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About Giselle
Giselle Siegel (D'Souza) is an actress, director, choreographer, and theater educator. Her acting credits include national tours, children's theater, original off-Broadway runs and premieres, and regional theater. Giselle has served as a director and choreographer for numerous productions featuring kids, teens and adults at many different schools and community centers in New York City, New Jersey and Ohio. Giselle is fiercely passionate about arts education and brings her positivity, playful energy and vast imagination to everyone she works with. Giselle received her musical theater training from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The New School and an M.S.ED degree in Educational Theatre from The City College of New York and is certified to teach Drama/Theater to Pre K-12 in New York and Ohio. When she is not in a classroom or a theater, you can find her staying busy exploring the great outdoors, reading, working out, singing, drinking fancy coffee, trying a new hobby, and dancing with her two young daughters.
Giselle is currently directing at CATCO, and running theater programs at Chambers Music Studio, the Columbus JCC and Columbus Jewish Day School (CJDS).
Giselle is currently directing at CATCO, and running theater programs at Chambers Music Studio, the Columbus JCC and Columbus Jewish Day School (CJDS).
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actING
Credits include: Harriet Cornwall in Isn't It Romantic, Lala Levy in The Last Night Of Ballyhoo, Female Swing for Amigo Duende, Cinderella in Into The Woods, Madge Owens in Summer Brave, Sydney in It's A Bird, It's A Plane It's Superman!, Tobias in Sweeney Todd, Wife in Blood Wedding, Cow 2 in Click, Clack, Moo! Cows That Type, James in James and The Giant Peach and more... In 2012, Giselle appeared in Amigo Duende, a new musical written by Joshua Henry, the Tony Award nominated artist of The Scottsboro Boys, In The Heights stage manager Heather Hogan, and Luis Salgado, the Latin assistant choreographer of In The Heights and performer in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
choreographyGiselle has choreographed numerous shows with kids, teens, and adults including: Annie Jr., The Wiz, Once Upon A Mattress, 1776, Little Shop Of Horrors, 13, Zombie Prom, Into The Woods, Pippin, Fiddler On The Roof, Footloose, Seussical Jr., The Music Man, It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman!, and Grease.
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directingGiselle has directed and co-directed many shows featuring kids and teens including:
The Lion King Jr. (Columbus JCC), The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians, Annie, Little Mermaid Jr. (Democracy Prep), Out Of Whack: The All Kids Rock Musical (Theater For The New City), Once Upon A Mattress (Democracy Prep, Yeshiva of Central Queens), Footloose, The Wiz (Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County), The Curious Savage, The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs, Marvin's Room, Scenes and Songs from Annie, The Wizard Of Oz, The Wiz and more! |
teaching artist
Giselle has and abundance of experience teaching workshops and classes for kids, teens and adults in musical theater, acting, dance, movement, vocal production and speech, audition technique and more.
Giselle works with all ages but specializes in working with Middle School Students, Adults/Teens/Kids with physical, intellectual, or learning disabilities and toddlers/preschool age. Visit the Teaching Artist Page for more info!
Giselle works with all ages but specializes in working with Middle School Students, Adults/Teens/Kids with physical, intellectual, or learning disabilities and toddlers/preschool age. Visit the Teaching Artist Page for more info!
production management
Giselle is the former Artistic & Managing Director of Gallery Players at the Columbus JCC, and led the helm of multiple professional community productions of Falsettos, Funny Girl, Newsies, Driving Miss Daisy, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, She Loves Me and multiple special events. As the founding co- Artistic Director of Open Tent Theater Company in New York, Giselle produced The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Isn't It Romantic,"Ourglass: A Play-in-A-Day Festival" and "Winter Shorts: An Original Play Festival".
