Paul Canaan
Broadway: Kinky Boots (dance captain / original Angel), Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage Aux Folles, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Legally Blonde. Co-Producer: How to Dance in Ohio.
He partnered with Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell to launch Choreography Guides with MTI and Broadway Media, which enables schools and theaters to learn and perform original Broadway choreography.
Paul also founded the non-profit arts education organization Take It From The Top, which provides professional mentoring and training opportunities for aspiring young artists. He also served as a judge for The National High School Musical Theatre Awards (The JIMMY AWARDS).
Kate Bailey
Kate Bailey (She/Her) Theater: Frozen (Broadway/National Tour); Beetlejuice (Broadway); A Chorus Line, Love Life (NYCC Encores!); Something Rotten! (National Tour); Oliver!, Grease (PaperMill Playhouse); Camelot (Barrington Stage Company). Film and television: Fosse/Verdon (FX). @katerosebailey
Greg Kamp
Greg Kamp is a performer and producer whose career has spanned stage, screen, and concert venues across the country and internationally. Management and producing credits include How to Dance in Ohio and The Last Five Years on Broadway and work with National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Theatre Communications Group, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Mariah Carey’s Christmas Spectacular, Maestra, Ogunquit Playhouse, Wharton Center, 54 Below, Green Room 42, Broadway Dreams Foundation, Atlanta Workshop Players, Dallas Summer Musicals and more. He is the lead Agent for LML Music Presents, a boutique concert booking agency, representing a roster of leading Broadway and Cabaret artists and the Co-Founder and Producer of MT Shorts, an award-winning production company dedicated to producing original musical films (mtshorts.com). Greg is a graduate of University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). gregkamp.com
Lauren Chapman
Lauren Nicole Chapman is New York based actor, singer and dancer who is most recently known for her 7 year journey with Frozen on Broadway and the North American tour. Lauren is a powerhouse vocalist working in NYC for the past 12 years on and off Broadway. Fresh off the road from playing Princess Anna, she is so thrilled to be able to pass on all that she's learned to all the students she's fortunate enough to work with and is so excited to return to Take It From the Top! Her favorite past credits include Kinky Boots on Broadway and the first National tour, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Serena in Legally Blonde and Corrie Bratter in Barefoot in the Park. @laurennicolechapman
Jacob Yandura
Jacob Yandura is a New York City based composer. Most recently, Jacob and his lyricist-collaborator Rebekah Greer Melocik are at work on a musical adaptation of the 2015 Peabody Award-winning documentary How to Dance in Ohio (directed by Sammi Cannold; supported by the Prince Fellowship and the Shubert Organization’s Artistic Circle; world premiere at Syracuse Stage, Fall 2022). His other projects include The Last Queen of Canaan (book by Harrison David Rivers), The Coup, and Wringer, a commission by New York City Children's Theater based on the novel by Jerry Spinelli (Off-Broadway; New York City Center Stage II; directed by Stephen Brackett).
