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BIOGRAPHY

Sheilah Walker

A. R. T. Debut. Winner of the 2005, 2006 Leon Rabin Award for outstanding music direction for Ragtime and Urinetown, Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Music Supervisor for Ragtime in London, starring Maria Friedman. Music Director/ Conductor: National Tour of Ragtime, with David Loud, supervisor; two national tours of Fiddler on the Roof, starring Theodore Bikel; national tour of Funny Girl, starring Deborah Gibson; national tour of Oprah Winfrey's production of The Color Purple, starring Fantasia (NAACP theatre award nomination for best music direction in Los Angeles). Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (associate conductor) starring Topol, Don't Get God Started, with BeBe Winans. National tours of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Grand Hotel, South Pacific, and Hello, Dolly!, with Jean Stapleton, Joel Grey, Liliane Montevecchi and Carol Channing. Tours in Europe, Japan, Canada and Puerto Rico as pianist/accompanist for several theater productions. Acting credits: Ain't Misbehavin' and Tintypes, Dallas-Ft. Worth; Barnum (Joyce Heth), New Mexico. Vocal coach/accompanist in New York; Former Head of the Vocal Department at Dallas Arts Magnet High School, receiving a teacher of the year award for outstanding work.

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