Teaching Artists

Educators are very important to this world and our mission, and we choose our Teaching Artists with care. They are on the front lines of creating empathy in children and opening their eyes to the power within them through live theatre. 

Please say hello to our Teaching Artists for After'Cool, Summer 'Cool, and Enter Stage Right!

 
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Ariana Gonzalez

Actor, writer, creator and mucho más. Ariana is an artist from Venezuela; she’s a passionate artist and firm believer that art heals. Her mission is to create content that inspires people to follow their passions. She’s honored to be a member of 24th Street and loves performing in Enter Stage Right.
Ariana has a BFA in Performing Arts from AMDA.

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Bradley Brough

Bradley is a Los Angeles based composer and musician who has been writing and playing piano for more than 25 years. He has written music for many stage productions in both Los Angeles and London as well as assisting to develop arts education programs for distance learning during the pandemic. His previous work with 24th Street theatre includes The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Enter Stage Right, Staring YOU!, and Las Instrucciones. He is very proud to bring music back to the live theatre for the debut of Rapunzel Alone.

Marie Osterman

Marie Osterman (they/she) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist and teacher based in LA. After graduating UCLA’s acting and directing program, they have stayed in Los Angeles, working as an actor, movement director, and teaching artist. They are also a longtime collaborator and associate managing director of Project Nongenue. Marie’s generative art combines her classically-trained background in theatremaking and her contact improvisation practice with the mission of facilitating intimate and playful creative spaces. They believe in a generous theatrical space that has room to hold what needs to be held, and ignite conversation and community. Marie’s dream is a kind of artmaking that allows us to shed learned ideas and sense that magic within and between us. Other passions include birds, making silly shapes with their body, and looking at the moon.


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Davitt Felder

Davitt Felder is a musician, actor and writer.  He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon's school of drama with a BFA in acting. Last year he finished a three month run of the musical review of protest music he wrote and performed in called "ROAR, Rock On American Resurrection". Davitt is a lover of California History and so he is always so happy to be a part of 24th St Theatre and its growing place in the LA community's history. He believes in art as a social cause and that teaching and promoting  empathy to kids is vital and important in this ever growing age of technology. He puts this into practice in his acting workshops for 24th Street Theatre and at schools around California and in his musical Therapy work with Alzheimer's patients. As a musician he has performed on behalf of Quincy Jones Productions and for Major League Baseball. 

Melissa Booey

Melissa is very excited to join the 24th Street Theatre team! Melissa is a passionate performer, producer and teaching artist who graduated with her BFA in Acting from Cal State Fullerton. She teaches acting and improv to all ages with organizations like Theatre 360, Open Space, Zip Zap Zop, and A Noise Within, as well as doing virtual performances at schools with the Environmental Defenders! She also produces a poetry podcast, performs with Little Fish Theatre and Shakespeare by the Sea, and loves combining her love of theatre with performance education.

Tony Gatto

Tony Gatto is an L.A. Teaching Artist, Director, Producer, Actor and Coach. He’s taught with Bridge Theatre Project, Center Theatre Group, A Noise Within, The Oakwood School, Chautauqua Institution, The SAG Foundation, LA’s Best, and other organizations and theatres across the country. Through the last 20 years, he’s produced and directed various styles and genres of work, most recently a long run of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ THE MFer WITH THE HAT in L.A. (including Best of LA Fringe award): an Off-Broadway run of Lee Sherman’s UN-RULE-LEE and other world premiere plays like Ovation winner Damon Chua’s 1969 at Theatre/Theater, DRIVE by Emily Dodi at Company Of Angels, DUST by Gregory Phillips, and BROTHER JONES by Garth Stein. Tony believes bringing theater to underserved communities is one the greatest accomplishments of his career so far. Former Artistic Director at Company of Angels Theater and proud member of The Elephant Theater Company.


Linda Ravenswood

Linda Ravenswood PhD ABD is a poet and performance artist from Los Angeles. Her work merges Performance Text, Improvisation, Satire, and Memoir. Her work has appeared off Broadway and in over 75 different books, journals, and anthologies. Find the Pushcart Prize nominated Hymnal (Mouthfeel Press) - now in its second printing -  on Amazon.  She was Shortlisted for poet laureate of Los Angeles in 2017.

Brian Sonia-Wallace

Brian Sonia-Wallace is a teaching artist and poetic eventmaker from Culver City, where he fell in love with theatre. Brian is currently serving as the Poet Laureate of the City of West Hollywood and developing an opera. Check out his book, The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter, about traveling the country making art with communities. He is excited to be working with 24th Street Theatre to bring the artform that saved him as a queer little misanthrope to littler people.