BRAD CARROLL (Composer for Lend Me A Tenor The Musical, Sherlock Holmes and the Great Royal Goose Chase, A Christmas Carol On the Air & Frankenstein On the Air) is a recognized regional theatre director, music director, and composer whose work has taken him all over the world. Mr Carroll is perhaps best known nationally and internationally for his work as composer for Lend Me A Tenor: The Musical, which celebrated a successful run at the Gielgud Theatre on London’s West End and is currently enjoying first class productions throughout Germany, Russia, Poland, and in select cities across the United States. He is the co-creator of the new musical, Christmas Is Here Again, based on the animated feature by Robert Zappia. Other produced works include Sherlock Holmes and the Great Royal Goose Chase for the Hunterdon Hill Playhouse in Hampton, NJ; A Christmas Carol: On The Air for the Utah Shakespeare Festival; Amelia Lost (librettist) with composer, Larry Delinger; Cio Cio San, a new opera-theatre piece (composer/arranger); Christmas Is…A Musical Memory, and Robin Hood. Musical scores composed for dramatic productions—Cyrano De Bergerac, King Lear, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Death of A Salesman, and To Kill A Mockingbird. Also, writer, director, and musical arranger for Walt Disney Entertainment, TokyoDisneySea. As a director, Brad’s work has been seen at such places as PCPA-Pacific Conservatory Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Phoenix Theatre, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, and more. He is currently Resident Artist/Artistic Associate for the Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) in Santa Maria, CA.

KEN LUDWIG (Author of the play Lend Me A Tenor) may well be the most performed playwright of his generation. He has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London’s West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged throughout the United States and around the world every night of the year. They have been produced in over 20 languages in more than 30 countries, and many have become standards of the American repertoire. His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, was produced on Broadway and in London by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy For You was on Broadway for five years, on the West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. It has been revived twice in the West End and is currently touring Japan. Since its European premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022, Ludwig’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express has had hundreds of international productions. In addition, he has won the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theatre, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Charles MacArthur Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for writing the Kennedy Center Honors. His other plays include Moon Over Buffalo; Leading Ladies; Baskerville; Sherwood; Twentieth Century; Dear Jack, Dear Louise; A Fox on the Fairway; A Comedy of Tenors; The Game’s Afoot; Shakespeare in Hollywood; and Moriarty. They have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Tony Shaloub, Joan Collins, and Kristin Bell. His most recent world premieres were Lend Me A Soprano and Moriarty, and his newest plays and musicals include Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberley, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Beginner’s Luck, and Easter Parade. He has been commissioned to write plays by Agatha Christie Limited, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Globe Theatre, and the Bristol Old Vic.

KIRSTEN SHAM (Producing Artistic Director, BTC; co-Author of Toyland) For the past 18 years, Kirsten has served as a professor of movement and dance in Southern Utah University’s Department of Theatre, Dance, & Arts Administration. Her recent choreography includes BTC’s inaugural hit, Pump Boys and Dinettes at the historic Egyptian Theatre in Park City, UT,, and productions of The Prom, Legally Blonde: The Musical, Under Construction, Toyland, Chicago: The Musical, and Bat Boy. For nine seasons Kirsten served as director/choreographer/creator for the Tony Award winning Utah Shakespeare Festival’s The Greenshow, as well as USF’s mainstage choreographer/movement coach, staging dances and movement for over twenty productions.

Before moving to Cedar City, Kirsten served as director of The Academy at EPAC, a professional training program for dance, music, and acting at the Eichelberger Performing Arts Center in Hanover, PA, where she was also resident actress/choreographer. Before that she served as resident actress, choreographer, and principle dancer for Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in Hampton, NJ, the largest and most successful theatre of its kind in the northeastern United States. At HHP, Kirsten appeared in over 30 plays and musicals, choreographing musical numbers for nearly half of them.

Her career as a dance instructor and choreographer spans over twenty-five years and includes teaching assignments at Broadway Dance Center, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Steps in New York City; The Eleanor Connell School of Dance in Annandale, NJ; as well as teaching and assisting on various workshops throughout Paris and Morocco. Kirsten has taught a variety of movement techniques on the East Coast and in Utah, including Ashtanga yoga, Pilates, aerobic kick boxing and she is the creator and developer of her own intensive stretch technique. An Interlochen National Music Academy dance scholarship winner at a young age, Kirsten attended Walnut Hill School of the Performing Arts and studied ballet, tap, hip-hop and jazz extensively in New York, NY as the protégé of Cecelia Marta and with such renowned master teachers as Frank Hatchett and Peff Modelski.

PETER SHAM (Producing Artistic Director, BTC; Author) Peter has been a regional actor/director for over 35 years but is perhaps best known nationally and internationally for his work as bookwriter/lyricist for Lend Me A Tenor: The Musical (Brad Carroll, composer), which celebrated a successful run at the Gielgud Theatre on London’s West End and is currently enjoying first class productions throughout Germany, Russia, Poland, and in select cities across the United States. Peter wrote the book and lyrics with Brad Carroll (composer) for the 2019 & 2020 Hunterdon Hills Playhouse world premiere companion piece musical comedies, Sherlock Holmes and the Spring of Love and Sherlock Holmes and the Great Royal Goose Chase! Sham & Carroll are currently working on the third musical of the Sherlock Trilogy, Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Whodunit, and a new musical based on the final adventure of Dorothy Gale, Somewhere. Peter is also the author of the musicals Blue Collar Quintet, Toyland, and It’s a Dog’s Life: Man’s Best Musical; the plays, A Christmas Carol: On the Air (also written with Brad Carroll), its sequel Frankenstein: On the Air, Shakespeare’s Moby Dick, a classical adaptation of Herman Melville’s American novel, and Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane, with William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist), adapted from Mr. Blatty’s Golden Globe Award-winning Best Screenplay; and the screenplays, The Playhouse and Hag. Most recently, Peter wrote and directed his first feature film, Far Remote, which garnered an Honorable Mention this year at the prestigious HorrorFest International Film Festival. He is currently at work on an 8-episode television series with the author of The Marvelous Wonderettes, Roger Bean. A veteran regional and off-Broadway actor, Peter was a principal member of the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival for twelve seasons, and has performed at such places as Asolo Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Eastside Playhouse, Perry Street Theatre, The Neil Simon Festival, and more. Notable roles include, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Max Prince in Laughter On The 23rd Floor, Salieri in Amadeus, Benjamin Franklin in 1776, Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and Sancho in Man of LaMancha, starring Robert Peterson. Most recently he was seen as Jake in Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women. Peter has directed over 85 productions throughout the Eastern United States and Utah and has served as artistic director of Bristol Valley Playhouse in Naples, NY, and Eichelberger Performing Arts Center in Hanover, PA. Sham holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Delaware’s legendary Professional Theatre Training Program, and for the past 20 years, he’s served as professor of theatre at Southern Utah University. Peter is the recipient of the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Michael & Jan Finlayson Award for Acting; is a 2-time SUU Thunderbird Award-winner for Professor of the Year; a recipient of SUU’s Scholar of the Year Award; a recipient of SUU’s highest honor, The Board of Trustees Award for Excellence; and has garnered national recognition as the recipient of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s Excellence in Education Award.