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Jeffery Keilholtz
Jeffery is currently Senior Vice President of Broadway Licensing Global, an executive team member, and Emmy Award-nominee. He is grateful to wear many hats for one of the fastest-growing companies in Broadway entertainment. He is privileged to lead a talented team responsible for business development, sales, and marketing, across five diverse imprints at the center of art and commerce.
Jeff also oversees go-to-market strategy, revenue diversification, content acquisition and distribution, and licensing for the ground-breaking streaming platform, Broadway On Demand.
Before all of this, Jeff oversaw global communications, marketing partnerships, and business proposal architecture for a $250MM corporation, whereby he was directly responsible for the business growth of a blue-chip sales portfolio, valued at more than $100MM.
Brent Comer
Brent is a 2014 graduate of TJ High School who participated in the theatre focus. He earned a degree in musical theatre from James Madison University. After graduating, he joined a touring production of "Les Miserables."
Most recently, Brent has been on Broadway in the Tony Award winning musical "The Outsiders."
Read about Brent's Broadway debut in this article by the Frederick News Post
Morgan was part of the AFA Art focus and then attended SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). Since then, she has been a freelance photographer in LA. Links to her press and work are below.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/style/morgan-maher-photography.html
https://www.nylon.com/life/morgan-mahers-girls-in-bed-photo-book
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/tiktok-superstar-alix-earle-welcomes-us-to-her-miami
https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/michael-shannon-emmys-2024-balenciaga-suit
https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/lst-everything-morgan-maher-video-premiere
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/dara-dresses-up-downtowns-luminaries-in-emporio-armani
https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/stella-rose-gahan-singer-music-album-interview
Hailed for her “mezzo-tinted lower register rising to a wonderful warm top," (The Washington Post) American soprano Colleen Daly skillfully balances engagements on both the concert and opera stages. Recent and upcoming engagements include Britten’s Turn of the Screw with Opera Baltimore, Mozart’s Così fan tutte with Opera Delaware, Baker’s Wife in Annapolis Opera’s Into the Woods, and joining Baltimore Choral Arts for Carmina Burana.
Widely recognized for her masterful concert performances, in recent seasons she has appeared as the soprano soloist for both Dvořák’s Stabat Mater (Vancouver Symphony) and his Te Deum (Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral), both Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Brahms’ Requiem with New York’s Trinity Wall Street, Verdi’s Messa di Requiem with Santa Barbara Symphony and the Bozeman Symphony, Martin’s In Terra Pax with the Grant Park Music Festival, and both Orff’s Carmina Burana and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with the Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center. Ms. Daly debuted internationally with the Calgary Philharmonic as Madeline in Philip Glass’ setting of The Fall of the House of Usher and was immediately reengaged for Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.
Colleen is an avid educator, in demand as a voice coach and teacher for both classical and music theater repertoire. She is the studio manager of Red Bridge Studios at Historic Savage Mill and has taught at several renowned organizations, including Young People's Summer Stock and Young Artists of America. Ms. Daly’s diverse skills in the arts are also demonstrated in her leadership positions, including serving as the Artistic Director of the St. Louis Church Concert Series. Appointed in 2020, Colleen has shepherded the Series through the past two seasons, programming both digital and in-person events to great acclaim, while supporting her local artistic community during the global pandemic.
Christian Lane
Winner of the 2011 Canadian International Organ Competition and director of Boston Organ Studio, Christian Lane is one of North America’s most accomplished, respected, and dynamic concert organists and teachers.
Noted for his "gratifying musical maturity, demonstrated through playing that is suave, elegant, and exciting (The American Organist),” he is a frequent recitalist in North America, Europe, and Asia.
As founding director of Boston Organ Studio, Christian Lane cultivates the largest private organ studio in the United States. In doing so, he teaches students from all of Boston’s major universities and leads them in group learning experiences, including annual international study tours.
Committed to supporting his profession, Mr. Lane has served in several leadership roles within the American Guild of Organists, most notably as national vice-president from 2014–16. An avid proponent of new music, he has commissioned and premiered works of Nico Muhly and Carson Cooman, among many others. Critical acclaim welcomed his two solo recordings and he is featured on several further discs as choral accompanist.
Mr. Lane holds degrees from Yale University and the Eastman School of Music, and has served in many notable positions, including at Harvard University and Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (New York). In 2018–19, he served as Visiting Professor of Organ at McGill University in Montréal, Canada.
Christian Lane recently joined the faculty of Towson University and is currently Director of Music at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baltimore. At Emmanuel, he leads the church’s professional chamber choir in liturgy and concert, and manages an extensive concert series of more than 30 events each year. He is represented by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.
Jessica Cummings
Jessica Cummings is the Director of Choirs at Stevenson University, where she directs the University Singers. Before this position, she was an Adjunct Professor at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where she prepared pre-service music educators to teach elementary general music and choir in secondary schools. She has taught K-12 general music and choir and supervised student teachers at the Peabody Institute and Towson University. She was also the Associate Choral Director of the Frederick Children’s Chorus, where she directed the Chamber Singers.
Choirs under Cummings’s direction have been invited to perform at MMEA Conferences, PBS and NBC specials, Carnegie Hall, and numerous adjudications, consistently receiving Superior ratings. Past students have been selected to sing in All-County Choirs, All-State Choirs, the NAfME All-Eastern Honor Choir, and the NAfME All-National Choir. Mrs. Cummings holds a Master's in Music Education from Florida State University (FL) and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from DePaul University (IL). Mrs. Cummings is a sought-after guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician and has presented across multiple states and in Hong Kong. She was nominated for Who’s Who Among American Teachers and was featured in the 5th annual Choral Directors of Note article in the Choral Director Magazine. She is a past President of the Maryland Choral Educators Association and a member of ACDA and NAfME.
Eric Trio
Eric Trio currently teaches kindergarten through fourth grade general music at St. Clairsville Elementary in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He has a combined span of 19 years in music education with prior teaching experience in instrumental music at the secondary and primary levels. He has completed his master’s degree in music education at Shepherd University and a bachelor’s degree in music education at West Virginia University.
Mr. Trio has served as an army bandsman in the 249th Army National Guard Band in Morgantown, West Virginia from 2001-2006. He is also an active conductor throughout the Ohio Valley area where he resides. He has also completed all three levels of Orff-Schulwerk teacher education courses at the University of Kentucky in addition to a graduate certificate. He has presented at his local Orff chapter where he served as president. Mr. Trio has presented at the collegiate level and co-presented at the West Virginia state music educators conference. He has professional memberships currently with AOSA, OMEA and NAfME.
Colleen Hayes
Colleen Hayes is an Adjunct Faculty in the School of Dance at George Mason University teaching Beginning and Intermediate Broadway Jazz. Her 10-year performing career began with the first national tour of Catch Me If You Can. Regional credits include Crazy for You (Patsy) at The Rev Theatre Company, The Producers at Fulton Opera House, and Roaring 20s for DC Lotto (tv commercial). Other NYC credits include Nickelodeon’s Butterbean’s Café, Corn and Peg, Paw Patrol, and Dora the Explorer where she currently works as an audio book narrator for their digital app.
In addition to her time in New York City, she has worked locally at theatres including Signature Theatre and Olney Theatre Center. Her Signature credits include the world premiere of the musical Diner (music by Sheryl Crow, book by Barry Levinson, directed by Kathleen Marshall), Helen Hayes Award winning Cabaret, Helen Hayes nominated West Side Story (Velma), and Crazy for You (Patsy). She also appeared in Helen Hayes award winning A Chorus Line (Sheila) and How to Succeed… (Hedy LaRue) at Olney Theatre Center.
In addition to performing, Colleen travels along the east coast as a guest teacher and choreographer for high schools, dance competitions, conventions, and universities. She choreographed the first All County Dance Festival celebrating high school dancers across Frederick County.
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