| Class: | Age: | Chapter: | Location: | Day: | Time: | Start: | End: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon: Drama 2: Dynamic Duos: Acting in Tandem | 12-18 | Portland (Winter 2024) |
Northwest Christian Church - Tigard Campus | Mon | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Jan 08 | Mar 11 |
| Mon: Musical Theater 1: Dream A Million Dreams | 8-11 | Portland (Winter 2024) |
Northwest Christian Church - Tigard Campus | Mon | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Jan 08 | Mar 11 |
| Mon: Sound & Lighting Tech: Secrets of the Tech Booth | 19-79 | Portland (Winter 2024) |
Northwest Christian Church - Tigard Campus | Mon | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Jan 08 | Mar 11 |
| Mon: Vocals 2: Soaring Imagination, Soaring Voices! | 12-18 | Portland (Winter 2024) |
Northwest Christian Church - Tigard Campus | Mon | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Jan 08 | Mar 11 |
| Thurs: Dance 1: Lyrical: Dance the Song | 8-18 | Portland (Winter 2024) |
Northwest Christian Church - Tigard Campus | Thu | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Jan 04 | Mar 07 |
| Thurs: Drama 2: Imagine the Three You Could Be | 12-18 | Portland (Winter 2024) |
Northwest Christian Church - Tigard Campus | Thu | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Jan 04 | Mar 07 |
| Thurs: Musical Theater 2: The Telephone Hour | 12-18 | Portland (Winter 2024) |
Northwest Christian Church - Tigard Campus | Thu | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Jan 04 | Mar 07 |
| Thurs: Props: Flight of Imagination | 12-18 | Portland (Winter 2024) |
Northwest Christian Church - Tigard Campus | Thu | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Jan 04 | Mar 07 |
Elijah is a 19 year old bibliophile who enjoys playing his many board games, reading a variety of books, listening to a rather eclectic range of music, and doing pretty much anything outdoors. He is an avid nerd, and loves all things Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and a wide variety of video games. Elijah has an enthusiasm for cosplay and loves to bring his costumes to life by using quality props and authentic materials. Elijah has been a part of CYT since “Frozen Jr”. His desire is to continue learning with CYT as well as serving in any capacity needed. "You have to find something that you love enough to jump over hurdles and break through the brick walls.” George Lucas
As a daughter of a music teacher, I’ve always loved music. I began singing in church choir as an adolescent. I quickly developed a deep love for musical theater and choral music and began performing in theater productions at age 13. I sang with choirs at church, in the Chamber Singers in High School, and eventually University choir before returning to church choirs as an adult. I am an elementary school teacher and have directed youth choirs at churches. I look forward to sharing my love of singing with a new class!
Have previously arranged music for worship teams and led worship on keyboards in both the U.K. and U.S. Currently assist Robynne in her vocal classes and accompany the singers.
I am a wife and mama of 3 amazing Hobbits. I have a great love of all things creative. I love to draw, paint, craft, cosplay, sing, read… and play board games. In my younger years I have been in church plays as well as college drama, I choreographed dances and even learned and taught mime. A couple of years ago my Hobbits and I discovered we have a love of cosplaying. This led to my creating unique and quality props, and I discovered that I not only have a talent for it, but I have a passion for it. I began working with the props with CYT during “Elf Jr" and was props master for "Frozen Jr" and “Newsies Jr". I have a passion for creating quality props that can help bring the shows to life. I look forward to sharing that passion with students while helping to teach the skills necessary to bring them to life.
Lisa has been dancing and preforming since she was very young. She received a BA in theatre performance and theatre administration from Whitworth University. She has studied numerous styles of dance including ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, hip-hop, swing, ballroom, and latin. Since graduating, she has been active working with professional and community theaters in the Portland and Salem area stage managing and choreographing. She believes we were all made with the ability to dance, and with a little practice and instruction, we can create something very beautiful through movement. For Lisa, dance is a joyful expression of the soul, and she is excited to share that joy with others. When not working on a production, she enjoys going on adventures with her husband, Kyle, and their children Lexie, Marcus, Jinora, and Ezra.
I'm equal parts music lover and writing fanatic. By day, I'm a published author of ten books (under a pen name!), a writing/publishing coach, a writing teacher, the director of a Christian Writers Conference, and president of an international writing organization. By night, I indulge my lifelong love of all things musical. From my earliest school days, I've been involved in choirs, competitive singing groups, music ministries, and musical theatre. I've conducted youth, adult, and worship ensembles and choirs, and served as Director of Worship in both England and the US. I studied voice performance and conducting, as well as literature and business, at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, and later earned my Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction from Ashland University in Ohio. Nearly three decades ago, I met and then married the love of my life, my British husband, Ian. We have a glorious brood of adopted and biological children ranging in age from 27 down to 16. I love to travel, cook, and dabble in pioneer-era skills. I can make sourdough bread by eye, and bacon from scratch. If there was an Olympic Boggle team, I think I'd have a shot at a spot. More than all that, however, I love the God who gave us the gift of music, story, community, and Himself.
Sandy Shaner has been involved with the performing arts for 40 years. She studied both Dance and Early Childhood education at PSU, in addition to her training through multiple dance academies, including The Portland Dance and Northwest Dance Academies. Sandy has been an instructor of both drama and dance and is currently in her 21st year at Lake Oswego Academy of Dance. She also enjoys choreographing musical productions for schools in Portland, but most of all she loves being a part of the CYT family, where her dance background and her love of Jesus come together.
Susan Ruddock began dancing at age 16, taking an Interpretive Dance class from Sr. Jeanine Therese. She found her passion & escalated her talent by taking thousands of diverse dance classes: modern, ballet, tap, jazz & musical theatre. Tap dancing so fascinated her that she dedicated 35 years to The Skylark Tappers dance company, retiring in Dec 2018. In 2010, Suz was chosen as a local Rockette to open the Radio City Rockettes’ show in Portland. Over the years, Suz honed her tap skills by interacting with taps masters Cholly Atkins, Brenda Buffalino, Honi Coles, Linda Sohl-Elison, Fred Strickler, Portland’s own Terry Brock & countless other tap masters. Suz enjoys engaging in theatre as an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer or assistant director with over 40 shows to her credit. A recent venture was choreographing Disney’s The Lion King for Kids.
Tim’s love of the theater started early - as a winsome young lad, he stoutly refused to go on stage and audition for a community production of The Music Man out of sheer terror. Luckily, he has since conquered his fears, but still finds more than 75 trombones in one place unnerving. These days he prefers a warm & cozy tech booth, doing the sorts of jobs that nobody ever thinks about until it all goes terribly wrong. As a long-time professional musician and production engineer, he has a deep understand of dramatic arts and even more dramatic people. His main interests are drinking coffee, following his wife around, parenting two starry-eyed CYT tweens, and writing bios that are pretty funny, but not too funny.
Konstantin Stanislavski
