RESUME
Professional ​
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Cara has performed for over 30 years on the public stage in numerous leading roles including Maria in Hurrah Player's Sound of Music, Holly Seabe ODU Theatre's Anton in Show Business, Magenta in ODU Theatre's Rocky Horror Picture Show, Veronique in Opera Breve's Hotel Casablanca, Dido in Lamar Opera Theatre's Dido and Aeneas. She most recently starred in commercial for Mack Mack AutoConnection and performed and served as music director for the Chrysler Museum's Glass Studio Phantom of the Hotshop. Cara teaches currently and in the past at Hampton Academy of Music, Dance, and Drama, Inc.; Music Makers; TakeLessons; M2 Pictures; Hurrah Players; Musika; TakeLessons; Trinity United Methodist of Beaumont, TX; Va Opera; Castaldi's Market and Grill. She has also been chosen to sing in master classes for renowned singers Joyce Castle, Harolyn Blackwell, Robynne Redmon, and Vivica Genaux.
Awards​
First Place Winning Vocalist Mar 2013
NATS Houston Greater Chapter
First Place Winning Vocalist Mar 2012
NATS Houston Greater Chapter
Third Place Winning Vocalist Apr 2011
NATS Houston Greater Chapter
First Place Vocalist Feb 2011
Brilliance Competition
First Place Vocalist Adult Division Jan 2005
ODU Concerto Competition
Education
Lamar University - B.A.A.S.
​Vocal Performance
2010 - 2013
Studied voice with Angela Pickering and Dr. Kerry Jennings. Starred as Dido in Lamar Opera Theatre's production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
and Fatima in Gluck's Der Betrogene Kadi.
Governor's School for the Arts
​Vocal Performance
1996 - 2000
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Studied voice with Alan Fischer, Robert Brown, and Dr. Lee Teply. Starred as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Cherubino in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro