Nan Gurley originated the role of Corrie Ten Boom in the world premiere of The Hiding Place in 2019 in Houston. Broadway World called her performance “utterly brilliant” and “nuanced, strong and sincere.”

A Nashville native, Gurley has been a fixture on Nashville stages in a career that has spanned over 30 years and included iconic roles for Studio Tenn, Nashville Repertory Theatre, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Nashville Shakespeare Festival and more. A singer, actress and writer, she has performed in more than 50 productions at Tennessee Performing Arts Center and has been a featured soloist with the Nashville Symphony. She’s a two-time Dove Award winner for co-writing two youth musicals, The Race Is On and Friends Forever. Gurley has also co-written a musical with Bonnie Keen entitled Women Who Dare to Believe, and she co-wrote and starred with Denice Hicks and Clare Syler in Shakespeare’s Case, which premiered at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival in May 2009. Her original one-woman show The Diary of Opal Whiteley was performed at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C., and in several colleges and universities and performing arts centers in the Southeast. She wrote, hosted, and produced an educational television series on the performing arts entitled Front Row Center, which aired on PBS stations nationwide and won the Southern Education Communication’s Best Series of the Year Award.

Additional stage credits include: Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), Mama Rose (Gypsy), Dolly Levi (Hello Dolly!), Mistress Quickly (The Merry Wives of Winter), Nana (Tuck Everlasting), Truvy (Steel Magnolias), Golde (Fiddler on the Roof), and Carlotta (Phantom).

Conrad John Schuck’s professional acting career began after college in The Cleveland Playhouse and in regional theaters in Cleveland, Baltimore, Buffalo and eventually San Francisco. It was there, while acting at the American Conservatory Theater, that he was seen by director Robert Altman who cast him as Painless in M*A*S*H. His association with Altman led to roles in Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Thieves Like Us. Other films followed including Outrageous Fortune, Finders Keepers and Star Trek IV and Star Trek VI. His first screen kiss was with Elizabeth Taylor in Hammersmith is Out with Richard Burton and Peter Ustinov. Schuck played Enright in the hit series McMillan and Wife, with Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James, and has guest-starred in over 50 television shows including Gunsmoke, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, St. Elsewhere, Bonanza and Law and Order: SVU.

Theater has always been Schuck’s favorite type of work and he continues to work regionally as well as on Broadway, where he made his debut in the 1997 Broadway revival of Annie as Daddy Warbucks. On Broadway, he also appeared in Annie Get Your Gun with Reba McEntire and most recently in Nice Work If You Can Get It with Matthew Broderick. In London’s West End, he appeared in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial with Charlton Heston. Schuck recently completed seven seasons in the national tour of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Locally, he appeared in Twelve Angry Men and the much acclaimed The Elephant Man for Studio Tenn.

Daughter of country legend Mel Tillis and sister to country star Pam Tillis, Carrie Tillis’ talents and experience stretch beyond the world of country music. Her résumé jumps from opera to Grand Ole Opry and Broadway to big band. After gaining notoriety early on via performances with her father, she traded his legendary Statesider Band for an even bigger orchestra, performing her first love — Broadway’s American Songbook — in theater and symphony concerts around the world. Leading a regional theater production of Keep On the Sunny Side — the story of country music’s Carter family — was a catalyst for other country musicals like The Tammy Wynette Story, of which she played several tours. Tillis has graced the stages of the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium as a featured artist and with Studio Tenn’s hit Legacy series. Other favorite credits include: Mary Alice (The Battle Of Franklin), Sarah (Guys and Dolls), Principle (Big River), Marian Paroo (The Music Man), and Magnolia (Show Boat). Carrie was a supporting lead in the Kerem Sanga feature film, The Violent Heart, and a guest star on the hit TV series, Nashville.