Janelle Farias Sando (Performer/Costume Designer) (She/Her) Hailed by American Theater Magazine as one of “20 Theater Workers You Should Know,” and recipient of the Sammons Center Cabaret Artist of the Year, Dallas Voice Actress of the Year, and DFW Theater Critics Forum Award, New York City-based Janelle Farias Sando’s powerhouse vocals and astute storytelling skills have taken her across the country, starring in intimate cabarets, large-scale musicals, and world-premiere works like Broadway Backwards (Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids, New Amsterdam Theatre, NY), Cabaret (Sally Bowles), End of The Rainbow (Judy Garland), Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown), The Boy From Oz (Judy Garland), The Cuban and the Redhead (Carole Lombard), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie), Light In The Piazza (Clara), The Last Five Years (Cathy), South Pacific (Nellie Forbush), Lady in the Dark (Liza Elliot) and Nine (Claudia). Costume credits include Suffs, Hell’s Kitchen, Richard III, and Hamlet. (The Public Theater), Fat Ham (The Public Theater and the American Airlines Broadway Transfer). Ms. Sando is a member of Actors Equity Association.

Hudson Orfe (Accompanist) (He/Him) is currently pursuing his BFA in Musical Theatre from Carnegie Mellon University. He has served as the music director, accompanist, and arranger for countless projects, including the workshop production of Loudon Wainwright III’s new musical Pollyanna, Caucasian Chalk Circle (CMU School of Drama), Sonata 1962 (Interlochen Center for the Arts), and his own original musical A Million Moments On The Mackinac Bridge. As an actor, his favorite roles include Pippin (Pippin), Spring Awakening (Melchoir), and As You Like It (Silvius). Thank you, especially, to Erik & Kelly Karas, and Amy Humes!

Wendy Welch (Director) (She/Her) A fairly recent Berkshire transplant, Wendy has appeared at GBPT in The Stones, at WAM Theater in the pandemic Zoom play ROE, Me and the Sky, and the Gala at the Mahaiwe. Locally she has directed A Broadway Cabaret at Dewey Hall in Sheffield for three years, and Cinderella and Seussical at Mount Everett School. Her career spans several decades regionally on stage and directing. Partial Directing: Into the Woods, Urinetown, Once on This Island, Guys and Dolls, Light in the Piazza. Partial Acting: Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice (Mrs. Bennet), A Little Night Music (Madame Armfeldt), Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike (Sonia), Caroline, or Change (Rose Stopnik Gellman), The Light in the Piazza (Margaret Johnson), Death of a Salesman (Linda Loman), The History Boys (Dorothy Lintott), Follies (Sally Durant Plummer), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Storyteller). Film/TV: Emmy nominated documentary “Shatter the Silence”, “Occupy Texas”, “Murder Made Me Famous”, “Upstream Color”, “Sweet Tornado”, “Deadline Crime”. Numerous Commercials and Voiceovers. Education: B.F.A. Acting S.M.U., Chelsea Theater Center, HB Studio NYC. Teaching: S.M.U., Richland College, Northlake College, Private voice/coaching studioj, Berkshire Pulse Awards: DFW Critics Forum (3) Best Actress, Leon Rabin Award Best Supporting Actress. wendywelch.net