Presley DuPuis is a proud CYT graduate who flipped over to the grown-up side and hasn't looked back since North Idaho first staged production, Snow White, in 2008 (playing the Magic Mirror). He has gone from being the kid who would play the piano backstage that he wasn't allowed to touch, to a full-fledged accompanist. Over the past decade he has worn many different hats in various CYT leadership roles including teacher, music director, director, pit musician, HYPE adviser, and improv coach. Presley holds his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Eastern Washington University and serves as the resident music director for Aspire Community Theatre while also maintaining his own private music studio where he instructs in both voice and piano. He can always be found playing, teaching, and collaborating with local community theatres, schools, universities, and choirs.

Kayla has been hooked on applause since age 5, when she performed in her kindergarten’s production of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. She jumped at the chance to join CYT Spokane when she turned 8, and she stayed involved for the next 13 years by taking classes, performing in shows, working backstage, and, eventually, teaching summer camps. Kayla attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned a Bachelor of Music in commercial music with a double emphasis in vocal performance and music business. During her time in Nashville, she worked as a freelance musician, spent two summers working as the vocalist at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, and spent four years writing, recording, and touring with a Nashville and Los Angeles-based pop/rap duo as a lead vocalist/rapper. During this time, she had the opportunity to perform at numerous festivals, music venues, and colleges, have songs placed in various television shows, write and record with some of the world’s top producers, and lead songwriting workshops at Boys and Girls Clubs, primary schools, and children’s hospitals across the United States. Kayla moved back to Washington in 2017 and scaled down the performing in pursuit of getting really into ice cream and growing her family. Three daughters (and lots of ice cream) later, she had a blast performing in CCT's Pirates of Penzance over the summer, and she's excited to be back teaching at CYT, especially with her very cool brother-in-law!