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SUSAN HAEFNER  -As a performer, Susan has appeared on Broadway in 42nd Street , Thoroughly Modern Millie , and State Fair . Other credits include Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis (National Tour/West End) and The It Girl (Off-Broadway). She has worked regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Asolo State Theatre, Fulton Opera House, and Weston Playhouse. Susan has taught master classes in Musical Theatre dance and acting at the above theatres as well as in New York City for student tour groups.  She is also founder of Living Room Arts , a company which presents live theatre events and classes in private settings (www.livingroomarts.com).

NEWTON GILCHRIST (Director,Voice, Music, and Acting) created the role of Hank Munson on Broadway in the musical, State Fair, played Dap in the national tour and Broadway company of Camelot, and played Merlin in Camelot opposite Robert Goulet at the Valley Forge Music Fair and Westbury Music Fair. He was in the 25th anniversary tour of My Fair Lady and in a national tour of that musical in Atlanta and Dallas in the summer of 2002. Gilchrist's long list of credits includes the Kennedy Center's Words and Music Revival of Bells are Ringing and Where's Charlie. He also was in national tours of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Brigadoon and performed in Me and My Girl and Man of La Mancha in Texas. He was in the movie Dead Poet's Society. His directing credits include productions of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Evita and 42nd Street.

LISA GUIGNARD (Broadway Ballet, Tap, Theater Dance, Circus Skills, and Pilates) a veteran Broadway dance captain, began her career as a Rockette in the summer between her junior and senior years in high school and performed with the Tibor Rudas Circus in Montreal for two years following high school. She has performed in five Broadway productions including Good News with John Payne and Alice Faye, Camelot with Robert Goulet, and Hellzapoppin' with Jerry Lewis. This year she has been assistant to the director on national tours of Annie and The Sound of Music. She was in both the Broadway revival and the 25th anniversary tour of My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison; restaged the original Hanya Holme choreography for the My Fair Lady national tour starring Howard Keel., and was dance director for a national tour of My Fair Lady in Atlanta and Dallas in the summer of 2002. She has performed in over 40 musicals in national tours and regional theater.

BOBBY CLARK (Broadway Tap, Theater Dance, and Acting) tours with Tony Curtis in the new musical, Some Like It Hot.  Clark's Broadway and National credits include 42nd Street, Crazy for You, Lady Be Good, and Man of La Mancha.  Clark, who started acting professionally at age 8 n summer stock productions of The Music Man, Oliver and The King and I, implemented the acting program for Access Broadway, a competition workshop company which teaches young adults from a dance background an acting technique that explores and encourages their uniqueness.  Clark, who is from Boston, has worked across the country, creating roles in Annie 2 at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the American premiere of Divorce Me Darling at the Theatre Under the Stars in Houston and the world premiere of They Shoot Horses Don't They? at the Denver Theatre Center.  His regional credits include Girl Crazy at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Funny Thing Happened On My Way to the Forum at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Gypsy at Art Park in Lewiston, N.Y., and Carnival, Ankles Aweigh and the 20th anniversary production of Annie at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn.  Clark has made guest appearances on As the World Turns, The Guiding Light, The Equalizer, Spencer For Hire and Law and Order.  Bobby has a B.A. in English and has studied in New York with Stephen Strimpell at the Herbert Berghoff and Uta Hagen Studio, with Carlin Glynn and Gary Swanson from the Actors Studio and with Joan Rosenfels from the Ensemble Studio Theatre.  He has taught in New York at the Company Space and the Directors Lab.

NED COULTER (Acting and Audition Skills) writes most of the classroom exercises as well as some of the skits his students have performed on stage.  He's made guest appearances on NBC's Law and Order and has Broadway, Off-Broadway, national and regional credits that include My Fair Lady, Camelot and The Beauty Queen of Leenane.  He also is a community fire safety instructor with the New York City Fire Department.

DIRK LUMBARD (Broadway Tap and Theater Dance) recently played Frankie Fact on Broadway in Nora Ephron's Imaginary Friends and prior to that "stood-by" for Professor Harold Hill in the most recent Broadway production of The Music Man. His other Broadway credits include On Your Toes with Natalia Makarova & Kitty Carlisle, which led him to set the choreography for the national and London companies; Barnum with Jim Dale & Glenn Close, and Sugar Babies with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller. Off-Broadway, he was in Flora, the Red Menace, Dames at Sea, and She Loves Me. He won a coveted Jefferson Award for portraying The Tin Man in a National Tour of The Wizard of Oz with Mickey Rooney and Eartha Kitt. He also was in a national tour of Grand Hotel.  He starred as Bobby Child in Crazy for You in Toronto; played Molina in Apple Tree's production of Kiss of the Spider Woman in Chicago, and was Applegate in Damn Yankees at the Marriot Lincolnshire Theatre. At Canada's Stratford Festival Theatre he won a Stage Door Award for playing Harold Hill in The Music Man;received its Tyrone Guthrie Award; was assistant choreographer and played Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate, and appeared in Titus Andronicus and Comedy of Errors. His television credits include Deadline (NBC), Home Improvement (ABC), Alice in Wonderland (PBS), and Hometown(CBS). Lombard's choreography and directing credits include Anything Goes at the Guthrie Theatre in Minnesota., Barnum at the Papermill Playhouse, Millburn, N.J., Dames at Sea Off-Broadway, Home Improvement (ABC); South Pacific and The Music Man at Cape Fear Theatre in North Carolina. He co-choreographed the Forestburgh Playhouse's production of Singin' in the Rain and assisted Agnes deMille on her last ballet, The Informer, and on four of her productions of Rodeo. He directed and choreographed George M and Barnum on the SS Norway and SS Windward for Jeanne Ann Ryan Productions.  He has taught at Broadway Dance Center, CAP 21 at New York University; Les Groupe International des Huite in Paris, Perpignon, Geneva, Brugge, and at numerous workshops around the country.

TIM SANTOS (Broadway Ballet, Tap, Theater Dance, and Acting in Dance)is assistant director, assistant choreographer and dance captain with the famed Rockettes for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.  He began his dance career in productions of Cleveland Opera (Faust, Lucia di Lammermore and The Merry Widow) Houston Grand Opera (Aida), and The Metropolitan Opera (Aida, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Samson et Dalila, La Gioconda and Die Fledermaus).  He was the dance assistant to Herbert Ross for Jubilee! At Carnegie Hall and appeared in regional productions of The Wizard of Oz at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Evita at Houston's Theatre Under the Stars, and GiGi, On the Town, Camelot and Phantom at Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera.  His TV credits include the ABC remake of Bye Bye Birdie, choreographed by Ann Reinking, the Super Bowl XXXIV half-time show and The Conan O'Brien Show.  He has worked as a teacher, choreographer and director of National Residency programs for the National Dance Institute under the leadership of Jacques d'Amboise and has also taught for the New Ballet School, the associate school of Felds Ballet/New York.  He is a member of Actor's Equity Association, Screen Actor's Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the American Guild of Musical Artists and the American Guild of Variety Artists.

MICHAEL SUSKO (Broadway Ballet, Tap, Theater Dance, and Acting in Dance) has been seen touring the United States and Europe with The Scarlet Pimpernel, A Chorus Line and 42nd Street. He has performed regionally across the country, and appears annually in The Christmas Spectacular at New York's famed Radio City Music Hall. As a director, he has staged productions of In Trousers, As Is and the German Premiere of Music of the Night -- The Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber. He also worked as associate choreographer for the Goodspeed Opera House?s recent production of A Little Night Music. With a degree from the Boston Conservatory he has taught Master Classes in both Tap and Theater Dance across the country and Europe.

CRYSTAL CHAPMAN (Tap and Theater Dance) is on the faculty of Broadway Dance Center in New York, where she teaches Tap and Theater Dance and has worked extensively with BDC?s Professional Children?s Program. She worked with Chet Walker and the legendary Gwen Verdon in the pre-Broadway workshop of Fosse. She appeared with Tommy Tune, Ann Reinking, and Savion Glover in The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS performance at Lincoln Center and in Celebrating Life With Ben Vereen, an industrial video made to support organ donation. She was the assistant choreographer for the 2001 Astaire Awards honoring Broadway's finest dancers and choreographers. She has judged and taught workshops and master classes internationally and has choreographed musicals; many of her competition pieces have won Top Choreography, Most Entertaining, and Overall High Score awards. For the LDS Theatre Company in Denver, she performed as Dream Laurey and choreographed Oklahoma! and she choreographed Amahl and the Night Visitors. She was Phyllis and the dance captain for 42nd Street and the dance captain for Gigi at Neil?s New Yorker in Mountainside, N.J.

CHESARE HARDY(Ballet and Theater Dance) is a 2003 graduate of the BFA program at The Juilliard School and has performed with the Juilliard Dance Ensemble. She trained for five weeks in Burgos, Spain, with Kazuko Hirabayashi and participated in two days of an International Spanish Modern Dance Competition. She began her dance training with Nan Klinger in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and with the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet and was with CVYB when it did 10-performances in six-cities during the First International Children's Festival Taiwan Tour. She's currently on scholarship at the Paul Taylor Dance School and she has done summer programs at Paul Taylor as well as at the Chautauqua Dance Institute, the Boston Ballet and the New Ballet School-Elliot Field. Her choreography experience includes the Second and Fifth Annual Choreographer?s Showcases at Chautauqua.