Meet Some of our Amazing Alumni and Past Faculty!
Bailey Cruce, Dance and Performance Teacher
Bailey has been performing all styles of dance since the age of 5. She is a former student and current teacher at Kids Unlimited. You may have seen her in productions of Anything Goes, Charlotte's Web, Treasure Island, and Curtains at Pima Community College. Bailey has choreographed musicals such as Footloose, Into the Woods, Hello Dolly, and Urinetown for Marana High School and is still involved with the program. She has also been an assistant choreographer to Mickie Nugent for the musical Curtains. She hopes to continue her musical education finishing at Pima then going on to the U of A.
Bailey has been performing all styles of dance since the age of 5. She is a former student and current teacher at Kids Unlimited. You may have seen her in productions of Anything Goes, Charlotte's Web, Treasure Island, and Curtains at Pima Community College. Bailey has choreographed musicals such as Footloose, Into the Woods, Hello Dolly, and Urinetown for Marana High School and is still involved with the program. She has also been an assistant choreographer to Mickie Nugent for the musical Curtains. She hopes to continue her musical education finishing at Pima then going on to the U of A.
Brittany Mazur, Choreographer and Costume Designer
Brittany has been performing since the age of 7. With a dance background of 14 years, and a vocal backgorund of 12 years, she is a former member and current teacher and receptionist for Kids Unlimited.
Brittany had held such titles as Arizona Cinderella Miss, International Cinderella Teen, Miss Arizona's Outstanding Teen as well as Miss Tucson Valley and was in the running for Miss Arizona. Brittany has previously worked as an entertainer with Royal Caribbean Productions touring both the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
David McMahan, Dance Teacher
David is a graduate of the dance programs at Orange Coast College, where he studied on scholarship under mentor Linda Sohl-Ellison, and the University of Arizona. He has performed works by prominent choreographers including Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, and Douglas Nielsen. David has performed with Marie de la Palme's motion/TRIBE, Backhausdance, Opera Pacific, Disneyland Entertainment, and the American Ballet Theatre. David's choreographic work has received several awards, including twice receiving the Josiah Dahlin Dance Creativity Award and James Nicholas Plumb Memorial Award in Choreography for his work with Orange Coast College. David has taught for many years throughout Southern California including courses at California State University, Long Beach and the University of Arizona. He has also performed and taught as an international guest artist in Yokohama and Sapporo, Japan. A graduate of the Fletcher Pilates Comprehensive Program of Study, David has studied under Kyria Sabin and Deborah Mendoza. He was honored to be a presenter at the inaugural International Fletcher Pilates Conference in 2011 and has been featured with Kyria Sabin in Pilates Style Magazine. - www.mcmahandance.com -
David is a graduate of the dance programs at Orange Coast College, where he studied on scholarship under mentor Linda Sohl-Ellison, and the University of Arizona. He has performed works by prominent choreographers including Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, and Douglas Nielsen. David has performed with Marie de la Palme's motion/TRIBE, Backhausdance, Opera Pacific, Disneyland Entertainment, and the American Ballet Theatre. David's choreographic work has received several awards, including twice receiving the Josiah Dahlin Dance Creativity Award and James Nicholas Plumb Memorial Award in Choreography for his work with Orange Coast College. David has taught for many years throughout Southern California including courses at California State University, Long Beach and the University of Arizona. He has also performed and taught as an international guest artist in Yokohama and Sapporo, Japan. A graduate of the Fletcher Pilates Comprehensive Program of Study, David has studied under Kyria Sabin and Deborah Mendoza. He was honored to be a presenter at the inaugural International Fletcher Pilates Conference in 2011 and has been featured with Kyria Sabin in Pilates Style Magazine. - www.mcmahandance.com -
KU Alumni
Katherine Byrnes is an award-winning vocalist, educator and concert producer based in Tucson, AZ. She is the sell-out headliner of "Tapestry: The Album", a show honoring Carole King's landmark album and "Piece Of My Heart", her tribute to Janis Joplin. She toured China as the featured vocalist for Art.if.act Dance Project's "Great American Dance Tour", and all across Europe and the US as a harmony singer in Blue Note recording artist Amos Lee's band. She has sung with acts as diverse as the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Arizona legends Calexico, and cumbia sensation Orkesta Mendoza, She also co-leads the band Sweet Ghosts with her partner Ryan Alfred.
Raised in the Sonoran Desert, Katherine is a proud member of the eclectic Tucson arts community, both onstage and behind the scenes. She is the co-director and choreographer of The Gaslight Theatre, and assistant director of the Pastime Players, a program that helps children with special abilities build confidence through singing, acting, and dancing. She is also the designer and director of The Gaslight Theatre's summer musical theater camp for kids.
Katherine Byrnes is an award-winning vocalist, educator and concert producer based in Tucson, AZ. She is the sell-out headliner of "Tapestry: The Album", a show honoring Carole King's landmark album and "Piece Of My Heart", her tribute to Janis Joplin. She toured China as the featured vocalist for Art.if.act Dance Project's "Great American Dance Tour", and all across Europe and the US as a harmony singer in Blue Note recording artist Amos Lee's band. She has sung with acts as diverse as the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Arizona legends Calexico, and cumbia sensation Orkesta Mendoza, She also co-leads the band Sweet Ghosts with her partner Ryan Alfred.
Raised in the Sonoran Desert, Katherine is a proud member of the eclectic Tucson arts community, both onstage and behind the scenes. She is the co-director and choreographer of The Gaslight Theatre, and assistant director of the Pastime Players, a program that helps children with special abilities build confidence through singing, acting, and dancing. She is also the designer and director of The Gaslight Theatre's summer musical theater camp for kids.
KU Alumni
Josh Lamoreaux
Josh graduated in 2003 from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Musical Theatre. He has worked as a pianist and music director at the Butte Opera House in Cripple Creek, Colorado, Arizona Onstage Productions here in Tucson and currently works as a pianist at Gaslight Theater. He has also taught and produced music for Kids Unlimited here in Tucson for over 20 years.
Josh currently has 2 daughters currently in the KU Program
Josh Lamoreaux
Josh graduated in 2003 from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Musical Theatre. He has worked as a pianist and music director at the Butte Opera House in Cripple Creek, Colorado, Arizona Onstage Productions here in Tucson and currently works as a pianist at Gaslight Theater. He has also taught and produced music for Kids Unlimited here in Tucson for over 20 years.
Josh currently has 2 daughters currently in the KU Program
KU Alumni
Drew Humphrey
After growing up in Tucson and performing here as a child, Drew graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Dance. He then spent the next 20 years in New York City directing, choreographing, performing, and educating. He has worked on Broadway, National Tours, Off-Broadway, regionally, and at concert venues all across the country. Involved with everything from developing brand new works to large budgeted commercial projects he is now thrilled to bring his expertise back to the desert to contribute to the vibrant artistic community that first inspired him toward theatre arts in the first place. Favorite highlights of his career include: Original Broadway cast of Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Cast Recording), sharing the stage with Tommy Tune in Encore's Lady Be Good (Cast Recording), performing on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and directing and choreographing productions of Disney's Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line, Singin' in the Rain, Oklahoma, and Gypsy. Drew’s educational experience includes guest teaching, master classes, and guest directing and choreographing at high schools and universities. He is also a regular contributor for Variety: The Children's Charity of St. Louis, where he helped create and continues to direct an inclusive summer theatre camp for children of all abilities. Of all pursuits, bringing inclusive arts educational opportunities to the community is a central focus for Drew and Saguaro City Music Theatre.
Drew Humphrey
After growing up in Tucson and performing here as a child, Drew graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Dance. He then spent the next 20 years in New York City directing, choreographing, performing, and educating. He has worked on Broadway, National Tours, Off-Broadway, regionally, and at concert venues all across the country. Involved with everything from developing brand new works to large budgeted commercial projects he is now thrilled to bring his expertise back to the desert to contribute to the vibrant artistic community that first inspired him toward theatre arts in the first place. Favorite highlights of his career include: Original Broadway cast of Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Cast Recording), sharing the stage with Tommy Tune in Encore's Lady Be Good (Cast Recording), performing on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and directing and choreographing productions of Disney's Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line, Singin' in the Rain, Oklahoma, and Gypsy. Drew’s educational experience includes guest teaching, master classes, and guest directing and choreographing at high schools and universities. He is also a regular contributor for Variety: The Children's Charity of St. Louis, where he helped create and continues to direct an inclusive summer theatre camp for children of all abilities. Of all pursuits, bringing inclusive arts educational opportunities to the community is a central focus for Drew and Saguaro City Music Theatre.
KU Alumni
Tora Woloshin
Tora is a SAG/AFTRA singer/songwriter, dancer actress and model. She began performing at the age of 4. She released her first ep at 10 then another that she wrote and produced at the age of 13. America saw Tora on The X Factor USA, where she was mentored by Simon Cowell.
Tora signed with Fli Life Music shortly after, and moved to Miami for a year. She has opened for Flo Rida, Ne-Yo, Method Man and more. After a month long US tour with B.O.B., she was choreographing and headlining her own tour in China. Tora has also represented and modeled for: Puma, Nike, Fingers de Freedom, Splat hairdye, music videos and more.
Currently working on several different projects, Woloshin Is genre-bending and looking for more performance opportunities to expose the new sound. While developing an umbrella of nonprofit organizations geared towards rescuing animals, children and self sustaining farming called REV Motion. The first developed organization under this umbrella is called Project Sanctuary Rescue Mission.
Tora Woloshin
Tora is a SAG/AFTRA singer/songwriter, dancer actress and model. She began performing at the age of 4. She released her first ep at 10 then another that she wrote and produced at the age of 13. America saw Tora on The X Factor USA, where she was mentored by Simon Cowell.
Tora signed with Fli Life Music shortly after, and moved to Miami for a year. She has opened for Flo Rida, Ne-Yo, Method Man and more. After a month long US tour with B.O.B., she was choreographing and headlining her own tour in China. Tora has also represented and modeled for: Puma, Nike, Fingers de Freedom, Splat hairdye, music videos and more.
Currently working on several different projects, Woloshin Is genre-bending and looking for more performance opportunities to expose the new sound. While developing an umbrella of nonprofit organizations geared towards rescuing animals, children and self sustaining farming called REV Motion. The first developed organization under this umbrella is called Project Sanctuary Rescue Mission.
KU Alumni
Josh Lederman
Josh Lederman is an award-winning foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London. He reports from around the world and appears regularly on NBC Nightly News, TODAY, MSNBC, NBC News Now and other platforms.
In 2022, Lederman traveled throughout Ukraine covering Russia’s war. In 2021, he reported live from the U.S. Capitol throughout the January 6 attacks, winning an Emmy Award with his NBC colleagues for outstanding live breaking news coverage. In 2015, Lederman won the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline pressure.
A White House reporter during the Biden, Trump and Obama administrations, Lederman was also NBC’s lead reporter covering the Mike Bloomberg and Pete Buttigieg presidential campaigns in 2020.
Lederman has also been an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he taught undergraduate and graduate seminars in covering politics and the presidency.
Previously, Lederman was a White House reporter for The Associated Press and traveled with President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden to more than 20 countries. He also covered foreign affairs and national security based at the State Department.
A native of Tucson, Ariz., Lederman started his journalism career in the AP’s Jerusalem bureau, and later covered Gov. Chris Christie for the AP in New Jersey. In 2011-2012, Lederman covered presidential, House and Senate campaigns for The Hill newspaper.
He has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from The George Washington University. Before becoming a journalist, he was an actor and singer in New York City.
Josh Lederman
Josh Lederman is an award-winning foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London. He reports from around the world and appears regularly on NBC Nightly News, TODAY, MSNBC, NBC News Now and other platforms.
In 2022, Lederman traveled throughout Ukraine covering Russia’s war. In 2021, he reported live from the U.S. Capitol throughout the January 6 attacks, winning an Emmy Award with his NBC colleagues for outstanding live breaking news coverage. In 2015, Lederman won the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline pressure.
A White House reporter during the Biden, Trump and Obama administrations, Lederman was also NBC’s lead reporter covering the Mike Bloomberg and Pete Buttigieg presidential campaigns in 2020.
Lederman has also been an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he taught undergraduate and graduate seminars in covering politics and the presidency.
Previously, Lederman was a White House reporter for The Associated Press and traveled with President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden to more than 20 countries. He also covered foreign affairs and national security based at the State Department.
A native of Tucson, Ariz., Lederman started his journalism career in the AP’s Jerusalem bureau, and later covered Gov. Chris Christie for the AP in New Jersey. In 2011-2012, Lederman covered presidential, House and Senate campaigns for The Hill newspaper.
He has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from The George Washington University. Before becoming a journalist, he was an actor and singer in New York City.
