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Kirt, a founding board member, is a Salt Lake City actor, director, and arts administrator.  For Plan-B Theatre Company, he’s appeared in A Perfect Ganesh, The Laramie Project, Animal Farm, the World Premiere and Toronto Fringe Festival production of Amerika, the World Premiere of Exposed, the Regional Premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical!, five SLAMs, and directed Tragedy: A Tragedy.  Other regional credits include A Florentine Tragedy for Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; I Do! I Do! for The Grand Theatre; The Voice of the Prairie, The Fantasticks, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten, and The Wizard of Oz for Egyptian Theatre Company; Saturday's Voyeur for Salt Lake Acting Company; The Diary of Anne Frank, Two By Two, and A Mid-Summer Night's Dream for Old Lyric Repertory Company; and, most recently, Gutenberg! The Musical! at Hippodrome State Theatre (Gainesville, FL).  Kirt has directed the youth productions of Wiley and the Hairy Man for Storybook Players; The Little Prince for Unicorn Pillow Theatre; and an independent youth production of Once on this Island. He has also directed for The Conservatory’s STUDENT SLAM.  His classes at The Conservatory have been on Musical Theatre and the work and theories of Stanislavsky.  Kirt appeared in the independent film, Peculiarities and has appeared in several commercials. Kirt is Executive Director of Davis Arts Council. 

Colleen was last seen onstage in Salt Lake Acting Company's The Water Project and Plan-B Theatre Company's Tragedy: A Tragedy and SLAM.  Other theatrical credits include The Laramie Project, The War of the Worlds and Animal Farm (Plan-B); Kimberly Akimbo, Saturday's Voyeur and Cabbies, Cowboys and the Tree of the Weeping Virgin (SLAC); Yours, Anne (Egyptian Theatre Company) and Blood Brothers (Old Lyric Repertory Company). She is a member of Actors' Equity Association.

Daisy Blake is thrilled to teach at Theatre Arts Conservatory. As an actress, her plays include Polish Joke, Hold Please and Big Love with Salt Lake Acting Company, Stop Kiss, Living Out and Popcorn with Pygmalion Productions, Talking Wales One and Two with Utah Contemporary Theatre and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew with Salt Lake Shakespeare. She's also appeared in a couple of SLAMs for Plan-B Theatre and had the pleasure of directing a piece in Student SLAM as well as co-directing the first Project Fabulocity with Tooth and Nail Theatre. Other work includes voicing Dandelion in the XBox 360 game Amped 3 as well as other video games, commercials and short films. Daisy has a drama degree from Bristol University in England and works in marketing and communications at Salt Lake Acting Company.

Mark has been seen locally in The Alienation Effekt, SLAM ’07 & '08, and Exposed at Plan-B, Salt Lake Shakespeare's Henry V, Proof with Pinnacle Acting Company and SBDance’s This Mortal Coil Regional credits include work with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company, San Francisco's Thick Description, Berkeley Repertory Theater, and the California and Idaho Shakespeare Festivals.

Jay graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelors degree in Music Education and currently teaches at Skyline High School. He has been involved as a performer and music director in Salt Lake theatres for over twenty years.  As a performer he has been seen on the stages of Promised Valley Playhouse and Pioneer Memorial Theatre in such shows as:  The Music Man, Brigadoon, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and My One and Only.  At the Grand Theatre Jay’s music directing credits include:   Paint Your Wagon, Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Funny Girl, Brigadoon, and Damn Yankees.  For Hale Center Theatre he did Brigadoon, Camelot, Oliver, and Forever Plaid.

Jesse Harward, has appeared at Pioneer Theatre Company in Amadeus, The Playboy of the Western World and You Can't Take it With You. Other credits include The Real Inspector Hound with Actors Repertory Theatre, Measure for Measure and Henry V  with Salt Lake Shakespeare Company, and Richard III and Three Sisters at BYU.  Herecently wrote and performed in the one man production of Broken Verses for Salt Lake Shakespeare.  Jesse holds a BFA in Acting from Brigham Young University.

Tyler has been an instructor with Theatre Arts Conservatory since its inception in 2004.  He has been acting for nearly ten years and has had the unique privilege of training and performing in numerous productions with professionals from London's Globe Theatre.  Tyler has extensive stage, television and film experience.  He has most recently appeared in a film slated for release later this year: The Yankles (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326277/).  Tyler is
also a touring musician, performing several shows a year all over the United States and Canada.

Colleen has been performing professionally for twenty years and has been teaching theatre, dance and music for seventeen years.  A member of Actors' Equity Association, she has performed in theatres throughout the west and toured with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.  As an undergraduate student she studied theatre at the U of U, did her graduate studies in theatre for youth at BYU, and trained in the education department at Seattle Children's Theatre.

Kyle is a director, designer, and actor (Member, Actors' Equity Association) and has served as Artistic Director, President, Board Member and Coordinator for numerous theatre organizations.  He holds a B.A. in Theatre Education from Weber State University, has been a theatre educator for the past fifteen years, and is currently pursuing an MFA in directing at Arizona State University.

JJ is a performer and student from the Salt Lake area. She trained at the Theatre Arts Conservatory and has been teaching acting and improvisation there for four years. She has also worked in diverse community settings with young people and the incarcerated. She has been seen on stages across Salt Lake such as The Grand Theatre and the Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre.  JJ spent two years studying at the University of San Francisco in the Performing Arts and Social Justice Department and is currently pursuing a BA in Theatre Studies at the University of Utah.

Rhiannon trained at the Theatre Arts Conservatory for five years. She recently completed a year long course in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. She is currently studying history at the University of Utah. She has played Helena in A Midsummer's Night Dream, Bride in Blood Wedding, Spider in Spider and the Bee, and Barb in A Kissing Way.