Top Billing Entertainment Performance Academy

Specialties

Broadway caliber youth musical performances, where every performer is a star! Serving the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, CA. Top Billing Entertainment Performance Academy is a 501©3 not-​for-​profit founded by Kristina Keener Ivy where each performer is given «top billing», treated with respect and admiration, given professional instruction, and given the opportunity for a featured solo, no matter their talent level or ability to pay. Top Billing Entertainment has received 23 National Youth Arts nominations and six wins, won «Best Dance School» in the 2014 San Gabriel Valley Tribune Reader’s Choice Awards, and won first place for Best Theater Production and second place for Theater Directing in the American Prize National Competition.

History

Established in 2010.

In January 2015, we expanded to a full service performance academy in the Village of Glendora and offer classes in acting, on camera acting, dance, voice, all instruments, and anything else that interests our students at low cost.

Meet the Manager

Kristina I.

Manager

Kristina Keener Ivy, the Executive Director, is a former high school choir director turned professional performer and private music instructor. She has performed with various jazz bands, as a member of various church worship teams, on three film soundtracks, and in numerous musical theater productions throughout the South West. She has also worked as a musical director for over 25 local productions including Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast, Seussical and High School Musical. In 2014 she won #2 Theater Director in the USA in the National American Prize Competition. She is looking forward to producing many more main stage productions and touring shows with Top Billing Entertainment.