CJ Greer (Music Director/Conductor) joined UNR’s voice faculty in 2018 to implement the new Musical Theatre degree program. A performer and music director, she has found her passion and life’s work in vocal performance and instruction. CJ has performed and presented around the world as singer, actor, teacher, and conductor with an undying love for storytelling through music. She is guest faculty for the ‘Bel Canto Can Belto’ workshops and ‘The Broadway Artist Intensive.’ Research interests span from bringing movement and intimacy training practices into the voice studio, to interdisciplinary approaches to vocal performance, to working with the medical field exploring where science and singing can heal. You can find her featured in Classical Singer magazine, The Visceral Voice podcast, VASTA Voice and Speech Review, and will be premiering a new concert workshop at UNR this spring – An Evening of Kander & Ebb. Broadway/National Tour/Regional performing credits (Sister Act, Les Misérables, The Producers, Ragtime, I Love A Piano, Mamma Mia, The Buddy Holly Story, The Addams Family, Chess, Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods, etc). MFA and MM - Penn State University.
Kathy Walen (Stage Manager) earned her B.A. in Theatre/Stage Management from William Paterson University in New Jersey. Over 30 years ago, she began stage managing professionally in New York at multiple off-Broadway theaters and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. She then moved to Las Vegas and stage managed the main production, celebrity headliners and concerts at the MGM Grand, working with Tommy Tune and Michael Crawford, among many others. This is her third production stage managing for UNR.
Adi Cabral (Dialect Coach) (they/them) is a voice and accent coach, intimacy director, and actor whose work has been seen/heard at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (CO), the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (MO), New Repertory Theatre (MA), the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NY), Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company (TX), The New Hazlett Theater (PA), The Hangar Theatre Company (NY), and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland, UK). They are a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork and Fitzmaurice Voicework and a Master Reiki Healer and Teacher. Adi is the co-author of Here’s How to Teach Voice and Communication Skills to Transgender Women, a manualized approach for early-career speech and language pathologists wishing to begin offering gender affirming speech services. Adi currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice and Movement at the University of Nevada, Reno. For more information, please visit www.adicabral.com.
Michael Fernbach (Scenic Designer/Sound Designer/Technical) received a Bachelor of Arts in theatre from the University of Nevada, Reno and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon. He is the theatre design and technology specialist in the Theatre and Dance Department, sharing the scenic and lighting design responsibilities, as well as designing all the sound and special effects that are required for the Nevada Repertory Company's season production. He also teaches classes in theatre sounds, automated lighting and AutoCAD for theatre. Designing lighting professionally outside the realm of the University is part of his creative outlet. Fernbach does lighting for a wide range of events including corporate events, concerts, dance, musicals and special events locally and nationally. He also works as a consultant and technical director for various performing arts groups throughout the community.
