Academy of Performing Arts

Broadway Babies

Tuesdays 10:30-11:30

Ages 3-5

8 week session

Children will learn a variety of fun songs with choreography and play various hand instruments. Basic musical principals such as beat, pitch, and tempo will be taught. The Broadway Babies will perform their showstoppers at our showcase performance at the end of the session. 

About the Teacher:

Jennifer Almeida is incredibly excited to be teaching  at the Academy where she is proud to be The Director of Education and a board member. She has an extensive background in teaching and performance. Jen has directed musicals, plays, and concerts and has taught private voice and classroom music as well as classes in acting and musical theater.

As a singer and actor in the community, she recently performed as Maria in The Sound of Music, Justice in Rock of Ages, Grace Farrell in Annie which she co-directed, The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Laurey in Oklahoma, Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins, and Sarah Brown in Guys & Dolls at the Academy of Performing Arts and with Falmouth Theater Guild as Marian and Chiara in The Bridges of Madison County. She performed the role of Emily Hobbs in Elf the Musical at Cotuit Center for the Arts along with her son, Lucas as Michael Hobbs.

 Jennifer completed her undergraduate degree at the Hartt School and her graduate degree at the New England Conservatory where she was a member of the opera theater program. Jennifer has sung as a soloist with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra and was a regional semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She was a young artist with PORT (Opera Maine) and has performed in several seasons with them. She is excited to be playing the part of the Woman in Death of a Salesman at Cotuit Center for the Arts and will be co-directing Elf this December at the Academy.