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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.

Eri Gold is an Artist, Actress, Singer, Songwriter, Playwright, and Artistic Director in Palm Springs, California. 

Erica is the girl who can make the theatre “cool”. She spent her twenties preferring to develop her own style of theatre at traditional summer camps, versus theatre-specific camps, as she drew inspiration from nature, sports, and helping develop those skills in young people who were yet to be exposed to the magic of the performing arts. Erica spent four summers living fully outdoors teaching up to eight improv classes a day, running “the most successful improv program the camp has ever seen” from The Parker brothers, directors of Camp Waziyatah, known for its TV show “Bug Juice” on The Disney Channel. Highlights from the outdoor theatre chapter include: Cutting Romeo and Juliet down to 40 minutes for high schoolers, with an original cast of who’s first language was not English. Also, she mounted and directed an original beachside production of Teen Beach Musical based on the film Teen Beach Movie, which included actors on real speedboats, and a self-written production of Hansel and Gretel featuring a real live horse on stage.

Having lived and worked all over the country including New York City and Philadelphia, Erica also spent five years transforming the Front of House at Philadelphia's Ensemble Arts, where, as House Manager, she managed a tremendous amount of world class entertainment, including Broadway National Tours, Opera Philadelphia, and A-list comedians. Eventually she took on the same role at Philadelphia's The Mann center, a massive outdoor concert venue, managing FOH for shows with up to 25,000 guests. Erica is available for professional Front of House consultations!

Currently, she is teaching Story Theatre at David Green’s Musical Theatre University, where she continues to write bespoke mini plays, often modern/edgy takes on fairy tales or murder mysteries, including her most recent production “One Killer Party” written for middle-school aged actors. 

Erica is the lady you want to sit by when seeing a production. She laughs easily and always has something to say at a talk-back. Favorite roles as a performer include Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Bic the Flame Stealer in 4:20 The Musical (Off-Off-Broadway), and Sheila in Hair. Erica also played “Sweet Cream Couture” in Tyra Bank’s Modelland in Santa Monica and has been featured in numerous Visit Palm Springs campaigns and commercials. Erica holds a BFA in Acting from Florida Southern College. When she really needs to get away from it all, she moonlights as a rookie river guide at the Kern River. Forward one!

Erica's Artistic POV: Theatre is storytelling via creating spectacle and human introspection from those who wish to shine in the circumstance.

Erica lives with her husband; Archeologist, Naturalist, and Geneticist Hew Murdoch, and their beautiful but difficult cat, Havana.

Note: Erica is often credited by her Hebrew name/Stage name Chaya Goldman

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.