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Dyan McBride
Director
Dyan McBride has worked as an actress, singer or director for thirty-some years with notable companies all over the United States. Ms. McBride is a professor of theatre arts at Las Positas College where she teaches acting, directing and musical theatre. For Las Positas she has directed Stage Door, Evita, High Fidelity, Xanadu, and multiple musical theatre recitals. Upcoming work includes directing Always, Patsy Cline at Hillbarn Theatre and co-sirecting Margaritaville with Titian Lish. She is the original director of the new holiday classic, Scrooge in Love, available through Concord Theatricals, written by the legendary team of Larry Grossman, Duane Poole and Kellan Blair. BA-Cal. State Fullerton (Musical Theatre). MFA -UC Davis (Acting). SAG/ AFTRA and AEA. Awards include-TBA, BATCC, Irene Ryan. Represented by Boom Models and Talent. She likes to read, garden and rock out. Keep up with her at www.dyanmcbride.com
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Jed da Roza
Musical Director
Jed da Roza is thrilled to be returning to Las Positas College. He was last seen here twenty years ago on the stage as Prince Dauntless (Once Upon a Mattress) and Ugly (Honk!). A graduate of the SF Conservatory of Music, he has vocal/music directed over 50 productions around the Bay Area. Formerly the assistant conductor for the Diablo Symphony Orchestra and the LAS Youth Orchestra, he now leads the Broadway Chorus in Livermore. As a voice teacher for 21 years, he maintains studios online (jeddaroza.com) and in Livermore and Oakley.
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Jen Brooks
Choreographer
A native to the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatics Academy in New York City, Jen has graced stages across the world, from a basement black box in Brooklyn to Germany’s opulent Deutsches Theater in Munich and a sold out stadium in Guam.
Jen performed in international and US companies of A Chorus Line (9 productions!), Cats (US)& Mamma Mia! (Marianas Island Premier). She has recently been seen on stage in the Bay Area in Hello Dolly (Mountain Play), Something Rotten (Woodminster Summer Musicals), Into the Woods (Broadway by the Bay) and the annual Panto in the Presidio (Presidio Theater, SF).
Choreography credits include The Wizard of Oz, Little Shop of Horrors, SF Broadway Bares Burlesque (Annual), Broadway After Dark, Mamma Mia, A Chorus Line, Vanities the musical and Xanadu!Keep up with Jen at www.JenBrooksOnstage.com / IG @jenbrooksonstage
