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Kate Myre

Kate Myre is a stage actress, voice-over artist, and dialect and vocal coach for companies including Seattle Rep, ACT, the Village Theater, the Seattle Children’s Theater, the Young Artists Training Program at the Seattle Opera, and the Seattle Shakespeare Company. She is one of the founding members of Operating Theater, a company of professional actors […]

Robin Lynn Smith

Robin is a Founding Partner and Artistic Director for Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab in Seattle. She has worked for the past thirty-eight years acting, directing, and teaching in Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and New York where she directed CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS Off-Broadway at the Promenade Theatre. She is presently directing Freehold’s Engaged Theatre Program which […]

Matthew Smucker

Matthew Smucker is a designer whose work has appeared in productions at Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Opera, Intiman Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, New Century Theatre Company, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Empty Space, Tacoma Actors Guild, and Youth Theatre Northwest. His production designs have also aappeared nationally at […]

Bret Torbeck

Bret Torbeck is grateful to be part of Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University. He has been a faculty member, and the stage management mentor, since 2018. He loves his job because it gives him a way to pass on the joy and the skills that he learns while working as a professional […]

Geoffrey Alm

Geoffrey Alm has been teaching Stage Fighting at Cornish since 2008. A Certified Teacher with The Society of American Fight Directors since 1987, he is also a Certified Fight Director and Fight Master. Professionally he has been choreographing fights since 1988, locally and Nationally. He’s a proud member of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Actors Equity, […]

Jeannette d’Armand

Jeannette brings to her professional life a rich and varied artistic background and maintains a full private voice studio, coaches public speaking, and has taught classes at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre and The Experience Music Project. She is an accomplished voiceover artist who records regularly for educational companies Houghton-Mifflin and McGraw Hill as […]

Sarah Harlett

Sarah Harlett is an actor, creator, and educator of theater. A founding member of the nationally-acclaimed, generative collective The Compound, and performer with the nationally- and internationally-acclaimed Megan Murphy Company, Harlett was granted a “2019 Gregory Award for Outstanding Lead Performance,” and a “2017 Gregory Award for Outstanding Ensemble/Outstanding Production.” She is also a recipient […]

Charlie Johnson

I’m a queer, Seattle-based theater artist with a focus in new musical development. I recently directed and choreographed the national tour of “The Queen’s Cartoonists.” Other recent direction and/or choreography include “Far From Canterbury” (Barnstormers Theatre) “Urinetown!” (ACT/5th Avenue Theatre), “HeadVoice” (New York Musical Festival), “Swingtime Canteen!” (Arrow Rock Lyceum), “Machine Gun America” (FringeNY), and […]

Claire Marx

Claire is an actor, musician, and teaching artist whose work bridges professional performance and student-centered pedagogy. She has performed both onstage and in the orchestra pit at regional theatres across the country, including The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre, the Great Lakes Center for the Arts, the Lesher Center for the Arts, […]

Meg McLynn

Meg McLynn is an actor, vocalist, and teaching artist who has been seen on stages and screens throughout North America. She is a member of the Seattle-based vocal groups, Sugartime Trio, Blue Plate Special, and The ABBAgraphs, and she has been an Anthem Singer for the Seattle Seahawks. In addition to her work at Cornish, Meg […]