opera Ontario, New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Dallas Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, New Orleans Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Indianapolis Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Utah Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Minnesota Opera, Dayton Opera, etc. OPERA: Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, Samson et Dalila, Aida, Don Carlo, Falstaff, La Forza del Destino, Rigoletto, Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Boris Godunov, Anna Bolena, La cenerentola, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’Italiana in Algeri, La donna del lago, Il viaggio a Reims, Oberon, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, The Ballad of Baby Doe, Vanessa, Candide, The End of the Affair, The Tales of Hoffman, Madama Butterfly, Albert Herring, The Love for Three Oranges ,Cosi fan Tutte, Die Zauberflöte, La finta Giardiniera, The Beggar’s Opera, etc. OPERETTA: Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Patience. MUSICAL THEATER: Carousel, A Little Night Music, Oliver, Paint Your Wagon, No, No, Nanette. CABARET (one woman show): Sante Fe Opera, The Riviera Club (Dallas), Grand Avenue Bistro (St. Louis), Newport Music Festival, Indianapolis Art Center. ORCHESTRAS: Opera Orchestra of New York, Little Orchestra of New York, Buffalo Philharmonic, Grazer Philharmonische, Louisiana Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Ft. Worth Chamber Orchestra, St, Paul Chamber Orchestra, etc. TELEVISION: Live from Lincoln Center (PBS), Great Performances (PBS), Austrian Radio and Television (ORF). RECORDINGS: Albany, House of Opera, Reference, Acis, HDIT, Symphony Version Discography. ACADEMIC (positions): University of Houston, Westminster Choir College, Catholic University of America, Columbia University Teachers College. MMBERSHIPS: AGMA, AFTRA, NOA, MTNA, OPERA AMERICA, NATS, NOA, The College Music Society. SPECIAL SKILLS: Castanets, Finger Cymbals, Tread on a Bosu in Espadrilles.

LSL Productions: Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Suzanne’s Secret, Il signor Bruschino, Lyric Cabaret (2013-present). OPERA: Il trittico, The Producer, Die Zauberflöte, Die Fledermaus, Il rondine, Manon, La tragédie de Carmen, Frau Margot, Ariadne auf Naxos, La traviata, Cabildo, Houdini the Great, Acis and Galatea, The Silent Prince, Lucio Silla, Orpheus in the Underworld, A Wedding, Signor Deluso, The Turn of the Screw, Trouble in Tahiti, Der Rosenkavalier, Messiah, Tannhäuser, La bohème, Don Giovanni, Parsifal, Aida, Turandot, The Phoenix, Florencia en el Amazonas. OPERETTA: Ruddigore, Iolanthe. MUSICAL THEATRE: The Light in the Piazza, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Les Misérables, Evita, Quilters, Into the Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, Rockspell, Phantom, Camelot. ORATORIO/SOLO WORK: Todd’s Mass in Blue, Vivaldi’s Beatus vir, Jerusalem’s Dixit Dominus, Fauré Requiem, Mozart’s Missa Brevis in G Major, Bernstein’s Mass, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Rutter’s Magnificat, Corigliano’s Fern Hill, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K. Jenkins’ Stella Natalis, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Rutter’s Magnificat, Schubert’s Mass in G, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Carissimi’s Jephte, Poulenc’s Gloria, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Haydn’s Paukenmesse. COMPANIES: Lone Star Lyric, Houston Grand Opera, Theatre Under the Stars, Hopera, Opera in the Heights, Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston, Intersection Arts, Indianapolis Opera, Opera Vista, Kingwood Summer Opera, Houston Chamber Choir, Divergence Vocal Theatre, American Cabaret Theatre, Scottish Rite Musicals, Footlite Musicals. EDUCATION: D.M.A. University of Houston, M.M. University of Houston, B.M. Butler University. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Houston Grand Opera Chorus, HGO Bauer Family High School Voice Studio Director, Houston Chamber Choir Director of Operations. SPECIAL SKILLS: Tex-mex enthusiast, diction nerd, yoga instructor, mama to Charlotte and Cora.

LSL Productions: Adrift in Macao, All That Glitters-Holiday Cabaret, SIMPLY GRIMM: Clever Gretel & What Your Parents Don’t Want You To Know, The Old Maid and the Thief, Doctor Miracle, OPERA: Don Pasquale, La Boheme, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Miss Havisham’s Fire, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Fledermaus, Hansel and Gretel, La Finta Giardiniera, Cendrillon, The Magic Flute, Street Scene, The Ruined Maid, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Mikado. MUSICAL THEATRE: Chicago, Wild Party, One Touch of Venus, Master Class, The Threepenny Opera, On the Town, Nine, Victor Victoria, Christmas Carol, The Secret Garden, Little Shop of Horrors. CONCERT SOLOIST: Mozart Requiem, Mozart Vesperae solennes, Handel Messiah, Rutter Mass for the Children, Orff Carmina Burana, Vaugh Williams Dona Nobis Pacem, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Houston Symphony: Ladies of the Silver Screen, Star Spangled Salute, Tribute to Cynthia Woods Mitchell.

LSL Productions: Ladies’ Parts-Cabaret, Souvenirs-Cabaret, How to Write a Gilbert & Sullivan Opera, Fun to be Fooled-Cabaret, Adrift in Macao. OPERA: Carmen, The Tales of Hoffmann, La Sonnambula, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Fledermaus, Rigoletto, Grand National, The Magic Flute. COMPANIES: San Antonio Opera, Opera in the Heights, Amato Opera in New York, Houston Grand Opera, Theatre Under The Stars, The Alley Theater, John Hausman Theatre in New York, TheatreLaB Houston, Main Street Theatre, Stages Theater, The Temple Theatre in NC, A.D. Players, Texas Repertory Theatre. MUSICAL THEATER: Sound of Music, Once Upon a Mattress, Zombies from the Beyond, Passion, Miss Lulu, Follies, Tenderly, Always Patsy Cline, Avenue X. ORIGINAL SHOWS: (co-writer, performer, producer): Sold Separately, Merkel, Country Gravy and Other Obsessions, Home for the Dysfunctional Family Holidays, Husband Fixin 101. MOVIE ROLES: Psycho Wife (Lovesick), Opera Singer (The Life of David Gale) CONCERTS: Gubbio, Fanano, Montescano, Vivegano, Milan, Como, Pavia, and Voghera Italy, Ovations Night Club, Doc’s Jazz Club, various churches.

LSL PRODUCTIONS: Talk Opera, The Silken Ladder, The Old Maid and the Thief. OPERA: La traviata, La bohème, La Rondine, L’elisir d’amore, Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Die Zauberflӧte, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Don Giovanni, Florencia en el Amazonas, Cosi fan tutte, Hänsel und Gretel, Cinderella. OPERETTA: HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Merry Widow, The Desert Song, The New Moon, Marinka. MUSICAL THEATER: Amadeus, Music Man, Sound of Music, Guys and Dolls, Titanic. ORATORIO: Schumann Requiem, Rossini Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Dvorak Te Deum, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Dvorak Mass in D, Villa-Lobos Missa Afro-Brasilera, Britten’s War Requiem. COMPANIES: Opera San Antonio, Opera San Jose, Madison Opera, Pacific Opera Project, Opera in the Heights, Lakes Area Music Festival, Opera Columbus, Nevada Opera, Ohio Light Opera, The Alley Theatre, Lone Star Lyric, Houston Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Brevard Janiec Opera Company.

LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version* Elena is excited to be making her Lone Star Lyric debut! She is a recent graduate of the Musical Theatre program at Sam Houston State University, where she was seen in Head Over Heels (Mopsa U/S), and Marisol (June). Around Houston she has been seen in August Osage County (June), and Runaways (Ensemble). She would like to thank her family for their continuous support; it means the world.

LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version* is excited to be making her Lone Star Lyric Debut! She recently graduated this May from Stratford High School and will be attending Texas State University with a B.F.A in Musical Theater (Eat ‘em up bobcats!). She’d like to thank God, her family and friends for their support, and the production crew for their belief in her and all their hard work on this fabulous show!

LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version* OPERA: Don Giovanni, Hänsel und Gretel, Così fan tutte, Postcard from Morocco. OPERETTA: Iolanthe, Die Zauberflöte. MUSICAL THEATER: RENT, Mean Girls, Ride the Cyclone, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Bonnie and Clyde, Bright Star, Monstersongs, Tuck Everlasting, Carrie, Anything Goes, CATS. CHAMBER OPERA: Lucy, Albert Herring, Amahl and the Night Visitors.

LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version* During his 45-year international opera career, Joseph Evans has appeared as leading tenor at La Scala, Ireland's Wexford Festival, the English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, the Opera de Nantes, Opéra d'Orléans, Toulouse, Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy, La Fenice in Venice, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and the Grand Theatre de Genève. In the United States, he has sung leading tenor roles during eight seasons with the New York City Opera, 16 productions with the Houston Grand Opera, 32 productions with the Opera Company of Boston, with multiple performances in San Diego, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Palm Beach, and Cleveland. Concert appearances as featured tenor soloist include the New York Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, the Orchestre L'Ile de France in Paris and the Radio-Symphonie of Berlin. Earlier in his career Mr. Evans appeared in more than two dozen musical theater summer stock productions. He has been stage director with the Palm Beach, Austin, Cleveland, Shreveport, and Amarillo opera companies. 28 professional opera and concert recordings have been released by Sony Classics, CBS Masterworks, Cybellia, Gasparo, Naxos, Vai, and Albany labels. He is the author of 2 musical plays and 11 peer reviewed articles in professional journals. His recently published book, A Practical Guidebook for Performers Transitioning into University Teaching, is available on Amazon. He was the C.W. Moores Jr. Endowed Professor of Music and Head of the Voice Studies Area at the Moores School of Music, a division of the Katherine G McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston.

LSL Productions: Souvenirs Cabaret. OPERA: Founder and Former Director of the Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston from 1985-2022. Directed over 140 productions there. OPERA LIBRETTIST: Housewives of Horror, A Room with a View, The School for Scandal. SONG TEXTS: Shadows and Music, Torch Songs for a Pyromaniac. TRANSLATOR: Orpheus in the Underworld (over 50 productions.) ACTOR: Candide, As Is, The Lisbon Traviata, Die Fledermaus. COMPANIES: Houston Grand Opera, Houston Symphony, Des Moines Metro Opera, Utah Opera, Kentucky Opera, Ashlawn-Highland Festival, El Paso Opera, Augusta Opera, San Antonio Opera, Sarasota Opera, Chattanooga Opera, Sacramento Opera, Opera Company of Mid-Michigan, SOLI, Houston Ebony Opera, Houston Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Encompass Music Theatre, Eastern Opera Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera.

LSL Productions (*debut) Follies Concert Version* HOUSTON: As Performer - Sweeney Todd (Ensemble), Tom Jones (Blifil), You Can’t Take It With You (Ed), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Hysterium), A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (Samovar), Godspell (Jeffrey), Hello Again (The Young Thing), A New Brain (Minister), The Rocky Horror Show (Brad), Three Sisters (Tuzenbach), The Threepenny Opera (Jake), Hysteric Studs (Ade), Tapestry: The Music of Carole King (Self), Big River (Ensemble); DIRECTOR: Sex by Mae West, Misery by Stephen King. CHICAGO: You Can’t Take It With You (Ed) and Naked Boys Singing (2002 cast). COMPANIES: The Little Room Downstairs (founding member), Country Playhouse, Curtains, TheatreLab, Main Street Theater, New Heights Theater, University of Houston, Houston Children’s Theatre Festival, Stage Right (Chicago), Bailiwick (Chicago), Windy City Chorus of Chicago (Tenor/Baritone/Featured Soloist). So happy to be back on a Houston stage after a 25-year absence! Feels like home again.

Dr. Aidan Smerud is an active performer in the Houston area, appearing regularly with sacred ensembles, universities, and professional opera and musical theatre companies. He most recently performed with Opera in the Heights as the title character in Don Pasquale, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Sparafucile in Rigoletto. In addition to his performing career, Aidan serves as Director of the School of Fine Arts at West University Methodist Church, where he oversees programming, faculty, and community engagement initiatives. He also teaches at the University of Houston and Lone Star College, instructing courses in musicology and vocal studies. His teaching and administrative work are grounded in a commitment to artistic excellence, vocal health, and meaningful musical experiences for students of all ages. Among his favorite performing credits are Dr. Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, Rucker Lattimore in Cold Sassy Tree, and Emile deBecque in South Pacific, roles that reflect his appreciation for character-driven repertoire across opera and musical theatre.

LSL Productions, (*debut) Breath of Life* OPERA/OPERETTA: Dido and Aeneas, Phoebus and Pan, Die Zauberflöte, Trial by Jury, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gianni Schicchi, Hansel et Gretel, The Old Maid and the Thief, Pomme d’Api, HMS Pinafore, The Merry Widow, Le Nozze di Figaro, Le Coup de Roulis, Carmen, Der Schauspieldirektor, Yeomen of the Guard, Eileen, Land of Smiles, Three Penny Opera, Countess Maritza, Robin Hood, Mikado. MUSICAL THEATRE: Into the Woods, Vénus et Virginie, Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, Fiddler on the Roof, Une Américaine à Paris. CHAMBER WORKS/ORATORIO: Barber Knoxville Summer of 1915, Magic of Broadway, Bach Cantata 134, Scherzi Musicali, Long Live the Queen, An Expat Returns, Don Quixote, La Dame de Monte Carlo, Exultate Jubilate, Handel Messiah, Mozart Grand Mass in C, Haydn The Creation, Poulenc Gloria, Mendelssohn Lauda Sion, Brahms Requiem, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Mozart Requiem, Vivaldi & Bach Magnificat, Mendelssohn Psalm 42, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Caillebotte Dies Irae, Caillebotte La Fiancée du Timbalier. COMPANIES/ORCHESTRAS: Lone Star Lyric, Operativo, Ars Lyrica, Opera in the Heights, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Fort Bend Symphony, St. Marks Chamber orchestra, Tyler Civic Chorale and Ensemble, Songfest, Les Dimanches Musicaux, MADAMIVA, Orchestre Lupinelle, Opera America, Paris Chorale Society, Choeur Vittoria d’Île de France, La Chappelle du Hainaut, Grace Song, Greenbriar Consortium, Ohio Light Opera, Orchestre Pays de la Loire, Ashlawn Opera, Natchez Opera, Lake George Opera, Sarasota Opera, Les Chanteuses Françaises, Les Arts George V, Festival de la Chéronne, Théo Theatre, Theatre Tambour Royale, Les Nuits Musicaux de Boulogne Billancourt, Liederkranz Opera, Brooklyn Opera, Regina Opera. ASSOCIATIONS/AFFILIATIONS: NATS, TMTA, MTNA, Houston Tuesday Musical Club, Sugarland Arts Council Advisory Board, Houston Museum of Natural Science Jingle Tree Entertainment Chair Sugar Land campus, Prince Street Singers. Founder and owner of DoReMusique Studio, teacher, director and producer for lessons and performances in Sugar Land Texas and DMA from CUNY Graduate Center, Dissertation; Martial Caillebotte’s Mélodies and Scènes Lyriques: Analytical Essays and Performance Guide.

LSL Productions: Séance on a Wet Afternoon, Breath of Life, Cantata Café, Gianni Schicchi, Mimi’s Perfect Day, Happy Endings, Palladium Concerts, Lyric Cabaret-1 zillion appearances, Talk Opera, On the Twentieth Century, Lady of Monte Carlo, Clever Gretel, Sorry, Wrong Number, The Masque, Die Operette Mit Schlag!, The Face on the Barroom Floor, Roman Fever. OPERA: La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Lucia, Street Scene, Ballad of Baby Doe, Susannah, Hansel and Gretel, Dialogues des Carmélites. OPERETTA: Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers. MUSICAL THEATER: Li'l Abner, Most Happy Fella, Lady Be Good, Kismet, Out of this World, Of Thee I Sing, Hello Again. CHAMBER OPERA: Der Schauspieldirektor, Secret of Susanne, The Telephone, Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, The Last Leaf. ORATORIO: Bernstein’s MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Mozart’s Requiem & Coronation Mass, Mendelssohn’s Elijah & Lobgesang, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. COMPANIES: Center City Opera Theater, Opera Company of Brooklyn, New Jersey Opera, Opera in the Heights, Shreveport Opera, Main Street Theater, New Heights Theater, Lone Star Lyric, Seagle Music Colony. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Actor’s Equity Association, Houston Tuesday Musical Club, The Lambs; America’s First Professional Theater Club, Houston Philosophical Club. SPECIAL SKILLS: Limericks, dog training, sarcasm translator.

LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version, Breath of Life* OPERA / OPERETTA: Situationships, A Night at the Opera, The Masters: Mozart to Bernstein, Die Operette mit Schlag!, Pirates of Penzance, PIANIST AND VOCALIST, Comunidad de Gracia Katy.

LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version* MUSICAL THEATRE: Once Upon a Mattress, Footloose, [title of show], Jungle Book Kids, Anything Goes, Cats, Shrek THEATRE: Twelve Angry Jurors, Harvey, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Dumb Waiter, The 39 Steps, Too Much Light, Women Who Weave, Our Town, The Shadow Box.

LSL Productions, (*debut) Follies Concert Version* OPERA: The Gondoliers, Cosí fan tutte, Our Town, Alcina. MUSICAL THEATRE: West Side Story, The Wedding Singer, Heathers, Into the Woods, Chicago. CONCERTS: Stageworks: Eternal Amoré, Bound for Broadway - All Stars Holiday Edition, Bound for Broadway. RECORDINGS: Hopeless Romantic, Part of Me. SPECIAL SKILLS: Barbie impressions, eyebrow waves, and tripping on air. Instagram: @nicolemaridan