Rebecca Macy is a new teacher at The Artists' Studio and will be teaching Broadway Saturdays, Music Dance and Drama, Musical Theater Dance Styles, as well as our enrichment program with participating schools.  She grew up on the south side of Indianapolis and graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy of New York City in 2005. Rebecca's husband is a soldier in the U.S. Army and following his deployment to Iraq, she moved back to Indianapolis to be with family and friends. She has performed in numerous film and stage productions, and is very excited to be joining the TAS family!

Lisa DeMumbrum has been teaching several aspects of theatre for five years now. She began teaching at American Cabaret Theater as a playwriting teacher for the IPS year round enrichment program for troubled teens. From there she's had the pleasure of teaching workshops on technical theater for the Youth and Arts summer program at ACT. She was then asked to teach her first love, acting, at IPS # 70. Lisa now joins us after taking a break to have her baby, Ava Grace, to teach classes in theatre music and dance of all ages and levels.

Amanda Gwin has recently joined the TAS crew. Amanda started out as an actor at a young age. She has done many plays and musicals through the years such as You have the Right to Remain Dead, Out of Order, Bye, Bye Birdie, Scrooge the Musical, and Annie, to name a few. She is finishing her BS in theatre at the University of Indianapolis where she has stage managed Pippin, Black Comedy, Speak Truth to Power, and, The Shape of Things. She has worked at Shawnee Theatre in Bloomfield, Indiana for two summers. While there she stage managed and acted.  She has also been directing children for the past seven years in shows such as; Annie, School House Rock Live, Guys and Dolls, and All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. This last December she directed her first straight play with adults at UIndy, Ladies of the Mop. She is excited to be here at The Artist Studio sharing theatre with great children and families. She just closed Seussical the Musical. Don’t forget that; "On the first day the lord said... Q1, GO! and there was light."

Rosana Schutte has been a part of the theatre world for over 30 years, directing and acting nationwide, and internationally. She has worked at the Indianapolis Children's Museum both as director, actor, and interpretive artist, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art as writer, director, producer and actor, and the Eiteljorg Museum..  Rosana has worked at TAS as a teacher for Drama Kids and TAS I, as well as adult acting.  For TAS, she has directed Three Little Pigs,Aladdin, Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Miracle Worker, Narnia the Musical, and will be directing Honk!.