SCOTT BARNHARDT is a lifelong musical theatre actor, theatre maker and educator. He most recently served as Lead Faculty for the Contemporary Musical Theatre + Film BFA program at Hussian College Los Angeles, and before that as the Director of Musical Theatre at the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA). He is a graduate of Wagner College (BA, Theatre/Speech) and UCLA (MFA, Playwriting).
His acting credits include the original Broadway cast of The Book of Mormon (Elder Harris/Elder Thomas, u/s Elder McKinley, Asst. Dance Captain) and the Deaf West Broadway Revival of Big River at Roundabout. Other NYC: Yank! (The Old Globe Workshop), Bye Bye Birdie (City Center Encores!). National tours: The Boy Friend directed by Julie Andrews, Deaf West's Big River, the Detroit company of White Christmas and the Japanese tour of Disney on Classic with the Tokyo Philharmonic.
Full bio at:
https://www.creativecollegejourney.com/aboutscott

Chelsea Packard is an assistant professor of musical theatre, specializing in private voice instruction. Packard appeared in Kristin Chenoweth’s PBS Live recording of her concert Home, in which she and Chenoweth duetted on the song “Enough Is Enough.” She sings with the GRAMMY-nominated gospel choir Broadway Inspirational Voices.  She was heard on the NBC series Smash any time there was an ensemble of singers. Packard was the original “Woman 2” in Pasek and Paul’s Edges, and can be heard on that cast recording as well.

As a teacher and clinician, Packard has worked with the following organizations: Joffrey Ballet, Broadway Classroom, Broadway Workshop, A Class Act NY, Brave Arts, Broadway for All, Broadway Teaching Group, and Broadway In South Africa. Her private voice studio in New York is an offshoot of her mentor’s, the Tony Award-winning Joan Lader.

Packard received her BFA in musical theatre from the University of Michigan. She is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and AGVA.

Her performing credits include:

BROADWAY/NEW YORK: Wicked (Elphaba understudy); Beautiful (Cynthia understudy); Hands on a Hardbody (Original Broadway Cast); Promises, Promises (Original Revival Cast); New York Spectacular @ Radio City (Jenna).

NATIONAL TOURS: Kristin Chenoweth’s Some Lessons Learned album tour (Featured Cast Member); Wicked (Nessarose Understudy).

Geoff Packard is an associate professor of acting/directing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. As an actor, Packard has been seen on Broadway in Bandstand, Matilda, Rock of Ages, and Phantom of The Opera, as well as the first national tour of Wicked, and theatres such as: The Old Globe (San Diego) Papermill Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre (D.C.), Ford’s Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Signature Theatre (DC), Huntington Theatre, Court Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, KC Rep, and Goodspeed Opera House.

Packard has a Joseph Jefferson Award (Chicago), a Helen Hayes Award (DC), and an IRNE Award (Boston) for Leading Actor in a Musical. He received a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from SUNY Stonybrook. He and his wife, Chelsea Packard, have been running a summer musical theatre workshop called The Broadway Intensive for the past 10 years out of Ann Arbor, MI.

On Broadway Katherine could be seen in the original cast of ROCK OF AGES (Constance, Justice/Regina cover), the original cast of IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS (Rhoda), A CHORUS LINE (Kristine), and WICKED. She also sang a duet with Alan Menken at his Songbook Concert at Lincoln Center, and participated in the Workshops and PreBroadway version of LEAP OF FAITH at the Ahmanson Theater. Before Broadway, Katherine traveled the world living and performing in Japan at Tokyo Disney, in Paris at The Moulin Rouge, and at Disney World in Florida. Since moving to LA, Katherine has been a recurring character on Don’t Trust the B- and The Neighbors, both on ABC. Most recently, she starred as the sharp-tongued Brit “Emily” in a The Unauthorized Musical Parody of The Devil Wears Prada as well as “Annie Herman” in UMPO: Troop Beverly Hills at Rockwell Table & Stage.