Musical Theater Bootcamp

DIRECTOR | COACH

Ties Jansen is a Dutch-American actor, director, producer, and voice and speech coach. On-stage credits in the Netherlands include the Dutch national tour of Zin in Zappelin Live (BazarMedia Productions), La Cage Aux Folles, Smiley & Endless Second, Cabaret (QETC), Chicago (HEAP), …Spelling Bee (Cauldron Performing Arts), and the inaugural Dutch production of Be More Chill (HEAP), for which he also served as Assistant Director. On-stage credits in the US include Welcome to the Wood: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pace Performing Arts), I Do Believe in Fairies (The Killer Darlings), This Is Our Youth, and Measure for Measure. Directing credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Musicalvereniging DOS) and R+H Cinderella (HEAP). Additional credits: Judas (ITA, directed by Robert Icke), The Mousetrap, Huisvrouwen bestaan niet (REP Entertainment). Ties also regularly performs in educational theater shows for high schoolers around The Netherlands with Theatergroep Zwerm (Op de 1ste rij). Alma mater: Pace University School of Performing Arts (NYC, BFA Acting). Ties has been Treasurer of Ensemble Nieuwe Theaterwerkers (ENT) since May 2024. www.tiesjansen.com.

CHOREOGRAPHER | COACH

Brittany Sanders is a Dutch performer, choreographer and creator who has performed in both professional and community theatre in The Netherlands from the age of ten. She has had preliminary dance education at the Amsterdam school of the Arts and after recovering from an injury now finds joy again in performing on the community theatre stage. Past professional credits include Billy Elliot and Ciske de Rat with Stage Entertainment, choreography credits include The Addams Family(The Cauldron), Spamalot(HEA), and Little Shop of Horrors(DOS), and on the community stage she has had the honor to take on roles such as Mimi in Rent, Little Red Ridinghood in Into the Woods, Brooke Lohst in Be More Chill, Marie in Cinderella and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors.

MUSIC DIRECTOR / COACH

Michael Crowley is an award winning classical guitarist from Cork, Ireland and has most recently been seen music directing and conducting A Chorus Line, Spamalot, and the Chicago Revival with HEA Productions. It has been Michael’s goal to work with the community and help others increase their level of musicality and he’s very excited to be working on this bootcamp!

Michael will be music directing HEA’s upcoming production of Heathers the Musical.