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BARRIE LOBO
MCLAIN
A New York City–based
performing artist and
creator, Barrie Lobo
McLain recently ap-
peared in
Hundred
Days
at New York The-
atre Workshop. She was also a featured backup
for Andrew Rannells’s
Live from Lincoln Center
performance and a co-composer of
Folk Wan-
dering
at the Pipeline Theatre Company. 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;
Second Hand News
on Salty Brine’s
“Spectacular Living Record Collection” caba-
ret series;
A Play on War
at Theater Mitu; and
Bonnaroo as a soloist with Fresh Ground Pep-
per’s Camp Over There.
KAITLIN MESH
(vocalist and dancer)
Kaitlin Mesh’s Broad-
way credits include
West Side Story
(orig-
inal Broadway revival
cast, as Zaza, under-
studying
Anybodys),
Anything Goes
(Virtue),
Nice Work If You Can
Get It
(swing). Her film and TV experience
includes
Law & Order: SVU
,
Homeland
,
Pow-
er
,
Ted 2
,
Mozart in the Jungle
,
The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert
,
Best Time Ever with NPH
,
and the Tony Awards. Mesh is also involved as
a magician’s assistant in
The Magician
at the
NoMad Hotel. Follow her work on Instagram
@kaitmesh.
JAMES ONSTAD
Well-versed in both op-
era and concert, James
Onstad has performed
with Lyric Opera of
Chicago’s Lyric Unlim-
ited, The Industry, the
American
Repertory
Theater, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
This fall, Onstad will perform the title role of
Bernstein’s
Candide
with the Knoxville Sym-
phony Orchestra, and he will make his debut
with the LA Philharmonic in a production of
John Cage’s
Europeras I & II.
Onstad has worked
closely with Los Angeles’s experimental opera
company The Industry, creating the role of Ted
Hinton in its production of Andrew McIntosh’s
Bonnie and Clyde
, and Orfeo in its mobile-im-
mersive production of
Hopscotch
. His credits
also include such highlights as Tom Rakewell in
Stravinsky’s
The Rake’s Progress
, Sam in Weill’s
Street Scene
, and Amida in Cavalli’s
L’Ormin-
do
. Onstad holds a bachelor’s degree in biology
from Harvard University and a master’s degree
in vocal performance from the Cincinnati Col-
lege-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
ISABEL SANTIAGO
This summer Isabel
Santiago will reprise
the role of Anita in
West Side Story
with
the Philadelphia Or-
chestra at the Saratoga
Performing Arts Cen-
ter, performing under the baton of Yannick
Nézet-Séguin. She has created roles in two of
Michael John LaChiusa’s musicals—Petra in
Giant
and Anita Castelo in
First Daughter Suite,
both at The Public Theater. Santiago is currently
working on her third LaChiusa musical, titled
The Gardens of Anuncia
,
with The Old Globe
as well as
Far From the Tree
, a new musical di-
rected by Michael Greif at The Public Theater.
For future updates, please follow Instagram
@mynamesIsabel.
KARIM SULAYMAN
Tenor Karim Sulay-
man, has garnered
worldwide
attention
as a sophisticated and
versatile artist of his
generation. Highlights
this season include
his Australian debut as Testo in Montever-
di’s
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
,
his debut with the National Symphony at the
Kennedy Center in Handel’s
Messiah
, a nation-
al tour in the title role in Monteverdi’s
L’Orfeo
with Apollo’s Fire, and Bernstein’s
Mass
at the
Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. Upcoming engagements include his
debut at Stockholm’s Drottningholms Slottste-
ater creating the role of Claudio Monteverdi
in
Syskonen i Mantua
and appearing as Nerone
in Monteverdi’s
L’incoronazione di Poppea
with
Florentine Opera. In April 2018, he released his
debut solo album,
Songs of Orpheus
, on the Avie
label to international acclaim, hitting number
five on
Billboard
’s Traditional Classical chart
and number three on the iTunes Classical chart.
www.karimsulayman.com / Twitter @KarimSu-
layman / Instagram @thekarimsulayman
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