With “a voice like a beacon of hope” (Seattle Times), vocalist Jimmie Herrod brings singular power and expressivity to his globe-trotting career as a singer, songwriter, and entertainer on stage and screen. Herrod first came to worldwide prominence as a finalist on the NBC nationally broadcast television show America’s Got Talent earning the rare “Golden Buzzer” recognition from actress Sofia Vergara and returning the following year on the AGT All-Stars series. As a solo artist, Herrod has appeared to critical and audience acclaim with the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he performed as a featured soloist for the globally televised PBS Joni Mitchell Songbook concert, sharing the stage with musical luminaries like Renée Fleming, Lalah Hathaway, Raul Midón, and Aoife O’Donovan. He has also performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, and Oregon Symphony.

Myles Frost is the winner of the 2022 Tony Award^® for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance in MJ The Musical. He made history, becoming the youngest solo actor to ever win the award. He is a nominee for the 65th Annual Grammy Awards^® Best Musical Theater Album as principal vocalist for MJ The Musical’s cast album. Frost is also a winner of the 76th Annual Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut Performance during the 2021–2022 theatrical season, a winner of the 2022 Chita Rivera Award, a 2022 Drama League Award Nominee, a 2022 Drama Desk Award Nominee, and a 2022 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee. He is also a recipient of the Next Generation of Heavy Hitters as presented in Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood Impact Report 2022, an honoree for Ebony’s 2022 Power 100 List, an honoree of The Root.com’s 2022 100 Most Influential Black Americans, 2022’s HBCU Top 30 Under 30, Bowie State University Dean’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Student Achievement, and the Senate Resolution by the State of Maryland.

Credits include: New York: Goddess workshop (Zawadi); Grace workshop (Jackie). Regional: Goddess (Grio) at Berkeley REP. Signature: Gun and Powder (Flo); Blackbeard (Kali Maa); Jesus Christ Superstar (Simon); Broadway in the Park; Signature Vinyl. Ford’s: Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife); The Wiz (Glinda/Dorothy u/s). Round House: School Girls (Ama); Caroline, or Change (Dottie). Theater J: Intimate Apparel (Mayme); Gloria: A Life (Flo Kennedy). Kennedy Center: Me…Jane (Maisie); Chasing the Wind (Abby). Imagination: Cinderella (Cinderella); Charlie Brown (Lucy). Artscentric: L5Y (Cathy); AIDA (Aida); MEMPHIS (Felicia). Center Stage: Glorious World (Lady 3). ATMTC: James and the Giant Peach (Sponge). Studio: SILENCE! (Ardelia). OTC: Co-writer of The Joy That Carries You (2023 Winner of the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical); Dessa Rose Concert (Dessa); Children of Eden Concert (Eve); Avenue Q (Ensemble). 

Andrew Barth Feldman is a multi-talented actor and musician known best for his Broadway role as the title character in the Tony Award^®–winning musical Dear Evan Hansen. He can be seen as the breakout star of the summer in the comedy No Hard Feelings alongside Jennifer Lawrence, which was released in June.

After winning the 2018 National High School Musical Theater Award (the Jimmy Award) as a high school sophomore, Barth Feldman made his Broadway debut and quickly rose to fame with his talent and charisma. He later went on to star on-screen in Netflix’s A Tourist’s Guide to Love with Rachael Leigh Cook and the Disney+ hit show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series alongside Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett. When he’s not on stage or on-screen, he’s a passionate musician; he is currently working on his debut album, with his song “College Break-Up” recently released to rave reviews.

Additionally, Barth Feldman runs a theatre company, Zneefrock Productions, which he founded when he was just 12 years old to raise money for charity. Since then, it has produced several shows, including an original Star Wars musical, SW: A New(sical) Hope, The Last Five Years, Be More Chill, and more. Barth Feldman's most recent passion project has been the five-part improv murder mystery series Foul Play, which he created alongside Alex Boniello and Matthew Barth Tinkelman.

Ali Stroker is a Tony Award^®–winner for her role as Ado Annie in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! She made history as the first actor in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway in Deaf West’s acclaimed 2015 revival of Spring Awakening. She's a series regular in the Netflix series Echoes and starred in the Lifetime holiday film Christmas Ever After. Stroker recurred in the final season of Netflix’s Ozark and is a recurring character on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. She co-wrote the 2021 novel The Chance to Fly and wrote the 2022 children’s book Ali and the Sea Stars. She played Lady Anne in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard III. She’s performed her one woman show at institutions all over the country—some of her favorites being the Kennedy Center, Town Hall, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. Stroker's mission to improve the lives of others through the arts is captured in her motto: “Turning Your Limitations Into Your Opportunities.”

Lorna Courtney is currently starring in the title role of the new hit Broadway musical & Juliet. For her performance, she has been nominated for a Tony Award^® for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and a Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance and drawn rave reviews across the board—including a mention from The New York Times as a “blow you away performance.” She recently appeared as the guest lead in the premiere episode of the CBS series The Equalizer opposite Queen Latifah. Previously, she appeared in the Broadway revival of West Side Story directed by Ivo Van Hove and Dear Evan Hansen. Courtney received her bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.

Alex Boniello is an actor, musician, writer, and Tony Award^®–winning producer. He is known to television audiences for playing Crash on CBS’s hit show Ghosts and recently wrapped filming the follow-up to Disney’s wildly successful Descendants franchise.

Terrance Johnson’s performance credits include RENT (Collins) Paper Mill Playhouse; BHANGIN’ IT (Jake) La Jolla Playhouse; Dreamgirls (C.C. White) National/International Tour; Once On this Island (Ti Moune) FIPAP; Tick, Tick… Boom, The America Play, A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage).

Sammi Cannold is one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in Hollywood and Entertainment and has worked on and off-Broadway as well as for CBS, ABC, Nickelodeon, Apple TV, and Cirque du Soleil. Credits:  Evita (A.R.T., New York City Center), Sunset Boulevard (the Kennedy Center), Carmen (Rose Hall, Lincoln Center), Endlings (NYTW, A.R.T.), How to Dance in Ohio (Syracuse Stage), Ragtime on Ellis Island, and Violet (A.R.T.). Additional: A.R.T. Artistic Fellow, member of Cirque du Soleil’s Creative Cognoscenti, Sundance Institute Fellow, bachelor of arts, Stanford University; master of arts, Harvard University.

Based out of New York City and Toronto, Sean Mayes enjoys a varied career internationally as a conductor, music director, orchestrator, arranger, composer, author, and educator across North America and Europe, spanning the range of numerous musical styles between Broadway, theatre, opera, classical, and pops.

In New York, Mr. Mayes serves as a conductor between two Tony Award^® winning Broadway productions, sharing his time as Assistant Conductor of MJ and Associate Conductor of Hadestown. Internationally, Mr. Mayes serves as Musical Supervisor of the Finnish Premiere of Come From Away, and, in fall 2022, served as Music Director and Conductor of the new musical Mandela, inspired by the life of Nelson Mandela and co-produced by the Mandela family for production at the Young Vic Theatre in London, UK.

As Music Director for Broadway luminary André De Shields, Mr. Mayes was Music Director, Orchestrator and Arranger for An Evening With André De Shields with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2021.

Select recent work includes serving as Composer and Musical Supervisor of the National Tour of Fall On Your Knees, the stage adaptation of the best-selling Canadian novel; Composer for the Stratford Festival’s 2023 Mainstage production of King Lear; Music Supervisor of AFROPUNK @ Lincoln Center, and Composer and Conductor of Aportia Chryptych, commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company for production in 2024.

As an author, Mr Mayes’ writing and scholarship is dedicated towards unpacking systemic issues surrounding representation, having published on disproportionately represented Black music directors (Reframing the Musical, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and the retracing of Black British musical theatre history in An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre (Bloomsbury, 2021), which was celebrated for release in concert at Wigmore Hall, London in September 2021. His anticipated text, Conversations in Color: Exploring North American Musical Theatre, will be available in fall 2023 via Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing. @maestromayes

Sean O’Loughlin (b.1972) is the principal pops conductor of Symphoria in Syracuse, New York and the principal pops conductor of the Victoria Symphony in British Columbia, Canada. His diverse background includes collaborations with some of the leading symphonies and popular artists of today. As a conductor, he has led performances with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and the San Diego Symphony, amongst others. He has served as conductor for symphony tours with Josh Groban, Sarah McLachlan, The Decemberists, and the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration. He has appeared on Good Morning America and the PBS special, Stages, with Josh Groban, in addition to NBC’s A Very Pentatonix Christmas.

Recent collaborations include such artists as Alicia Keys, Josh Groban, Journey, a-ha, Jason Mraz, The Beach Boys, Sarah McLachlan, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Pentatonix, Kelly Clarkson, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Blue Man Group, Janelle Monáe, Audra McDonald, Hall and Oates, the Indigo Girls, The Go-Go’s, Bonnie Raitt, Pink Martini, Brandi Carlile, Weird Al Yankovic, Melissa Etheridge, and others. Through his growing number of commissioned and published works, O'Loughlin is excited to continue contributing to the rich history of orchestral and wind band literature. His music is published by Excelcia Music, Hal Leonard, and Carl Fischer. An annual ASCAP Special Awards winner, O'Loughlin was a composition fellow at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles, and holds composition degrees from New England Conservatory and Syracuse University