Theatre Classes, Lessons and Camps

With over two decades of  experience in theatre education as well as 30 years of professional acting experience, Heidi is currently a member of the Acting Faculty at Baldwin Wallace University. Heidi has taught performance classes at Illinois State, Illinois Wesleyan, and Palm Beach Atlantic Universities. Additionally, her theatre educator experience includes creating and facilitating K-12 programs as Director of Education for the (now defunct) Florida Stage and working with the Center for Creative Education and Pathways to Independence (a school for special needs students) in Florida. A professional actor and proud member of Actors’ Equity, Ms. Harris holds an MFA in Classical Acting from the Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University and a BA in Theatre from Florida State. She has completed and performed in programs at the British American Drama Academy (Oxford), Oxford University (UK) The Globe Theatre (London), and the Moscow Arts Theatre School (Russia), and has appeared locally at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts. Her past acting credits include sharing the stage with Tony Award winner Frances Sternhagen and extensive TV/film voiceover work – including the animated film “The Ark,” which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival.

Liz Huff does concert work, theater, improv, and collaborative arts projects throughout the Midwest and locations as far-flung as Estonia, Northern Ireland, and Finland. Music and comedy have led Liz to performing in many diverse venues including Severance Hall, internationally renowned jazz venue Nighttown, and the Del Close Marathon at the Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC.

As an educator she teaches improv at Baldwin Wallace Community Arts School, leads storytelling/communication workshops, and coaches voice, in addition to having taught Distance Learning classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music for 10+ years.

An advocate for new work in theater and music, Liz has premiered works by numerous composers, including Ryan Charles Ramer. A graduate of CIM, she studied improv at The Annoyance Theater in Chicago. She is a voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammys).

Theresa Kloos is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace University with a Bachelor of Music in Music Theatre. She has enjoyed mentoring young artists through Music Theatre Workshops, Improv Classes and one on one Acting and Singing Lessons. Most recently, she acted as the Resident Teaching Artist for The Weston Theater Company in Weston, Vermont. Theresa has written two, one woman comedy shows, Reasons to be Unpretty and Reasons to be Unsuccessful and performed them in New York City and Cleveland, Ohio. Favorite past shows include Every Brilliant Thing, To Kill a Mockingbird, The 39 Steps, Gypsy, Romance in Hard Times, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Dry Powder, The How and the Why and Into the Woods. In New York City, she performed in Once Upon a Time in New Jersey at the Prospect Theatre Company Off-Broadway. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association.

Keira McDonald is a self-producing theatre artist and associate professor in the theatre and dance department at Baldwin Wallace University. McDonald has worked professionally as an actor, director, playwright, solo performance artist, clown, producer, stagehand and stage manager with Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), 14/48 projects, Theatre Anonymous, 18th and Union, Annex Theatre, 12th Avenue Arts, Cafe Nordo, Theatre Off Jackson, The School for Acrobatics and New Circus Arts (Seattle), Zach Scott Theatre, Hyde Park Theatre (Austin, Texas), and Delfont Mackintosh (London), among others.

McDonald founded Seattle’s Solo Performance Festival and was the founding artistic director. At Cornish College of Arts in Seattle, she held the positions of assistant professor of physical technique and movement area head, and she developed the solo performance class and showcase. She has toured the Canadian and American fringe theatre circuit with her original work and was awarded multiple five-star reviews and “best of fest” awards. McDonald holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Texas Tech University and a Master of Fine Arts from Naropa University, in cooperation with London International School of the Performing Arts.