KIRSTEN ALMEIDA - Founder/President
Founder
Kirsten received her B.A. in Theater and Speech from Wagner College. For twelve years, Kirsten doubled as a professional fundraiser for large non-profit arts organizations and a performer. Kirsten teaches drama classes at the Civic Theater in Allentown, PA to grades Pre-K through high school and is also the Program Coordinator/Facilitator for "Reading with Cat in the Hat" literacy promotion program where she tours to at-risk communities and performs as the Cat in the Hat. She also leads an acting intensive at Accents Modeling and Talent Center in Bethlehem, PA. Kirsten also offers an audition class to high school students which helps students audition confidently. Her effective teaching style is requested by groups in PA, NJ and NY.
As a professional actress, she is currently scheduled to perform nationally with the Omaha Theater Company in the Fall 2012 through Spring 2013 in 'How I Became a Pirate.' She will be performing at the Allentown Brew Works with the Spotlight Cabaret as well as with Star of the Day Event Production's 'Make it 3' at the Emmaus Community Park Arts Pavilion in the summer of 2012. Past credits include:Muzzy Von Hossmere in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' at Pennsylvania Playhouse, Sister Hubert in 'Nunsense' and Marion Cunningham in 'Happy Days' at the Pines Dinner Theatre. She has performed in 41 of the 50 United States touring with the Omaha Theater Company's production of 'The Little Engine that Could' as the Red Dress Doll. In New York City, Kirsten was part of the cast for the award-winning 'Skin Deep' by Mary Lynn Dobson (Fringe Festival winner 2009) which has won top honors from the 2010 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival and originated the role of Lavender Blue in the eerily funny 'Professor Von Awesome's Traveling Caravan of Cautionary Warnings.' Kirsten appeared in the U.S. premiere of 'Scandalous! A new musical based on the life of D.H. Lawrence' in New Orleans and appeared at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in the World Premiere musical 'The Butterfly Project' which raised money for children's cancer research. Other credits include Children of Eden (Mama Noah), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat(Narrator), Hello Dolly!(Minnie Fay), Beauty and the Beast(Silly Girl & Madame de la Grande Bouche), The Sound of Music(Mother Abbess), Annie(Star-to-Be), Oliver!(Widow Corney), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying(Rosemary), My Fair Lady(Featured Dancer), Promises, Promises!(Featured Dancer), Nunsense I & II(Sister Leo), Gypsy(Tessie Tura), Guys & Dolls(Featured Dancer), Back to the 80s(Debbie Cox), Seussical the Musical(Gertrude), Snoopy!(Sally Brown), Pippin(Featured Dancer), Carousel, Godspell, Little Shop of Horrors(Chiffon), and many more.
In film/tv, Kirsten won acting honors for her role in the silent film 'Stabilized' and 'Threshold' both by Grete Miller. She has appeared in the comedy 'Big Guns' which won an award at the Boca Raton Film Festival, the 2011 Hoboken Film
Festival, and the International Philly Film Festival for 2011 & 2012, 'Three Chris's', and filmed the independent
short 'Westfield' with Clocktower Productions. She has also appeared in two episodes of 'The
World's Most Astonishing News'.
She has also appeared as a guest artist with the Newark Boys Chorus and
Triad Ensemble and the Spotlight Cabaret with Allentown Public
Theater. She was a founding member of the Boonton Parks &
Recreation Theatre Company for young performers
where she not only directed and
choreographed the shows for
the
company but also acted as lead fundraiser, costumer, lighting designer, marketing director as well as scenic and props designer. Kirsten also taught dance for the recreation department to children ages 7-12. Kirsten has also dabbled in play writing for children's theater. Her twisted version of "The Three Little Pigs" (a musical from the Big Bad Wolf's perspective) was produced at Playhouse 22 in East Brunswick, NJ.
Now, Kirsten joins forces with her husband Michael, a business management professional, and some of the industry's very best to create STAR OF THE DAY EVENT PRODUCTIONS, a lifelong dream of hers.
As a professional actress, she is currently scheduled to perform nationally with the Omaha Theater Company in the Fall 2012 through Spring 2013 in 'How I Became a Pirate.' She will be performing at the Allentown Brew Works with the Spotlight Cabaret as well as with Star of the Day Event Production's 'Make it 3' at the Emmaus Community Park Arts Pavilion in the summer of 2012. Past credits include:Muzzy Von Hossmere in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' at Pennsylvania Playhouse, Sister Hubert in 'Nunsense' and Marion Cunningham in 'Happy Days' at the Pines Dinner Theatre. She has performed in 41 of the 50 United States touring with the Omaha Theater Company's production of 'The Little Engine that Could' as the Red Dress Doll. In New York City, Kirsten was part of the cast for the award-winning 'Skin Deep' by Mary Lynn Dobson (Fringe Festival winner 2009) which has won top honors from the 2010 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival and originated the role of Lavender Blue in the eerily funny 'Professor Von Awesome's Traveling Caravan of Cautionary Warnings.' Kirsten appeared in the U.S. premiere of 'Scandalous! A new musical based on the life of D.H. Lawrence' in New Orleans and appeared at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in the World Premiere musical 'The Butterfly Project' which raised money for children's cancer research. Other credits include Children of Eden (Mama Noah), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat(Narrator), Hello Dolly!(Minnie Fay), Beauty and the Beast(Silly Girl & Madame de la Grande Bouche), The Sound of Music(Mother Abbess), Annie(Star-to-Be), Oliver!(Widow Corney), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying(Rosemary), My Fair Lady(Featured Dancer), Promises, Promises!(Featured Dancer), Nunsense I & II(Sister Leo), Gypsy(Tessie Tura), Guys & Dolls(Featured Dancer), Back to the 80s(Debbie Cox), Seussical the Musical(Gertrude), Snoopy!(Sally Brown), Pippin(Featured Dancer), Carousel, Godspell, Little Shop of Horrors(Chiffon), and many more.
In film/tv, Kirsten won acting honors for her role in the silent film 'Stabilized' and 'Threshold' both by Grete Miller. She has appeared in the comedy 'Big Guns' which won an award at the Boca Raton Film Festival, the 2011 Hoboken Film
Festival, and the International Philly Film Festival for 2011 & 2012, 'Three Chris's', and filmed the independent
short 'Westfield' with Clocktower Productions. She has also appeared in two episodes of 'The
World's Most Astonishing News'.
She has also appeared as a guest artist with the Newark Boys Chorus and
Triad Ensemble and the Spotlight Cabaret with Allentown Public
Theater. She was a founding member of the Boonton Parks &
Recreation Theatre Company for young performers
where she not only directed and
choreographed the shows for
the
company but also acted as lead fundraiser, costumer, lighting designer, marketing director as well as scenic and props designer. Kirsten also taught dance for the recreation department to children ages 7-12. Kirsten has also dabbled in play writing for children's theater. Her twisted version of "The Three Little Pigs" (a musical from the Big Bad Wolf's perspective) was produced at Playhouse 22 in East Brunswick, NJ.
Now, Kirsten joins forces with her husband Michael, a business management professional, and some of the industry's very best to create STAR OF THE DAY EVENT PRODUCTIONS, a lifelong dream of hers.
