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JBH PRODUCTION PERSONNEL

Staff
Job Title
Art Sanborn Producer, Acting CFO
Ellen Sanborn Producer
David Sanborn Producer
Robert Blume Producing Consultant
Jason Baruch Attorney
Felicia M. Lopes General Manager
Les Schecter Public Relations Consultant 
Anne Rippey Type A Marketing - Marketing Firm
Sean Cavanagh Set Designer
Joshua Wan Orchestrator/ Music Director
Don Stephens Associate Music Director and Orchestrator/Arranger
Sean A. Sanborn Webmaster
Sandy Inbody Associate Producer
Mark Inbody Associate Producer

Associate Personnel
(Design Consultants from the World Premier Production)

Staff
Job Title
Martin Heap Production Consultant
J.T. Moore Light Designer
Melissa Quek Choreographer
Kelley Starre Costume Designer
Bret Yount Stage Combat Director

David M SanbornArthur T. Sanborn
(Producer, Acting CFO, USA)

Chairman of the Sanborn Family Foundation; Former positions include: CFO- Shepherdsong Productions, Inc; CFO - Epic Entertainment Singapore, Pte. Ltd.; Hospital Administrator- George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; Regional Director- Youth With A Mission; Administrator- School of Music Ministries, International; Lecturer and Keynote Speaker at many universities and conferences worldwide; Author- “A Walking Miracle.”(YWAM Publishing, 2007); University of Maryland.

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Ellen SanbornEllen Sanborn
(Producer, USA)
(Miriam)

Producer, Co-writer, Co-composer and Director – World Premier of Judah Ben-Hur. Co-Writer/Composer/Producer: King David, Judah Ben-Hur, Christmas Around the World; Director: The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, The Matchmaker; As a Singer and Actress, Sanborn has recorded several albums (such as her Jazz fusion series, incl. Jazz Refuge and Jazz Praise) and has shared the marquee with such legends as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Cleo Lane and Gene Krupa. She and her husband, Art, have spent nearly 30 years in international relief work.  Graduate of Arts Educational Trust, London, England.

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David M SanbornDavid Sanborn
(Producer, USA)
(Judah Ben-Hur)

Producer, Co-writer, Co-composer of the musicals, Judah Ben-Hur and Song of the Shepherd; Founding President of Shepherdsong Productions, Inc., which has employed as many as 120 people at one time.  Favorite roles as an actor include Tony in West Side Story, Peter in The Witness, Jesus in The Miracle, and Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas. Featured in dozens of radio, TV and magazine interview, Sanborn has received accolades from such international media organizations as Elle Magazine and MTV.   Member:  AEA. Bachelor of Music/Theatre - Wheaton College Conservatory

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ROBERT BLUME Robert Blume
(Producing Consultant)

President:  Blume Media Group Ltd., Presenter/Executive Producer: Annual Drama Desk Awards;   Producer Credits: Busker Alley, Long Road Home, Earthlings, Me And Jezebel, Shades of Harlem, Legends In Concert, The Head, Slask, Manny, The Edward G. Robinson Story, Coming of Age, Angels, Dinner With Ahmed, Marlowe, Let My People Come reality show, You’re it! Looping, the Jule Styne project, Milton & Me, Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, , The National Folk Ballet Of Poland (28 cities in the US and Canada); Corporate events:  Lot Airlines, IBM Int'l Marketing Group; Production staff: Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Graduate: Brooklyn College; Member: AFTRA, AEA, AGVA, IATSE, SSDC, ASCAP, NATAS, Players Club, Broadway League.

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JASON BARUCHJason Baruch
(Attorney
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Partner: Sendroff & Baruch, LLP. Broadway Production counsel: The Producers (Broadway, National Tours and  foreign productions), Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel, On Golden Pond, Dame Edna: Back With A Vengeance, Death of a Salesman, Dance of Death, The Price, Dirty Blonde and The Exonerated.

Legal counsel to many regional theatres such as Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Clients in music industry, print authors, producers, writers, actors and others such as Frankie Valli, ("Jersey Boys") Steven Sater ( "Spring Awakening") Idina Menzel, and Michael Starobin. Former Partner: Franklin Weinrib Rudell & Vassallo, P.C.; Graduate: Yale College, NYU Law School and University of Hong Kong.  
Member: New York and California Bar Associations.

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FELICIA M. LOPES Felicia M. Lopes
(General Manager)

Producing Artistic Director: Eastern Gate Entertainment; Associate Producer, ANGELS The Musical; General Manager: Drama Desk Awards (2001 to 2006); National Counsel for Dallas Black Dance Theatre; Off-Broadway plays: Dinner with Ahmed, Fan’s Mate and The Great Divorce, Shades of Harlem: The Cotton Club Musical, The Luigi Board, You’re it!!, and Once a Man/Twice a Boy; Broadway Musicals: The Lion King and Chicago. MFA graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts’ Assoociate Member of the American League of Theatres & Producers.

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FELICIA M. LOPESLES SCHECTER  Les Schecter
(Public Relations Consultant)

President of L.S. Public Relations, Inc.; Associate Producer and publicist: Drama Desk Awards; Publicized more  than 30 Broadway, Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions such as Irene,  SizwBanzi Is Dead, The Island; Two By Two, Angels and Busker Alley.  Television: Live from Lincoln Center (ten years), Nature (ten years) and American Playhouse (14 years), Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants (1982 through 1990). Reporter: Daily Mirror; Editor: WCBS-TV News; National News Public Relations: ABC Network News; VP, Frank Goodman Associates; Member: The Players Club, Director’s Guild of America, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Graduate: CCNY

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Anne Rippey Anne Rippey
(Type A Marketing - Marketing Company) (contract pending)

President, Type A Marketing; former vice president of Broadway marketing for TMG; Specializes in representing live entertainment on Broadway, as well as the road and international productions.  Among Type A's client list are the Broadway and touring companies of A Catered Affair, A Chorus Line, The Phantom of the Opera and Thurgood, Ain't Misbehavin', Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, Curvy Widow, Go Diego Go, Flat Stanley, Little House on the Prairie, My Fair Lady and Xanadu; Recipient of the 2005 League Award for Outstanding Achievement in Marketing.  BA Graduate: Harvard.

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Sean Cavanagh
(Set Designer)

President of Cavanagh Theatrics; Founding Director of Theatreset, Ltd, as well as Riding Lights Theatre Co., England;  London West End Credits: The Tempest, Sherlock Holmes-The Musical, Never the Sinner, Treasure Island, Miracle Worker, In Praise of Love, Stepping Out, The Roy Orbison Story, Of Mice and Men and Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, among others. Int’l & Touring: Edward III, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sound of Fury, The Rat Pack, Pickwick, Dancing in the Street, and Of Mice and Men, among others;  Graduate of RADA and Central School of Art Design

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JOSHUA WANJoshua Wan
(Orchestrator / Music Director)

Orchestrated, produced and arranged recordings and concerts for Judah Ben-Hur, world premier, and such Asian pop-stars as Tracy Huang, Surei, Dick Lee, Jackie Cheung, Jacintha, Eric Moo, Sky Wu, Jeff Chang, Sandy Lam, Kit Chan, Mavis Hee, Fann Wong, Tanya Chua, Carol Banawa, Jai and Mark Chan.  As one of the leading composer/orchestrators of Singapore, he has been the Music Director for many of Singapore’s national celebrations and music festivals, including National Day, and in 2003, wrote the National Day theme song, One United People. Graduate of Berklee College of Music.

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Don StephensDon Stephens
(Associate Music Director and Orchestrator/Arranger)

Producer, arranger and pianist for six albums; thirty years experience in musical theater accompaniment for such productions as Guys and Dolls, Camelot, Judah Ben-Hur, and My Fair Lady.  Graduate WV Wesleyan College. Stephens has spent most of the past decade as a relief worker in Bosnia.

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Sean SanbornSean Sanborn
(Webmaster)

Computer programmer and analyst for several Silicon Valley computer companies including G.E. Nuclear, as a consultant with Keene Technologies; Has created and maintained websites for companies in USA and Asia.  Graduate: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Stetson University.

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Sandy InbodySandy Inbody
(Associate Producer)

Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. as a dancer, choreographer, Staging Specialist on shows, parades and special events for Fifteen years.  Her last five years were spent recruiting and hiring performers for all four theme parks as part of the Creative Entertainment Talent Casting Team.  Other credits:  Sight & Sound Theatres in Lancaster, PA, as Recruiting/Casting Director and Cast Manager and The Miracle Theater. Pigeon Forge, TN as Choreographer, Casting Director and Associate Director working with the producing/creative team.

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Mark InbodyMark Inbody
(Associate Producer)

Mark Inbody enjoyed twenty (20) years with Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.  He spent his time in the Entertainment Division of the company where he participated in shows, parades and hundreds of special events.  The next six years were spent in Lancaster, PA where he performed for Sight & Sound Theatres, the nations largest professional Christian Theater.  From there he traveled to Pigeon Forge, TN with his wife to assist The Miracle Theater’s producing team and perform in shows.

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Associate Personnel
(Design Consultants from the World Premier Production)

 

Martin Heap
(Production Supervisor/ Consultant)

Former Technical and Production Manager for Andrew Lloyd Weber's London and international productions of Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Jesus Christ Superstar, among many others. Member of the Society for London Theaters.

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J.T. Moore
(Light Designer)

International work includes work in 13 countries across five continents; Credits include: Toymaker’s Dream, Greatest Story Ever Told, Gospel according to Groucho and Judah Ben-Hur. Graduate of Texas Tech University.

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Melissa Quek
(Choreographer)

Dance Scholarship B.A. Graduate of NYU.  Winner of many international dance competitions.  Credits include:  Tammy Wong Dance Company, Asia Pacific Dance awards and the World Premier production of Judah Ben-Hur.

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Kelley Starre
(Costume Designer)

President of K* Starre Designs, her designs have been featured at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, the Southern Ballet Theater, Orange Bowl Half-Time Show, Universal Studios, Fox Network Television, Page Turner Adventures, Disney World, the World Premier of Judah Ben-Hur, as well as several international magazines and newspapers. B.A. in Clothing and Textile Design from the University of North Carolina.

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Bret Yount
(Stage Combat Director)

Professor of Stage Combat at England’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; Member of Equity (UK) and British Academy of Screen Combat. Professional work has been seen in London, New York and the Cannes Festival.

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