Teacher Bios

Summer Drama Camp - Official Site for 2011

A learning, growing, playing Drama Day Camp for Kids

Teacher Bios

Directors

Lynda Stein

Producer/writer of the films LELA and BROKEN which both recently premiered in Los Angeles, a former K-12 theatre teacher with professional experience in print, commercial and stage, writing and improv training at Second City - Chicago, SAK Comedy Lab - Orlando and a BFA at the University of Milwaukee's prestigious Actor Training School, Lynda enjoys watching her dream of teaching children through the eyes of a working professional each summer.

Music Director

Patrick Forest Sweet

Patrick is an Orlando, Florida native. Patrick holds music education and performance degrees from Florida State and New York Universities. In addition to having served for 15 years in public school music and drama classrooms in five regions of the country, performance credits include playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, H.C. Curry in New York university’s 110 in the Shade, and Emile DeBecque in South Pacific (Colorado Light Opera). As a fill in Patrick also worked as Ike Skidmore in the national tour of Oklahoma! (2004). Most recently, Patrick performed with Lyric Oklahoma as the Toymaker in the regional production of Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang. Patrick has served at East Central University (Ada, Oklahoma) as musical theatre voice instructor/director/pianist and conductor along with teaching Voice and Diction and Speech Communications. He is currently the Director of Advocacy for The American Happiness Council, LLC.

Dance & Director

Steven Cardona

Steven Cardona is a student of the Boston Conservatory earning a BFA in musical theatre. A graduate of the Dr. Phillips High School Theatre Magnet program in Orlando, he has worked for Walt Disney World and Universal Studios in entertainment. Regional credits include Grease (starring Joey Fatone). Zanna Don't (Tank). He has choreographed for various companies in Orlando and Boston.