CREATIVE TEAM

Ms. Conole’s lifelong work in music, theater and television has taken her on many exciting journeys since being voted "Most Musical" in the 1976 Martha's Vineyard Regional HS Senior Yearbook, and appearing in subsequent leading roles in island productions of Pirates of Penzance, Side By Side By Sondheim, Annie and Gigi. She has earned her numerous awards – a 1995 Parents’ Choice Gold and 1999 NAPPA Gold for her two lullaby albums; a 2008 Bronze Telly for her creativity-themed kids’ TV show pilot Ms. Mola’s Make-ola! (for which she also wrote all the music), a 2010 PBS/CPB Web Game Development Grant for the online We Can Waste Wise, featuring her original characters, the Re-cycolas!, a 2011 Crystal Reel Award for her short spoof RePSYCHOla Mola!, and 2011 and 2008 United Arts of Central Florida Artist Development Grants for her musical compositions. She has written and produced two original musical shows for children, as well as the score for the Orlando Fringe Festival musical hit The Weekly Actor of the Year Competition. Her choral works are performed frequently by the Bach Festival of Winter Park, the National Shrine at Mary Queen of the Universe Basilica, Rollins College choirs and the outstanding female a capella group Seraphim. As a performer, she has played numerous leading roles in musicals, sang with the Light Opera of Manhattan, was an improvisational and musical performer at Disney, and sang first soprano with the acclaimed Voices of Liberty at EPCOT. She also plays numerous instruments including flute, French horn and viola. See www.mollyconole.com for further credits. Molly is also the proud, real-life mom of Amelia and Penelope Dutton, fellow cast members, and dedicates this performance to her lifelong source of inspiration, her mom, Sally Gibbons Ward Dunkley.

Amelia’s onstage experience includes many theatrical and musical performances. She has played leading roles in at IMP Camp on Martha’s Vineyard, including in Bluebeard, Hamlet, and the current role of Prospero in The Tempest. Performances at Winter Park High School, where she is a rising senior, include leading roles in Bluebeard and Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread (part of All in the Timing). As a young vocalist, her recording session work included being a featured vocalist on the DVD Barney Goes to the Farm. She has sung the opening "Hodie" in Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols under the baton of Dr. John Sinclair of the Bach Festival of Winter Park, as well as solos with the Bach Festival of Winter Park’s Children’s Chorus. She is also an accomplished viola player, performing in the movie The Happiness Experiment, with the FYSO, Alvaro Gomez’s Chamber Music Society, and the MAYS Orchestra, where she also plays timpani. She was timpanist with the 2010 State Championship winning Winter Park HS Marching Band. Her artwork has won Best in Show in the Winter Park Library's show of student works, and appeared in the film "The Happiness Experiment." She also has done storyboards for "Ms. Mola's Make-ola!" and other productions, and plans to pursue a career in art.

As a recent graduate of Glenridge Middle School, Penelope has performed the leading roles of Mama Euralie in Once On This Island, and Sunny in The Toys Take Over Christmas. She also appeared as a Who in Seussical, the Musical. She is an experienced actor and improvisational performer, with 8 years of IMP Camp experience, she has appeared in numerous productions, including as the title role in Antigone, and as Goldilocks in the musical Bears Beware. A quick study, she recently went onstage as a last-minute understudy – with no rehearsal – for a Winter Park HS production of Bluebeard. She is also an accomplished instrumentalist, playing bassoon with the MAYS Orchestra, 2012’s All County Band, and the Glenridge MS Band, where she also plays baritone sax in the jazz band. She is also currently rehearsing as mellophonist with the Winter Park HS Marching Band. She sings and dances with her church choir and the WINGS Dancers. She also writes and arranges music. Her sextet arrangement of America the Beautiful was featured at Glenridge MS’s Veteran’s Day ceremony.

Ms. Slage is a singer and collaborative pianist who enjoys working in many settings and styles of music, including musical theater, classical, opera, sacred, and Klezmer. She has performed in three previous Orlando Fringe Festival shows, including Romance/Romance (music director/pianist); The Weekly Actor of the Year Competition (pianist); and Psalms of the Heart (singer/actor/pianist). She is an adjunct faculty member of the Rollins College Music Department (collaborative pianist/piano teacher) and also works with students in the school’s Theater Department. Kathy has accompanied individuals and groups in classical concerts, theater productions and cabaret shows. She most recently appeared in a cabaret show at the University of Central Florida entitled A Fine Romance, with singer Jacqueline Rawiszer, performing music of the great Jewish American songwriters including Gershwin, Arlen, Berlin, and Rodgers.

Formerly of Martha’s Vineyard, currently in search of the next thing in the next place and happy to be working with Molly.