Currently performing in the new Broadway musical Hadestown, Afra is a veteran performer with 8 Broadway credits to her name.

Some of her favorites include SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical where she played Michael/Maid and understudied Disco Donna Summer (performing the role 25 times), In The Heights (Original Broadway Company with Lin-Manuel Miranda), Shuffle Along (Original Broadway Company alongside Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter and Joshua Henry with choreography by Savion Glover), Ghost (Original Broadway Company, understudy Clara/Louise), and Motown (understudy Tina Marie). She also spent a year on the First National Tour of HAMILTON (Angelica Tour) playing San Francisco and Los Angeles.  Additionally, Afra was a Radio City Rockette for 7 years.

Musician, writer, composer, and lyricist, Barb Jungr, has been critically lauded for her insightful and passionate interpretive style, described as “revelatory” by the New York Times.

Her deconstruction/reconstruction of popular songs and unusual and beautiful musical arrangements are characteristics that allow the listener new insights into familiar music. In recent years, Jungr has brought her singular talents to the songbooks of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Jacques Brel, and more, creating the genre of the New American Songbook.

“Brings the same creativity for reinterpretation and re-examination that Ella Fitzgerald brought to Cole Porter.” Wall Street Journal

In her 45-year recording career, alongside many collaborations, she has released 19 solo albums, many for Linn Records, receiving outstanding reviews worldwide and winning many awards. Jungr’s collaboration with John McDaniel has now produced two recordings. In 2011, Jungr received the New York Nightlife Award for Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist, the Backstage Bistro Award for Best International Artist, and Time Out New York's #1 Top Live Cabaret Act for 2011. Her powerful singing style reaches across musical boundaries and defies easy categorization.

Starting out a singer and performer on the alternative cabaret circuit, Barb earned numerous plaudits, including a then-legendary Perrier Award. Never one to sit still, physically or artistically, she has evolved through the years into one of the UK’s finest and most distinctive singers. Her exhilarating vocal style fuses her sense of jazz, blues, and soul with elements of everything from musical theatre to African and Iranian folk singing.

“Bob Dylan, jazz, northern soul, Nina Simone and continental Europe’s cabaret music perform a subtle dance in Jungr’s consciousness.” The Guardian

"The brilliant jazz singer on world-beating form. Barb Jungr proves she’s a genuine jazz marvel….A true musical alchemist. She is truly a marvel, who should not be missed”  **** 4 stars. The Telegraph

In 2017 and 2018 Barb appeared all over the UK and in Europe promoting the re-release of her Bob Dylan “cult classic,” Every Grain of Sand. She appeared in major cities in the USA premiering three new collections with John McDaniel: Sting’s repertoire in Float Like a Butterfly - the Songs of Sting, which is now released as a CD on Kristalyn records; Peaceful Easy Feeling, a collection of 1970s material; and Let The Sun Shine In, a celebration of the songs of 1968.

With a devoted following in the UK, Barb has also built a major fan base in the USA and earned many awards there for her CDs and performances (Broadway World award for Hard Rain in 2014, the Time Out New York Cabaret Nightlife Award for Outstanding Vocalist, and Backstage Award for Best International Artist, to name just a few). 

The Village Voice opined: “One of the best interpreters of Jacques Brel and Bob Dylan anywhere on this angst-ridden planet today.” 

Time Out New York called Barb “One of the world’s great cabaret singers.” 

The New York Times said Jungr “is a fearless iconoclast who dives into the deepest waters of popular song to wrest exotic treasure from the ocean floor.” 

The Wall Street Journal considered her Bob Dylan album Every Grain of Sand, now regarded as a cult classic album, “the most significant vocal album of the 21st century thus far”.  

Barb has toured Australia several times and has appeared regularly in Berlin, and at The Halle Women In Music festival in 2019.

She has worked with many of the finest musicians and composers of the UK. With Mark-Anthony Turnage, she wrote About Water, which she sang at the reopening of the Southbank with the London Sinfonietta. Recently she was the featured artist in a major collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Corby musicians and singers in the Deep Roots Tall Trees project, for which she was artistic director and lead songwriter for seven years.

Barb’s extensive radio and TV appearances in the UK include BBC Radio 4 Start The Week, A Good Read, Saturday Live, Front Row and Woman’s Hour. She is a frequent contributor to Radio 4’s flagship arts programme, Saturday Review. On BBC4 TV she has appeared as an expert on Piaf and Nina Simone and on the singing voice. She was featured in the special Bob Dylan concert filmed at The Barbican Concert Hall for both BBC4 TV and BBC 2. In the USA she is currently featured in an hour-long performance for the nationally shown TV series, The Kate, an arts series on US national PBS, presenting ‘bold performers with something to say’.

Hailed as a singer possessing a “crystalline timbre and intense acting ability,” (L'Arena​, Verona, Italy) Puerto Rican soprano, Carmen Elisa Cancél received high praise for her performances as Countess Almaviva in ​Le Nozze di Figaro​, Puccini's ​Suor Angelica​, Mrs. Fiorentino in Kurt Weill’s ​Street Scene​, Musetta in L​a Bohème, and as Donna Elvira with the Operafestival di Roma production of ​Don Giovanni at the Palazzo della Sapienza in Rome.

As a crossover artist, Ms. Cancél was proclaimed “flawless” and “completely believable” (​Creative Loafing Tampa​) in her performance as the title character of ​Maria’s Song,​ a musical drama focused on the desperate need for immigration reform in the US. Ms. Cancél enjoyed success as Sarraghina in Maury Yeston’s Nine ​with the Bruges Festival in Belgium, where she also performed
in ​Shakespeare Cabaret​, a musical revue of the writings of Shakespeare and his influence on musical theater. She has also performed in ​Fall Pieces, ​at Dixon Place, and a reworked play version of ​Maria's Song a​t Players Theatre in NYC. No stranger to the concert stage, Ms. Cancél has sung the soprano solos in Handel's ​Messiah ​and Pergolesi's ​Stabat Mater ​as well as the Requiems of Fauré and John Rutter. Her singing has taken her throughout the US and to Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and her native Puerto Rico.

As a voice teacher in NYC, Ms. Cancél trains high caliber singers in all genres of music from classical and Broadway styles to world music, jazz, rock, and cabaret. In her six years as Director of Programs and Development for Musical Dream Inc, she created the organization’s Vocal Arts Training Program and forged a youth choir partnership with The Father’s Heart Ministries on the Lower East Side of NYC. She served as the organization’s primary vocal instructor and mentored many talented young singers through its music training programs.

Ms. Cancél holds an Artist Diploma in Voice Performance from the University of South Florida as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Music from Clearwater Christian College. Additionally, Ms. Cancél holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology. She is active in music ministry at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC, and when she is not on the musical stage or in the voice studio, Ms. Cancél enjoys reading, running, cooking with friends, and taking in art exhibitions and musical performances of all kinds. One of her greatest joys comes from volunteering her time with Hope For New York (HFNY) working to diminish social injustice throughout New York City. She is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and Opera America.

Farah Alvin’s Broadway credits include It Shoulda Been You, Nine, The Look of Love, Saturday Night Fever, and Grease! among others. Off-Broadway credits include Window Treatment (cast album), Goldstein, The Last Smoker In America (cast album), The Marvelous Wonderettes (Drama Desk Nomination, cast album), I Love You Because (cast album) and more.

Lots of regional including Papermill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Signature Theatre (Helen Hayes Award), Cape Playhouse, Geva Theater and Alabama Shakespeare.

Her solo show Farah Alvin on Vinyl was named the Best Cabaret Show of 2019 She has performed as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestras of Indianapolis, Cleveland, Detroit, and the National Symphonies of the United States and Canada. She is also occasionally a funny voice on your radio.

Proud member of Actor’s Equity for 25 years, Farah has taught Master Classes at Temple University, Clarke University, Troy University, Oklahoma City University, Broadway Workshop, Broadway Teaching Group and is the Master Teacher for Broadway Rising Stars at New York’s Town Hall. She teaches musical theater performance at CAP 21 at Molloy college in New York City and has been the Region 3 judge for the Kennedy Center America College Theater Festival for the last three years.

Lyricist/singer Jennie Litt is one half of the MAC Award-nominated songwriting and performing team of Alpher & Litt, with her husband, composer/pianist David Alpher, known for their “brilliant” and “enchanting” original cabaret songs, two CDs-worth of which are available on Amazon (Two Apples [2014] and Songs For Sapiosexuals [2018]).

 A fixture on the NYC cabaret circuit for the last decade, Alpher & Litt have taught the art and craft of cabaret performance throughout the five boroughs, in upstate NY, Vassar College, and Boston, and are on the faculty of SummerKeys in Lubec, Maine.  Jennie is also an award-winning fiction writer, with an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop, and her works for theatre have been performed at Circle Rep (NYC) and the American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, MA). Alpher & Litt are currently at work on a musical, The Mitfords At War, about the hell that breaks loose when you don't assassinate Hitler when you have the chance.

JOSHUA ZECHER-ROSS has worked on over 100 productions in New York and around North America as a music director, supervisor, conductor, arranger, and electronic music designer, and has been a vocal and repertoire coach to clients on Broadway and national tours.

Broadway: Be More Chill (conductor sub). Off-Broadway: Sweetee (music director/conductor), Broadway Bounty Hunter (rehearsal pianist). Recently: The Louder We Get directed by Lonny Price at Theatre Calgary. Other NY credits include songs in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and many shows at clubs and venues around NYC. Other regional credits include Barrington Stage Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, George Street Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, Sharon Playhouse, The Village Theatre in Seattle, WA, and The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan, Illinois. Joshua is a musical theatre instructor at the NY Film Academy and at Actor Therapy, and he holds a Bachelor of music in vocal performance from the Steinhardt School at New York University.

Karen Mason has starred on Broadway, Off-Broadway, television, and recording: and "has few peers when it comes to ripping the roof off with her amazing voice that knows no bounds!"

Karen is a twelve -time MAC Award winner and has won the MAC Award for Major Female Vocalist of the Year for six consecutive years. She has also won the 2006 Nightlife Award for Major Female Vocalist and has three Bistro Awards.

Ms. Mason most recently garnered rave reviews starring as The Queen of Hearts in WONDERLAND on Broadway. She originated the role of Tanya on Broadway in Abba's MAMMA MIA!, and was awarded a 2002 Drama Desk nomination as Best Actress.

Her other leading roles include Norma Desmond in SUNSET BOULEVARD, which she performed to critical acclaim and standing ovations on Broadway and in Los Angeles for three years; Velma von Tussel in the final Broadway company of HAIRSPRAY; "Monotony" singer, Mazeppa in JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY; Rosalie in CARNIVAL (another Drama Desk nomination); plus featured roles in Broadway's TORCH SONG TRILOGY; and PLAY ME A COUNTRY SONG. Karen won the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in AND THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND, and starred Off-Broadway in her own show KAREN MASON SINGS BROADWAY, BEATLES AND BRIAN.

Her television appearances include the hit dramas ED and LAW & ORDER: SVU. Film credits include SLEEPING DOGS LIE and A CHORUS LINE. In regional theatre, Karen starred in the 1st National Tour of A CHRISTMAS STORY as Miss Shields, in the world premiere of the stage production of WHITE CHRISTMAS, (playing the Rosemary Clooney role at St. Louis Muni Opera), SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM (Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida), GYPSY (Sundance Theatre in California), the world premiere of ONE TOUGH COOKIE (Apple Tree Theatre in Chicago), HEARTBEATS (Goodspeed Opera House in NY) and COMPANY (Huntington Theatre in Boston). Most recently in New York, Karen starred in the one-woman musical about Dorothy Parker YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE.

Karen has headlined Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Feinstein's at The Regency, Rainbow & Stars, the Algonquin, Arci' Place, The Supper Club and The Ballroom in NYC; The Cinegrill and the UCLA/ASCAP Concert Series in Los Angeles; The Plush Room in San Francisco; and Davenport's in Chicago. She has shared concert stages with Michael Feinstein, Jerry Herman, Chita Rivera, Luciano Pavarotti, Rosemary Clooney, Liza Minnelli, and John Kander & Fred Ebb, among others. Karen has given concerts in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Brazil, Scotland, Tokyo and Osaka. Her starring symphonic performances include The Long Beach Symphony Orchestra with Maestro Michael Berkowitz, The Philly Pops with Peter Nero, The New York Pops with Skitch Henderson, The Oklahoma Philharmonic with Joel Levine, the premier performance of The Chicagoland Pops, The Indianapolis Philharmonic, and the St. Louis Symphony with John McDaniel.

Her highly acclaimed recordings include her newest single, IT'S ABOUT TIME, written by Paul Rolnick and Shelly Markham; her 2009 MAC AWARD-winning Right Here/ Right Now, 2005’s The Sweetest of Nights, the MAC Award-winning When The Sun Comes Out, as well as three other CD’s: Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!, recorded live at the West Bank Café; Better Days, featuring songs by her longtime composer/arranger, Brian Lasser (including the 1998 Emmy Award-winning song "Hold Me"); and Not So Simply Broadway. Karen has been featured on the soundtrack of the original cast CD of Wonderland; Jeffrey (Varese Sarabande), the studio cast recording of Wonderful Town (JAY Records), the original cast album of And The World Goes Round (RCA Victor), The Child In Me, Vol. 1 (Harbinger Records), and Lost in Boston ll (Varese Sarabande).

Lisa Asher is a New York Nightlife Award Winner, Bistro Award Winner and MAC Award Winner. She has appeared as an actress and featured vocalist in numerous theatrical and concert venues around the country.

​​Lisa's recent theatrical credits include playing the Woman in Woody Guthrie's American Song both at The Marin Theatre Company and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Barb in Motherhood, The Musical at The Downtown Cabaret Theatre;  Jessica in the NYMF production of Austentatious (for which she received  a very nice mention in The New York Times); Bess Earp in I Married Wyatt Earp at Bristol Riverside Theatre and the world premiere of Almost Heaven, Songs & Stories of John Denver for the Tony Award Winning Denver Center Theater Company.

​Lisa can be heard on the original cast recording of Almost Heaven, Songs & Stories of John Denver as well as the definitive recording of Woody Guthrie's American Song, live from The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, CA.

Lisa toured nationally with the Broadway show The Who's Tommy and appeared in the Off-Broadway sold out production of Woody Guthrie's American Song, which received a Drama Desk Nomination for Best Musical. Other credits include: the dual roles of Minnie and Joan in the East Coast premiere of the musical Bingo at The Adirondack Theatre Festival; the role of Topeka in Christmas At The Swingtime Canteen (which required that she musical direct, sing, act and conduct while providing piano accompaniment for the show) at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina; and, one of her favorite roles, that of Doatsey Mae in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas in Chicago.

​Lisa was featured in a concert tribute to Woody Guthrie produced by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where she shared the stage with such rock and folk notables as Bruce Springsteen, Indigo Girls, Ani DeFranco, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie.

 Ms. Asher is the recipient of a New York Nightlife Award, a MAC Award, and a Back Stage Bistro Award for outstanding vocalist in recognition of her solo work in cabarets in New York. Her critically acclaimed debut CD, Let The Mystery Be, was nominated for a MAC Award for Recording of the Year. Lisa's newest CD, Lisa Asher Live at The Duplex, is a faithful recording of her highly successful show that enjoyed a lengthy run at the famed Greenwich Village nightclub. Ms. Asher has performed numerous times for the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Cabaret Conventions in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and at Town Hall in NYC.  She was featured as part of their 20th Anniversary Gala performances at Lincoln Center as well. Lisa has worked for both Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Holland America Cruise Lines as a featured vocalist.

​Lisa's national television debut was in a solo vocal performance on the Emmy Award-winning The Rosie O'Donnell Show.

​A veteran studio musician, Ms. Asher can be heard on television themes, audio projects for numerous publishing companies and commercial and educational children's products for Sesame Street and Berlitz.

Michael Holland is a composer/lyricist/arranger/orchestrator/producer/music director who has won 4 or 5 MAC Awards (they are under the bed somewhere and he can’t remember), 2 Bistro Awards, and some other things.

Holland was orchestrator/vocal arranger/recording co-producer for the Broadway revival of Godspell. He composed original music for Clue: A New Comedy at Cleveland Playhouse in 2020 (touring in 2021...maybe? Please...?). In 2019, Holland served as Music Director/ Orchestrator/Vocal Arranger for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s acclaimed actor/musician production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, as well as Arranger/Associate MD for We Are the Champions: The Junior Fellows Sing Queen at Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. He was the orchestrator for Pure Country at Theatre Under The Stars, Houston, which was to have played in Spring 2020, now indefinitely postponed.

As composer/lyricist, shows include: Twelve Angry Men at Theatre Latté Da, Minneapolis (scheduled for May-June 2020; now postponed until 2021); You’re Gonna Hate This (Feinstein’s 54 Below and Joe’s Pub); Hurricane (NYMF); and Believe in Me... a Bigfoot musical (fringeNYC), among others. He has composed incidental music for: Bay Street Theatre; The Old Globe; The Alley Theatre; Bucks County Playhouse; Cape Playhouse; Colorado Shakespeare; Dallas Theatre Center; and Playwrights Horizons.

Recordings include Beach Toys Won’t Save You and Darkness Falls, available on most streaming platforms, as well as a few out-of-print ones. He also recorded the world premier of “Another Day in the Modern World” on The Maury Yeston Songbook (ps classics).
Holland was one half (with Karen Mack) of Gashole!, which terrorized cabaret audiences with irreverent pop mashups and nonstop commentary for 12 (count ‘em) years, and has served as musical director for countless cabaret extravaganzas in NYC and beyond. He has been on several Arrangement Experience excursions with Singnasium, and in the fall of 2019, joined Lennie Watts for a songwriting workshop with students at Brooklyn Jesuit Prep in Brooklyn.

He also writes bios.

Mykal Kilgore is an award winning actor and NAACP Image Award nominated singer/songwriter. His debut album “A Man Born Black” is a gumbo of American roots music and modern feels that highlight his ability to go from Broadway Showtune Storytelling to Soul and Jazz scatting to Gospel.

Mykal was most recently seen on his Born Black Tour and with India Arie on her Worthy Tour. Theatre credits include The Witch in Into The Woods at Barrington Stage Company, The Who’s Tommy at The Kennedy Center, Songs For A New World at Encores! Off-Center, Motown the Musical and Hair on Broadway, as well as Book of Mormon (1st National Tour.) He has also appeared in TV/Film with roles in NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar and The Wiz Live and Collateral Beauty. Mykal’s racked up 10M plus views on social media with his videos from Scott Bradlee’s Post-Modern Jukebox (PMJ) and his viral “Reclaiming My Time” video.

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SHARON MCNIGHT made her Broadway debut in 1989 in “Starmites”, creating the role of Diva. She received a Tony award nomination as “Best Leading Actress in a Musical” for her performance, and is the recipient of the coveted Theatre Worlds Award for “Outstanding Broadway Debut”. New York magazine’s John Simon said “Sharon McNight is a winner” and Al Hirschfeld did a caricature of her.

The singer/comedienne’s regional credits include Amanda McBroom’s “Heartbeats” at the Pasadena Playhouse, and an award winning Dolly in “Hello, Dolly” at the Peninsula Civic Light Opera (a role she repeated in her hometown, Modesto). Sharon was Sister Hubert in “Nunsense” in Los Angeles and San Francisco, where she received the Bay Area Critics Circle award for “Best Performance in a Musical”. She is the narrator of the documentary, “There That Night,” the story of the Provincetown, Massachusetts fire, and was featured in the A & E documentary, “It’s Burlesque”, for her research on Mae West and Sophie Tucker.

“McNight continues to be one of the wonders of the musical stage” -Los Angeles Times

McNight began her career in San Francisco where she received her Master of Arts degree in directing from San Francisco State. She taught a City College of S.F.. has been a master teacher at the Eugene O’Neill Center and is currently on the faculty of the Cabaret Conference at Yale University. She was chosen as one of the 50 most influential people in cabaret for 2010.“A tireless performer who will drop everything to perform in any benefit with a cause, the Tony-nominated McNight can sing anything and make it her own” – NiteLifeExchange.com

She has played from Moose Hall to Carnegie Hall and anywhere the check doesn’t bounce. She has won 6 San Francisco Cabaret Gold awards, 3 Cable Car awards, a MAC award, a Bistro award, and received a Nightlife award from New York’s critics for her Best Musical Comedy show, “Ladies, Compose Yourselves!”, featuring songs by “living” female composers. Other songs include “Betty, Betty, Bette”, celebrating the screen legends Grable, Hutton & Davis; “Songs To Offend Almost Everyone”, a throwback to the party records of the 50’s mixed with political and social satire; “Gone, But Not Forgotten”, a tribute to the late ladies of stage & screen – Merman, Martha Raye, Madeline Kahn, Patsy Cline, & Judy Garland. In contrast is “The Sophie Tucker Songbook” which contains the music of the one-woman show based on the show business legend. The “Songbook” debuted at New York’s Rainbow & Stars as part of the ASCAP Sunday night showcase. Since then, she developed it into a one-woman musical, “Red Hot Mama”, which was workshopped at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Lucille Lortell’s White Barn Theatre, and finished a successful three month run Off-Broadway at the York Theatre. “Here is an extremely versatile artist…..she is tireless……first rate vocalist, and totally in command of her audience.” -Variety New York

She has six solo recordings to her credit. Her eclectic repertoire ranges from blues to country (yes, she yodels) to good old-fashioned entertainment. She is most noted for her movie reenactment of The Wizard of OZ and for being one of the few real women to impersonate Bette Davis.

As an only child, her parents kept her busy with all kinds of lessons: ballet, tap, hula, social dancing, flute and piano. She is single and lives in Hollywood. She has been at the forefront in the fight against AIDS since the early eighties, and was featured in Randy Shilts’ book “And The Band Played On”. She was chosen twice as the honorary chair of the San Francisco AIDS Emergency Fund, and was one of two heterosexual women chosen as the Grand Marshall of San Francisco’s Gay Parade.

She says the greatest day of her life was the day she quit smoking.