Creative Team

The Wild Women Collaborative

Allison Lovejoy, award-winning concert pianist, composer and cabaret artist, performs internationally as a soloist and with such groups as Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Sohrab Pournazeri and The Graves Brothers Deluxe. The 7 Deadly Pleasures, her nouveau cabaret, was recently premiered by the Golden Gate Symphony at Herbst Theatre. Allison’s music direction for The Red Virgin garnered a Theatre Bay Area nomination. Her solo piano recordings include Allison Lovejoy Piano, Nocturnes and New Nocturnes, a collection of solo pieces written especially for her. She can be heard playing accordion on Ringo Starr’s latest recording, Ringo on a song by John Lennon, Grow Old With Me. She has scored several independent films and composed musicals and operettas for children. www.allisonlovejoy.com

Candace “Candy” Forest is a singer/musician, composer and producer creating vocal and instrumental music for soloists, chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras. She’s a 3-time winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award. She produced a film of her chamber musical, Viva Concha! Rose of the Presidio. Her full-length dance compositions include The Wizdom of Oz, commissioned by Canada’s Mountain Dance Theatre. Her symphonic score, All In This Together was premiered by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003. As a producer, Candace has worked with artists including Allison Lovejoy, Lua Hadar, Nancy Schimmel and Linda Hirschhorn. Candace has been a Teaching Artist and consultant for arts organizations including SF Opera, Opera America, SF Arts Ed Foundation and Opera Noir. Visit Candace’s YouTube Channel. www.livingroomtunes.com

Beth Wilmurt, a critically acclaimed performer and theater maker, has appeared in over 60 plays, musicals, dance pieces, and cabarets with a variety of companies and is a company member of Shotgun Players and founding member of Art Street Theatre. She directed Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness, Ibsen’s Nora and recently, an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters titled Kill the Debbie Downers! Kill Them! Kill Them! Kill Them Off! with frequent collaborator, Mark Jackson. Beth's latest work for Shotgun Players, The Cassandra Sessions: Recording This World, is currently running at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley. Beth has composed and arranged songs and choral music for Shotgun Players, Z Space and Hope Mohr Dance, and performed with Aurora Theatre Company, Erika Shuch Performance Project, Magic Theater, Banana Bag & Bodice (New York), Deutsches Theater Berlin (Germany), San Francisco Playhouse and Word for Word. www.bethwilmurt.com

Natalie Greene is a multidisciplinary performing artist working in the Bay Area since 2003 and currently serving as Artistic Director of the award-winning devised theater ensemble, Mugwumpin. She is on the faculty of University of San Francisco in the Dept. of Performing Arts & Social Justice. As a choreographer, Natalie has created work for ODC Theater, Shotgun Players, Z Space, Dance Mission, Cal Shakes, California Academy of Sciences, Custom Made Theater and San Francisco Airport. She has created works for many site-specific Bay Area locales and is a Teaching Artist for a variety of Arts education organizations and senior centers. Natalie has created educational programs and performances in Mexico and South America. Her groundbreaking work in Peru has been the subject of a documentary film. www.mugwumpin.org

Lua Hadar is a multi-lingual vocalist, comedienne, songwriter, independent producer and arts educator. She has created her own brand of world fusion music with her band, Twist, appearing in the Bay Area’s finest venues including Feinstein’s (San Francisco) and at New York’s Iridium and Cornelia Street Café. She’s charmed audiences at international festivals and clubs from San Francisco to Paris to Bangkok. Her French and Italian-themed shows are performed at clubs and private special events. Lua has released three albums and a live concert film, Like A Bridge. Her first music video, Our Common Humanity was premiered at the 2018 International Arts Festival in San Francisco. She released her second original music video, Saudade, in May 2020. As an arts educator, Lua works with Bay Area arts organizations including San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, and at her own Studio NPG. www.luahadar.com