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Richard Mazda is a UK-born actor, writer, and director who is now a proud American. He was the Artistic Director of the Secret which he founded and built-in 2007.
Kaila Wooten believes the voice is an instrument just like any other. She got her start singing sessions in Nashville and she now teaches private voice lessons to all ages. BFA (NYU)
Claire McClain is a Missouri born, NYC based actress with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The New School for Drama. She has been teaching at Secret Theatre since 2016.
Samantha Sayah (Director/ Musical Director) is an NYC based Actor, Singer, Musician, and Teaching Artist. Directing credits include Matilda Jr. & Into the Woods Jr. with the Performing Arts Conservatory of New Canaan. As an actor, she was last seen playing Girl in Once at the Geva Theatre Center. Additional theatre credits include Summer Theatre of New Canaan, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Disney Cruise Line, and Tokyo Disney Resort. She received her BFA in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University. To Richard, the cast, crew, and designers- Thank You. May you never lose sight of “the thing that makes it worth the journeying.”
Regina is a professional actor and teaching artist based in New York City. Recent NYC credits: The Golden Bride (National Yiddish Opera Folksbiene), Science Fair (ArsNova ANT), and Leah in Leah, the Forsaken (Metropolitan Playhouse) Regional: Lathem Prince (DC Capital Festival), As You Like It (Connecticut Shakespeare) Charlotte's Web (Theatreworks/USA). Readings with Lark, EST, and ArsNova. Film: Spiders (Cannes Festival) She stars as Amelia in her comedy series, Honestly, Amelia at www.honestlyamelia.com BFA NYU TISCH Stella Adler.
Paige Stewart is a very accomplished dancer and teacher who has danced for Nick Cannon, Arianna Grande, BET, Wyclef Jean and many, many others. She has a very extensive resume as a dance teacher and choreography and is the founder of the Kingdom Dance Company based in Jamaica, Queens. She specializes in teaching Hip Hop, Street, African, and the kind of styles seen in modern pop videos. She loves to teach dance technique and is particularly proud of her work building communities within the groups and classrooms she teaches in.
MARC NUÑEZ was born in Switzerland and raised in California. He is a Filipino-American, Queens-based Teacher, Choreographer, and Dancer. Professionally, Marc has danced for Rihanna, Todrick Hall, Donald McKayle's Etude Ensemble, Mike Esperanza's BARE Dance Company and Entity Contemporary Dance, as well as played roles in musicals including Peter Pan (international tour starring Cathy Rigby), Disney's Newsies, Cabaret and The King and I. Marc has directed productions of The Wizard of Oz and choreographed Sweeney Todd (Media Theatre). Marc holds a BFA in Dance Performance with Excellence in Choreography from the University of California, Irvine.
Jeremy Kareken, a longtime resident of Sunnyside, is a Broadway playwright and occasional actor. His plays have been performed around the world, both written original works and works adapted from other forms of literature including creative non-fiction (The Lifespan of a Fact), graphic novels (Peter Bagge’s the Bradleys), and worked in collaboration with other writers and one molecular biologist (The Sweet, Sweet Motherhood). He was a co-writer for Hal Hartley’s film My America. He’s won a number of awards as a writer, including the John Gassner New Play Award from the Outer Critics Circle, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference Playwrights’ Award, the Hamptons Film Festival’s New Writer’s Fellowship, the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway One-Act Award, and the Ensemble Studio theater Next Step Fellowship.