Alluvion Guest Staff

CRIS O’BRYON

Music Director

CRIS O’BRYON is delighted to return to Liberty to collaborate for the first time since graduating with his degree in Music Education and Vocal Performance.

A multi-disciplinary performer, Cris is a Music Director, Vocal Coach/Accompanist, Performance Coach, and Adjunct Voice Teacher at Boise State University.  He has collaborated from the pit with Tony-award winning creatives, such as Jack O’Brien, Christopher Ashley, Stafford Arima, Jeff Calhoun, and Des MacAnuff and leading Regional Theatres, La Jolla Playhouse and The Old Globe, including Bonnie and Clyde, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chasing the Song, Hoover Comes Alive, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Cris has been on stage for over two decades in Southern California, with performances in Ragtime, Footloose, Phantom, Legally Blonde, End of the Rainbow, Forever Plaid, and Twelfth Night. He has also worked with Broadway Dreams Foundation/LA, Disney/ASCAP, and has toured with Forbidden Broadway and The Midtown Men.

Cris maintains a private voice and performance studio, and creates workshops for singers, actors and oral presenters. He also produces original cabarets, the most recent of which debuted at Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC this spring. He is an accomplished Voiceover Actor, and an Adjudicator for NATS and NHSMTA (The Jimmy Awards), and is delighted that his daughter, Avery, is following in his performance footsteps. www.vocalcoachstudio.com

Darryl Willard

Lighting Designer

Darryl is currently the Managing Director and Resident Designer for the Mountain Mover Theatre Company in Louisa, KY. He has spent time in Lynchburg a few times during his career as the Technical Director/Designer for the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center and at Liberty University as the Tower Theatre’s first Technical Director of Lighting and Sound. Some of his favorite shows at Liberty were Phantom of the Opera, Civil War and Ragtime and at Lynchburg Fine Arts Center who could forget Dreamgirls, Big River and Barnum. Darryl thanks his wife Kim for taking the ride with him, they have 3 children, Lacey, Ryann and Madison. He thanks Chris Nelson for giving him the opportunity so come back to Liberty and create.