The Only Girl at Theater at St. Jeans

Joanie Brittingham (Ruth Wilson) is in her fifth season with VHRP LIVE! She was seen as Kitty in Orange Blossoms, Liane in Sweethearts, Isa in The Red Mill, the title role in Eileen and Marie in The Princess Pat. She has appeared with Riverside Theatre, Hartford Opera Theatre, Chelsea Opera, the OPERA America New Works Festival, American Lyric Theatre, Opera Lancaster, GLOW Lyric Theatre, and Light Opera Oklahoma. She was a finalist in the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Competition, and a semi¬finalist in the International Concours de Chant de Clermont Fer¬rand. She has also performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall. Joanie's recordings can be found on all streaming platforms. www.joaniebrittingham.com.

Christopher Robin Sapp (Alan Kimbrough) is in his fourth season with VHRP LIVE! He was seen as Dinny in Eileen, Captain Doris Van Damm in The Red Mill and Lieutenant Larry Sheridan in The Debutante. He has performed with College Light Opera, Ohio Light Opera, NYU, Disney Cruise Line, and most recently with NYGASP as Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance. www.christopherobinsapp.com

Andrew Buck is excited to make his debut with VHRP LIVE! Previously, he was seen in Hello Dolly! and Les Miserables with the Arkansas Repertory Theater, and in Ragtime and By Jupiter with NYC’s own Village Light Opera Group.

Jack Cotterell (John Ayre (Fresh)) is in his second season with VHRP LIVE! You saw him as Lt. Karl in VHRP LIVE’s production of Sweethearts. He has performed with Chamber Opera Chicago, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Vegas City Opera, Aspen Opera Theater, and Old Capitol Opera. Recent highlights include a tour to the UK with Chamber Opera Chicago in their musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, as well as creating the role of Olivier Courcelles in the new musical City of Light. www.jackcotterell.com

Jonathan Fox Powers (Andrew McMurray (Bunkie)) is thrilled to be returning to live theater with VHRP LIVE! having previously performed in The Red Mill, The Enchantress, and most recently as Auguste in Orange Blossoms. Other companies include Amore Opera, Light Opera of New York, Utopia Opera, and the Blue Hill Troupe. He can be found frequently at Theater for the New City where he created the role of Mr. Darcy in a new musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Blifil in Tom Jones, and Smike in Nicholas Nickleby. jonfoxpowers.com

David Seatter (Saunders) is one of the founding art¬ists of VHRP LIVE! and in his eighth season with the company. He has been seen as the Narrator in Cyrano de Bergerac, Fresco in The Fortune Teller, Lt. Gover¬nor Grandet in Naughty Marietta, the Duke in The Serenade, Anthony Schmalz in The Princess Pat and Sir Reggie in Eileen as well as in numerous concerts presented by VHRP LIVE! He has also performed major roles with Augusta Opera, Opera/Delaware, Opera Naples, Belle Ayre Opera, Opera Northeast, Light Opera of New York, and Manhattan Savo¬yards. Mr. Seatter did a CAMI tour of Naughty Marietta as well as Sweethearts with Light Opera of New York. Mr. Seatter is perhaps the only person living to perform in two productions of The Princess Pat. www.davidseatter.com

Hannah Holmes (Birdie Martin), is delighted to be joining VHRP LIVE! for a third season, having last appeared in The Debutante in 2019 and The Red Mill in 2017. She is a frequent performer with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players and the Ohio Light Opera, where she dipped her toes into Herbert as Gladys Peck in Dream City and The Magic Knight. www.hannahmezzo.com

Sara Lucille Law (Margaret Ayres) is thrilled to be joining VHRP LIVE for her first season! Most recently, Ms. Law was seen as Amalia Balash in Quisisana Resort’s production of the Bock/Harnick music lyric team’s She Loves Me. Future engagements include performances with Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, Opera Orlando, and MSC Cruises. www.saralucillelaw.com

Alexa Devlin (Jane McMurray) is honored to be re-joining VHRP Live! for a fourth season-and in this beautiful venue! Last year, she had a blast making music with her fellow Victor Herbert company members through virtual performances. Alexa has been a resident member of The Ohio Light Opera company, College Light Opera Company, Lyrique en Mer, and New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players; as well as a soloist nationally and internationally with a multitude of symphonies and ensembles. Most recently, Alexa became a founding member of a professional crossover quartet, Prosecco. Originally hailing from Pittsburgh, Alexa graduated from Carnegie Mellon University; though she now loves calling New York City her home with her handsome husband and darling puppy. proseccoquartet.com

Emily Hughes is delighted to be singing her first role with VHRP LIVE! She has performed with Teatro Grattacielo, Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, New York City Opera, Geneva Light Opera, Panopera, and Taconic Opera. Up next, she’ll be singing with New Camerata Opera and Teatro Nuovo. www.emily-hughes.com

Barbee Monk (Ruby) is in her first season with VHRP LIVE! She has performed with Bronx Opera, Geneva Light Opera, New Amsterdam Opera, New Rochelle Opera, Light Opera of New Jersey, and Opera Theatre of Montclair. www.barbeemonk.com

Mariah Muehler (Violet) is thrilled to be making her company debut with VHRP Live! Most recently, she made her Carnegie Hall debut in a gala concert as Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire) and performed in a green screen rendition of Trial by Jury with Bronx Opera due to premiere in March. Favorite roles performed include Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Annina (Eine Nacht in Venedig), and Mařenka (The Bartered Bride).

A worldwide Victor Herbert scholar, stage director and librettist, Alyce Mott is the founder and Artistic Director of the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE!, a New York City based theatrical company dedicated solely to the music of Irish American composer Victor Herbert (1859-1924). In July 2014, Mott and VHRP LIVE! produced their inaugural event with the first full orchestral reading of Victor Herbert’s 1911 grand opera Natoma in over 100 years. She became a Herbert librettist in 1995 with a new version of Herbert’s 1903 BABES IN TOYLAND. Today, Mott has well over a dozen new Herbert librettos to her credit. She became a Herbert director with the composer’s THE FORTUNE TELLER in 1998 for the Little Orchestra Society of New York, and a Herbert publisher (on-line digital original performance materials) in 2008 with the founding of VHSource, LLC. She enjoyed a fifteen-year Herbert collaboration with the talented conductor, the late Dino Anagnost, resulting in 12 productions at New York’s Lincoln Center. With the 2014 production of Herbert’s 1899 operetta, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, she officially moved into the realm of producer. She is a member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, SDC, and the Dramatist Guild.

Michael Thomas (Music Director, Conductor) is very excited to welcome audiences to our new theater! As the founding music director of VHRP LIVE! he has conducted The Fortune Teller, Naughty Marietta, The Serenade, The Princess Pat, Eileen, The Red Mill, The Enchantress, Orange Blossoms, Sweethearts, and The Debutante. He was music director/pianist for Heart O’ Mine, Cyrano de Bergerac, Angeline and Her Tattooed Man, Art Is Calling for Me, Son of Dublin, Ladies First, and Falling in Love For 160 Years. For the Village Light Opera Group, he conducted Candide, Princess Ida and On the Twentieth Century. Additional conducting credits include Light Opera of New York's productions of Eileen, Sweethearts, and The New Moon. Other credits include work with Light Opera of Manhattan, National Music Theatre Network, Jekyll Island Musical Comedy Festival, and the Clarence Brown Company. He has accompanied singers in concert at Merkin Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Great Hall of the Cooper Union.