OVERVIEW
Ben Jammin Holck has built a solid livelihood for himself as an educator, producer, director, choreographer, vocal coach, and actor in the Santa Cruz and bay areas. He has over 30-years experience producing full-scale musicals and teaching live-performance classes to youth of all ages. Founder of his own Singing and Acting Academy, Jammin enjoys passing-down his love of the performing-arts to multiple generations and currently teaches private lessons and workshops in singing, acting, dancing, musical-theatre-performance, comedy, improvisation, and holiday caroling. EDUCATION
As a youth, Ben attended classes in ballet, tap and jazz dance. He also studied method-acting though ACT’s youth outreach, classical singing at Tanglewood University, and professional opera as a boy soprano under maestro Eugene Masluk. As a young man, Jammin continued pursuing his education in music, dance, forensic speech, acting and improvisation both in junior college and at Hayward University, as well as Shakespeare Santa Cruz. EXPERIENCE
As a freelance artist, Ben has taught performing-arts classes and produced dozens of musical productions and reviews at local public elementary and home schools, and also through outreach programs to bring performing-arts education to at-risk youth at Barrios Unidos and the Boys & Girls' Club. Jammin was instrumental in the creation and running of non-profit Kids on Broadway from 1995–2007, and was Producing Artistic Director for Santa Cruz Performing Arts from 2007–2017. Since arriving on the Santa Cruz theatre scene in 1990, Ben has produced, choreographed, and directed more than a hundred recitals and full-scale musical productions. RELATED SKILLS
A versatile actor, Ben Jammin has enjoyed performing in numerous musicals professionally with Cabrillo Stage in Aptos and with The Oakland and Bay Shore Opera Company in San Jose. A community builder, Ben leads an annual Holiday Caroling course, as well as family sing-alongs of popular movie musicals, including Mary Poppins, Grease, and The Sound of Music.