Just a few of the Cast
ONSTAGE NY has developed a reputation for carefully selecting knowledgeable, approachable judges...committed to making each weekend both educational and fun! This is just a sample of the qualified judges, teachers, and industry professionals that will offer your performers insightful critiques and guidance.
Michael-Demby Cain - Master of Ceremonies/Host
Michael DembyMichael has enjoyed tremendous success as a true ‘song and dance’ man. He has appeared in eight Broadway shows – including Ragtime, Smokey Joe’s Café, Victor/Victoria (with Julie Andrews, Liza Minnelli, and Raquel Welch), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Goodbye Girl (with Bernadette Peters), Grand Hotel (with Cyd Charisse), Starlight Express and Honky Tonk Nights.
He appeared in the New York City Opera production of Porgy and Bess, as well as performing in countless television specials, live corporate events and numerous Broadway National Tours – including Ragtime, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber (with Michael Crawford), Starlight Express (lead role of Electra), Five Guys Named Moe (featured as Eat Moe) and Joseph and His Amazing… (Benjamin Calypso vocalist).
Michael also received much critical acclaim as the star and headliner in two productions at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City - Zoot Suit Strut and Club Indigo. In 2017, Michael took to the NYC cabaret stage with his one man show “Unfinished”. He continues to work on music and hopes to release an album of ‘favorites’ in 2019.
Ben Cameron - MC/Judge
- Host of the hit podcast Playbill present's The Broadway Cast available on Itunes.
- Broadway: Original cast of Wicked, Footloose, and Aida.
- National Tour: Sweet Charity featured as ‘Vittorio’.
- Other National Tours: Fame, State Fair and Tommy.
- Grew up dancing, singing, and competing in Orem, UT.
- Is honored to also serve as the Onstage NY MC.
Curtis Holbrook
- Broadway: Spongebob Squarepants, If/Then, The Addams Family, West Side Story, Xanadu, Fosse, The Boy from Oz, Taboo, and All Shook Up.
- TV/Film: Pilot episode of NBC’s SMASH, All My Children, As the World Turns, Law & Order: SVU, Hairspray, and Across the Universe.
- Grew up singing, dancing and competing in San Antonio, TX.
Jessica Dillan
- Broadway: The Fartiste, Cats, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Thou Shalt Not.
- National tours: Cats, Swing, On the Town, Cabaret and Millie, as dance captain.
- As a choreographer and director she has worked on Frank Wildhorn’s For the Glory.
- Danced as a member of the Hartford and Albano Ballets
- She grew up dancing in Hartford, CT
Manny Herrera
- Broadway: West Side Story, Legally Blonde, Sweet Charity, Wicked and The Music Man in addition to many off Broadway performances.
- TV/Film: Blue Blood's, Odd Mom Out, Smash, Power, Knucklehead, Sex and the City 2, Unforgettable, Modern Love and Winter’s Tale.
- Studied at the School of American Ballet, was the 2000 NYCDA National Senior Outstanding dancer.
- Grew up dancing and competing in North Carolina.
Kaitlynn Edgar
(Bio Coming Soon)
Eric Stretch
- Broadway: La Cage Aux Follies and Wicked.
- National tours: Aida, Waiting for the Moon, and Wicked.
- TV/Film: City Guys, Donnie and Marie, Ice Jam, LA New Year’s Eve and Nickelodeon’s All That.
- Lead singer for the group No Authority. Toured with Britney Spears Oops Tour and 98 Degrees Heat it up tour.
Mamie Duncan-Gibbs
- Broadway: Chicago, Jelly’s Last Jam, Kiss Me Kate, Sweet Charity, Cats, The Tap Dance Kid, and much more.
- Faculty at Youth Interactions, Inc., a performing arts school in Yonkers, NY.
- Grew up dancing and singing in Massachusetts - studying with jazz legend Frank Hatchett
Rommy Sandhu
- Broadway: Mary Poppins, A Christmas Carol, Bombay Dreams, On the Town, Sweet Charity in Concert, & Oklahoma as Dance Captain.
- National Tours: Carousel and Kiss Me Kate as Dance Captain.
- Director/Choreographer: Off-Broadway, NY’s Fringe Festival, CUNY, Hofstra University, and New York City Center.
- Serves as adjunct faculty for NYU’s CAP21, Marymount Manhattan College and as a guest at Broadway Dance Center.
Grace Buckley
- Performed as a member of DeMaDance Company, Willow Oak Contemporary Ballet and Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance.
- Tours the world as Ballet Mistress and performer for Rasta Thomas’ Romeo & Juliet and Rock the Ballet choreographed by Adrienne Canterna.
- Has been a guest artist with the Bad Boys of Ballet and was assistant choreographer to Adrienne Canterna for the workshop of the new rock-ballet Poe.
- Serves on faculty at Steps on Broadway in New York and for New York City Dance Alliance.
