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​Experience 

Dance Capitan
Employer: School of Rock
April 2015-August 2018 / New York City 
  • Responsible for the seventeen members of the children’s cast in addition to performing in the show.
  • Trained replacement cast members, a total of sixty-eight children and forty-three adults.
  • Maintained the show’s choreography and staging, delivered notes and made necessary adjustments on a daily basis, led brush up and put-in rehearsals.
  • Developed a specialized warm-up for the children before every performance, practiced unique focus games, choreographed and presented personalized dances, encouraged and nurtured the children’s unique creativity, acted as a mentor to the children.
  • Attended creative team meetings, assisted in casting, prepared the children for television and press performances such as The Tony Awards, The View, Good Morning America.
 
Teaching Artist
Employer: Broadway Classroom
April 2015- Present / New York City 
  • Led dozens of workshops to hundreds of both international and national students.
  • Taught such workshops as Musical Theatre Song and Movement, where students learn a song, music, chorography and staging from a particular Broadway show and perform as an ensemble. 
  • Making Music: Where choral and vocal groups learn to marry music and drama to achieve greater emotional impact and have the opportunity to perform what they have learned.
  • Broadway Close-Up: Q&A based workshop with a professional currently working on Broadway.

Employer: Broadway Workshop
April 2015-Present / New York City
  • Junior Broadway Class: A six-week class for ages six to eight.
  • Focused on the core elements of musical theatre performance. Taught popular Broadway songs, specially arranged music for the age group and choreographed them for a recital presentation.
  • Led theatre games of improvisation, character development, focus and teamwork.
  • Taught, developed and applied the fundamentals of basic stage direction.
 
Employer: A Class Act
September 2016 - January 2018 / New York City
  • Junior Pre-Professional Series: Musical Theatre Audition Technique: Six-week class for students ages six to sixteen.
  • Focused on building an audition book with both sixteen and thirty-two bar cuts of classic and contemporary musical theatre as well as pop songs, all for audition purposes.
  • Led the students in preparing two audition cuts for the end-of-course industry showcase.
  • Taught proper audition technique and etiquette, the unwritten “rules of the room” and how to effectively perform the cut of music though acting and vocal technique.
  • Hosted industry presentation so the students could perform for professional representation.
 
Employer: Applause Westchester
January – April 2014 / Westchester, New York
  • Rock n Roll Babies: A sixteen-week class for infants four to twelve months.
  • Explored different instruments and props to spark babies’ musical knowledge and creativity.
  • Led the class with live music featuring a different rock and roll band from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s
  • Introduced interactive “puppet time” to focus on musical rhythm and dynamics.
 
Employer: Various Workshop Facilities and Performing Venues
2015-Present / Various locations throughout North America
*Classes were offered in Audition Technique, Movement Through Song, Storytelling Through Song and more to the organizations below.
  • BKA: Broadway Kids Auditions
  • Broadway In Motion
  • Actor’s Connection
  • Acting Out
  • Students Live
  • Broadway Choral Workshop
  • Camp Broadway
  • Broadway Show Choir Connection
  • On and Off Broadway
  • DMR Adventures
  • Arkansas Arts Academy
  • Kravis Center for the Preforming Arts
  • Theatre Tulsa
  • PNC Arts Annex Dayton, OH
  • Private In-Home Audition Coaching 
(References and testimonials available upon request )