Ravinia 2019, Issue 4, Week 7

BARRIE LOBO MCLAIN A Brooklyn-based per- forming artist and cre- ator, Barrie Lobo Mc- Lain recently appeared in Hundred Days at New York Theatre Workshop and on tour (La Jolla Playhouse, Miami’s Arsht Center, Tampa’s Straz Center). She was also fea- tured backup for Andrew Rannells’s PBS special Live from Lincoln Center and a co-composer of Folk Wandering at the Pipeline Theatre Compa- ny. Other credits include Kansas City Choir Boy in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Miami; Sleep No More Off-Broadway; This Clement World at St. Ann’s Warehouse; Sherie Rene Scott’s All Will Be Well album; Julie Klausner Live at Joe’s Pub and the Bellhouse, and associate music di- rector under Todd Almond for Public Works’ inaugural production of The Tempest . McLain frequently collaborates with indie hip-hop pro- ducer Willie Green and appears on tracks with Open Mike Eagle, ELUCID, Billy Woods, and more. barriemclain.com KAITLIN MESH (vocalist and dancer) Kaitlin Mesh is a re- turning member of the Street Chorus in Ravin- ia’s production of Bern- stein’s Mass . Her Broad- way credits include Moulin Rouge , West Side Story (original Broad- way revival cast, as Zaza, understudying Any- bodys), Anything Goes (Virtue), Nice Work If You Can Get It (swing). Her film and TV experience includes Law & Order: SVU , Homeland , Power , Ted 2 , Mozart in the Jungle , The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , Best Time Ever with NPH , and the Tony Awards. Follow her work on Instagram @kaitlinmesh. JAMES ONSTAD His voice hailed by New Classic LA , tenor James Onstad is a versatile performer, equally at home on the recital, concert, and operatic stage. He has soloed with many leading ensembles and houses, such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Repertory Theater, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Onstad made his Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut last year in Bernstein’s Mass under the baton of Marin Al- sop at Ravinia Festival. Other highlights of his 2018–19 season include the title role of Candide with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the tenor soloist in John Cage’s operatic masterpiece Europeras I with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and a national recital tour with guitarist David Leisner this past spring. Onstad holds a bache- lor’s degree in biology from Harvard University as well as a master’s degree in vocal performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. JamesOnstad.com MICHAEL PREACELY Michael Preacely holds a bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Con- servatory of Music and a master’s degree from the University of Ken- tucky School of Music. He has performed with Opéra de Montréal, Op- era Noire, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Philadel- phia, Opera Memphis, Kentucky Opera, Cleve- land Opera, and Lyric Opera Cleveland. Preacely has also performed with numerous orchestras, including the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Pops, Hamil- ton-Fairfield Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Firelands Symphony, Middletown Symphony, Hilton Head Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, and Cincinnati Symphony. Preacely’s repertoire in- cludes Marcello in Puccini’s La bohème , Porgy, Jake, and Crown in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess , the High Priest in Saint-Saëns’s Samson and De- lilah, Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff , Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca , the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera , Rigoletto and Marullo in Verdi’s Rigoletto , Sono- ra in Puccini’s La fanciulla del West , Figaro in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville , and Germont in Verdi’s La traviata . www.michaelpreacely.com • Instagram @mpbaritone DANIEL ROWAN Daniel Rowan just fin- ished playing Hedwig in Hedwig And The Angry Inch at ZACH Theatre in Austin. Off-Broad- way credits include The Dreyfus Affair with Pe- ter Scolari at Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Fantasticks as Matt/Mute. Regional credits include Candide with Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, con- ducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; the title role of Jesus Christ Superstar ; Enjolras in Les Misérables ; Chris in Miss Saigon ; Anthony in Sweeney Todd at Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth, TX; Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar at ACT of Con- necticut. Opera credits include Marc in Randall Eng’s Florida at UrbanArias in Washington, DC. ISABEL SANTIAGO Isabel Santiago is a singer and film, televi- sion, and theater actress based in New York City. Her film and television credits include Maria Sliva in the feature film Martin Eden (to be released fall 2019), Isabel Delgado on the CBS drama Blue Bloods , and CBS’s A Gifted Man . She will also be heard on the movie soundtrack for In The Heights , di- rected by Jon M. Chu. In theater, Santiago has originated two roles in major works by Mi- chael John LaChiusa—Petra in Giant and Anita Castelo in First Daughter Suite —at the Public Theater. After touring the United States/Tokyo as Daniela in the first national tour of In The Heights , she went on to reprise the role for The- ater Under the Stars in Houston and perform as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at The Hangar Theatre and Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen with The Tectonic Theatre Project. Concert high- lights include Bernstein’s Mass at Ravinia and both Anita in West Side Story and The Baron- ess in Candide with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Instagram @mynamesIsabel RAVINIA MAGAZINE | JULY 15 – JULY 21, 2019 98