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Teaching Artists

Rose Bedard

Rose Bedard

Rose Bedard, affectionately known as “Rosie B.” is a freelance artist, choreographer, and teacher under her LLC 2INSPIRE Dance. She can be found inspiring, teaching, and choreographing at local studios and universities in and outside of Vermont. She is the creator/director of her own adult dance company, SynRgy Dance Company. Rose has the pleasure to work with many dance studios around the state on a recreational and competitive level as well as continuing her own training in NYC, Boston, and beyond. She has been coach of the Mt. Mansfield Union dance team for 16 years.

is an award-winning educator, musician, and composer. For over 25 years, he has cultivated powerful and innovative learning experiences for students, supporting them to create and share original music and art. Brian is the founder and creative director of Soundcheck. 

Tom Cleary

Pianist/keyboardist/composer Tom Cleary teaches in the jazz studies program at UVM, coordinates the 麻豆传媒社区 jazz program, and teaches private lessons in his home studio. He co-leads the jazz quartet Birdcode with vocalist Amber deLaurentis, and has performed and recorded with Mike Gordon, Ray Vega, Ellen Powell, Brian McCarthy, Patricia Julien, and Jamie Masefield. His work in musical theater includes music direction for shows at Northern Stage, Saint Michael's Playhouse, and UVM Theater. Visit his and .

Rob Crites

Rob Crites is a professional entertainer, circus performer and instructor. His performances include stilt-dancing: in Paul McCartney's European tour, with Jennifer Lopez on the American Music awards, and juggling on stilts in Aerosmith's "Jaded" music video. Movie performances include "Water for Elephants", "OZ: The Great and Powerful", and "Beauty and the Beast: 30th anniversary".  TV performances include Dancing with the Stars, GLEE, Celebrity Circus and General Hospital. In addition to performing, Rob Co-coordinated Cirque du Soleil's "Cirque du Monde" program in Los Angeles for 12 years teaching social circus to at-risk youth and now teaches several programs for Circus Smirkus here in Vermont. 

Amber deLaurentis

Amber deLaurentis

Amber oversees the vocal jazz program at University of Vermont, where she teaches voice and co-directs the UVM Jazz Vocal Ensemble with husband Tom Cleary. Amber regularly performs alongside Tom as a member of jazz quartet Birdcode, which recently released its first recording, You Are Here. As a songwriter, Amber released her second full-length record, Innocent Road, in 2019. She has performed with Marcus Roberts, Judi Silvano, and Ben Folds.

Rhonda Pagnucco

Rhonda Doonan

Rhonda Doonan (she/her) has been exploring dance and movement practices since her first Irish step dancing lesson as a child. Rhonda enjoys studying somatics and expressive movement as pathways to wellness, self-discovery, creativity, joy and healing. She enjoyed a long career as a speech-language pathologist and brings her passion for inclusivity and accessibility to her work at the 麻豆传媒社区. Rhonda is a nationally certified Pilates instructor, Shake Your Soul®-Yoga of Dance certified instructor, and is currently enrolled in the Dance for PD® dance teacher course.

Uncle Erok

(he/him/they/them) is a local artist, activist and poet who strives to create work that inspires joy, wonder, deep connection and liberation. From large-scale murals, banners, flags and protest signs to astrological woodcuts, freestyle poetry and upcycled clothing, erok offers a big and tiny array of artwork. Erok has been print making for over 20 yrs working in DIY styles of both screen and block printing. Often he's working with community to make prints and art used in parades, protests and campaigns for climate justice and human rights.  

 is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter who has been playing and writing music by ear since childhood. A multi-instrumentalist, she taught herself piano, guitar, and several other instruments. She studied music education at The Crane School of Music and is currently completing her master's in education. For the past two years, she has been fortunate to work closely with the Vermont All State Music Festival Modern Band Ensemble and is passionate about engaging students through popular music education. Mikayla shares her love of music as a teacher at Winooski School District, where she teaches piano, chorus, and digital music. Learn more at www.mikayla.us

 is a musician and educator based in Essex, Vermont. Kristin’s specialties include vocal coaching, curriculum design, classroom music instruction, music direction, songwriting, arrangement, and choral conducting. Kristin grew up just outside Milwaukee. At the age of 18, she moved to New York to attend NYU for an undergraduate degree in Music Education. As a classically-trained, contemporarily-influenced vocalist and educator, Kristin offers a versatile training experience for students of all ages.

Tracy Martin

Tracy Martin

Tracy Martin teaches young children around the state as well as through the 麻豆传媒社区’s signature Words Come Alive school program. She studied dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and received her MFA in dance from UWM. She is the artistic director of Phantom Theater, a venue that produces original works in dance, theater, and music.

photo credit: Emily Boedecker

is the founder of the Montpelier-based Cardboard Teck Institute. He is the co-creator of the PinBox 3000 cardboard tabletop pinball machine kit (with Pete Talbot). He co-conceived the original Hadestown (with Anaïs Mitchell), now on Broadway. He has worked as a youth advocate, librarian, café owner, educator, puppeteer, artist, game master, and entrepreneur in Vermont for 20+ years. He has a BA in Theater from Northwestern University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.

Sara McMahon

Sara McMahon

Sara has been involved in the research, teaching, performing of movement as a form of artistic and personal development for the past 40 years. Her teaching approach draws from elements of Bartenieff Fundamentals, Body-Mind Centering, basic principles of anatomy and kinesiology, and improvisational and modern dance techniques. She has extensive training in Modern Dance, Body Mind Dancing, and is a ® certified teacher.

Deb Margolin

Deb Margolin

is a playwright, actor, and founding member of Split Britches Theater Company. She is the author of numerous plays, including Imagining