KRISTEN ASHLEY RAGUSA
ACTOR.DANCER.SINGER.TEACHER.
AAG Talent Management
Deborah Dotoli
Manager
Aqua Talent Agency
Courtney Peldon
Theatrical/Commercial
(310) 859-8889
ABOUT ME
"Live the life you've always dreamed"
HOW I GOT STARTED
When I was 5 years old, I starred in my first musical- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I was cast as an Oompa Loompa and I was so excited, especially because I was given the responsibility of being THE line leader. Opening night comes and it's time to lead my fellow orange children on stage. I was nervous, but when that spotlight hit my face, all the nerves melted away. I knew this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
Coincidentally, my birth announcement was a clapperboard saying "A Star in Born" and I've been trying to prove my parents right ever since.
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AFTER PANDEMIC- Back to Acting, Teaching, and Giving Back to the Community
It has been so rewarding to get back into acting and to discover my love of teaching. It fills my heart when I see children get bit by the theatre bug.
I currently run my own private coaching business where I travel to homes to teach private singing, dancing, and acting lessons. If you would like to contact me able a lesson CLICK HERE.
My acting student has recently been cast on Broadway which is extremely rewarding! When I'm not running my coaching business I am teaching ballet, jazz, tap, acting, and musical theater classes at The Adderley School and Encore Center for Performing Arts.
DURING PANDEMIC- Producer/Artistic Director/Writer/President of The Citadel of Playwrights
I took the pandemic into a positive perspective and started to work on my art with playwriting. I was acting in online shows when I felt the need to help produce the new works that I was seeing Through my company that I created with a dear friend Joan, we were able to fund productions online as well as help facilitate live performances when the world started to open up. Seeing the other side of the table and helping my artistic community produce our work was magical. I even got to produce my own one act play called Shadow Work which was an exploration of misogyny and masochism in the memory of the modern American woman.
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BEFORE THE PANDEMIC- Actor working in Film and Theater
When the world shut down with COVID, I was touring schools in the Northeast with The Hampstead Stage Company in a two person show of Aladdin and Hercules. It was awesome being able to put my combat training, love of children, and traveling into one job. I was able to do my first commercial and perform all over the East Coast. I had focused my energy from Musical Theater onto Film, before going back into Musical Theatre.