ELIZABETH BURTON a native of Illinois, received her Bachelor's degree with a major in voice from the American Conservatory in Chicago, and completed her graduate study at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Northwestern University. She sang professionally as a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, one of the finest in the world. Elizabeth traveled throughout the United States with the Symphony and appeared often at Carnegie Hall. She has performed with artists such as Fritz Remer, Jean Martinon, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir George Solti, Luciano Pavarotti, Crista Ludwig, Dame Janet Baker, Dietrich Fischer-Diesko, and Leontyne Price. Burton served as Administrative Assistant to Margaret Hillis, founder and director of the Symphony, for 15 years just prior to leaving Chicago.

Burton left the fast paced Chicago music scene in 1979 and re-established herself on San Juan Island where she founded the San Juan Singers in 1980. The Singers have become an indispensable part of this island's music activity and present two major concerts every year. Their repertoire runs the gamut of musical styles from oratorio and opera to jazz and gospel. At the invitation of the Civic Orchestra of Victoria, Ms. Burton and the San Juan Singers joined that Orchestra in performing concerts of grand opera, overtures, arias and choruses for three consecutive years. Those performances took place both at the San Juan Community Theatre and at the University of Victoria in Victoria BC. Ms. Burton has plans underway to resume such concerts in the millennium.

MARGARET HALL, earned an MFA in Theater from Trinity University, and subsequently taught Stage Movement in Trinity's graduate school. She was a member of the resident company of the Dallas Theater Center under internationally acclaimed director, Paul Baker. Baker's philosophy dictated that theater people should not be pigeonholed as 'actors', costumers', etc., so Margaret got experience in all theatrical disciplines, while focusing on acting. After leaving the Dallas Theater Center, Margaret joined a traveling acting troop. At the Arts Magnet High School in Dallas, she taught Theater Creativity and Mime. In the business world, Margaret was vice president of a commercial real estate company in Dallas, where she supervised the leasing and management of office buildings and shopping centers.

Margaret and her husband, Albert, and daughter, Kimbell, moved to Friday Harbor in 1992. Since then, she has directed Fantasticks, Brigadoon and Woman of the Year, and acted in several local productions. She served as president of CATS for two years, and is in her first term on the Board of Trustees. This year she will direct Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians.