Tina is thrilled to be working with Theater Experience of Southern California.
She began performing at age 18, touring with the International Singing and Dancing
group Up With People.  Last spring she performed in Branson, Mo.
"A Song For The World" 40 years of Up With People.
Other credits include:   Faded Memories: The Music Man FCLO: Country Music Awards: Jerry Lewis Telethon
The Donny and Marie Show: The Stuttgart Ballet Romeo and Juliet @ the Orange County Performing Arts Center: Phoenix Suns Halftime Show: Command performance for King/Queen of Spain.
  Her oldest daughter Hilary began performing with CTE in 1996.  Tina joined her in 2000, and in 2005 started working as a staff member.  Now she is excited to be sharing the program with her youngest daughter.  Jillian has been on stage with CTE since the age of 3 and loves it.  Being able to share the passion of performance with so many is truly a blessing!

Sean Paxton spent his childhood in rural Sonora, California, where he studied piano, woodwinds, and brass.  Choosing piano as his main instrument, and having a proclivity toward jazz, Sean enrolled at the University of Southern California as a jazz performance major studying with Milcho Leviev and Cedar Walton.

After finishing his degree, Sean spent a year in Glasgow, Scotland, playing in hotels and restaurants and working with the Lothian Gaelic Choir in Edinburgh.

He then returned to California, working in San Francisco with several jazz and pop groups before setting his sights on Los Angeles and a career as a composer and music director.

During the next several years, Sean worked for many theaters in Southern California and around the country.  He has written scores for productions such as the Odyssey Theater's Good Woman of Setzuan for which he received an LA Weekly award nomination, The Greeks, which won an LA Weekly award for production of the year, and Faust.   He has written songs for a production of A Christmas Carol which is produced every December, and  has music directed for theme parks and countless productions including the recent world premier of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

In 2005, the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop selected Sean as a participant, and presented him with the Harold Arlen Award,  a designation for a young composer who shows promise in the field of film music.

Sean has spent recent months writing music for movie trailers and a Japanese feature, Samurai Commando, which is his first full length film score.  In addition to composing, Sean teaches piano, coaches singers, and produces music for corporate events.