- Musical Director, Roosevelt University
- Accompanist, Roosevelt University
CCPA Faculty since 2006
Bonnie Shadrake
Bonnie Shadrake helped create Flanagan’s Wake in 1994, composing the score and acting as the musical director in Chicago and other cities nationwide. She was a founding member and Music/Cabaret Director of the Noble Fool Theater Company, now housed at the Pheasant Run Resort. Recent credits there include Ruthless (music director, conductor, pianist), The Mikado 2.005 (music director, new arrangements, conductor, pianist), and Vikings! A Musical in Two Axe (composer, co-lyricist, music director). She is also co-author of the the popular holiday show Roasting Chestnuts, now in its 8th year. Bonnie is also the musical director, composer, arranger, and pianist for the popular cabaret act The Weird Sisters, and co-founder (with Naomi Ashley and Cayne Collier} of Cabarah - an Alternative Cabaret, which was recently featured in the Sondheim Festival at Chicago's Millennium Park.