ANGELA SHULTZ is a Missouri native who grew up in the Jefferson County area.  Early musical influence came in the form of her large family.  Her maternal grandmother began teaching her to play piano by ear at the age of 3, around the same time Angela discovered Debby Boone’s You Light Up My Life recording.  She began to sing that into the hairbrush at every family gathering.  As a child, she trained in piano and voice before landing her first onstage roles in Jefferson College’s summer musicals.    After attending Missouri State University and Texas Tech, Angela finally (to the relief of her parents) graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Missouri Baptist University.  She followed that with a Master of Arts in Theatre Education from Fontbonne University. 

NYC theatre credits include: Coris of Disapproval (2009 Shortened Attention Span Audience Favorite) and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for Midtown International Theatre Festival.  She also appeared in the developmental reading of a new musical, The Wasp Woman by Blake Hackler and Philip Chernyak, as part of New York Theatre Experiment, and will reprise her role as Phyllis (the show’s underdog) in October, 2009.  

St. Louis theatre credits include Closer Than Ever with Avalon Theatre (directed by Ron Gibbs) several productions with New Line Theatre:  Company (Marta), Woman with Pocketbook (Phyllis), Bat Boy (Ruthie/Impassioned Female Soloist) and the cabarets/revues New Line Songbook, New Line Cabaret, Attack of the Showtunes and Extreme Sondheim.  She also appeared with Washington Avenue Players Project, featured in Baby, It’s Cold Outside, and in two productions of Nunsense (Hubert at Kirkwood Community Center and Rev Mo at SIUE Summer Showbiz).  Other St. Louis credits include appearances in The Secret Garden (Martha), Godspell (Sonia and Joanne), HMS Pinafore (Buttercup) and many others.   

Angela made her solo cabaret debut with The Whole Wide World at the Duplex in fall 2007. She returned with Closer Than You Think: Songs of Brett Kristofferson (directed by Hector Coris) at Don’t Tell Mama in 2008.  She was honored to have made into the Top 5 in the first MetroStar Talent Challege at Metropolitan Room in 2008. Angela premiered Kiss Me LikeYou Mean It in 2009 at Don’t Tell Mama.  She has also participated in workshops with Barbara Cook, Sally Mayes, Rick Jensen and Lina Koutrakos. 

Angela has been an active teacher, musical director, and director with Stages St. Louis, SIUE, Fontbonne, Jefferson College in Missouri and at Professional Performing Arts High School in New York and numerous other venues. As a writer, she has collaborated with Brett Kristofferson on 2 projects: In Her Place (book and lyrics) and The Red House (additional lyrics).