Makenzi Kalsch is a graduate of Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Technical Theatre. While at Rider she received the Maurice Hageman II Memorial Fine Arts Award as well as the Certificate of Merit from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Excellence in a Stage Management team for Bright Star. She joined the American Repertory Ballet as an Assistant Stage Manager in November 2018, and was the Administrative and Production Assistant for the American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School from September of 2020 to March 2022. Makenzi was named Interim Production Manager for ARB March of 2022. For American Repertory Ballet: Nutcracker, American Made, Coppelia, Mask-erade Gala, Beauty and the Beast, New Heights, Giselle, Digital Spring Season, Emergence and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as Princeton Ballet School’s productions of Don Quixote, Nutcracker Suite, Swan Lake and Summer Dance. Other credits include: Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey Tartuffe and La Musica Lirica Rigoletto.
Photo by Emily Keleher Photography