FACULTY
Kristin Burrows (Owner/ Artistic Director)
Kristin received her professional training and BFA at The Boston Conservatory of Music, 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 local 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.
Sophie Columber (Hip Hop, Jazz, Dance Team) Ms Sophie recently joined the BKC faculty after moving to the area from Las Vegas. She was born and raised in England where she started dancing at the age of three and studied RAD Ballet and tap and jazz. After relocating to the US , she continued her dance training for many years and dance professionally starting at the age of 21. She performed for 14 years in various Las Vegas shows including Legends in Concert and La Cage. Since 1992 she has taught recreational and competitive dance to children of all ages. She resides in East Lyme with her husband and their three children.
Brandon Gregoire (Tap, Jazz , Choreography)
Heidi Harger (Voice)
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.
Heidi Preston (Voice/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.
Patricia Rucker (Petite Stars/ Jazz/Tap)
Bio to come...
Billy Johnstone (Master “Guest” 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.
