Miss Lori's CAMPUS, Music 'n Movement TOGETHER!, Jim Gill, Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield, Not Ready to Make Nice by the Dixie Chicks, Marchin' by Corbin Bleu, Shine by Jule Crochetiere,
The PBS KIDS Preschool Block, It's a Big Big World, Hip Hop Harry, Seasame Street, Pinky Dinky Do, Word Girl, Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, Dancing With the Stars, Cyberchase, The Cosby Show, Fame, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, Burn Notice, The 4400, The Closer, Grey's Anatomy, Dead Zone, The Daily Show, Real Time, The Unit, NCIS, In Plain Sight, Saving Grace, The Cleaner,
Books
For Every Child a Better World, My Life as a Furry Red Monster, 700 Sundays, I'm a Big Girl Now, The Series of Linda Fairstein, James Patterson, Faye Kellerman, Johnathan Kellerman, Patricia Cornwell
Heroes
Gregory Hines, Bill Cosby, Whoopi Goldberg, Mister Rogers, Maya Angelou, Meryl Streep, Mary Tyler Moore, Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Nelson Mandela,
Miss Lori's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking
Ethnicity:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Taurus
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
College graduate
Occupation:
Actress, Recording Artist, Educator
Miss Lori's Schools
The Boston Conservatory
Boston, MA
Graduated: 1991
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Musical Theatre
1988 to 1991
Shorewood Hi
Shorewood, WI
Graduated: 1987
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
1983 to 1987
Miss Lori's Companies
Miss Lori's CAMPUS Chicago, IL US President
Miss Lori 1pm The CAMPUS Kids & I will perform w @wttw! #Chicago McCormick Place-Mayor's Holiday Sports Fest! FREE!10-4 TODAY Posted at 1:46 PM Dec 27 from TweetDeck view more
About me: You know Miss Lori from television, she comes to your home weekday mornings and entertains your children. However, did you know that Miss Lori is not only a Celebrity Host, but a Recording Artist too? Her debut CD “Miss Lori: Music ‘n Movement TOGETHER!” is based on her work with her company Miss Lori's CAMPUS. You can hear her music on her myspace band page MissLoriCAMPUSMusic. You can also see Miss Lori in Concert action on her youtube channel, MissLorisCAMPUS. Register for updates about Miss Lori appearances and merchandising on her official website www.missloriscampus.com. Miss Lori's album Music 'n Movement TOGETHER is available for purchase on Itunes and CD Baby.
It seems that Miss Lori, Lori Holton Nash, was always destined for great things. She started on her path to stardom belting out Helen Reddy’s “I am Woman Hear Me Roar” at the age of 4 in her parents Milwaukee living room, and has been roaring and singing ever since.
Lori Holton Nash is a native of Wisconsin and began her Theatrical career at the age of 9 with The Children’s Theatre of Madison. Averaging 4 shows a year throughout her elementary years she continued to both study and perform in Milwaukee when her family made the move to the new city. At the age of 12 she became the youngest scholarship student for classical voice at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Just two years later she was named Miss Wisconsin National Teen-Ager and went on to finish in the top 10 nationally.
While still in high school, Lori directed a Creative Arts Program for the Sherman Park Boys and Girls Club and earned a place in the 1986 Summer Cast at Melody Top Theatre on the Mainstage and with M & W Children’s theatre. Later that same year she split her day between High School and The Skylight Comic Opera Ltd. performing in their professional production of Ain’t Misbehavin’.
Lori earned several scholarships and pursued her undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University, The Professional Theatre Training Program at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and The Boston Conservatory. In 1991 she graduated with honors from The Boston Conservatory, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a Musical Theatre Concentration.
After working in both New York and Los Angeles Lori moved to Chicago and immediately began working with Music Theatre Workshop. She spent three years touring Violence and Drug Prevention Musicals in the Chicago Public Schools as a performer and a group discussion leader. Music Theatre Workshop gave Lori the opportunity to help students process the feelings they experienced when faced with the provocative musicals. Lori continued her study emotions working alongside her Mother, Psychotherapist Carol Holton, leading Empowerment Workshops for Women at Risk in Wisconsin.
While working with Music Theatre Workshop and her Mother Lori also continued to pursue performance opportunities. She worked at many Chicago area theatres and appeared in notable roles including Tammi Terrell in BET’s All I Need To Get By, Glory in Keith Glovers’ directorial debut of Thunder Knocking On The Door at Northlight, Dussie Mae, opposite Harry Lennix and Felicia Fields, in The Goodman’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, as well as Gloria in The Ovations Concert of One Touch Of Venus opposite Liz Callaway and directed by Gary Griffin. Lori also understudied Marilyn McCoo as Julie in Hal Prince’s Showboat, and was the Female Understudy for Barry Manilow’s Could It Be Magic. In 2005 Lori completed a two-year run with Menopause The Musical as both the Principal Understudy for all four parts and as the Dance Captain.
Lori continues to perform doing commercial voice-overs and can be heard singing on both American Girls Revue Soundtracks and in the role of Lilah Leach on the demo of the new Musical Julian Po by Andrew Barrett and Ira Antelis. She also created her role of Lilah Leach in person in a staged reading of Julian Po when it was honored with a place in The Chicago ASCAP Workshop.
Ten years ago, when Lori became a mother she started spending a lot of time playing imaginary games with the neighborhood kids. She tapped into her passion for working with children and celebrating the arts. In doing so, she realized that there was yet another way for her to share her talents with the world, this time off-stage.
In 2002 Lori became “Miss Lori” and began teaching jazz, tap, creative movement, and acting classes at a Chicago Dance Center. Additionally, during the 2003-04 school year, Miss Lori had the pleasure of working as an Artist in Residence for Pershing Elementary. She worked with the Elementary School’s Arts teacher helping students create curriculum-based assemblies. That same year brought the introduction of her budding C.A.M.P.U.S. programs, including the TOGETHER Series and the Taking The Stage Program.
In 2004 Miss Lori took on the position of Program Director for a Chicago Dance Center using her years of theatrical experience to produce their recitals for the 2004-05 class year. Following the success of these productions Miss Lori decided it was time to branch out on her own, anxious to bring to fruition her ideas for Arts programming beyond dance. Miss Lori spent that summer pouring all of her energy and creative focus into creating her own Resident Arts Program. As a result in August of 2005 The C.A.M.P.U.S. Inc., now known as Miss Lori's CAMPUS, was officially introduced to the public.
Miss Lori recognizes the importance of the Arts in life as a tool to discover one’s own “voice”. She believes strongly that the Arts help people unlock the wealth of creativity that they have inside of them, allowing them to discover and cultivate the tools they need to express themselves confidently to the World. Miss Lori hopes her programs will help children in particular find ways to tap into that voice, while simultaneous indulging and nurturing their natural sense of “wonder”. Miss Lori’s mission for her Company is proclaimed in its’ name, Celebrating Artistry Musicality Physicality United Successfully!
Miss Lori has a three new titles to add to her resume-that of “PBS KIDS Host” and “Recording Artist” and Children's Ambassador. In 2006 Miss Lori was named the first ever live host of PBS KIDS new preschool destination, and in early 2007 Miss Lori released her debut CD “Miss Lori's CAMPUS, Music ‘n Movement TOGETHER!”. This year Miss Lori was named the first Ambassador for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's Healthy Smiles Healthy Children Campaign. Don’t worry she isn’t stopping there. Miss Lori will add playwright to her list of credits later this year with the debut of her stage show “Miss Lori’s CAMPUS Garden; Growing”, a companion piece to her debut CD. As well as her first children's book series "Little Miss Lori, Adventures in 5 Year Old Living". Now children across the country will benefit from Miss Lori’s boundless energy, passion and commitment to the development of young minds and bodies.
Miss Lori is currently hard at work on her 2nd album, the first single of which has already been released. AWESOME 8! You can find the AWESOME 8! music video on her youtube channel today!
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Hope you had a great time during your concert, today. Perhaps with a bit more advance notice, I'll be able to make one in the future. :) Great chatting with you the other day. I'll be forwarding the invitation packet for Malik so you can forward it on to his parents - hope he'll be able to come out and participate.
That daughter of yours took me back! Her style is different and perhaps the kiddies can appreciate her routine, as well. So let me know about her, too. :)
