Kelly-Ann Evans is an award-winning performer, producer, director and music educator based in St. John’s, NL. With a BMUS (Voice) from Memorial University of NL and having attended Sheridan College for Musical Theatre Performance where she was awarded the James Award for outstanding vocal achievement, she is owner/operator of Rock City Studio where she teaches voice, piano, and facilitates performance workshops, and Red Dress Entertainment, which produces and tours Pop/Rock and Soul reviews. Kelly-Ann also conducts a woman’s community choir called Earth, Wind and Choir. She is a multiple MusicNL Award Winner (Pop/Rock Artist of the Year & Female Artist of the Year) and ECMA nominee. Select theatre credits include the original Canadian company of Queen’s musical We Will Rock You (Mirvish), Cabaret and The Trojan Women (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Talk is Free Theatre), Oderin (Oderin Movement Theatre Company), Into the Woods and Phantom of the Opera (Opera on the Avalon), Next to Normal (Best Kind Productions), Billy Elliot (Atlantic Light), The Little Mermaid and Grease (TSJ), Evita, Rock of Ages, Chicago, Cats and Jesus Christ Superstar (Tada Events). She is a regular featured soloist with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and spent the past 6 years as a Resident Artist, Vocal Coach, Arranger and Music Director with Terra Bruce Productions who toured multiple new original musicals provincially and nationally. Most recently she played “Muse Thalia” in Artistic Frauds new original rock musical Man of the Year and is delighted to return to Gander this summer to reprise the role of Bonnie & Others in Come From Away!