Our Industry Instructors

Judy McLane performed over 4000 shows of Mamma Mia! on Broadway. She starred as both Donna Sheridan and Tanya, making her the longest running lead in Mamma Mia! history. Most recently, she starred in the Off Broadway production of Romeo and Bernadette, receiving an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. 

Lauren "Coco" Cohn is an NYU graduate with a background in Musical Theatre. She is an actor working in every medium; having success on Broadway (Mamma Mia!), in film, TV (Catch Me if You Can, Legally Blonde 2, Deadbeat, The Family, Morning Glory, High Maintenance), and Voiceover work. 

Nicholas Cunningham trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and was awarded the Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship for Dance. In Paris he danced at the Bal du Moulin Rouge. Nicholas made his debut on West End in show Movin’ Out. Nicholas then joined a tour with Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake performing worldwide. He performed in the Olivier Award winning Revival of La Cage aux Folles on West End/Broadway & in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. 

Danielle Sirinsky holds a BFA in Musical Theatre Performance from the University of Michigan. Danielle has performed & choreographed throughout Chicago, Eastern PA, and Virginia. Favorite professional roles include roles in A Chorus Line and West Side Story. Previously at The Loudoun School of Ballet in VA, as the Director of The Rising Stars Department, she created the Teen Musical Theatre/Broadway Jazz curriculums. She is currently the Director of Little Dancer and Youth Programming at the Dance Academy of Virginia.

Jacob is adjunct voice faculty at NYU Tisch New Studio on Broadway & the NYCDA. He has worked with Tony Award nominees and his work has been heard in venues such as Radio City Music Hall. He's a vocal director for Celebrity Cruise Lines, and the founder of HOWL™ - a cross disciplinary platform for contemporary singer training. He coaches top NYC college students, Broadway performers, & more.

Oliver Houser is a singer-songwriter and musical theatre artist. Winner of the inaugural Stephen Schwartz Award, the ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award & a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, he's presented his work at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Village Theatre, the Kennedy Center, the Annual National Alliance for Musical Theatre Conference (NAMT), SoHo Playhouse, New York Musical Festival, New York Internatinoal Fringe Festival, Other Palace Theatre in the UK, London's Royal Academy of Music, and other US Venues.

Micaela Diamond is a rising star in New York! After graduating high school, she played “Babe”, the youngest Cher, in The Cher Show on Broadway. Then went to perform in A Play is a Poem, written by Ethan Coen in LA and starred in the world premier of the musical Row at the Williamstown Theater Festival this summer. TV: “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” (NBC) and “The Gilded Age”. Film: Peggy in “Tick Tick Boom!” Three Rooms EP out on all music platforms. @micaela_diamond and was just in Parade a co-starring with Ben Platt as well as Here We Are, the last Sondheim show, on Broadway.

Michael has sung God Bless America 3x during the playoffs at Yankee Stadium and others. He has introduced Tony Awards, performed in two 1st national Broadway tours, 3 Broadway shows, many regional gigs as well as concerts and special performances all over the country. He has worked at theme parks, produced musicals on and off Broadway, and has a tony nomination as an associate producer of the 27th longest running musical in Broadway history, Rock of Ages. As a Lead producer MIchael took the musical Fat Camp from an idea to winning the award "best of the festival.” Now under a new title Gigantic, Michael is at the helm for a run at the prestigious VINEYARD theater. Michael is also the Director & Acting Department Head at the Institute for American Musical Theatre in NY.

Rebecca Baldwin (Fuller) studied dance at UNCSA and received a BFA in acting at Purchase College. She did voice and speech training at Webber Douglass Academy in London with Barbara Knowles and Liz Himmelstein. She has worked professionally as an actress in multiple regional Equity theaters and on national tours, as well as in film and television. In recent years, she's build up her children's careers and with her support and coaching, they have been cast on Broadway, in regional professional theaters, episodic television and major motion pictures. 

Sam oz Stone has experience in Film, and Tv, Theatre, Voiceover, and more. With over 24 years in the industry, credits include "The Box", "As the world turns", "Dora the Explorer", "Rock The Paint", "National Lampoons Snatched" and many others. Also in his time, Sam has done over 70 national commercials both on camera as well as voiceover! Graduate and now educator at The Institute For American Musical Theatre! You might have seen Sam at the Virginia Thespian Festival this year teaching the "Art of Breathe" workshop.

Paris Crayton III is an award-winning playwright, actor, and director. He has written over 50 plays, 21 of which have been produced around the country.  He was one of ArtsATL "30 under 30" and Atlanta Journal Constitution's "Artist to watch." Creative Loafing named him 2014's "Best Local Playwright"  Critics have called him "a powerful dramatist" and praised him as "One of the most important playwrights of our time." His plays have been presented and/or workshopped by The Lark, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Aurora Theatre, Clark University, Working Title Playwrights, Stage Door Players, Rising Sage Theatre, 3 Hill Productions, Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, Beth Marshall Presents, Indianapolis Fringe Festival and more.

Z Infante (they/all pronouns) is a New Jersey based actor working actively in voiceover and theater. Currently they can be heard voicing Nightshade on Nickelodeon’s Transformers: Earth Spark and Jules on Netflix’s Dead End: Paranormal Park. In 2003 they were featured in the box office hit School of Rock starring Jack Black and are a part of the Broadway bound production of John Leguizamo’s Kiss My Aztec. This past fall they returned from a season at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival after playing Angel in the Tony Award winning musical RENT. They believe in the transformative power of story telling and seek to uncover different approaches to self expression. 

Ben is an American stage actor who, in his over 20 year career, has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tour and on Regional stages throughout North America. He has appeared in countless readings and developmental workshops of new works, and can be heard on 3 original cast recordings. He is also an adjunct professor of Music Theory at NYU (NSB Tisch School of the Arts) and a Vocal, Acting and Dialect Coach. He is the frontman for The Fractured Years and composer for the award winning composer/ lyricist team Roseberry and Klose. Ben is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and the TONY award winning and Grammy nominated Broadway Inspirational Voices , where he also serves as the Associate Music Director. He resides in NYC with his wife Sarah. Currently, you can catch Ben in the world premiere of Disney’s Hercules at Papermill Playhouse!

Adrienne has taught undergraduate, graduate, and professional actors at the Stella Adler Studio, NYU, LIU, Marymount Manhattan College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and Pace University, as well as K -12 students and senior citizens as a Teaching Artist with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Lincoln Center, and the New Victory Theater. She is the co-founder of Movement Theater Studio, the only Lecoq based acting studio in NYC, and is Associate Professor and Head of the BA Acting and BA Directing International Performance Ensemble (IPE) program at Pace School of Performing Arts at Pace University. Her original work has been presented in the U.S., Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Romania, Croatia and China. From 2012 - 2014, Adrienne was the Associate Director of Movement and Horse Choreography on War Horse (Broadway; National Tour). From 1999 to 2007, she was the co-Artistic Director of award-winning international ensemble, SaBooge Theatre.

Katie is so excited to lead, encourage and help guide so many young, fresh faces into the world of being a character/musical theatre performer. Katie has 11 professional years performing for Disney, Universal and SeaWorld Parks & Ent. She has been blessed to perform in shows such as Hocus Pocus Villains Spelltacular, Fantasmic, Jedi Training Academy as well as many others! Katie regularly travels down to Orlando, Florida and works/performs for Universal Orlando Resort as an actor for many of their atmosphere offerings. She also is an actor in the ‘Harry Potter Dark Arts’ shows as well as Grinchmas Wholiday Spectacular. She is happy to be running her own musical theatre character company: Sing A Long Storytellers LLC and is living the dream of being wife and mom!

Joey Long is an actor, writer, and producer of several award-winning short films, including A Purgatory Story, which won numerous awards at festivals across the globe, qualified for an Academy Award, and currently sits at 2 million views on YouTube. His latest film, titled Adam, recently premiered at North Hollywood Cinefest, where it took home the prize for Best Cinematography. Joey co-founded Cosmic Pomegranate (CPOM), a film & television production company, with his creative partner Nik Dodani. Recent projects: Baby Blue, a short film in collaboration with Apoorva Charan, producer of Joyland, (2022) - winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival. The second project on CPOM’s slate is Falling Star, a feature film in collaboration with Rishi Rajani, producer of A Thousand and One (2022) - winner of the Grand Jury prize at Sundance Film Festival.

Garrett Jones is a local DMV accompanist, freelance musician, voice coach, music director, writer, and more. Not only is he a Shenandoah University graduate himself, but he also works on the Shenandoah Summer Musical Theatre program as a conductor, music director, and other positions each summer. He works at the middle as well as high school level as a director, musician, conductor, vocal/ piano instructor, and helps students make practice tracks for any upcoming audition/ cabaret/ rehearsal/ other performing needs. Garrett is our on call accompanist who can sight-read, has a large inventory of sheet music for master classes, and helps prepare students for professional audition settings.

Jessica Utz is a DC based Costume Designer and Technician. Some of her work includes but is not limited to: Associate Costume Designer, Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); Costume Designer, Hazardous Materials, The Storehouse (Perisphere Theater), Freaky Friday, Lucky Stiff (NextStop Theatre Company): Crafts Artisan, Angels In America (Arena Stage); Into The Woods, Rent (Signature Theatre). She also has many stitching credits at Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, The Washington National Opera, Synetic Theater, and more. Not only is she a professional costumer in the DMV, teaching artist, but she also runs a consignment shop called Once and Future Vintage, LLC @oncenfuturevintage as a Virginia small business for vintage and multicultural clothing reselling.