Teaching Artists
MARYANN ROUSSEAU - SoDA Program Director, Actor,
Movement Specialist Master Class CAPHERD, Mills
College, SFS, SJS, Stanford and UOP, Choreography
& Perfromance Art - DANCE WEST, SF, California
Teaching Credential Phys. Ed, Dance & Drama,
Classical Theatre Instructor - Children's Experimental
Theatre (15 years), Movement Specialist - MPC
(20 years), Developed and Implemented Theatre and
Arts Programs - MPUSD (15 years), Choreographed
Nunsense and Peter Pan. Selected Leading Roles:
A Little Night Music, Vivien, Antony & Cleopatra,
Candida, Tartuffe, the Cherry Orchard, Guys &
Dolls, West Side Story, Passion, Death of a Salesman,
Macbeth. Directed: Aladdin Jr.
MARYLEE SUNSERI - Performing Concert Artist, Early
Childhood Music Specialist, 4 Parents' Choice Awards,
2 American Library Notables, 15 Independently produced
music CD's. Extensive touring with Burl Ives, Randy
Sparks, Shirley Jones... Performs children's programs
internationally. Workshop leader: Early Childhood
Music and Brain Development. London Drama School
Certificate with distinction in singing.
www. maryleemusic.com
MARK SHULER, M.A. M.F.T. (Clinical Psychology)
credentialed teacher of Theatre Arts. Acting roles:
Cyrano De Bergerac, Robin Hood, Romeo & Juliet,
Stage Combat Choreographer: PacRep, Forest Theater
Guild & Children's Experimental Theatre, Henry IV,
Part 2, Peter Pan, Tales of Narnia, Romeo & Juliet.
DIANE WIESE GOYETTE - credentialed drama
teacher/children's theatre director. Director of 65 plays
and muiscals, writer of originalshow songs and
curriculum creator for the Gifted and Talented Program
at Los Angeles Unified School District. Training
includes: Hagen/Bergoff Studio in NYC & American
National Theatre Academy in Los Angeles.
SUZANNE STURN, Ph.D Theatre, MFA Acting,
Linklater Voice Training, Shakespeare & Co., Theatre
Professor: SUNY Brockport College, Guthrie Theatre
Outreach PRogram. Selected Leading Roles: Wit,
Cherry Orchard, All My Sons, Driving Miss Daisy,
winter's Tale, Blood Wedding, Man at the Piano,
Thinking Heart, Richard III, Midsummer Night's Dream,
Ah, Wilderness, and The Circle.
LAURA AKARD - BA in Child Psyhology, extensive
training in dance, voice, acting and physical theatre.
Professional dancer for productions in Los Angeles,
Las Vegas and Colorado. Favorite Roles: Peter Pan,
Guys and dolls, Urinetown, A Chorus Line. Monterey
Peninsula College Dance and Theater Arts Department.