Lemar Archer
Lemar Archer is a Jamaican-born educator, actor, dancer, choreographer and director with years of experience in theatre and drama education and performance. In Jamaica he served 5 years as Theatre Arts/Drama and Dance educator and teacher mentor and Head of the Visual and Performing Arts Department at the Edith Dalton James High School, in Kingston Jamaica. He was a trainee with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica and is a principal member of the QUILT Performing Arts Company. Lemar has gained numerous accolades in teaching and directing such as Best Overall Tutor in JCDC Speech Festival 2018 and Most Outstanding Teacher in Western Kingston in the performing Arts in 2018. In 2019 he staged his first commercial theatre production "A Child's Cry (Call to Rescue Our Youths)â€, which he wrote and directed and won the Actor Boy Award for Best Children’s Theatre Production in 2020. His passion for youth development and the performing arts continues to be his inspiration in becoming the greatest version of himself.
Lemar holds a Master of Arts in Theatre Education from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, a Bachelor of Arts in Drama in Education from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and a Certificate in Principles and Practices of Project Management from the Mona School of Business and Management, University of The West Indies.
Olivia Browne
Olivia Browne is a Boston MA-based Stage manager. Past credits in stage management include working at Moonbox Productions, Boston Center for the Arts, Wheelock Family Theatre, Highlander Theatre Company, and Messy Theatre. In addition to her stage management work, She is a residential stage manager at The Messy Theatre Co. Outside of Stage Management she had taught in local schools in Somerville MA and workshops with SAY inc. She is so excited to be working with Summer of Yes! and returning to SAY! SUMMER THEATRE INSTITUTE.
Zoe Nadal
Zoe Nadal (She/Her/Hers) is a Boston-based theatre educator and teaching artist. Originally from Los Angeles, Zoe moved to the Midwest to study at Northwestern University where she earned a BA in Theatre with a concentration in Musical Theatre. Favorite Chicago theatre credits include Parade (Writers Theatre), The Little Mermaid (Paramount Theatre) and Ragtime (Marriott Theatre.) Television credits include The Exorcist (FOX.) Zoe is the theatre teacher at Wilson Middle School in Natick, MA where she teaches and directs students in grades 5-8. In addition to her work in Natick, Zoe is a teaching artist with Wheelock Family Theatre where she facilitates courses in acting and musical theatre. She believes that every student has the potential to be a good theatre maker and that every student should feel valued, validated and celebrated in the classroom community and in the curriculum. Zoe holds both an MA and MFA in the Theatre Education and Applied Theatre program from Emerson College, and her research examines critically engaged musical theatre classrooms.
Julia Whitten
Julia (she/her/hers) is an educator and artist based in the greater Boston area whose scholarship focuses on disability theatre and inclusive arts education. The greater Atlanta native holds a BA degree in theatre from Georgia College and State University, where she concentrated her work in management, design, and arts integration. As a Theatre Education and Applied Theatre MFA candidate at Emerson College, she is passionate about exploring how applied theatre practice, disability studies, and justice studies informs her work with young people. She has worked in the fields of stage management, directing, dramaturgy, production management, scenic artistry, and design, and has taught in special education, gifted STEM, ELL, theatre, early childhood, and foreign language classrooms in both private and public schools.