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ANNIE CHADWICK is a professional actor/singer/song writer, member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA and ASCAP and owner of Up-To-Date Theatricals. Annie’s multi-faceted performance career ranges from the stages of opera & musical theatre to the world of film and TV. She began her singing career at 14 performing wash-tub-bass with the country/folk band, The Petticoat Minstrels. From this folk tradition she journeyed into classical music getting her master’s degree from Indiana University School of Music and has now come full circle back to her love of root music singing bluegrass with the NYCity Slickers. Recent work includes: the Jerry Bruckheimer film, CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, as John Lithgow’s wife, Mrs. Edgar West; featured singer, VAUDEVILLE NOUVEAU with Bill Irwin, Andre DeShields & Heather McRae; Mrs. Peters in the Indie Film, TURKEY BOWL, with director James Malki and Guest Soloist, HEART’S JOURNEY Concert @ Symphony Space;  Favorite Theatre credits include: FAUST, JACQUES BREL:LIFE DANCE, HONKY TONK ANGEL, LYSISTRATA, SOMETHING’S AFOOT, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, CABARET, HELLO DOLLY, BABY, SAME TIME NEXT YEAR, MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, PAJAMA GAME, STEEL MAGNOLIAS.  Film/TV credits include: LAW & ORDER: SVU; ANIMAL PLANET (Episode: “City Slickers”); the Hallmark Channel’s NEW MORNING; PBS’ nature series WILD TV AWAKENINGS; SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (with David Spade); ANOTHER WORLD; GUIDING LIGHT and ELIGIBLE DENTIST (with Gene Wilder). Annie performs regularly in NYC music venues with her bluegrass band, the NYCity Slickers. Recent gigs include Rodeo Bar, Rockwood Music Hall, Lincoln Park Tavern, Banjo Jim’s and “Take Me To The River” concerts on Pier 84. For more information go to www.AnnieChadwick.com  and www.NYCitySlickers.com.

FASER HARDIN, composer/arranger/musical director, has worked on numerous Broadway, Off Broadway and Regional theatre productions including Chorus Line, Edwin Drood, La Cage, Little Shop, Annie, Menopause and was musical director/pianist for Geraldine Fitzgerald in her one woman show Street Songs. Most recently worked as Music Director/Dance Arranger for the American premier of the new French musical La Vie en Bleu (based on the life of Picasso) at the Walnut Street Theatre and was Music Director/Arranger for Brel: Life Dance! a new Jacques Brel review in NYC. Other NY credits include: arranger and musical director for a new Off Broadway musical entitled Summer ‘69 (a Woodstock musical); musical director/arranger for a presentation of Honky Tonk Angel by Ellis Nassour, the story of Patsy Cline, at the Lambs Theatre, starring Sally Mayes, directed by Bruce Lumpkin and choreographed by Randy Skinner; arrangements for a new musical, Suddenly Hope, which premiered at the Stamford Arts Center and was produced by Mitchell Maxwell. A former member of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Faser’s compositions include original music for Alabama Shakespeare’s production of Christmas Carol (adapted by John Jakes), Pearl, a musical based on the life of Pearl Buck (commissioned by The Pearl Buck Society), Hot Damn and My Lord, What A Morning (based on the life of Marian Anderson) which was performed at New York’s Town Hall. With a Masters degree from Indiana University School of Music, Faser is an accomplished church organist and also performs throughout the area on the hammered dulcimer as well as playing banjo in the bluegrass band, The NYCity Slickers (www.nycityslickers.com). 

 

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