STAGES Directors - The Performing Arts Academy for Kids

STACEY M. KOLOSKI
Director/Owner
stacey@stagesacademy.com

STAGES Director/Owner Stacey Koloski grew up in Jay, Maine and got her theatrical start in the Jay Public Schools, University of Maine at Farmington Summer Theatre Program, and the Foothills Arts Center.

Stacey is a playwright and theatre professional with over 20 years of experience acting, directing and mentoring young performing artists. She has written over a dozen plays and musicals, including Canterbury Trails, which premiered and toured mid-Atlantic high schools in 1996, and The Scarlet Letter, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001, and in Manhattan and London in 2003. She has served as a professional adjudicator for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Theatre Association of Pennsylvania awarding over $100,000 to promising American playwrights; and was a long time judge for the Pennsylvania High School Speech League annual State One Act play competition finals.

Stacey has a theatre arts degree from Susquehanna University and has worked, directed, performed, or had her work read at many organizations including Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co, and Theatre J (all in Washington, DC); Manhattan Theatre Club and the Acorn Theatre (New York, NY); Augustine's Sanctuary (Edinburgh, Scotland); and The Greenwich Theatre (London, UK). Stacey was very pleased to direct Annie Warbucks at Lyric Music Theater in South Portland, this fall.

At STAGES, Stacey teaches early childhood music appreciation, musical theatre and playwriting to kids of all ages and is also the director of STAGES musical theatre productions, including Once On This Island, Les Miserables and Disney’s Beauty And the Beast.

Stacey is looking forward to directing Aladdin at STAGES this winter, and to serving as Producer for the spring musical productions of Rent (directed by Fran Page), and Pirates of Penzance (directed by Hollye Seddon).

HOLLYE R. SEDDON
Director/Owner
hollye@stagesacademy.com

STAGES Director/Owner Hollye Seddon has over 15 years of experience teaching and working with children of all ages. Hollye has deep roots in the performing arts and has been active in theatre throughout her life, both on stage and behind the scenes.

Her background is in public speaking, creative movement and dance, with performance and production experience including; The King and I, Sister Mary Ignatius; Explains it All for You, Sweet Charity, Cowboys and Indians, and The Three and a Half Musketeers. She has appeared at Columbia Entertainment Company, River City Theatre and Maplewood Barn Community Theatre in Missouri.

Hollye is also a classically trained French chef and culinary arts instructor. Before founding STAGES, Hollye taught high school students at Bath Regional Vocational Center. She also spent several years as an administrator and in the classroom at The Little Dolphin School in Westbrook. Enthusiastic about teaching all ages, she promotes hands-on educational experiences and believes they are the most beneficial to young learners. Seeing how children grow and develop in a nurturing theatre community and watching them gain a sense of confidence and belonging is an atmosphere she hopes to replicate at STAGES.

At STAGES, Hollye manages the entire STAGES in the Schools program, and was directly responsible for bringing school-based yoga, storytelling, movement and music programs to over 350 schoolchildren each week in STAGES first year. She also teaches early childhood creative movement and dramatic play, acting/drama for kids of all ages, and serves as the scenic designer for STAGES productions, having designed and built a Caribbean island backdrop, a completely appointed mansion parlor, and a rotating barricade in our first year alone!

Hollye directed the first-ever STAGES dramatic play, the melodrama A Fate Worse Than Death and is currently directing the Fall production of the hilarious and classic comedy You Can’t Take it With You. She has served as Producer for all STAGES musical productions to date (Once On This Island, Les Miserables, and Disney’s Beauty And The Beast) and will herself, be directing an all-kids musical production of Pirates of Penzance in Yarmouth in Spring 2009.




		STACEY M. KOLOSKI Director/Owner stacey@stagesacademy.com STAGES Director/Owner Stacey Koloski grew up in Jay, Maine and got her theatrical start in the Jay Public Schools, University of Maine at Farmington Summer Theatre Program, and the Foothills Arts Center. Stacey is a playwright and theatre professional with over 20 years of experience acting, directing and mentoring young performing artists. She has written over a dozen plays and musicals, including Canterbury Trails, which premiered and toured mid-Atlantic high schools in 1996, and The Scarlet Letter, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001, and in Manhattan and London in 2003. She has served as a professional adjudicator for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Theatre Association of Pennsylvania awarding over $100,000 to promising American playwrights; and was a long time judge for the Pennsylvania High School Speech League annual State One Act play competition finals. Stacey has a theatre arts degree from Susquehanna University and has worked, directed, performed, or had her work read at many organizations including Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co, and Theatre J (all in Washington, DC); Manhattan Theatre Club and the Acorn Theatre (New York, NY); Augustine's Sanctuary (Edinburgh, Scotland); and The Greenwich Theatre (London, UK). Stacey was very pleased to direct Annie Warbucks at Lyric Music Theater in South Portland, this fall. At STAGES, Stacey teaches early childhood music appreciation, musical theatre and playwriting to kids of all ages and is also the director of STAGES musical theatre productions, including Once On This Island, Les Miserables and Disney’s Beauty And the Beast. Stacey is looking forward to directing Aladdin at STAGES this winter, and to serving as Producer for the spring musical productions of Rent (directed by Fran Page), and Pirates of Penzance (directed by Hollye Seddon).

	HOLLYE R. SEDDON Director/Owner hollye@stagesacademy.com STAGES Director/Owner Hollye Seddon has over 15 years of experience teaching and working with children of all ages. Hollye has deep roots in the performing arts and has been active in theatre throughout her life, both on stage and behind the scenes. Her background is in public speaking, creative movement and dance, with performance and production experience including; The King and I, Sister Mary Ignatius; Explains it All for You, Sweet Charity, Cowboys and Indians, and The Three and a Half Musketeers. She has appeared at Columbia Entertainment Company, River City Theatre and Maplewood Barn Community Theatre in Missouri. Hollye is also a classically trained French chef and culinary arts instructor. Before founding STAGES, Hollye taught high school students at Bath Regional Vocational Center. She also spent several years as an administrator and in the classroom at The Little Dolphin School in Westbrook. Enthusiastic about teaching all ages, she promotes hands-on educational experiences and believes they are the most beneficial to young learners. Seeing how children grow and develop in a nurturing theatre community and watching them gain a sense of confidence and belonging is an atmosphere she hopes to replicate at STAGES. At STAGES, Hollye manages the entire STAGES in the Schools program, and was directly responsible for bringing school-based yoga, storytelling, movement and music programs to over 350 schoolchildren each week in STAGES first year. She also teaches early childhood creative movement and dramatic play, acting/drama for kids of all ages, and serves as the scenic designer for STAGES productions, having designed and built a Caribbean island backdrop, a completely appointed mansion parlor, and a rotating barricade in our first year alone! Hollye directed the first-ever STAGES dramatic play, the melodrama A Fate Worse Than Death and is currently directing the Fall production of the hilarious and classic comedy You Can’t Take it With You. She has served as Producer for all STAGES musical productions to date (Once On This Island, Les Miserables, and Disney’s Beauty And The Beast) and will herself, be directing an all-kids musical production of Pirates of Penzance in Yarmouth in Spring 2009.

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