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Kristen Gurbach Jacobson is a performer, educator and youth arts manager. She studied at Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts, receiving a BA in Musical Theatre, a Minor in Dance and a Concentration in Education. Since then her work has taken her to Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, DanceTime Studio, LABCO Contemporary Dance Company; Cleveland: Beck Center for Performing Arts, Willoughby Fine Arts; and Chicago: Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Free Street, Metropolis. Kristen’s performance credits include conservatory and regional shows throughout the Midwest. Favorite performance credits include: On the Town, Nine, A Chorus Line, Tesla’s Letters, Two Gentlemen, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods. Kristen choreographs for youth productions and professionally throughout Chicago. Choreography credits at Metropolis include I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; The Secret Garden; A Christmas Carol; The Wiz; and High School Musical. She recently received an MA in Arts in Youth and Community Development at Columbia College Chicago. Currently, Kristen has stepped into the role of Outreach Manager at the Metropolis School of Performing Arts. This position has allowed Kristen to design and implement in- and after-school programs at schools and organizations throughout the community. Kristen also teaches dance and theatre at Metropolis and throughout Chicagoland.
Laura Merchut just recently graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston with a B.A. in Theatre. During her time there she not only studied theatre but kept active with the dance and music theatre communities getting to work with such notable faculty members as Lane Alexander, Billy Siegenfeld, as well as other members of the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, David Bell and Amanda Dehnert. In addition, she was a four year ensemble-member of Boomshaka, Northwestern’s premier percussion, dance and rhythm ensemble for which she choreographed and performed at NU and many local schools. Her Metropolis credits include: High School Musical (performer and dance captain), Velveteen Rabbit and Pinocchio (choreographer) and Damn Yankees (performer).
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