CARD/INAL
CARDINAL (KAR-DN-UHL): At the forefront of innovation and excellence, embodying a commitment to lead and excel in setting new standards, pioneering ideas, and embracing a proactive approach to shape the future.
Team
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ANDREW RASMUSSEN is a NYC based director, creative producer and Executive Producer of Cardinal Theatricals. He is passionate for visceral, outside-the-box storytelling — often involving puppets, cats, lasers, and/or electric guitars.
Original productions include Andrew Lippa's THE WILD PARTY, RENT, WHEN A MAN LOVES A DIVA and an immersive ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE! at the 8,000-square foot warehouse LAB Theatre in Minneapolis. His work has taken him from Broadway around the globe including Japan, China and Europe from original musicals to The Shangdong Acrobat Circus in China.
Andrew has collaborated and creative directed unique concerts, shows and experiences for Grammy Award-Winning JAMECIA BENNETT and THE SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS, TANK AND THE BANGAS, NORWEGIAN Cruise Line, T-Mobile, Heineken, and was commissioned to create a 125+ person musical flashmob for the MN TWINS opening of Target Field.
His original work with MRS. SMITH (Co-writing & Directing) has been seen Off-Broadway (MRS. SMITH’S BROADWAY CAT-TACULAR), Berkeley Rep (TO MARS AND BACK AGAIN!), and American Repertory Theatre’s OBERON and he directed the US premiere of Korean musical, GWANGJU.
A Drama alum of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Andrew performed internationally from Radio City Music Hall to Tokyo. You may have seen his feet tap dancing on Broadway or his dead body on all three Law & Order series (for which his family is least proud!). His original puppet film CHRISTMAS 1976 has won several independent short awards including Los Angeles Film Festival.
His romcom directorial debut, A CONFLICT OF LOVE INTEREST arrives spring 2024. He likes Diet Coke, rainy days, cats and dogs. He’s tired of writing in third person. It’s kind of weird.
Partners
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Currently, This 3 time GRAMMY Award Winner lives in Minneapolis, When she is not gigging with her own band "J Movement " JAMECIA carries the torch of being the new featured lead vocalist of the original Grammy Award-Winning Sounds Of Blackness which was under the direction of Gary Hines and produced by super producers Jimmy Jam And Terry Lewis, MECIE is the Writer and producer of their hit single "Fly Again" off their self-titled album The Sounds of Blackness After touring the world with the Sounds Of Blackness, Jamecia also received a solo contract from Mercury Records that resulted in receiving platinum and gold albums for her writing and performing songs on movie soundtracks such as, Jasons Lyric (performed platinum soundtrack album song: Rodeo Style), Kazaam (performed song: The Best of Me), and also the film Posse which she performed song: Women United).
In 2012 Ms. Bennett along with the Sounds of Blackness won an NAACP Image Award and the same week received the GRAMMY win for the artist she produced and wrote on the project GRAMMY Award-winning Gospel Artist Le'Andria Johnson.
JAMECIA hit the Billboard charts at #8 as a featured lead soloist with Dove and Stellar nominees James Grear and Company with a cd entitled Don’t Give UP. She also completed an album that was released in London and Germany. Currently just released new single Man 4 Me written with her team singer/songwriter Mike Decole and producer J Issac Moore and Robbie Rob!
JAMECIA is also one of Twin Cities ones to watch on the actress scene, starring in lead roles and gracing the legendary stages in the Twin Cities and around the world. Shows such as, The Color purple, Marie and Rosetta, RENT, Rocky Horror, Black Nativity, Detroit 67, 42 Street, CROWNS, Caroline or Change, Passing Strange, The Love Jones Musical Tour, Tyler Perrys Family Reunion, and his other famous stage show I Can Do Bad All By Myself.
JAMECIA takes her journey into the blues circuit with her new single “HOLIDAY BLUES,” channeling some of her legend favorites Koko Taylor, Shemekia Copeland, Rosetta Tharpe. MECIE is looking to make a major impact on the music scene in 2020. She is bringing back the love of live blues, the root of soul music again, a feature that has been lost for a while. There has been an absence of thought-provoking, healing music in recent times and MECIE is looking to resurrect music that heals and talks about love, pain, and relationships of this generation.
JAMECIA BENNETT is the CEO of her company MINNESOTA MOVEMENT ENT. An artists development company that provides, media, vocal coaching, management consultation, styling and more.
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For more than a decade, JON EDEN and SARAH NACHBAUER have toured and performed as soloists all around the world. They have performed in over 15 different countries, across 4 continents and in some of the world’s most prestigious theaters. Jon and Sarah have also acted as creative associates with multiple companies on numerous world premieres as well as artistically contributing to corporate events and projects for MOMIX, Catapult Entertainment, Moving On, Katharine Helen Fisher Dance Company, Kohler, Mercedes-Benz, Wynn Casinos, Pirelli, Cannon, Cialis, Target, Columbus Day Parade NYC, Girl Scouts of America, Mayflower, Marriott, MAC Cosmetics, Bose, Lancôme, and Aveda just to name a few. Jon and Sarah also appeared on Season 8 of America’s Got Talent with the shadow company Catapult Entertainment, making it al the way to the finals. They have appeared in music videos for the artists MGMT and ARK, as well on TV shows for HBO, Showtime, CBS, STARZ and the History Channel. Together they have taught at the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, Terpsichore Dance Center, and have conducted master classes throughout the United States. They are Creative Consultants for acclaimed photographer Robert Whitman as well as with Cardinal Theatricals under the direction of Andrew Rasmussen.
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ROB LAQUI is a Tony® Award-Winning creative producer based in NYC. He is currently Co-Producer of HERE LIES LOVE on Broadway, by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim and HADESTOWN National tour / London.
Rob is the Associate Producer for No Guarantees, working on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s revival of EVITA. He was the Production Coordinator for NT America, the North American producing office for the National Theatre of Great Britain, representing NT on various Broadway productions such as NETWORK, HADESTOWN and THE LEHMAN TRILOGY and an Associate Producer with Mara Isaacs company, Octopus Theatricals.
Before his producing career he held multiple positions within the entertainment and live performance art industry. He performed in NYC and toured extensively as an actor, dancer and puppeteer as a member of various companies including LaMama ETC’s Great Jones Repertory under the late great Ellen Stewart, MOMIX Dance Company, the first national tour of the National Theatre’s WAR HORSE under the world renown South African Handspring Puppet Company, David Byrne’s HERE LIES LOVE, and Cirque du Soleil’s collaboration with James Cameron in TORUK: THE FIRST FLIGHT - based off of the hit movie AVATAR. Offstage Rob has been a choreographer, director, press representative for various productions, production spokesperson, puppet captain and builder for Broadway and off Broadway projects, and Macy’s Parade.
Rob recently Co-Produced A STRANGE LOOP on Broadway, winner of 2022 Tony Award for Best New Musical, as well as the HADESTOWN National Tour, 2019 Tony Award for Best New Musical. His most recent project is as a co-founder of The Industry Standard Group, an investment and producing organization that addresses the lack of representation and diversity in commercial theater investing and producing.
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SHERIDAN ZUTHER is an American jazz, Broadway, R&B, pop, gospel and opera singer/songwriter and producer. Her 2022 debut solo album
Songs from the Silo is an extension of her original cabaret show that premiered in 2016. In October 2023, she performed and promoted the album in Taiwan.
Growing up on the vast North Dakota plains, she started piano lessons at 2½ years old. Her love of music led her to hours of singing in her farm’s grain silo. Honing her performance skills, she climbed stacked haybales to sing for crowds of cows. At age 9, Sheridan’s supportive folks drove 120 miles every week for her to take private voice lessons at Minot State University for the next eight years.
Her first job as a radio announcer on KHND AM at age 14 spurred her musical interest in a variety of genres, spinning records there the next five years.
Sheridan went on to attend the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), Conservatory of Music, receiving honors with her B.M. in Vocal Performance-Opera. While in college, she discovered other outlets of musical entertainment that inspired her love of singing a range of genres, performing with variety dance bands around the state of North Dakota, in Kansas City and the Twin Cities.
After graduate studies at UMKC, in which she sang at Carnegie Hall, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and starred in musical theatre productions at the Guthrie, Ordway Center, Pantages, Park Square, Bloomington Civic, Minneapolis Musical Theater, productions with the MN Orchestra, and was a frequent soloist with Robert Robinson’s Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir. As an alumni of the Cabaret Conference at Yale University, she is one of the founding members of the Twin Cities Cabaret Artists Network, promoting public awareness and advancement of cabaret performance in the Twin Cities community.
Sheridan performed full-time for seven years and part-time for another eight years with the nationally-acclaimed vocal jazz quintet Five By Design until their 2018 retirement. She thoroughly enjoyed touring and working as their Operations Manager as well as co-creating Five By Design’s musical production Stay Tuned, which premiered in 2006 with the Arkansas Symphony. With Five By Design, she toured the continental U.S. and Canada averaging 210 days on the road, performing lush harmonies and swingin’ rhythms with pop symphony orchestras and studio big bands, in conjunction with teaching vocal clinics and master classes in high schools and universities.
As Associate Producer with Cardinal Theatricals, Sheridan co-produces large-scale musicals such as RENT and The Rocky Horror Show starring Don Shelby. In addition to serving as producer and band leader of her own shows, Sheridan continues to perform in musicals and sing with members of Five By Design as well as with variety dance bands. Her singing is also heard on jingles for corporate events along with TV, radio, internet commercials nationwide.
Sheridan teaches voice at her Minneapolis, MN studio and with disabled artists at Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts in St. Paul. She was recently a guest teaching artist at the Taipei American School in Taiwan, and has served as guest artist and clinician at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse Vocal Jazz Festival and Eau Claire High School Jazz Festival (Wisconsin). She has taught several vocal jazz and musical theatre summer sessions at International Music Camp at the Peace Gardens on the North Dakota/ Manitoba border, giving back to an art institution which she attended in her early teens studying saxophone, drama and creative writing.
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Born into a Queer African-Caribbean Panamanian family in Harlem, NY, TIFFANY NAKAMURA has lived their entire life surrounded by movement, music, art and spirituality. A multi-hyphenate artist, producer, and filmmaker, Tiffany brings an abundant mindset, sharp artistic eye, an intuitive sense of balance, discernment, and methodical perspective to their work.
Leading end-to-end production operations, creative & story development, content strategy, budget, and project management for a diverse range of high-volume multimedia projects for major e-commerce and technology companies, global brands and financial institutions. Helping clients create content for commercials, out-of-home campaigns, music visuals, television, audio programming, corporate and lifestyle content and feature films.
Skilled at writing, creative direction, story development, bidding, budgeting, pitching, contract negotiation, project scoping/ roadmapping, and managing large cross-functional technical teams; Tiffany is available to support and execute projects of any size and complexity. Will happily travel as needed.