Originally from Southern California and a graduate of Belmont University, Cameron has Sound Designed professionally in Nashville, TN for more than a decade. He has worked for Street Theater Company, Circle Players and USN on various productions including: Spring Awakening, If/Then, Avenue Q, Hair, Newsies, Bring It On, Steel Magnolias, Beauty and the Beast, The Wiz, Sister Act, The Little Mermaid and more. He is thrilled to be a part of this season's Nashville Shakespeare Festival productions.
Luke is a bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. Credits include Bandleader for Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (Nashville Rep) and Smoke (Bell Witch Fall Festival); Music Director for We Will Rock You (Express City) and James and the Giant Peach (Class Act Dramatics); and bassist for dozens of productions at Studio Tenn, Nashville Children's Theater, Chaffin's Barn, Street Theater Company, and more. Outside the theater, he performs with drummer Chester Thompson and guitarist JD Simo, among many others. He recently released the debut EP from his original project, Dreamland. He thanks Rollie Mains and this cast and crew for this opportunity.
Ryan is a freshman at Lipscomb University majoring in Fine Arts. He is a graduate of Hendersonville High School where he worked as the head lighting and audio engineer on 6 full shows including the likes of Mary Poppins, Seussical and others. He worked as the assistant sound engineer for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival on last year's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He thanks everyone involved for giving him the opportunity to come back for another season.
Jack is a guitarist, songwriter, and composer who played professionally in countless musical acts for over thirty years, primarily in the New England area from which he hails. Born in New Jersey but raised and educated in Venezuela and Brazil, Kingsley enjoyed being immersed in the South American cultures, which is reflected in his versatility as a musician. He moved from Boston to Nashville in 2011 to focus primarily on songwriting and composing. In 2016 he was asked to contribute music to the Nashville Shakespeare Festival's "Shakespeare in the Galleries" at the Frist Art Museum and for Shakespeare in the Park 2016: Comedy of Errors, he composed a song and played in the "Jailhouse Band." In 2018 Kingsley co-composed and provided underscore for NSF's winter production of Hamlet as well as co-producing the album The Music of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, available on the NSF's website.
Rolin has worked as a self employed musician for over 25 years. He has played keyboards on concert tours (Sandi Patty, Donna Summer), recorded in studios from Indiana to Nashville, produced award winning records, recorded his own record (A Time To Dance available on Spotify), produced concert shows at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in NYC, composed and arranged for churches and dance companies, and has conducted and music directed for several non-musical theater productions including Nashville Shakespeare Festival's Twelfth Night and King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and this summer's The Tempest. He is the founder of the Nashville Composer's association, a non-profit (501c3) dedicated to providing opportunities for composers of all ages to learn about composing in multiple settings, and to have their works performed for stage, film/TV, ballet, and the concert hall.