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SCOTT HART (Director) - Scott is a Drama Desk and Tony Award nominated Broadway producer with over 35 years of theatrical experience. His most recent project was as producer of the record breaking, Tony Award nominated hit Broadway show "A Christmas Story - The Musical". He also produced the 2011 national tour and 2013 Holiday tour at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden. He is an award winning director (member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society) whose most recent area productions have included "The Drowsy Chaperone", "The Bakers Wife", "My Favorite Year", "Blood Brothers", "On Golden Pond", "Gypsy" and more. As an actor, some of his favorite roles have included Georges in "La Cage Aux Folles", the Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance", Roger Debries in "The Producers" and Officer Lockstock in "Urinetown". He most recently acted as Artistic Advisor to the Board of the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center and is a graduate of the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts. He is thrilled to be back at the Barn Theatre directing the New Jersey premiere production of the show he helped bring to Broadway!  For more info on Scott visit www.ScottHart.Biz

CHARLES SANTORO  (Musical Director/Conductor/Key 1) - is thrilled to be working on this wonderful production of A Christmas Story at the Barn Theatre. Some favorites works are: Motown the Musical (Broadway), Wicked (Broadway), Silence! The Musical (New York City’s Elektra Theatre), BCEFA 25th Gypsy Awards, Zapata! The Musical (NYMF 2012 assistant MD and music copyist), Concert of the Stars starring Brian d’Arcy James, Latin Broadway starring Natalie Toro, Broadway Rocks! starring Broadway’s Andrea Rivette and Erick Buckley, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, Bobby Cronin’s Daybreak, Legally Blonde, Bill and Ted Save Broadway, Shrek, Wedding Singer, Jesus Christ Superstar, Seussical the Musical, RENT, Joseph, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Who’s Tommy and Broadway on Broadway - just to name a few. This year, Santoro was nominated for a few awards including Best Musical Director for his work on Fair Lawn HS Cabaret. Currently, Mr. Santoro teaches, composes, arranges, and orchestrates various songs for an assortment of shows and events in the NJ and NYC area. Have some projects in the works on Broadway so follow me on twitter @charles_santoro or check out my website charlessantoro.com

MEGAN FERENTINOS (Choreographer) -

                                                                      Is honored to be working on A Christmas Story - The Musical at the Barn Theatre.  She has been dancing and choreographing for over 20 years.  As the owner/director of her own dance studio she has lead her students to numerous awards and titles.  She choreographs for multiple theatres across the state of New Jersey and her most recent credits have included Cabaret, Gypsy, The Drowsy Chaperone, Tarzan, West Side Story, Urinetown, Spring Awakening, Barnum, Hair and the NYC Fringe Festival award winning Pope - An Epic Musical Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Lauren Moran Mills (Assistant Director and Child Supervisor)- New York: The Witch Hunt, Mi Media Naranja (SOAF)Destinations (PREMIER) College Daze (PREMIER); Theater Studio Inc. Regional:Working ,A Grand Night for Singing,The Last Five Years,The World Goes Round ,Romance Romance,The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, the critically received Side By Side By Sondheim, Mauritius, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune, The Smell of the Kill, Dirty Blonde, Wit, Kindertransport; The Women's Theater Company, Dracula: A Radio Play; 12MW, A Commedia Cinderella; The Growing Stage. Other favorite credits include: The Fanny Brice Story (world premier), Avenue Q, RENT, Ragtime, Jekyll and Hyde, A View from the Bridge, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged. She is the Performing Arts Coordinator at the Rosen Performing Arts Center in YMCA where she runs the dance school and is resident Director/Choreographer a Teaching Artist in residence with Pushcart Players, and Musical Theater Teacher at The Mayo Center for Performing Arts in Morristown. Lauren graduated from County College of Morris with a double degree in Drama and Dance and continued her education at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.

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