Regional theater credits include productions at Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, Pioneer Theater Company, Gem Theater (Detroit), CT Repertory Theater and Hangar Theater. 

Writing credits: Gamers (2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival - Encore Award, 2017 O’Neill National Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, UCLA New Play Festival), [feel the difference] (Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Festival), The Gift (devised piece presented at UCLA’s The Ones), Home for the Feeble Minded Children, The Joan Crawford Project, Happy Songs (cabaret performance at the Metropolitan Room), his one-person play Ye Bare and Ye Cubb—and the incurious battle of right and wrong from a Master of Fine Arts (Candidate, pending), Penelope-PCSA (digital web-series) and material for Transcendence Theater Company in Sonoma, CA. 

He has taught and directed for many educational institutions including UCLA (Teaching Fellowship with the LGBTQ Studies Department), Broadway Classroom, Theater Arts Center, Professional School for the Arts, Transcendence Theater Company, Wagner College, Hunter College Elementary, NY Film Academy, Wellesley Theater Project and Theater 360 Performing Arts Center. 

Awards and grants include the 2004 Tony Honor (Big River), Grammy Citation for Best Cast Album (The Book of Mormon), Tim Robbins Playwriting Award, Sono Osato Scholarship, Caroline H. Newhouse Scholarship and the George Burns & Gracie Allen Fellowship in Comedy.

Mrs. Rymar serves as producer of the Musical Theatre Conservatory’s productions, as well as overseeing the production and booking of the a cappella singing group, OCSA Unplugged. She’s directed Urinetown, Titanic, Changing Minds (West Coast Premiere), Once Upon A Mattress, Once on this Island, Honk!, Seussical, Babes in Arms, Rumors and Bigger than Life. Outside of the Musical Theatre Conservatory, she has directed for various one-act festivals, Quilters, Carousel, and Once Upon a Mattress.
 
As a guest artist liaison, she has booked various industry professionals for masterclasses, Q&A sessions, and collaborative performances with our students. She created and still produces and directs our Performing with the Pros program, which is an exciting performance series that gives students the opportunity to rehearse, collaborate, and perform side-by-side with entertainment industry professionals. Through this program, students have had the unique opportunity to share the stage with Broadway stars, such as Tony-nominated Broadway performers Susan Egan and Liz Callaway, Tony-Award winners Alice Ripley and Jason Robert Brown, as well as Eden Espinosa, Krysta Rodriguez, Danny Gurwin, Anne Runolfsson, David Burnham, Teri Bibb, Karen Culliver, and Lindsay Mendez.

Since 2007, Ms. Barron has been directing, choreographing and producing shows in Orange County at Orange Coast College, Orange County School of the Arts, Huntington Central Park and Grand Central Art Center. She is a part of the Artistic Team for esteemed company, Shakespeare Orange County and helped launch Temptation!, an original musical adaptation with Peter Uribe. Ms. Barron is an accomplished vocalist and has had the privilege to study and work with some of the top names in Musical Theatre and Jazz. Some of her favorites include Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line), Matthew Morrison (Glee, Light in The Piazza), Susan Egan (Beauty and the Beast, Hercules), Danny Gurwin (A New Brain, The Scarlett Pimpernel) and Jeff Hamilton (The Jeff Hamilton Trio, Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra). Ms. Barron also has been featured on a number of award-winning albums and in music videos.

In addition to her teaching career, Ms. Bartosch has performed professionally with top musical theater and choral groups. She has sung as a soprano soloist throughout the United States and Europe, and can also be heard as a cantor and event soloist for the Catholic Diocese of Orange County. Most recent stage credits include Hunchback of Notre Dame (Esmeralda), The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Pippi), and Nunsense (Sister Amnesia). Other favorite roles include Carousel (Julie Jordan), Steel Magnolias (Annelle), Evita (The Mistress), La Clemenza di Tito (Vitellia), Candide (Cunegonde), Cosi fan tutte (Despina), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rosa Bud), and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Milly).

In addition, she works with California State Summer School for the Arts, as a acting, movement, and mask instructor since 1989, and has been the chair of the theater area since 2011. She works with Shakespeare Center Los Angeles as a teaching artist, in collaboration with East Los Angeles Performing Arts Academy, a small learning community which is part of Esteban Torres High School. This collaboration is part of a partnership with the Huntington Library and Gardens. She has been on the faculty of CalArts since 1984, and has also served as an adjunct, on the faculties of USC, California State University at Long Beach, and as part of the Education Program at the Center Theatre Group.

Her singing experience has included classical and musical theatre performances as well as jazz and commercial music styles.  She has appeared in principle and supporting roles with San Diego Opero, Opera Pacific, Long Beach Opera and Guild Opera.  Other performances have included choral works, cabaret performances and a jazz trio. She is a member of the Music Teacher’s Association of California and the National Association of Teachers of Singing and is a certified Voiceworks® teacher. Ms. Dugaw has voice students at OCSA in the Music and Theatre, Classical Voice, Integrated and Popular Music Conservatories.  In addition to her work at OCSA, she maintains a private piano and voice studio in Costa Mesa where she teaches students age five to seventy-five in varied styles ranging from pop, rock, R&B and jazz to musical theatre and classical.

She has coordinated the acting and singing classes for nationally recognized community outreach program, Camp OCSA. She has performed, directed and choreographed at many theatres and schools throughout Southern California including South Coast Conservatory, Saddleback College and Civic Light Opera, Pacific Symphony’s Arts-x-press and OCSA’s elective dance department and summer program, Best of Broadway. Ms. Hebson also serves as member of Dance Discovery Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the performing arts.

Trisha is a UCLA graduate and the recipient of the Carol Burnett Award and the Spotlight Award of the Los Angeles Music Center. Trisha began coaching young actors on their Broadway auditions several years ago through Broadway Kids Auditions in NYC. She has also taught Master Classes in Audition Technique for graduate students at UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Trisha looks forward to bringing her experience and passion for teaching to the Musical Theater Conservatory students at the Orange County School of the Arts.

As a pianist and composer, Mr. Kobayashi has performed and recorded in a variety of musical settings. He has performed with Mel Torme, Peter Frampton, Margaret Whiting, Tom Scott, Kenny Burrell, Peter White, Jerry Van Dyke, comedian Bob Saget, and Paula Kelly Jr., as well as the Modernaires. Additionally, Ron and his band have shared the stage with David Sanborn, the rock group Berlin, Eddie Palmieri, David Benoit, Cirque Du Soleil, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Mr. Kobayashi’s jazz trio has recorded five CDs and one DVD to date, receiving airplay around the world. In 1992, he performed for President Bill Clinton. Additionally, in 1996 his jazz trio was awarded Outstanding Jazz Group in Orange County by the Orange County Weekly. And in 2012, they were nominated for Best Jazz by the Orange County Music Awards. Over the past 30 years, Mr. Kobayashi's television appearances have included: featured performer on The Johnny Yune Television Show, the Jerry Lewis Telethon, and several appearances on the TVONE series Life After. For five years, he served as Music Director for the Annual Hollywood Diversity Awards, where stars, including Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, and George Lopez were honored. Several cuts from his Trio’s discs were used in the Gary Busey movie, Sam and Janet.

Her television appearances include The Kennedy Center Honors, PBS’s Live at Lincoln Center, five Tony Awards telecasts, Dancing with the Stars, The Late Show with David Letterman, the CBS Morning Show, The View, and Good Morning America.

She has performed in numerous regional theaters across the country, can be heard on five original Broadway cast recordings and toured North America with Cats and Fosse. She has also appeared as a principle singer with the Pittsburgh Symphony and in the 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists concert series in New York City, NY. She has taught Mind Body Voice, choreographed Jasper in Deadland and directed/choreographed Sweet Charity at OSCA in the Musical Theatre Conservatory. Most recently, she directed and choreographed The Addams Family and Hairspray at Florida State University.

Always in search of more creative challenges she turned her attention to writing and moved behind the camera as a writer producer for hour television dramas.  She wrote and produced for “Silk Stalkings,” “Nash Bridges,” “Pacific Blue” and for “Felicity” and creator J.J. Abrams of  “Star Trek” and “Star Wars The Force Awakens” fame.

Terri has also taught at the Masters Writing Program at USC and directed their One Act Play Showcase.  Ms. Treas has been a lead teacher at The Playground, an on-camera conservatory for kids and teens, where she has taught the advanced and Professional Programs.  One of the graduation films from her Professional Programs, which Terri co-wrote and co-directed with Danielle Vernengo, was a finalist at the Broad Humor Film Festival. She has directed 6 short films for the Playground Professional Program. She has appeared on “Oprah,” “Good Morning America” and been interviewed by all of the major newspapers in the country.