Staff & Faculty

Cailin Dyke Kelly is a theatre and dance educator, director, and choreographer who has worked throughout the area with companies including Bay Colony Performing Arts Academy, where she served as Senior Director, Norwood Theatre, Bridgewater State University, Un-Common Theatre, Friends of Durfee Theatre, and Showcase Dance Productions. As of 2021, she is the proud Owner and Executive & Artistic Director of the Ensemble Performing Arts Studio. Cailin graduated magna cum laude from Bridgewater State University with a double major in Theatre Education and Dance Education, as well as a minor in English. Her work on BSU’s production of The Pirates of Penzance earned her an Outstanding Choreography Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She also served as choreographer for BSU’s NECT Moss Hart Memorial Award-winning production of The Taming of the Shrew and the debut of the new musical Painted Alice which was selected for the KCACTF Conference. In 2013 Cailin received the Judith Glynn Memorial Award for her dedication to the arts. She currently serves as Resident Choreographer of the Norwood Theatre where her credits include Cabaret, Peter Pan, Bye Bye Birdie, Mamma Mia, and Hairspray (BroadwayWorld Award Winner – Best Creative Team, Best Musical, and Best Ensemble)! Her work has been lauded by competition judges who have consistently complimented her “expert” direction and choreography and “strong creative vision”, as well as her students’ technique, precision, and expression. In 2019 and 2022, she was named Best Studio Director at the Access Broadway competition. Cailin believes strongly in setting high standards for her students and teaching work ethic, responsibility, and collaboration through theatre. She is thrilled to be able to share her passion for theatre and dance with the students of Ensemble!

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Abbie Burchard is a performing artist, dancer, and teacher from the greater Boston area. Since returning to Boston after college in 2021, Abbie has had the pleasure of performing with various theatre companies throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Abbie graduated from Salve Regina University with a double BA in Psychology and Theatre Arts. She has been thankful to have made incredible connections over the course of several years; participating in multiple productions with Norwood Theatre, Emerald City Theatricals, and various other theatres in the Greater Boston area. Abbie’s performing career began with dancing, training since the age of 5 in various styles of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, musical theatre, etc with Hazel Boone Dance Studios. Abbie competed in tap dancing for many years before finding her love of theatre and pursing performing arts and teaching as a career. Some of her favorite past roles include Legally Blonde (Enid Hoopes), A Chorus Line (Connie Mackenzie), Peter and the Starcatcher (Smee), Twelfth Night (Maria), and annually dancing with Norwood Theatre, where she met Cailin Dyke Kelly in 2022 and began teaching at Ensemble Performing Arts in 2023. Additionally, she has worked in Immersive Theatre, serving at The Alice Cocktail Experience, The Beauty and the Beast Cocktail Experience, and American Immersion Theatre. Outside of teaching, Abbie is a counselor at McLean Hospital’s OCD Institution. She is passionate about Theatre and Dance as healing tools and hopes to share her love of the arts with future performers!

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Mark DiCampo is a private voice teacher, director, and singing actor who has been teaching for the better part of the last two decades. After studying classical voice at New England Conservatory and The Boston Conservatory, he went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Music Theatre Performance (MM) with an Advanced Certificate in Vocal Pedagogy from the Steinhardt School at New York University, where he also taught voice as an adjunct professor. From art songs to jazz standards to Broadway ballads, his true passion is collecting and curating songs. Mark is the writer, director, and music arranger of several original revues and has been a frequent guest artist of local symphonies and cabaret societies in the greater Boston area. As a private teacher, Mark has worked with all ages, voice types, and musical styles, but he specializes in college audition prep for classical and musical theatre majors with students gaining acceptances from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Berklee School of Music, NYU Tisch, NYU Steinhardt, Emerson, Longy School of Music, The Hartt School, UNH, and many other programs specializing in music, music theatre, and acting.

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Cate Lightbody is an actor, singer, dancer, director, and choreographer from Walpole. She is pursuing a BFA in Acting with a Musical Theatre Concentration at Wright State University. Cate has worked closely with students of all ages at Sharon Community Education’s CREATE program, The Un-Common Theatre Company, and Bay Colony Performing Arts Academy. As a former student of Cailin’s, Cate is really looking forward to working with Ensemble Performing Arts Studio to share her love of theatre.

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Molly Lovell is an actor, singer, and occasional dancer. Molly graduated from Saint Michael’s College, where she graduated with a B.A. in Theatre, and was a two time Kennedy Center Irene Ryan award nominee. In 2019, Molly was honored to receive the first annual Cathy Hurst Memorial Award for outstanding leadership and mentorship in Theatre. Molly worked for 7 years at Theater Plus! where she directed, stage managed, and costumed productions for performers aged 3-18, (Addams Family Jr.,Heathers: School Edition, Frozen Jr, Legally Blonde). In 2020, she received her M.Ed. from Fitchburg State University, and currently teaches second grade at Gilmore Elementary School in Brockton, MA. She believes that theatre is one of the most unifying expressions that a person of any age and background can relate to, and loves seeing students discover something new each time they come to class. 

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Rachel MacKenzie is a performing artist and teacher who currently serves as a faculty member  at the University of Albany where she teaches voice and is an accompanist and music director  for the Department of Music and Theater. She also serves as a voice teacher at NYC Vocal  Studio. Rachel earned her undergrad degrees in Piano, Voice, and Anthropology from UMass  Amherst, as well as her Masters and Advanced Certificate in Musical Theater Vocal  Performance and Vocal Pedagogy from NYU, where she has also served as an accompanist  since 2014.

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