A NEW MUSICAL
CREATIVE TEAM
Dr Cynthia Davis
PhD, MSc, BEd, ATCL, LTCL.
Cynthia is the Artistic Director of Glorylight Productions. "Abolition" is her first musical. She has been a practising Clinical Psychologist in her professional life, a specialist in treating complex trauma. She trained extensively in performing arts in her younger years and set her creative and dramatic talents aside to pursue academia and clinical practice. She now works full-time in writing musicals and in music theatre production.
After spending many years researching 18th century Europe, Cynthia was inspired to tell, in music theatre form, the gripping story of a small group of tenacious freedom fighters who reshaped the social, political and economic landscape of a nation and set the stage for global human rights reform. She believes that this type of heroism is surely needed today.
Cynthia further believes that music theatre has the potential to drive conversations about complex human interactions, and about social, political and ethical structures that shape our lives in the modern culture. It is her passion to see in music theatre a convergence of entertainment, artistic excellence and education to fulfill ALL the needs of theatre-goers including entertainment, intellectual stimulation, insight, ethical and moral discovery, and the changing and developing of mindsets.
Cynthia wrote the book, the music and the lyrics for "Abolition" and she collaborates with a team of immensely talented creatives in its ongoing development. She has also completed a second musical, an epic story about the great controversy between good and evil which is currently being devleloped.
Judd Field
Judd is an accomplished vocalist, song-writer/arranger and choir director for the Melbourne Gospel Choir. He has a versatile style, large range and a natural gift for melodies. He is a prominent and sought-after backing vocalist in Australia, having been a soloist and backing singer on most Australian TV entertainment shows including, Dancing with the Stars - Australia, The Singing Bee – Australia, The X-factor - Australia and Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell Show. His repertoire also includes backing vocals for Delta Goodrem, Westlife, Guy Sebastian, UK singer James Morrison, Marina Prior, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Jon Stevens, Dame Edna, Vanessa Amorosi, Silvie Paladino, Marcia Hines and David Campbell.
Judd has also arranged music and vocals from bubbly High 5 Christmas Carols to poignant In Memoriam A cappella Tributes on Channel 9's The Logies, to an arrangement of "Oh When The Saints" that he did and performed lead vocals on, for the AFL St-Kilda Clubs 150 year anniversary game in from of 60,000 people at the legendary MGC stadium, televised live across Australia.
He has written over 100 songs and assisted in the production 3 Melbourne Gospel Choir albums. He writes in a vast array of music styles and his compositions have been used in 4 musicals including Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Desert, and Illuminati Lizards from Outer Space which was performed in the 2019 New York Musical Festival.
Most recently, Judd has toured with Tones and I including TV performances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live. His roles include vocal arrangements on her new album, additional choir direction and backing vocals on tour.
Judd has been a passionate advocate to stop child slavery. His composition The Song of Freedom is sung by the Melbourne Gospel Choir to many and varied groups ranging from 1000 to 20,000 at public festivals and corporate fundraisers throughout Australia. This included an exclusive event with Hugh Jackman that raised over 1.5 million dollars for World Vision projects.
Judd collaborates with Cynthia on book, music and lyrics for all Glorylight Productions musicals.
Kahlia Davis
Kahlia trained extensively in performing arts in Melbourne, Australia, before gaining her Diploma of Musical Theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City. Upon graduating, she continued to train at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Centre and performed on Manhattan’s cabaret scene (Feinstein’s 54 Below, The Metropolitan Room).
Performance highlights include: the US, Japan and Shanghai tours of A Chorus Line (Sheila & Dance Captain); The US National tour of 42nd Street (Anytime Annie) and regional production at North Shore Music Theatre MA (Phyllis); and Mamma Mia! (Lisa) at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina SC. Other favourites include White Christmas (Rita) at the Ogunquit Playhouse ME, the US national tour of A Christmas Story (Swing) and West Side Story (Consuela) at the New Bedford Festival Theatre MA.
Kahlia has released her debut EP titled The First One followed by a single release Miss You Much. She has performed on the Regent Seven Seas Mariner as a production vocalist on their luxury world cruise.
Kahlia is currently performing as Arabia in the Australian production of 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' and understudy for Satine and Nini, having previously performed as a swing.
Kahlia has completed a Master of Business [Arts and Cultural Management] from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Jared Haschek
Jared's is obsessed with music. He is a musician, arranger, producer, songwriter and composer. In the music space his passion is writing string, horn and orchestral arrangements. He works in both Nashville, TN with the Nashville String Machine, and Melbourne, Australia with String Source. Working as a string arranger, he has contributed to albums ranging from the global music phenomena Hillsong, to Rapper 360.
He has written the scores for 2 feature films, Steps and Llewellyn Unlikely. Jared also works as a freelance arranger for sheet music publishers Hal Leonard (USA).
Jared has worked on hundreds of piano/vocal/guitar arrangements for collections by artists including Whitney Houston, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran. Jared is Glorylight Productions arranger and orchestrater.