Ambrose
College
Consulting

In 2019, Rachel earned her Certificate in College Consulting from the University of California, San Diego. After years at a small college consulting firm, she opened Ambrose College Consulting in 2022 to specialize in helping student artists continue their education at college. Rachel was a theater major at UCLA, where her son currently attends as a theater major and her daughter graduated with a theater degree from Northwestern. Her other two sons, a graduated history major at Yale and a data science major at Rice in Houston, keep the family grounded which provides lively dinner table conversation. Currently residing in Indian Wells, California, she spent 25 years in the northern suburbs of Chicago, raising her children with her understanding husband and large extended family. 

Robin Irwin originated the role of Marion Thayer in the original Broadway Company of the Tony Award winning musical TITANIC as well as numerous other roles on Broadway, National Tours, Regional and Off-Broadway theaters, television, and symphonies. She has been a professor at New York University Tisch School for the Arts, The New York Film Academy, The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, and Montclair State University where she was the producing artistic director of all secondary school outreach and professional development in the arts. Additionally, she’s been the director of education and cultural partnerships at the Raue Center for the Arts (Illinois), director of education at Luna Stage (New Jersey), and was the founding Executive Director for The Appalachian Center for the Arts in

Pikeville, KY. 

CRACKING THE COLLEGE AUDITION CODE evolved after she witnessed the extreme challenges families and young artists were having navigating the intimidating and often labyrinthine college admissions process. They were losing their true voice and getting swept up in the chatter of their peers. Robin’s wisdom, calm, and humor, paired with holding all students in their highest possibility is what makes her approach unique.

As a coach, Robin has guided students into some of the most prestigious theater and performing arts programs across the country

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As an actor, Erick Buckley was most recently seen across the country and on Broadway in Motown. He was the first person in the world to perform both the roles of Marius and Jean Valjean in the Broadway production of Les Misérables. He has appeared in the original Broadway production of The Addams Family where he performed the role of Uncle Fester with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth. On Broadway and nationally he has appeared as Dave in The Full Monty, Piangi in The Phantom of the Opera, Gangster #1 in Kiss Me, Kate and Roger in Grease!. He has appeared at theaters around the country as Frederic in Pirates of Penzance, Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys & Dolls, and the Padre in Man of La Mancha.