FIRELIGHT CHILDREN'S
THEATRE
DIRECTORS
Laura Blum has taught choral music in public schools for 25 years. She has privately
taught theatre arts, guitar, voice, piano, woodwinds and Kindermusik for over 30 years. She
has directed church choirs since 1970. She holds a bachelors as well as a masters of arts
degree in music performance from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. One of the
founding members of Abbeville’s
Abbey Players, she has performed major roles, both as an
actress as well as a singer, since 1972. A director of adult musicals as well as children’s
theatre, she is the owner of Firelight Music. As a playwright she writes book, lyrics and
music for children's plays.
Ray Blum has been on stage in one form or another for over 40 years. He has appeared
in plays and movies locally, in the New Orleans area as well as in New York. In addition to
being a retired U.S. Army Captain, he has been a certified theatre and English teacher
since 1972. A graduate of Loyola University and Connecticut State University, he writes
the column Perform! for the
Lafayette Daily Advertiser and appears regularly as an
entertainment commentator on KLFY TV’s Passe Partout. He is currently writing a book
about the history of community theatre in Acadiana.
also the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Pot Pourri, and adult theatre at Abbey
Players in Abbeville, Louisiana.