Winter Adult Classes

Jenny Male (she/her) is excited to join Everyman Theatre as a Teaching Artist! Jenny has previously worked on productions at Studio Theatre, Rep Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Arena Stage, Olney Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Factory 449, Washington Stage Guild, Maryland Ensemble Theatre, Adventure Theatre, and Imagination Stage. Jenny is Associate Professor of Theatre at Howard Community College where she teaches Voice and Diction, Dialects, Movement, and Stage Combat. Jenny is a Certified Teacher & Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors and has an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University. 

Julia has worked in the area as an actor, teacher, and director for the last 15 years. Her work as an actor includes: Center Stage: As You Like It (Le Beau/Audrey), Pride and Prejudice (Mrs. Gardiner); Everyman Theatre: Blithe Spirit (Edith), The Beaux Stratagem (The Country Girl/The Fat Lady), Our Town (Mrs. Soames); Shakespeare Theatre Company: Henry IV Part 1 and 2 (Lady Northumberland/Ensemble); Taffety Punk: Phaeton (Clymene), Pericles (Dionyza), Romeo and Juliet (Paris); Profile Theatre: A Lesson From Aloes (Gladys); International Theatre/Vienna: Children of Lesser God (Sarah). Film/TV- Leverage (TNT); Unsolved Mysteries (Fox TV); Anoosh of the Airways (Front Pocket Films). Her work as a fight choreographer includes: Single Carrot: Peter Pan, Year of the Rooster and A Beginners Guide to Deicide; Loyola University: Macbeth, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Baal, The Odyssey and Oedipus and Peter Pan; assistant fight choreographer at Everyman Theatre: The Beaux Stratagem. Julia has worked as a Theatre instructor at Loyola University, University of Baltimore and Carver Center for Arts and Technology. 

Beth Hylton (she/her) is an actor and teaching artist with over 30 years of professional stage experience. Her teaching and coaching work includes voice and text workshops with The Ground Floor Theatre Lab in NYC (of which Beth was a founding ensemble member), Shakespeare text and performance for HS students, acting for non majors at UNC-Chapel Hill while in pursuit of her graduate degree, and many classes through Everyman’s Education Department, as well as personal acting coaching, online and in person.  She is inspired by watching actors make discoveries, and the expanding consciousness of the rooms when true collaboration takes place.  As a director, she has helmed numerous readings through Everyman’s Reading Series, workshop performances, and co-produced for many years The Actors Salon in Washington DC, which showcased rarely produced American classics in event settings.

Susan Stroupe is a Baltimore-based theater maker, with a focus in collaboratively devised pieces; scripts that challenge norms of race, gender, and genre; theater in nontraditional spaces; and critically examining and expanding the collective mythology of the dominant narrative.  She has worked in the Twin Cities, LA, NYC, Albuquerque, Baltimore and her hometown Atlanta as a director, performer, writer, puppeteer, teaching artist, dramaturg, and deviser, In Baltimore, she works as a freelance director for independent companies, and she is a founding member and Artistic Associate for Submersive Productions, serving on the core creative team for The Mesmeric Revelations! Of Edgar Allan Poe, H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum, The Institute of Visionary History, and MASS/Rabble.  She is a long-time member of the Teaching Artist team at Baltimore Center Stage, and a continuing associate of Philip Arnoult’s Center for International Theatre Development.  She received her BA from Macalester College and MFA in Theatre Arts from Towson University, and has worked as an adjunct professor at Towson University, the University of Baltimore, and UMBC.