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FAITH PRINCE has been dazzling Broadway audiences since she swept the theatre awards winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as Ms. Adelaide in the critically-acclaimed revival of Guys and Dolls. In 2008, she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for A Catered Affair. Other Broadway credits include The Little Mermaid, Bells Are Ringing (Tony, DD, OCC noms), Nick & Nora (OCC Award), Jerome Robbins' Broadway (Tony, DD noms), Little Me, The Dead, Noises Off. She also starred in the world premiere of Terrence McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion. Faith guest starred on Lifetime's new hit series Drop Dead Diva, as well as Ugly Betty, Medium and CSI. She was a series regular on Showtime's Huff starring as "Kelly Knipers", the lovable and quirky love interest of Oliver Platt. Prince recurred for five seasons on Spin City. Other television credits include the self-titled series Faith, Sweet Potato Queens, Grey's Anatomy, House, Monk, Now and Again, Welcome To New York and Law and Order. Film credits include: Our Very Own with Allison Janney and Cheryl Hines, Picture Perfect, Dave, and My Father the Hero.

Tony Award winner JOHN LLOYD YOUNG originated the role of "Frankie Valli" in JERSEY BOYS, the Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and he sings lead vocals on the Grammy-winning, Certified-Platinum JERSEY BOYS album. As Frankie Valli, Mr. Young became the only American actor in history to win all four major acting honors for a Broadway debut: the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circleand Theatre World awards. His other honors for JERSEY BOYS include a caricature at NY's world-famous Sardi's Restaurant, and being named "Person of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. Now a resident of Los Angeles, Mr. Young appeared to sold-out audiences of 17,000-plus as "Marius" in LES MISERABLES at the Hollywood Bowl and was the first-ever guest star invited to appear on Fox's hit, Golden Globe Award-winning comedy, GLEE, as thumbless cough-syrup addict, “Henri.” Mr. Young has played to audiences at the White House, Carnegie Hall, New Year's Eve in Times Square, in two sold-out solo concerts at Lincoln Center, Yankee Stadium, the New York City Marathon, Kennedy Center, Staples Center, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Radio City Music Hall. In 2010, Mr. Young debuted his unique pop art which is now represented on the West Coast by Hollywood's Hamilton-Selway Gallery and on the East Coast at Boca Raton, FL's Elaine Baker Gallery.

Among the other charities Mr. Young enthusiastically supports are The Hole in the Wall Gang, amfAR,APLA, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Actors Fund of America.

Wesla, with her husband/pianist/arranger, Mike Greensill performs annually throughout the country and returned in 2007 for the 26th and final winter run in San Francisco‘s York Hotel Empire Plush Room. Together Mike and Wesla have opened at Michigan’s Meadowbrook, New Jersey’s Garden State Art Center and Flint Center in Cupertino for such notables as George Burns, Michael Feinstein and Frankie Laine. Solo symphonic appearances include two concerts with the San Francisco Symphony as well as San Jose, Sacramento, Omaha, Stockton, Napa, Auburn, Concord Pavilion, Santa Rosa and California Symphonies.

Wesla has appeared twice on Garrison Keillor’s national show, “Prairie Home Companion”, singing with the legendary trumpeter, Joe Wilder, on ‘Weekend Edition’ with Susan Stamberg, ‘On Fresh Air’ with Terry Gross, and on All Things Considered’ with Robert Siegel. In other radio appearances, Wesla and Mike were recent guests on the highly revered Marian McPartland PBS ‘Piano Jazz’ series. In TV venues, the pair have been featured five times on the Charles Grodin show, performed on the Regis and Kathie Lee show, and were the subject of a feature story on America’s favorite TV show, ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ with Charles Osgood. In summer of ‘95 Wesla and Michael appeared as part of the JVC Jazz Festival at Avery Fisher Hall in New York and also made their Carnegie Hall debut that same summer, participating the Tribute to Frank Sinatra. Since then they have appeared in the ‘96 Ella Fitzgerald, the ‘97 Nat Cole and the ‘98 Judy Garland tributes, also held at Carnegie Hall. In June of ‘96 they were invited by Hillary Clinton to perform at the White House. In October ‘98, Wesla debuted her one-woman, autobiographical show at the Kaufman Theater on 42nd street in New York to massive, critical acclaim.

Their seventeenth recording, featuring the Klinglehorn French French_Horn Quartet and Gary Foster on the HighNote record label was released in June of this year and has received rave reviews from Jazz Times and many other national publications. The October 2005 issue of Oprah Magazine hailed Wesla as ‘a phenomenal woman in a detailed three page article. As invited members of the repertory company and the ongoing salute to American Popular Song at Lincoln Center, Whitfield and Greensill perform often in New York as well as prominent Boston, Philadelphia and St. Louis venues. Most recently Wesla was seen as Martha Watson in the St. Louis MUNY’s production of ‘White Christmas’. In the Bay Area, their ongoing vocal workshop series provides vocalists from all over the country with invaluable instruction in the interpretive skills so necessary and integral a part of the Great American Popular songbook. This is Wesla's 10th appearance in a "Help is on the Way" performance.

Shawn Ryan, Semi-Finalist from NBC’s "America’s Got Talent" returns for his fifth performance with REAF. Whether it is acting, singing, or cracking audiences up on LOGO TV’s "One Night Stand Up", Shawn Ryan is taking the world by storm, one song at a time! Shawn has been seen on NBC's "Life", ABC's "Women's Murder Club" as the Transgendered Drag King, Karen Adams and will be seen in the Upcoming Indie Film "Nate and Margaret", opposite Natalie West. Shawn also founded The Young Actors' Theatre Camp, an Intensive Theatre Training Program for students ages 6-18 in the Bay Area, which he runs with his husband of 10 years, John Ainsworth. www.CampYATC.org   and www.ShawnRyanLive.com