Teen Musical Theatre Intensive

Session I: July 7 – July 26

• Three Weeks, Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 3 PM
• Performances take place on July 25 & 26

Session II: July 28 – August 16

• Three Weeks, Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 3 PM
• Performances take place on August 15 & 16

Jennifer Agbay

Jennifer Agbay (Choreographer – YSP I & II) is the director of dance for The Hanover Theatre Conservatory and celebrated founder of Ballet Arts Worcester whose production of the Nutcracker graces the stage at The Hanover Theatre each November. She received a Bachelor of Science in Dance and Dance Education from New York University. While in New York City Jennifer worked with several professional companies including The Washington Square Repertory Dance Company and the New York City based “Ballet for Young Audiences”. She was the director of dance at the Performing Arts School of Worcester, directed the Worcester Youth Ballet Company and choreographed all school productions including the Nutcracker. While at PASOW, Jennifer founded and directed, Company X, created for professional dancers. The Company made its debut January 29, 2005 at the PASOW theatre. She was selected by The Pulse Magazine as one of Worcester’s 25 to watch in 2005.

Stephen Trombley

Stephen Trombley (Music Director – YSP I) has been the director of fine arts for the Grafton Public Schools and director of music at Grafton High School for over twenty years. He directs the band, jazz ensemble, and runs a flourishing guitar program. During his tenure in Grafton he has been the music director for numerous musicals. He holds a BA in Music from Westfield State University and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from University of Phoenix. In addition to his teaching and directing, he is a busy musician playing over a hundred dates a year throughout New England with various groups. He has worked as Festival Coordinator for the MMEA All-State Music Festival and frequently hosts Central District musical festival auditions. He enjoys the energy and enthusiasm of musical theater and looks forward to working with like-minded groups.

Cameron Ward

Cameron Patrick Ward (Director – YSP I & II) is an actor, director, and teacher who couldn’t be more excited to rejoin The Hanover Theatre team as director of the teen sessions of YSP! As an actor, he has been a performer at a handful of venues including Universal Studios, Tropicana Field, the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, the Firehouse Center for the Arts, the Louisa May Alcott House, the Worcester Academy Performance Center, the Jean McDonough Arts Center (for THT Rep’s 2022 production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth), and of course The Hanover Theatre itself where he portrayed Gaston in The Hanover Theatre Youth Summer Program’s 2018 production of Disney’s Beauty & The Beast. He has film credits including Good Burger 2 (Paramount), The Gilded Age (Max), and the upcoming Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony (A24). In terms of directing credits, Cameron has helped stage several youth theatre productions at The Hanover Theatre (The Music Man/Music Man Jr. in 2019), the Palace Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire, and most recently at Wachusett Regional High School. He is also currently an adjudicator for the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild’s High School Festival. Cameron is a graduate of Dean College/Regent’s University London, earning a BA in Theatre with a concentration in Acting as well as a minor in History.

Travis Benoit

Travis Benoit (Music Director – YSP II) 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.