Music Theater Camp

Teaching Artists

Dana McConnell is a director, performer and educator. She was an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Music Theatre at Viterbo University, where she taught acting, voice, movement, directing and laboratory courses for pre-professional students. Her directing work includes regional premieres of Metamorphoses and Crave, Company, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Assassins and Cosi fan Tutte. With Black Earth Collaborative Arts, she created original works including Ball’s Out and Sky. The education director for two national tours with the American Shakespeare Center, Dana has also served on the faculty of the Interlochen Center for the Arts and was a guest artist at RADA, the University of Bathurst in Australia. Dana received an MFA in Directing from OU and has undertaken additional studies in Bartenieff Fundamentals and Movement Fundamentals

Evan Tyler Wilson is a Minnesota based singer/actor/educator in love with this beautiful state. He received his Bachelor’s of Music from Arizona State University’s Lyric Opera Theater Program and has worked professionally in the twin cities with Theatre Latte Da, Yellow Tree Theatre, The Duluth Playhouse, and Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. Evan teaches private voice and piano at Linden Hills House of Music and has been teaching professionally for the past ten years.

 

 

Natalia Romero-Originally from Colombia, Natalia Romero is an experienced performer, music director and actor. Her passion lies in the collaboration of vocal music and storytelling through theater. Her strengths include bridging the gap from traditional Bel Canto singing into contemporary musical theater techniques and bringing music to life with youth performers. Working full time as a choir director at Harding High School, Natalia also freelances around the Twin Cities as a music director and actor with various theater companies. Recent directing credits include The Little Mermaid (MD), Wizard of Oz (MD), and Camelot (MD). Recent acting credits include Woman 1 in Songs For A New World and Olive Ostrovsky in Spelling Bee! Outside of musical theater, she is an ensemble member of MPLS (imPulse) and Border CrosSing and works with ComMUSICation as the Crescendo Choir Director. 

Cameron Meilicke received his BFA in Musical Theatre in 2013, and since then has been working as a professional actor, dancer, and choreographer in La crosse, WI and the Twin Cities area. This spring he has been in La Crosse devising a brand new Peter Pan told entirely through Dance at the La Crosse Dance Center. Recent Twin Cities credits include Jesus Christ Superstar at The Ordway Center, and multiple works with Collide Theatrical Jazz dance company encompassing their most recent collaboration at The History Theatre in St. Paul titled Dance Till You Drop. He’s wickedly excited to be back with the Merrill Community Art Center’s summer programming, and even more excited to get the chance to choreograph to one of his all time favorite musical scores as the choreographer of Chicago.

Interns

Jeric Basilio is glad to be back with Merrill Community Arts for their new and improved Music Theatre Camps! He is currently a nursing student at St. Catherine University and he coaches speech at East Ridge High School. He cannot wait to share his passion for theatre with all the young thespians!