Faculty and Staff

Stefan Sittig (B.A., University of Virginia; M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University) is a director, choreographer, fight director, movement coach, educator and performer. He has directed, choreographed, or created fights for over 70 productions including work in New York (Off-Broadway), internationally in Canada and Uruguay, and in the D.C. area for The Kennedy Center, The Studio Theatre, Metro Stage, The Washington Savoyards, The American Century Theatre, Open Circle Theatre, 1st Stage and others. 

Joseph Walsh has three decades of experience in preparing, presenting and conducting opera and musical theater in Virginia, across the U.S. and internationally. He is a conductor admired for his ability to combine dramatic flair and theatrical excitement with sensitivity, detail and a keen sense of dramatic pacing.

Ruth Yamamoto (BA, University of Hawaii; MEd, Marymount University; PhD, Walden University studying improvisation in higher education).