GUEST PERFORMERS

 

MEGAN STARR-LEVITT

Soprano MEGAN STARR-LEVITT has performed as a musical theater, operatic, and concert artist throughout the United States, most notably as Christine in the Broadway, San Francisco, and National Tour productions of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's The Phantom of the Opera under the direction of Hal Prince.  She has also covered the role in the new Las Vegas "spectacular" production.  Other musical theatre roles include the title role in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella and Christine in Yeston and Kopit’s Phantom.  Operatic roles include Musetta in La Boheme, Nanetta in Falstaff, Papagena in The Magic Flute, the Countess in Count Ory, and Esmeralda in The Bartered Bride. Active as a concert performer, she was twice a soloist at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Ms. Starr-Levitt holds degrees in voice from UC Irvine and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  She lives in Orange County, CA, with her husband, Phil Theodorou, and their son, Alexander.

 

 
KAROLE FOREMAN

Don Shirley of the Los Angeles Times has singled Karole out as “…one of the most versatile and accomplished stage actors in Los Angeles”.  She is the librettist and lyricist of The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea, which garnered the 1999 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, the 1996 Richard Rodgers Award, and was selected for presentation in the National Alliance for Musical Theater’s 1999 Fall Festival in New York.  The show also had a concert presentation at the prestigious Ravinia Festival in Chicago in the fall of 2006.  Regional theatre’s include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, San Diego Rep, San Jose Rep,  LA Theater Center and Pasadena Playhouse.  Favorite shows: King LearCrowns, Merchant of Venice, Cabaret, Mamma Mia!, As Bees in Honey Drown, The Hot Mikado, The Illusion, A Flea in Her Ear, Mississippi Delta, Jelly's Last Jam and Measure for Measure.  Television credits include Miracle's Boys, Third Watch, Law & Order, Strong Medicine, The Bold and the Beautiful and Becker.


LUKE MARINKOVICH

Luke was recently seen as Jimmy in the critically acclaimed Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen for which he won a San Diego Critics Circle-Craig Noel Award for Featured Actor in a Play.  Under the direction of Shaun Evans, Luke has appeared as Archie in The Secret Garden and Younger Brother in Ragtime. Other credits include Les Misérables (Valjean), Cabaret (Emcee), Spring Awakening (Hanchen) and others. He also recently received the 1st Inaugural Patte Scholarship Award for Promising Young Theatremaker in honor of Dr. Floyd Gaffney.  This fall Luke will start his first year at NYU/Tisch studying Musical Theatre.  His thanks go to his family and friends, and God for his many blessings.

 

 

AUSTYN MYERS

Austyn began acting in school plays in the 2nd grade and hasn’t stopped since.  Now 12 years old, Myers first appeared in Les Miserables as Gavroche with the California Youth Conservatory when he was 8 years old.  Soon after, he was selected to tour with the Broadway National Tour in the role of Gavroche/Eponine.  Myers traveled with the company for eleven months, culminating with an eight week run opening the revival at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway.  Additional regional stage credits include Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, Suessical The Musical, Roar of the Greasepaint and Ragtime.  He is currently working on his first movie Meet Dave as Josh Morrison.  A love of music, Myers studies voice, piano, viola and guitar.  He enjoys fencing, running, skateboarding and playing lacrosse.  His passion is creating characters and situations to illustrate and dramatize. Austyn's favorite role of all is "Uncle Austyn" to his niece and three nephews.  Myers currently lives with his family in San Diego, California.