Kelsey Bryce Riker

Guest Instructor - Summer Intensive 2025

Kelsey Bryce Riker (she/they) is a musical theatre teaching and performing artist living as a guest on unceded Áak’w Kwáan territory.  Riker has been training in tap, jazz, and ballet since a young age and began teaching and choreographing for community and regional theaters in high school.  She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre at Seton Hill University before splitting her time performing children's theatre in New York City and entertaining tourists in Skagway, Alaska.  Upon relocating to Juneau five years ago, Riker began teaching tap and musical theatre dance classes with Juneau Community Schools and AKInverted and serving as a substitute instructor with Juneau Dance Theatre.  They are thrilled to be a part of the JDT Summer Intensive for the first time!

photo by Sydney Akagi