Vocal Coach
Ken Lear is an accomplished musical director, voice and music theatre coach, collaborative pianist, and music theatre actor. He was a part of the Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre class of 2006 and spent the first 15 years of his career based in New York City. He spent four seasons as a Featured Singer in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (starring the World Famous Rockettes). Other New York Performances include the Off-Broadway hits, Naked Boys Singing! and Mrs. Smith’s Broadway Cat-Tacular. Regional Theatre roles include JERRY LEE LEWIS in Million Dollar Quartet (Show Palace Dinner Theater) and CHANCE in the World Premiere of Chance, directed by the late Tony award-winning director Robert Kalfin (New Music Theatre San Francisco). In NYC, Ken studied music theatre voice technique with Devin Ilaw (NYU Voice Faculty, Broadway Performer), Kurt Peterson (Legendary Broadway Performer) and Acting Through Song with Kimberly Vaughn (KV Performance Studio). He has music directed up and down the East Coast, including multiple professional musicals at The Palace Theater (Manchester, New Hampshire) and The Show Palace Dinner Theater (Hudson, Florida). Here in his hometown of Cleveland, Ken has music directed at Cain Park (2024’s Big Fish directed by Joanna May Cullinan) and is currently the Associate Music Director on this semester’s BWMT/Beck Center production of Waitress. Ken welcomes students who are serious in their study of music theatre vocal technique. He specializes in finding your authentic voice, music theatre college audition prep, and the relationship between acting and song.
