KYM CHAMBERS OTTO (She/Her/Hers)

Kym received a Masters in Vocal Performance from New York University and BA from St. Olaf College. Originally from California,  Kym relocated to the Twin Cities after living in New York City for a decade. Kym works as a professional actor/singer/dancer and has toured with the Broadway Tours Cats, Cinderella, and The Wizard of Oz. Regionally she has worked at prestigious companies such as Kansas City Starlight, TUTS, TOTS, North Shore, Ogunquit Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, Casa Manana, Bushnell PAC and Ordway CPA . Kym is actively involved in developing New Work with Nautilus Music Theatre. She has sung with The St. Olaf Choir, The World Youth Choir, Vocalessence and is a founding member of “Chick Cheer” entertaining over the holiday season. 

When Kym is not performing she runs a successful private voice studio (NATS member), choreographs for Musical Theater, is a show choir clinician/adjudicator and a Lead Spotlight Evaluator for Hennepin Theater Trust‘s Theater Education Outreach Program. Her students have gone on to NYU, Vitterbo, UW Stevens Point, U of M Duluth and Twin Cities, University of Oklahoma, Coastal Carolina, UCLA, Northridge, Hartt School of Music, Millikin University, St. Olaf, Luther, Concordia, Gustavus and BYU. Kym has strong ties to the Broadway community and has recently curated Q and A sessions with Broadway Artists to connect with her MT studio students.

While at NYU, Kym worked as a Graduate Assistant in MT and was in charge of all new student inquiries and ran auditions for all incoming students. This provided a unique opportunity to see the audition process from the inside of a highly regarded MT program.

ANDY KUST (He/Him/His)

Andy Kust is an award-winning music director, vocal coach and pianist, and is the Resident Music Director at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. Recent credits include regional productions of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (Regional Premiere), Mamma Mia! (Regional Premiere), Bare, Jesus Christ Superstar, Green Day’s American Idiot (Regional Premiere), The Music Man, Next to Normal (Regional Premiere), Spring Awakening, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Regional Premiere), and RENT, among others. His work as a music director has taken him across the country from NYC, to the Kennedy Center, Phoenix, and now Minneapolis. As a vocal coach, he is a member of New York Singing Teachers Association as well as Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance, and has taught masterclasses at colleges and universities throughout the United States, as well as multiple engagements with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. 

Andy served on the faculty for the BFA in Musical Theater at the University of Minnesota Duluth for 5 years, and prior to that, held a Teaching Assistantship with the musical theater program at Arizona State University. He currently has a private studio in the Twin Cities, where he works with professional singing actors. His clients have appeared on Broadway and in the national touring companies of Wicked, Dear Evan Hansen, Frozen, Mean Girls, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, and Spring Awakening, and at regional theaters across the country. As a college audition coach, recent clients have been accepted into musical theatre programs that include The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Carnegie Mellon University, The University of Michigan, UW Stevens Point, Baldwin Wallace, New York University, The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and Shenandoah University. Andy also keeps a busy schedule as a coach and pianist, serving as the Associate Music Director for the Spotlight Program through the Hennepin Theatre Trust, as an Artist Educator for the Ordway Center of Performing Arts, as well as a pianist for numerous national tours and regional theaters that include The Guthrie, Theater Latté Da, and the Duluth Playhouse.

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Music from Luther College, Master of Music in Theatre Music Direction and Performance from Arizona State University 

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