Bill Reed has dedicated his professional life to guiding singers in their quest to realize their potential as performing artists. Born into a show business family, Bill began his vocal music education at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree. (Bill is a proud member of the Badger Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.) He completed his studies at Columbia University, where he earned a doctorate in vocal music education. After a busy and rewarding career as a college professor and concert singer, Bill established a private voice studio in New York where for the past twenty-five years he has been privileged to work with singers from all over the world whose specialties have ranged from opera to pop and rock, and Broadway to folk and country. He has consulted on a number of Hollywood movies and commercial recordings, and his students have performed at the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera, many European opera houses, and in hundreds of Broadway shows. Bill's students have won Oscar Hammerstein, MAC, Emmy and Tony awards. Bill has also been teaching singing at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC for the past twenty-five years and is a founder of the acclaimed musical theater program there.

In Vermont, Bill's adult students have had leading roles in numerous local community and professional musical theater productions. His college and school-aged students have performed extensively in school productions and have gone on to study singing and musical theater at many of the most prestigious colleges, universities, and conservatories in the country. A number of Bill's Vermont students are working professionals and have recently performed in leading roles at the New York City Opera and on Broadway. Bill is in demand nationally as a clinician and has been invited to give workshops at many colleges, universities, and meetings of professional organizations. Bill's website can be found here.

"Working with Bill I gained the endurance to do eight shows a week on Broadway. This man is magic!" – Gary Lynch, "Javert" in Les Misérables

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Alan Langdon. Alan is a celebrated teacher of theater and musical theater, and has taught and developed training programs at schools and theaters around the world. He currently teaches scene study, European/Chekov scene study and musical theater scene study at the Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City. He is the former Head of the Circle in the Square/NYU TISCH undergraduate program, and was the chairman of the theater programs at Hiram College and Simpson College.

Alan has directed off-Broadway, regionally and at Universities and Colleges. He headed the intern program at Williamstown Theater Festival. He has acted off-Broadway in the original production of The Fantasticks and in Intimate Relations.

Among students who have studied with him are: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Mathew Lillard, Idina Menzel, Benicio del Toro and Molly Shannon. He has been cited in Outstanding Educators in American and Who's Who Among Teachers.

Ken Schatz. A leading acting teacher and coach in New York City, Ken Schatz has been training and helping professional actors for over 16 years. His students and clients are working performing artists in theater, television, and film. His mission is to equip them with the creative vocabulary, tools, and skills they need to do their best work.

On the faculty of Circle in the Square Theatre School, the only accredited acting conservatory attached to a Broadway theater, Ken has taught, coached, and directed for many well-known acting schools, colleges and universities, production companies, talent agencies, and casting offices, including NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Harlem School of the Arts, Gorilla Rep, The Actors Institute, NYC's Professional Performing Arts School, SUNY, Jim Simpson's Bat Theater Company, PHYSIQUE Studio at Carnegie Hall, MTV, and Pat McCorkle Casting.

Ken has extensive coaching credits, which include Tim Blake Nelson's THE GREY ZONE with David Arquette and Steve Buscemi (Killer Films), COP LAND with Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY with Matt Dillon and Cameron Diaz, SHADRACH with Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell, ABC's SPIN CITY, CRIME SPREE, and many other films, commercials, and theater productions. He is certified by Moni Yakim (creator of the movement programs at Juilliard and Yale, author of CREATING A CHARACTER) in Physical Acting Technique, and featured in the ACT NY Guide to Qualified Acting Coaches.

Tim Guiles. Tim accompanies several Vermont choruses including the Randolph Singers, the Mad River Chorale, and the Vermont Symphony Chorus.  Along with teaching piano lessons, he enjoys tutoring math and german.  Tim has been the musical director for shows like "Sweeney Todd" and "A Little Night Music" at Montpelier's Lost Nation Theater, "Les Mis" at Barre's Spaulding High School, and "The Last 5 Years" at Waitfield's Bundy Gallery.  Sometimes you will see Tim singing with his 8-voice acappella jazz group, Maple Jam.