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Allie Marotta is a Brooklyn based arts educator and collaborative theatre maker. She is the executive director of Sitting Shotgun, an equitable and intersectional theatre production company for emerging artists. Allie attended Royal Holloway University of London (MA Contemporary Performance Practices 2017), as well as Pace University (BA Acting, BA Directing 2016). Allie is passionate about the intersection of art and academics and adores working with students of all ages to introduce them to the world of theatre. She also teaches with Girl Be Heard, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and Treasure Trunk Theatre. |
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Ashley Martin is a professional dancer, singer and actor who has performed across the USA in musical theatre and dance. She fell in love with teaching at an early age when she ran a middle school drama program as her Girl Scout Gold Award project when she was just 17 years old. Now she loves to teach ballet, tap, theatre and beyond to a wide variety of ages and levels. She has studied a wide variety dance and theatre genres from the age of 2, and has since graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a degree in Theatre Performance and a minor in dance. She credits her love of connecting with others and the world through arts to all the wonderful teaching artists in her own life, and is honored to carry on that tradition through Broadway Bound Kids. |
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Brett Radke is an actor, director, and teaching artist based in NYC. He is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA Acting Program where he was the recipient of the Bob Hope Fellowship. Favorite Columbia credits include The Maids (Solange), Blood Wedding (Bridegroom), and Waiting for Godot (Estragon). Other favorite credits include The Comedy of Errors (Baltazar) at Classic Stage Company, Left in Ink (Tony) at Cleveland Public Theatre, The Pitmen Painters (Young Lad) at The Beck Center, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Alfred/Horatio) at Performance Network. Brett has performed internationally in Greece and Ukraine, and apprenticed with Jeff Daniels’ acclaimed Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, MI. As a teaching artist, Brett has worked with The Play Group Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Great Lakes Theater, and Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory Outreach Program. |
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Collin Meath is a Brooklyn based actor, producer and teaching artist. Selected credits include Phinny Sears on Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick, Law and Order: SVU, the award-winning indie feature Ovum, and appearances onstage at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Labyrinth Theatre Company. Collin will be seen in the upcoming Netflix series Living With Yourself and is a frequent collaborator with Keep or Destroy Productions. |
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Craig Washington is a Dancer/ Choreographer/ Instructor who resides in New York City. He has training in various styles of dance such as Hip Hop, Jazz, African, theater and a variety of street styles. He enjoys performing, creating and teaching the youth. |
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Delia Kemph is an actor, director, choreographer, and teaching artist from Hoboken, NJ. She grew up performing in NYC and the tri-state area, and received a BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. As an actor, she's worked with Smith Street Stage, Disney/iTheatrics, Music Theater International, and Mile Square Theater, among other companies. She has facilitated theatre arts classes for children, and has a background in collaborative and devised theatre. Delia's work with NYU's Reality Show, originally conceived by Liz Swados, can be seen in the short documentary Better to Live (official selection of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival). Her passion for the arts and arts-based education is based in her belief that expression and creativity beget empathy, and vice versa. Delia is thrilled to be working with Broadway Bound Kids! |
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Emma Copp Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Emma came to NYC for her BA in music from Fordham University and never left! She considers her love for the arts and education inseparable and has worked with just about every age and performance discipline. Emma wrote her own musical for young audiences and is currently a member of the touring company of Vital Theatre's Pinkalicious and Flight School. |
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Esther Sanchez A kid at heart, Esther has always had a passion for teaching children. Esther recently graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with her B.A. in Dance, with a concentration in teaching. From thirteen years old, she has been assisting dance classes, and has always had a passion for working with children. Esther's vivacious and whimsical personality allows children to feel inspired, and she hopes that with her they feel uninhibited to use their imaginations and be themselves! |
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Grace Herman-Holland is an NYC-based teaching artist, director, deviser, and theater outreach educator. She is the artistic director of The Woolgatherers Theater Group, where she makes collaborative, genre-bending performances. As a director, she's worked at MITU580, Dixon Place, Governor's Island, and Cap 21; she's also worked in various capacities at Ars Nova, Fresh Ground Pepper, HERE Arts Center, SITI Company, the Grotowski Institute, and the Kyoto Art Center. Grace is also a member of Dance Japan, a Japanese dance company. As a teaching artist, Grace works with kids and teens at The Possibility Project, Broadway Bound Kids, and TDF; she also teaches theater to adults on Rikers Island with the Stella Adler Outreach Division. |
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Ian Coulter-Buford is a native of southern Illinois, based in New York City. Ian is an award-winning performer, choreographer, top 40 international recording artist, instructor, and creative director. Most recent credits include u/s Lazarus and Male Swing in Joe Iconis’ Broadway Bounty Hunter Off-Broadway, and his Henry Award Nominated performance as Archie Stone in Trav’lin: The 1930’s Harlem Musical at Arvada Center. Other credits include touring as Tap Brother in Broadway’s After Midnight, Ken in Smokey Joe’s Café (Riverside Theatre FL), Disney’s Aladdin (The Muny), The Scarecrow in The Wiz (Maltz Jupiter & The Black Rep St. Louis), and Jacob in La Cage Aux Folles (Lake Dillon Theatre.) TV/FILM: Modern Love (Amazon). Choreographer credits include, Camp Morning Wood (Off-Broadway) and Fat Kid Rules The World world premiere in association with LiveWire Theatricals. He is represented by The Mine Agency. Love God, Love People, Love the Arts. |
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Jackie Kraft is currently working towards her BFA in Acting at Marymount Manhattan College. She is originally from Glen Mills, Pennsylvania and is so thrilled to have the opportunity to study here in NYC. Back in Philly, Jackie interned at People’s Light Theater and performed at the Walnut Street Theater. Jackie also greatly enjoys comedy and is an actor and writer for her school’s Sketch Comedy team. Jackie’s favorite childhood memories were made during theatre classes and camps, and she hopes to help create that same wonderful experience for her students at Broadway Bound Kids. |
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Joel Knopf is an upbeat singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and educator based in New York. He has recently transplanted from California, where he designed science games at Leapfrog Toys and had excerpts of two original musicals premiered at the Musical Cafe New Works Festival. He has performed with Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theater and San Francisco Opera Guild. Joel is thrilled to be working with Broadway Bound Kids, City Center and Wingspan Arts this year! |
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J.R. Whittington is thrilled to join the Broadway Bound Kids family! JR has directed and choreographed over 20 different Broadway jr. productions from Los Angeles to New York City. He is a current teaching artist for Disney Theatrical Group, Riverdale Children's Theater, and New York Edge. His Broadway and National tour credits as an actor include; A Chorus Line Revival, Mamma Mia, Bombay Dreams, Annie Get Your Gun Revival and Starlight Express. Favorite TV Credits include; General Hospital, Gossip Girl, The Temptations Mini-series, All My Children, and Every Little Step Documentary. |
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Katie Galuska is pursuing acting, singing, and musical theatre in NYC. She graduated from Chapman University in California, with a BA in Theatre. Two years ago, Katie moved to New York to chase after theatre and discovered her love of teaching in the process. She loves being able to see children grow and fall in love with theatre, as she's done, since she was their age. A chance to inspire, laugh and learn with them is amazing! Her past credits include: various NYC cabarets including the 2017 So You Think You Can Belt competition, Daisy Hilton in Side Show, Margot in Legally Blonde, Lauren in Crazy, Just Like Me (Chapman University) and Sonia's Voice in They're Playing Our Song. |
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Kristin Wetherington first discovered theatre at the age of 11 in her local children’s theatre production of The Princess and the Magic Pea and was immediately hooked. Originally from North Carolina, Kristin dreamed of the big city which led to over ten years of professional work as a performer including tour, numerous Off-Broadway credits and appearances all over the regional theatre circuit. She has been working with The Stanley Issacs Community Center for the past two years on their Beacon to Broadway Program. She has a BFA in Acting and Musical Theatre from East Carolina University where she graduated with honors, continued her training at The Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan and Moscow Art Theatre School and received her MFA from the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University. |
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Kylie Fletcher is thrilled to be joining the Broadway Bound Kids team as a dance and drama educator! Born and raised in Seattle, WA, Kylie earned her B.A. in Theatre Arts with Minors in Music and Management from Boston College. She is a Brooklyn-based Director/Choreographer who recently served as one of the Directing Fellows at Barrington Stage Company. As a dancer, Kylie has performed at Yankee Stadium as a member of the Golden Eagles Dance Team, and has been a student of Physical Theatre workshops in France and Italy. She has taught children in Boston and Seattle, and loves to bring the words in stories to life onstage. |
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Luke Hamilton is a NYC based actor/singer/dancer and teaching artist originally from Calgary, Canada. After graduating from the University of Miami in 2015 he has gone on to perform internationally with the USO Showtroupe, all over the country with the Something Rotten! 1st National tour, and at some of the most prestigious regional theatres in the country including North Shore Music Theatre (Jersey Boys), The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Follies), Ogunquit Playhouse (Saturday Night Fever), Gateway Playhouse and Connecticut Repertory Theatre (Xanadu, West Side Story, Gypsy, A Chorus Line, Les Miserables). He has performed alongside Broadway veterans including Tony-nominees Adam Pascal, Rob McClure, Emily Skinner, Terrence Mann, and Tony/Emmy Winner Leslie Uggams and has made appearances on The Tonight Show and Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve. Luke can be seen in the upcoming Off-Broadway production of No Strings! |
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Mara Jill Herman is an actor, educator, and producer based in Astoria. Her developmental highlights include The Band’s Visit (Playwrights Horizons) and Sam’s Room (Theatre Barn’s Impact Award). As a soloist, she has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feinstein's/54 Below, and with the Orchestra Japan in Disney On Classic. Favorite productions include On The Town (Hildy), Rent (Maureen), Guys and Dolls (Adelaide), and Jesus Christ Superstar (North American tour). Mara directs/produces concerts including Stronger Than Hate: A Benefit for Tree of Life Synagogue and Changemakers: A Celebration of Women and StateraArts, the national organization devoted to female mentorship. Mara is a proud alum of the National YoungArts Foundation and gives in-school presentations on their behalf to inspire high school applicants and a future generation of artists. She is a coauthor of So You Wanna Be A Superstar? The Ultimate Audition Guide (Running Press Kids).
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Meg Kiley Smith fell in love with performing as a kid growing up in California, and is so excited to join Broadway Bound Kids and the next generation of theater kids here in NYC. Favorite acting credits include work with Punchdrunk and Everyday Inferno in NYC, The Other Voice and HartBeat Ensemble in Hartford, and regionally and on tour with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Montana Rep, The Gamm, and MaineStage Shakespeare, among others. Proud Equity member and National Theater Institute alum. |
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Michael Axelrod is an actor and teaching artist based in Brooklyn. He has taught acting and improv for three years in NYC public schools, as well as abroad in Ecuador, Tanzania and Slovakia. He recently finished a two year run as a swing in the Off Broadway play Puffs at New World Stages. He has performed at The Signature Theatre, The Flea, Dixon Place, HERE Arts Center, New York City Center, among others. He is very excited to join Broadway Bound Kids! |
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Natalie Jones is a freelance theatre artist based in Astoria, Queens. A South Jersey native, Natalie first discovered her love for theatre as a shy five-year-old back in 1996 through the Our Gang Players, a community theatre group in her hometown, and she hasn’t stopped since! Since receiving her BA in Theatre (Performance) from Stockton University in 2013, Natalie has worked with numerous companies throughout New York and New Jersey as an actor, director, teaching artist, stage manager, dialect coach, and more. Her theatre work has also brought her to places like Long Island, Chicago, and Greece (on two separate occasions)! In addition to Broadway Bound Kids, Natalie currently works as a teaching artist and workshop coordinator for Story Pirates. |
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Natalie Myrick is a musical theatre artist from North Carolina who made her onstage debut under a chandelier of toilet paper rolls in her sisters’ homemade production of Phantom of the Opera. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in Dramatic Art and Global Studies, with a minor in Vocal Performance. While at UNC, she performed in musicals such as Spring Awakening (Wendla), The Last Five Years (Cathy), and Legally Blonde (Margot), as well as in improv shows and original plays. After graduation, she spent a year in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, where she wrote, designed, toured, and performed in educational musicals with English Musicals Korea. More recently, she has performed at regional theaters and festivals in North Carolina and New York, and she is especially interested in original musicals in development. She is thrilled to make every day a masterpiece with Broadway Bound Kids! |
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Owen Scott is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the NYU Steinhardt Theater Education program. Hailing from MA, he's been an actor and teacher for many years, and is very excited to be joining Broadway Bound Kids. You may have seen him pop up on HBO's "The Deuce" or "Law & Order: SVU." Performing and teaching are his passions, but in his free time you can find him hosting trivia nights around Brooklyn or working on his podcast, "Controller Freak." Owen is thrilled to be working in a group of such talented educators and artists! |
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Sam Blain is a proud Broadway Bound Kids teaching artist. She is also Co-Artistic Director of Hit The Lights! Theater Co., which has performed Off Broadway and is the current Company in Residence at Ars Nova. She has been seen in numerous Broadway workshops and readings in NYC. Samantha has a B.F.A. Musical Theater degree from Emerson College and was awarded a scholarship to attend Atlantic Acting School of which she is now an Alum. She is a teaching artist for several organizations such as Broadway Classroom and Atlantic Acting School to name a few. |
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Samantha Greenlund, originally from Washington State, is a professional dancer who earned her performance degree at Oklahoma City University. Since, she has performed all over the world for many artists, dancing in various productions and shows, ranging from Las Vegas to Paris, France. All the while,she has had a strong love for musical theater and passion for choreography and teaching. She has choreographed musicals and routines throughout the years and have taught all ages from the wee little ones to adults - and beginners to advanced. She now resides in NYC and is looking forward to joining the Broadway Bound Kids team.
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Sarah Naughton is an actress, singer, teacher and Audie-nominated audiobook narrator living in New York. Some favorite credits include: New York Theater: REAL (The Tank) Death Comes for the War Poets (The Sheen Center) Romeo and Juliet (Lincoln Center - Clark Studio Theater), Diamond Alice (Roundabout Underground), and Summer and Smoke (Access Theatre). Regional Theater: Mame (Human Race Theater Co), AcousticaElectronica (A.R.T. Oberon), and Meet Me In St. Louis (Mt. Gretna Playhouse). Proud member of actors equity and Assistant Teaching Artist with CO/LAB Theater Group. |
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Savanah Knechel is a teaching artist, playwright, choreographer, mask maker, and puppeteer based in New York City. Currently she is finishing up a masters in Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities at NYU. Previously, she has taught in Philadelphia and Sarasota, FL. Brenna Hughes is so excited to be joining the Broadway Bound Kids team! Born in California but also having lived in Ohio and then Oregon, she found her passion for performing at a young age in the world of classical ballet. In middle school, her performance interests expanded to include theatre, largely due to acting classes in after school programs, choir, and musical theatre camp through Oregon Children's Theatre. However, Brenna never lost her love of dance and continued to grow as a dancer through training at The Portland Ballet, summer intensives, and as a member of The Portland Ballet's pre-professional youth company. She moved to New York at 18 to attend Marymount Manhattan College. There she was in many productions including: the devised theatre piece bobrauschenbergamerica, Tartuffe, the new Frank Wildhorn musical Zelda, and was the choreographer for Evita. She found her passion for teaching at Urban Stages Summer Theatre Camp, where for the past three years, she has been their dance teacher, assistant director, and head counselor. She graduated from MMC with a BFA in Acting and Minor in Musical Theatre in May and is looking forward to expanding her horizons as a teaching artist and performer! |
Brett Radke is an actor, director, and teaching artist based in NYC. He is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA Acting Program where he was the recipient of the Bob Hope Fellowship. Favorite Columbia credits include The Maids (Solange), Blood Wedding (Bridegroom), and Waiting for Godot (Estragon). Other favorite credits include The Comedy of Errors (Baltazar) at Classic Stage Company, Left in Ink (Tony) at Cleveland Public Theatre, The Pitmen Painters (Young Lad) at The Beck Center, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Alfred/Horatio) at Performance Network. Brett has performed internationally in Greece and Ukraine, and apprenticed with Jeff Daniels’ acclaimed Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, MI. As a teaching artist, Brett has worked with The Play Group Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Great Lakes Theater, and Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory Outreach Program. |
Taylor Morgan Marsh is thrilled to be a part of the Broadway Bound Kids family! Her most recent credits include the 2nd National and International tours of Sister Act the Musical, and Off-Broadway's Totally Tubular Time Machine (Debbie Gibson). She is a proud graduate of New York University and Atlantic Acting School. |
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