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Kaelee Alicia Bolme (Into the Woods Music Director):  Kaelee is very excited to be entering her second season with Rosebud Children's Theater Conservatory, as music director for this summer's production of Into the Woods! An avid lover of musical theatre, film, and the arts in general, she is thrilled with the opportunity to pay that love forward in this terrific educational atmosphere. Kaelee performs regularly as a singer with the critically-acclaimed choir Seattle Pro Musica, under the direction of Karen P. Thomas, and has served as Director of Music at First Christian Church of Kent since 2014, where she directs the choir, plays for services, and plans the music. She also works as a professional piano accompanist, playing for Monroe High School's choirs, regularly accompanying students at both regional and state Solo and Ensemble contests, as well as playing rehearsal accompaniment and keyboards in the pit band for their spring musicals for the last six years. While living in New Orleans, Kaelee performed two piano concertos with the New Orleans Civic Symphony under the direction of Dr. James Hammann and Dr. Charles Taylor. She is also a writer and composer, having co-written the original musical "Starshine" with Louisiana composer/lyricist David Guillot. Currently, Kaelee is working on a demo recording for "Starshine," as well as a novel called "The Indigo Queen," which she and David also plan to adapt into a musical. She is also very excited to be entering her first season of music directing for Federal Way High School's musicals, for their 2020 production of Guys and Dolls.

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Music Studies, with a focus in Piano Performance, University of New Orleans, studying under Dr. Robin H. Williams and Rev. Dr. Caroline Carson.

John Kelleher (Sleepy Hollow Director): John is delighted to return to Rosebud Children’s Theatre Conservatory for this, his sixth summer as director of the pre-teen show.  Some of John’s recent performing credits include Fester in The Addams Family, A New Musical (Burien Actor’s Theatre), Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Lyric Light Opera), LM in Pump Boys and Dinettes (Renton Civic/Bellevue Civic), Jacob in Joseph…(Second Story Repertory), The Chairman in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Redwood Theatre), Judge Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Mr. Mayor in Seussical (ManeStage Theatre),  Baron Bomburst in Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang, Thenardier in Les Miserables, Underling in The Drowsy Chaperone, and Old Deuteronomy in CATS (Tacoma Musical Playhouse).  John is no stranger to the production side of theatre having been music director for several Renton Summer Teen Musical theatre productions, and recently was music director for Peter Pan (Lyric Light Opera).  He was the founding director of Renton’s Youth Theatre Program that served students ages 7 – 12.  John’s day job is that of Music Specialist in the Lake Washington School District, and during his 25 years in that position, he has directed/music directed over 18 productions.  John co-founded the “Little Theatre Project” at his school to provide theatre performance experience for students Kindergarten – 2^nd Grade.

Education: Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Elmhurst College, and Masters of Education in Technology in Education from Lesley University.