THE KIDS LEFT, THE DOG DIED, NOW WHAT?

At 50, when the kids left and the dog died, Carole decided you either get better at your job or you better well do something else. She had been an interior designer for 30 years when she decided to go back to school to study music (something she always loved). Carole started with music appreciation then went on to jazz studies where she got hooked on chord changes…next came music theory and composition. She started composing songs and learned the formula for how to construct lyrics. One course led to another and finally her professor suggested she get a second degree in music. Her reply was, “I already have one degree-this time I want an education.”

THE KIDS LEFT, THE DOG DIED, NOW WHAT? is her second musical. The first “COMIN OF AGE” was equity-produced by the Attic Theatre in Detroit.

After a 29-year stint in a Wall Street related business, Sharon began her producing career in January 2006. Off-Broadway credits include I LOVE YOU BECAUSE (February 2006) and the upcoming MASKED (July 2007). This past year, she joined GFour Productions as an independent Associate Producer, on RESPECT: A MUSICAL JOURNEY OF WOMEN in Cleveland (September 2006), Boston (October 2006) and Atlanta (March 2007); as well as the Minnapolis production of MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL(May 2007). During this past year, she also earned credits as a Producing Associate on Broadway with HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS(Holiday 2006) and LEGALLY BLONDE(April 2007). She is currently working on the Toronto production of DIRTY DANCING October 2007)â€"and a new musical comedy for a new generation of theater goers: MAMA’S Not MY REAL NAME.

Hilary's recent highlights: receiving a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Director (Moby Dick, also nominated for Outstanding Play and Featured Actor); four MTC Directing Fellowships, Assistant Directing with Lynne Meadow (Moonlight and Magnolias, The American Pilot, Our Leading Lady) and Mark Brokaw (Reckless); being a Drama League Directing Fellow; and Associate Directing Moonlight and Magnolias (MTC/Alliance Theatre). Regional: Peter Pan (CT Repertory), A Real Cowboy and Romantic (NJ Repertory), A Little Night Music (AD, Kennedy Center, Dir. Mark Brokaw), and Griller (AD, Goodman Theatre, Dir. Robert Falls). Broadway: Assistant Director on Reckless, Aida (Dir. Robert Falls), Titanic (Dir. Richard Jones), assisting David Henry Hwang on Flower Drum Song. Member SSDC. www.HilaryAdams.com

Rick Hip-Flores has written music and lyrics to Neon Mirage (Humana Festival, 2006), My New York (Vital Theater), Dido and Aeneas (Prospect Theater), and the Columbia Varsity Show. He has also composed scores forTartuffe and As You Like It (Worth Street Players). As musical director, Rick was recently seen at the Zipper Theatre in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well... Other New York and regional credits include Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway), Singin in the Rain (North Shore Music Theatre), Breaking Up is Hard to Do (Actors’ Playhouse), Shakespeare on Broadway (Symphony Space), 8 by Tenn (Hartford Stage), Henry and Mudge, and A Christmas Carol (TheatreworksUSA). Rick has been a resident musical director for Musicals Tonight, interpreting lesser known works by Porter and Kern. He also teaches theater composition at AMDA and is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Workshop.

Directed and choreographed Evita at the Foothils Theatre in Worcester Mass., The 2002 Astaire Awards, the The Broadway Shows of 1949 at Towne Hall. For the Drama Dept He directed and choreographed the Tupperware Party, Tapestry and A Night of Burlesque. Mr. Bianca received critical acclaim for his choreography for The It Girl at the York Theatre, which he recreated for the previously mentioned Foothills Theatre. Other choreographic accomplishments include Stravinsky's A Soldiers Tale for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Reopening of the Palace Theatre in Stamford Conn, Michael Dansicker's Twenty Fingers,Twenty Toes also at the York, and many other regional shows and events. Robert is pleased to be working with Hilary Adams again (he choreographed Once Upon A Mattress for her at the New Acting Co).

Yoshi is currently working on the double bill of
“L’Enfant” and “Gianni Schicchi” for Seattle Opera,
"Die Entführung aus dem Serail” (Anchorage Opera), and
“Peter & Wolf” (Birmingham Children’s Theatre). His
other design credits include “Iowa 08” (Vineyard
Theatre), “Falstaff” (Opera North), Madama Butterfly”
(Anchorage Opera), “Side by Side by Sondheim”
(Berkshire Theatre Festival), “Julius Caesar”
(Connecticut Repertory Theatre), “Peter & Wolf”
(Birmingham Children’s Theatre), and “Gianni Schicchi”
and “Suor Angelica” (both at UCLA). He often assists
John Lee Beatty and Donald Eastman on Broadway and New
York City Opera productions. Recent assisting credits
include “The Color Purple â€" National Tour”, “Crazy
Mary”, and “Margaret Garner”. As a sketch artist and
model maker, he served for Production Design Group on
various corporate design projects, such as Oprah
Winfrey Show, CNN studios, and GM auto shows.

LAURA CROW is an internationally known costume designer of some 300 productions as far away as Japan and Micronesia as well as in England, Europe and the United States. Best known for her poetic realism designs for Lanford Wilson’s productions on Broadway, Laura was the resident designer for Circle Rep for 13 years in New York City. Awards include: Drama Desk, OBIE, Villager, Maharam and American Theatre Wing Awards (New York Broadway and Off-Broadway), three Drama-Logue Awards and one BackStage West Garland Award (Los Angeles), Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago), Bay Area Critics Award (San Francisco) and four ZONI Awards (Phoenix). Four times, Laura's work was part of the American Theatre Design exhibition at the prestigious Prague Quadrennial. A professor at the University of Connecticut, Ms. Crow is still actively designing for professional theatre. Her last work with Hilary Adams was on Julian Rad’s adaptation of “Moby Dick,” at the Ohio Theatre, NYC. Laura Crow is head of the Costume Working Group for OISTAT, which serves as a conduit for Costume Designers from around the world, and she is proud to have been a Fulbright Research Scholar in 2002, researching Multi-Cultural Festival Dress in Southeast Asia.

Lighting Designer on 21 Off and Off-Off Broadway plays including Drama Desk Nominated Moby Dick, Kaleidoscope and 70 Scenes of Halloween, and 87 concerts including Yoko Ono, Low, Yo-Yo Ma, Lou Reed, Hoovercraft, Sonic Youth, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Vernon Reid. Recent Highlights: lighting designer for the Jazz Awards hosted by Paul Shaffer (HBO and BET); Director and Lighting Designer for Live at the Knitting Factory, BET on Jazz; Sex and Sealing Wax (Video Design, MITF), Moby Dick (Lighting & Sound Design); P.R. Man, (Video Design); The Boy Who was a Bird (Lighting Design); After the Storm (Video Design); New Day (Video Design). Rad also produced the feature film The Four Corners of Nowhere (Sundance Film Fest 1995) and The Franklin Cover-up (Roy Dean Documentary Award).

Adam is excited to be working again with Hilary Adams. He recently completed work as a stage manager with the Juilliard School in New York as well as stage managing the world premiere of Behave Yourself with the Adirondack Theatre Festival. Other productions include Falstaff with Opera North, NH, Frankie and Johnny with Hartford Stage Company, CT, and Rough Magic with the Hangar Theatre, NY.

Jessica Besecker is a graduate of the Stage Management program at Boston University. Professionally, she has worked with the Huntington Theatre Company, the Boston Early Music Festival, and most recently, Boston Midsummer Opera. Favorite credits as a stage manager include: La Boheme (BU Opera Institute), A History of the American Film, and the workshop premiere of Brendan (BU School of Theatre).

Ron Bagden trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Recent: Mimi Le Duck off-Broadway w/Eartha Kitt and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. B’way/National Tour: Amadeus, Cogsworth in the NT of Beauty and the Beast; Pam Gem’s Stanley (Circle in the Square); A Christmas Carol (Madison Square Garden). Off-Broadway includes Dorothy Parker’s The Ladies of the Corridor; My Night With Reg (The New Group); three plays at the Public Theater; Joe’s Pub; created the role of Bob Wood in Art Speigelman’s three-panel opera, Drawn to Death. Regional includes Florida Studio Theatre; Connecticut Repertory Theatre (Peter Pan dir. Hilary Adams); the title role in The Final Descent of Edgar Allan Poe at the Cleveland Play House; Syracuse Stage; Portland Stage Company (Craig Lucas’ musical play, Three Postcards); Delaware Theatre Company. Film/TV: Reckless; Pictures of Baby Jane Doe; As The World Turns; All My Children.

This native of Long Island is thrilled to finally be performing in NY! She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and an avid sports fan. Her credits include the National Tour of Grease (Sandy) as well as regional productions of The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), Respect: A Musical Journey (Faith), Oliver (Bet), The Sound of Music (Liesl), A Chorus Line (Kristine) and Fiddler on the Roof (Chava). Mom, Dad (my guardian angel) and Melia: “Thank you for the music, for giving it to me.”

NATIONAL TOUR: All Shook Up (first national, original cast), ensemble, understudied and performed the role of Mayor Matilda Hyde; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Mrs. Potts; The Phantom of the Opera, ensemble, understudied and performed the role of Madame Giry. OFF-BROADWAY: Menopause, the Musical, Soap Star (original cast); Carrin Beginning; Hysterical Blindness. NYMTF-05 Bump in the Road. REGIONAL: numerous, including creating the role of Liz in Convenience, (original cast CD) at Geva Theater; as well as the original San Francisco productions of Sunday in the Park with George, Forbidden Broadway and Nunsense; FILM: Homecoming. TELEVISION: One Life to Live. M.J. received her M.F.A. in acting from American Conservatory Theater. Her longest running engagement to date is three years with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the role of Captain.

2ND NATIONAL COMPANIES of Cats and Les Miserables.
REGIONAL CREDITS include: Annie in Heartbeats; Leona in Do I Hear A Waltz?; Sharon in Finianâ€â„¢s Rainbow; Louie Strenzil-Muir in the world premiere of Mountain Days; Tomfoolery; Tune the Grand Up, the music of the legendary Jerry Herman and her multi-award-winning performance as Liza in Lady in the Dark which she later reprised in Beijing, China, the first-ever-produced American musical theatre in the People's Republic.
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS: Mountain Days, Dawgs!
FILM: Out On A Limb starring Matthew Broderick TELEVISION: Hawaii Five-0, Galactica, From Here to Eternity, Buck Rogers, and TJ Hooker as well as commercials for Chevrolet, Legg's Pantyhose, IAMS Pet Foods, and many others.
RADIO/TV VOICEOVER: Challenge Butter, Amazon.com, Sprint, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, USC, San Jose Mercury News, Harrah's, America West Airlines, Diamond Walnuts, Verizon, ABC, NBC, Visa, Clorox, and countless others.

After a career in education, Mr. Shelle followed his passion for acting and singing, and has since played principal and leading roles in dozens of shows in New York and regionally, including the first national tour of Titanic; Richard Harris’ international tour of Camelot; The Taming of the Shrew (Milwaukee Shakespeare); Park Your Car in Harvard Yard â€" Centenary Stage Company; Requiem for William; Code of the West; Beyond the Horizon; A Man for All Seasons; Our Town; The Sisters Rozensweig; Shenandoah; The Most Happy Fella; South Pacific; Brigadoon; 1776; She Loves Me; The Rothchilds; Radio City Christmas Show (Myrtle Beach); Captains Courageous; Fiddler on the Roof; Zombies from the Beyond (critically acclaimed off-Broadway show and CD); and on TV in “Seventh Heaven,” “Law and Order,” “The Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” and on film in Kate and Leopold, starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman.