Faculty
Paul Canaan
Executive Director / Founder
Laura Bell Bundy
Co-Founder
Broadway: Kinky Boots (dance captain / original Angel), Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage Aux Folles, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Legally Blonde.
He recently partnered with director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell to launch The Original Production Inc. A dance licensing company that offers high schools and theaters the opportunity to learn and perform original Broadway choreography.
He founded the arts organization Take It From The Top, which provides professional mentoring to aspiring young artists. Served as artistic director of The Broadway Dreams Foundation and also serves as a judge for The National High School Musical Theatre Awards (The JIMMY AWARDS).
Paul Canaan
Broadway: “Amber Von Tussle” in Hairspray, “Elle Woods” in Legally Blonde (Tony Award
nomination), “Glinda” in Wicked. TV: Cold Case, Veronica Mars, Home Improvement, Malibu Country,”Becky” on How I Met Your Mother, “Shelby” on Hart of Dixie, and Dr. Jordan Denby on Anger Management. She also played the disgruntled teen “Marah Lewis” on Guiding Light. Laura Bell’s film work includes Dream Girls,
Jumanji, Life with Mikey, The Adventures of Huck Finn, CMT’s first original movie To The
Mat, Watercolor Postcards and Hallmark’s Dear Dumb Diary. Laura Bell’s 2010 album on Universal Records, Achin’ and Shakin’ with her breakout hit “Giddy On Up” which reached
#31 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Charts.
Cooter County (www.cootercounty.com). Cooter County has garnered more than four million upload views and a cult following that quote characters like Shocantelle Brown, Euneeda Biscuit, and Justice Goode, to name a few. Laura Bell Bundy is a self-proclaimed HOT MESS!
Laura Bell Bundy
Charity Angél Dawson
Mrs. Doubtfire, Waitress,
Side Show, Dream Girls, The
Color Purple
Ellyn Marie Marsh
Bedwetter, The Rose Tatoo, Pretty Woman, Kinky Boots, Priscilla Queen of the Dessert, Enron
Noah J. Ricketts
Frozen (Kristoff), To My Girls, Beautiful: The Carol King Musical
Nicole Parker -
MADtv, Wicked (Elphaba), Fame
Becomes Me,People in
the Picture.
Connor Gallager
Choreographer:
Beetlejuice, The Robber Bridegroom,
Disney’s Tangled, Elf,
Found.
Leslie McDonel -
Hairspray, American
Idiot, Legally Blonde.
Brad Wilcuts -
Amazing Grace (Broadway, Nat'l Tour, Bway in Chicago)
Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera)
Holmes (Karlin Music Theatre, Czech Republic)
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Theatre Co.
Annaleigh Ashford
You Can’t Take It With
You (Tony Award
winnner), Sylvia,
Kinky Boots, Legally
Blonde, Wicked,
Nick Adams -
Priscilla Queen of the Dessert (Adam/Felicia), Falsettos, Wicked (Fiyero), A Chorus Line, Chicago.
Joey Taranto
Kinky Boots, Bat Outta Hell, Spider-man Turn off the Dark, Rock of Age
Rachel Hoffman -
Casting Director at
Telsey + Company.
An American in Paris,
Wicked, Legally Blonde,
and many more.
Cortney Holbrook
Kinky Boots, Addams
Family, Les Miserabes.
Carrie Manolokas -
Wicked (Elphaba),
Mamma Mia, recording
artist.
Parker Esse (Choreographer)
Rags, Oklahoma, Anything Goes, Pajama Game, Me and My Girl.
Billy Porter -
Pose (FX), Kinky Boots (Tony Award),Grease, Miss Saigon, recording artist.
J Harrison Ghee
Mrs. Doubtfire, Kinky Boots (Lola), Some Like it Hot, The Sting
Eden Espinosa -
Wicked (Elphaba), Falsettos,
Brooklyn the Musical,
RENT, Evita (Eva Peron - TPAC)
Skye Maddox -
On The Town, West Side
Story, NBC’s Smash.
Meredith Akins -
Mamma Mia, Footloose,
Wicked.
Dontee Kiehn -
Director/ associate choreographer:
An American in Paris, Next
to Normal, Addams Family.
Carlos Encinias -
Mamma Mia, Les
Miserable, Good Vibrations, Scandolous, Alter Boyz