McKinley Arts The McKinley High School Performing Arts Program has been awarded a substantial Teach Arts Ohio Grant for the 2021-2022 school year- A Year in the LifeMusical Theatre!
the high school level to deliver highly collaborative content. She will deliver content in the classroom and rehearsal and performance spaces unique to each discipline: dance studio, theatre lab spaces, and more,” McNally explained. “The culmination of the year in residency will be A Year in the Life – Musical a highly interactive and enterTheatre is a year-long study of taining performance piece to the disciplines that makes up share with the community and the world of Musical Theatre – school!” Acting, Dancing and Singing Andrea McCormick is a per— with a professional artist in residency. McKinley’s artist will forming artist and instructor be Andrea McCormick of Cleve- from Cleveland, Ohio who has received her Bachelor of Arts land. from Wright State University in Teacher Kristy McNally said that Theatre Studies, with an emphaMcCormick will work with stu- sis on Dance and Applied Voice. dents in the McKinley Perform- She began with ballet at four ing Arts program during the years of age. She also continued school year to foster interest and her studies in various dance growth for technique, history of forms, including tap, African musical theatre, and professional folk dance, liturgical/spirituand collegiate acumen. al, jazz, musical theatre dance, “She will work with the choir, modern/contemporary, hip hop, dance and theatre instructors at and Latin ballroom.
Post-college, under the stage name “Andrea Belser”, Andrea has remained extremely active in the Northeast Ohio theater community, receiving 2008 Best Actress in Cleveland for her role as Juliette in, “I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda,” at Dobama Theatre, and nomination as 2012 Best Actress in Cleveland for her role as Pecola in “The Bluest Eye” at Karamu House Theatre. She presents herself on and off stage, doing anything from acting, dancing, or singing, to stage manager, choreographer, or costume assistant. She has also worked with several theaters, including but not limited to Cleveland Public Theatre, Meg Louise Dance, Opera Cleveland, Opera Circle, Near West Theatre, The Fine Arts Association, The Lantern Theatre and Talespinner Children’s Theatre.
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