Rachel Brinn
Rachel Brinn is the department coordinator for the Art, Performance Production, and Theater departments at Cornish College of the Arts.
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Sheila Daniels
Sheila Daniels is a multi-disciplinary Theater Maker. Directing work includes Indecent (Seattle Rep), The Wolves (ACT) A Streetcar Named Desire, Crime and Punishment and multiple other credits with INTIMAN Theatre; Dancing At Lughnasa (TANTRUM): Jackie & Me (Seattle Children’s Theatre); According to Coyote (Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis); A Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing […]
Tinka Gutrick Dailey
I began training on a full scholarship with the Harkness Ballet in New York City at age 17. I then went on to become a Principle Dancer to much acclaim, with The American DanceMachine for 10 years under the tutelage and direction of Lee Theodore, the original ‘Anybody’s’ in the 1957 production of West Side […]
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a writer, producer, performer, and educator. Their plays include Tiger Beat (2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2021 Seven Devils Conference finalist), Harpers Ferry 2019 (2021 Kendeda Playwriting Award finalist, Alliance Theater workshop, 2022 Know Theatre production), Call Out Culture: or, the unbearable whiteness of being (2021 NADIA Amplified Currents Festival, 2019 […]
Richard Gray
Richard Gray taught the summer musical theatre intensive at Cornish for three years before joining the theatre faculty in 2019. He has guest-directed several musicals at Cornish including Nine, Quilters, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Grand Hotel, Lift, Company, and Dick Whittington. He has directed productions at many local theaters including the Village Theatre, 5th […]
Timothy McCuen Piggee
Timothy McCuen Piggee holds an MFA from the National Theater Conservatory and a BFA from the University of Utah. On Broadway, he originated the role of FBI Agent Bill Cod in the musical Catch Me If You Can. His directing credits include A Raisin in the Sun at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hairspray, and Dreamgirls […]
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 […]
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, […]
Amelia Bolyard aka Solvej Noa
Amelia Bolyard (Solvej Noa) was trained in Ballet, Graham, Jazz, Musical Theater dance, and Character (Flamenco) in the preparatory program at Cornish College. Additionally, she is trained in Afro-brazilian dance and self-taught in the street style “House”. After completing her training at Cornish, Amelia danced for multiple Seattle contemporary and ballet companies. Amelia has taught […]