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.
DAINE 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.
NINA SOLOMITA - MFA Creative Writing, Playwright,
actor and educator. Author of Fania, produced at the
Cherry Center. Published in the Pitkin Review, two
monologue collections published by ICWP. Lesley
Lesley University, Massachusetts College of Art and
CSUMB.