About mary carrick:
Mary Carrick grew up in southeast Iowa, the daughter of restaurateurs. As a young girl, she remembers live combos playing in the restaurant lounge and customers feeding the juke box, often selecting her favorite songs to delight this little girl with pigtails and big brown eyes. Her family was also musical and artistic, so by way of genetics and her environment, she showed early signs of being an artsy kid. She studied piano, flute, and violin into her teens but found her real voice through song and live theatre. She began vocal study at age 15, fell in love with community theatre, and enrolled at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she graduated with a degree in vocal performance and studied theatre arts.
After taking a bit of a career detour, like many of us do, she's found her way back and rediscovered her passion for music and for live performance. She's figured out where she fits. Today, she's a multi-faceted and versatile performer who transitions easily between cabaret, opera, jazz, art song, contemporary musical styles, and as a stage actor.
Mary performs frequently across the Omaha metropolitan area as well as throughout the Midwest region with performing arts organizations, arts councils, cabaret venues, and theatres. Credits include work with Opera Omaha, the Omaha Symphony, Rose Theater, Omaha Community Playhouse, SNAP! Productions, Bellevue Little Theatre, Chanticleer Theatre, Shelterbelt Theatre, Cabaret Theatre, Dundee Dinner Theatre, BroadStreet Theatre Co., and Little Apple Productions. She also sings regularly with the Sacred Heart Freedom Choir and is a featured soloist on the group's 2009 CD, "Feel the Revival."
Mary and her musical partner Todd Brooks perform extensively both cabaret-style and for special events and festivals. They are currently touring several cabaret shows regionally, including their newest, "Songs with a Twist of Lime", which debuted at the Bart Howard Room in Burlington, Iowa in 2011. Upcoming engagements include their debut at the Minden Opera House, the Wilson Performing Arts Center, and the Vredenburg Concert Series, all in the Midwest. Their previous show, "Some People: Songs from Broadway and Beyond”, was named Outstanding Cabaret 2008 by the Theatre Arts Guild of the Omaha Metro. Mary and Todd have also received award nominations for their cabaret work, including 2010 nominations from the Theatre Arts Guild and Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards (OEA).
She is also the recipient of numerous acting awards and award nominations, including Theatre Arts Guild Awards for her stage roles in "'night, Mother" and "The Marriage of Bette and Boo".
Outside of performing, Mary is the founder of BroadStreet Theatre Co., which focuses on strengthening the voices of women in theatre. The company's production of "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" received the Omaha Entertainment Award for Best Musical in 2009 and a number of Theatre Arts Guild Awards.
Over the course of her career, Mary has studied voice with Mary Creswell, Dawn Harris, Barrington Coleman, Lucinda Sloan, and Beverly Rinaldi. She continues to hone her craft and says that beauty of being an artist is you never stop learning and the beauty of a song is you can always make it your own.
Mary makes her home in Omaha, Nebraska where she and her husband, Ben, have two children, Sophie, five years, and Patrick, two.
