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Ginny Brennan (Acting)
Ginny was the artistic director of the Children's Theatre program at the Bucks County Playhouse for 6 years and General Manager for two years before that. She is also a job coach for Special Education students with the Bucks County Intermediate Unit. She has combined her experiences and teaches acting and musical theatre for 5-8 year olds and an acting class for developmentally disabled students. As part of her job with children's theatre, she has extensive experience with auditioning, casting, directing, costuming and the art of patience.
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Jordan Brennan (Jazz)
Jordan is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Dance and brings his experience as a dancer to the studio. Recent choreographic experiences have been Once on this Island and Footloose with New Hope-Solebury High School, and Seussical the Musical and Smile! for DPAC. Jordan is also an experienced costumer, designing shows such as Beehive, Seussical the Musical, Grease and Smile.
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Louis Palena (Tap / Playwriting / Musical Theatre History)
Louis has been performing locally and abroad for many years and most recently wrote the script and music for our children's theatre productions. You may have seen him at the Bucks County Playhouse in favorites like Gabey in On the Town, Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life, and Bobby Child in Crazy for You. Louis has appeared in the Russian cast of 42nd Street and starred aboard the MS Statendam for Holland America Cruise Lines.
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Melissa Egan (Creative Drama)
Melisa is a 2010 graduate of DeSales University where she received a BA in Theatre, and spent four seasons working with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Credits include: The Robber Bridegroom (Rosamund), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page) and Robin Hood (Maid Marion). In addition to her performance credits with PSF, Melissa also co-wrote and developed Shakespeare for Kids which is now an annual production at the festival. Melissa currently works as the Development Associate at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. She is excited to share her love of performing arts with the students at Downtown PAC!
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Lauren K. Brader (Acting)
Lauren is no stranger to area stages having performed such roles as Catherine in Pippin, Irene Roth in Crazy for You, Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Elaine Robinson in The Graduate, Doris Walker in Miracle on 34th Street and Jeanne in Hair. Some of her other professional theater credits include Helena and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Woman 2 in Songs for a New World, Luisa in The Fantasticks and Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest. Lauren has most recently been working on a NY reading of the new musical L’Arcadian and the role of Suzy in Wait Until Dark, at the Off-Broadstreet Theatre.
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Sharon Rudda (Ballet)
Sharon Rudda, ballet instructor, trained at BRAVO!DANCE in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. under Trinette Singleton, formerly of the Joffrey Ballet. Also she has a BA degree in performing arts, focus on ballet, from La Roche College, Pittsburgh, Pa. Locally, she has performed in several productions and spent the summer of 2010 with the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre in addition to performing with the Dance Repertory Theatre in Allentown, Pa. Sharon is also associated with Ballet Arts of Bucks County, in Doylestown, Pa.
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Kerry Toole (Hip Hop)
Kerry Toole studied at Arcadia University where she danced with the schools dance club; Knight Club. From there she transferred to American University to persue a Dance Minor. Training with Maurice Johnson, Adrienne Clancy, Melanie George and Marcia Howard. While training with these teachers she recieved a variety of different styles of dance; Modern,Jazz Dance, Composition of Dance and West African. While at college she also worked for two dance Companies; ClancyWorks and Coyaba Dance Theater.
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