Past guest artists
Throughout the history of Spotlight we have had experienced artists from Peru and the United States who participated in our programs as teachers in the disciplines of singing, acting and dancing.
Throughout the history of Spotlight we have had experienced artists from Peru and the United States who participated in our programs as teachers in the disciplines of singing, acting and dancing.
Performing Arts Program 2019 (Wicked) and 2022 (Heathers), Online Programs
2020-2021
Summer Program 2020 (Beetlejuice) y 2022 (In The Heights), Performing Arts Program 2019 (Waitress), Online Programs 2020-2021
Summer Program 2020 (Beetlejuice),
Online Programs
2020-2021
Eve Harlow was born in Moscow, Russia, and spent the first seven years of her life in Israel, but she began her career in Canada, where her love for film and theater made her actively pursue acting. By the age of 19, she Eve had won a Leo award (which celebrates television and film in British Columbia, Canada), and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series award at the Canadian Screen Awards (formerly known as the Geminis ).
Over the years, Eve has built up an impressive and diverse resume - she was a fragile, torn-in-between-loyalties love interest on the CW series The 100; a rebellious secret agent in the NBC series Heroes: Reborn; in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD she was a renegade trying to survive a morbid dystopia, a recovering drug addict in Paramount's Instant Family, and a hacker who works for the FBI in Fox Televisions' limited series Next. Other credits include UnREAL, The Killing, Fargo, Lost Girl, Caprica, 12 Monkeys, Ray Donovan, Rogue, SEAL Team, NCIS, The Rookie, Queen of the South, and Titans.
Coming up, you'll be able to see Eve as an unhinged assassin in the new Netflix series The Night Agent, and as the villain in the fifth season of Star Trek: Discovery.
Alejandra Valera is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, singer and psychologist. She began her dance training at the Liliana Rovegno Dance Studio. She has taken various seminars and courses in Lima, Argentina, New York and Brazil. She was part of the Municipal Ballet of Lima. She has participated in musicals such as Mezcla, El Musical 2010, Tu Lima, Chicago, El Chico de Oz, Sweet Charity, Av Larco, El Musical 2015 and Mamma Mia. She served as the choreographic director on the musicals Cinderella and Billy Elliot.
She was director of the Vania Masías D1 School for 3 years. She was the winner of the Aibal Award for Performing Arts in 2015 in the Best Dance Performer category. She was part of the D1 Company, with which she has performed in New York at the Choreographers Festival, Bountiful and at the Easter Bonet.
Eloise Kropp started dancing and acting when she was 8 years old. After finishing high school she attended the University of Oklahoma to study Musical Theater. After this period, Eloise moved to New York to participate in various musicals and roles of a wide variety on Broadway such as JennyAnyDots in "Cats", Ruby in "Dames At Sea", Claire U/S in "On The Town" and ensemble in "The Music Man".
She has also been involved in TV and film projects such as Steven Spielberg's version of the blockbuster “West Side Story” and the Fosse/Verdon and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel series.
During her career, Eloise has been nominated for Astaire Awards in the categories of "Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Show" and "Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway Show" for the show "Dames At The Sea" and has been nominated in the same way in the Chita Awards for “Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Show” for “Cats”.
Musician by profession. He graduated from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences with a Bachelor's degree with a specialization in Music Production. He has been in the world of musical theater for ten years, working as Vocal Director and band in more than 10 productions. He is a Voice Teacher certified by New York Vocal Coaching and is currently studying a Master's Degree in Musical Pedagogy at the International University of La Rioja.
He currently works as a freelance singing teacher, vocal coach and music producer, as well as being our singing teacher and vocal director at Spotlight since 2021.
Professional Classical Ballet Dancer Graduated from the Municipal Theater Ballet School of Santiago, Chile, where he completed his studies and training in ballet, contemporary dance and character dances. During his school years he has been able to participate in numerous productions with the Santiago Ballet, to later enter and form part of the stable cast of the company of the National Ballet of Peru under the direction, in the first instance, of the prestigious Maestro and Choreographer Jimmy Gamonet of the Heros and currently directed by prima ballerina Grace Kelly Cobian. In said company he has been able to take part in productions and reruns such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo Y Juliet, Recitations, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, among others. In addition to being part of the world premiere of the work Sidereales, by Mark Godden in Peru. He currently continues training him in Jazz Theater and Ballroom (competition dance).
Alex Vargas is a singer and musical theater actor.
He started his career in 2018, singing for multiple venues and fairs across Lima and different departments of Peru.
Two years later, he enrolled in Berklee College Of Music Online Courses for Music Business, Songwriting and Artist Building and in 2021, he participated in the reality TV show “La Voz Peru”.
Later that year, Alex began his path as a Spotlight Student. He participated in the Musical “In The Heights” as “Usnavi”, in “Heathers” as “J.D.” And in “Hadestown” as “Hermes”.
In early 2023, Alex traveled to Curitiba (Brasil) as a part of the Spotlight teaching Team that was doing a Musical Theater Program at a local school.
As of now, he is continuing his studies with particular lessons of ballet and singing.
Bhumi is an education professional with extensive experience teaching English literature, language, and communications in the U.S. and abroad.
She is a former Fulbright Scholar and has Master’s degrees in Education Policy and Management from Harvard University and English Teaching from Northwest University.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Bachelor’s degrees in English and Communications and has professional experiences managing education programs and training teachers to teach diverse students.
Kara graduated from New York University with a BA in Ethnomusicology and Latin American Studies. She has participated in musical programs in Argentina, Holland, Italy and Peru.
She has trained with professionals at the Boston Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and New York University. Kara worked as Musical Director of the Summer Lab Musical Theater Company at the University of Chicago and was Director of Musical Theater at the Hiram Bingham School in Lima until 2019.
She recently graduated with a Master's degree at Harvard University in Arts Education, Bilingualism, and Entrepreneurship.
Musical Theater Actor (dancer and singer) trained at CFAP in Mexico City and at CAE Artestudio. Professor and choreographer of Jazz Dance and Musical Theater. Nominated twice for the Aibal Award for his work as a male dance performer in Alicia en Frikiland (2015) and Saturday Night Fever (2016). In 2017 he participated as an actor and dancer in two of the Opera seasons at the Gran Teatro Nacional. In 2018, he was a featured ensemble in the musicals La Era del Rock, Maestra Vida and El Plebeyo. In 2019 he was part of the cast of the musical Eres Bueno Charlie Brown and premiered his own dance show "Freddie La Layenda" by his own producer, CAST Espectáculos, with three successful seasons at the Ricardo Blume theater.
During the quarantine, he directed streaming shows such as "Déjame Brillar" and "Stephany Orúe es Selena", both filmed at the Ricardo Blume Theater. At the end of 2021, he produced the revival of Freddie, La Leyenda together with the Municipal Ballet of Lima at La Cúpula de Las Artes.
In 2022, with CAST Espectáculos, he was in charge of a new revival of Freddie La Leyenda at La Cúpula de las Artes, and Whitney, a musical show at the Teatro Ricardo Blume.
Currently, he is part of the cast of the musical "La Mariscala" with a season at the Municipal Theater and holds his own space alone as a Theater Jazz teacher.
Durante la cuarentena, dirigió espectáculos por streaming como “Déjame Brillar” y “Stephany Orúe es Selena”, ambos filmados en el Teatro Ricardo Blume. A finales de 2021, produjo la resposición de Freddie, La Leyenda junto al Ballet Municipal de Lima en La Cúpula de Las Artes.
En 2022, con CAST Espectáculos, estuvo a cargo de una nueva reposición de Freddie La Leyenda en La Cúpula de las Artes, y de Whitney, un espectáculo musical en el Teatro Ricardo Blume.
Actualmente, es parte del elenco del musical “La Mariscala” con temporada en el Teatro Municipal y sostiene su propio espacio solo como profesor de Jazz Teatral.
Elizabeth is an artist and performing arts educator based in New York. She has a BFA in Musical Theater from Samford University. She has studied tap, jazz, ballet, and contemporary dance at Steps On Broadway and other professional companies.
She has been an associate choreographer and dance captain for shows such as “Saturday Night Fever”, “Legally Blonde”, “Mary Poppins”, “42nd Street”, “Something Rotten”, “A Chorus Line” and “Newsies”.
She has also appeared in concerts and television shows such as "Make The Season Bright", "Theatre of Dreams" and "Concert With The Stars" as a featured dancer.
Born and raised in Bronx, New York, Tiffany Mellard began her dance training at Mind Builders Creative Arts Center and Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Middle School. She continued her studies at Norte Maar Conservatory of Dance, Harlem School of the Arts, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and the American Dance Festival.
Tiffany received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Dance from Florida State University with a certificate in Arts in Community Practice. Tiffany has performed works by Krystal Hall-Glass, Kevin Iega Jeff, Sidra Bell, Milton Myers, Pedro Ruiz, Bill T. Jones, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Darshan Bhuller, Trebien Pollard, Leah Cox, Nathan Trice, Gerry McIntyre, Yara Travieso, and Gerri Houlihan. She has also performed original choreography by Jerome Robbins, Ann Reinking, and Andy Blankenbeuler.
Tiffany is currently in the "And Peggy" company of Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda where she performed in San Juan, PR and San Francisco, CA. Other credits include Memphis (Gateway Playhouse), Chicago The Musical (National Tour), and West Side Story (International Tour). She has also been a teaching artist with Learning through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP) in New York City and was on the dance faculty at Mind Builders Creative Arts Center. In addition, Tiffany just graduated from Harvard University with a Masters in Education.
Mariel is an artist with an outstanding career in singing and dancing starting when she was 8 years old. She began her singing studies in Valencia (Venezuela), at the "Echeverría Lozano" and "Teresa Carreño" schools and jazz dance studies at the "Escuela Superior de Danza Cristina Gutiérrez" and other dance genres such as ballet, contemporary, nationalist and commercial at "CHAMOS" academy.
In 2014, she started working as a professional dancer with "CHAMOS Producciones" and 3 years later, she worked as a jazz assistant for the same company. She has participated in running the festival "ProDanzaCarabobo" for 10 years.
She has developed her career as a singer since 2015, participating as lead voice in various music festivals and musicals. Since moving to Peru in 2018, she has performed live in different contests and local stages, including her recent participation in La Voz Peru 2021.
In 2019 she started her career in Spotlight Peru as a student. She has participated in 2 musical productions with a leading role as Becky in our adaptation of "Waitress" and as ensemble in "Beetlejuice". In 2020 she started working as a dance teacher in the online programs and currently she is Choreographer and Academic Coordinator of the academy. She has been the dance director for Spotlight's adaptations of the musicals "In the Heights", "Heathers" and currently "Hadestown".
Originally hailing from a small town in western Massachusetts, John graduated from Fordham University in New York City with a B.A. in theatre (where he and Chris Larkin were roommates!). He has since made his way to Los Angeles where he has spent the past ten years working steadily in TV and film. While widely known for playing “Butchy” in the popular Disney Channel movies Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2, John has lots of other TV credits that include recurring roles on ABC Family’s Twisted, Hulu’s East Los High, Relationship Status: Update, and the long-running ABC soap General Hospital. And guest stars on shows like Jessie (Disney), American Horror Story (FX), How To Get Away With Murder (ABC), and Instant Mom (Nickelodeon). Some film credits include Staten Island Summer (from Executive Producer Lorne Michaels for Netflix that saw John play opposite SNL's Cecily Strong, Bobby Moynihan and Fred Armisan), Chalk it up, Killer Dream Home (Lifetime), Merry Christmas Match (Hallmark), and soon to be released Sundance hit Spree (opposite Stranger Things’ Joe Keery).
Actress. Dancer. Singer. Teacher and Choreographer. Cary trained in musical theater in Buenos Aires. Winner of the BAEE scholarship (Scholarship for Specific Assignment for Foreigners) at the Julio Bocca - Ricky Pashkus School of Classical Dance and Musical Comedy (Buenos Aires - Argentina). Member of BIG BANG Showchoir (Bs. As.). Graduated from the Aranwa Theater Training Center of Jorge Chiarella and Celeste Viale Yerovi. She studied classical and contemporary dance at Ballet San Marcos. She studied singing with renowned Argentine and Peruvian teachers: Lola Gonda, Silvia Meuli, Gabriel Centeno, Florencia Carchak, and Lorena R. Vera. She studied Movement Education at PUCP (Lima-Peru) and is currently studying for her Bachelor in Primary Education at USMP.
Mandy works professionally in musical theater and dance as a performer, choreographer, director, and educator. She performs at theaters all around Chicago and at various theaters around the US, and performed for a year on the National Tour of 42nd Street. She also works in film and tv, primarily on commercials. Mandy has been working with Spotlight since 2019 when she first came down to Lima to choreograph Wicked. She is so excited to return and finally meet some of the Spotlight students she’s been working with virtually for almost two years now!! As an educator, she helped develop a musical theater program for kids in Shanghai, China, and works with students of all ages all over the world. In her free time, Mandy works as a photographer and enjoys traveling! It’s a true honor to pass on her knowledge and passion to up and coming young artists! www.mandymodic.com
Drew Humphrey (Director/Choreographer/Educator/Performer): After completing his BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona, Drew spent the next 20 years pursuing his directing and performing career in NYC. Broadway: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Ensemble, Cast Recording); New York/Tours: Of Thee I Sing (Encores!), Lady Be Good (Encores!, Cast Recording), 42nd Street (Ensemble, 1st Natl.); Regional: Holiday Inn (Ted Hanover, Drury Lane) and others across the US. Drew also had the honor to perform at the Kennedy Center for Ted Kennedy and President Obama. His directing and choreography credits include: Oklahoma, Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line, Singin’ In The Rain, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street, and Gypsy. Drew’s educational contributions include guest teaching, master classes, guest directing, and choreographing at high schools and Universities. He has also a regular contributor for Variety: The Children's Charity where he helped create and directed an inclusive theatre camp for children of all abilities.
Daniel has appeared in the Broadway national tours of "The Book of Mormon", "Spring Awakening" and "Irving Berlin's White Christmas". He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre from the Boston Conservatory.
Regionally, Daniel has worked all over the US, with favorite venues being Denver Center for the Performing Arts in Colorado, Pioneer Theatre in Salt Lake City, Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Florida, North Carolina Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference in Connecticut, Engeman Theatre in New York, and many more. Daniel has appeared in concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (composers of "Frozen"), Birdland, Merkin Hall, Town Hall, and with the Boston Pops at Symphony. Daniel loves both developing new musicals and also performing and tap dancing in the classics. Training: BFA in Musical Theatre at The Boston Conservatory.
Georgia Pauley began her dance training at the Hyde Park School of Dance in Chicago, Illinois, where she studied ballet, modern, contemporary, African and jazz dance for 16 years. From the ages of 13 to 18, Georgia was a pre-professional company member at the Hyde Park School of Dance, where she danced lead roles in famous ballets such as The Nutcracker and Cinderella. Since then, she has performed with multiple reputable dance companies in Chicago, including the South Chicago Dance Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Summer Intensive, and the Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre Summer Intensive. Georgia has worked on multiple productions with Spotlight as the Choreographer and Associate Director for the last few years, and just recently completed Beetlejuice the Musical.
Broadway: Caroline Or Change (Keyboard Programmer), The National High School Musical Awards (Music Supervisor since 2011), The Addams Family (Music assistant), Million Dollar Quartet (Transcriptions), Broadway Backwards (Music Prep 2012-2016)
Off-Broadway: Want The Change (MD / Arrangements / Orchestrations), A Strange Loop (Arranger)
National Tours: The King And I, Spongebob Squarepants, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
New York: White Girl In Danger (Michael R. Jackson), Another Word For Beauty (music by Grammy-winner Hector Buitrago), Railroad! (Louis St. Louis)
International: The Joker’s Game (Beijing; music by Grammy-winner Louis St. Louis), The Monkey King (Beijing)
Adam’s orchestrations can be heard on Michael R. Jackson’s album Dirty Laundry (2018) as well as his chart topping album for A Strange Loop. His keyboard programming can be heard in Australia (Wicked), Argentina (Seussical), China (The Joker’s Game, The Monkey King), and on Broadway in 2021.
Tony Carter is an actor from Chicago Illinois. He has worked professionally at theatres across the United States for over 13 years, but has been onstage since his childhood. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Southern Utah University and has starred in Dramas, Musicals, and even Shakespeare. He especially loves crafting larger than life comedic characters where he can really put his creativity and wit to the test. Some favorite roles include Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Don Lockwood in Singing in the Rain, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, and Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone.
Michael Barra is originally from Durham, CT. He was a theater major at The Greater Hartford Academy of The Arts, and the SUNY Purchase acting conservatory. Most recently Michael has appeared in A Bronx Tale The Musical, both on Broadway and the National Tour. His past credits include The Amazing Spider-Man, The Greatest Showman, Law & Order: SVU, Gotham, Blue Bloods, The Deuce, and more. In his spare time Michael enjoys watching baseball and going to art museums.
Daniela Lanzara studied Performing Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She has worked with many recognized directors, such as Juan Carlos Fisher, Aldo Miyashiro and Alberto Isola. In 2017 and 2018, she directed the play “Las mujeres de los nazis”, by Héctor Levy – Daniel at Teatro del Olivar. She worked as a drama teacher for kids between the ages of 3 and 9 at the Hans Christian Anderson school in Lima (2018). Ever summer since 2016 she’s run the theater workshops at the cultural association Arte para Crecer. Since 2019, she currently teachers drama for Junio and Middle schoolers at the Cambridge College of Lima while acting at ENSAD (Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático). Daniela is also a voice actress for radio and television.
EN: Actress, Singer, Vocal Coach, and Vocal Director, graduated from Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) where she studied Contemporary music, theatre with David Carrillo, and musical theatre in Preludio. In 2013 she won the Laureate Red scholarship that gave her the opportunity to study Musical Theatre at the Santa Fe University of Arts and Design. For her thesis as a vocal interpreter, she wrote and acted in the unipersonal musical play "7 Décadas Después". She also teaches at the Instituto Nacional de Teatro Musical (INATEM) and she is currently the Vocal Director of the original Peruvian musical play "El Invasor" by Sebastian Santoro.
Josué Parodi is a digital communicator, cultural manager, entertainer, podcaster and English translator graduated from PUCP in Lima, Peru.
Rachel Sussman is a Tony Award-nominated producer and a co-founder of The MITTEN Lab, an emerging theatre artist residency program in her native state of Michigan as well as The Business of Broadway, a new educational company designed to explore the ins and outs of theatrical producing. She has worked with such companies as Audible Theater, The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Second Stage Theatre, RKO Stage, and Lincoln Center's American Songbook. Producing credits include: Heidi Schreck's Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-nominated play, What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway/National Tour), the Obie Award-winning production of The Woodsman (Off-Broadway), and Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Next Door at NYTW). In development: Suffragist by Shaina Taub, Devotion by Mark Sonnenblick. A past Women's Project Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel was the recipient of the 2019 Geraldine Stutz T. Fellowship in Creative Producing, founded by Hal Prince in conjunction with Columbia University. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and a University Honors Scholar alumna of NYU Tisch.
Christopher Larkin started acting at the age of 12, when he was cast in the lead role of Hallmark Entertainment's The Flamingo Rising. He then went on to train at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, before entering Fordham University as a theatre major. Midway through his sophomore year, he made his professional theater debut in the off-Broadway production of Back From the Front. He then took off the fall semester of his senior year to play the title role in Kafka on the Shore at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Additional New York theater credits include Nomad Motel (Atlantic Theater), Fast Company (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness (Ma-Yi), Futura (NAATCO), When Last We Flew (Sundance Lab 2010) and Always Family (Theatre Row). Regionally, he has performed in Wolf Play (Artists Repertory) and Oblivion (Pittsburgh City Theatre). For 5 seasons, he portrayed the character of Monty Green on the CW series "The 100."
Allison is a NYC based theater maker. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied acting and directing at Playwrights Horizons Theater School and Shakespeare at the Classical Studio. She has worked extensively with Richard Schechner and helped devise his US premiere of “Imagining O” (NYTimes Critic Pick).
Other devised work includes her play THREE, for which she and her collaborators were awarded a grant for emerging female artists. She has a strong interest in developing new work and had produced/performed at Dixon Place, The Access Theater, Judson Memorial Church, New Ohio, IRT, and The Culture Project. Allison is also a registered yoga teacher, and when not in the theater can be found teaching all around New York City.
Joey Merlo is a 2019 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellow and the Playwright-in-Residence at the Off-Broadway, Abingdon Theatre Company where his play Arancini is currently being developed. His pilot, No Name for Tennessee, has recently been offered a shopping agreement from OBB Media. Joey is the Artistic Director of Wolfpack Theatrics which co-produced a history-making, critically acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire featuring a gender-queer/trans actor in the iconic role of Blanche DuBois. He is an artist who has worked all over the world including Ghana, where he completed a documentary on the illegality of homosexuality called Voices, and Greece, where he took part in a collaborative residency that focused on creating public art installations and theatre with both Athenian activists and students, inspiring his play, Athens on the Half Shell (Greek Cultural Center, LPAC). Produced plays include: The Witch of St. Elmora Street (Dixon Place, Access Theatre) and This Boy Cometh to the Mountain (Rough Draft Festival). He is a graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts and an NYU Lab alum. He lives in Washington.
Caitlin Zoz is an actor, voice over artist, producer and writer. She graduated with Honors from NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing with a BFA in Acting. New York theatre credits: All of My Blood(Corkscrew Theater Festival) The Witch of St. Elmora Street (Wolfpack Productions) Pretty Theft (Dark Matter Productions), Inside (PopUP) Broken City (PopUP), Dance Dance Revolution (Ohio Theater Dir. Alex Timbers). Regional: The Wolves (TheaterWorks Hartford) Our Town (Long Wharf Theatre), The Seven Year Itch (Ivoryton Playhouse) Riding The Turnpike, GDP (Hartbeat Ensemble). Recent Film: Roommate Wanted, Dark Haul, Straight Outta Tompkins, Meadowbrook.
On screen, he has appeared in “Golden Boy” (CBS), “Deception” (NBC), and “Blue Bloods” (CBS) and “Blacklist” (NBC) and in the films Mother of George (Sundance), Terry Richardson’s Last Hours (Cannes), Shookum Hills, and stars in the feature film Nigerian Prince. He is also is a recurring character on the Apple TV show ‘Dickinson’ (Starring Hailee Steinfeld and Jane Krakowski). He has also performed on stage in productions with Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwright’s Realm, Transport Group, La Mama, The National Black Theater and Regionally at Seattle Rep and Everyman Theatre in Baltimore.
Brittany Halls is an actor based in New York City, origi- nally from San Diego, CA. Brittany received her BFA in Acting (summa cum laude) from Emerson College in Boston, MA. She has extensive improvisation experience, having studied and graduated from The People’s Improv Theatre in New York City and has performed improv in many venues including the famed UCB The- atre. She most recently completed a residency at Cotuit Center for the Arts in Cape Cod, MA performing her one-woman show “Brittany Loves Lucy” for which she was recognized as a Critic’s Favorite. She is currently editing a new web series that she also co-produced and starred in, which is set to be released this summer.
Paul Pontrelli holds an MFA in Acting from NYU Tisch's Graduate Acting program. Paul was in rehearsals for Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's new musical The Visitor at The Public Theater, before NYC's stay-at-home orders.
New York theatre credits include The Flick (u/s, Barrow Street Theatre), This Clement World (St. Ann’s Warehouse), Donogoo (The Mint Theater Company), Stephen Schwartz' Captain Louie (Little Shubert Theatre). House of Dance (Half Straddle), Look Upon Our Lowliness (The Movement). Regional theatre credits include Long Wharf Theatre, Chester Theatre Company. TV: “Instinct.” Film: Fry Day.
Justin Perez is a NYC based writer and director. He has developed work with MCC Theatre's Education Department, Cease & Desist, Woodshed Collective, AMiOS Theatre, The Lark, Columbia University's Graduate Directing Program, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. He graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Emerson College.
Athena Pauley began her dance training at the Hyde Park School of Dance in 2006. Ms. Pauley has been a member of the Pre-Professional Studio Company TNG at the Hyde Park School of Dance since 2015. In the 2017 annual production of The Nutcracker, Athena was chosen for the coveted role of Clara. Over the years, she has also performed variations from ballets such as the Esmerelda variation.
In 2017, Athena attended Ballet West’s Artemotion Summer Intensive in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to Chicago to attend the Hubbard Street Summer Intensive. In 2019, she spent two weeks in New York with the New York Dance Project Summer Intensive and then another 5 weeks in Salt Lake City, Utah with the Ballet West Summer Intensive Program.
Additionally, Athena has attended the HPSD Young Choreographers Workshop for four years in which she has created several of her own works on students.
He is an actor and educator from Salt Lake City, Utah. He has worked in educational theater spaces in Los Angeles and Boston in the United States, as well as in Kelantan, Malaysia through the Fulbright Program, focusing on acting and designing techniques with young people of primary and secondary school age. Charlie has a BA (Acting) from the University of Southern California, he is currently studying his Master of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He loves going out into the mountains to hike, camp, and ski.
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