Kimberly Waynelovich (owner/dance)

Kimberly started dancing at the age of two and began competing at the age of four. She has trained in various styles of dance including: tap, jazz, ballet, lyrical, pointe, acrobatics, musical theater. Her most prestigious accomplishments include: winning the Junior World Tap championships in Slovenia in 2000, winning the Senior World Tap championships in Germany in 2002, and placing in the top 15 soloists at a national competition in Boston.

After many years of competition, Kimberly found her true love; performing. Since the age of 16, Kimberly has been choreographing and performing in various shows for Ja’Duke Productions including: Footloose, The Frank Sinatra Show, Crazy for You, 42nd Street, Chicago, Peter Pan, Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, AIDA and The Cave of Fish. She also has choreographed for the Mohawk Select Chorus and for the Turners Falls High School musicals. Most recently, Kimberly traveled to Smithfield, Rhode Island to choreograph for the Bryant College Dance Team.

Kimberly wished to share her love of performing, choreographing, and teaching with more children, so in the summer of 2004 she opened the Ja’Duke Center for the Performing Arts with her sister and father. Kim currently teaches various dance classes at JCPA and loves every minute of it. For her, the studio is a place where dreams come to life. She is pleased everyday to be able to share her love of the performing arts with others and hopes to do so for the rest of her life.


Lisa McCarthy (Waynelovich) (owner/dance)

Lisa has been dancing since the age of three and has been trained in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, and hip-hop. She has competed, choreographed and performed with numerous groups throughout New England. Her choreography credits include work for Ja'Duke Productions, Bryant College and Turners Falls High School. Lisa has also performed vocally with Ja'Duke Productions for the last few years. Among her favorite productions are Footloose, Chicago and Crazy for You.

Although dance is her first love and life-long passion, her career lies in accounting. Lisa graduated magna cum laude from Bryant College with a double major in Accounting and Computer Information Systems. She holds an MS in accounting from the University of Connecticut and is a practicing CPA. As a co-owner of the JCPA, Lisa is responsible for all things business - feel free to ask questions at any time! Lisa welcomes the opportunity to teach students of all ages about the joys of performing arts and the life-long place they can hold in your heart. This is just the beginning of an exciting journey with the JCPA!



Judith Dean Kulp (voice)

Judith is a graduate of Smith College where she majored in voice. She has taught elementary, middle school and high school choruses and classroom music, but she has especially enjoyed the time she spent singing with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, a professional twenty- voice chamber music ensemble based in New Mexico.

Judith has also been seen on stage in Ja’Duke Production’s Man of La Mancha, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Sound of Music, Nunsense, Crosswinds, Kiss Me Kate, Peter Pan, Footloose, 42nd Street, A Christmas Carol, and The Frank Sinatra Show.

Judith sings with The Ja’Duke Singers, The Shea Swing Orchestra, and The King Phillip Dixieland Band, but her first love is teaching young performers to sing with confidence and style both with the JCPA’s Triple Threat Workshop and with the Children’s Chorus and the Ja’Duke Chorus at the Ja’Duke Center for the Performing Arts.




Marissa Sicley (acting)

Marissa has performed in several past Ja’Duke productions, including Smokey Joe’s Cafe, 42nd Street, AIDA and The Cave of Fish. She loves to perform Shakespeare with Hampshire Shakespeare Company and was last seen in their production of Hamlet. She also performs Shakespeare with the Shoestring Players and will play the role Celia in their production of As You Like It taking place in the fall. She currently teaches acting at JCPA and will attend Mount Holyoke College in January 2006 where she will major in Psychology. She would like to thank her mother for all her support, patience, and love.