CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, & SEMINARS
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Feb. 23, 2026 | 6:00 - 8:30 pm | Ripley Grier Studios 520
Join us for a Mock Audition Masterclass with Logan Epstein (Chess Broadway Assist. Choreo., High Spirits Assoc. Choreo.) and Chad Murnane, CSA (Murnane Casting) to receive advice, learn what happens behind the table, and take the time to coach your dance audition. Dancers will have the chance to dance and receive direct feedback, and then have the space for a Q&A at the end of the class.
Please bring a copy of your headshot & resume.
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Logan Epstein is a New York-based performer and choreographer. She began her training at Westchester Dance Academy, where at a very young age she was exposed to some of the top choreographers in the industry. She grew up dancing and competing throughout the country and is trained in all styles. She then went on to attend Pace University where she earned a BFA in Commercial Dance. While in college, she toured with and taught at national conventions and began assisting choreographers in Los Angeles and New York City.
As a performer, Logan has appeared in commercials, industrials, live performances, and regional theater productions. She is a performer at her core, but her heart lies in creating new musicals, storytelling, and educating. She has assisted top choreographers in all avenues of the industry including theater (High Spirits at City Center, Chess on Broadway, Anne of Green Gables workshop, I Can Get it for You Wholesale Off-Broadway debut, A Walk on the Moon at George Street Playhouse, Rent at Theatre Aspen, Fiddler on the Roof in Concert, On Your Feet at Westchester Broadway Theatre, Elf on the Shelf the National Tour), feature film (Your Monster), and television (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon). She also had the opportunity to choreograph the opening celebration gala for the Broadway production of Once Upon a One More Time. She was recently the Associate Choreographer of Empire Records, and made her Off-Broadway Assistant Directorial debut in The Lonely Few at MCC Theatre.
Chad Eric Murnane, CSA is a New York-based casting director and the founder of Murnane Casting. Before launching his office, he built his career at Binder Casting and Lisa Fields Casting.
His casting process centers on collaboration and discovery, fostering a kind, relaxed audition room. He approaches casting as an artist with a producer’s mind. He cares deeply about the art form and its artists, and his casting reflects curiosity, range, and a commitment to looking beyond the obvious.
Selected credits include national/international tours of Mrs. Doubtfire, Dear Evan Hansen, Tina, Kinky Boots, The Sound of Music, Lincoln Center Theater’s My Fair Lady, and the Tony Award-winning revival of The Color Purple; Anne of Green Gables (Goodspeed), Into the Woods (Hollywood Bowl), Emojiland (off-Broadway); as well as films of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Paramount) and the Friday the 13th reboot produced by Michael Bay.
Chad earned a B.S. in Media Studies with a focus in Entertainment Entrepreneurship from The New School and an M.A. in Arts Administration from Baruch College, and is also a CAP21 Conservatory graduate. He is a member of the Casting Society of America, and his work in theatre has been recognized with three Artios Award nominations. He’s lived in New York since 2009 and calls Washington Heights home with his husband and their terrier.
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April 3, 2026 | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm | Ripley Grier Studios 520
Join us for a Mock Audition Masterclass with Emmy Award Winning Choreographer, Karla Puno Garcia to receive advice, learn what happens behind the table, and take the time to coach your dance audition. Dancers will have the chance to dance and receive direct feedback and dance twice.
Please bring a copy of your headshot & resume.
KARLA PUNO GARCIA received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming for her work in the 76th Annual Tony Awards Opening Number and Lifetime Achievement Tribute. She was the first woman of color to choreograph the event in a year where there was no script and only dance and music opened the show. She was recently one of Dance Magazine's 2024 "25 to Watch." As a proud Filipina-American artist, Karla emphasizes musicality as a story-telling device and unapologetic individuality to create worlds and bring characters to life.
Karla co-choreographed the Broadway show Days of Wine and Roses, starring Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'arcy James; and the Off-Broadway show The Connector at MCC Theatre composed by Jason Robert Brown. She was the lead choreographer for Starz's Power Book III: Raising Kanaan season 3, and her work is seen in the Netflix film Tick, Tick ... BOOM! directed by Lin Manuel Miranda (additional scenes). Last year, Karla choreographed the World Premiere of Darko Tresnjak’s Ask For The Moon at Goodspeed Musicals and worked in Tokyo, Japan choreographing Tick Tick… Boom! Other choreography credits include Romy and Michele the Musical (Stage 42 NYC), Senior Class (Olney Theatre) Noir (The Alley Theatre), Rent (Theatre Aspen), Gone Missing (Encores! Off-Center), Somewhere (Geva Theatre), Other World (Delaware Theatre Company), One Thousand Nights and A Day (Prospect Theatre), and In the Heights (VA Rep, Artsie Award for Best Choreography). She’s also created live event work for Smuggler, Boot Barn, La Liga, Univision, the New York Knicks and more.
Karla began her training in a suburb of Maryland outside of DC under Fran Peters. She also performed Traditional Filipino Dancing with the Pilipino American Cultural Arts Society. Her first professional job was Debbie Allen’s BROTHERS OF THE KNIGHT at the Kennedy Center. She received her BFA in Dance and minor in journalism from NYU’s Tisch School, where she worked closely with Kyle Abraham and Bridget Moore. She then went on to perform in the National Tours Wicked and Addams Family, FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance, NBC’s Smash, Better Nate Than Ever, Annie Live!, and Broadway shows West Side Story, Hot Feet, Gigi, and Hamilton. She created numerous works for Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. In 2016 she directed and choreographed the first-place-winning piece representing Hamilton entitled “America,” and in 2019 she choreographed the show stopping "Lot of Livin' To Do" for Broadway Backwards starring Ariana Debose.
Her self-produced/directed short films The Spot, They Wake, and Bustin' Loose have been selected for several dance film festivals including San Francisco Dance Film Fest, LA Dance Film Fest, and DC Dance Film Fest. She is on faculty at Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway, and has taught workshops all around the world.
This Spring, she will be directing A Chorus Line in Manila, Philippines (Theatre Group Asia).
