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RICK LEWIS most recently received the Broadway World Award for outstanding musical direction for his work on Fun Home at Portland Center Stage. He is a seven-time Drammy winner for his work in the Portland area. He is the creator/writer/arranger of the hit Off-Broadway musicals The Taffetas, its all-male sequel The Cardigans, and Have a Nice Day! - the 70's Musical Flashback. Other NYC credits include: casting pianist for Sondheim and Lapine's original production of Sunday in the Park with George (pre-Broadway workshop); Cy Coleman's The Life (Assistant Conductor, Vocal Director (pre-Broadway workshop); Assistant Music Director for Off-Broadway's Charlotte Sweet, Music Director/Conductor for Anything Goes (Equity Library Theatre), Music Director/Arranger for London Days/New York Nights. Rick has written and/or arranged original music for Disney Family Live Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Video, the Democratic National Convention, American Hawaii Cruises, Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade, American West Steamboat Company, and American Classic Voyages. Rick developed the Cinnamon Bear Cruise, a holiday staple aboard the Portland Spirit.

A native of Portland, Oregon, GAVIN HOFFMAN worked and lived all over the country. Some credits include: Charbonneau in Crossing Mnisose, Peter Shirley/Morrison in Major Barbara, Duncan McDougall in Astoria, Pts. 1 & 2, Joe Gargery in Great Expectations, Ligniere in Cyrano, Iago in Othello, Karl/Steve in Clybourne Park (Portland Center Stage); Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (Denver Center); Harry in The Understudy, Ted in American Hero, Dieter in The Monster-Builder (Artists' Repertory Theatre); Appropriate, Indecent, 5th of July (Profile Theatre). Gavin has also worked at Red Bull Theatre (Off-Broadway, NYC), Kaleidoscope (NYC), Book-It (Seattle, WA), The Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Princeton Rep. (Princeton, NJ), Tulane Summer Shakespeare Festival (New Orleans, LA), PCPA (Santa Maria, CA) Portland Playhouse, Third Rail, CoHo, Lakewood, Shaking the Tree, Vertigo, and others. Some TV credits include: Shrill, Portlandia, Grimm, Leverage, The Librarians, & The Big Easy, 

Gavin teaches myriad Shakespeare classes online and in person. He is the recipient of 4 Drammy awards for acting. Gavin has a BFA in acting from Ithaca College, and is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA. He is a member of AEA & SAG/Aftra. Gavin is also a proud dog dad to 2 troublemaking scamps.

Over the years, CLARA LIIS-HILLIER has appeared in productions by Northwest Children's Theater, Northwest Classical Theater Company, Corrib Theatre, Broadway Rose, Shaking the Tree, Theatre Vertigo, Bag&Baggage, Lakewood Theater (Drammy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical- Godspell), Willamette Shakespeare, and JAW: A Playwriting Festival. She has taught for NWCTS, Broadway Rose Theater Teen programs, Spotlight Musical Theater Academy. Her greatest passion is as a choreographer, theater and dance teacher- most recently choreographing "The Jungle Book" for Broadway Rose Education programs, "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" for Northwest Children's Theater, "Bye Bye Birdie" for Sprague High School, "Shrek" for Parkrose High School and "The Addams Family" for Tualatin High School. In addition to choreographing she teaches 567Broadway! Musical theater dance fitness classes and Pure Barre in Lake Oswego & Beaverton. 

BETH SOBO-TURK, originally from Buffalo, NY, has been a professional performing artist since 2006. Her love for storytelling through music and theater was nurtured during her college years, where she studied Musical Theater and performed in over a dozen shows. She went on to tour the country with the North American tour of Jesus Christ Superstar (starring Ted Neely and Corey Glover), traveled the globe performing aboard the Luxury Yachts of Seabourn, and has appeared on the stages of regional theaters across the US. 

Beth landed in Oregon to perform the title role of Gracie in the world premiere musical - Gracie and the Atom (Artist Repertory Theater) - and fell completely in love with Portland and its thriving theater community. It wasn't a hard decision to stay. She now calls the charming wine-country community of McMinnville her home, where she raises her family and is deeply involved in her local community theater. A proud former member of Actors Equity, Beth's professional credits include performances and projects with Artists Repertory Theater, Lakewood Center for the Performing Arts, Portland Playhouse, Broadway Rose, Stumptown Stages, LIVE On Stage, The Rubicon Theater (CA), The Miracle Theater (TN) and numerous shows with Portland's well-loved cabaret series, Cabaret White. Locally, Beth has more recently been seen as The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods and Belle in Beauty and the Beast at Gallery Theater in McMinnville. Beth is represented by The Option Agency in Portland and has been seen in several PNW commercials. bethsoboturk.weebly.com 

Equally at home on the stage for opera, music theatre, and cabarets, DRU RUTLEDGE has had the pleasure of portraying many of the most beloved women in  the golden age of musicals and beyond. Locally, you might have seen Dru as Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, Marian Paroo in The Music Man, Laurey in Oklahoma!, Julie Jordan in Carousel, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me (for which she won the Drammy Award for Leading Actress in a Musical) to name a few. 

In addition to her many stage performances, Dru is a sought-after soloist who has performed many times with the New  World Symphony in Miami, the Portland Gay Men's Chorus, the Rose City  Gay Band, and the Oregon Symphony (on the Distant Worlds" Tour) as well  as on her self-produced show, Queer Eye for the Magi.

Dru holds a Masters degree in Opera Performance as well as two Bachelors degrees in Vocal Performance and Theatre. Dru has studied in Florence Italy, Graz Austria, and Bern Switzerland. She  has also performed and taught internationally in Mexico and South  Korea.