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Danny Kam

Danny Kam (he/him or they/them) is a singing actor, voice teacher and musical director with nearly two decades of experience in the greater Seattle area. As an actor, Danny was most recently seen in Legally Blonde (Village Theatre), Sister Act (Taproot Theatre), Twelfth Night the musical (Seattle Shakespeare Company) Into the Woods and Beauty and […]

Nicole Beerman

Nicole is a musical theatre artist, director, choreographer, teacher, wife, and mother. On screen, Nicole has been seen in Nike, LG, and T-Mobile commercials, Grey’s Anatomy, and Fox Searchlight’s Adam with Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. As a stage actor, Nicole has performedin Seattle with the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle […]

Naghmeh Samini

Naghmeh Samini (PhD) is a playwright, scriptwriter, and lecturer in Dramatic Arts. Born in Iran, she earned her BA in Drama and MA in Cinema from the University of Tehran. She completed her PhD in Art Studies at Tarbiat Modarres University in Tehran, with a thesis focused on Drama and Mythology. Naghmeh was a professor […]

Leah Adcock-Starr

A Midwest transplant to the Pacific Northwest, Leah is a storyteller, theatre director, arts educator, and producer. Locally, she has directed for Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Sound Theatre Company, Pony World, Seattle Public Theatre, Intiman, UW School of Drama, and Cornish College of the Arts, among others. Leah is committed to the power […]

Carl Bronsdon

Carl has been a scenic and costume designer for professional and educational theatre companies in the Seattle area for many years, designing and constructing productions for companies such as Seattle Symphony, The Bathhouse Theater, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Seattle Musical Theatre, Shoreline Community College, and Bellevue College, among others Carl is an accomplished miniaturist, […]

Rachel Brinn

Rachel Brinn is the department coordinator for the Art, Performance Production, and Theater departments at Cornish College of the Arts.

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 currently teaches MT acting, audition, MT writing and cabaret technique at Cornish. He has also directed Cornish productions of The Theory of Relativity, Company, Lift, Nine, Quilters, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Grand Hotel, The Drowsy Chaperone, Head Over Heels, Chess, Amélie and Sweeney Todd. He has also guest taught at University of […]