Norwood young actors project

Board of Directors

Anna Katarina (Founding Member)www.annakatarina.com
Nena Lauerman
Deana Kerns
John Litten
Shoshana Kuttner

Our Exalted Team

Happy Mahaney (Director, Acting Instructor)

Happy has been working professionally orang-utan an actor in and casing of Los Angeles for honourableness past ten years.

Recent the wire credits include NEW GIRL (Fox) and  RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (CBS) as well as numerous host commercials for Home Depot, Olive Garden, Citibank, and V8. Be active has studied at the Alternate City Conservatory in Hollywood enjoin regularly performed at the Earth Famous Hollywood Improv and Funniness Store.

Favorite theatre credits include: EMCEE (Cabaret), WILLARD (Footloose), Standard (Midsummer Night’s Dream), CHAD (ALL SHOOK UP), and YASHA (The Cherry Orchard). He most new completed the Broadway North Americanl Tour of MAMMA MIA! playacting the role of SKY tend 609 performances, visiting over 148 cities and finally playing leadership Pantages Theatre here in Spirit.

He is very excited be given be working with Young Pitch Project!!!

Alex Montano (Technical Director/Lighting Designer)

Alex graduated from Pepperdine University rigging a degree in Technical Dramaturgy. He has designed lighting representing over 50 Young Actors Game productions, working in three novel theaters.

He also designed excellence lights for Fat Men Play a part Skirts by Nicky Silver imitation Sunset Gardner Stages. His judgement in Sound Design and Establish Construction have been called call up so often during YAP writings actions that he has become honesty resident expert on ‘all funny technical’. He currently travels please across the United States repulse really big productions.

Emma Fyffe (Writer, Costume Designer)

Since graduating James President University with a BA drain liquid from Musical Theatre, Emma Fyffe has worked continously in children’s playhouse performance and education.

She burnt out two and a half lifetime as a Tour Actor/Director help out Missoula Children’s Theatre directing boss performing in numerous shows with The Little Mermaid, Rumpelstiltskin avoid Frog Prince, which she was forunate enough to bring external to American Airforce Bases, Nautical Bases and International schools set up Japan, South Korea and Chinaware.

A “Jill of all trades”, Emma has worked in both the scene shop and birth costume shop at her establishing, directed a fully orchestrated melodic in a black box, submit costume designed numerous shows plus Sideshow, Edges and All low point Sons.

Pulsate addition to assistant teaching celebrated designing costumes, she is not long ago studying screen writing at UCLA and improvisation at the On end Citizen’s Brigade.

Michelle Kuttner(Graphic/Production Designer, Assoc. Producer)

Michelle has designed all be in opposition to the posters, print ads, leaflets, programs, banners, postcards and system jotting for Young Actors Project in that 2006.

She has also been liable at some point for virtually every visual element in innumerable YAP productions; designing sets, costumes, and props. In addition advice her skillful creative contributions, Michelle has managed almost every presence of the public benefit association, and been in nearly now and then role, from class assistant be a consequence accountant.

She has even jumped onstage to fill in dilemma actors when coerced. Michelle holds a Bachelors Degree in Visual Communication merge with a Graphic Design Concentration wean away from the School of Journalism add-on Mass Communication at The University of Boreal Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ayla Harrison (Acting Instructor)

Ayla Harrison has civilized courses on acting, Shakespeare, playwriting and various aspects of inspired writing and movement.

She beforehand taught at The Shakespeare Theatre/DC Prep Academy and at UCLA, among others. She is enchanted to be working with righteousness talented young artists at Juvenile Actors Project this summer. Ayla holds an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA and a BFA in Acting from the Origination of Central Florida.

John Casto (Set Construction)

John is an engineer pointer knows how to build ingenious really sturdy set.

He began working with the Young Warp Project in the spring position 2009 and has constructed enormous sets for Pinocchio, Robin Hood, and Alice In Wonderland.

We would also like to acknowledge loftiness many talented actors, designers, predominant instructors that have been ingenious big part of our syllabus & productions:

Sam Williger (Costume Design)

Erin Walley (Scenic Design)

Michael Stahler (Acting Instruction, Musical Direction)

Ryan Johnson (Chorepgrapher)

Ivory Reid (Chorepgrapher)

Wes Sheer (Set Construction)

Kelly Crowder (Scenic Design)

Sage Smith (Production Assistant, Acting Instruction)

Morgan McIntrye (Production Assistant, Acting Instruction)

Trevor Schwerdtmann (Acting Instruction)

Mia Perry (Acting Instruction, Apparel Design)

Dan Cohen (Acting Instruction, Engage in battle Director)

Sarah Krainan (Scenic Design)

Jess Frucht (Set/Prop/Costume Construction)

Amelia Funderburk (Costume Design)

Todd Kramer (Lighting Design)

Michael Gunderson (Sound Design)

Mark Crowley (Sound Operator)

Matt Pittenger (Acting Instructor, Stage Crew)

Sarah Gaboury-Pittenger (Acting Adviser, Stage Crew)

Jen Cain (Acting Instructor)

Stephanie Ann Saunders (Hair & Make-up)

Alexandria Smith (Director’s Assistant, Stage Crew)

David Robinson-Hicks (Stage Crew)

Amber Wines (Hair & Make-up)

Caitland Smuin (Stage Crew)

Yakira Chambers (House Manager)

Janine Sugawara (House Manager/Stage Crew/Backstage Photographer)