Patrice Bailey, (Dean of Theater) holds an MFA in Directing from Florida State University and a M.A. in Oral Interpretation of Literature and Speech Communication from Indiana State University. She has been with the Theater Division for the 17 years serving as Dean for 9 years and a faculty member for eight years, teaching Acting, Scene Study, Voice & Diction, and Directing. Ms. Bailey has directed over 50 productions including three seasons with City Theatre.  Some of her directing credits include Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and Company; Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal with scenic design by Alexander Okun. Her direction of New World Rep’s production of Faith Healer won a Carbonell Award for Best Production of a Play.  Ms. Bailey has conducted master classes in acting for The Music Hall Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, Florida Theater conferences, the Florida Association for Theater Educators and lectured at the National Arts Learning Network conference in London.  Previously Ms. Bailey taught at Florida International University for the Theater and Dance Department and she continues to work as a consulate to the Executive MBA, Evening MBA and International MBA programs in the College of Business. In addition to teaching, Ms. Bailey has also worked extensively in television production, specifically as a talent coordinator for the Tony Awards.

Gail Solari Garrisan (Acting, Scene Study, Directing) joined New World as a fulltime faculty member in 2007.  She is the founding Artistic Director of City Theatre in Miami, FL, which produces the award winning Summer Shorts Festival.  During her nine years with City Theatre, she was also the Director of Education. She conducted acting and writing workshops, directed short plays for High School students and mentored participants in the Young Playwrights Festival. She has worked extensively with the education departments of The Kravis Center, The Caldwell Theater, and Coconut Grove Playhouse.  Ms. Garrisan has directed over 60  professional productions at numerous venues throughout the country, and at local theaters such as Coconut Grove Playhouse, Florida Stage and New Theater.  Her workshops on Audition Techniques, Breath and Body Exploration and Monologue Building have been presented nationally. She has taught graduate and undergraduate acting at Florida Atlantic University and Broward Community College and has had a private coaching practice for professional actors for over 25 years. She studied acting at T. Schreiber Studio and HB Studio in New York City where she worked as actress, director and writer. She was a member of the Circle Repertory Directors Lab for ten years. She holds a BA in Dramatic Literature and an MFA in Directing.  Ms. Garrisan is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers, Theatre Communications Group, The Florida Cultural Alliance, The Florida Professional Theater Association, The Theatre League of South Florida, and The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.  Her children’s activity book Perfectly Yours debuted in 2009.

Jeff Hess (Music Director, Music Theater Workshop, Music Theory, Vocal Ensemble) is an Associate Professor at New World School of the Arts.  He has been music director/pianist for professional productions at venues that include the Indiana Repertory Theater, Beef and Boards Dinner Theater, Meadow Brooke Theater, Hollywood Playhouse, the Mosaic Theater, Broward Stage Door, City Theatre, and Actor’s Playhouse.  He has also been music director for Jean Ann Ryan Productions and Kings Productions for their industrial shows.  Playing piano professionally for 30 years, Mr. Hess has played in cabaret venues, in classical recitals and   at Carnegie Hall for the National Choral Festival. Mr. Hess is a member of Music Theater Educator’s Alliance. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Butler University and graduated summa cum laude.  He is listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers.

David Kwiat (Acting, Acting for the Camera, Senior Project, Senior Research) has been a professor in the Theater Division at New World School of the Arts for the past twenty years.  He is the recipient of an Endowed Teaching Chair and his many performances in South Florida have earned him two Carbonell Awards.  His performance in QED received the "Best Actor" and he received "Best Supporting Actor" for his work in Dirty Blonde, both at GableStage.  He is also the recipient of the New Times Best Actor Award - Best Supporting Actor  and the Carbonell "Bill Hindman Award for long term career achievement in the South Florida Arts Community."  Professor Kwiat came to NWSA with an extensive background in professional theater.  He has performed at the Guthrie Theater, Arizona Theater Company, Asolo State Theatre of Florida, Actors Theatre of St. Paul, GableStage, Actors' Playhouse, New Theatre, New Classic Theatre and the Minnesota Festival Theatre.   He authored John Barrymore: Confessions of an Actor, which he has performed at the Edinburgh International Theater Festival, The King's Head Theater in London and throughout the United States.  His collection of poetry:  Travelers in Residence was performed at the New Theatre's Miami in the Millennium Play Festival.  David has also been included in the Millennium Edition of Who's Who in America.  He earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Acting from Florida State University where he trained with the Asolo Conservatory.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and received the Outstanding Actor Award.

Matthew Glass (Acting, Scene Study, Speech) is an actor, director, vocal coach and writer who is a member of Miami’s Camposition, A Miami Dance/Theatre Company where he was previously seen in several world premiers as a writer and a performer. Recently Matthew appeared as Bernard in GableStage’s Romance (Best Supporting Actor, Best Of Miami 2007; Miami New Times & Best Comic Performance 2007; Miami's Sun Post.) Regionally he has worked at The American Living Room Theatre Festival, Coffee Clutch Playwriting Workshop(NYC), The Playground Theatre, The New World Repertory Company, Miami Children's Theatre, The Rude Mechanicals, City Theatre, Area Stage Company, Acme Acting Company, and the Florida Shakespeare Festival. He is a member of The American Dramatists Guild, VASTA and The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.   He periodically teaches at NOVA Southeastern University, Universal Academy, Miami-Dade College’s North and Kendall Campuses and Florida International University.

"Andy" Noble (Actors’ Workshop, Introduction to Theatre, Mask Characterization, Theatre Appreciation) is a British actor, director, and teacher, now a U.S. citizen. He trained as teacher and actor at the University of Birmingham College of Education and the East 15 Acting School (in the methodology of Joan Littlewood) in England where he founded The Orchard Theatre Company, under the aegis of the Dartington Hall Trust/Beaford Centre, which became a model for peripathetic theatre in Europe. He was awarded a Director’s Bursary by the Arts Council of Great Britain and served on the Theatre Panel, South West Arts Association. Subsequently, he became Artistic /Managing Director of The Plough Arts Centre, programming independent and mainstream cinema, theatre (including Royal Shakespeare Company), and art exhibitions.  Fulfilling a wish to combine theatre and travel, he joined the theatre faculty of the University of Miami, co-founded SEAT, an alternative theatre company and was Assistant Director in the Education Department at Coconut Grove Playhouse.  Following his appointment as Director of Te Kura Toi Whakaari (The New Zealand Drama School) in Wellington, New Zealand, he returned to Miami as a freelance actor/director before joining the NWSA Theatre Division where he is currently a Professor. Named Best Actor in a Play by The New Times for the title role in Brian Friel’s The Faith Healer, he has acted in many local professional theatres.

Dorset Noble (Stagecraft Technical Direction) holds a degree in Theatre from Auburn University and has been Technical Director for the Academy Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia State University, North Shore Music Theatre in Boston, and the Coconut Grove Playhouse and Barry University in Miami. He was Production Manager for Georgia Shakespeare Festival and Production Stage Manager for Actors’ Playhouse. He has designed sets for more than 100 productions at theatres such as the Alliance Theatre, Seven Stages, and Showcase/Atlanta, and was twice nominated for Best Set Design by the Atlanta Circle of Drama Critics. He has designed for several theatres in Miami, and was nominated for the Carbonell award for Best Set design for West Side Story at Actors’ Playhouse. He has also directed over 40 productions, including the Atlanta premiere of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, for theatres such as Atlanta Shakespeare, Shoestring Opera, and Phoenix Theatre.

Jeff Quinn (Production Design, Scenic and Lighting Design) has created over 500 live productions. He received his MFA from Penn State University, and studied subsequently with Josef Svoboda. Mr. Quinn is member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, I.A.T.S.E. and the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology. His works have appeared at the Fulton Opera House, Pennsylvania Festival Theatre, the Hilton Head Playhouse, GableStage, Actors Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, New Theatre, the New World Repertory Company, Fort Lauderdale Children's Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. He has also designed lighting for the New World Symphony, the FIU Music Festival, Maximum Dance, Ballet Blue Ridge, Ballet Theatre of Miami, Momentum Dance, Ballet Espanol Rosita Segovia, Duende Ballet Espanol, Freddick Bratcher and Company, and many others. Mr. Quinn has won two Carbonell Awards as well as three Curtain Up Awards.

James Randolph (Acting, Directing, Movement, Speech) has been teaching since 1983 at the University of Florida where he taught Speech, Oral Interpretation and Performance as an adjunct Professor. He has been part of a team who trained Metro-Dade County police officers for undercover police work to stop the citywide assault on tourists and the elderly. He has given seminars in presentation and deportment to law students at the University of Florida. He holds a B.F.A degree from the University of Miami and an M.F.A degree from the University of Florida. Both degrees are in Theater with an emphasis on Acting and Directing. He has attended seminars and conferences in theatre including the International Conference on Arts and Humanities annually held in Hawaii. He has also taught at The University of Miami, trained professional actors as a consultant for the Theatre League of South Florida, and the Acting Studio and was also an Associate Professor of Theatre at Barry University. As an actor over the past 34 years has appeared in over 100 plays, commercials, television shows and feature films and is a member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. James won a Carbonell Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the dual roles of Mr. Lies/Belize in Tony Kushner's epic play, Angels in America, and was also recognized by the New Times as Best Actor in a Comedy for his work as a finicky feline in the inaugural season for City Theatre's series of short plays, Summer Shorts. He has directed over 60 plays and musicals. Some of his directorial credits include Porgy & Bess for the Florida Arts Celebration; I have Before me a Remarkable Document by a Young Lady From Rwanda At New Theatre, Miss Saigon at French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts and several seasons directing for City Theatre’s Summer Shorts. James has also participated in a series of master classes with internationally acclaimed playwrights Edward Albee, Marie Irene Fornes, Arthur Kopit and Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Auburn as part of special workshops through The Theater League of South Florida and the Division of Cultural Affairs. James continues to perform in regional theatres throughout the South Florida Area.

Dale Andree
Adjunct Faculty
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Dale Andree (Laban Movement Analysis) is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music. She has had the opportunity to perform under the direction of May O’Donnell, Pearl Lang, Paul Sansardo, Anna Sokolow, Elaine Summers and others. Ms Andree has taught nationally and internationally including The Place in London, the Paris Opera Ballet School, University of Miami, The Florida Dance Festival and various festivals in Peru, Colombia and Brazil.  She has served on the Board of Directors of the Florida Dance Association and has been actively involved in bringing improvisation and site-specific dance to the Miami community. Ms Andree has recently become a CMA in Laban Movement Analysis.

Richard Janaro
Adjunct Faculty
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Dr. Richard Janaro (Playwrighting) after having served as Co-Director of the highly successful PAVAC program, which became NWSA, he was founding and acting dean of the Theater Division. The following year he became Associate Dean, a position he held for eight years before retiring as Associate Dean Emeritus. Dr J, as he is known to his students, continues to teach Playwriting for the college junior classes. He has a long history not only of teaching, but of writing as well as directing in both academic and professional theaters. He is proud to have directed Julie Haydon, the original Laura of Glass Menagerie, in a revival of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. In addition to his other credits, Dr. J has written over thirty plays, which have been produced either academically or professionally, and thirteen textbooks on theater and the humanities. He has authored many teleplays, one of which The Way of the Humanist won an Emmy as Best Educational Documentary.  He has trained at Harvard, Boston University, and Laurence University and holds three degrees - BA, MA, and Ed.D.-- from these institutions.

Melissa Kollwitz
Adjunct Faculty
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Melissa Kollwitz (Dialects, Speech) is originally from southeastern Connecticut.  Most recently, she completed a one year internship at the Yale School of Drama with Pamela Prather and her MFA actors.  While studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama she tutored BFA musical theatre students at Trinity College of Music and was the vocal coach for the Young Vic's production of Indian Wants the Bronx.  She has guest taught and assistant directed at Central Connecticut State University and has also taught and choreographed dance/movement at theatre companies in central Connecticut since 2004.  She is a candidate for certification as an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. Melissa is a singer/songwriter as well as a jazz vocalist for Grammy-nominated pianist Joe Parillo.  MA from Central School of Speech and Drama, BA from Marymount Manhattan Theatre.

Ron Headrick holds a BFA in Theater/Dance from Texas Christian University and a MFA from Florida Atlantic University in Directing. He has directed and choreographed over one hundred musicals in stock, regional and dinner theaters. In 1995, he went to Russia to teach music theater technique. He is recipient of three Artist-in-Residence grants from the state of Florida.

Felicia Kurtz (Private Voice, Vocal Ensemble) is a graduate of the University of Michigan holding degrees in Voice Performance and Music Education.  Her performance experience ranges from opera to musical theater, including both cabaret and jazz venues.  She has performed leading roles in over twenty opera and musical productions both here in the United States and abroad.  Ms. Kurtz has appeared in the Las Palmas Opera Festival under the direction of Tito Capobianco and Theo Alcantara.  In addition to her many international performances, she has also appeared nationally with Gustav Meier, Ralph Herbert and others.   She was also the understudy for Cleo Laine, performing in Kurt Weill’s ‘Seven Deadly Sins’.  Ms. Kurtz is a much sought after clinician, educator, director and adjudicator and is a college consultant holding master classes and audition workshops as well as recitals across the country.  Ms. Kurtz is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), and has maintained a private voice studio since 1980.  She has been a member of the adjunct faculty at New World since 2000 teaching private voice and music theory.  Ms. Kurtz is also a facilitator at the University of Miami Frost School of Music Young Musician’s Camp holding master classes in vocal technique and audition technique as well as director of musical theater workshops.

Rafi Maldonado-Lopez (Ballet, Jazz, Movement, Choreography)
Rafi joined the faculty at New World School of the Arts in 2003.  In addition to teaching Jazz and Ballet to students in the Musical Theatre track, he has also choreographed for the mainstage productions Anything Goes, Carousel, Guys and Dolls, Parade, and Pajama Game.  Rafi also heads up the Jazz Division at the acclaimed Miami City Ballet School.  His choreographic works there includes choreographing LOUNGE 2200 with Richard Amaro and Liz Malm for Miami City Ballet, Broadway Mambo for the apprentice program, as well as creating and premiering a new full length ballet for children Carnival of the Animals with Geta Constantinescu. His summer teaching includes music theatre jazz for professional company dancers of the Music Hall Theatre of St. Petersburg, Russia; as well as with Companhia de Ballet in Rio de Janiero.   He has taught upper level dance at California University of Pennsylvania, University of Nebraska, Summit Dance Studios, Midwest Youth Dance Company, and Metro Dance Studio. Some stage experience includes working with Minnesota Dance Theatre, Ballet Arts of Minnesota, Ballet of the Dolls, The Boston Dance Company, American Dance Company, and numerous guest appearances. Locally he has appeared with Dancesations, and Next Step Dance Company.  His new work includes workshoping the off-Broadway hit play Celia Cruz: the musical, and is now working on several new commercial theatre projects.

Elizabeth Malm (Ballet, Jazz) is a native Miamian. She graduated from New World School of the Arts where she was featured as a soloist in a work by guest choreographer Michael Uthoff of the Arizona Ballet. She has danced with companies such as Momentum Dance and Karen Peterson and Dancers and is currently a company member with Ballet Theater of Miami. This has been her fifth year performing in the Florida Dance Festival and the International Ballet Festival. She has choreographed many music videos, danced, and toured with artists such as Lenny Kravitz, Ricky Martin, Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction, Beastie Boys, Lil’ Romeo, Jay-Z, Baha Men, Carlos Ponce, Jaime Camil, Tito Puente, Sam Beam and Kevens. She has also choreographed many commercials and television shows for Samsung, Lays, Herbal Essence, Pollo Tropical, “Truth”, MTV, BET, CBS, Telemundo and Univision.

Sandra L. Portal-Andreu (Ballet, Jazz, Movement, Tap) is a Miami native who began her dance experience at the Mirochnik Ballet Institute under the direction of Madelyn Alfonso. Later, she trained intensively in the Vaganova Technique with Ballet Master Vladimir Issaev. She received her A.A. from New World School of the Arts, a B.F.A. in Dance from Florida State University, and a M.S. in Movement Sciences from Barry University. Additionally, Mrs. Portal-Andreu has trained with Fernando Bujones, Suzanne Farrell, Michael Foley, Gerri Houlihan, and Ronald K. Brown. Additional dance experience includes Arts Ballet Theater of So. Florida, Momentum Dance Company, Ballet Theater of Miami, Next Step Dance, Florida Grand Opera’s “AIDA”, Miami City Ballet’s "Lounge 2200", and Camposition’s “Accelerate”. Also, she is a certified trainer in GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®. Sandra has held faculty positions at Barry University and Miami City Ballet School and was guest faculty for Vladimir Issaev's Classical Ballet Russian Seminar. Also, she was a guest artist in the FSUdanceSARASOTA and taught master classes throughout the community. Her choreography has been presented in Florida, Texas, and the Bahamas. She has choreographed work for The Naked Stage Theater Company in their presentation of “Nerve”, NWSA's Summer Arts Academy and UM's Young Musicians Camp. Additionally, she has danced for Carlos Ponce, Iron and Wine, the SuperBowl, and Sabado Gigante and has appeared in local and regional commercials including Mervyn's, Eastern Financial Bank, Bealls, and Pax TV.

Stuart Meltzer (Acting) is the Producing Artistic Director of Zoetic Stage in Miami. For two years, Meltzer was the Artistic Director of City Theatre in Miami, where he oversaw and expanded the Summer Shorts Festival.  New York credits include Romulus Linney's Gint, Harold Pinter's One for the Road, Aristaphanes' Lysistrata, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls... as well as Morzek's Striptease. Upon his return to South Florida, where Stuart was raised, he was Head of Theatre at Gulliver Preparatory and then part of the Full Time Faculty at New World School of the Arts for two years. At New World, Stuart directed Brecht/Weill's The Threepenny Opera, Weiss' Marat/Sade and Tony Kushner's Angels in America staged at The Colony Theatre. South Florida directing credits include Kiss of the Spider Woman, Painted Alice, Barefoot Boy With Shoes On, Everything Will be Different and A Brief History of Helen of Troy at Mad Cat Theatre and in the Winter of 2010, Melt at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. He received his M.F.A. in Directing from the Actors Studio/New School in 2002 and B.F.A. from the New World School of the Arts in Miami.

Aaron Merritt (Vocal Ensemble) has been Adjunct Professor Music Theory since 2009 and Adjunct Professor of Cello at New World School of the Arts since 2006. In addition to being an alumnus of the NWSA High School, Mr. Merritt was a fellow of the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. He received is Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University where he studied with Helga Winold, Emilio Colón and Janos Starker and his Master of Music degree from Rice University where he was a student of Lynn Harrell. In addition to his teaching duties at NWSA, Mr. Merritt is a member of the Miami Music Project, Florida Grand Opera orchestra and the Firebird Chamber Orchestra. He has won competitions held by the New World Symphony, Florida Philharmonic and Boca Raton Symphonic Pops, has performed at festivals in Austria and Holland, and was a recipient of the National Federation of Music Club’s award to study at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Merritt has taught at the Point CounterPoint Chamber Music Camp in Vermont, and is a performing member of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder.

Edward Rozinsky (Stage Combat) obtained both his BFA and MFA degrees from the prestigious Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography (Soviet Union). Invited to teach at the Institute, Mr. Rozinsky did so until 1979 when he immigrated to the United States. During his work in the Soviet Union, Edward directed and produced numerous plays and TV shows as well as established and lead a Mime/Clown Company “LITZEDEI” that later became an internationally acclaimed group. At the Leningrad Institute, Edward taught Acting, Stage Movement and was instrumental in starting the first program in Russia to teach professional mime actors at university level. Since in the United States, Mr. Rozinsky taught Stage Movement and Acting at University of Miami, Florida International University, New World School of the Arts, and Barry University. He directed and produced plays at University of Miami and at the Chamber Theatre, a theatre for children in Coral Gables that he established and lead for two years. Mr. Rozinsky is the author of a book “Silent Art” published in Russia and of numerous articles published in Russia, the US, England and Poland. Several plays written by E. Rozinsky have been produced in Russia and the U.S., and recently a ballet “Tlep and Sarykyz” by Mr. Rozinsky’s libretto was staged in Kazakhstan. Edward Rozinsky just finished developing an on-line course in Essential Stage Movement that is offered to students all over the world via the internet.

Chesne Ryman (Private Voice) was born in Sydney, Australia of a Scandinavian family. After studies at the Conservatorium of Music, she joined the Elizabethan Trust Opera, the forerunner to the Australian Opera Company. After four years at the opera and Williamson’s Music Theatre Company, she moved to London, England. She continued studying and performing in England, Austria, Germany, Switzerland before returning to Australia to sing at the Royal Performance opening of the Sydney Opera House, performing the role of the “Queen of the Night” in The Magic Flute. She returned to Europe and Scandinavia to continue her opera and concert performances which took her to Israel, Italy, Finland, among other places. She was head of the Vocal and Opera department at Nordic Music Conservatorium in Stockholm for 10 years before she was recruited by John De Lancy, then dean of music at the New World School of the Arts in 1988, where she taught voice in both the Music Division and the Music Theater program in the Theater Division. She was also vocal coach, music director, and conductor for various performances. Ms. Ryman held this position for 11 years and has now returned as an adjunct voice teacher. Chesne still visits Sweden each year to sing and teach master classes.

Helena Thevenot (Movement, Yoga) is an educator and researcher in the fields of Dance and Somatic Movement Arts, a contemporary choreographer and performer. Ms. Thevenot holds a B.A. in dance from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Over the course of her artistic career, Helena has received numerous commissions, grants, fellowships and honors for her work such as the Choreographer's Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs' Dance Miami Fellowship Program, the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Honors in Dance, and the Artist Access Grant. In 2006, she was awarded a Fulbright Lecture/Research Fellowship to Brazil. Thevenot’s eclectic dance background can be traced to renowned artists that include among others, Eric Hawkins, Kei Takei, Nancy Topf, Maureen Fleming, Akira Kasai, Diego Piñon and Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno. Since her arrival in Florida in the mid-eighties, she has emerged as a solo artist with a unique vision, often incorporating original music and visual imagery from artists such as composer Gustavo Matamoros, composer Jon Gibson, composer/violinist Alfredo Triff, VJ Benton Bainbridge, sculptor Lonne Sherbill-Weinstein and performance artist Maria Jose Arjona. Her work has been commissioned by Tigertail Productions, Miami Light Project, Artemis Performing Network, and has been presented by Dance-Network's New Visions: American Butoh program of the San Francisco Butoh Festival '02 and by Celcit in Nicaragua's IX International Theatre Festival '03. Certified in the Topf Technique since 1997, Helena maintains a private movement therapy practice in Miami. Additionally, she guest lectures and teaches Topf and Butoh movement workshops at festivals, colleges and universities nationally and internationally.

Jennifer Toohey (Dialects, Scene Study, Speech) holds a BFA from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, and an MFA from Florida Atlantic University.  Ms. Toohey also trained in singing at the prestigious Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.  She has taught acting, acting for the classical theatre, dramatic literature, theatre appreciation, musical theatre and voice and speech for the past four years.  Her special focus is voice and speech, and she has trained extensively in both Linklater Voicework, and Fitzmaurice Voicework.  Jennifer is a candidate for Fitzmaurice Voicework certification in 2010, and is an active member of VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association).  Ms. Toohey is also a professional Canadian Actor’s Equity Association member and company member of The Alliance Theatre Lab where she has appeared as Roberta in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Martha in Strange Snow.  Her professional acting credits include Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Laurie in Oklahoma!, Gerda in The Hollow (FAU Summer Rep), Lady Saphir in Patience (Drayton Entertainment), Miss Hannigan in Annie (St. Lawrence Stage Co.) and Meg Brockie in Brigadoon (Sunshine Festival Theatre).  Jennifer has also worked as a dialect and speech coach and director at various South Florida colleges.

Estela Vrancovich (Costume Designer, Stage Makeup, Costume Stagecraft) has been in South Florida for the past ten years.  Originally from Argentina, she has worked internationally as a designer and technician designing for professional theater productions as a well as independent dance, circus and acrobatic companies.  She has received several Carbonell nominations, a Curtain Up award for Ruthless in 2002 at the Hollywood Playhouse and the Sustained Artistic Achievement Award from the New Theater in 2005.  In 2006, she joined the Theater Department at NWSA as Costume Designer for their main stage productions and as Make Up and Stage Craft teacher.