Nicki Elledge

Nicki Elledge-Hickey is a voice teacher, music educator, and performer based in Western Massachusetts. She has taught private voice lessons and musical theatre audition coaching for five years, supporting singers as they develop healthy technique and build confidence. Her teaching emphasizes sustainable vocal practice, musical theatre performance skills, and acting the song. Nicki strives to be her students’ biggest cheerleader, offering tools and guidance for whatever goals they bring into the lesson room. Alongside her studio work, she teaches elementary and middle school general music in Springfield.

Nicki comes from a professional theatre background, with experience both onstage and off at companies around the United States. Some of her favorite credits include Sunday in the Park with George with K and E Theater Group; Grand Hotel and A Little Night Music with Signature Theatre; Sweeney Todd at Arizona Broadway Theatre; The Cocoanuts and South Pacific at the Utah Shakespeare Festival; Grease and Beauty and the Beast at Toby’s Dinner Theatre; Beauty and the Beast at Riverside Center; and LEGO Friends: To the Rescue! at Legoland California.

She holds a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre and a Master of Arts in Theatre Education from The Catholic University of America.