Guest Directors and Creative Team Leaders
Performing Arts, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Bucks County Playhouse, Drury Lane Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Maltz Jupiter Theatre and The Muny. His Muny career began in 2008, when he was hired as a performer. Between 2012 and 2018, he served as Resident Choreographer, during which time he collaborated with top artistic teams on a multitude of productions and supervised the creative expansion of the esteemed Muny Teen program. Over the last twelve years, he has become a regular fixture at The Muny while expanding his professional endeavors into producing. Appointed in 2018, he now serves as the Artistic Associate. Michael is a proud graduate of Webster University, and currently serves on the Alumni Association Board of Directors, as well as an adjunct faculty member in the musical theatre department.
Tali Allen (s he/her ) › Music Director, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 Tali Allen has worked in performing arts education for the past 20 years, and has taught musical theatre and voice on all academic levels. She has directed and/or music directed an innumerable amount of award-winning professional and youth theatrical productions across the country. Regionally, she has music directed at STAGES ST. LOUIS, Arizona Broadway Theatre, Metropolis Performing Arts Center, and Tennessee Performing Arts Center. She completed the nationally acclaimed Music Direction Intensive at Goodspeed Theatricals in 2016. She most recently directed and music directed the pilot production of The Drowsy Chaperone Jr. for Music Theatre International and iTheatrics and serves as an Adjudicator/Workshop Leader at their International Junior Theatre Festival. Tali is currently the Director of Education at The Muny, where she also serves as the Artistic Director of the Muny Kids and Muny Teens touring troupes. Most recently, she music directed the 2022 tour of Pete the Cat, which was the first property produced from TheatreWorksUSA’s new partnership with The Muny, and Junie B.’s Essential Guide to School (TheatreWorksUSA).
Heather Beal (s he/her ) › Choreographer, Blood at the Root
Heather Beal is a dancer, choreographer, actress and director who received her BA in Dance from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA in Dance from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a certified Dunham Technique Instructor. She has toured around the United States and France teaching and performing Dunham Technique. She has performed in many productions at The Black Rep and several productions at the St. Louis MUNY. She has choreographed Ragtime, The Musical (American Stage), Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea (Nebraska Rep), Feeding Beatrice (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), First Date (University of Southern Indiana), and Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Me Nobody Knows, Rivers of Women, Le Freak C’est Chic, Purlie, and Dreamgirls (The Black Rep). She is best known for her work #triggerwarning and Black AF, a dance critique of police brutality against Black folx in America.
Michael Baxter ( he/him ) › Director, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Michael Baxter is thrilled to return to the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts after directing the 2021 production of Sondheim on Sondheim . Michael has enjoyed an exciting and diverse career as a director, choreographer, and performer working on National Tours, Off-Broadway and at acclaimed regional theatres and universities across the country such as The John F. Kennedy Center for the
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