Sheldon Forrest, Musical Director, is a classically-trained jazz and cabaret pianist from Los Angeles, California, who has been working in musical theater for the last 20 years in San Francisco, New York, and Paris. Credits include Sondheim's "Assassins," Weill's "Threepenny Opera," and "Falling Through A Hole In the Air" (a musical about the life of scientist Stephen Hawking) with City College of San Francisco, "A Day In Hollywood/A Night In the Ukraine" with the Masquers Playhouse in Point Richmond, CA, "Into the Woods" and "Guys and Dolls" with the Joe Sent Me Club (dinner theater, in San Francisco), the first Manhattan revival of "The Fantasticks" at the 45th Street Theater in New York, "A Chorus Line" at City College of New York, "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown" and "High School Musical" with the West Milford Players in New Jersey, "Nineteen Secrets" (a gospel musical about the life of Harriet Tubman) at the Hudson Opera House, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," "Aladdin," and "Willy Wonka" with Linda's Musical Theater Group for Kids in San Francisco. Sheldon also played for musical theater classes at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. This is his third year as musical director with American Childrens Theater of Paris.
Anastasia Slojneva, pianist, took part at the International Festival of Music, Montreux-Vevey, in 1997. She gave multiple concerts in numerous venues in Brussels and at the European Commission, and now works as a piano accompanist for various music conservatories in Paris. She continues to study with renowned artists as Georg Steinschaden (Austria), Jeff Cohen (France) and Martin Katz (USA). She gives chamber music concerts in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and accompanies singers and choirs.
Pierre- Etienne Malefond - Guitar
Doug Stanley - various instruments! and musical transposition/arrangement
Nicolas Martinez - drums