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Anita Endsley

Anita has been teaching voice for nineteen years with voice faculty positions at Valencia College, the University of Central Florida and her private studio. At Valencia she specializes in preparing students for auditioning and entrance into Musical Theatre BFA programs. She is the author of, Inside the BFA Theatre and Dance Degrees and the Audition and Interview Requirements as well as Performing Arts Rubric and Program Templates. She lectures nationally on “Inside the BFA” to high school and community college teachers and students.
Anita Endsley is a twenty-nine-year veteran performer of professional musical theatre, opera, and television. She has performed on regional stages across the country. Anita worked three years with the Atlanta Opera during which she appeared in Tosca, The Merry Widow, Madame Butterfly and La Traviata. She also worked as a concert vocal soloist performing major works; her favorites being Faure’s Requiem and Handel’s Messiah. Her theatre credits include, Praskovia in The Merry Widow, Solange in Follies, the Queen in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and one of Jerry’s Girls (all at Seaside Music Theater). She was also Miss Perssimon in Mary Poppins (Casa Manana), A featured soloist in The Amen Corner (Theatre Virginia), Ruby Rae in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Texas), Hattie in Kiss Me Kate (Washington D.C.). Her television credits include three seasons with Nickelodeon as Audra in Gullah Gullah Island and guest appearances on Nickeloeon’s All That and Scooter. Film credits: a PBS docudrama 27th Star. Industrial Films: Chuck E Cheese, Red Lobster, Winn Dixie. Commercials: Disney, Bud Light, Tax Shop, and AAFES Stores.
Anita is a free-lance choreographer and director with nine years of professional credits. In addition to faculty position at Valencia College she is an Entertainment Manager at Disney’s Hollywood Studios where she is a Guest Talent and Vocal Performance Manager for the American Idol Experience and manages the stages of Voyage of the Little Mermaid and Disney Junior Live on Stage.
Anita has a Masters in Musical Theatre from University of Central Florida and a Ballet Teaching Certification with the Royal Academy of Dance. From her fifteen years of ballet teaching she has students who have been accepted into major ballet companies and training programs across the country; Alvin Ailey, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispanico, Boston Ballet, Jeoffrey Ballet, Juilliard School of Ballet, The Kirov Ballet, Nutmeg Conservatory, The Rock Ballet School and San Francisco Ballet Company.