Kylie Tollefson is a dancer, singer, actress and choreographer.
She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre with a Dance Concentration at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. She is a senior in the class of 2025 and is studying with Tammy Mader, Shanna VanDerwerker, Cameron Michael Chase, and many more.
She has trained at The Broadway Collective, a rigorous musical theatre academy, where her award-winning coaches and mentors include Warren Carlyle (Director, Choreographer), Kate Lumpkin, CSA (Casting Director), and Robert Hartwell (Broadway Collective Founder and CEO), among others. She has also trained at Broadway Workshop under Marc Tumminelli.
Kylie has been performing since the age of two and has been in over 150 paid photo shoots, commercials, short and feature films. Her dance training is from the award winning Club Dance Studio in Arizona where she was on Company and Hip Hop Company. She is currently on a Chicago Hip-Hop team, The Piece Makers, where she competes at competitions such as World of Dance.
Some of her recent credits include Ensemble in Cinderella (Metropolis Performing Arts ’24), a swing in Dreamsters (Chicago College of Performing Arts ’24), Sandy in Grease (Timber Lake Playhouse ’23), Lorraine in Jersey Boys (Timber Lake Playhouse ’23), assistant choreographer for Bright Star (Chicago College of Performing Arts ’22), Chava in Fiddler on the Roof (Casteel ’19) and Kylar in Bring It On (Actor’s Youth Theatre ’19). She was the dance captain and did all of her high school’s choreography for musicals and choir concerts. She was a Top 10 Finalist for Outstanding Dancer in a Musical at the High School Musical Theatre Awards. Kylie also received a Superior Rating for her performance at International Thespian Festival in 2019. She loves being involved and was an Arizona State Thespian Officer.
She is grateful to her parents, mentors and close friends for believing in her dreams and encouraging her to work hard and play big.