ELIYAH CHANDLER (Winthrop Paroo) is a fourth grader from Springfield, Oregon. She has been singing before she could talk and dancing since the age of three at Identity Dance Studio. At the age of six, she made her Shedd debut as Molly in Annie. She was the Foreman Elf in Identity’s performance of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer and Gretl in The Shedd’s production of The Sound of Music! Eliyah is an alumna of The Shedd’s E. Y. Harburg Academy for Musical Theatre.