Summer Theatre Program InstructorsLawson Taylor Bennett trained with John Ruggero and Michael Zenge, and has been teaching private and group piano since 2002. He also teaches from his home in Raleigh and the Village Music School in Cary. Anoushka Brod is a member of the Transactors Improv Company performing improvisational theatre throughout the Southeast. She teaches improv to people of all ages in a variety of venues. Patsy Castellano teaches dance at Hunter Elementary School. She earned a BFA in Dance from East Carolina University and has performed in and choreographed many plays. Corrie Davis graduated from UNC Greensboro with a BFA in Theater Arts Education. She has taught for seven years, currently in Durham County at Riverside High School. Katie Gentry is the art teacher at West View Elementary and has been teaching art at the elementary level for six years. She received her BA in Secondary Education with a specialization in Art (K–12) from Marshall University. Barbette Hunter holds a BA in Speech/Communications from NC State University with post graduate training in Acting at UNC Greensboro. She has earned three performance awards and two technical theatre awards from RLT. Yvonne Koch is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and is currently an elementary music specialist in the Wake County Schools. She has taught music to children around the globe, including international schools in India and Israel. Johannah Maynard received her BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She lived for eight years in New York working and training as a director, designer, playwright and performer. David McClutchey is a Certified Actor Combatant for the Society of American Fight Directors and has staged fight scenes in over fifty shows. He has won two performance awards at RLT. Susan Meyer studied Theatre at Western Carolina University and has taught a variety of classes and age groups here at RLT for a number of years. Jan Morgan graduated from Wake Forest University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her MFA from Brown University. She directs TEATRO, a bilingual program of creative dramatics. Lucius Robinson spent much of his youth taking classes and performing with the RLT Education Program. He has trained with the Guthrie Theatre BFA, the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theater and with RADA. Kathleen Rudolph has worked with RLT’s Education Program for the past 14 years. After receiving her BA she continued her education at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and Herbert Berghof Studios in New York. Kathleen’s directing credits for RLT youth shows include Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood, The Reluctant Dragon, Bunnicula and Snoopy!!!. Staci Sabarsky graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Dramatic Arts. She is a drama instructor, a professional actress, vocalist and private acting coach. Jennifer Shrader holds a BFA in musical theater from the Boston Conservatory of Music. Broadway and National tour credits: “Belle” in Beauty and the Beast, Swing!, Sunset Boulevard, Annie, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Dan Sipp spent eight years in Chicago studying, performing and teaching at The iO Theater. He now runs The Worx Training Center in Raleigh. He began performing with Transactors Improv Company in 1988. Martie Todd Sirois is an award winning actress and has been performing for over 20 years. She holds a BA in Psychology with a focus on Early Childhood Education from Meredith College. Mary Kathryn Walston has a Master of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Meredith College. She is a singer, actress and private voice instructor. Mary Kathryn has been the Musical Director for RLT’s Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga and the Black Sunflower, Peter Pan, Bunnicula and Snoopy!!!. Alison Williams taught first grade for many years before pursuing her career as a choreographer. She received her Master’s degree in Dance Choreography and Performance from UNC-Greensboro. Linda O’Day Young has been involved in theatre education for the past 26 years and has designed and taught drama classes for ages 18 months to 94 years and for various special needs populations. Her RLT directing credits for the Youth Series include Baba Yaga and the Black Sunflower, Peter Pan, Ozma of Oz, Wiley and the Hairy Man and Charlotte’s Web. The RLT Youth Education Program Staff are: Linda O’Day Young Kathleen Rudolph You are here: Home > Summer 2010 Theatre Camps > Summer Theatre Program Instructors |