Our Writers
Audrey Liebross
Audrey Liebross retired in 2014 from writing legal briefs for a federal agency in DC. She now works as a writer in Palm Desert, California, where she can visit Disneyland to her heart's content. Audrey has an obsession with "The Phantom of the Opera," and has written a musical for community theatre based on the Leroux novel. She is currently working on a novel about Guess Who. Audrey and her husband have three grown sons and two terrific grandkids. Her philosophy of life is to leave the world a better place than you found it, make lemonade out of lemons, and let your soul take you where you long to be.
Laura Bloom Farber
Laura is a theatre fanatic. Her acting credits include The Wedding Singer (Rosie), Urinetown (Penelope Pennywise), and Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman), among others. She originated the role of Raisa in Wife of the Party, a two-character musical about the Gorbachevs written by Wayne Goodman. She has also performed as a keyboardist (Little Shop of Horrors, Damn Yankees, The Music Man, The Fantasticks), clarinetist (Cabaret) and musical director (Pirates of Penzance).
June August
Coachella Valley Audiences know June primarily as an actor. From 2015-2021 and again in 2023, she appeared locally in more than thirty community theater readings and productions. She also directed readings and one-acts for several companies, as well as composing incidental music for two local productions. She also served on Desert Theatre League Board of Directors.
In 1982 June was commissioned to write the book and lyrics for Key of Me. Based on the life of Ethel Waters, the show debuted in Pasadena and has since been staged in Indianapolis and Fairfax, VA. Her musical Sexy Widows (book, lyrics, music), which premiered at 24th Street Theatre in Los Angeles in 2013, was remounted by Sun City Palm Desert Performing Arts in October 2019. In January 2023 her latest play, All About Moonbeams, was performed as a staged reading by Script2Stage2Screen.
During the 1970s, June was resident composer/music director for several children’s theater companies in California and Florida. Her play ROBERT FROST: Fire and Ice premiered at Pasadena Playhouse, ran off-Broadway, reprised at Actors Alley in Los Angeles, and toured nationally. Her plays and children’s musicals have been staged in Long Beach, Anaheim, Miami, Sarasota, Sacramento, and Detroit.
With her late husband, Professor Jay Zorn, June developed a course for USC and the textbook about the social issues in the Broadway Musical. Until she left the Los Angeles area, June was invited to be a a guest lecturer every semester for the unit on song lyrics. She and Dr. Zorn also co-authored a college level text titled Listening to Music.
June was director of audio-visual product development for Teaching Technology Corporation, Craig Education, and Education Division of Walt Disney Productions. For more than twenty years, she conducted writing workshops at Fortune 500 companies throughout North America.
Stan Jenson
Stan Jenson has been acting, singing, dancing, directing, designing and writing for theatre for over 60 years, across the United States and even for several years in Australia. He has called the Coachella Valley home since 2011 and truly loves living here. He has acted in most of the community theatres in the Valley with favorite roles being Daddy Warbucks in Annie (DTW), Mayor Shinn in The Music Man (PCT), Koko in Hot Mikado (PCT), Narrator/Mysterious an in Into the Woods (DTW) and Poggy in Suicide Dogs (Dezart Performs). He has written for monthly magazines and web publications from 1997 to the present, and is proud to be a charter journalist with Coachella Valley Theatre World.