Mary-Mitchell Campbell

Music

Mary-Mitchell Campbell is a conductor, music director, orchestrator, composer and arranger. Broadway: The Prom, Mean Girls, My Love Letter to Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth, For The Girls,Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, The Addams Family, Company, and Sweeney Todd. Drama Desk Award for Best Orchestrations for Company. 

She is the Founder and Executive Director of ASTEP- Artists Striving To End Poverty (www.asteponline.org) which uses the arts to work with children in under resourced communities.  

 She is from North Carolina and has taught on the faculties of Juilliard, NYU, and Boston College. 

Kara Lindsay

Both Sides of the Table

KARA LINDSAY Broadway: Wicked (Glinda), Beautiful (Cynthia Weil), Newsies (Katherine) Original Cast/ Fathom Events Film. National Tour: Wicked (Glinda), Little House on the Prairie (Laura). Paper Mill Playhouse: Newsies, Little House...Prairie. Sacramento Music Circus: Singin in the Rain (Kathy Seldon). NCT: Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins).Kansas City Starlight: Cinderella (Cinderella). Kansas City Rep: Cabaret (Sally Bowles). 5th Avenue: Lone Star Love (Miss Ann Page). Geva: A Christmas Carol (Belle). TV: “Murphy Brown”, ABC's Disney Family Singalong: Volume II, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Tony Awards. BFA Carnegie Mellon University. Huge thanks and LOVE to my friends, family, Stewart Talent/ Industry Entertainment, my wonderful husband & baby boy, and to my Mom, who allowed me to believe that dreams really do come true. @karalindsay1 

Tamar Greene

Voice

Tamar Greene is the current George Washington in the Broadway company of HAMILTON. He is an accomplished voice teacher who leads a robust studio and frequently presents masterclasses and guest lectures at high schools, universities, and major corporations around the country. Tamar proudly holds his Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music in Vocal Performance and Literature and a B.A. in Music with a focus in Vocal and Piano Performance and a B.A. in Computer Information Systems from SUNY Oswego. Learn more about Tamar on Instagram @tamar.greene and via his website www.TamarGreene.com

Lisa Leguillou

Masterclass: Mock Audition & Song Interpretation

Lisa Leguillou is the associate director of WICKED (dir. Joe Mantello) on Broadway and has also directed the show worldwide including the award winning production in Australia.    She most recently helped on Plaza Suite Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.  Other Broadway shows include:  An act of God, The Odd Couple, The Good Body, Laugh Whore, Frankie and Johnny.., Summer and Smoke, Chicago, How to Succeed…, The Who’s Tommy and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. is the associate director of WICKED (dir. Joe Mantello) on Broadway and has also directed the show worldwide including the award winning production in Australia.    She most recently worked on Plaza Suite Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.  Other Broadway shows include:  An act of God, The Odd Couple, The Good Body, Laugh Whore, Frankie and Johnny.., Summer and Smoke, Chicago, How to Succeed…, The Who’s Tommy and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.

Matt Farnsworth

Voice

Matt Farnsworth is an accomplished voice teacher and pianist. He has been teaching voice since 1995 when he became the consulting coach on Broadway’s production of Rent. His students have been nominated and won Oscar, Tony and Grammy awards and can be seen performing in Film, Television, on Broadway, National Tours and Regional houses around the country. Matt most recently worked on the Netflix films Jingle Jangle and The Prom (directed by Ryan Murphy). In addition to these the Aretha Franklin movie’ Respect, Amazon’s Transparent Musical Finale as well as Orange is the New Black and comedy Central’s The Other Two. Matt and his three associate teachers are truly grateful to be able to serve the arts community and help others achieve their goals.

Robin de Jesus

Song Interpretation

Robin De Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominated actor. He received his first major role in the cult-classic, 2003 film CAMP. Since then, he has gone on to perform in various Broadway productions, including RENT, IN THE HEIGHTS (for which he received his first Tony Award Nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical), LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (for which he received his second), WICKED, and THE BOYS IN THE BAND. (For which he received his third.) Robin can also be seen in various feature films and television projects, such as BOYS IN THE BAND, GUN HILL ROAD, HAIRBRAINED, HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA) and in the recurring role of “Jose Silva” on LAW & ORDER: SVU. Look out for his next film project, an adaptation of the stage musical Tick Tick Boom directed by Lin Manuel Miranda.

Lee Nishri-Howitt

Diction

Lee Nishri-Howitt is a professor of Advanced Dialects at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music, a lecturer of Public Speaking at Harvard University, and an accent, text, and Shakespeare coach.

He has coached plays and musicals in theaters such as the American Repertory Theater, The Moscow Art Theatre School, Huntington Theatre Company, New Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and others.

Originally from Israel, he is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, and of the masters program for voice and speech at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University.

Joan Lader

Voice

Joan Lader’s more than thirty-five years of providing vocal training and rehabilitation for professional voice users was commemorated in June 2016 when she was awarded the American theater’s highest honor, a Tony Award for “Excellence in the Theater.” Ms. Lader received a BFA from Penn State University in Theatre Arts with a Minor in Music.  Trained as a Master’s level speech pathologist, she specializes in working with singers and actors, and in collaboration with New York’s top otolaryngologists, rehabilitation of injured voices.  Her extensive practice includes leading actors and singers from Broadway, film, opera, R&B, rap, rock and pop. She is particularly proud to be a Master Teacher with the National Young Arts Foundation, whose participants so often become the stars of tomorrow.

Jay Armstrong Johnson

Acting

Broadway: On the Town, Hands on a Hardbody, Catch Me If You Can, Hair, Phantom of the Opera. Off Broadway/New York credits: Scotland, PA (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel nominations, and Outer Critics Circle Award honoree), Darling Grenadine (Roundabout), A Chorus Line (City Center), Candide (NYCO), Sweeney Todd (NY Philharmonic), The Most Happy Fella (Encores!), Terrence McNally’s Fire and Air (CSC), The Mad Ones, Working (Prospect Theater Co, Drama Desk Award), Wild Animals You Should Know (MCC), 35mm: A Musical Exhibition. Concert: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl. TV/Film: QUANTICO, Sex & the City 2, Law & Order: SVU. Album: Jay Armstrong Johnson LIVE at Feinstein's 54 Below (available on iTunes and broadway records.com). @Jay_A_Johnson

Paul Ettore Tabone

Voice

Paul Ettore Tabone (The Tenor From Oz) is an Italian Australian born tenor based in London. He has performed internationally in both Opera & Musical Theatre in roles such as Duca Di Mantova (Rigoletto) at the Opera Naţională București (Romani), Pinkerton (Madam Butterfly) Teatro Del Giglio (Italy) to name a few. He played the role of Squelch in the brilliant Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love Never Dies” which was then recorded by Universal studios. He reprised the role in Germany in 2015 and has recently concluded 4 years as Ubaldo Piangi in “The Phantom of The Opera” here on London’s West End. Paul currently prepares his high anticipated debut album release “This is Me” . More information at www.paultabone.com