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Conservatory instructors
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Ray Walker is Artistic
Director for the NCT Conservatory
for the Performing Arts |
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Walker made his Broadway debut as
"Marius" in Les Miserables,
a role he played for nearly two years.
Most recent Broadway credits include
"Annas" in Jesus Christ
Superstar and "Doody" in
Grease with Rosie O' Donnell and Brooke
Shields.
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In the West End, he appeared with
Sarah Brightman in The Music of Andrew
Lloyd Webber at the London Palladium
then toured the US with the same show
starring Michael Crawford. He played
the snake preacher in the World Premiere
of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down
the Wind. Other tour credits include
understudying Donny Osmond in Joseph...Dreamcoat,
co-starring with Melissa Manchester
in The Music of the Night, and the
role of "Whizzer" is Falsettos.
Other New York credits include Chess
and THE RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR..
In concert, he appeared with Marvin
Hamlisch across the US and with the
Bolshoi Symphony in Moscow. Over the
years, Mr. Walker has starred in several
NCT productions including Jesus Christ
Superstar, Cabaret, Evita, Joseph...Dreamcoat
('98 and '05), and Children of Eden.
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addition to his extensive performance
experience, Mr. Walker holds a degree
in voice from New York University
and has spent the last year teaching
voice at a performing arts school
in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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| Christine Heneghan Hunter |
A professional actress with over twenty years experience in Theatre (Off-Broadway/National Tours/Regional Theatre) Film, and Television, holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from the University of Illinois. |
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She has taught acting and voice/speech at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois and Prairie State College. In addition to appearing in numerous NCT main stage productions, she recently served as Dialect coach for the NCT KOB production of A Man of No Importance
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Jay
R. Wright
Assistant Musical Director |
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Jay
R. Wright recently returned
to Raleigh from the West
Coast, where he served
as musical director and
accompanist at the distinguished
American Music & Dramatic
Academy (AMDA) in Los
Angeles, and the Pacific
Conservatory of the Performing
Arts in Santa Maria, CA.
He conducted the |
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world premiere run of the new
musical, The Wildest!!! Hip,
Cool and Swinging featuring
the music of Louis Prima and
Keely Smith. He has accompanied
master classes led by Tony Award-winning
and nominated artists Joanna
Gleason, Jason Robert Brown,
Susan Egan and Jonelle Allen.
Other professional musical direction
credits include Wonderful Town,
The Last 5 Years and Tapestry:
The Songs of Carole King. Jay
holds a Bachelor of Music degree
in Jazz Studies from East Carolina
University and has performed
extensively as a jazz pianist.
He is committed to teaching
music to young people and brings
nearly 20 years of experience
to his role at NCT.
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Danea
Polise-Bickerstaffe
Dance Instructor |
Danea
joins the NCT Con-
servatory
after performing
professionally
for the past 13
years. She has shared
the stage with the legendary
Chita Rivera in Anything
Goes (Dance
Captain/ Erma u/s),
tapped side by side with
Tony Award Winner and
Dance icon Donna McKechnie
in
the final revision of Mack |
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and Mabel,
performed with Broadway Star
and Tony Award Winner Elaine
Stritch at Carnegie
Hall and
has worked with Broadway musical
legend Jerry Herman. She has
traveled the US and Canada
appearing in the First National
Broadway Tour of Victor/Victoria with
Grammy Award winner Toni Tennille
(of Captain and Tennille fame),
the National Tour of 42nd
Street (Peggy
u/s, perf) and the
World Premiere production of Whatever
Happened to Baby Jane? with
FRASIER Television Star Millicent
Martin. A proud member of Actor's
Equity Association, she
has danced at Carnegie
Hall,
performed six seasons with NYC
Orchestra and
appeared regionally at the
Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed
Opera House, Theatre Under
the Stars, North Shore Music
Theatre, The Westchester Broadway
Theatre, North Carolina Theatre,
and the Majestic FOX Theatre
in Detroit where she appeared
in Beauty
and the Beast.
Danea spent three seasons dancing
at HERSHEYPARK and
then sailed the seas dancing
aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise
Lines M/S Sovereign of the
Seas. She is a Magna Cum Laude
graduate of Marymount Manhattan
College in NYC where she earned
a BFA Degree in Dance Performance
and a double minor in Philosophy
and Psychology and received
her DMA Teachers Training Certification
at Kent State University in
Ohio. Danea recently relocated
from NYC to Raleigh, NC and
is represented by Talent
One Agency. |
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Heather
Patterson-King
Program
Director and Acting Instructor |
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Heather
comes to the NCT Conservatory from
Indianapolis, where she taught in
the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s
Summer Conservatory, Artist in the
Classroom, and Saturday School programs.
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theatre and speech on the college
level, and has been a private acting
and voice instructor for many years.
She served as the Artistic and Managing
Director of the ACT Out Ensemble social-issue
theatre, partof the Theatre Education
Program of Indiana University/Purdue
University of Indianapolis. ACT Out
creates and produces original scripts
that raise awareness and educate audiences
about social problems in schools and
the community. Heather holds a Master
of Fine Arts in Acting from the University
of Louisville and a Bachelor of Arts
in Theatre and Music from Franklin
College. She has appeared in the regional
and dinner theatre circuits in such
roles as Lady Capulet in Romeo
and Juliet, Mrs. Potts in Beauty
and the Beast, and Meg in Damn
Yankeesand has appeared on the NCT’s stage as Glinda in The Wizard of Oz and Fruma Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof.
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| Flynt Burton |
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Flynt Burton received her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She spent three years studying theatre in the Professional Actor Training Program. |
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Flynt's teaching career began at UNL and she has has since taught acting at all levels and ages. Before graduate school Flynt attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Flynt continues to act and is a member of the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre (SART) near Asheville, NC and has performed in many of its professional productions including, "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Last Night of Ballyhoo", "Lost in Yonkers" and lots of others. In her ongoing chase of theatre Flynt has performed, studied or traveled to: the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Moscow Art Theatre, the National Theatre of Bulgaria, Greece's ancient Epidaurus Theatre and the William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kansas. Most recently, Flynt co-directed Peace College's infamous "THEmisanthrope".
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Tito
Hernandez
Dance Instructor |
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Mr.
Hernandez comes to the North
Carolina Theatre Conservatory
with more than 20 years of
experience as a professional
chore-ographer, actor, dancer
and educator. He made his
Broadway debut in the Tony
award winning
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Robbins’ Broadway.
Other credits include Bob
Fosses’ Dancin’, Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s Cats,
the national tour of Evita and The
Gingerbread Lady starring
Oscar winner Shelly Winters.
As a choreographer, Tito
has worked at Houston’s
Theatre Under the Stars,
The Alley Theatre, Seattle’s
5th Avenue Theatre and Disneyland.
Mr. Hernandez has had a long
history with NCT, including
choreographing productions
of Evita, (starring
Ray Walker and Lauren Kennedy), The
King and I, (starring
Lou Diamond Phillips) and
NCT’s Summer Theatre
Arts School (STAS). He is
choreographer of NCT’s
and BSS’s co-production
of Disney’s High
School Musical and the
STAS 2007 production. |
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Mary Kathryn Walston
Music Instructor |
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Mary Kathryn Walston has been teaching private voice lessons at the NCT Conservatory since its opening and has been teaching privately in Raleigh since 1995. She earned a Bachelor of Music Degree with a major in vocal per- formance and a minor in |
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piano performancefrom Meredith College and earned a Master of Music Degree in vocal performance and pedagogy also from Meredith College. In addition to her private studio Ms. Walston regularly teaches group singing classes, auditioning workshops, and musical theatre classes and summer camps for kids and teens at various theatres in the area. Mary Kathryn also frequently uses her musical talents to musical direct and accompany musicals for the Raleigh Little Theatre Youth Series. Her performing credits include two years with Raleigh's Master Chorale and four years as the soprano soloist for the Hillyer Community Chorus. She has held lead opera and musical theatre roles with the Meredith Opera Theatre Brevard Music Center Summer Opera Workshop, National Opera Company Opera Scenes, Long Leaf Opera Company, Raleigh Little Theatre, and North Carolina Theatre. |
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North
Carolina Theatre Conservatory
for the Performing Arts
919.855.0015
3043 Barrow Drive
Raleigh, NC 27616 |
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