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Charlie Thomas brings a pedigree with over thirty-five years’ experience in both professional and non-professional live theatre, film, television, and radio. He has worked with a majority of the theatrical companies in the Coachella Valley and Morongo Basin over that time.  With a background as an actor, director, technician and producer during that tenure, he has a unique ability to view productions from multiple facets.  For the last several years, he has also served as the Entertainment Reporter for KCDZ 107.7FM out of Joshua Tree.

David Green is the Founder and Executive Director of Musical Theatre University, a comprehensive training ground for young people with aspirations for careers in professional theatre. His alumni include Tony Winners Steohanie J Block (Falsettos and The Cher Show) and Lindsay Mendez (Carousel and Merrily We Roll Along), Tony Nominees Matthew Morrison (TV’s “GLEE” and “The Light In The Piazza”) and Susan Egan (“Beauty and the Beast”) ,  Krysta Rodriguez (First Date” and “The Addams Family”), Anneliese VanDerPol (“Vanities”, “Beauty And The Beast” and TV’s “That’s So Raven”), Grace McClean (Natasha/Pieree and Bad CInderalla), Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian and  The Last OF Us) and many more. He was the founder of The California Conservatory of the Arts and co-founder of The Orange County School of the Arts. 

Mr. Green has staged and directed over 200 musical and theatrical productions for both educational and professional theatre and worked with stars ranging from Debbie Reynolds, John Raitt, Betty Garrett, Davis Gaines, Stephanie Zimbalist, Carol Burnett, Rachel York, Carol Cook, JoAnne Worley, Rex Smith, Carol Channing, Bruce Vilanch, Bob Hope and Liberace. He has written and directed seven PBS television specials and served as the Artistic Director for the State of California Department of Education’s Distinguished School Awards for ten years. He co-created and developed the nationally acclaimed Fashion Island Tree Lighting Ceremony in Newport Beach, CA which has grown to an event with an audience of over 25,000 patrons annually. He has staged and directed multiple staged reading of new musicals in both New York and Los Angeles.

Mr, Green is the Regional Editor for Broadway World, the nation’s leading and largest online publication on professional theatre, and he hosts a weekly radio show called Front Row Center and. He served as a Director for the internationally acclaimed Young Americans before his work with the various schools of the arts. At the 2017 Tony Awards he was named one of the top theatre edcuators in America by The Broadway League and Carnegie Mellon University.

GILMORE RIZZO is an award-winning musical theatre actor/director and cabaret performer.  10 Time Broadway World Award Nominee.  Cousin to legendary singer Bobby Darin and jazz Flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione. TV Credits:  8 ½ years on MURPHY BROWN. STEP BY STEP. MATLOCK. LIVING IN CAPTIVITY.  Featured in the Award-winning Mocumentary Attack Of The Film Festivals. Theatre Credits:  James Skimmer in Walt Disney’s original production of  PAZZAZZ! with Joanne Worley.  S.T.A.G.E. Benefit in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Joan Ryan.  Mafia Kingpin Sal Penza in Mark Saltzman’s Romeo & Bernadette with Wendie Malick. Christmas At The Grand Ol’ Dame with Gavin MacLeod.  16 shows at PS UNDERGROUND dinner events.  9 productions at DESERT THEATRICALS.  Cabaret shows: That’s Amore! An American Italian Songbook and Bubblegum’s Anonymous: Chew On This!. 

In the 1970s and 80s, June was a columnist for Dramalogue. With Dr. Jay Zorn, June co-authored five editions of Listening to Music, and three editions of Beyond Broadway: Social Issues in the Musical. She traveled extensively in the US and Canada as a writing consultant and editor for Fortune 500 companies such as Xerox, Sun Microsystems, Royal Bank of Canada, Ford Motor Company, and Eastern Pipeline.

Since locating to Palm Desert, June has been active as an actor, director and playwright. She has been involved with more than 30 productions, also as a composer and writer, and has received numerous Desert Theatre League nominations and awards.

In 2013, her musical Sexy Widows (book, music, and lyrics) premiered at the Colony Theatre and then played at 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles. The show reprised in Palm Desert om 2019.  June's one-man show, ROBERT FROST: Fire and Ice, written for the late Arthur Peterson, premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse, played off-Broadway at the South Street Theatre in 1984, and toured the United States for the next 10 years.  Her play Coming to Life was produced by Detroit Repertory, and a reading of her play All About Moonbeams was staged at Script to Stage to Screen in 2022.

Former lead singer in a disco cover band turned Gaslight girl, turned actress, turned author of two produced, and wildly unacclaimed plays, and one likely-unseen teleplay, Kay Kudukis is a pragmatic optimist (read: Libra) who has found her bliss in Palm Springs offering honest and "meh"-revered written opinions to anyone who has an interest. Thanks for asking, you're swell.