Lisa Orinn is the founder of Music Play Studios and Director of Music Together of Hudson County. She was most recently honored by the Center for Music & Young Children for bringing Music Together into the homes of more than 10,000 families in our community.

Lisa is an accomplished vocalist who began performing in grade school. She attended Talent Unlimited High School and continued her theatre and musical studies at the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, HB Studios and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. She was also a member of the band "Blues In Progress" and has performed her solo cabaret and nightclub acts in venues such as The Park Royal Hotel, Tramps, Caroline's, Kenny's Castaways & The Bitter End. Lisa was also one of the founding members of The Actors Annex East in New York City .

From an early age Bill has been active in theater, music performance and education. With a mom who both performs and teaches music and a dad who loves jazz, Bill has always had a broad range of musical influences and interests. As an actor he has performed in independent films, legit and experimental theater, tv projects, stand-up comedy, improv and most recently Cirque-type work. The latter has taken him on professional gigs to San Diego, Las Vegas, and Guam. As a musician, Bill is an accomplished trombone player, has sung opera with the late Amato Opera Company in New York City, and has fiddled with such varied instruments as drums, trumpet, piano, guitar, and cello. His classes are high-energy celebrations of music and movement where everyone's bound to leave with a little more spring in their steps.

Joi is a professional singer, actress and dancer who has appeared on Broadway in Mamma Mia!. She has also appeared in the National Tours of Mamma Mia! and Ragtime, as well as children's theatre productions (across the country) in shows produced by New York's renowned Theatreworks USA.

Joi holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre performance as well as a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Michigan. She first picked up a violin at the age of 4 and has been hooked on music ever since. Joi has watched with awe as music has become an important part of her own daughter's development. A trained Music Together teacher since July 2007, she is thrilled to be passing on the love of music to the next generation.

Leslie is an accomplished vocalist who has performed in children's theatre, musical theatre, jazz, rock and folk bands. She studied at The Manhattan School of Music and was the Music Specialist at Chelsea Day School for 8 years. She has been a registered Music Together teacher since 1994 and is currently teaching classes in both New York and New Jersey.

Erin Lee Kelly began performing as a teenager in Kingston, Ontario, moving to New York to study at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Upon graduation she spent several years as an actress and choreographer, performing in musicals, plays, and films before choosing to focus on music and theatre for children. Her first CD of original children’s music entitled Someone's Gotta Wanna Play, created with Marci Appelbaum, was awarded Best Recording for Younger Children, 2005 by the Children’s Music Web. Their wry lyrics and layered harmonies garnered them widespread attention as "The Indigo Girls of childhood music" (WLUW-FM 88.7, Chicago IL.) Their follow-up, Snowdance, was debuted on Rosie O’Donnell’s R Family Cruise to Alaska, and went on to win two ASCAP Awards for excellence in writing and the Family Choice Award. Erin Lee was recently elected to and served on The Children’s Music Network Board of Directors. She can currently be found performing family concerts fronting Erin Lee and the Up Past Bedtime Band (www.erinleemusic.com).

John Kuether has a long association with The Phantom of the Opera, including two years with the Basel, Switzerland production, where he both performed and served as Resident Director. He performed in Phantom in over fifty cities on the national tour, and is currently appearing in the Broadway production, where he has spent seven years. John has sung with the opera companies of Santa Fe, Houston, Seattle, Philadelphia and Vienna. He recently performed Cervantes/Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha with the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee, and played the title role in the Schumann/Lord Byron Manfred with the American Symphony Orchestra in Avery Fischer Hall in New York. John can be heard on recordings of Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place and Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête. He’s thankful to his wife Kate and two-year-old daughter Liliana for bringing Music Together into his life.

Dave has wanted to be a musician and entertainer since age 10, when he first picked up a tennis racket the wrong way to strum along with Def Leppard videos in the early days of MTV. As an amateur musician, Dave fooled around with various marching bands, rock groups and even day jobs before "going pro" as a registered Music Together teacher in 2002. He has been known to play guitar, banjo, bass, tuba, mandolin, harmonica, drums and kazoo, though not at the same time. Nowadays, in addition to teaching Music Together, Dave sings and plays lead guitar for The Fuzzy Lemons, the metro area's hottest family-friendly rock band. He lives in Hoboken with his wife and son and a polydactyl cat named Morpheus.

Marina is a professional Broadway singer, actress and songwriter who has sung in numerous revues and concerts throughout New York City. She performed in the 1st national tour of the Broadway show "A Little Night Music" and played a leading role in the Los Angeles and Chicago companies of the Broadway show "Sidy By Side" by Sondheim . She also played Sister Helen in the Pre-Broadway production of "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" Marina lives in NY with her 2 sons and has had the pleasure of teaching Music Together in NY and NJ for over 10 years.

Stearns graduated from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey in 2008 with a BM in Music Theater. In addition to working as a singing actor in the northeast for the past several years, Stearns has also been very active in the cabaret scene in New York City. A two-time MAC Award nominee, he has performed critically acclaimed shows at famous Manhattan venues such as Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex, the Metropolitan Room, and the Laurie Beechman Theatre. He made his Lincoln Center solo debut in 2010 at the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Annual Cabaret Convention. Stearns has been teaching Music Together for three years and is a Certified Level I teacher.

Fleur started working with children at the age of 15 as student director and
choreographer for the Reeder School; an acting and art school devoted to
Shakespeare as well as French and Indian classics. A native Texan who has
lived and worked in New York and Los Angeles, Fleur has taught voice, acting
and dance and directed musical theatre productions for A Creative Space, a
performing arts school and after-school enrichment program and was a
performance and vocal coach to aspiring pop stars at the Hollywood Pop
Academy. As a professional actress and singer, Fleur has appeared on stage
and screen having worked in numerous shows both On- and Off-Broadway. She
has studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and holds a BFA
in acting from Southern Methodist University.

Catherine Rubin has been singing professionally for the past fifteen years. She studied classical and jazz voice at Ithaca College in New York State. Upon graduation Catherine relocated to Austin Texas for three years where she began a career as a singer/songwriter of adult contemporary music. She moved back to her home state of New Jersey in the mid-nineties and released her first album. Since then Catherine has released 3 albums and has had a song featured in an Independent film. Her interest in the healing properties of music led her to study music therapy at Montclair State University. She started teaching Music Together after taking her son "Max" to the classes and falling in love with the program. Catherine also performs at children's parties doing Music Together and other popular childrens songs.

John is an award winning international director, choreopgrapher, writer and performer. He is the Artistic Director for both the Weathervane Theatre (NJ) and ArtBridge (Central America); he is founder of WINDSTOCK Theatre camp for children aged 6-16 and has performed (all over this hemisphere) from Off Broadway to Regional and stock. John is also a registered Music Together teacher, currently teaching in New York and New Jersey. His high-energy, playful demeanor and guitar playing, make him a favorite among our families.