"I've been working with Kimberly Vaughn for the past six years. We met while I was a student at Circle in the Square's Summer Musical Theatre Intensive. Since working together, my career has truly taken off. I began our work together in my final year as a musical theatre grad student, continued it while navigating the beginnings of a non-equity performance career in New York, and am now a proud member of Actor's Equity, working consistently in regional theatres across the country. She truly knows and understands me as a person and an artist. She also will not let you get away with anything less than your best. Now, our coaching sessions feel more like a dialogue, and hearing her perspective as my 'outside eye', helping me redirect my own instincts into something more tactile and tangible. She's helped me not only suss out the story for most of the songs in my book, but she's also coached me on sides for callbacks, helped me choose headshots, navigate relationships with casting directors, and even helped me pick out my 'audition wardrobe'. Her ideas about the 'limiting editor' have transcended the classroom and have helped me redefine how I speak to myself not only in the audition room, but in my every day life. And as a teacher myself, I find myself telling at least one student every day what Kimberly would say about this inner critic and how to remove it's negative presence from your work and your life. Kimberly always greets me with a welcoming smile, and I feel safe to be me, to make mistakes, to tell the truth, and to above all, to play. She creates a professional, orderly environment in which one can find the truth in their work and have fun finding it! I would recommend working with her to anyone wanting to up their actor game."

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​--Jenna Pastuszek

Diner - Delaware Theatre Company;
Evita - Broward Stage Door Theatre

(Best Actress Carbonell Award Nominee);

Side Show - The Media Theatre;

Voice Faculty at

The University of the Arts