KENNY SHEPARD AEA, SDC, AAUP
Kenny is an on-camera choreographer for Broadway Jr., the Disney KIDS Collection, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Publishing and Perfect Harmony for The Great American Songbook Foundation seen worldwide.
Kenny was recently named Broadway World's Regional Best Choreographer for his work on The Rocky Horror Show and is an award-winning director (Arizona Theatre Award of Excellence: Swing!) and an Encore award-winning choreographer (Chicago and White Christmas).
Kenny is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Theatre and Dance Departments at Ball State University where he was named an "Official Indiana Goodwill Ambassador" by their University Singers. He also taught for 16 years at Butler University, ranked nationally for its ballet program, and has students with careers including Broadway, National Tours, Disney, ballet and modern dance companies and credits including America's Got Talent, World of Dance, and So You Think You Can Dance. Kenny is a frequent adjudicator for the National Jr. Theatre Festivals, show choir competitions, Miss America Organization scholarship competitions, and the NFL Colts Cheerleaders.
Onstage, Kenny played Off-Broadway in Mercedes Ellington's swing show, This Joint is Jumpin' at the legendary Edison Ballroom. He's also performed in over 100 regional theatre productions including A Chorus Line (Mark); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Narrator); Cabaret (Victor/Two Ladies); CATS (Munkustrap); Hello, Dolly! (Ambrose); La Cage Aux Folles (Hanna); Virginia Opera's Oklahoma! (dream ballet); Some Enchanted Evening (Will); West Side Story (Action); The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow) and over 1,500 performances in Disney World/Hollywood Studios' Beauty and the Beast in multiple tracks including Belle's Prince.
Kenny was a dancer/singer in Las Vegas' Legends in Concert at Bally's Park Place in Atlantic City, and the 4,000-seat Grand Palace in Branson, Missouri and performed aboard NCL and RCL world cruise ships touring the Americas, Africa, Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. Kenny appeared with The Indianapolis and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras' in On Broadway with Kander and Ebb, starring Broadway Phantom, Ted Keegan and Tony-winner, Beth Leavel, and choreographed and performed in Michael Feinstein's All Together Now!.
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CAROL and KENNY
produce, direct, and choreograph theatrical projects ranging from their intimate ESQUE Burlesque to concert tours to elaborate opening ceremonies, benefits, and musical theatre projects starring award-winning artists as well as American Idol stars, Olympians and superstar athletes.
Together they've line-produced and cast tours, film projects and live events including the Kennedy Center's Family Theatre Gala starring Tony-winner Kristin Chenoweth. In New York, Kenny wrote and line produced Both Sides Now/The Twin Towers Benefit, starring Emmy-winner, David Canary; Ballet to Broadway/AEA Fights AIDS starring Tony-winner, Geoffrey Holder and Obie-winner, Carmen de Lavallade and The Michael (Landon) Awards for Fashion honoring Tyra Banks and starring Oscar-winner, Liza Minnelli and Emmy-winner, Mary Tyler Moore.
On an epic scale, Carol directed and choreographed the Opening Ceremonies for Special Olympics starring Super Bowl MVP, Peyton Manning; The World Police and Fire Games starring AMC, CMA and Grammy-winner, Steve Wariner, The World Gymnastic's Cup starring Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton; The World Premier of Le Voyage starring Dove Award-winner, Sandi Patty; Rock and Roar with Indy 500-winner Will Power; and NBC's opening for The Circle of Lights.
Favorite collaborations are as co-directors and choreographers for musical theatre titles including Swing! for Little Theatre on the Square, Broadway Palm, Arizona's Broadway Palm West, American Cabaret Theatre and The Dutch Apple, as well as Victor/Victoria and The Full Monty for American Cabaret Theatre and Annie Get Your Gun for BobDirex.
The team has also collaborated with the Boze Lyric Theatre, The Carmel Symphony Orchestra, IndyFringe, J'Born Galleries, Radio Disney, Red Boat Productions and more.
With Actors Theatre of Indiana, Carol and Kenny co-directed and choreographed the theatre's top selling show, I Love a Piano and have worked together as choreographer (Carol) and dance captain (Kenny) for ATI's inaugural Chicago, as well as Cabaret, 9 to 5, and La Cage aux Folles. For the Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis, the two collaborated again on for their top-selling Bright Star.
Their original shows include the best-attended IndyFringe shows: 465 Sex Drive and Lashes Off as well as the record-breaking Disco Nights and Heartbreak Hotel at The Athenaeum, and ESQUE Burlesque, currently in rotation at Feinstein's at Hotel Carmichael in Carmel, Indiana.
CAROL WORCEL
was a resident director and choreographer for Norwegian Cruise Lines with Jean Ann Ryan Productions as well as a featured dancer and swing aboard their fleet. Nationally, Carol's was lead dancer/Peggy u/s in David Merrick's National Broadway Tour of 42nd Street and Virtue in Lincoln Center's National Broadway Tour of Anything Goes starring Leslie Uggams. Carol also worked for the NBA as a dancer and later director and choreographer for the Indiana Pacer's Pacemates.
Carol is Resident Choreographer for Actor's Theatre of Indiana at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. With ATI, Carol directed and choreographed A Grand Night for Singing, Beehive, and Gypsy, and choreographed Cole, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Godspell, It Shoulda Been You, 9 to 5, Route 66, Ruthless, She Loves Me, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Violet, Working, and Young Frankenstein.
Carol's other performance credits include A Chorus Line (Cassie and Val); Annie (Lilly St. Regis); Hairspray (Velma Von Tussle); Cabaret (Texas); Godspell (Player); Gypsy (Electra); Swing! (Principal Singer); Chicago (Go-to-Hell-Kitty); and Ziegfeld: A Night at the Follies (Mitzi). Carol also performed as a featured singer/dancer in Yuletide Celebration with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and with The King's Six USO Show touring Europe with the Department of Defense.
Locally, Carol teaches master classes for the Carmel Center for Performing Arts' Dance Discovery Series at the Palladium. Nationally, she is an adjudicator, educator and choreographer for iTheatrics.
