Since his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2004, Michael has been a frequent guest artist with the Orchestra’s popular Family Concerts, presenting vaudeville-inspired performances of works such as Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Poulenc’s The Story of Babar, George Kleinsinger’s Tubby the Tuba and Robert Kapilow’s Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham. He also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Beyond the Score presentations of Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Additionally, recent concert performances have included performances with orchestras in Annapolis, Richmond, Milwaukee, Newark, Kennett, Princeton, New Jersey’s Symphony in C and the Westchester Philharmonic.
For the 2010-2011 season he will make his Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra debut with five performances of Peter and the Wolf, and will also make his Charlotte Symphony debut with Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham. He will return to the Philadelphia Orchestra to perform Peter and the Wolf and debut a new performance of Daniel Dorff’s Three Fables. Other return engagements for next season include Symphony in C with the debut a new performance of Leopold Mozart’s Toy Symphony; the Kennett Symphony with Peter and the Wolf; and the Richmond Symphony with Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham.
Michael’s theatre credits include American Players Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, the Resident Ensemble Players (REP), Enchantment Theatre Company, First State Children’s Theater Company, and the Utah and Baltimore Shakespeare Festivals.
Since 1997, Michael has created theatrical, literature-based solo performances for museums, including the Delaware Art Museum, Brandywine River Museum, Longwood Gardens, Delaware Children’s Museum, Reading Art Museum, Hershey Museum, Hagley Museum and the Farnsworth Art Museum. He is currently creating a new “vaudeville-Victorian-music hall” celebration of the life and times of American artist Howard Pyle to debut at the Delaware Art Museum in 2011. An avid artist and illustrator, Michael is working on the publication of an original Peter and the Wolf coloring book.
He is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, and the Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) at the University of Delaware.
When not performing, Michael enjoys listening to Danny Kaye records, drawing elaborate doodles with his two fantastic daughters, eating endless bowls of miso soup, and reading biographies of Buster Keaton to the family’s seven cats and golden retriever. Michael’s resume.
Sara first performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2004, and continues presenting vaudeville-inspired performances of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Poulenc’s The Story of Babar, and Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra with symphonies around the country including Richmond, Annapolis, Newark, Princeton, and New Jersey’s Symphony in C.
For the 2010-2011 season she will return to Symphony in C as “renowned orchestrologist, Professor Symphonia Semi de Quaver” to present The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
Sara’s theatre credits include the Arden Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Resident Ensemble Players (REP), Delaware Theatre Company, First State Children’s Theatre, and the Shakespeare Festivals of Maine, Colorado, North Carolina, and Philadelphia.
She is a graduate of Ithaca College, and the Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) at the University of Delaware.
In her spare time, Sara can be found watching her favorite old movies, including the the great physical comedians of vaudeville and silent film like the Marx Brothers or Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin. An aspiring percussionist, sound effects artist, and noise maker, she delights in listening to recordings of Spike Jones and his City Slickers and other shows from the Golden Age of Radio. Favorite projects include the annual live radio broadcast of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, soon to be in its 7th season! Sara’s resume.
“...a great storyteller.”
~Philadelphia Inquirer
Michael Boudewyns
Co-founder/Performer
Sara Valentine
Co-founder/Performer
“...she gets more laughs from silence and a vacuous stare than most actors can get from a great punch line.”
~Wilmington News Journal
Kimberly has performed with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra as The Soprano in Robert Kapilow’s Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham. She made her Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra debut in both Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, and as the narrator in Robert Kapilow’s Gertrude McFuzz.
For the 2010-2011 season she will make both her Richmond Symphony and Charlotte Symphony debuts with Robert Kapilow’s Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham.
Kimberly’s other performance credits include 42nd Street and My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra (Candlelight Theatre); A Year with Frog and Toad (DuPont Playhouse); La Boheme (Westbrook Hall); A Christmas Carol: a live radio play (First State Children’s Theater); Amahl and the Night Visitors (Lincoln South Mainstage); Cinderella (Delaware Dance Company); O, Pioneers! (Premiere production, Kimball Hall); Broadway Fever (Three Little Bakers); Fiddler on the Roof (Lied Center for Performing Arts); Yeoman of the Guard (Howell Theatre); Sharing the Legacy (Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse); Eric Hermanson’s Soul (Johnny Carson Theatre); along with Loose Screws Contemporary Dance Company, and Nova Dance Company.
Internationally, she has performed at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera, in Ireland, in Michael William Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl which received awards for Best Operetta, Best Male and Female Vocal Performance. She performed in the 2009 Dance and the Child International Conference in Jamaica. She has also toured throughout the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Canada with the Missoula Children’s Theatre.
Kimberly is a dance and vocal music program graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She is a member of the dance faculty at the University of Delaware and the Delaware Dance Company (DDC), and is co-director of DDC’s Youth Dance Ensemble. Kimberly’s resume.
Kimberly Schroeder
Company member/Performer