Kelly Williams Carlson (Director) is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. She received her undergraduate degrees from American University in Musical Theatre and Secondary Education and her master’s degree in Directing from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She has also studied at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University. She is currently the Theatre Department Chairperson at Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts, where she has been teaching for the last 8 years. Kelly is also on the board for the Maryland Thespians Chapter of the Educational Theatre Association. She has directed/choreographed over 50 productions educationally or professionally in the Baltimore/DC area. Some of her favorite credits include: Cabaret, Medea, As You Like It, Urinetown, Iphigenia at Aulis/in Orem, Our Country’s Good, Into the Woods, Seussical, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Her recent production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream won Best Play for both the Baltimore Theatre Awards and the Baltimore Cappies Critics Awards program. Kelly has worked with Imagination Stage, Toby’s Dinner Theatre, Victorian Lyric Opera Company, and the Theatre Lab, as well as many other regional and community theatres. She has taken two productions, The Laramie Project and An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. This will be her second time working on a new musical in the Capital Fringe Festival; her first being Cookin’ Up Numbers in 2010.