The Spitfire Grill at PFW Department of Theatre

Julie Lyn Barber is a versatile theatre-maker and educator who has had the privilege of working with Portland Center Stage, Portland Opera Association, triangle! theatre productions, North West Classical Theatre Company, Broadway Rose Theatre, Sylvia’s Dinner Theatre, and Theatre Under the Stars (Vancouver, BC) while on the West Coast. She currently makes her home in the Midwest, where she has worked with Dayton Opera, Round Barn Theatre, Richmond Shakespeare Festival, Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival, Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis and the Marion Philharmonic. She has directed productions for Actors Theatre of Indiana (Carmel, IN), Nettle Creek Players (Hagerstown, IN), Muncie Civic Theatre (Muncie, IN) and American Heritage Theater Project (Portland, OR) as well as outreach productions for Marjorie Lawrence Opera Theatre (Carbondale, IL), and the Bloomington Early Music Festival (IN). During her tenure as Associate Professor and BFA Coordinator at Western Kentucky University, she directed, music directed and choreographed productions there including, Guys and Dolls, 9 to 5, Fools, The Lightning Thief, The Liars Bench, Hair, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee). She is currently Assistant Professor of Acting and Musical Theatre and Head of Musical Theatre at Purdue University Fort Wayne in Indiana where she has directed Hot & Cole: A Cole Porter Celebration (2nd Place Winner of the Charles Nelson Reilly Prize for Musical Theatre Direction), and Cabaret. She is also an active actor and singer, recently playing “Frau Blücher” in Young Frankenstein (Actors Theatre of Indiana) and regularly performing with the Kekionga Early Music Collective (Fort Wayne, IN). Her original musicals have been performed across the U.S. She also operates an online voice and acting studio, offering personalized coaching to students worldwide.

Rolin Mains is a composer, arranger,/orchestrator, music director, conductor, pianist and keyboard player. He's produced records, underscored feature-length films and live staged theater, conducted groups of all sizes in studios and live, and produced his own record, A TIME TO DANCE. He is currently based in Fort Wayne, Indiana where he is a Lecturer at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and piano instructor at Sweetwater Academy and has music directed several productions for PFW and Fort Wayne Civic Theatre. During his nearly 30 years in Nashville, TN, he was the music director for multiple Street Theater shows and worked at Belmont University, in addition to working as a composer, conductor and touring pianist. He also founded the Nashville Composers Association. Rolin has toured with Sandi Patty, Wayne Watson, Ray Boltz, and the Young Messiah Tour and has played for Donna Summer and Natalie Cole. He won a Dove Award as producer for Best Instrumental Record in 1995, and was nominated for two others in 1996 and 1998.