2025 Stagekids! Staff

Jaime Arze

Makiah Epstein

Athena Peterson

Westley Sutton

Cole Dickman

Kalila Griffith-Strassner - costumes

Emily Birmingham - art

Eden Rose - art

Abby Shipnuck - art

Josiah Sullivan - music

The StageKids! team is largely made up of an internal staff that has progressed from participating students into a variety of roles. Students may become interns if interested and then are mentored by assistant directors who themselves were interns.

The assistant directors have a variety of roles within the program that may cover scene creation, dance choreography, wardrobe and costume assemblage, music composition, backdrop and props building and lighting design. The interns support the assistant directors as well as provide leadership for the program students. Guest teaching artists are also brought in, when available, to enhance the program with their specific skills. The collective of all staff members creates a unique personality to each week’s experience as well as the summer program as a whole.