FACULTY 

If you are interested in joining our team please email your resume to broadwaykidsco@sbcglobal.net 

                    Kristin Burrows (Owner/ Artistic Director/Instructor)
Kristin received her professional training at The Boston Conservatory, majoring in Musical Theatre & Dance performance. She has performed professionally in regional, off-broadway, dinner theatres throughout Boston & New York as well as principal roles in community theatre. Principal Roles includes Peggy (42nd Street) with Turtle Lane Playhouse, A Chorus Line, Guys & Dolls, Gypsy, Steel Magnolias, Lil Abner & Bye Bye Birdie. She earned a Eugene O'Neill Awards nomination for best performance in a leading role for her role “Rosie” in Bye Bye Birdie. Kristin has has choreographed locally for the Pfizer players productions. Directing/Choreography credits include George M (Pfizer Players) , Annie, Music Man, Bye Bye Birdie, Oklahoma, 42nd Street, Beauty & The Beast and Grease. Kristin has been teaching for children and adults for over 20 years. She continues her training at teachers conventions and seminars throughout the US. She is a member of the Professional Dance Teachers Association. Kristin resides in Waterford with her husband Tom and is proud mom of Michael, Hannah & Ava. 

                                            Cristin Cauley (Ballet/Modern)
Cristin holds a BFA in Dance from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. There she performed a variety of repertory including the works of Pascal Rioult, Gayle Young, Mary Cochran, and Paul Taylor. In addition, she studied the dance composition under the world renowned Kazuko Hirabayashi. Ms. Cawley has been choreographing and teaching classical and contemporary dance locally for the past five years.

                                                         Heidi Harger (Voice/Acting) 
This marks Ms Heidi's eighth year with BKC! Heidi most recently appeared as Sister James in John Patrick Shanley's "DOUBT, a Parable" produced by the Emerson Theater Collaborative. She began acting at age 6 and has been at it ever since. She is a graduate of Hofstra University's drama department with a major in acting and minors in dance and geography. After a summer of BackStage mailings, Heidi landed her first professional acting job with Greenwood Theater in Peekskill, New York with whom she toured for two years. She later moved to NYC where she became SAG and EQUITY. While based
in NYC, she continued to work in CT with Flock Theater and with the summer conferences at
the O'Neill Theater Center. Past theater roles include: Georgie Elgin in "The Country Girl", Peggy Shippen in "Benedict Arnold, A Brave Revenge", Rosalind in "As You Like It", Olivia in "Twelfth Night", Nancy in "Angel Street", and Rose in "Dancing at Lughnasa." Also readings of "Sometimes I Feel Like I Missed the Train" and "The New Girl," by local playwright Mike McGuire. Ms Heidi has been teaching at BKC for six years and enjoys singing and dancing with all our Broadway Kids!
 

                                Laura Kenyon (Jazz/Tap/Ballet)
Laura has been teaching at BKC for 9 years. She took some time off to pursue her training further. She studied Dance Performance and jazz pedagogy at The Hartford Conservatory. She has performed in many dance concerts, musicals , The American College Dance Festival and the Annual Jazz Nutcracker at Hartford Conservatory. Laura continues her training in New York and still is an active performer and attends auditions regularly in New York and Boston. Laura most recently performed with DFX entertainment at Mohegan Sun.

 

                                                      Dorothy Lance (Acting)                                                              Dorothy is a new addition to our faculty this Fall.   She holds degrees in Speech from Boston College and Texas Christian University, with a minor in Theatre.  She has taught Acting to students ranging from 7 years old through high school.  Her favorite acting roles have been in Trojan Women, The Gingerbread Lady, Nunsense I and II, Cinderella, The Cemetery Club and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.  Dorothy's directing credits include over 30 productions.  Favorites are City of Angels, Into the Woods, Bye Bye Birdie, The Fantasticks, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Once Upon a Mattress and California Suite.  Dorothy's involvement in local theatres includes, the VFW Players in New London, Fourth Row Theatre Ensemble, The Majestic Rose Dinner Theatre and Groton Regional Theatre.

                             Heidi Preston (Voice Instructor/Musical Director) 
As a native of upstate New York, Heidi studied vocal music education at the Crane School of Music (SUNY Potsdam), and continued her vocal training at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.  She has participated as choral member and soloist in numerous concerts, weddings, choirs, church events, benefits, cabarets, vocal competitions.  Theatrically she has played principal roles in a number of productions including Music Man, Annie, Brigadoon, Mame, Pirates of Penzance, Cinderella, Jake’s Women, Scrooge, and has performed locally with Pfizer Players, Waterford Week, Starlite Playhouse, CTP Footlighters, and Majestic Rose.  In 2006, she joined Broadway Kids & Company as voice teacher and music director.  Heidi is employed as an engineer at Electric Boat, and lives in Salem with her husband and 2 children.
 

Jackie McKiernan (Voice) 
 

                               

                Billy Johnstone (Guest Master Teacher/Choreographer)
A native of New Britain, CT, Billy has appeared on Broadway in both the record-breaking and final company of Cats (Coricopat) as well as touring the United States and internationally with A Chorus Line (Paul), West Side Story, and Cats (Mungojerrie). Recent performances include regional productions of Cabaret (Emcee), …Forum (Hysterium), and A Grand Night For Singing for which he won a Connecticut Critics Circle Award. Directing and/or Choreography credits include professional productions of A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Batboy: The Musical, Once On This Island, Gypsy, the world premiere of John Sebastian DeNicola’s Megillah at the Goodspeed Opera House in CT, and in May 2005 the U.S. school premiere of Cats at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, CT. Most recently he directed/choreographed Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the historic Ivoryton Playhouse in CT, for which he received two Connecticut Critics Circle Award nominations for Outstanding Director and Choreographer of a Musical. The show was awarded the 2008 Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. Training: Boston Conservatory, MA.

 

Brandon Gregoire (Guest Instructor/Choreographer) Currently pursuing BFA in Musical Theatre from Wichita State.