Gail Becker is a distinguished arts leader, Actor’s Equity Association (AEA) professional, and Executive Artistic Producer with a 35-year track record of institutional founding, creative production, and strategic talent development. As a Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Director of Education for Capital City Theatre (CCT), Gail has played a pivotal role in evolving Madison’s professional arts landscape. By spearheading the CCT Conservatory, she has successfully bridged high-level artistic vision with organizational sustainability, advancing the standards for professional training and regional production quality. Her executive oversight is further demonstrated by her 15-year tenure as the Director of the Overture Center’s Jerry Ensemble, where she curates and manages the development of Wisconsin’s premier musical theatre talent.

As a producer and director, Gail has overseen a vast portfolio of professional productions at CCT, ensuring artistic excellence across titles such as It’s A Wonderful Life: A New Musical, Murder For Two, Tick, Tick...Boom!, and Edges. Her directorial footprint in Madison further includes Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol, Shrek, Fiddler On The Roof, Les Miserables, Brigadoon, Annie, Little Women, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Anne of Green Gables. This deep understanding of the production lifecycle is informed by an expansive performance career, including a national tour of Babes in Toyland and celebrated Chicago engagements in Chicago, Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along, and High Society. Locally, she has championed new work and regional excellence in the World Premiere of Shining In Misery and the Regional Premieres of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 and Tuck Everlasting, alongside featured roles in On The Town, Gypsy, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Complementing her theatrical work is a prolific, 30-year career in the cabaret world. A native Chicagoan, Gail was a foundational figure in the city’s cabaret scene, helping to open the legendary Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret. Her sophisticated vocal styling has been featured at premier venues across the country, including New York’s 54 Below and West End Cafe, San Francisco’s The Plush Room, and Chicago’s Park West, Drury Lane Michigan Ave, and The Royal George Theatre Cabaret Room. Regionally, she has maintained a strong presence at Overture Center, SideNotes Cabaret Series at Sunset Playhouse, The Brink, and Portage Center for the Arts.

Gail’s influence as a strategic educator and consultant spans the nation’s most prestigious theatrical organizations. Her portfolio of instructional leadership includes the Capital City Theatre Conservatory, Edgewood College, Kennedy Center High School Theatre Workshops, Wisconsin Theatre Festival, UW-Madison Theatre Department, and UW Summer Music Clinic. She has also served as a vital clinician and stakeholder for the Madison Jerry Awards, CTM’s Academy, and the Wisconsin School Music Association (WSMA). Beyond the theatre, Gail leverages her vocal expertise as a voice-over artist, most notably for American Family Insurance, and currently serves as the Public Address Announcer for Rally Madison, Madison Mallards, the Night Mares, and various UW-Madison athletic teams. This unique intersection of executive management, creative production, and community engagement defines her contribution to the modern cultural landscape.

gail@capitalcitytheatre.org

As a former English teacher and journalist, Erin brings a storyteller’s heart and an educator’s clarity to her work in the arts. She began her career in print journalism and later transitioned to an instructor of television news production, honing her skills in communication, messaging, and audience engagement. A lifelong dancer, performer, and proud “theater kid”, Erin has been passionate about the stage since she could walk. Today, she channels that passion into supporting her two children’s musical and dance pursuits, while helping Capital City Theatre grow its world-class productions and education programs. A longtime advocate for the arts in Madison, Erin is thrilled to play a role in connecting the community to the mission of Capital City Theatre. 

Colleen earned her bachelor’s in journalism with a minor in film at Marquette University, as well as her master’s in digital communication there. She assisted in the creation, production, editing, and promotion of their podcast, “We Are Marquette,” for the Office of Marketing and Communication on campus. Some of her written publications include Bella Grace Magazine, Taste of Home Magazine, Unity (Environmental) College in Maine, Milwaukee Magazine, and The Municipality Magazine. She had her scholarly journal chosen for Watcher Junior (The Undergraduate Journal of Buffy+).Her research work as an intern for the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism was credited and acknowledged in Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-Winning Investigative Journalist Katie Worth’s compelling book, “Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America.” Colleen wrote and illustrated a children’s book, “Sidney,” available on amazon.com and lulu.com.

Additionally, she has had her work produced and recorded for Wisconsin Public Radio and the Wisconsin Life Program (she first got her feet wet in public radio at Madison’s own WORT).

Colleen’s short screenplays (Broken Mirror Productions) were featured in the New York International Independent Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and the Utah Short Film and Video Fest. One of her Black Cat Chicago theatre troupe’s adaptations, White Zombie, was written up in a book of the same title by Gary D. Rhodes. She was always the marketing guru for both of these creative groups.

Last summer Colleen had the pleasure of assistant directing One Acts Summer Staged Readings with Pink Umbrella Theater. Colleen co-wrote the book for Shining in Misery: A King-Size Parody, which proudly debuted at Capital City Theatre in the World Premiere Wisconsin theatre festival in 2023. Shining in Miseryhas gone on to enjoy very successful productions at 54 Below in NYC in 2024, and in MTFest UK at The Other Palace Theatre in London, earlier this year. She hosts two podcasts, “Savage Support Stories,” and “Women Who Howl at the Moon.” Colleen also teaches acting for both adults and children for the Milwaukee Recreation Department through Milwaukee Public Schools.

Andrew has worked Off-Broadway, Off West-End, regionally and on tour as a professional director, musical director, conductor, composer and Equity actor. Off-Broadway: Between The Lines (York Theater), Pirates of Penzance (New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players). Tours: Cinderella (with Eartha Kitt), State Fair (with John Davidson), Cabaret (with Andrea McCardle), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Fiddler on the Roof (with Theodore Bikel). Regionally: Masterclass (with Rosemary Prinz), Mikado (Theatre Virginia) and numerous others.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Music degree from UW-Madison and a Master of Arts, in Musical Theatre, from University of London-Goldsmiths. He is also a graduate of the advanced year of the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop in New York City where he wrote But I’m a Cheerleader, the Musical, which was showcased in Trafalgar Square at West End Live in June of 2019 and had its world premiere at the Turbine Theatre in London in 2022.

Andrew also wrote the music for Shining in Misery: a King Size Parody, which premiered at CCT in 2023, played at 54 Below the following year, and headlined MT Fest UK in London in 2026. In addition, CCT premiered the musical It’s a Wonderful Life, a New Musical, for which Andrew wrote the music, in 2024.

In Madison, Andrew has performed with the Madison Opera, Madison Savoyards and in Madison Ballet’s The Nutcracker. Andrew is a vocal coach, voice teacher, and Acting through Song coach and has worked at NYU, New York Film Academy, AMDA, Mountview Academy and Urdang Acadamy (in London), Hofstra University, as well as privately in New York City and Madison.

andrew@capitalcitytheatre.org