Kevin Wilson, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Kevin Wilson is a master voice teacher, clinician, and 21st-century vocal pedagogue. His teaching is influenced by over 18+ years of study of anatomy and physiology, historical pedagogies, voice and speech, and acting. Kevin joined the Boston Conservatory's voice faculty in 2008 and is the Director of Vocal Pedagogy and is an Associate Professor of Voice. […]

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Jason Aquila, Baldwin Wallace University

Pianist and Vocal Coach Jason Aquila is the Music Director for the Voice Performance program at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. He recently prepared the BW production of Dido and Aeneas, which he also led from the harpsichord. Jason has served as coach and assistant music director for many recent productions at Baldwin Wallace, including La […]

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Steve Cardamone, University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program

Steve lives in Minneapolis with his brilliant wife Georgina Stoyles and amazing daughter Zoey. He has been part of the faculty for the University of Minnesota / Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program since 2005, teaching Play Analysis, Acting Shakespeare, Auditioning, and Period Styles, and has directed several Shakespeare productions at the university and regionally. […]

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Ashton Byrum, University of Oklahoma

Professor and Director of the A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma. Go Sooners! Following a long acting career in New York and around the world, Ashton earned his MFA in Directing with an emphasis in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in 2010. He […]

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Joe Olivieri, UCLA

Joe Olivieri is Head of Acting in the Department of Theater at UCLA. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, he was Head of the MFA and BFA Acting Programs at West Virginia University. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). Joe recently appeared in the world premiere stage adaptation of It’s A Wonderful […]

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Ingrid Sonnichsen, Carnegie Mellon University

Ingrid Sonnichsen has acted professionally for over forty years in regional theaters such as the Huntington, ART, and the Charles (Boston), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), Mark Taper Forum and LAAT (Los Angeles), Long Wharf (New Haven), and Ford’s Theater and the Kennedy Center in D.C.  and the Pittsburgh Public Theater. She’s worked on Broadway (Best Friend), Off-Broadway (Dylan and Measure for Measure), and […]

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Bruce Roach, University of Minnesota

Bruce Roach is an actor, director and educator whose work has taken him across the U.S. and abroad. He is an M.F.A. graduate of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Favorite roles he has performed include Iago, Leontes and Richard III. His diverse directing credits range from Shakespeare and Gilbert and Sullivan to Tracy Letts and Suzan Lori-Parks. […]

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Roger Grodsky, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Roger Grodsky is a tenured professor of musical theater at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and is the musical director and vocal coach for CCM’s musical theatre training program. He has served as musical director and conductor for CCM’s productions of Oklahoma!, Passion, Spring Awakening, Hello Again, Anything Goes, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, Cabaret, On the Town, The Mystery […]

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Michelle Chassé, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Michelle Chassé began teaching ballet, jazz, and musical theater dance at the Conservatory in 1994 and is a professor of theater. She became resident choreographer and musical theater dance coordinator in 2000 and chair of musical theater dance in 2013. She currently teaches ballet, jazz, and musical theater dance classes, as well as the musical theater […]

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Catherine A. Walker, University of Michigan

Catherine A. Walker is an associate professor of music in the Department of Musical Theatre and has worked extensively as a music director, conductor, vocal coach, pianist, educator, and clinician for over 35 years. Walker serves annually as a mentor and judge for the national Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Vocal Academy. Other music direction credits […]

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