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Carolan Trbovich is an innovator who used corporate savvy and her considerable creativity to blaze new trails in entertainment industry operations for two powerhouse music companies, Word Entertainment of Warner Brothers Records and Sparrow Records of EMI Music Group. 

Carolan studied at UCLA, The Film Actors’ Workshop, The Hollywood Film Institute, and The American Film Institute where she received extensive professional training in various areas of entertainment operations in theater, film, and music business development. Trbovich has numerous board memberships/affiliations including, the American Marketing Association, National Public Relations Committee Board, The Gospel Music Association, The Country Music Association, The Recording Academy, The Country Connection NYC, the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, The National Association of Record Merchandisers, American Theatre Critics Association and the United States Press Agency.
    
Ms. Trbovich has made great strides in increasing productivity and profitability for many clients through inspired marketing and creating trend-setting new standards of operation. Her efforts have made Trbovich a popular speaker at retail trade and arts conventions nationwide. Carolan is the Broadway correspondent, writing reviews and interviews for Nashville's Dish Magazine, and has published articles in various business journals, entertainment blogs, and magazines. 
    
Carolan has impacted the entertainment, education and performing arts industries with groundbreaking new ideas in business operations, media management, and community outreach. From her love of the Arts, she has pioneered MasterClass Guild, Conservatory of the Arts, designed for creative arts students to study with artists and industry professionals. Out of her passion for all things Broadway, Carolan created the first Broadway cabaret in the state of Tennessee, Absinthe, A Broadway Cabaret, bringing Broadway performers and cabaret artists to perform standards from The Great American Songbook repertoire of classics by such beloved composers as Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gershwin, Berlin, and Cole Porter. 

Raised on the Ohio River, in the picturesque pottery town of East Liverpool, Carolan’s upbringing was colored by a rich and diverse heritage. “My mother was Italian and my father was Serbian”, she explains. “They were proud Americans and taught my brothers and me about our European heritage. They also taught us to be passionate in all we do.” That passion can be clearly seen in Trbovich’s life and career, which she approaches with great enthusiasm. Carolan is thrilled to return to Nashville after 7 years of writing for BroadwayWorld Sarasota and affirms, "The Nashville area has so much unparalleled talent and the finest venues for all types of staging. It's an honor and a blessing for me to be "back home" and reporting on all things entertainment in Music City".
 

Dr. Jacob Ruscoe has been involved with local theatre in Sarasota for the last several decades. Jacob has spent time serving on the Board of Directors for Virtuoso Inc and Rise Above Performing Arts. As an Artistic Director, he has had the privilege of producing such shows as The Addams Family, Grease, Into the Woods, All My Sons, 13 the Musical, The Love Note and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jacob is an educator for a local school system and has helped several schools in their development of a performing arts program. He also oversees multiple award-winning show choirs including one that was award Grand National Champions in 2018. In 2004, Jacob had his play, Outside the Box professionally produced before a national youth camp. He has written several scripts and monologues that have been performed nationwide. His love of writing began at an early age and has been awarded such honors as Best Overall Playwright and Best Political Commercial Script at statewide festivals. Jacob obtained his Doctoral degree in Administration and has a deep passion to see the growth and development of the performing arts throughout our community.

Shanti M Kennedy recently moved to the Cultural Gold Coast. She is stepping into the role of Lead Contributing Editor for Broadway World and feels that all her life experiences to date have culminated to prepare her for just this!

She grew up in the City of Big Shoulders, Chicago. The arts have always been a significant part of her life. In her youth she studied voice and sang Opera competitively, as well as studying dance and ballet throughout her life. She has traveled extensively to attend art shows at leading art museums around the world. She earned her degree in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University in Chicago. It was here that she successfully started her yearly goal of reading 100 books, per year. Shanti is passionate about art education and bringing the arts to the masses. She loves getting other people just as excited about the arts as she is!