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Creative Team

Meet the Creative Team!

Katie Perry - Director

Katie Perry is a professional actress, singer, teacher, director, and choreographer and is excited to be joining the team, directing for Yorba Linda Spotlight! She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from the University of Oklahoma, and is an Orange County School of the Arts alum. A few of her recent performing credits include: Inga in Young Frankenstein (San Gabriel Valley MT), Katherine u/s in Newsies (La Mirada/McCoy Rigby), Nurse Cora McRae in South Pacific (La Mirada/McCoy Rigby), Beth in Little Women (CCAE Theatricals), Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance (Shakespeare OC), Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has appeared in several concerts at 54 Below and Birdland in New York City, including: Bartram and Hill’s new musical, The Theory of Relativity and with Susan Egan in her concert, The Belle of Broadway. Katie teaches and directs for the Musical Theatre and Integrated Arts Conservatories at Orange County School of the Arts. For more: www.katieperry.net or @katieaperry

Annie Pfost - Musical Director

Annie Pfost started performing at a very young age and realized her love of music and singing when she was 10 years old. She competed as a classical vocalist throughout her high school career, as well as participating in several choirs and musical productions, including a performance at the famed Carnegie Hall in New York City. She studied Commercial Voice at Belmont University, in Nashville, Tennessee, which is one of the oldest and well-respected programs of its kind in the country. At Belmont, she studied both classical and contemporary voice, piano, music theory, music history, and participated in multiple student performance groups. Her studies took her to Rome for a summer, to further explore the origin of music history and theory. Annie has spent the last two years at YLS helping her private students book their dream roles and gain admittance into prestigious performing arts schools while teaching classes like Improv, Introductory Music Theory, and Advanced Musical Theater Workshops. Annie can’t wait to help your students achieve their goals both in and out of the studio!

Cristen Skoglund - Choreographer

Cristen Skoglund grew up in Orange County, CA dancing at The Dance Spot. She attended The Orange County School of the Arts as a Commercial dancer and had the opportunity to train under a variety of professional dancers and master choreographers. While working towards her degree in psychology at the University of San Diego she founded, directed and choreographed for IMPACT Dance Company. Cristen grew up competing on a national level and had many performance opportunities including the 1993 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Michael Jackson as well as assisting in the 1998 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Queen Latifah and Boyz II Men. More recently she has performed in Arizona, San Francisco, Houston and Minneapolis as team member of the Super Bowl Pep Squad. She attended the world renowned Body Arts and Science Teacher Training Certification Program in Newport Beach, CA where she received her pilates certification. Currently, Cristen has returned to OCSA teaching Jazz and Musical Theatre Dance during the academic day, as well teaching Ballet for the International Dance Conservatory and Tap for Integrated Arts Conservatory. Last winter she joined the Yorba Linda Spotlight creative team as the choreographer for their production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.

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