Roberta Duchak is an award-winning music director, acclaimed Broadway actress, Broadway music supervisor, and sought-after vocal coach to both celebrity and Broadway talent, renowned for her impactful work in New York and Chicago theater.

Currently serving as the North American Music Supervisor for Broadway’s hit musical SIX, Roberta has built a sterling reputation for her expertise in vocal coaching, music direction, and performance. Her recent projects include Broadway: The Notebook (Vocal Coach) and Hell’s Kitchen (Vocal Coach) at The Public Theatre, now on Broadway.

With over three decades of experience in the entertainment industry, Roberta has mastered the intricate demands of sustaining vocal health for long Broadway runs and tours. She is widely recognized for coaching stars such as Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman for their roles in Les Misérables (Film), and her students consistently appear on Broadway, National Tours, TV/Film (including The Voice and American Idol), and in the recording industry.

A sought-after private coach, Roberta teaches in both Chicago and New York, and virtually, with a client list ranging from emerging artists to established performers. Her workshops and master classes on vocal technique, pop and musical theater auditions, and vocal performance are in high demand at universities nationwide.

As an actress, Roberta has graced stages on Broadway and National Tours, portraying iconic roles such as Mother in Ragtime, Magnolia and Ellie in Hal Prince's Showboat, Rona Lisa Peretti in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooge opposite Richard Chamberlain. She has also performed as a soloist at the renowned Ravinia Festival and released her own CD, Intersections.

Roberta has served as musical director for productions at notable venues like Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Goodman Theatre, and Drury Lane Theatre, earning two Jeff Awards and five nominations for her work. She is also the proud founder of Vocal Boot Camp America (vbcamerica.com), a program designed to help singers of all levels strengthen their skills and master a variety of vocal styles.

Cory Goodrich is a multi-talented artist—an award-winning actress, published author, recording artist, and painter—whose creative achievements span a wide array of disciplines.

She received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress for her roles as Mother in Drury Lane Oakbrook’s acclaimed production of Ragtime, and as June Carter Cash in the Jeff nominated Johnny Cash revue, Ring of Fire at Mercury Theater Chicago, where she was also seen as Alice in The Addams Family, and Alma in The Christmas Schooner, and Carol Brady in the hilarious war between the Partridges and the Bradys in The Bardy Bunch. Most recently, Cory played Heidi in Paramount’s What the Constitution Means to Me, Yvette in Porchlight’s Sunday in the Park with George, at Drury Lane as the onstage accordion player in Evita, and at the newly renovated Studebaker Theatre in the premiere of Skates, a New Musical, starring American Idol’s Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young. Upcoming roles include Lexi in the hilarious new movie. The OG Bootcamp.

A five time Jeff nominee, Cory has performed in productions at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Chicago Shakespeare, Theatre at the Center, Ravinia, Candlelight and Drury Lane. A Graduate of Michigan State University, she is also a singer/songwriter, producer, writer, and mother of two, children's composer with her two award winning CDs, Hush and Wiggly Toes, and three solo folk albums: W.O.M.A.N, Wildwood Flower,  a collection of traditional and original folk songs featuring the autoharp, and her latest project, Long Way Around, produced by Ethan Deppe of The Quiet Regret. She is co-producer of six Season of Carols CDs (Season of Carols, Holiday Music to Benefit Season of Concern, which garnered over $200K for the charity.) and The Second City Divas, Live at Mercury Theater CD with Eugene Dizon.

As author of the memoir Folksong: A Ballad of Death, Discovery, and DNA, Cory is a frequent guest speaker and advocate for people who have made a recent DNA discovery.

Visit www.corygoodrich.com for more information.

Amber Mak is a freelance Director, Choreographer, Producer, Dramaturg, Educator and Coach based out of the Chicagoland area. 

Collaboration is at the heart of every process and relationship she enters into when creating a theatrical work or teaching a class.  She loves stories and creating a shared experience for artists and audiences to connect together, for she believes that it is through these connections that transformative relationships can emerge and authentic community is created.  She truly believes shared experiences connect us and remind us of our humanity and have incredible power to inspire. 

She was lucky enough to begin her professional career 23 years ago as a Sophomore at Northwestern University in the ensemble of The Wizard of Oz at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. When she was in the 2nd grade she proclaimed she wanted to be a “coreografer” when she grew up and after performing professionally for about 15 years all over the United States, she started to make the transition to the creative team side. 

Since 2009, she has been directing and choreographing including assisting Susan Stroman on the 2013 Broadway production of Big Fish.  She was the founding artistic director of FWD Theatre Project in Chicago, an incubator dedicated to developing new musicals by producing readings in site appropriate spaces in which she had the honor of working with Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, the writers of Les Miserables. 

She was the Artistic Producer and New Works Director for the Paramount Theatre in Aurora from 2016 to 2022.  During her tenure there, she also directed and performed many of their award winning holiday shows that drew over 80,000 audience members each season.  She also helped to produce 3 world premieres for the theatre. 

She is a fierce feminist,  championing other female creative voices and prides herself in helping to mentor the next generation of theatre creators. As many of her projects have centered around the family friendly audience and iconic fairytale stories, she takes incredible care in making those stories accessible for each generation of audience sharing that experience.  She is also an advocate for working parent artists, as her most proud productions to date are her two young children.  She hopes she can be an agent of change in working industry standards so that more women and parents feel they have a choice in remaining in the industry as a creator.

Johanna McKenzie Miller is a versatile director, actress, and recording artist, celebrated for her extensive work across Chicago’s theater scene and beyond.

As a director, Johanna most recently helmed "Cinderella" at the Metropolis Performing Arts Theatre and the Marriott Lincolnshire's productions of The Wizard of Oz and Kiss Me, Kate, as well as Drury Lane’s Steel Magnolias. Her additional directing credits include A Peculiar Inheritance (the 91st Annual Waa-Mu Show at Northwestern University), the world premiere of Sherw’d (First Folio Theatre), New Faces Sing Broadway, Now! (Porchlight Music Theatre), and Junie B. Jones and Madagascar: A Musical Adventure for Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences.

Next up, Johanna will be directing the Regional Premiere of Frozen at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, PA.

Johanna holds a Bachelor of Music from Northern Illinois University and has graced the stage in roles such as Elizabeth in Young Frankenstein, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Katie Nana in Mary Poppins at Drury Lane Theatre. Her regional credits include Carousel at Long Wharf Theatre and The Sound of Music at Utah Festival Opera Company. Marriott Theatre audiences may remember her from productions such as Footloose!, Holiday Inn, and October Sky. She is also the Artistic Director and co-founder of Lombard Children’s Theater Workshop.