Bound for Broadway Musical Theater Intensive

Casey Craig
Instructor

Casey is a Seattle based choreographer and performer. His choreography has been seen at Civic Light Opera, Studio East, Art’s West, Village Theatre Kidstage, The Experience Music Project (EMP) and ART/ Kentridge HS where he is the resident choreographer.

Regional performing credits include West Side Story (Baby John), Cats (Mungojerrie), Hello Dolly (Barnaby), Bye Bye Birdie (Harvey),] …Joseph (Benjamin), Kiss Me Kate (Paul), and Peter Pan (Peter). Casey is a proud member of Actors Equity.

Christine Juarez
Faculty and Summer Dance Coordinator

Christine is currently the Coordinator of Summer Dance for Cornish College of the Arts where she has taught ballet, pointe, creative movement and pre-ballet for the past 18 years. She also choreographs for Cornish’s pre-college apprentice company and is a fixture in children’s choreography and opera in the Seattle area. She is Director of Dance for Vashon Allied Arts and has been the Artistic Director of Blue Heron Dance Company, which she founded, for the past 13 years.

Christine splits her time running dance programming between Vashon Island and Capitol Hill. She has been teaching for over 30 years. She studied ballet with John White, Margarita De Saa in Philadelphia and Jean Pierre Bonnefoux and Jacques Cesbron at Indiana University where she earned a B.S. in Ballet and Music and a M.S in Modern Dance and Physical Sciences under the direction of Bill Evans. Christine is a master artist in residence for the state of Washington and works collaboratively with classroom teachers bringing movement to the academic curriculum. She performed extensively throughout the Midwest and East Coast and is one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier children’s choreographers.

Karen Omahen
Instructor

Karen Omahen has been teaching, choreographing and performing in the Northwest for many years. Currently, she teaches for Tap Dance Seattle and the 5th Avenue Theatre. She has also taught for the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program.

Performing credits include Broadway (the Tony nominated Largely New York with Bill Irwin), Seattle Rep, 5th Avenue Theatre, Spectrum Dance Theater and various commercial and industrials.

Marie Rubin
Instructor

Marie Rubin holds a B.A. in Drama from the Colorado College. She is originally from Switzerland where she began her training as a dancer at the Basler Stadt Theater.

Her curiosity soon took her into exploring other means of expression through acting, visual arts, writing, music and foreign language. Marie is fluent in German, French and Spanish and dabbles in Russian and Italian. She firmly believes that one discipline will always enhance another. Marie has spent a considerable amount of time teaching at the pre-school level and is a lecturer at the Colorado College where she teaches German Immersion through Theater. Her zeal for self-expression has led to a multi-dimensional approach to teaching.

Mark Power
Instructor

Mark Wesley Power is a veteran of a wide variety of musical performance, from the brass section in the Symphony to rock-n-roll on Sunset Blvd. He has spent years studying, training and teaching vocal technique in Los Angeles, New York City, and now in Seattle.

Locally, Power has performed and produced shows in venues such as Bainbridge Performing Arts, Studio Seven, Town Hall, SMT, Everett Performing Arts Center, Meydenbauer Center, The Triple Door, and Benaroya Hall. Over the years Power has been seen on stage performing Opera, Musical Theatre, Classical, Sacred, Pop, and Rock but considers teaching to be his greatest love and calling.