Laura Bidgood
A director, stage manager, musician, and spoken word artist, Laura has showcased her artistic talents in numerous theatres and groups around the Twin Cities including, Minnesota Public Radio, The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company, Chameleon Theatre Circle, Morris Park Players and the Dakota Valley Symphony. Laura is one half of the writing/performing duo that created the Minnesota Fringe Festival hits, Take a Left at the Giant Cow; a Beginner’s Guide to North Dakota and Boys Don’t Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses. She is also a member of the storytelling group, the RockStar Storytellers. Laura is delighted to be working with Lyric Arts! Previous directing credits with Lyric Arts include Little Shop of Horrors, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Ghost Chasers!, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Why Do Heroes Have Big Feet.
Kym Chambers Otto
Kym Chambers arrived from New York about two years ago where she had been working as a professional actor for eight years. Kym has toured with the Broadway shows Cats, The Wizard of Oz, and Cinderella. She has also worked at many prestigious regional theaters across the country including North Shore Music Theater, Kansas City Starlight, Atlanta Theater of the Stars, and Casa Manana. Kym hold a Masters Degree from New York University in Musical Theater Vocal Performance and a BA from St. Olaf College in Speech/Theater Secondary Education.
Sara Feinberg
Sara Feinberg has performed in many theatres throughout the Twin Cities, including Theatre de la Jeune Lune, North Star Opera, The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company, and Bloomington Civic Theatre. Sara holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice with a Minor in Theatre from Ithaca College. Currently she teaches theatre at The Children’s Theatre, Stages Theatre, Youth Performance Company, and Lyric Arts Main Street Stage.
Angie Keeton—Minnesota Opera Teaching Artist
Angela Keeton returns this season to The Minnesota Opera as Teaching Artist. Two summers ago she was a member of the Festival Ensemble of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, where she sang under the baton of Bach scholar, Helmuth Rilling. In the 2006-2007 season she was a member of the Indianapolis Opera’s Education Ensemble, where she sang “Mercedes” in Carmen on the main stage, in addition to performing a children’s opera for students across the state of Indiana. In 2006, she was an apprentice with Lake George opera in Saratoga Springs, New York. Ms. Keeton is a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with both a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Vocal Music Performance. Ms. Keeton has received awards in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Palm Beach Vocal Competition and the Florida Grand Opera Vocal Competition.
Christine Karki
Christine is delighted to be teaching with Lyric Arts! A 
professional actor in the Twin Cities for over 10 years, Chris has had the pleasure of performing with Hey City Theater (Tony n Tina’s Wedding), Park Square Theatre (Side Show), The Great American History Theatre (The Christmas Schooner, Summer in the Shadows), Troupe America (A Christmas Carol- nat’l tour), Commonweal Theatre Company (Zombies from the Beyond), St. Croix Festival Theatre (Little Shop of Horrors, Lucky Stiff).
Chris is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College with a degree in English and theater arts and a teaching license in both subjects. She’s taught with StageCoach Theatre Arts and seven seasons with St. Paul Academy’s Artward Bound program. She’s also worked as the Education Coordinator for the Sabes Jewish Community Center and as the Curriculum Manager with the Guthrie Theater. Chris made her Lyric Arts directing debut with The Boy Friend and then Meet Me in St. Louis, and will direct the hit Elvis musical, All Shook Up this summer.
Kristine Kvanli
For the past six years Kristine has been teaching improvisation to adults and children throughout the Minneapolis Metro area. Along with being a teacher, Kristine is a professional actor, having been seen in the cast of Tony n Tina’s Wedding, Flanagan’s Wake, Brave New Workshop Mainstage, and has been in multiple productions with The Mystery Café’s completely improvised murder mystery entitled Who’s Crime is it Anyway.
Jimmy LeDuc
Jimmy LeDuc holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Oklahoma. He began his career as a performance intern with Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN. Directing credits include: Women and Wallace, Southern Scenes, Wit, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Collected Stories, Kindertransport, Fool for Lover, Cowboy Mouth, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, String of Pearls, Blithe Spirit, and many more! He has also appeared in numerous shows as an actor. Jimmy has extensive experience teaching classes and workshops on subjects such as Shakespeare, Improvisation, Voice/Diction, Dialects, and Theatre History. He also coaches actors of all ages and experience levels.
Deborah Schee
Deborah holds a Master’s degree in Education and works in the field of Training & Development. She combines her experience in the field of adult education with her thirty years of community theater experience to create a fun, engaging atmosphere for students. She has taught many workshops at Lyric including a series of American Girl classes. Deborah has performed at several theaters in the Twin Cities including; Off Broadway Musical Theater, CROSS Community Players, Morris Park Players, Stages Theater Company, The Eden Prairie Players, Top Hat Theater, and, of course, Lyric Arts Main Street Stage. Deborah has performed at Lyric Arts in Annie Get Your Gun, Steel Magnolias, Bridge to Terabithia, several Mainly for Kids shows, Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, and is currently in the Mainly for Kids production, Nick Tickle, Fairy Tale Detective.