Before joining ACT, Adam Schuler was Artistic Director and Founder of Broken Leg productions with notable educational programs for high school and college and a community main stage company. Credits with BLP include Rent, Frozen JR, If/Then, Spring Awakening, Chicago, James and The Giant Peach Jr., Aida, The Addams Family and many more!

Adam was director for Melrose Public Schools at the middle and high school level. His work in Melrose have brought the program many awards and accolades including over 30 METG Musical nominations for Melrose Drama. Credits with Melrose Drama include Mamma Mia, Freaky Friday, Evita, Les Misérables, Once On This Island, Tarzan, Elf Jr., The Little Mermaid Jr. and Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Laramie Cycle, Twelfth Night, Noises Off!, Beauty and the Beast, Legally Blonde, and Oliver!

Additionally, Schuler spent seven summers as artistic director of Wakefield Repertory Youth Theater. Credits with WRYT include DASH award nominated productions of Seussical, Peter Pan, and My Son Pinocchio. Other productions with WRYT include Shrek, Annie, Alice in Wonderland, The Prince and The Pauper, and Willy Wonka.

Other directing credits include Sister Act, The Light in the Piazza, The Drowsy Chaperone, Once Upon A Mattress and She Loves Me, as well as The Wizard Of Oz (DASH nominee), Curtains and Little by Little (EMACT nomination for best director & production), Hay Fever, Laugh In!, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Quazimodo.

Schuler has a varied and extensive theatrical resume with experience in education, technical direction, costuming, stage management, lighting design and more. He is also an IRNE award nominated actor/ singer and studied theatre arts at Johnson State College and Adelphi University.

Sarah Smith has been with the ACT community since 2001. Over the years, she has occupied what seems like every possible role at ACT – starting out as a young actor, and in more recent years transitioning into an enthusiastic member of the creative team. As ACT’s Summer Day Program director, she loves guiding actors through the entire creative process of putting on a musical, including choreography, character development, and set and costume design. When she is not at ACT, Sarah teaches second grade at The Park School in Brookline, MA. She is constantly looking for new and creative ways to incorporate the arts into her teaching and enjoys using aspects of theater to enrich her students’ learning. Sarah credits ACT with igniting her passion for education and imagination, and she is forever grateful to be a part of such a wonderful organization.

Brian Dudley is an educator and arts administrator specializing in youth development and theatre education. He is a full time staff member in student services at Boston University and a faculty member for the BU Summer Theatre Institute. As a teaching artist/facilitator, Brian has worked with many arts and education organizations in the Boston area including the Boston University Summer Theatre Institute, the Massachusetts Youth Leadership Foundation, Arlington Children’s Theatre, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Wheelock Family Theatre, the JCC North Shore Early Childhood Programs, and Jumpstart at Emerson College. Brian’s training is in collaborative theatre making, applied theatre, multicultural education, and developing arts-integrated curriculum for schools and other non-traditional educational programs. Brian holds a M.Ed in Arts, Community, and Education with a specialization in Theatre from Lesley University and a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College.

Kaylah holds a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts and Communication Arts and currently works in the box office at American Repertory Theater and Huntington Theatre Company. Some of her favorite theatre experiences include playing Penelope Pennywise in Urinetown and performing in a new play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. When she isn’t doing theatre, she spends her time writing and acting for film.

Anthony is an award-winning theatre director based in New York City. His work has been seen at Signature Theatre, American Theatre of Actors, Theater for the New City, The Gallery Players, Hudson Guild Theatre, Feinstein’s/54 Below, the New York Musical Festival, and the New York Theater Festival. Regional credits include Paper Mill Playhouse, White Plains PAC, Red House Arts Center, Summer Theatre of New Canaan, Riverside Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, and as a visiting member of the Music Theatre faculty at Elon University. Anthony is founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Human Theatre Project

Emily Grove is a theatre director, actor, and educator.  She has directed such youth productions as: Goosebumps The Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium (Boston Children’s Theatre; East Coast premier), The Velveteen Rabbit (Boston Children’s Theatre), and The Elves and The Shoemaker (Marblehead Little Theatre). Other favorite directing credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest, Machinal, Romeo and Juliet, and Mr. Marmalade. Emily has served as a teaching artist at The American Repertory Theatre, Boston Children’s Theatre, and Kidstock! Creative Theater. Emily is the Lead Teaching Artist for the Boston division of the Disney Musicals in Schools (DMIS) program, which aims to teach public elementary school teachers how to develop a sustainable musical theatre program in their schools. With a distinct interest in using theatre as a tool for social justice, one of her favorite projects is serving as the director for the Fayerweather Street School’s annual play which aims to supplement the middle school curriculum centering around social justice and activism (The Tempest and The Caucasian Chalk Circle). Emily is a graduate of Salem State University and holds her BFA in Theatre: Performance.

Dr. Sarah Broomell teaches music theory and piano skills in the theater division of The Boston Conservatory at Berklee where she also coaches and accompanies musical theater and classical singers and instrumentalists. Sarah completed the Doctorate of Musical Arts in collaborative piano at UC-Santa Barbara and both the MM and BM from Baylor University.  She was director of the St. James Episcopal Church Choir and founding artistic director of the Young Singers Club Performing Arts camps in Bozeman, MT.  She directed the UBC Women’s Choir at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the Central Coast Children’s Choir in San Luis Obispo, CA. Sarah instructed Ear Training at Montana State University and at UBC-Vancouver. She taught piano skills at the Montana State University School of Music, Cuesta College-San Luis Obispo, CA, and Indiana Purdue-Fort Wayne.  She was staff pianist for Opera San Luis Obispo, the University of Miami at Salzburg, and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. A former Music Together® instructor and current preschool piano instructor of WunderKeys, Dr. Broomell operates a piano studio for youth and adults from her home in Arlington, MA, where she lives with her sixth-grade son Iain and their cat Tonto.