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Launched in 2000, Provincetown CabaretFest combines performances by local and national cabaret artists with workshops and master classes to help emerging and seasoned performers hone their craft.

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David Rhodes 

PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

DAVID RHODES trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art,
Carnegie-Mellon and Wesleyan University. Classically schooled with a contemporary edge, Rhodes’ work as a solo artist, stage, film, and television actor has garnered critical acclaim nationally and internationally. As a cabaret artist Rhodes is well known in Provincetown, New York, London, Boston, and New Orleans for his unique and theatrical performances, crossing the boundaries between Cabaret, theater and spoken word performance art. Rhodes is thrilled to be taking the helm in his newly appointed position as Producer and Artistic Director of Provincetown CabaretFest followng several previous summers with the festival as both a Master Class teacher and performer.

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John O'Neil

Founder

2000-2012

​John O'Neil founded Provincetown CabaretFest in 2000 and holds a special place in his heart for the festival. He is the entertainment coordinator for Club Café’s piano bar The Napoleon Room and its cabaret room Josephine’s. He began his career in the original Napoleon Club in Boston’s Bay Village in 1990. A consummate performer, John has appeared in piano bars, cabaret rooms and concert halls up and down the east coast, including opening for Tony award winner Jennifer Holiday at North Shore Music Theatre. John also directs cabarets, leads performance masterclasses and operates a private voice studio.For booking information contact John at josephinescabaret@gmail.com

Patricia Fitzpatrick

Producer Emeritus

2014-2025

Patricia Fitzpatrick took the helm as Provincetown CabaretFests’ Producer in 2014. Well known in Provincetown as Director of Tourism she combined her love of Provincetown, expert skills as a performer and educator with her administrator skills, to expand the reach of the festival. Fitzpatrick was the engine of Provincetown CabartFest for twelve years, bringing top talent and unique opportunities to the festival students and the Provincetown Community. Many of the artists and shows she developed and produced during her tenure with the festival have moved on to venues around the country and internationally. 

Meet the Team

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Music Director

Tom LaMark

Winner of the 2025 Provincetown Cabaretfest Lifetime Achievement Award. Pianist /Arranger / Conductor Tom LaMark is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music with a degree in arranging and composition. After playing his first professional “gig” at age 13, Tom has made the music business his livelihood. In the 70’s, Tom lived and worked in New York City doing everything there was to do in the business, from Broadway to the Rainbow Room. He has accompanied show business greats: Andrea Bocelli, Aretha Franklin, Anthony Newley, The Smothers Brothers and many, many more. Tom has performed professionally with jazz greats: Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Woods, Johnny Hartman and a host of others. Tom served as music director on seven consecutive world cruises of the prestigious Holland America and Royal Viking cruise lines rehearsing and conducting shows of an amazingly varied nature on a daily basis. In October of 2007, Tom had the pleasure of playing a recital at Carnegie Hall with soprano Karyn Levitt. He is now very active in the Boston area Cabaret community acting as music director, arranger and recording producer for our region’s best professional and aspiring performers. Tom is a lifetime member of the American Federation of Musicians, and a member of the American Society of Musicians, Arrangers and Composers.

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Music Director

Tracy Stark

Pianist/MusicDirector/Arranger/Bandleader/SingerSongwriter, Tracy Stark is a 17-Time MAC Award winner, in the categories of Music Director, Piano Entertainer, and 3X Song of the Year. She is also a Bistro Award winner for Musical Direction, has won Cabaret Hotline’s Songwriter of the Year Award, and BroadwayWorld Award for Music Director, and most recently was awarded the 2025 MAC Award for Song of the Year, for her song “Better Place”. Tracy has worked with Sarah Dash (Labelle), Lesley Gore , Phoebe Snow, Karen Black (Academy Award Nominee/Golden Globe winner), Nona Hendryx (Labelle), Randy Jones (Village People), Barb Jungr, Brenda Braxton (Tony Nominee), Justin Sayre, Eric Millegan (Bones), Tonya Pinkins (Tony winner), Nathan Lee Graham (Grammy Winnner), Alice Ripley (Tony winner) and hundreds of other rock, jazz, and broadway vocalists. She stays busy creating and music directing 75-100 different shows per year, in addition to her ongoing work as music director for the Eugene O’Neill Cabaret Conference for the past 13 years, in addition to being the music director for the Provincetown Cabaret Festival for the past few years. She has 3 albums of original music

2026 Masterclass Leaders

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Masterclass Leader - Monday 

Angela Bacari was born and raised in Westerly Rhode Island. She never left this seaside town during her fifty year career,,,except to cut a record with RCA that went gold (“Baby I’m Yours”), perform all over the world on the Playboy circuit and cruise ships and headline in Vegas and the Catskills with luminaries like Don RIckles, Rodney Dangerfield, Pat Stewart and Shecky Green. Her many television appearances include, The Mere Griffin Show, The Dinah Shore Show, The Virginia Shore Show and numerous Jerry Lewis muscular dystrophy telethons. As a vocal coach and mentor she managed and nurtured the career of Billy GIlman and is credited for coaching Liza Minelli from 2000-2011 when Liza was stricken with vocal troubles and helping to revitalize the mega star’s career.

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Masterclass Leader - Wednesday 

Sally Mayes

The NEW YORK TIMES calls her 'incandescent, deliciously saucy.' PEOPLE Magazine describes her as 'the kind of rich theatrical voice that elevates a show tune.' And TIME Magazine says 'Sally Mayes renders songs as richly nuanced as one-act plays.’ Sally made her Broadway debut in Cy Coleman’s WELCOME TO THE CLUB. Her performance won critical praise along with a Theater World Award and Outer Critics Circle nomination as one of Broadway's Outstanding Newcomers. On Broadway, Sally is perhaps best known for her performance in the Roundabout Theater revival of SHE LOVES ME for which she won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations. Sally appeared as Aunt Corene in URBAN COWBOY (Drama Desk nomination). She drew raves as Mae West in the National Tour of DIRTY BLONDE and also appeared in the Broadway revival of STEEL MAGNOLIAS. Sally starred in several Off-Broadway productions including CLOSER THAN EVER (Outer Critics Circle nomination), DAS BARBECU, PETE N’ KEELY (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical), PLAY IT COOL, GOOD OL’ GIRLS, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME. Film and Television credits include ALPHA HOUSE, CITY HALL, DOUBLE PARKED and BYE BYE BIRDIE, LAW AND ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT, SEX AND THE CITY and THE JOB. Sally also appears on countless cast recordings including, CLOSER THAN EVER, SHE LOVES ME, DAS BARBECUE, BYE BYE BIRDIE, LOST IN BOSTON, UNSUNG MUSICALS, UNSUNG SONDHEIM, and NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, to mention a few. Sally has five solo albums, THE DOROTHY FIELDS SONGBOOK, OUR PRIVATE WORLD: THE COMDEN AND GREEN SONGBOOK, THE STORY HOUR, BOYS AND GIRLS LIKE YOU AND ME, and VALENTINE. Sally's much anticipated nightclub appearances have garnered her rave reviews from coast to coast; she has been nominated for twelve Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) awards, and has won two Back Stage BISTRO awards for excellence in cabaret and

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Masterclass Leader - Tuesday 

For the past four decades, FAITH PRINCE has dazzled audiences on both stage and screen in a variety of memorable comedic and dramatic roles. She quickly rose to Broadway fame after winning a Tony Award, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls directed by Jerry Zaks, and has remained one of the most prolific leading ladies working in the American musical theater. For her Broadway debut in Jerome Robbins Broadway, Ms. Prince was nominated for her first Tony Award and Drama Desk Award, and has since starred in over a dozen Broadway shows: Nick & Nora (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Guys and Dolls, What’s Wrong With This Picture, The King and I, Little Me, James Joyce’s The Dead, Bells Are Ringing (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nominations), Noises Off, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, A Catered Affair (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nominations), Annie, and Disaster. Also in New York, she originated the role of Trina in William Finn and James Lapine’s Falsettoland and can be heard on the cast recording. Most recently, she returned to Broadway originating the role of Valentina in BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical. Equally present on screen, Ms. Prince made her television debut guest starring opposite Pierce Brosnan on the hit series “Remington Steele” followed by playing Angela Virago in the 1985 film The Last Dragon. She has appeared in numerous films including: Dave with Kevin Kline, My Father the Hero with Gerard Depardieu, Picture Perfect with Jennifer Aniston, Our Very Own, It Had to Be You, Material Girls, and Disney’s TinkerBell and the Great Fairy Rescue. Faith is perhaps more widely recognized for the many colorful characters she has created on television including recently: Nellie Cantrell on the 2022 Fox series “Monarch” and Judith Robertson in “Emily in Paris”, as well as Kristy Swenson in “Scream Queens”, Elaine Bingum in “Drop Dead Diva”, Claudia in “Spin City”, Kelly Knippers in “Huff”, “Modern Family”, “CSI", “Ugly Betty”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Monk”, “House”, “Now and Again” and television movies including most recently “Dear Christmas” for Lifetime. Audiences can now stream her many live appearances, including performances from The Tony Awards, “My Favorite Broadway” at Carnegie Hall, and An Evening At The Pops: A Tribute to Jerry Herman” (PBS). In addition to the original cast recordings, she has two solo albums “A Leap of Faith” (DRG, 2000) and “Total Faith” (Broadway Records, 2013). Faith can frequently be seen in concert and her symphony appearances include Boston Pops, Utah Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic, Cincinnati Pops, and Philly Pops, and Sydney Opera House and the Adelaide Music Festival with Anthony Warlow. Born in Georgia and raised in Virginia, Faith received a BFA in musical theater from University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music before moving to New York and making her professional debut in Scrambled Feet. a revue at The Village Gate Theater. She then succeeded Ellen Greene as Audrey in the original New York and Los Angeles productions of Little Shop of Horrors. In 2009, Ms. Prince was honored by her alma mater with an Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts.

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Masterclass Leader - Thursday 

Sidney Myer

Sidney Myer has been a fixture on the New York Cabaret Scene for half a century, managing the clubs: Panache, Rose’s Turn and Don’t Tell Mama. His award-winning performing has taken him from London to Boca Raton to San Francisco. Stephen Holden, The New York Times: “A beloved, latter day vaudevillian. An engagingly mischievous dispenser of musical repartee.”

Workshop Leaders

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The Truth Is In The Telling 

David Rhodes

PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID RHODES trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Carnegie-Mellon and Wesleyan University. Classically schooled with a contemporary edge, Rhodes’ work as a solo artist, stage, film, and television actor has garnered critical acclaim nationally and internationally. As a cabaret artist Rhodes is well known in Provincetown, New York, London, Boston, and New Orleans for his unique and theatrical performances, crossing the boundaries between Cabaret, theater and spoken word performance art. Rhodes is thrilled to be taking the helm in his newly appointed position as Producer and Artistic Director of Provincetown CabaretFest followng several previous summers with the festival as both a Master Class teacher and performer.

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The Art of Vocal Improvisation

Anthony Murphy

Anthony Murphy is a singer, actor, director, and choreographer whose work spans Broadway, international touring productions, and acclaimed cabaret stages. He studied Directing and Choreography at Otterbein University, where he trained in classical and jazz voice and served as an assistant choreographer on multiple productions. In 2017, Murphy originated the role of the Genie in the Broadway U.S. National Tour of Disney’s Aladdin, later joining the Australian company. While in Australia, he premiered his sold-out solo cabaret Introducing: Anthony Murphy at the historic Doo Bop Jazz Bar in Brisbane.

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Patter Workshop

Carolyn Montgomery

Carolyn Montgomery is a multi MAC, Bistro and Nightlife award winning singer/songwriter, who has performed in major venues across 36 states, Montreal, London and Paris. She is the Executive Director of the American Songbook Association, a not-for-profit organization that brings music education to underserved public schools in all five boroughs of New York City as well as Chicago- and proudly partners with Cabaret Scenes Magazine as it's official publication. Carolyn's success and innovation in her work at the ASA and her performance career was recently featured in Forbes Magazine. She frequently appears on radio shows and podcasts across the country and in London to address the importance of her mission: to preserve, promote and protect classic American musical legacies (jazz, musical theatre and classic song) for future generations. Her latest show, “girlSINGER, A Celebration of Rosemary Clooney” sold out New York City’s Birdland and 54 Below, Crazy Coqs in London, and continues to play to packed houses and rave reviews across the United States. The show won both the 2025 MAC and Bistro Awards for Outstanding Tribute Show. Carolyn lives on the west side of Manhattan with her son Eli and her Jack Russell terrier, George. While she is enamored of her home base, she is also at home in the Adirondacks, Cape Cod and Paris.

Help support our mission!

Provincetown CabaretFest LLC works in concert with our 501 (C)3 fiscal sponsor Boston Association of Cabaret Artists (BACA). Our harmonious partnership allows us to conduct business with nonprofit privileges and accept tax deductible donations.

 

The proceeds of your tax deductible gift will go directly to Provincetown CabaretFest LLC ensuring the continuation of our mission to preserve and evolve the art of Cabaret and inspire new generations of Cabaret artists for years to come. 

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