Jonn Baca
Jonn Baca is a graduate from Miami University with a BFA in Acting. He is an Advanced Actor/Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, and has taught at several SAFD Stage Combat Workshops, including the National Stage Combat Workshop in North Carolina. He has been performing and choreographing fights professionally in the region for over a decade, working for such companies as the Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Falcon Theatre, and of course, Playhouse in the Park. Jonn is the Educational Director for New Edgecliff Theater Company. He teaches, Acting, Movement and Stage Combat at CCM Prep, and is the Movement teacher for their Certificate Program. He is also the Stage Combat Instructor at Northern Kentucky University.
Michael G. Bath
has been a part of the Cincinnati theatre scene since 1990 when he interned at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati (ETC). A proud graduate of Wilmington College and a member of Actor's Equity Association, Michael currently teaches acting and improvisation for Afterschool Acting and Playhouse in the Park in addition to his stage work. He received Acclaim Awards for roles in Next Fall (Equity Actor in a Lead Role), End Days (Equity Actor in a Supporting Role), both at ETC, and Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches (Equity Actor in a Supporting role) at The Know Theatre. He was also in the award-winning Cincinnati Fringe Festival performance of Fricative (Performance Gallery). For his role as Stanley in Chaps! at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Michael was nominated for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award (Best Local Actor). Other local theatres he has performed with include: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Children's Theatre, Theatre IV/Artreach, Showboat Majestic, and the award-winning comedy/improv group Carnivores In Action.
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John Bromels
has taught acting and theatre across the country for the past 12 years, working as an actor/educator with the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in New York, Theatre at Lime Kiln in Virginia and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. He also toured the country with Poetry Alive, based in North Carolina and ECA Educational Services, based in Michigan. Also an accomplished writer, his dramatic works have been performed from Maine to Florida and have been published in Southern Theatre magazine. John has a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts from Catawba College.
Kevin Crowley
Kevin Crowley returned to Cincinnati in 2006 from Los Angeles where he worked primarily in TV including CSI, Reba, Without a Trace, Murphy Brown, Drew Carey, Malcom in the Middle and Boy Meets World. Film credits include: Major League, Suicide Kings and The Package. As an actor, writer and director, Kevin was with The Second City in Chicago, for nine years. He also appeared with the Steppenwolf, Northlight and Victory Gardens theaters in Chicago. His other theater credits include War Music at the David Geffen theater in Los Angeles (2003, Ovation Award) and Mice and Men (2006, Acclaim Award) at the Playhouse in the Park and St. Louis Rep and a Cincinnati Entertainment Award for his work in Opus (2007) at the Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati. He is currently on faculty at CCM Prepatory Department and has taught at NKU and Xavier University.
Jeff Groh
teaches theatre for Cincinnati Public Schools. He was Educational Director at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and has taught acting for the Carnegie Art Center, The Actors Studio and Cincinnati Country Day. He has toured the country performing poetry for students and has been seen onstage locally at Playhouse in the Park, Ensemble Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and Know Theatre. He has also directed Macbeth, Fiction, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and Defying Gravity.
Elizabeth Harris
Elizabeth Harris has been acting, directing, and teaching theatre for 20 years. She has performed and directed for such theatres as Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, New Edgecliff Theatre, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Flat Rock Playhouse, and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Elizabeth has also co-created several original works, which have been produced at New Edgecliff Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and Horizon Theatre Company. Working as a theatre arts educator Elizabeth has taught for such establishments as Morehead State University, Covington Public Schools-Let It Shine Afterschool Arts Program, Theatre Works, The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, the Educational Theatre Association International Thespian Conference and the Georgia State Thespian Conference. She has also co-created a preschool and kindergarten drama literacy program for Cincinnati Public Schools. Elizabeth currently teaches acting at Northern Kentucky University and Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department.
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Dewey Hawthorne
has been acting, directing, producing and teaching in theatre, film and television for over 20 years. He co-founded and served as director for The Acting Academy for 15 years. He was director of the Theatre Conservatory for the Governor’s Institute at Miami University for three years. In addition, he served on the board of directors of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) (Tri-State) for four years. Dewey Hawthorne has been a guest artist at Educational Theatre Association’s national conference and worked locally with Kings Productions. He currently teaches at Northern Kentucky University and actively works as acting and broadcast talent in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. He has been teaching at the Playhouse since the early 1990s.
Terah Herman
holds a master’s degree in theatre from the University of Kentucky. This will be her second year teaching for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She has taught a range of theatre classes for young children up to college students at the University of Kentucky, the Explorium of Lexington, COSI Toledo, Capital University, West Chester Academy of Music and various elementary schools. She has worked as a professional actress, director and dancer at theatres around the country.
Miranda McGee
is an actor/educator in her third season at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Originally from Australia, Miranda received a drama scholarship to Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, where she earned a B.A in Drama and Communication and went on to train in the Graduate Ensemble at Monash University under RSC alum Peter Oyston. She has spent the past six years working at theatre companies around the U.S. and Australia including The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Long Wharf Theatre, The Howmet Playhouse, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and Essential Theatre. An ensemble member at PMD Productions in Melbourne, Australia, she founded her own educational touring program with fellow actor Luke Lennox, "From Page to Stage." Miranda performs throughout the year on the CSC mainstage and in CSC's touring shows — A Midsummer Night's Dream and Julius Caesar.
Lara Miller
holds a bachelor's degree in Individualized Studies from the Gallatin School of New York University and a Conservatory Certificate from the Stella Adler Studio for Acting in New York. She is a member of the Bruce E. Coyle Acting Intern Company at the Playhouse and has had a great time being a part of the Playhouse community for the last season. This season she has performed in A Christmas Carol and in the Off The Hill production of What's Buggin' Greg.
Mimi Richmond
Since receiving her M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Iowa, Mimi has had a range of theatre experience. In addition to running the summer theatre camp, she taught acting for a high school student apprentice program for The Cleveland Playhouse. For more than 11 years, Mimi worked with Madcap Puppet Theatre which involved directing numerous original shows as well as performing, puppeteering and coordinating Madcap’s education program. Mimi also taught a year-long introductory acting course at Cincinnati’s R.I.T.S.S., a private high school for girls. Since 2004, she has been teaching acting and creative dramatics for Uptown Arts. For the last three summers, she and her husband, Russell White, have taught The Seven Hills School’s drama camp for elementary age students. Additionally, Mimi and Russell have led theatre workshops for student doctors as part of the Very Special Arts Program run by the Child Life Department at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Bet Stewart
Bet Stewart's main goal in teaching is for FUN to take place, with LEARNING sneaking along beside it, incognito... Actor, writer, musician and theatre artist, she is artistic director of Intuition Theatre, known for its innovative original work. Ms. Stewart has been teaching and performing for over 25 years and has been at Playhouse in the Park for over 10 years. Having created a unique style blending drama, comedy, mime, music, improvisation and clowning, her solo work is featured in a repertoire of one-woman touring shows: Chicken Fishing in America, I'm Right-You're Right, Off With Their Hats/Alice in Looking Land, and Sentimental Journey, the Life of Rosemary Clooney (all written by Ms. Stewart). Bet shares her teaching, writing and directing talents in theatres, art centers, prisons, schools and community centers throughout the region. She has studied with theatre masters around the world and is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. She is on many artist rosters including Cincinnati Arts Association, Ohio Arts Council's Artist-On-Tour, Kentucky Humanities Council, VSA Arts Kentucky and Greater Columbus Arts Council. Bet believes theatre arts are a joyful adventure and belong to people of all ages and abilities!
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Karie-Lee Sutherland
has worked professionally as a director, choreographer, writer and actor for over 20 years. She toured the world as a singer/dancer for the DOD-USO and is a veteran of live shows at Kings Island. She has also worked for King’s Productions, where she wrote and directed touring shows for Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo and the Flintstones. She was a Broadcast major at UC’s College Conservatory of Music and has received several Orchid awards, as well as a State Octafest Award for choreography. Karie-Lee has worked as a drama instructor for various schools and theatre companies in the Cincinnati area and is an instructor in the Drama Division at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department where she teaches Musical Theatre Dance.
Y York
Playwright Y York has premiered plays in Houston and Milwaukee and is currently working on new plays for People's Light and Theatre Company and Seattle Children's Theatre. She has written over forty produced plays, twenty-five of which have been published. Y has been teaching playwriting classes and workshops since 1993 at University of Washington, Freehold Theatre School, Arizona State University, Ko`olau Writers Workshop, Bamboo Ridge Tri4Write, The Last Frontier Playwriting Conference (Alaska), Sarah Lawrence, Kumu Kahua Theatre, her living room, and online.
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