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  ACADEMY DIRECTOR

Tom Fulton:
Producer, Director, Curriculum Development, Acting, Shakespeare, Voice, Musical Theatre, Script Analysis, Sense Memory/Experiencing. 

ME (Kent State 2011) BFA Professional Theatre (1975 Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas); Certified Career Technical Educator, State of Ohio, Department of Education.  Executive Director, Fairmount Center for the Arts; Artistic Director - Center Repertory Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Cleveland Theatre Company, Cain Park Summer Theatre.  Actor/Director - Cleveland Play House Company;   Adjuct Professor of Theatre, Case Western Reserve University, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland State University; Director of Drama, Gilmour Academy; Chairman, Actor's Equity Liaison Committee; Professional Actor, Director, Teacher; Member AEA

GUEST ARTISTS

Mitchell Fields
Theatre History, Film, Improvisation, Shakespeare, Director Celebration, Improv Show, Guest Actor.

M.A. (Master of Arts, Columbia University) Ohio Department of Education - Certified in English 7-12, Drama K-12, and Acting; Adjunct Professor at Baldwin-Wallace College - Improvisation, Film and Theatre.  Curriculum Director - Second City Cleveland; Associate Director -  Cleveland Theatre Company, Artistic Director of the Fine Arts Association of Willoughby, 30 year teacher of Dramatic Arts, Film and Speech, Beachwood High School. Professional actor and director.  Member of Actors Equity Association and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists.

Andrew May
Comedy, Classical Theatre, Director, Canterbury Tales

Graduate, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London England; BFA (Illinois State University, Acting, Directing) ); Associate Artistic Director Great Lakes Theatre Festival; Associate Artistic Director Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; Actor, Director, Artistic Associate – Cleveland Play House; Professional actor, director, teacher. Member Screen Actors Guild, Actor’s Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)

Julie Kolibab
American Theatre, Dialects, Voice for the Stage, Director

MFA, BFA (Case Western Reserve University) Lancaster University Lancaster England – Theatre; Ohio Department of Education, Certified Substitute Teacher; Producer Kids’ Playwriting Festival, Dobama Theatre; Director, Accent on Youth Producer, Arts Club Theatre – SOHO NYC; Educational Theatre Director Ensemble Theatre, Adjunct Professor Case Western Reserve University, Hathaway Brown School, Laurel School. Professional actor – Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, many theatres throughout Northeast Ohio. Member Actors Equity Association.

Ben Needham
Lighting Design, Set Design, CAD Design, Technical Director, Technical Theatre Track Instructor, Theatre Renovation

MFA (University of Georgia, Athens – Scenic Design, Computer Animation for Performing Arts); BA (Case Western Reserve University - Theatre Arts) Adjunct Professor University of Georgia, Lakeland Community College, Lake Erie College, Kent State University) Light & Set Design Constitution Hall, Washington DC – Horatio Ager Association) Theatre Design and Renovation Atlantic Lyric Theatre; Technical Director, Set and Lighting Design, Cedar Point Amusement Park, Atlantic Lyric Opera, Laurel School, Fine Arts Association, Case Western Reserve University and many theatres in Northeast Ohio.

Wendy Kriss Lynne:
Movement, Way of the Artist, Tai Chi, Director

BFA Kent State University, Theatre; State of Ohio Department of Education, Certified Substitute Teacher; Four Year Certificate Corporeal Mime Technique, with Etienne Decroux, Paris France. Non Violent Communication – Rita Herzog. Ohio Arts Council Artist in Residence Theatre Movement; Shaker Height High School Theatre Department Substitute Teacher - Theatre Movement, Director; Qigong Academy, Tai Chi Instructor, Board of Mental Retardation, Tai Chi Instructor, Adjunct Professor, Cuyahoga Community College, Aging Initiatives, Tai Chi, Way of the Artist.

Jamie Koeth
Musical Theatre, Voice Lab

BFA (Kent State University – Musical Theatre); Director Stagecrafters Theatre Academy; National Broadway Tour – Jekyll and Hyde; Professional Actor – Actor’s Summit, Playhouse Square, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Porthouse Theatre and others. Member Actor’s Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Mandalyn Stevens

Stage Makeup, Stage Management, Stagecraft, The ‘Business’ of Theatre
BFA (Ohio State University – Stage Management), Stage Management: Fairmount Performing Arts Academy, Theatre throughout Northeast Ohio.