Teaching Artists

is excited to be joining the Teaching Artist Staff at Playhouse Theatre Academy! She will be graduating this spring from the University of Connecticut with a BA in Theatre Studies and Communication. She has been acting, dancing and singing for many years and loves working with kids, especially within theatre. She has a passion for Performance and Choreography and enjoys teaching others from her experiences. She has worked on various productions at Connecticut Repertory Theatre as well as just recently choreographed her first Middle School production at Gideon Welles School in Glastonbury, CT. As the former President and current Choreographer of Notes Over Storrs, a co-ed A cappella group at UConn she is a part of, Julie has choreographed two professional performance ICCA sets over her time in the group. She has also worked several summers at the Glastonbury Music and Arts Camp as a Dance and Theatre instructor to children and loves to inspire them to continue to love and pursue the arts!

brings almost nineteen years of experience in performance, scene studies, playwriting, auditioning techniques, Shakespeare, comedy, puppetry and directing to Playhouse on Park as their Director of Education. She is a BFA Performance graduate of Eastern CT State University and has MFA accreditation from the University of North Carolina, with a focus on Theatre for Youth. She has previously worked with theaters such as Hartford Children’s Theatre, Flock Theatre, Newington Childrens, Little Theatre of Manchester, and the Greensboro City Arts Drama Center. She also had the amazing experience of interning with puppeteers from Jim Henson’s Muppet Co, for two summers! She’s had her plays produced and performed throughout CT, and she is the proud co-founder of the WTG Playwrights. Besides being a teaching artist for Playhouse, Jill also assistant directs for Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts after school theatre program!