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Robert Frost a NYC-based music director, pianist, and educator. Select musical director credits include Half the Sky (5th Ave Theatre/Theatre Latte Da); Minor Character (New Saloon/Under the Radar); (An Audio Guide for) Unsung Snails and Heroes (MTC); Miss Blanche Tells It All (NYMF); We Live In Cairo and Cardboard Piano (O’Neill Theater Center); Dory Fantasmagory (NYCCT); Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady (Arkansas Shakespeare Theater). As a pianist and music director, Robert has also worked with Ogunquit Playhouse, Arkansas Rep, Berkshire Theater Group, New Georges, NYU, Celebrity Cruises, Molloy College, New Dramatists, and Lincoln Center. As an educator, Robert has worked with Brown University, Hunter College, LIU Post and Connecticut College. Robert serves on the faculty of New Studio on Broadway at NYU and The O’Neill Theater Center’s National Musical Theatre Institute.

Brad Oscar received a Tony nomination for his role as Nostradamus in Something Rotten! and a previous nomination for his role as Franz Liebkind in Mel Brooks' The Producers where he later went on to play the role of Max Bialystock over 1,400 times on Broadway, on tour, in Las Vegas, and in London's West End. His other Broadway roles include Mrs. Doubtfire, Big Fish, Nice Work if You Can Get It, The Addams Family, Spamalot, Jekyll & Hyde, and Aspects of Love. National Tour roles include The Phantom of the Opera, Young Frankenstein, and Jekyll & Hyde. Off-Broadway roles include Little Shop of Horrors, Broadway Bounty Hunter, Nassim, Sweeney Todd, Forbidden Broadway, Encores!, Annie Get Your Gun, Bells Are Ringing, and Do Re Mi.

Mia Pinero is a New York City-based performer who recently originated the role of Jo in Ken Ludwig's gender-swapped comedy, Lend Me a Soprano at the Alley Theatre. She made her Broadway debut as Maria while understudying in Ivo Van Hove's revival of West Side Story. Mia has performed at some of the most prestigious theaters across the country, including the Guthrie Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, and Paper Mill Playhouse, where she starred alongside Tony-nominee Carolee Carmelo in Songs For a New World. She has been in a number of workshops and developmental readings in NYC, working with artists such as Tony award-winning director Thomas Kail, Tony Award-winning music director Alex Lacamoire, and Drama Desk-winning composer Jimmy Roberts. Her concert credits include venues such as Lincoln Center, the Times Center, the Landmark Theater, and Feinstein's/54 Below where she made her solo debut performance in Growing Up: An Album Release Celebration in Concert! This past spring, she released her solo debut album, Growing Up, which is available on all streaming platforms. 

Irene Sankoff & David Hein are the Olivier-award winning, Tony-nominated, married, Canadian writing team behind the hit Broadway Musical Come From Away, currently playing to over 100 countries on Apple TV+. Before theatres closed due to the pandemic, there were five CFA companies performing internationally, with additional licenses around the world. It is currently playing eight shows a week on Broadway, London, and across North America with Australia’s tour reopening soon and Toronto, Amsterdam, and Argentina opening soon. They are currently developing shows for Disney, Netflix, A Very Good Production, and others. Come From Away won three 2017 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, four Helen Hayes Awards, five Outer Critics Circle Awards, and three Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical. David and Irene were nominated for Tony Awards for Best Book and Score, Grammy Awards for Best Musical Theater Album, won the 2017 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for Best Book and won the Olivier award for Best Musical and Best Score in 2018. The live-filmed version of Come From Away shot onstage at the show’s Broadway home, the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is now streaming globally in over 100 countries on Apple TV+. Irene and David are also continuing to develop the Come From Away movie, both with eOne Entertainment.

Aimée Steele was the Vocal Coach for the Broadway revival West Side Story and the Production Vocal Coach of Girl from the North Country on Broadway. Other current projects include working with cast members of The Visitor at The Public Theater. In addition to her private voice studio, Aimée is on faculty at The National Music Theater Institute at The O’Neill Theater as well as The Performing Arts Project (TPAP) for Theatrical Training. She is a board member of the award-winning Transport Group Theater Company. Past positions include Voice Professor at Pace University and an Adjunct Voice Professor at NYU/Tisch, The New Studio on Broadway. She has taught as an associate voice teacher with Liz Caplan Vocal Studios. Aimée’s students are featured on Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours, and regionally as well as in the recording industry, film, and TV. She has students in the classical world and on opera stages worldwide.