Jan Klump (Voice Teacher) has taught voice privately for 40 years in Michigan, New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and now western Massachusetts. Her voice students have won full scholarships to college, have appeared on Broadway, and run the gamut from persons who say they “can’t carry a tune” to those working as professionals in musical theater. For the past 15 years she and her husband have run a studio together for singers and actors. Jan is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Bob Klump (Acting Coach) has been involved actively in the arts and arts education for over fifty years. During that period he has been a high school band/choral director, directed high school plays and musicals, directed and/or produced summer stock, house managed for and worked in the offices of Theatreworks/USA in New York City and in recent years, privately coached actors and singers in NYC, NJ and The Philadelphia area. Many of his former students have gone on to have professional careers in performance and related areas of the arts. Now living in South Hadley, MA, he and his wife, Jan, continue to work with young performers.

Melinda Beasi (Voice and Acting Coach) spent the first eighteen years of her life learning about music and theater from her parents, Bob and Jan Klump, after which she continued her studies at at Carnegie-Mellon University where she earned a degree in vocal performance. She has performed at Pittsburgh’s Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Theater, the Goodspeed Opera House, the Papermill Playhouse, the Olney Theater Center, and New York’s City Center among many others. Melinda toured as Sophie in the First National Tour of Terrence McNally’s Master Class starring Faye Dunaway and as Kathy in The Night Kitchen’s Really Rosie, designed and directed by author Maurice Sendak. Other credits include Sweeney Todd with George Hearn and Judy Kaye, Strike Up the Band with Emily Loesser, Jason Danieley, and Kristin Chenoweth, and One Touch of Venus with Melissa Errico, David Alan Grier, and Jane Krakowski. In 2002, Melinda released an album of her original songs, Dorrie’s True Story. She has also appeared on albums by singer-songwriter Megan Cary and rocker Tommy Grasso, and was an original member of alternative rock band The Steve Friday Band. Melinda’s experience also extends to casting, most recently for local children’s theater company FoodPlay Productions, where she is Managing Director.