Kelly Strange

Kelly Strange hails from Detroit where she began her dance training with Rose Marie Floyd. Upon graduation from high school, she moved to Chicago to study under world-renowned jazz teacher and choreographer Gus Giordano and, at nineteen, moved to New York and began her career as a professional dancer and actress.

Her credits include commercial and print modeling, numerous theatrical productions, extensive work on television including several soap operas, commercials, an early M-TV video and most recently the NBC drama “Do No Harm”. She also appeared in the film Lucky Numbers which was shot in the mid-state. Kelly is a member of Actor’s Equity Association (AEA), Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

Kelly has choreographed hundreds of dance numbers for studios in the mid-state; for the dance company at Dickinson College, industrials, and several musical revues. She has enjoyed teaching Master classes in the fields of tap, jazz, and theater dance in Virginia, Michigan, and throughout Central Pennsylvania, and taught four spring semesters as an adjunct professor of jazz dance at Dickinson College. She is also proud to have been a substitute teacher of theater dance classes at New York’s famed Broadway Dance Center – a hub for dance students from around the world. Kelly was the Director of the tap, jazz and theater dance department for Pennsylvania Regional Ballet for 22 years, and was the Artistic Director of Hershey School of Dance from 1996 until her retirement from the studio in 2010.  In the summers of 2012 and 2013, she choreographed “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Music Man” respectively for Hershey Area Playhouse.

Kelly’s students have gone on to perform off-Broadway, in National and International tours, on cruise ships, and have obtained degrees in theater and dance from colleges and universities. In the fall of 2009, twelve of Kelly’s hand-picked students were chosen to perform in the Hershey leg of the National tour of The Wizard of Oz as the “Munchkins.”