Katie Mills is a performer, creator, and educator from Toronto. She holds a Honors Bachelor in Musical Theatre Performance from Sheridan College, at which she received the Award for Writing for Stage, and is currently pursuing a MA in Vocal Pedagogy. She is passionate about teaching and creating a safe and inspiring environment for people of all ages to learn about theatre, music, art, and their own voice.

Katie has over 10 years of experience teaching in the arts and has worked with various organisations such as Broadway Arts Centre, Sistema Toronto, No Strings Theatre, Dixon Hall Music School and The Railpath Arts Centre. She is a multi-disciplinary educator with experience in:

Voice: Classical, Pop, Belt, Contemporary Musical Theatre, Golden Age Musical Theatre, Audition prep

Acting: Improv, Scene Work, Monologues, Audition Prep, Acting for Screen, Acting Through Song

More: Music Theory, Ear Training, Chord Theory, Composition, Lyric Writing, Playwriting, Conducting, Choral Work

As well as being a performer, and teacher, Katie works as a director, MD, and Choreographer in the city, having worked with students in Kindergarten to professional performers.

She also works as a composer, lyricist and writer, having had many of their pieces performed by various artists, including workshops of The Snow Queen, two productions of her original musical The Storyteller, and a workshop performance of Skylark.

Selected credits are as follows: Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro (OBR/NST), Mercedes Carmen (OBR/NST), Sawyer The Storyteller (NST), Bellman The Hunting of the Snark (TYT Theatre), Sir Toby Twelfth Night (Theatre Sheridan)

Available for scheduled weekly lessons and occasional lessons.

Joanna's passion is music and singing. Trained formally in voice, piano, and oboe throughout her younger years, and a graduate of Humber College’s Music Composition graduate certificate program, Joanna has sung in (and lead) various choirs, performed with the New Westminster Musical Theatre Guild, taught Musical Theatre, piano, and voice, and composes from the studio in Toronto, Ontario. From 1998 to 2018, she was the director of the Roncesvalles Gospel Choir and has written and directed many original children's musicals at Roncesvalles United Church. From 2012 to 2017, she was the music director and vocal instructor at Broadway Arts Centre in Toronto, and recently started music directing in small professional musical theatre productions (Hamilton Fringe, No Strings Theatre Company) in the GTA. Joanna is an award-winning songwriter (Songdoor, Song of the Year, ISSA, GIA Sacred Music Competition) and arranger and her works have been performed by choirs and ensembles all over the world. Her music is available at Sheet Music Plus, Sheet Music Direct, J.W. Pepper with select packages available at www.joannamills.ca

Available for occasional lessons.