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Zoe Sarnak

Zoe Sarnak is an award-winning composer and lyricist. Works include: Secret Soldiers (with Marsha Norman, Williamstown Theatre Festival Commission),Afterwords (with Emily Kaczmarek, Village Theatre Beta Series Production),Afloat (with Emily Kaczmarek, WP Pipeline Festival),The Years Between, Galileo (with Danny Strong, Michael Weiner and dir. Michael Mayer), Teddy & Max (with Brian Crawley), Empire Records (with Carol Heikkinen), Landed, Alma Mater, and Hold Your Peace (with Emily Kaczmarek, NYFA commissions) and Transport Group’s 20th Century Commission (with Michele Lowe). Awards include: 2018 Larson Award Winner, Fred Ebb Award finalist, two time Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award finalist, NY Stage & Film’s Founders Award finalist, Davenport Contest Winner, WP Lab Artist. Residencies/Commissions include: The Public Theater at Vineyards Arts, Goodspeed, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, McCarter Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Eugene O’Neill Artist Residency, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Music featured: NY Times Live, Lilly Awards, and more. Education: Harvard University.

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Rodney Bush

(Music Direction and Piano) is a New York City based Music Director, Conductor, and Orchestrator. New York: Darling, Afloat, The Loophole, Otherbody, Tiananmen, Lady Monday, Hair, Xanadu, Great Wall,American Idiot.Regional: We Foxes (Goodspeed), Young Frankenstein (Theatre by The Sea), Silver Spoon(Nora Theater Company). Boston Conservatory:Kiss of the Spider Woman, Urinetown, I Love You, Because, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Zombie Prom. Berklee: Ragtime, Americana Tribute, Songs for a New World. He works closely with several music theater composers in New York on new works, labs, workshops, and concerts. He music directs and arranges for Jay Armstrong Johnson, Nick Adams, Claybourne Elder, Eva Noblezada, and Carmen Cusack. B.M. Contemporary Writing and Production, Berklee College of Music.

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Andrew Maguire

(Percussion) is a freelance drummer/percussionist in Oakland. Most recently the drum sub for Hamilton in SF/LA, he is an active member of the Bay Area theatre scene. He is a member of the Magik*Magik Orchestra, with whom he’s joined ODC Dance & Zoe Keating, Gregory Porter, and Pop Up Magazine’s live shows. He is also a house session musician at John Vanderslice’s renowned Tiny Telephone Recording, collaborating on dozens of albums every year. He has played with people as diverse as Van Dyke Parks, the Kings of Convenience, and the Oregon Symphony and tours regularly with Mirah, Vetiver, Meernaa, and more. He studied at the University of Miami Frost School of Music (BM) and the Henry Mancini Institute in LA. Please visit www.andrewmaguire.net 

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Amber Iman

(Vocals) Broadway credits include Shuffle Along and Soul Doctor. Most recently, she played Peggy Schuyler & Maria Reynolds in the first national tour of Hamilton. She’s performed off-Broadway in A Civil War Christmas and RENT. She received a Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical & the Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence for her role as Aldonza in Man Of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre, DC). Amber is a graduate of Howard University (2016 James Butcher Alumni Award), and a proud founding member of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition. More at amberiman.com 

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Gabriel Violett

(Vocals) moved to New York after 2 yrs of university to join the Original Broadway Production of Spring Awakening as Otto. After the show closed, he joined a 6-tenor vocal group called The Broadway Boys which has taken him all across the country to share the art of musical theatre. In years since he’s been afforded many incredible opportunities to perform for and alongside some of the greatest performers and writers in NYC including Zoe Sarnak, one of his favorite people ever. In 2016 Gabriel made it past ‘blind auditions’ and became a featured member of Team Alicia on NBC’s The Voice where he got to live his lifelong dream of becoming part of the zeitgeist of American Reality TV. He sends infinite love to his family, his boyfriend, his cat, his friends, and Beyonce.”