Staff
At Broadway Kids & Company, our passionate and talented staff are the heartbeat of our musical theater and dance community. Each member of our team brings a wealth of experience, creativity, and enthusiasm to every class and production. Whether your interest lies in dancing, singing, acting, or a combination of these disciplines, our instructors are here to guide you on your journey to artistic excellence.
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DIRECTOR, INSTRUCTOR DANCE, ACTING, VOICE, CHOREOGRAPHER
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 principle roles in community theatre. Principle roles include Peggy (42nd Street) with Turtle Lane Playhouse, A Chorus Line, Guys & Dolls, Gypsy, Steel Magnolias, Lil Abner, and Bye Bye Birdie.
Kristin earned a Eugene O’Neill Awards nomination for best performance in a leading role “Rosie” in Bye Bye Birdie. She has also 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 and the Beast, Grease, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Shrek the Musical, as well as numerous competition and showcase numbers. Kristin has been teaching children and adults for over 20 years. She continues her training at teachers’ conventions and seminars throughout the US. She is a proud member of the Professional Dance Teachers Association, IDEA International Dance Entrepreneur Association & National Dance Association. Kristin resides in Waterford with her husband Tom and is a proud mom of Michael, Hannah, and Ava.
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Hannah started dancing/performing with BKC at age 2. She graduated from Sacred Heart University with a dual major in Psychology and Dance, where she was also part of the Dance Company and Theatre Arts Program. She most recently traveled to Italy to train and perform with the World Dance Movement. Favorite past roles include: A Chorus Line, Marty (Grease) and Anne Reilly (42nd Street) and Gingy (Shrek the Musical). This spring she will appear in Promises, Promises at SHU. Hannah is the assistant director to BKC’s Competitive Company and a national/world winning choreographer. Her choreography has received awards for top scoring routines, most influential, and best choreography awards at regional, national, and world competitions including first overall national championships and top five in the world. Love to family, friends and her students for always supporting her! @hannahgracechoreo @hannahburrowss
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Ava Burrows is currently a freshman at the University of Tampa. She is double majoring in Dance and Advertising and is also a member the Spartan Scarlets Dance team. Ava started dancing and performing at Broadway Kids and Company at the age of two. Some of her favorite musical theatre roles include: Cady Heron (Mean Girls) Anna (Frozen Jr) , Donkey (Shrek the Musical), Jane Banks (Mary Poppins), Molly (Annie), and Randolph Macafee (Bye Bye Birdie). Ava was a member of the BKC competition team for 12 years and she now enjoys teaching and choreographing for BKC. instagram: @avaburrowss
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A music teacher at Mystic River Magnet School, Robin has enjoyed doing musicals with her students over the years. She lives in Ledyard with her husband and 3 children. She also enjoys being a dance and musical theatre mom to Sebastian and Evelyn and a soccer mom to Wesley. She really enjoys teaching voice at BKC! Robin would like to thank her family for their support and love and Kristin Burrows for the opportunity to do something she truly loves.
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For 19 years Duneshka Vazquez a Connecticut raised resident has devoted her life to the passion that is dance, while growing up she has been trained in lyrical, Contemporary, Tap, Jazz, and now that is her main focus Hip-Hop. Her experiences have influenced her passion for concentrations in hip-hop that are jazz-funk, locking, popping, and a caribbean infusion style. Duneshka is originally from Puerto Rico and likes to incorporate her vibrant culture within the styles of the American dance industry. She has trained and committed to things that gain her, her credibility. Such training as; Taking advanced classes in Los Angeles, CA that took part in well-known studios such as PlayGround, Millennium, and Imma Space Studio. She’s had mentorships with Janelle Ginestra, Wildebeast Adams, Ayhollywood, Aliya Janell Brinson, and JR Taylor. Within taking such classes and mentorships it has opened up opportunities to continue to gain experience. Such opportunities like professionally dancing for the WNBA Dance team for the Connecticut Suns at Mohegan Sun, CT. She was also a professional dancer for their lacrosse team as well called the Howlers Dance Team that was a jazz focus. In addition she was also a part of a competitive dance group called Livelihood that was based in Rhode Island, here is where she focused on such styles such as locking, freestyling, and creative performances. During Covid times while things were hard to progress, Duneshka was able to train in a 4-week intense program with mentor AyhollyWood who is a talented choreographer for many artists such as; Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce, Rihanna, Ciara, and Meg Thee Stallion. This 4-week training was done over zoom and studied the performance of an on stage presence and articulating with your body more outputting shapes and formations within a performance. Through the process of this artistic journey it’s led her to give back to students who are interested and intrigued in the styles she provides. She has now been educating others for 8 years, students usually learn how to grow in discomfort, use all body parts within dancing, high energy moves, cleanliness of lines, shapes, and formations, and lastly giving a performance they feel most proud of.
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Avery feels lucky to have been part of the BKC team since 2018. She has been the Acting Coach for several shows including Mean Girls, Grease, Frozen Jr, and Shrek: the Musical, as well as teaching acting at the studio weekly. A CT shoreline native, Avery started her acting training at a young age with Lynn Britt and appeared in many productions from the Spirit of Broadway Theatre (now Chestnut Street Playhouse) to the Ivoryton Playhouse. While in High School, Avery was selected to attend the highly competitive Carnegie Mellon Pre-College summer program to study Musical Theatre, and then earned her BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of the Arts in 2004. Attending this school enabled her to train with some elite members of the theatre community including Drucie McDaniel (Girl, Interrupted), Neill Hartley (The Sixth Sense, House of Cards), Tony- Award nominee Forrest McClendon (The Scottsboro Boys), and Charles Gilbert, (Co-creator of Assassins and creator of the SAVI method of Singing-Acting, among many others. After college she toured with the Missoula Children's Theatre, where she and her tour partner trained groups of up to 60 children ranging in age from 5-18 to perform a one hour length musical in the course of only one week.. She can also be seen (briefly!) in the movie "Jersey Girl" by Kevin Smi
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Martha has over 3 decades of intensive classical ballet studies with dance masters such as Mme. Gabriela Darvash, Gretchen Ward Warren and Robert Brassel. She performed as a soloist with regional and international ballet and modern companies including Newport News Ballet (Virginia), Israel Ballet (Tel Aviv), and The Robert Kovich Company (NYC) to name a few. After a rewarding career as a professional dancer, she founded East Village Dance Project (EVDP) in New York City in 1997. The program has been recognized for its innovative approach to dance education, and for offering pre professional classes to all regardless of financial means. Through a partnership with GOH Productions, she conceived and co-directed The Shell-Shocked Nut, produced and performed at La MaMa Experimental Theater biannually from 2011-2018. In addition to EVDP programming, she’s taught at New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing and Bates Dance Festival annually for many years. Along with being a visiting professor at Connecticut College, she is currently instructing classes for youth at Broadway Kids and Company, and at various local dance studios.
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Lexie Hullivan is a senior in high school and is excited to continue pursuing dance and choreography in college. Lexie has been dancing and performing at BKC since she was two years old and is a proud member of the competitive company. Some of her favorite past musical roles include Trunchbull in Matilda, Janis in Mean Girls, and Lily St. Regis in Annie, a show which she cannot wait to once again be a part of in the upcoming year. Over the summer, she also choreographed a production of Little Mermaid Kids at the studio. Along with teaching classes at the studio, she is a dancer and student choreographer for her high school dance team. @lexiehullivan
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elsey has been part of the BKC team since 2015, previously serving as Music Director for Mean Girls, Grease, 42nd Street, Mary Poppins, and Hairspray - as well as working with BKC students in voice lessons. She began her involvement in theatre, dance, and music at a young age, beginning her vocal studies in 2004 and continuing during her time at Muhlenberg College. She has been a part of various community theatre productions in Connecticut but has taken a break to welcome James and Anna to her family with her husband Joe!
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Emma Topper is a recent graduate of Hofstra University where she was a BFA Dance Major and Exercise Science Minor. She began her dance career when she was just two years old at Dance City and the Arts in Southington, CT where she danced competitively. Emma furthered her education of dance all throughout high school here as well as taking part in the half day program at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in her high school years. From here, she took her studies to New York and continued to learn and grow at Hofstra University. From here, she continues to take classes in order to grow and work with artists to create a multitude of different works. Throughout all of her years, she studied ballet, pointe, modern, jazz, contemporary, tap, lyrical and hip hop styles, along with classes such as flamenco, African and Irish step. Emma has worked and performed pieces created by many well known choreographers and artists such as Earl Mosley, Larry Keigwin, Max Stone, Kate St. Amand, Amy Marshall, Rachel List, Livia Vaniver, Luiza Karnas, Adam Barruch, and many more. With this, Emma also had the opportunity to perform at the American College Dance Association.
Guest Master Teachers
Abby Lee Miller SKooJ CorE-O Miles Keeney Cassy Surianello
Trevor Sones Chaz Wolcott Michael Cusumano
Mackenzie Sagun Michelle Elkin Brea Cook
