Dana M. Baird
Lady Belladonna DeVille

Dana started participating in the Minnesota Renaissance Festival in 1988, working at the dunk tank. She has played various roles at the Festival, including a squire at the jousting track and a stocks-person at the King’s Stocks. She played and worked on the Bakery Stage, and performed on the street. She was also on the Mid-America Festivals staff for five years in their costume shop.

Dana joined The Court Revelers in 2003, and has been romping around with them ever since. Dana is the composer of two of The Court Revelers original songs:
Toast to Men and Three Cheers For the Drink, and has written lyrics for a number of other songs sung by the group.

Belladonna Deville enjoys men, shiny things, money, men, singing, more money, and more men.

 


Deborah Mullen
Princess Rhiannon, Duchess of Somerset

Deborah Mullen, the Court Reveler's Southern Belle, was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Dallas, Texas. Her musical experience includes the Custer Road United Methodist Choir from 1985-1989 were she was a soloist. She has played stock characters for the Western, Christmas, and Medieval Shows at Ben’s Half Yard House in Dallas, TX. Deborah has been involved with Renaissance festivals, including Scarborough Faire in Waxahachie, Texas, the Carolina Renaissance Festival in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Minnesota Renaissance Festival continuously since 1993. She has been with The Court Revelers since her first year in Minnesota, 2000. 
 
She loves to sing and could not ask for a more wonderful group of people to play with. She is many years past the romance and glamour of wearing enough fabric to cover a sofa in 90 degree heat to be swayed to wax poetically about knightly love and acts of chivalry. As a realistic romantic, her heart does still skip on those perfect moments where the mixture of music, laughter and din coalesce in a perfect harmony dappled by the sunlight pouring over the sea of colorful people. Plus what other job allows grown adults to act like children and to play with fantastic games of make believe with little children? 
 
Deborah loves to read and fly fish, and is working on her PhD in Health Services Research and Policy.

Becca Shaffner          
Constance Amelia Wolfe, Her Ladyship, Countess of Couthe, aka "Lady Wolfe"


Becca Shaffner has been singing seriously nearly her whole life. She has been taking private vocal training since 1985 from Brad Hagen and Randy Johnson. She studied Vocal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Morris with Janet Ahern and Ken Hodgson, and performance training from the Hennepin Center for the Arts with Angela May and the workshop Performance and Movement at the Pangea Theatre with Dipankur Mukurjee.

She has been a Soloist several local churches, and has been a member of the University of MN, Morris Concert Choir; University of MN, Morris Chamber Singers; St. Peter’s Women’s’ Ensemble; St. Peter’s Mixed Ensemble; Shakespeare’s Lovechild (an a capella trio) and Wrapped in Satin (a jazz/swing ensemble).

She performed in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Delano High School; A Christmas Carol, Morris Community Theatre; Messiah, University of MN; Celebration!, Delano Fine Arts Committee; Hey Big Spender, Morris Park Players; Amahl and the Night Visitors, St. Peter’s Church.

On a personal note, Becca's dog thinks she walks entirely too slow and Becca thinks her dog has entirely too much hair. Becca's children, ages 14, 10 and 6, think that she and the dog are nuts but love them anyway. Her husband enjoys the sitcom that has become daily life and looks on in amusement. Life is good.

 


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Lauren Moll
Winifred Tuttle

Lauren has a very long list of credits for her young age. Here are just some of her highlites: Anoka County Honors Choir since the age of twelve, all-conference and all-state choirs, church, high school and college choirs. In high school she was a memeber of the Concert Choir, the woman's choir, and the carillon chior. In college she was a member of the Riverside singers.

She has appeared in such musicals as Annie, Godspell, Bye, Bye, Birdie, Annie, Get Your Gun, Cinderella, Snow White, and Once Upon A Matress. She has also appeared in non-musical productions of You Can't Take It With You, James and the Giant Peach, To the Moon, and The Exception and the Rule.

   
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