Children's Musical Theatre Workshop

Kyle Maxwell (he/him/his) is an actor and writer born and raised in Worcester, MA. He is excited to return to his hometown after a decade of living and working in New York City. He holds an MFA in acting from the University of Tennessee and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. New York City stage credits include off-Broadway roles as Tom/Berry/Knef (Radium Girls), Warwick (Henry VI, Part 3) and Montano (Othello). Regional credits include Lenny (Of Mice and Men), Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Horatio (Hamlet), Jemmy Campbell/John Arscott (Our Country’s Good), Christmas Present (A Christmas Carol), Chiron (Titus Andronicus), and Todd in the world premiere of The Open Hand. Television credits include a featured comedic dance on “Saturday Night Live.” Active in stand-up and improvisational comedy, Maxwell studied improv at ImprovBoston and the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. His stand-up credits include Catch a Rising Star, The Comedy Studio in Boston, MA, and the Comedy Connection in Providence, RI. His writing credits include the short film “7 Rising,” as well as the plays Three Decker and Love, in a Violent Year, which premiered at the New York Theatre Festival in 2023, where it was nominated for Best Play.

Sophia Agbay is a former student of The Hanover Theatre Conservatory, continuing her journey as a staff member. She received her dance education from THTC in ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz, and pointe while also attending intensive programs at Urbanity Dance in Boston, Ballet RI, and Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick. Sophia has extensive choreographic experience between ballet, contemporary, and musical theatre styles, beginning at the age of 16. Her pieces “Parts Per Billion,” “Sound of Color,” and “The Breaking and Blooming” received invitations to participate at the final rounds of the world-renowned Youth America Grand Prix, while her pieces “Hexed,” “The Rule of Three,” and “In Another Life” were invited to the final round of Universal Ballet Competition. She has also co-choreographed for junior versions of the musicals Footloose, Fiddler on the Roof, and Legally Blonde as part of THTC’s summer programs. As a student, Sophia was a founding member of the Apprentice Company before working her way up to Senior Company of the Youth Ballet Company of Worcester at THTC. She has performed roles such as Clara in The Nutcracker, Bird in Peter in the Wolf, the Stepmother/Witch in Hansel and Gretel, as well as other featured roles in ballets including La Bayadere, Le Corsaire, Carnival of the Animals, and The Nutcracker. Sophia is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island where she obtained three bachelor’s degrees and is a recent graduate of Northeastern University with a Master of Science degree. She is excited to be returning to her home studio for another summer of working in such a wonderful program! 

Travis Benoit, tenor, from Worcester, MA received his Master of Music Degree from The Manhattan School of Music in the spring of 2020. Previous credits include: Pilate in Arvo Pärt’s Passio, The Tenor Solos with Music Worcester, CONCORA in Handel’s Messiah, Joseph Haydn’s The Creation (Uriel) with The Providence Singers, The Passion According to Saint Luke (The Evangelist) Composer William David Cooper’s New Work, The Pirates of Penzance (Frederic) with The Valley light Opera Company, La Traviata (Gastone) with The Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Repertoire Ensemble, I due timidi (Dottore Sinisgalli) in the 2018 Manhattan School of Music main stage production and Die Zauberflöte (Tamino) with The Nahant Music Festival as a vocal apprentice. Scene work includes Così fan tutte (Ferrando), La Rondine (Prunier) and L’elesir d’amore (Nemorino). In September of 2021, Benoit performed a recital featuring Gerald Finzi’s “A Young Man’s Exhortation” with Mark Mummert, vocal instructor at The Hanover Theatre Conservatory, at the BrickBox Theater in downtown Worcester. Benoit was selected to sing in The Thomas Hampson Masterclass hosted by MSM in 2019. In 2017 Benoit won the Worcester Schubertiade Vocal competition with the first-place college vocal division prize. Benoit is his alma mater’s Concerto competition winner, which gave him a 15-minute performance with the Gordon College Symphony Orchestra. There he performed a program of Mozart Concert Arias. Benoit’s current ensembles include EnsembleNYC, CONCORA, The Providence Singers, The Worcester Chorus, Vox Futura and Magnificat Sacred Music Institute’s Cor Unum Singers.