Actor-Singer-Director-Educator-Snowboarder
Chelsea works as a multi-faceted theater artist- actor, singer, director, writer, and teaching artist- predominately in the Seattle area for the past half a decade but recently moved to NYC this March 2019 and is now bi-coastal.
A collaborator and co-creator she deeply enjoys being in the genesis of new works- plays and musicals. As an actor with a background in music theory and having worked as a commissioned writer, she's been able to originate roles and been a part of many new musicals at regional theaters such as the 5th Avenue Theater (workshops, readings of several shows), Seattle Children's Theater (Dick Whittington), Taproot Theater (Persuasion), and Village Theater (the lead role in A Proper Place, Teddy and Max) as well as swinging all six female roles in the Tony-award winning musical Come From Away (La Jolla Playhouse/ Seattle Repertory Theater).
Chelsea works as a multi-faceted theater artist- actor, singer, director, writer, and teaching artist- predominately in the Seattle area for the past half a decade but recently moved to NYC this March 2019 and is now bi-coastal.
A collaborator and co-creator she deeply enjoys being in the genesis of new works- plays and musicals. As an actor with a background in music theory and having worked as a commissioned writer, she's been able to originate roles and been a part of many new musicals at regional theaters such as the 5th Avenue Theater (workshops, readings of several shows), Seattle Children's Theater (Dick Whittington), Taproot Theater (Persuasion), and Village Theater (the lead role in A Proper Place, Teddy and Max) as well as swinging all six female roles in the Tony-award winning musical Come From Away (La Jolla Playhouse/ Seattle Repertory Theater).
When not performing, she is working as a teaching artist or theater director for companies including Seattle Children's Theater, Seattle Opera, Village Theater, among others. Having founded and developed a dramatic arts program for a research organization called foundry10, through which she has produced and directed over a dozen performances, taught at international conferences across the nation, written and produced new works, and has the responsibility for budgets, hiring, leading teams, and project planning and management as well as producing research studies.
As a writer she's had several new musicals or plays premiered in festivals with local theater companies and has recently been commissioned both by foundry10 to finish writing a musical called 78 minutes to be turned into a short film and by Taproot Theater for a musical for their Christmas season 2020.
When not in a theater she may be snowboarding, backpacking, or building campfires.
