JOHN McDANIEL is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Music Director, Composer, Director, Arranger, Orchestrator, and Producer and is an Artistic Director at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Most recently, John music directed and orchestrated Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special on NBC. John participated in a live Playbill concert event in Times Square welcoming back Broadway, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Vosk and Chuck Schumer. McDaniel produced and directed a virtual concert of Sticks & Stones, for which he is also the composer, starring Audra McDonald & Javier Muñoz. He is also a camp director of Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Boot Camp. John directed Into The Woods and Hair in Concert at the historic Patchogue Theater, Sondheim Originals at 54 Below and Piano Men at Birdland. Broadway music credits include Bonnie and Clyde (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn (Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award), Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway and Company – the Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center. On Television: The Rosie O’Donnell Show (two Emmy Awards and eight nominations). John has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett, Betty Buckley, Bette Midler, Shirley Jones, and Katy Perry and has guest conducted at 15 Symphony Orchestras across America, including five concerts with his hometown St. Louis Symphony. John received a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University.

SHANE PARUS is a New York City based music director, pianist, and conductor. National Tours: Pretty Woman, Elf, Beauty and the Beast, Memphis, We the People. Regionally, he’s music directed at Westchester Broadway Theatre and The New London Barn Playhouse, in addition to performing in shows at North Shore Music Theatre, The REV Theatre Company, and Mason Street Warehouse. In NYC, he has performed in the BCEFA Easter Bonnet Orchestra at the Minskoff Theatre, and for cabarets at 54 Below, Le Poisson Rouge, The Stonewall Inn, and The Duplex. He also serves on the piano faculty at AMDA NYC. For many years, he was a band leader, pianist, and percussionist for Holland America Cruise Line and Seabourn Cruise Line. Shane has a Bachelor of Music in percussion performance from Western Michigan University. www.shaneparus.com

STEVE MARZULLO New York Credits: Music Direction for Disaster!, Once On This Island (Original Broadway Cast). Associate Conductor for Mamma Mia, Seussical, Grease (1994 Revival), Saturday Night, Floyd Collins and A Little Night Music (E.L.T.). Pianist/Keyboards for Ragtime (Original Broadway Cast ), Sweeney Todd (1989 Revival), Smile, Olympus On My Mind, as well as the concert versions of Dreamgirls, Funny Girl, Chess, On the 20th Century, They're Playing Our Song and Company (original 1970 cast). Films: Pianist for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, Fox's Anastasia. Regional/Tours: Music Direction for I Do, I Do (Cape Playhouse), Cinderella (St. Louis MUNY), Tell Me On a Sunday (Kennedy Center, starring Alice Ripley), Paper Moon (Paper Mill Playhouse), Nude, Nude, Totally Nude (Canon Theater, starring Andrea Martin). He music directed and arranged the solo albums for Andrea Burns’ A Deeper Shade Of Red and Andrea McArdle’s 70's and Sunny. Composer credits include: Songs From an Unmade Bed [ New York Theater Workshop], The Audience [ The Transport Group] and for Audra McDonald: Burning the Sauce (Seven Deadly Sins), Some Days and I Hid My Love (Nonesuch Records). His songs have been recorded on solo albums by Stephanie J. Block, Andrea Burns, Andrea McArdle, Matt Zarley and Rebecca Luker. He has two albums released of his music entitled Show Some Beauty and Kiss Me While We Have the Chance which features vocals by Judy Blazer, Ann Harada, Julia Murney, Heidi Blickenstaff, Annie Golden, Terri Klausner and others available on Amazon.com and iTunes. Training: Manhattan School of Music [Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance].