The Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) has announced the addition of Tyrick Wiltez Jones to the FSPA Broadway Faculty. The ten Broadway professionals are available to enrolled students for private coaching via Zoom. Coachings are available for singing, acting, dance, and self-marketing in the theater industry. Additionally, the Broadway faculty will be featured in FSPA’s master class programs in Franklin and New York City. 

Tyrick Wiltez Jones has been seen in the Broadway productions of Hairspray and Finian’s Rainbow, Off-Broadway in Bat Out of Hell, and on tour in Miss Saigon, Seussical, and more. Jones will be available for Dance and Acting coachings. He will be in residence in Franklin while he is featured as Max in The Sound of Music with the Franklin Performing Arts Company (FPAC) at THE BLACK BOX. 

Ben Cameron from the original Broadway cast of WICKED, Footloose, and Aida coaches students in Voice and Dance. Sara Jean Ford, a former Christine in Phantom of the Opera who also appeared in Finian’s Rainbow, CATS, How to Succeed…, and A Little Night Music offers Voice and Acting coachings. Tyler Hanes, most recently seen on Broadway as the Rum Tum Tugger in CATS as well as Oklahoma!, Hairspray, The Boy from Oz, and more coaches Voice and Dance students. Jim Hogan currently appearing in the original Broadway cast of Kimberly Akimbo, also seen in the national tours of Waitress, Phantom of the Opera, and Spring Awakening, offers Voice and Acting Coachings. Emily Koch who starred as Elphaba in WICKED and Jenna in Waitress also coaches Voice and Acting students. FSPA is happy to have Kara Lindsay who originated the role of Katherine in Disney’s Newsies and appeared as Glinda in WICKED and Cynthia Weil in Beautiful coaching students in Voice and Acting. Kevin Massey, star of Disney’s Tarzan, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and more also coaches Voice and Acting students. Christopher Rice-Thomson from the tour of Hamilton and the Broadway companies of The Book of Morman and Pretty Woman and of #TAPPY fame offers coachings in Voice, Dance, and self-marketing in the theater industry. Closing out the roster, Clay Rice-Thomson from Moulin Rouge, Disney’s Newsies, Matilda, WICKED, and KING KONG coaches Voice and Dance.

Relationships with the Broadway community have been developed through programs in Franklin including FSPA’s Broadway Boot Camp, the annual Broadway Weekend, and classes offered in conjunction with THE BLACK BOX Broadway Series.  “We are thrilled to offer this unique opportunity to our students,” says FSPA Director Raye Lynn Mercer. “It is very exciting that these acclaimed performers have taken a special interest in our students and our school’s curriculum.”  

To coach with the FSPA Broadway Faculty, students must be enrolled at FSPA in the corresponding disciplines. For more information about the offerings at the Franklin School for the Performing Arts, call 508-528-8668 or visit www.FSPAonline.com.