PAMELA WINSLOW KASHANI

PERFORMER, PRODUCER, COMPOSER

ABOUT

6313 Pamela loves to create and foster new artistic ideas. She co-leads Apples and Oranges Studios, the film, television, and theater production company with her husband Tim Kashani. Three seasons of A and O’s Bridge to Broadway program paved the way for THEatre ACCELERATOR, now “taking the starving out of artist” using Silicon Valley principles to empower the creative mind. Over sixty creative teams have experienced THEatre ACCELERATOR, creating more opportunities for voices of all kinds to be heard. Working to generate more diversity in stories and more ways to view them A and O has filmed two feature musical films in the last two years and has plans to film several more. A and O is currently exploring the latest in XR to further amplify story and to augment the process of storytelling.

As an actor Pamela created varied roles such as Ensign McKnight on Star Trek: The Next Generation and the original Rapunzel in Into the Woods on Broadway. Also on Broadway Pamela played Cinderella in Into the Woods, Lucille in Meet Me in St. Louis and Babette (the feather duster) in Beauty and the Beast. Pamela has played many leading roles at regional theaters across the US as well as TV guest appearances and hosted her own TV show, Arts Coast to Coast. Change Happens, her one-woman stage show, has played in several venues on both coasts, most recently in Palm Springs. Her show Love and Sax also played in several locations including 54 Below. Pamela made her high seas debut in her solo concert on the Disney Magic in 2018. She played Meredith Scott in the web series Mélange, Mrs. Weston in the musical film Emma (emmathemusical.com) and Bernice in the musical film No One Called Ahead (noonecalledahead.com). The pandemic brought Pamela into the world of acting in VR. She made her VR debut as Hera in Finding Pandora X at the Venice International Film festival, winning Best Immersive Experience. She is now bringing her own musical, Winter Lights, to VR, playing QED, a role she co-created.

As a producer Pamela won a Drama Desk Award for the Broadway revival of Hair in 2009, in 2010 gained another Drama Desk, an Outer Critic’s Circle and Tony Award for the Best Musical Memphis and co-produced the four-time Tony winner An American in Paris in 2014 and 2015.

Pamela has been flexing her musical muscles in a new way as composer and lyricist for the shows Higher Education and Winter Lights. Winter Lights, a STEM loving family friendly musical spectacle, plans to make its live world premiere this November at the Julianne Argyros Theater at the Discovery Cube.

Pamela is grateful to all of her teachers and mentors and hopes to pay it forward to the next generation of artists.

PERFORMER

PAMELA WINSLOW KASHANI WAS PART OF THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST OF INTO THE WOODS AS RAPUNZEL

ORIGINAL RAPUNZEL IN TONY AWARD WINNER INTO THE WOODS

PAMELA WINSLOW KASHANI WAS BABETTE IN TONY WINNING BROADWAY MUSICAL BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

BABETTE IN TONY WINNING MUSICAL BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

PAMELA WINSLOW KASHNI HAD A RECURRING ROLE ON SCIFI CLASSIC STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION AS ENSIGN MCKNIGHT

RECURRING ROLE ON SCIFI CLASSIC STAR TREK AS ENSIGN MCKNIGHT

PRODUCER

MOST AWARDED MUSICAL OF 2015 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

PAMELA WINSLOW KASHANI WAS A PRODUCER ON 2010 TONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST BROADWAY MUSICAL MEMPHIS

2010 TONY WINNER FOR BEST MUSICAL MEMPHIS

PAMELA WINSLOW KASHANI WAS A PRODUCER ON 2009 TONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST BROADWAY REVIVIAL HAIR

2009 TONY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST REVIVAL HAIR

CURRENT PROJECTS

THEatre ACCELERATOR

Applying the model that accelerates technology start-ups, THEatre ACCELERATOR treats storytellers as founders creating an opportunity to interact with experts in storytelling, production, distribution, and the business of show business.

No One Called Ahead

Ben, an unfulfilled artist, seeks a weekend getaway but gets more than he bargained for when he begins to receive a series of visits from several astonishing women from the great beyond. This darkly comic romance with a tuneful contemporary score asks the question, “is there love after death”? Pamela plays Bernice, a no-nonsense former lawyer turned ghost/angel who gives Ben the tough loves he needs to answer this question for himself.

Emma: A New Jane Austen Musical

The first soundstage musical to be produced in collaboration with Apples and Oranges based on the classic Jane Austen novel. Pamela plays Mrs. Weston. Emmathemusical.com

Pamela Winslow Kashani is the composer for Higher Education a new musical produced through Bridge to Broadway

Change Happens

What is the meaning of life? We all yearn to know. Through this autobiographical musical adventure Pamela sings a variety of classic and contemporary musical tunes while contemplating life’s big questions and looking back with a sense of humor on her own.

Mélange

Cheers meets Dynasty in this soon to be classic web series. Pamela joins a stellar cast. Currently in post-production.

Higher Education

Pamela is currently composing music and lyrics for Higher Education, a musical in development that began it’s journey in the Bridge to Broadway program and continues growing under the Apples and Oranges umbrella.

Sondheim Unplugged

A celebrated New York event since 2010, the BroadwayWorld and Bistro Award-winning series Sondheim Unplugged features some of Broadway and cabaret’s most dynamic voices, accompanied by piano only, delving into the musical world of Broadway’s master composer. You can find Pamela popping in a few times a year.

Stars Set Sail

Pamela performed her solo show on the Disney Magic with ports in Barcelona, Spain; Naples, Italy; Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy; Livorno (Florence), Italy; and Cannes, France. She’s hoping for a repeat.

An American in Paris

Apples and Oranges Studios co-produced the pre Brodaway production in Paris, Broadway, National Tour and West End productions. AAIP opens in Japan in 2019.