Class: | Age: | Chapter: | Location: | Day: | Time: | Start: | End: |
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A Young Actors Guide to Creating an Identity | 12-14 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Acting on Camera: From Stage to Screen | 15-18 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Advanced Voice: Creating Character Voices…Creatures, Spooks, and more! | 15-18 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Beginners - Intermediate Dance: No Cap, We'll Tap! | 12-18 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Dance With Distinction: Character Movement | 8-11 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 4:30pm - 6:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Intro to Stage Combat: (stage) FIGHT! (stage) FIGHT! (stage) FIGHT! | 8-14 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Our Gang: Frozen JR. | 4-7 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 4:30pm - 6:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Snow Ballerina | 8-18 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Agape Dance Studio | Thu | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Feb 08 | Apr 04 |
The Show Must Go On...but how? | 8-11 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 4:30pm - 6:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Wiggin’ Out! | 12-18 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 4:30pm - 6:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Youth Vocal: Listen, Hone, and Sing! | 8-11 | Santa Cruz (Spring 2024) |
Midtown Community Church | Wed | 4:30pm - 6:30pm | Jan 31 | Mar 27 |
Brooke Cohen is happy to be a part of the CYT team! She has grown up in Scotts Valley and got her start in theater as a freshman at Scotts Valley High where she acted, choreographed, stage managed, and student directed. She went on to study early childhood education and has a passion for connecting with children and helping them grow. This lead to her teaching preschool for several years. Her love of theater reignited when she enrolled her daughter in our program and found joy in connecting with the CYT community. She jumped at the chance to bring her love of educating children and musical theater together and can’t wait for a great session!
Gwendolyn has been an enthusiastic participant in the arts since she was a child, including being a CYT Santa Cruz kid herself for several years! More recently, she graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts (specializing in Musical Theatre) in 2020 and has since been working as a film actor in Los Angeles.
I have been dancing for 12 years, performing in theatre for 9, and choreographing for the last couple of years. I helped choreograph the last two shows at SVHS (Urinetown and Something Rotten) and will be working on their production of Addams Family. I worked with CYT as a choreographer for the Off To Neverland Summer Camp, and as an assistant choreographer in Matilda, and I will be helping with CYT’s Addams family. I am currently attending Cabrillo as a Music Tech and Recording Arts major. I have always had an affinity towards music and performance and CYT has been an incredibly supportive home base for me to explore those passions! I recently aged out and am extremely excited to teach as an alumnus!
Hello! My name is Isabella Steigman and I am a local CYT alum! I have studied music and theatre for almost a decade. Throughout my vocal career so far I have studied under Dr. David Dehner, Emily Sinclair, Susanne Mentzer and many more. My base training is in classical music but I will always be a musical theatre kid at heart. I regularly sing for local churches and events around the Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. I am so excited to return to CYT as a teacher for fall session!
I am so excited to be teaching your children this session! For those of you that don't know me, my name is Jill. I have been dancing and performing for over 30 years. The value of the qualities that dance and music infused in me as a child motivated my desire to teach Dance and Musical Theater. I started my training in Colorado and continued to pursue my training at University of the Arts Pennsylvania focusing on Dance and Musical Theater. I traveled around the world performing and studying with many companies and choreographers including Disney Cruise Line and Disney World Resorts, Cirque du Soleil, Koresh Dance Company, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Ormao Modern Company, The Movement Dance Co. as well as choreographers Mia Michaels, Stacey Tookey, Cris Judd, and Laurieann Gibson. I moved to Santa Cruz a 10 years ago to be close to the sea and far from the snow! I feel so blessed to have the opportunity to teach with a goal of instilling in my students grace, inner beauty, confidence in their creativity, and self discipline.
Actor. Singer. Dancer. Wife. Mother of 3. Lover of Jesus and all things performing arts! After almost 15 years on and behind the stage, I moved over to TV and Commercial acting (as a new mom with less free time) and for the past 5 years have unexpectedly developed a love for on-camera acting! But theater will always be my first love. Happy to be back!
Kelly studied classical ballet for 12 years, danced roles such as Stepsister in Cinderella, Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. She currently teaches ballet at Agape Dance Academy in Scotts Valley, where she directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Swan Lake. She has also choreographed for high school, jr high, and elementary musical theater.
Mikey is a local educator and musical theatre enjoyer based in Santa Cruz. His first involvement with CYT was in 2019, where he was involved with shows such as Hunchback of Notre Dame, Seussical, and Cinderella. Since the 21/22 season, he has been leading the Our Gang program and has seen multiple students through to their first auditions. During the 22/23 season, he was Intern Director for The Wizard of Oz and Director of the Off to Neverland summer camp. Recently graduating with an A.A. in Early Childhood Education from Cabrillo College, he is excited to pair his knowledge of education and passion for musical theatre in class!
Monika is a CYT Santa Cruz alumni and is so excited to be teaching acting again! Monika enjoys directing shows (you may have seen The Lightning Thief last spring!), reading books of all kinds, writing poetry and plays, and playing board games. She is thrilled to be teaching with CYT!
I got introduced to acting and stage combat in my very first play 12 years ago, in a production of The Three Musketeers. Since then, I’ve been acting in whatever opportunity I could get my hands on, among them Dracula, Zombie Prom, and Hamlet. I also have experience in stunt safety, fencing, weapon sparring and character acting for horror attractions. In my spare time, I enjoy winding down with my fiancé and my dog, playing video games, watching movies and cooking.
Tera Torchio was raised in Scotts Valley where in high school she was president of the Thespian Society. She later attended The American Music Dramatic Academy in Los Angles. She's spent I’ve the last two decades exploring the professional world of theatre, film and television. Tera has been working for CYT over 12 years now getting the honor of directing past shows such as Seussical, Annie, Addams Family, Godspell, Alice in wonderland, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. She is extremely passionate about cultivating creativity in young people and showing them the love of God. A favorite quote: “A musical occurs when words can no longer suffice”- unknown