Elissa DeMaria
Elissa DeMaria (director/choreographer) is ecstatic to be making her Black Rock Theatre directorial debut with Winter Wonderettes. Elissa is a performer, director, choreographer and teacher living in Fairfield, CT. Regional performing credits include: The Marvelous Wonderettes (Swing), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey - CCC nomination), Jekyll & Hyde (Lucy), Seussical: The Musical (Gertrude) among many more! Directing/choreographing credits include: The Little Mermaid Jr, Alice in Wonderland, The Addams Family, Spamalot and more. Thanks to Connor and Broadway Method Academy for this opportunity. MCB- thank you for making it all possible. @eee.lissa
Jonathan Lakeland
British-American musician Jonathan Palmer Lakeland is a conductor whose work has been described as “pointed and dramatic” (Robert Hugill, PlanetHugill), and as “wordless eloquence…he supported the singers with both brio and sensitivity, clearly relishing his involvement in the dramatic narrative” (Margaret Tattersall, The Herald, Stratford-upon-Avon). Jonathan works regularly for opera companies in Europe and North America. In the 2021/22 season, he made his Vienna opera conducting debut to rave reviews with a new production of Tobias Picker's "Therese Raquin" at Theatre an der Wien. Other recent and upcoming performance engagements include with Theater an der Wien, Northern Ireland Opera, and Royal Academy Opera, and concerts in Budapest, Hungary; Seoul, South Korea; and London, UK. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan held the Billy Joel Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Festival, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
