Jess LeProtto is a Broadway performer with credits including: Beautiful Noise, Carousel, Hello, Dolly!, Cats (Mungojerrie), On The Town, Newsies (OBC), Bye Bye Birdie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and The Boy From Oz. National Tours/Regional Theater include: Hello, Dolly! (Barnaby Tucker), Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Grand Ole Opry), American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (Joyce), A Bronx Tale (Papermill), In Your Arms (Old Globe Theater), Freddie Falls in Love (Signature Theater). Jess' Film and TV credits include: West Side Story (dir. Steven Spielberg), So You Think You Can Dance (Top 8), Smash, Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, and MTV VMAs. Jess graduated from Pace with a B.F.A. in Musical Theater.
Isabella Porreca is a currently a musical theatre major at Indiana University where she recently performed in the musical comedy love story, Head Over Heels. Her dance training includes sixteen years of studio training, NYC classes, and competition dance. She trained with and danced in works choreographed by Ray Leeper, Al Blackstone and Kristen Gorski. Isabella has performed at the Chita Rivera Awards, The Prudential Center, NJ PAC, and Indiana University's Ruth N. Halls Theatre. Isabella loves working with children and we welcome her as a great addition to our summer musical theater workshop staff!
Ava Luna is a 2024 graduating senior at The Dance Academy of North Jersey! She will be attending Montclair State in the fall as a dance major! Ava has trained since age 4 in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, contemporary, and modern with professional artists including Jaclyn Walsh, Jen Savelli, Angelica Stiskin, Jason Luks, Kelby Brown, Corey Snide, Daniel Vaniska, Billy Griffin, Terk Lewis, and Mia DiLena. Ava loves working with children and we welcome her as a great addition to our summer musical theater workshop staff!
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Jason Luks is a performer, choreographer and teacher. He is currently on faculty at Steps on Broadway, NYCDA, and Joffrey Ballet School teaching Musical Theater. He was a member of the Tony Award nominated Falsettos choreography team with Director and Pulitzer Prize winner, James Lapine. He worked with Josh Prince and James Lapine on the choreography for "Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing." Most recently, Jason served as Ryan Reynold's dance instructor for "Spirited" while dancing as a member of the Spirited Dance Company. Jason's performance credits include “White Christmas” (Broadway), “On The Town" (Barrington Stage), “My One And Only” (Stages St. Louis), Rasta Thomas' Tap Stars, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the Late Late Show with James Corden, MTV’s Video Music Awards, and Good Morning America. He has performed at the Kennedy Center for Presidents Obama and Bush. Jason is a member of the award winning The JaM Project. He won the Adult World Tap Dance Solo Championship at International Dance Organization’s World Tap Dance Competition, and ADA’s National Choreographer of the Year. Jason’s choreography has been presented on Broadway's Walter Kerr Theater (Falsettos), the Kennedy Center, and Symphony Space NYC. Jason graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance.