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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF PASADENA CIVIC BALLET + ARTISTSPLUS PRODUCTIONS

Diane De Franco Browne is a Los Angeles-based choreographer and producer.

She is a Director of Pasadena Civic Ballet, ArtistsPlus Productions, and owns Theatre Threads, a costume design company. Current projects include immersive performances at Heritage Square Museum and sponsorship of choreographic collaboratives at Stomping Ground LA and Los Angeles Dance Project. Other projects include commissions and collaborations with the American Youth Symphony, Music & More SummerFest in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Angeles Chorale, ArtNight Pasadena, Bel Canto Chorale and Orchestra, LA Art Show, LACMA, MUSE/IQUE, International Masters of Musical Whistling and other Pasadena museums and arts organizations.

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Ross Clark started his performing career with the National Ballet in Washington DC at the age of 7 in the Nutcracker. He performed with the National Ballet when they needed a young boy until he was cast in his first Broadway show, “Take Me Along” starring Jackie Gleason two weeks before his 10th birthday. He continued to work on Broadway and in National tours of “Music Man”, “Bye Bye Birdie”, “Gypsy”, “Oliver!”, “Mame”, “Annie Get Your Gun” and “The Lion In Winter” through his teen Years. He attended Northwestern University, Purdue University and The Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts as part of the last graduating class. He continued his studies at USC as a directing major where he received his MFA in Theatre and Film.

After graduation Ross began writing and producing shows for amusement parks all over the country as well as producing product introductions for companies such as Apple Computer, Ford Motor Company, Anheuser-Busch and Adobe Systems.

Ross is currently the Director of the Musical Theatre/Children’s Theatre Ensemble at the Pasadena Civic Ballet and with them helped bring children’s theater back to Pasadena. Ross is a board member of the Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates. Working on The Fantasticks at the Pasadena Playhouse completes the circle that began with Ross playing the piano for the 1969 student production of the show.

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Denise’s extensive performing background includes New York and National Tour stage credits, as well as TV, Commercial, Voice Over & Film roles. She has received critical acclaim for her original one-woman multi-character shows (GIRLY SHOW, GROWING UP & LIKING IT). The New York Post called her “… a versatile actress comparable to the most well-known character comedienne, Lily Tomlin ...” Recent appearances w/Pasadena Civic Ballet: Wicked Witch – THE WIZARD OF OZ; Giselle’s Mother – GISELLE; Stepmother – CINDERELLA. Denise dedicates her performance to her late husband, Craig Williams.