Kd Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts Fall 2018 Calendar

Meet Our Teachers

Sorrel McCarthy

Director of Instruction

ACT University Managing director

Bound 2022 Instructor: The Entire American Revolution (in 40 minutes or less)

Past Academy Classes: The vii Worst Jobs of the Middle Ages Play Lab (Fall 2021), Fantastic Mr. Pull a fast one on Play Lab (co-instructor with Emily Godwin) (Fall 2020), Alice in Wonderland Play Lab (Fall 2020),Oceans of Fun Musical, The Catnapper Mystery and Other Tales, Law & Order: Fairytale Unit of measurement, Arrow Christian University Theatre Instructor (Spring 2020), Macbeth Play Lab (Fall 2019), Beauty and the Animate being Play Lab (Autumn 2018), Scenes for Teens: Acting and Directing (Spring 2018), Monkey, Monkey: The Magical Adventures of the Handsome Monkey King Play Lab (Spring 2017), Characters and Scenes for Immature Actors-ii sections (Spring 2017)

Recent Projects at The ACT: Puss in Boots (Director), The Three Musketeers (Director), Getting to Know Once Upon a Mattress (Stage Manager), Little Women (Music Managing director and Stage Manager), Into the Woods Jr. (Stage Manager), Helm Louie Jr. (Phase Manager), The Christmas Doll (Music Managing director), The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley Jr. (Stage Director), Narnia (Music Managing director), Scrooge! (Music Manager), Seussical Jr. (Music Manager)

About Sorrel: Sorrel has been performing in theatre and music since she was a child, including with the Houston Grand Opera, and has been a director and teacher in theatre, individual voice, and choirs for most of her adult life. She studied vocal performance at The Eastman School of Music and The Ohio Land Academy and has performed in numerous choral and theatre groups across the DFW Metroplex. A graduate of the University of North Texas in 2012 with degrees in political science and social science, she served as the interim choir director at Coppell Middle Schoolhouse East in the Fall of 2019, followed by working every bit the CMSE voice teacher. Sorrel returned to the University of North Texas in Fall 2020 and is currently working on two mail-baccalaureate Bachelors of Music in Song Functioning and Choral Music Education, as well as a Masters in Teaching with a 4-8 social studies teaching field.

Sorrel began performing and volunteering at The ACT in 2012 in the role of Mrs. Fezziwig and as the music managing director for A Christmas Carol. Since then, she has directed, music directed, and stage managed many mainstage productions at The ACT, and became the Director of Didactics in 2016. She believes passionately in the power of the performing arts to transform the lives of immature people and bring them into a amend understanding of themselves and the earth around them. She looks forward to coming together your children in classes!

Hannah Bowen

Past University Classes: The Actors Conservatory Show Choir (Assistant Director-Spring 2020, The Actors Conservatory Show Choir (Assistant Managing director-Autumn 2019), The Magician of Oz Play Lab (Saturday section)

Recent Projects at The ACT: Dazzler and the Beast Jr. , Aladdin Jr. (Director)

Most Hannah: Hannah began performing at The ACT in heart schoolhouse, and she loved every minute of it!  She holds a Bachelors of Music Education with a Song focus, and has taught middle school choir for five years. She has directed several school productions, as well equally directing and music directing at several local theatres. Teaching is her passion, and she always loves working with the kids at the ACT!!

Arden Claire Coates

CAMPS Director

Bound 2021 Teacher: Songs & Scenes for Musical Theatre, Arrow Christian Academy Theatre Instructor,

Upcoming Projects at The ACT:, Seussical Jr. (Director)

By Academy Classes: Regards to Broadway Homeschool (Fall 2020), Arrow Christian Academy Theatre Teacher (Fall 2020), Dinosauring - A Prehistoric Musical (Fall 2019), The King of beasts, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Play Lab (Banana Teacher),The Trial of Goldilocks Play Lab, Storybook Drama Adventures (Bound 2018), The Adventures of Peter Rabbit Musical Play Lab (Fall 2017)

Contempo Projects at The Deed: Junie B. Jones The Musical TNT Prove, Alice in Wonderland Jr., Anything Goes YPE, Aladdin Jr. (Camp Producer & Director), School Stone Alive! Jr. (Set Designer), Republic of madagascar Jr., Willy Wonka Jr. Musical Theatre Camp (Director), The Piffling Mermaid Jr. (Assistant Choreographer), Winnie the Pooh KIDS, The Jungle Book KIDS, The Aristocats KIDS, and Seussical KIDS (Assistant Director, Choreographer, Junior Campers Managing director), Elf Jr. (Phase Managing director)

About Arden Claire: Arden Claire has been involved at the Human action since she was a kid and loves working with kids of all ages! Musical theater is her forté, and she has worked difficult to hone her skills in acting, singing, and dancing. Arden Claire is The ACT'south current summer camp Manager and merely wrapped up a summer full of fun, creativity, and of form, musicals! She loves beingness an instructor at the ACT University, saying "There is so much joy to be found in teaching kids - something that is such a huge part of who I am." She looks forward to a some other groovy semester at The Act.

Ashlyn Cramer

Jump 2021 Teacher: Lyrical and Hip Hop: Broadway Bound

Past Academy Classes: Broadway Bound: Lyrical and Jazz (Fall 2020), Beginning Musical Theatre Dance (Spring 2020)

Recent Projects at The Human activity: Chitty Chitty Blindside Bang Jr. (Choreographer)

Well-nigh Ashlyn: Ashlyn is new to the ACT, and is loving every infinitesimal of it!  She earned her Bachelor of Science in Middle Grades English Education from Baylor University, and is a English/Linguistic communication Arts teacher and dance teacher at a local centre school.  Ashlyn'southward favorite dance styles include jazz, lyrical, worship, and of grade musical theater!  Some of her most memorable performances include: Super Bowl XLV halftime show and Baylor's All-University Sing.

Emily Godwin

Spring 2021 Teacher: Fantastic Mr. Fox Play Lab (co-teacher with Sorrel McCarthy)

Past Academy Classes: Alice in Wonderland Play Lab (Fall 2020), Stone Soup: The Musical (Spring 2020)

By/Recent Projects at The ACT: Shrek Jr! (Trip the light fantastic toe Captain), The Importance of Being Earnest, Crushed (Stage Manager), The Rockin' Tale of Snow White (Tech Crew), The Jungle Book Kids!, Sleeping Dazzler Kids!, Winnie the Pooh Kids! (Camp Counselor).

About Emily: Emily was fortunate enough to be a role of 17 productions at The Deed during loftier school! She too spent 4 of her Spring Breaks as a Star counselor for the children'south camps at The Deed, every bit well as teaching theatre camps at A Trunk In Motion dance studio. Emily wishes to pursue a career in teaching theatr and is currently enrolled in classes at Collin County Community College, while teaching a theatre class on Th evenings. She is so excited to join the University staff at The Actors Conservatory Theatre!

Lara Harris

Jump 2020 Instructor: The Little Engine That Could- Early on Learners Musical, Trolls: Songs & Scenes for Musical Theatre, The Three Baton Goats Gruff- Early Learners Musical

Past Academy Classes: Pajama Party - Early Learners Musical, Songs & Scenes for Musical Theatre (Autumn 2019), Mr. Rhythm's Circus Musical Play, Welcome to the Jungle! Musical Play, Musical Theatre Dance & Voice (Monday Homeschool), First Steps in Drama: The Petty Cherry Hen Musical Class, Musical Theatre Dance & Voice-Monday Homeschool (Autumn 2018), Treasure Trunk Theatre, Musical Theatre Explorations (Monday Homeschool), Group Vocalisation 10+-Saturdays (Jump 2018), Homeschool Fairytale Characters and Scenes for Immature Actors (Fall 2017), Homeschool The Adventures of Peter Rabbit - Musical Play Lab (Fall 2017)

Contempo Projects at The Act: Alice in Wonderland Jr., Aladdin Jr., Sleeping Beauty KIDS, The Lion King Jr.. Willy Wonka Jr., Winnie the Pooh KIDS, Ever After-The Musical, The Nearly Ballsy Birthday Party Always, Goldilocks & the Three Bears, 101 Dalmatians KIDS, The 3 Little Pigs, We Are Monsters, The Jungle Book KIDS,Disney's The Aristocats KIDS, Seussical KIDS, Winnie the Pooh KIDS,Willy Wonka Jr., and The Panthera leo Rex Jr. (Camps Music Director)

Nigh Lara: Lara holds a Masters of Music degree from Texas State University, specializing in vocal operation and education. Although her musical journeying began in the world of opera, the adventure has lead to teaching college phonation and nurturing a private vox studio. As the vocal manager for Valley Creek Church-Denton campus, she likewise uses her gift to abound the next generation of worship leaders!

Sara Lesley

Spring 2022 Teacher: Never Eat A Talking Lobster Play Lab

Most Sara: Sara has served every bit the Theater Managing director at E.D. Walker Elementary School in Dallas, Texas and at Filibuster MS in Lewisville, Texas. A patron of the Deed since 2007, she has set up designed and worked on tech teams for mainstage shows since 2019. She has a BA in Secondary Education and a MBA in Bilingual Education. She is passionate virtually providing a style for children from all backgrounds to experience the magic of the theater.

Sara has been involved in the performing arts since she was a child. She sang her first solo at the age of five and directed her showtime show in the 8th grade. She has traveled across the U.s.a. and overseas with different performing groups, singing and acting in various venues. She is excited to begin a new chapter of education theater and is thrilled to call the Human activity home!

Shelbie Mac

Fall 2021 Instructor: Too Much Noise! (Sat), Three of a Kind, Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit Play Lab

Almost Shelbie: Homeschooled all her life, Shelbie grew up with a grassroots noesis of music and arts supplied past her pianist mother, regularly singing with her two sisters as a trio with family and at local events.  At the age of 14, she ventured into the world of theater and found herself swept up in an enthusiasm for performing. Later on graduating from Travis Academy of Fine Arts, she endeavored to ameliorate her singing, dancing, and acting, through the ways of private training and conservatories, such as Circumvolve in the Square Theater Schoolhouse (New York), and KD Studios (Dallas).  She has performed for a diversity of different venues, local and out of land, including The National WWII Museum, MLB Texas Rangers, Dallas Children's Theater, Lyric Stage, Eisemann Center, Stage West, and Casa Manana.

Offstage -- or backstage, rather--Shelbie is an award winning visual, mural, and scenic artist of xv years. Her piece of work has been acclaimed by critics, on multiple stages in both Tarrant County and New Orleans alike (including The National WWII Museum, Water Tower Theater, and Lyric Stage).

Through teaching and collaboration in the arts, she aims to aid in her students' character and social development, creating a prophylactic space for inventiveness to thrive.  A large kid at heart and with a big heart for kids, she is thrilled to exist teaching at ACT!

Bryn McCarthy

Bound 2021 Instructor: Mary and Her Niggling Lambs Preschool Form, Wing It! Musical

Past Academy Classes: The Very, Very Gingerbread Homo (Fall 2020 - Teacher), The Iii Baton Goats Gruff (Spring 2020 - Intern)

About Bryn: Bryn McCarthy has been with the ACT since she was a child and has participated in all areas of the theatre. She has been working with the Deed Academy since its beginning in 2016 and has had experience with all ages equally an assistant and intern teacher. She is a senior at the Selwyn Schoolhouse in Argyle and will be headed off to Primal Washington University in the Fall to pursue her bachelors in Emergency Medical Services. She is so excited to piece of work with your kids and can't wait to see their brilliant and shining faces!

Eliana Reece

MAINSTAGE Brand-Upwards DESIGNER/CO-COORDINATOR

Spring 2021 Instructor: Tap & Jazz for Musical Theatre - Level ane (Homeschool and After School), Tap & Jazz for Musical Theatre - Level 2, Triple Threat I - Offset to Intermediate Levels, Triple Threat II - Advanced Level

By Academy Classes: Just Tap, Tap & Jazz for Musical Theatre - Level 1, Tap & Jazz for Musical Theatre - Level ii, Triple Threat I - Showtime to Intermediate Levels, Triple Threat II - Advanced Level (Autumn 2020),Just Tap, Tap & Jazz for Musical Theatre - Level 1, Tap & Jazz for Musical Theatre - Level ii, Triple Threat I - Beginning to Intermediate Levels, Triple Threat II - Advanced Level (Spring 2020), But Tap, Tap & Jazz for Musical Theatre - Beginning Level, Tap & Jazz for Musical Theatre - Level 2, Triple Threat I - Mixed Levels Musical Theatre Dance & Phonation, Triple Threat 2 - Advanced Musical Theatre Trip the light fantastic & Vocalisation (Fall 2019), Tap & Jazz for Music Theatre, Hip Hop for Musical Theatre, Uncomplicated Tap & Jazz, Advanced Musical Theatre Dance & Voice Practicum, Mixed Levels Musical Theatre Dance & Phonation Practicum (Jump 2019), Tap & Jazz - Upper Elementary, Tap & Jazz - Middle/High (Fall 2018)

Current Projects at The ACT: Shrek Jr. (Choreographer)

Upcoming Projects at The Human action: The Rainbow Fish Musical, Junie B. Jones The Musical TNT Bear witness (Choreographer)

Contempo Projects at The ACT: Chitty Chitty Blindside Bang Jr., Puss in Boots (Set Designer), Annihilation Goes YPE, Beauty and the Beast Jr., The Sound of Music GTK, Republic of madagascar Jr., Grease: School Version, Aladdin Jr., Mary Poppins Jr. (Choreographer)

About Eliana: Built-in and raised in the Los Angeles expanse, Eliana began her dance training at the age of 3, graduated from the Commercial Dance Section at the Orangish County HS of the Arts (OCHSA), and was a four yr member of the National Champion Long Beach Land Trip the light fantastic Squad. While earning her degrees in Film and Spanish at CSULB, she returned to OCHSA as a dance instructor, which also allowed her to be mentored past peak choreographers in Los Angeles. She was as well a dancer for a mod/gimmicky company called The Brockus Projection, taught summer Trip the light fantastic toe Team camps for US Spirit Leaders, and became a Los Angeles Rams Cheerleader. She seized the opportunity to relocate to St. Louis with the Rams to develop a new cheerleading program, providing their choreography, scheduling public appearances, styling swimsuit agenda photo shoots, and analogous GameDay entertainment. She also co-founded the Jr. Rams Cheerleader program.

Eliana stepped away from trip the light fantastic and the entertainment industry to raise her children, but discovered The Human action in Fall 2017 while looking for an action for her daughter. It didn't take long to reignite her honey for the arts and she is excited to be back and actively engaged in choreography for several of our mainstage shows! Eliana feels passionately well-nigh pushing her performers to build their trip the light fantastic vocabulary, challenges them with stylized choreography, and is a stickler for solid technique. She looks forward to building foundational dance skills in Human activity Academy dancers that will build their conviction and help them in their musical theater pursuits.

Angela Senter

Full general Production Manager and Resident Stage Manager

Past University Classes: Telephone call Information technology! Stage Management for Teens (Autumn 2020), Call It! Stage Direction for Teens (Spring 2019), Auditions and Movement for Young Actors, Telephone call It! Stage Management for Teens (Spring 2018), Call It! Stage Management for Teens (Fall 2017)

Recent Projects at The ACT: The Panthera leo King Jr. (Stage Manager), Aladdin Jr. (Stage Manager), Mary Poppins Jr. (Stage Manager), Getting to Know Once Upon a Mattress (Director), Peter Pan Jr. (Banana Director), The Music Man Jr. (Stage Manager), Alice in Wonderland Jr. (Managing director), Narnia (Assistant Director and Stage Manager), Rapunzel (Director), Willy Wonka Jr. (Stage Manager), Aladdin Jr. (Phase Director), The Little Mermaid Jr. (Director)

About Angela: Angela is the Full general Production Director and Resident Stage Manager at The ACT and has stage managed, directed, taught, and worked tech for ACT shows and camps since 2004.  She earned a BBA from Trinity Academy in Illinois, studying the odd combination of Direction, Bookkeeping, and Fine Arts. She has been involved in the performing arts since she was a child, directing her first bear witness at the age of 17! In addition to her own multiple roles on product teams, she has also trained well-nigh of the adult phase managers at the theatre. She is particularly well known, notwithstanding, for her work with Human activity teens, instilling in many of them (likewise as in developed volunteers) a true love for the art and responsibleness of working in backside-the-scenes theatre positions. Later countless productions at The Human activity, she is excited to share her experience and knowledge at our theatre, training the the next generation of theatre arts lovers!

Shaun Senter

Product ASSISTANT

Bound 2021 Instructor: The Actors Conservatory Show Choir, Triple Threat I - Beginning to Intermediate Levels, Triple Threat II - Advanced Levels

Past Academy Classes: Regards to Broadway (Fall 2020), Triple Threat I - Outset to Intermediate Levels (Fall 2019-current), Triple Threat Two - Advanced Levels (Fall 2019-electric current), Advanced Musical Theatre Dance & Phonation Practicum, Mixed Levels Musical Theatre Trip the light fantastic toe & Phonation Practicum, Musical Theatre Dance & Voice (Monday Subsequently School), Peter Pan Play Lab (Monday Later on Schoolhouse), Broadway Spring - Advanced Musical Theatre, Musical Theatre Trip the light fantastic toe & Vocalism (Mon After Schoolhouse), The Wizard of Oz Play Lab (Monday Later on Schoolhouse), and First Steps in Drama: Mary and Her Little Lamb Musical Play Lab, The ACT Bear witness Choir (Leap 2017-current), Avant-garde Musical Theatre Dance & Vocalisation (Spring 2018), The King of beasts, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Play Lab (Spring 2018), The American Revolution: 1763-1789 - Musical Play Lab (Bound 2018), Musical Theatre Trip the light fantastic toe & Voice (Fall 2016, Leap 2017, Fall 2017), Fantastic Mr. Fox Play Lab (Autumn 2017)

Recent Projects at The Deed: The Happy Elf, Shrek Jr. (Director), The Happy Elf, Frozen Jr. (Music Director), Anything Goes YPE, Beauty and the Beast Jr., Madagascar Jr., Grease: School Version, Aladdin Jr., Peter Pan Jr., Singin in the Rain Jr. (Music Director), Alice in Wonderland Jr.. Stuart Little, James and the Giant Peach Jr., Love Edwina Jr. (Stage Manager)

Well-nigh Shaun: Shaun first joined The Actors Solarium Theatre xv years ago as a child actor. He began instruction with The Deed Academy in the Fall of 2016 just afterwards graduating with his Bachelor of Arts in Music with a Classical Vocal Performance emphasis at Southwestern Assemblies of God University. While earning his caste, he taught voice, dance, acting, and pianoforte lessons to kids and adults of all ages, and traveled beyond the U.s. and overseas performing with multiple music groups of varying styles. He has worked with many theaters around DFW, including Dallas Children's Theater and Casa Mañana, and has several years of on- screen film experience. He is happy to telephone call The Human activity his home and to exist teaching your kids at The ACT Academy for another semester.

Cynthia Starnes

By Academy Classes: Nuts! Musical (Jump 2020), The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Play Lab (Fall 2019)

Upcoming Projects at The Act: Magic Tree House: Knight Before Dawn (Manager)

Recent Projects at The Human action: Frozen Jr. (Choreographer), Aladdin Jr. (Director)

Well-nigh Cynthia: Cynthia is in her fifth year every bit the Theatre Director at Calhoun MS, where she has directed/produced over a dozen shows including Twelve Aroused Jurors, Fame, Annie, Into the Wood, and Steel Magnolias. Later receiving her BFA in Musical Theatre from USIU, she performed on phase in San Diego and LA, appeared in national commercials and print campaigns, and co-starred in features and television. She has taught acting, trip the light fantastic toe, and pageant grooming over the last 20 years to a variety of ages.  She is thrilled to be part of the ACT family because it is exciting to watch the growth of students artistically and individually.

Jamie Williams

Spring 2021 Instructor: Stone Soup (Co-Instructor), Sing A Song of Aesop, The Entire American Revolution (in twoscore minutes or less) (Assistant Teacher)

About Jamie: Andrew (Jamie) Williams earned his BA in Theatre at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he developed a love for Shakespeare and the primal simplicity of the early modern phase. He taught children's theatre and performed in Northward Texas until 2016, when he relocated to Beijing, China to teach English as a second language for a British primary school. In 2019 he left China to earn his MA in Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham in the Great britain, where he continued to perform for local theatre. Now back in the States, he is eager to be back in the world of theatre again and help young actors find their own artistic voices.

Laura Wise

Spring 2021 Instructor: The Surprising Story of the Three Little Pigs

Almost Laura: Laura has been assistant didactics at the ACT since 2019 and has done many musical performances both in school and out! She is currently a senior at Hebron Loftier School, where she is involved in several extracurricular activities and her school's choral program. Laura wishes to pursue a job in spoken language pathology and has been accepted into the Academy of Texas at Austin for class of 2026. She is so excited to teach your kids and put on a operation together!

Meet Our Class Assistants

EMILY CLARK

Fall 2019: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Play Lab

Cameron Clay

Autumn 2018: Musical Theatre Dance and Voice (Monday After School)

Jump 2018: Jack and the Giant Beanstalk Play Lab

Ava Leigh Coates

Leap 2020: Trolls - Songs & Scenes

Fall 2019: Songs & Scenes for Musical Theatre

Spring 2019: Welcome to the Jungle! Musical

Fall 2018: The Little Cherry-red Hen Musical

Spring 2018: Vacation on Mars Musical Play Lab, Musical Theatre Essentials

EMBRY ANN Coates

Leap 2020: The Catnapper Mystery and Other Tales

Autumn 2019: 13 Colonies Play Lab

SYDNEY DYER

Bound 2019: Pan! Play Lab, Musical Theatre Foundations (Homeschool), Musical Theatre Foundations (After Schoolhouse)

JOHN HAMILTON

Spring 2019: A Dragon in the Mix - Play Lab

Kirsten Harris

Jump 2019: Mr. Rhythm'southward Circus Musical

Olivia Kahny

Fall 2018: The Wizard of Oz Play Lab (Mon Subsequently School)

RAASHI KALYANI

Fall 2019: The Best Christmas Pageant E'er Play Lab

EMILY MATTHEWS

Fall 2020: Arrow Christian University Theatre Classes, The Very, Very Gingerbread Man

Spring 2020: Arrow Christian Academy Theatre Classes

Fall 2019: Arrow Christian Academy Theatre Classes, The Mysterious Instance of the Missing Ring Play Lab

Bryn McCarthy

Bound 2020 (Intern): The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Jump 2019: Welcome to the Jungle! Musical

Fall 2018: Mary and Her Petty Lamb Musical, The Wizard of Oz - Play Lab (Saturday)

Spring 2018: Preschool Drama Rama, The American Revolution: 1763-1789 Musical Play Lab

Fall 2017: The Amazing Adventures of Peter Rabbit Musical Play Lab, Fairytale Characters and Scenes for Young Actors (After School), Interim for Musical Theatre

Jump 2017: Treasure Torso Theatre

SHiloh McGarrh

Spring 2020: Cinderella Musical

Fall 2019: Pajama Party Musical

Leap 2019: Nether the Body of water Musical Play

Fall 2018: Musical Theatre Dance and Voice (Monday Homeschool)

BRYSON POPE

Fall 2019: Bugz! Musical

RETHI SENTHILMURUGAN

Autumn 2019: Musical Theatre Magic - 75 Years of Disney

BEN SEVERANCE

Autumn 2019: Characters & Scenes for Young Actors

Georgia Kate Tarter

Fall 2018: EIEI Oops! Musical Play

Maya Thakur

Autumn 2018: The Magician of Oz Play Lab (Monday Afterward School)

SAHANA VIJAYAN

Autumn 2019: Musical Theatre Magic - 75 Years of Disney

LAURA WISE

Spring 2020: Nuts! Musical

Fall 2019: Dinosauring Musical

Spring 2019: Arf! Welcome to Doggie Town Musical

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