Sarah Ruth Mikulski recently received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. She has performed with the White Plains Performing Arts Center, College Light Opera Company, Shoreline Theatrical Arts and Opera Grand Rapids. Favorite roles include: Carrie Pipperidge (Carousel), Elizaveta Grushinskaya (Grand Hotel), Angelina (Trial by Jury), Niki Harris (Curtains), and Lady Ella (Patience). Sarah is from Traverse City, Michigan and has a Bachelor of Music from Western Michigan University.

Lucas Pastrana is a recent graduate of the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where he majored in musical theatre. Among the productions he appeared in at UWM were Urinetown, Little Women, and Damn Yankees. He sang in Spring Awakening for Greendale Community Theatre, and in Dogfight for All In Productions. Most recently he played the role of Anthony in Skylight Music Theatre’s production of Sweeney Todd. This past summer Lucas attended the College Light Opera Company where he was a part of nine different productions, My Fair Lady and The Hunchback of Notre Dame among them.

Composer/pianist/conductor Chad Hardin is founder and artistic director of the non-profit Shoreline Theatrical Arts, which in its first season presented the timeless classic Carousel at the new Guilford Performing Arts Center, using a 30-piece professional orchestra and artists from New York in the lead roles. Proceeds from the performances went to the Shoreline Arts Alliance’s Young Artists Scholarships.

Chad has been music director for a number of musicals in Connecticut and elsewhere, most recently conducting West Side Story at the legendary Shubert Theatre in New Haven. As a performer and piano soloist, he specializes in the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Last year, he presented to the reunion classes of Yale (his alma mater) a lecture/recital on Beethoven’s Opus 110 piano sonata. His original compositions are featured on two CDs on the Waystation label: First Flight and The Open Door to Everything, recorded with cellist and Paul Winter Consort co-founder David Darling. His musical Two Cities, which he co-wrote with Dan Schillaci, received a full Equity production in 2004 at the Stamford Center for the Arts. Chad’s latest musical, Sextet, is currently in development in NYC. His other musicals include Soulmates (2005) and Brightling (2009).

Chad is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Connecticut Office of the Arts.