Rance Wright

Rance Wright

Founder/Owner

With over 20 years of intensive training and experience, Rance Wright, the owner of the Wright Way, gives you the best experience as a coach, mentor, and consultant. Rance is a highly accomplished performance art professional, with vast experience as a performer, teacher, manager and casting director. Rance has hundreds of current clients performing on Broadway shows, national tours and television. Rance holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston Conservatory, and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Music, Dance and Theater from Brigham Young University. Rance’s expertise and remarkable skill brings you high quality specialized coaching and preparation sessions in voice, theater and performance. Rance is a dedicated professional artist with a distinctive vision. Through dynamic and result-driven classes and consultations, Rance has helped catapult the careers of many up and coming artists. Holding himself to higher standards has solidified his business relationships with clients and colleagues.

Students Rance has personally coached who are working on Broadway, national tours, off-Broadway, TV, film, cruise lines, etc.: Cody Braverman (Leopoldstadt on Broadway *Tony Nominated), Colby Kipnes (GreyHouse on Broadway), Ben Laxton (Book of Mormon on Broadway), Maggie McDowell (Kinky Boots on Broadway), Susie Carroll (The Prom on Broadway), Sofie Poliakoff (Parade at City Center, NY w/ Ben Platt), Ethan Joseph (MJ, Natl. Tour), Saheli Kahn (Frozen, Natl. Tour), Jackson Greenspan (Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Natl. Tour), Ellie Pulsifer (Annie in Annie, Natl. Tour), Kevin Wang (Mean Girls, Natl. Tour), Jaxon James (Elf, A Christmas Story, Natl. Tours), Natalia Jiminez (A Christmas Story, Natl. Tour), Adriella Goncalves (Anastasia, Natl. Tour), Bailee Bonick (CAMP,  The Movie w/ Ben Platt), Honor Blue Savage (The Goodbye Girl, Off-Broadway) Tara Rajan (The Goodbye Girl, Off-Broadway), Jordan Greenberg (AVMUCSP, Off-Broadway), Sadler Selby (AVMUCSP, Off-Broadway), Lauren Turner (Royal Caribbean Lead Singer), Amilia Shaw (AIDA Lead Singer), and many more.

Héctor Flores Jr

Héctor Flores Jr

Executive Assistant/Instructor

Héctor Flores Jr is a New York City based multi-hyphenate theater professional. For the past 15 years Héctor has been seen on stages across America in shows like In The Heights, On Your Feet, Kiss Me Kate, Sister Act, Mama Mia! And more. He’s also been spotted dancing on TV and Movies like Full Frontal With Samantha Bee and the In The Heights movie. His recent direction and choreography credits include In The Heights (Mill Mountain, Oregon Cabaret Theatre), West Side Story (Flatrock Playhouse) and Xena: Warrior Musical (3DollarBill). He is also an executive staff member of New York Theatre Barn as the President of Theatre Barn Records and a professional ballroom dancer with Fred Astaire Dance Studios.

As an artist who is successfully navigating both sides of the table Héctor provides a unique and specific approach to theater making and practice. He proudly offers lessons in ballroom dance and coaching dance combinations. He fuses Meisner, Stanislavsky and some of his own techniques he’s honed throughout his career when coaching acting and also offers lessons in audition prep and song interpretation/acting of the song. He’s excited to help you to get your performance to the next level.

Brianna LaShay Smith

Brianna LaShay Smith

Pedagogy Instructor

Brianna LaShay Smith is a NYC-based performer and teacher. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Theater Performance from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music in 2018. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and Instrumental Music Education, with a Concentration in Flute Studies at the University of South Alabama in 2016. Since graduating, she has had the opportunity to perform across the North and Southeast in roles such as Clara in The Light in the Piazza, Wednesday in The Addams Family musical, Catherine in The Theory of Relativity. During her time at USA, she was a member of the Mobile Opera Chorus and various ensembles across the city. She’s thrilled to be serving The Wright Way students as a teacher of pedagogy, and looks forward to helping them fulfill their individual goals!
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