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 .

Suzanne is a professional, award-winning vocalist. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with an emphasis in Voice and Acting from The Boston Conservatory. She is also a proud graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Suzanne studied voice and performed in Italy at the Spoleto Vocal Arts Festival, was a soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra, a soloist at the Rose Theatre in Jazz at Lincoln Center & toured the country with the national tour of Ragtime and Cameron Machintosh's Oliver! She has been nominated for a MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award for Best Female Cabaret Debut and performs regularly at the Metropolitan Room in addition to a variety of musical venues in Manhattan.

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.

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. Dave is currently working on his first album of original family-friendly music. He lives in Hoboken with his wife, son and polydactyl cat named Morpheus.

Erwin Maas is an internationally renowned director and teacher of theatre from the Netherlands. After his first Masters degree in Drama Teaching, Directing and Acting at the Theatre Academy in the Netherlands, Maas obtained his MFA in Theatre Direction at Columbia University’s School of the Arts in New York City and a Masters degree in Documentary Filmmaking at the University of Technology in Sydney - Australia. He taught and directed children, teenagers and adults in many parts of the world including Australia, England, Germany, Austria, Republic of Belarus, Belgium, the Netherlands and USA. In New York he directed plays for numerous Off- and Off-Off Broadway Theaters such as the Cherry Lane Theatre, Chashama, Miller Theatre, Ontological Theater, The Connelly Theatre and HERE Arts Center. Maas was a guest lecturer, director and workshop leader at several top Universities and Theatre- and Film Academies in New York, Sydney, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam and other cities throughout the Netherlands. He received numerous prestigious grants including the Fulbright Netherland-America Foundation, Shubert Foundation and the Royal Prince Bernhard Cultural Grant. He also won the Nuffic Talents Award for all his international accomplishments, a UTS Film Award for his short film ‘Plenty’ and the Chashama Area Award for his production of ‘The Northern Quarter’ Off-Off Broadway. Erwin Maas currently lives in New York where he continues to challenge theatre artists and audiences with his provocative classes and productions.

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.

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.

An accomplished performer, Kristin has appeared at the White House, Off-Broadway, and with theater companies throughout the country.  She is a trained Music Together (R) instructor and is the Assistant Director of the Children's Choir at All Souls Unitarian Univeralist Church in Manhattan.  As for theater, Kristin has directed children's productions and taught characterization and improvisation at Full Sail University.  She holds B.A. degrees in Music and Theater from Florida State University, a Certificate in Marketing from NYU, and has trained with "Improvisation Legend", Wayne Brady, and "Broadway Choreographer", Andy Blankenbuehler. Now at Music Play Studios she is THRILLED to teach young "movers and shakers and guide families in growing musically! 

Siobhan Stevenson is entering her third year studying acting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, studying in the Musical Theatre Practicum at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Originally from San Jose, California, there she attended The Harker School, graduating high honors and with a certificate in musical theatre from the Harker Conservatory. She has taught voice, movement, acting, and improv at Peninsula Youth Theatre in Mountain View, California, and voice, movement, and basic Shakespeare at the Bay Area Shakespeare Camps, a youth theatre program run by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival

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.

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.