Faculty

Youth Theatre and Education Director

Linda O’Day Young has been involved in Theatre Education for the past 27 years and has designed and taught drama classes for a variety of age groups from 18 months to 94 years and for various special needs populations. Her RLT directing credits for the Youth Series shows include: Sleeping Beauty, James and the Giant Peach, Pinocchio, Merlin and the Cave of Dreams, Baba Yaga and the Black Sunflower, Peter Pan, Ozma of Oz, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Charlotte’s Web, The Hundred Dresses and The Great Cross Country Race. She has also directed The Story, A Raisin in the Sun and Intimate Apparel for Raleigh Little Theatre.

Associate Education Director

Kathleen Rudolph has been working with the Raleigh Little Theatre Education Program for the past 15 years. After receiving her BA in Communication Arts from Marist College, she continued her theatre education at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and Herbert Berghof Studios in New York City. Besides being a theatre instructor, Kathleen has appeared in many productions including RLT’s The Hundred Dresses this past spring. Her directing credits include The Emperor’s New Clothes, Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood, The Reluctant Dragon, Bunnicula, Snoopy!!! and Aesop’s (Oh So Slightly) Updated Fables.

Adjunct Faculty

Anoushka Brod is a performing member of Transactors Improv Company performing improvisational theatre throughout the Southeast and beyond. She teaches improv to people of all ages in a variety of venues. You can also see her perform here in Raleigh at Comedy Worx, with the 3-person improv group, Danny Canoe.

Heather Snow Clark received her BFA in Acting from East Carolina University. She went on to New York City where she spent five years working and earning her MFA in Acting from the New School for Drama. She was awarded lifetime membership at the Actors’ Studio in November of 2008. Heather looks forward to imparting the knowledge she has learned and the passion she has for the craft of acting to any student with a deep desire to learn and develop their imaginations.

Johannah Maynard Edwards received her BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. After spending eight years in New York working and training as a director, designer, playwright and performer, Johannah currently resides in Raleigh.

Kirsten Ehlert holds degrees in Dramatic Art and Elementary Education from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her students have ranged in age from preschool through high school in both academic and fine arts settings. She began her acting career as a school aged student in RLT’s youth classes and has appeared in productions at RLT and other Triangle theatre companies.

Barbette Hunter holds a BA in Speech/Communications from NC State University and did graduate work in acting at UNC Greensboro. She has earned three performance awards and two technical theatre awards from RLT. As a professional actress, she has performed with numerous companies in the Triangle including the Justice Theatre Project, Raleigh Ensemble Players and Theatre in the Park. Barbette has been working with the RLT Education Program for several years.

Lisa Kinlaw received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre for Youth from Shenandoah University and has a Master of Arts in Education from The College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Before moving to Raleigh she worked as a teacher, director and actress in the DC area for seven years. At RLT, Lisa has appeared in Cinderella in 2008 and 2009
and in Hot Mikado.

PJ Maske has a BA in Theatre from James Madison University and a MA in Movement Studies from London’s prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama where she trained to teach and direct. She has worked as a professional performer in Virginia, Indiana, London and North Carolina and has produced and directed many devised performance pieces as the artistic director of Urban Garden Performing Arts.

Susan Meyer studied theatre at Western Carolina University and has taught classes and camps at RLT for several years. She has worked with special needs children for many years and believes in adapting her classes to the specific needs of each student in those classes. Susan was in the original cast of RLT’s Cinderella in 1984 and again in 2002.

Jan Morgan is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and received her MFA from Brown University. She has taught students ages pre-school through adult, in settings ranging from the public school classroom to Meredith College. Jan is an active company member with Burning Coal Theatre, for whom she directs TEATRO, a program of creative dramatics for ESL students.

Lucius Robinson trained at the Guthrie Theatre BFA Program and the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theater and is currently finishing undergraduate work at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has worked with many theatre companies around the Triangle and beyond.

Staci Sabarsky is a graduate of the University of North Carolina with a degree in Dramatic Arts. In addition to being a drama instructor, she is a professional actress, vocalist and private acting coach. Although her first love is the stage and live performance, she has also worked on local television, film and industrial shoots throughout the state.

Martie Todd Sirois has taught several classes at RLT and has been performing around the Triangle for over twenty years. She holds a BA in Psychology with a focus on Early Childhood Education from Meredith College. Martie currently works as the Director of Wendell Baptist Preschool.

 

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