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KYLE LEWIS
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
  • 30+ years of experience as a director, acting coach, theatre educator, and artistic leader.
  • MFA in Directing — Arizona State University, Herberger College of the Arts.
  • BFA in Musical Theatre/Education — Weber State University.
  • Artistic Director / Director of Theatre, Utah Arts Academy — 2012–Present.
  • Freelance Acting Coach for Film, Television & Stage — 2015–Present.
  • Coaching work represented on Apple TV+, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Amazon, and The CW.
  • Extensive experience coaching film/television auditions, musical theatre, Shakespeare, contemporary text, scenes, monologues, and on-camera performance.
  • Training and practice encompassing Stanislavski, Meisner, Chekhov, Hagen, Strasberg, Viewpoints, Suzuki, Rasaboxes, Lecoq, Spolin, and Michael Shurtleff.
  • Advanced professional training with the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, SITI Company, One Yellow Rabbit, and intensive work in Lecoq, Rasaboxes, and Period Style.
  • Former Artistic Director, Salt Lake Shakespeare.
  • Former President, Utah Theatre Association.
  • Former State Theatre Coordinator, Utah High School Activities Association.
  • Students have earned 50+ awards at the Utah Shakespeare Festival High School Shakespeare Competition, including first-place honors in Individual Events, Ensemble, and Sweepstakes.
  • Students have earned 40+ Regional and State Theatre Competition awards, including first-place honors in Individual Events, One-Act Play, and Sweepstakes.
  • Directing credits include Hadestown, Macbeth, Les Misérables, The Tempest, Hamlet, The Threepenny Opera, West Side Story, The Crucible, Metamorphoses, Urinetown, Shakespeare in Love, and numerous original/devised works.
  • Recipient of the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Region VIII Meritorious Achievement in Directing.
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  • September 9th, 7-9pm: MANDATORY MEETING FOR NEXT/COMPANY CLASSES (bring a parent/guardian)
  • September 10th-11th, 3:30-6:00pm: 12 DANCING PRINCESSES (AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE) AUDITIONS

I BELIEVE ...

  • I believe talent deserves more than good intentions—it deserves expertise.
  • I believe anyone can call themselves a teacher, coach, or industry professional. Those titles should invite questions, not end them.
  • I believe a polished website, impressive language, and confident promises are not credentials.
  • I believe parents and young artists should investigate the people they trust with their training: Who trained them? What have they actually done? Who have they successfully trained?
  • I believe reputation should be earned through demonstrated work, not manufactured through marketing.
  • I believe “everyone goes there” is not evidence of quality. Popularity and expertise are not the same thing.
  • I believe awards only mean something when we understand the scale and quality of the competition. Winning against a small or limited field is not the same as competing successfully on a regional, national, or professional level. Simply calling something a "national" competition does not make it so.
  • I have little interest in competitions designed primarily to hand out trophies. Competition should expose young artists to a larger field, a higher standard, and work that challenges their perception of what excellence looks like.
  • I believe the purpose of competition isn't to make students feel accomplished; it's to discover whether their work holds up beyond the walls of their own school, studio, or community.
  • I believe if someone claims they can prepare you for the professional world, they should be able to demonstrate that they understand that world. "I performed on Broadway." isn't enough. 
  • I believe serious training costs too much—in money, time, and artistic development—to choose blindly.
  • I believe young artists deserve teachers, programs, and opportunities that can withstand scrutiny.
  • I believe that being an actor does not automatically make you a teacher. Those are two completely different disciplines.
  • And I believe the simplest question is often the most important: Show me the evidence.

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  • We believe talent deserves visionary instruction, professional rigor, and uncompromising expectations.
  • We don’t believe in playing it safe—we believe in challenging what arts education can be.
  • We believe exceptional artists are developed through exceptional training.
  • We set the bar higher, dig deeper, and demand more from the work.
  • We measure ourselves not by what other schools are doing, but by the standards of the professional and collegiate worlds our students are preparing to enter.
  • We believe results matter—and ours speak for themselves.
  • We aren’t preparing students for yesterday’s arts education. We’re building what comes next.
  • Utah Arts Academy: the future of arts education in America.
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