Linda Nagle | Director
Linda's extensive theatre credits include a National Tour of Tivoli for the Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance Company which she co-wrote and Guest Starred, The Complete Millennium Musical ( National Tour), she played Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show (National Tour & Singapore), Dancin Man with David Atkins ( National Tour), Abroad With Two Men (National Tour), which she co-wrote, Living in the Seventies (Sydney & Melbourne), which she also co-wrote, Cho Cho San (Playbox Tours of Australia and China), Manning Clarke's History of Australia – The Musical, Pirates of Penzance (Victoria State Opera – National Tour), Stepping Out (Gordon Frost Organisation – National Tour), Tom Foolery, Guys and Dolls, Women Behind Bars, They're Playing Our Song (J.C. Williamson's National Tour) and Reg Livermore's Ned Kelly.

Linda has performed with the Sydney Theatre Company in Miracle City, The Way of the World, Gossip from the Forest, Four Lady Bowlers in a Golden Holden, The End of the Wharf, I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road.

Her Revue work includes writing and performing in the acclaimed shows The Best Bits (Glen Street Theatre) The End of the Wharf (STC), Abroad With Two Men and A Hard Act to Swallow. At Kinsela's she wrote and appeared in Bitter and Silly, The Linda Nagle Show and their inaugural Late Night Show The Phil Styne Revue with Garry McDonald.

Her work for Film and Television includes – Follies and Class Acts for the ABC, Hey, Hey it's Saturday, Midday, The Mike Walsh Show, The Bert Newton Show, Tonight Live, Late Night Australian The Don Lane Show, Good Morning Australia, Today, The Coca Cola Kid, and The Pirate Movie.

Linda was the support act for The Glen Miller Orchestra and this year performed as a guest artist at The Australian Night at the Proms.

Her work as a vocal coach and teacher includes work for The Victorian College of the Arts, Ross Coleman's School of Performing Arts, and she was Head of the Singing Department At Brent Street Studios for the past nine years.

She has been vocal coach for leading performers on The Boy From Oz, Fame, Crazy for You, Les Miserables, Rent and Nadia Tass's film Amy.

Darren Mapes | Director
Darren graduated from University of New England – Northern Rivers with a BA (performance major). He was part of university based eight-voice A Cappella group, Isabella a Cappella which participated in the Pan Pacific Choral Festival in Hawaii where they received a silver medal and then went on to tour throughout California and Mexico.

An experienced actor, singer and musician Darren co-stars in The Carpenters From Kempsey, which he has co-written with Linda Nagle (Tivoli, Wharf Revues).

Darren has co-written and performed his cabaret review Laughing Matters with Lyn Shakespeare at Glen Street Theatre. His other cabaret and theatre credits include The Magic Faraway Tree (Gary Ginervan), Old Friends (Showtune Productions) Welcome Aboard (side on café), On The Air (brown fox productions), Threes Company (Glen Street Theatre), Working a Musical (Pilgrim Theatre,) Virtual Unreality (Tilbury, Parramatta Riverside & Glen Street Theatres), Ferrier in the Round (Co-written & performed with Mr Noel Ferrier) and Nowadays (cabaret with David Campbell). In 1999 he appeared in his first feature film Neophytes and Neon Lights (Shane T Hall Productions).

As a Vocal Coach, Darren has worked for The Australian College of Entertainment (1996), Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (1996-97), NIDA Music Theatre Workshops (1998), Brent Street Studios (1997-2002), and Sydney Vocal Arts Centre (2002).

He has worked as a producer and vocal coach for 2UP Records, an independent record label, and now co-owns, along with Linda Nagle his own label, Howling Dog Records.