Olivya S.K. Moore is an American Soprano. She has performed in the ensemble of many Greensboro Opera productions including Porgy & Bess, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Don Giovanni. She has also performed in Suor Angelica as La Sorella Infermiera. This upcoming season she will be performing with Piedmont Opera in Pagliacci and Carmen, Greensboro Opera in Pirates of Penzance, & North Carolina Opera in Il Trovatore. Olivya has performed as Countess Almaviva (Marriage of Figaro) and Adalgisa (Norma) for programs in Italy and the US. Olivya is a recent graduate of UNCG receiving her Masters of Music in Vocal Performance.

 

Soprano Michael Adams is currently studying to complete her Master’s in Vocal Performance at the Bard Conservatory where she studies with Edith Bers. She recently performed in Broadway Celebration concert with The Orchestra Now (2024)
and Come out of the Cold: A Winter Cabaret (2024). She performed in the ensemble of the World Premier of Omar at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina as well as the production in Chapel Hill. In 2024, Michael placed in the National
Association for Negro Musicians’ young artist competition in Los Angeles.

 

Reginald Powell, Baritone, is a 28-year-old from Wilson, North Carolina. He holds both a bachelors and masters degree in Vocal Music Performance from the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. Performance credits include Sarastro - Die Zauberflöte, Pistola -
Falstaff, Simone - Gianni Schicchi, Antonio Salieri - Mozart and Salieri, Keçal - The Bartered Bride, and Guglielmo - Cosi fan tutte with UNCG Opera Theater; King Balthazar - Amahl and the Night Visitors and Jim - Porgy and Bess with Greensboro Opera; and Count Almaviva - LeNozze di Figaro with the International Young Artists Project. Powell has been a featured baritone soloist with both Charlotte and Greensboro Symphony Orchestra’s productions of Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. In 2023, Powell competed in the National round of NATS where he placed 3rd in his division. He continues to perform and is doing his fourth season with North
Carolina Opera. 

 

 

Detra Davis is an educator and performer with a career that blends teaching and performing arts. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from the University of the Virgin Islands and a Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice Performance from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her extensive experience spans teaching at various educational levels and performing in diverse venues globally. Davis has also conducted choirs and served as a musical director in community theaters. She is currently the conductor of the Greensboro Tarheel Chorus, an active barbershop choir, as well as Director of Choral Activities at Fayetteville State University. 

 

Dr. Gretchen Bruesehoff is a vocalist, music director, and professor. She has performed nationally and internationally in both opera and musical theatre, with roles including Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Annina (La Traviata), Elle Woods (Legally Blonde), and Alice Beineke (The Addams Family). This season, she joins North Carolina Opera as Dorothèe in Cendrillon. She has sung with Andrea Bocelli and performed in venues such as St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal. As an educator, she is passionate about empowering the next generation of holistic artists to lead with authenticity, curiosity, and bold creative voice. 

  

Trevor Hudson is thrilled to be part of this incredible production! A proud 2nd-year BFA Music Theatre major at Elon University, his recent credits include C.C. White (Dreamgirls), Papa Ge (Once on This Island), and Miss Argentina (Beetlejuice Jr. – Pilot Production). Trevor is deeply grateful for the opportunity to share his passion and thanks you for supporting the arts. Enjoy the show!

 

Sammy Azua is stepping into her senior year at Elon University, where she’s pursuing a BFA in Music Theatre with a minor in Psychology and proudly serving as the Executive Vice President of the student body. She is overjoyed to be a part of Rewind: 1668 and hopes you enjoy!

 

Travis Foust is excited to be a part of this production! Recent theatre credits include; Riley in “Parade”(NRACT), Paolo “Bridges of Madison County”(McGreggor Hall), Topher “Cinderella”(McGreggor Hall), Jamie “The last five years” (Elon University). He is an audio engineer, musician and graduate of Elon University in Music Production and recording arts. Travis would like to thank his family for their great support as well as his voice teacher, Gretchen Bruesehoff.

 

 

Alexandra Joye Warren, librettist,  is currently an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Elon University and a Director/Choreographer for the Music Theatre program as well as the Founding Artistic Director of JOYEMOVEMENT. Her recent projects include Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy (Director) Love Notes (Artistic Director and Choreographer), Legally Blonde (Choreographer), Head Over Heels (Associate Director/Choreographer), 42nd Street (Director), A Wicked Silence: A Choreoplay (Playwright, Director, Choreographer). She was selected as a 2022-2023 Artist-In-Residence for the North Carolina Dance Festival and was named the Inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Greensboro Downtown Parks in 2021. She received her BA in Drama with a concentration in Dance/ Pre-Medicine from Spelman College and her MFA in Dance Performance from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a performer some her favorite projects include working on the development of FELA! with Bill T. Jones, on the development and performances of Blood Dazzler with Paloma and Patricia McGregor and as a company member and interim Artistic Director of Christal Brown’s INSPIRIT.

 

Suzanne U. Polak, composer/music director,  is a versatile musician with a passion for ensemble and collaborative works in both performance and composition. She is currently on adjunct faculty at Elon University and also working at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has worked as a substitute keyboardist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, as Acting Principal with the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and Virginia Symphony Orchestra; substitute with the North Carolina Symphony and the West Virginia Symphony; also with Charlotte Symphony Orchestra on both keyboard and dulcimer; and appeared with the PSO as: a soloist on Carnival of the Animals, playing organ for a performance of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and playing the theremin for their performance of David Del Tredici's Final Alice. As a composer, she has fulfilled numerous music commissions and was a recent participant at the 2021 Charlotte New Music Festival, where her work Fugue and Romance was premiered by the Beo String Quartet. She is currently residing in North Carolina, where she just completed her Doctoral Degree at the University of North Carolina-
Greensboro.

 

Solomon Caldwell, composer, is a dynamic double bassist specializing in improvisation and chamber music. His style lives at the crossroads of classical, folk and jazz to inform his work across all genres and styles.After receiving his undergraduate degree in Classical Bass, he then went on to receive his Masters degree at New England Conservatory of Music in Contemporary Improvisation. He is currently a doctoral candidate at New England Conservatory where he aims to further his work in improvisational and new music. In addition to his performance work, he is also on faculty at Boston Music Project,teaching a variety of ensembles on violin,cello and bass.