Sam Harris’ diversified career has run the gamut from singer and songwriter to actor on Broadway, film and television, to writer, director, producer and author.  After pulling a weekly audience of more than 25 million viewers on STAR SEARCH in it's premier season, Sam and his powerhouse pop, gospel and theater influenced vocals have never looked back. Jimmy Fallon called his performance of Over the Rainbow “one of the greatest performances ever on television, EVER!” Sam is a multi-platinum recording artist with 9 studio CDs to his credit. Rolling Stone Magazine listed him as one of the “Top 100 vocalists of all time.” On Broadway, Sam received a Tony, Outer Critic’s Circle and Drama Desk nominations for his work in Cy Coleman’s THE LIFE, a Drama League Award and Drama Desk nomination for his role in Tommy Tune’s GREASE, and appeared in Mel Brooks’, THE PRODUCERS, as well as JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, CABARET, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, HAIR, PIPPIN, and THE JAZZ SINGER. His autobiographical show HAM: A Musical Memoir played off Broadway and in Los Angeles, and won LA’s prestigious Ovation Award for Best Musical, also awarding him as Best Actor, and Best Musical Direction for Todd Schroeder. It was filmed for television and can be seen on all prominent streaming channels. Sam has toured extensively in concert and has played to sold-out audiences everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Boston Pops. He has appeared at The White House, on numerous television specials and live productions, and has been a guest artist on virtually every talk show, his favorite in an historic time, when he performed a stirring “You’ll Never Walk Alone” on THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW in the week following September 11th. Sam was a regular on the CBS sitcom, THE CLASS, winning the People’s Choice Award, and has guest starred on numerous series. He hosted his own segment on EXTRA called “Six Degrees of Sam Harris.” Behind the scenes, Sam co-wrote the TBS sit-com, DOWN TO EARTH, co-produced and directed the television special LOVE LETTER TO NEW YORK, supervised and directed segments of MICHAEL JACKSON’S 30TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY at Madison Square Garden, and co-wrote LIZA’S AT THE PALACE for Liza Minnelli, which won the Tony Award. He created and directed the concert event, NEW YORK’S FINEST – BROADWAY’S LEADING MEN, and has directed numerous multi-star events featuring Broadway and recording stars. Sam wrote the best-selling book “HAM: Slices of a Life,” which was the basis for the hit show. His new novel, which is literary fiction this time, is titled “The Substance of All Things,” and has garnered extraordinary reviews from all prominent book publications.   

As a kid growing up in Kansas City, BRENNA WHITAKER fell in love with the music of jazz and blues singers from a long-ago era. "Ruth Brown, Peggy Lee, Cab Calloway, Etta James - those are my people," says the L.A.-based vocalist. "I don't even know how I ended up knowing so many of their songs and standards from back then. It's almost like they found their way to me, like I'm from another time."    After landing her first professional theater gig at age 11, moving to New York City on her own to study with Broadway veterans at age 17, and spending her early 20s leading jazz bands back home in Missouri, Whitaker headed to L.A. and started setting up a series of residencies that eventually attracted fans like Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, and Michael Bublé and caught the attention of Verve Music Group chairman and 16-time Grammy Award-winner David Foster. The first new artist Foster has agreed to develop and produce since discovering Bublé, Whitaker is now set to release a debut album for Verve that finds her reviving a vast American jukebox of classic songs and revealing the full force of her stunning, soulful voice. 

Todd Schroeder sits beneath his pork-pie hat having the time of his life. He is a brilliantly talented pianist, composer, director, producer, arranger, songwriter and certainly one of the hardest-working music directors in the world with the prestigious L.A Stage Alliance awarding him their Ovation Award for “Best Musical Direction” and BroadwayWorld.com named him their “Musical Director of the Year”.  Over Schroeder’s career he has worked with such celebrities as Jason Alexander, Leslie Odom Jr., Tom Jones, Rita Coolidge, Sam Harris and for over 20 years with the legendary Angela Lansbury including her recent performance in “Mary Poppins Returns”. Todd also music directs and performs with the superstar retro-pop group “Postmodern Jukebox”.   In addition to performing as music director for various artists on daytime and late night talk shows including “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and the “The Late, Late Show”, Schroeder acts as music and vocal director for various live performance shows including Disney’s “Aladdin , A Musical Spectacular” and Universal Studios Japan’s productions of “Wicked” in Osaka, Japan. Todd has composed music for film, television and stage including “Unbeatable, A Bold New Musical”, “Braveheart, das Musical”, the new romantic comedy “Longing4Love.com” and the off Broadway hit, “HAM, A Musical Memoir” with Sam Harris. Todd is very proud to be the founder of the “Todd Schroeder Young Artist Grant”, an annual scholarship that for over 20 twenty years has been presented to graduating high school students that wish to pursue a career in the arts. ToddSchroederMusic.com

Chris Isaacson Presents (CIP) has created, produced, and promoted over 1500 events since the company’s founding in 2004. From small clubs to major theatres, CIP has presented many of the most influential stars of this generation including Grammy, Tony, Emmy, and Academy Award-winning musicians, actors and recording artists.   Highlights include coordinating and producing an elaborate premiere celebrations for Emmy Award-winning series POSE (FX Networks) starring Billy Porter, Janet Mock and Our Lady J , Emmy Award-winning series Feud: Bette & Joan (FX Networks) starring Susan Sarandon, co-produced the Grammy Award-nominated "Considering Matthew Shepard" at Ford Theatres (earning CIP a proclamation from City of West Hollywood) with guests hosts Tim Bagley, Candis Cayne, & Joely Fisher, producing the West Coast charitable event GAIN: Brighter Futures starring Alisan Porter (winner of NBC’s The Voice) for Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, high-flying events for LA Pride, Rolling Stone, The Grove LA and Americana at Brand, serving as Producer on the critically acclaimed feature documentary Studio One Forever directed by Marc Saltarelli starring Thelma Houston, Chita Rivera, Melisa Rivers, Lance Bass, and Bruce Vilanch, and most recently, working with Dick and Arlene Van Dyke, and Tony Danza on "Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic" for CBS Television.   Isaacson returned to produce the 2023 Creative Business Awards ceremony in West Hollywood at The 1 Hotel honoring the Sunset Marquis Hotel, presented by West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. This event was hosted by Kate Flannery and Jackie Tohn with special presentations by Academy Award-winner Billy Bob Thornton. Isaacson’s concerts have been featured on MTV, CNN, Access Hollywood, Extra, ABC's On the Red Carpet, KTLA Morning News, Good Day LA (Fox), and in the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and The New York Times.   He is committed to humanitarian and social causes including Ronald McDonald House Charities, Youth Emerging Stronger (Yes!), La Fuente Recovery, Entertainment Community Fund, and The Trevor Project.   For more information on upcoming CIP events, visit ChrislsaacsonPresents.com