Teacher/Instructor Biographies

 

Eve Hammond, MIT is a theatre and language arts teacher with over 16 years of experience in both professional and scholastic arenas. She launched innovative quality theatre programs for multiple organizations such as Seattle Children's Theatre, Studio East, Youth Theatre Northwest, and the Washington Shakespeare Festival. She managed and worked as Artistic Director for college and semi-professional theatres. She currently creates vigorous theatre school theatre programs for grades K–12 as the Artistic Director for the Northshore Networks Youth Theatre in the Northshore School District. She has a master's in teaching and is a member of both the Educational Theatre Association and the American Alliance for Theatre Educators.

 

Carissa Meisner Smit’s stage career began thirty years ago as a candy cane in the ubiquitous Nutcracker Suite. Since then she has performed as a dancer, actor, and singer in a wide variety of productions in California and here in the Northwest, including appearances with Northwest Savoyards, Civic Light Opera, and The Driftwood Players. Recent choreography credits include Shoreline Community College’s Opera Workshops in 2006 and 2007, and the DP’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. She has also served as dance captain in local productions of Fiddler on the Roof, High Society, The Baker’s Wife, and West Side Story.