 a regular participant in our Studio AMT Live educational programs since his arrival in Paris. Immediately following his first intensive training with AMT Live, Vincent was cast as the White Rabbit in the successful Paris premiere of “Alice, la Comédie Musicale.” Vincent is now a member of AMT Live, he assists with our Open Mic Soirée.
Eddy (Paris, France). Eddy was part of our 2013 Professional Training Program and Edges Paris premiere cast. He works regularly as a singer/songwriter in Paris, France.
Miranda is a founding member of AMT Live Paris. Recently, she directed the Andrew Byrne Cabaret and was seen onstage in the Paris premieres of The Last Five Years and Songs for a New World. She served as the Vocal Director for the Paris premiere of the Pasek & Paul musical, Edges and for the new French musical Sleepin’ Bee, directed by Franck Harscouët, as well as for intensive musical theatre workshops with Adam Kantor (RENT, Avenue Q) and David Gardiner (West End, The Works of Stephen Sondheim). In 2013, she coordinated the Paris workshops with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and was the co-founder of Paris’ first monthly open mic soirée.
Miranda has served on the artistic staff for several musical productions including A Little Night Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Wiz, Urinetown, Godspell, The Last Five Years, Violet, I Got Rythym!, A Funny Thing Happened…, Blood Brothers, Honk!, and The Full Monty. Currently a member of the Acting & Musical Theatre Faculty at the University of Arizona, she has also served on faculty at American Conservatory of Paris (France) and as a guest artist at the Cambridge School of Performing Arts (Cambridge, England) and several American university programs and theatres.
She holds a MM in Music Theatre/Opera Performance from Arizona State University and a BFA in Music Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University. This year, she contributed to TSF Jazz (French national radio) specials on Irving Berlin and Cole Porter and she can be heard as a guest presenter on musical theatre every month on French R2R radio.
A native of Canada, Liz has spent many years as Associate Conductor and Vocal Coach on tour with major musical productions including US National and World Tours of Fosse, European Tour of Hair – the Love and Rock Musical, and US National Tour of Sweet Charity. She also has also been a musical director and/or vocal coach on over 40 regional productions in three different countries.
As a founding member of AMT Live, Darcy has co-produced our Off Broadway à Paris series (including Songs for a New World, Edges, and The Last Five Years), and manages the administration of our Studio AMT Live courses and workshops. A dancer and choreographer by training, she also teaches in our Broadway Song & Dance series. Originally from Houston, Texas, she became a professional company member of Discovery Dance Group (at age 14) after studying classical ballet, modern jazz, tap, gymnastics, and musical theatre, with specialization in lifts and choreography (under director Pamela Yburgen-Stockman).
In 2000, she leapt across the ocean (for a year!) and has been in Paris ever since. She graduated Cum Laude with a B.A. in International Corporate Communications from The American University of Paris. At AUP, she choreographed Mamma Mia!, Chicago, West Side Story, Cabaret and HAIR. Darcy then taught and coordinated the musical theater department at the American Conservatory, LʼEcole Koenig, in addition to being a full-time administrator, where she organized musical theater summer camps in the south of France, and coordinated with 350 international families and faculty members. Darcy also holds a diploma in Business French (DFP B2 (DFA1) from the “Chambre de Commerce et dʼIndustrie de Paris”.
Maggie is a dance instructor, choreographer and personal fitness trainer originally from Illinois, USA. She teaches Ballet and Modern dance for the School of Theatre Arts at Illinois Wesleyan University and owns Stages Fitness, a personal training business for private clients. She marries her dance and fitness backgrounds by focusing on core strength, form and function.
Maggie taught dance technique and production at Vincennes University, where she also managed the Red Skelton Performing Arts Center during its inaugural seasons. Choreography credits include Blood Brothers, 1776, the world premiere piece Moonlight on the Wabash, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, as well as modern works in a dance concert setting. She holds a B.A. in Dance from Illinois Wesleyan University and has professional experience in the Chicago theatre scene, notably with the Bailiwick Theatre.
Both French and American, Quentin Bruno has been singing on stage since a very young age. After having studied piano he discovered dance, which he then went on to study at the University of Nice, where his research focused on choreographic plurality and multidisciplinary art forms. After a semester abroad at the University of Oklahoma, Quentin moved to Paris and continued to train in musical theatre at the 9th arrondissement conservatory.
Quentin has taken part in multiple performances in France and abroad as a singer, dancer and actor. His credits include productions with Disneyland Paris (A Frozen Sing-along, Swing into spring…) and Musidrama (Légendes Parisiennes, Troyes : Ville en Lumière) as well as Cabaret (Victor), Island Song (Cooper) and many others.
In 2015, he was one of Mika’s talents on The Voice France.
Quentin has worked with AMT Live! as a performing artist (Sondheim Showcase in 2013) but has also been a member of the creative teams (Choreographer / Assistant Director) for the Broadway chez Nous concert series (Kristina Love’s Love Songs and the Andrew Byrne Cabaret).
Chris McKay has worked in the UK as a performer in theatre, radio, film, and television and as a writer and director, specializing in creating unique and bespoke productions to suit the ensemble. Trained an an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Chris has advanced certification in stage combat and is highly experienced in movement, dance, singing, and voice for the Actor.
Shows include; 101 Dalmatians, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Oliver, The Sound of Music, The Last Days of Mankind, Cold Comfort Farm, Twelfth Night and Posh.
Chris has also written versions of Robin Hood, Cinderella, Jack and The Beanstalk and Aladdin. He is currently writing/developing a verbatim production called ‘Mind the Gap’ – an exploration of the Mind and our thoughts in space..!
Andrea Offner is a native Texan who grew-up singing in East Texas. She attended SMU in Dallas to study music with a vocal performance scholarship and earned her BM in Music Therapy in 1983. For the next 15 years she would work with a variety of populations such as alcohol and drug rehab, Altzheimer’s unit, adolescent and adult psych and pain patients – in locked psychiatric settings as a Music Therapist – and she loved every minute of it!
In 1991 she married and moved to France. While living in Paris, she volunteered at local schools, and studied the Arts and Humanities to receive her Masters and a teaching certificate. She also completed training as a Psychodrama Director from the Swedish Moreno Institute.
In 2009 the family moved to Stuttgart, Germany. Her collaboration with German composer Felix Loewy resulted in the release of her latest CD – Life’s Too Short. She is also working with other artists to continue to create original arrangements of her music. Andrea and her family returned to live in France, where she continues to offer classes and support to people who are interested in improving the natural quality of their lives. Andrea’s musical skills, leadership qualities and nurturing disposition, combined with advanced studies Expressive Arts Therapies, Teaching, and Bodywork, give her the unique ability to work with people – body, mind, and spirit.
Originally from Scottsdale, Arizona Lauren came to Paris after receiving her bachelor of Music from the Boston Conservatory in 2011. After falling in love with the French language and music during her studies in Boston, she took a job as an au pair and packed her bags to head to the City of Lights.
Lauren made her Paris stage debut in the American Musical Theatre LIVE! musical production of EDGES after winning a spot in the AMT Live! Professional Training Program. Currently co-organizer and co-host of AMT’s monthly open mic, Lauren has also performed in AMT special master classes with guest artists Carmel Dean, Adam Kantor, Pasek & Paul, and David Gardiner, where she was a featured artist in the Sondheim Showcase Performance (October 2013).
Lauren has studied at L’école de comédie musicale de Paris and she teaches children English through music and singing (and they teach her French too!). Lauren spends her free time exploring the magnificent streets of Paris, reading Fitzgerald short stories, and going to the cinema or theatre!
Kait Kerrigan is a playwright and a lyricist and composer of musicals. Originally from Kingston, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Wyoming Valley West Senior High School in Plymouth, Pennsylvania in 1999. Kait is a 2003 graduate of Barnard College with a degree in English Literature. She is the 2009 winner of the Edward Kleban Award