The Jayme Starr Podcast

Sierra Lai Barnett is a performer and choreographer.  One of her most recent projects was getting to serve as an associate choreographer for the latest revival of Into The Woods. She was in the room with the choreography team from the beginning when they were brainstorming ways to create the magic that fans would be seeing on stage when the show was done at City Center, all the way through when the show opened on Broadway. Over the course of her career, Barnett has also choreographed shows and took the lead on that duty as well. Other behind the scenes work that she has done include being a dance captain for productions as well. In addition, Barnett also is a performer, and audience members can mainly catch her in roles that have her on her feet and dancing. However, in the future Barnett would love to maybe play a principal track of her own and explore more outside of mainly dancing in a performance. 

Tasia Jungbauer is an actress based in New York City. Currently, Jungbauer is making her Broadway debut in the Tony award winning musical, Moulin Rouge!. Jungbauer began her journey with the show when she saw the show with the original cast just shy after the show opened. Although she is a little bit of a late bloomer to the musical theatre world, she knew she had a connection with this particular show. Jungbauer started off as a swing for the Broadway company and then got promoted shortly after to playing Arabia/being in the ensemble. In addition to being in the ensemble, she also is the Satine (role made famous by Nicole Kidman in the film) understudy. Jungbauer has been lucky enough to play the sparking diamond a few times since she has been in the cast. This show is very special to her heart, because not only is it her broadway debut, but it was also the very first show she ever saw on Broadway.

Ginny Swanson is a singer/songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. Growing up, Swanson has always had a passion for music and wanting to share it with the world. She went to college for musical theatre, and has always had a love for performing. Swanson even was in the top 10 in Broadway.com's The Search for Roxie when they were looking for a new Roxie Hart for Broadway's Chicago. One thing that she has always wanted to do was release her own personal music, and last year she was able to do just that. After two years of writing, Swanson released Potions her debut single which is available anywhere and everywhere you listen to music. Swanson hopes to keep performing both as an artist and in musical theatre throughout her career. 

Alexa Magro is an actress who is no stranger to musical theatre. She has had a passion for it from a young age, and knew that she wanted to join the community. Magro go to take part in the 1st National tour of the Broadway musical, The Prom where she played Kailee. Her rehearsal process for the show was very quick and learned the choreography in 12 hours. It was an honor for her to share the stage with such a wonderful group of people 8 times a week. Now, (post interview), Magro is part of the national tour of the hit Broadway musical, Hamilton where she is in the ensemble. While living her dreams working in musical theatre, Magro is also taking college classes online through the University of Arizona.  She is currently a senior, and will appear on campus for the first time when she graduates.

Hilary Maiberger is a true musical theatre princess. She has gotten to play four different Disney princesses in various stage productions. Maiberger has played Ariel, Cinderella, and Princess Jasmine in various regional gigs. However, Belle is the princess that is closest to her heart. She got to spend three years traveling the country on the national tour of Disney's Beauty and The Beast and she took the show over seas on the shows very first international tour. Playing this Disney princess specifically was a dream come true for her, and a highlight of her career this far. Maiberger even credits Beauty and the Beast for being the reason why she fell in love with musical theatre and why she is part of the community to this day. 

SEASON 4 PREMIRE-Madeline Hudelson is an actress based in New York City. She has been doing musical theatre for as long as she can remember and always knew that this was the route she wanted tot take professionally. Over the course of her career, Hudelson has been able to conquer some summer stock/regional productions of different musicals such as Legally Blonde and Mamma Mia. This past summer, Hudelson got to live out one of her dreams and play one of her idols, Cher. She starred in the regional premier of the hit Broadway musical, The Cher Show where she plays Babe the youngest of the three Chers in the show at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. (Role was originated by Season 1 guest, Micaela Diamond).  Once that production came to an end, she got to reprise the same role for another The Cher Show production at the Patchogue Theatre in Patchoque, New York.

Madeline Kendall is a musical theatre actress. Kendall grew up in the New Jersey (close to Philadelphia) and would always go see shows when they would come to the theatre closest to her. After seeing a production of Pippin and a Kristen Chenoweth concert, Kendall knew that it was possible to be cast in a national tour of a broadway musical. Luckily, Kendall has been able to accomplish this with the national tour of Anastasia. In the show, she was in the ensemble and understudied the role of Anya. She was lucky enough to get the chance to to play this role a few times over the course of her contract. Including getting to an entire week as the leading lady while the actress who was playing the role was doing a different contract temporarily. Over the course of this adventure Kendall was lucky enough to live out two fantasies and made some of her wildest dreams come true.

Thank you to everyone who was able to take part in season 3 of the podcast! It was an amazing journey and I can't wait to continue with Season 4 next week!!

Madeleine Corliss is a true triple threat. She is an actress, singer, and dancer who has been able to performed in some of the most beloved shows. Some of the shows she has been able to take part in are Urinetown, Spamalot, and Chicago. In fact, Corliss has been able to play both female leading roles of both Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart in the different variations of the show that she has done. Corliss is a graduate of Syracuse University where she got to be in the same space academically with Mary Kate Morissey (Season 1), Jonalyn Saxer (Season 1), and Hannah Corneau (Holiday Special). When Broadway.com was searching for a new Roxie Hart to bring to the Broadway stage, Corliss auditioned and made it to the semi finals. Although she didn't make it to the finals and become the name on everybody's lips in NYC, it was still an honor for her to take part in a competition like this. Outside of musical theatre, Corliss runs an energy healing/coaching business called The Energy Studio, and has a podcast of her own along with this side project.