MEGAN CLANCY comes from a performing arts family, and began performing at the age of 3. She has attended the Professional Performing Arts High School in NYC, where she studied Musical Theater and vocal at the Harlem School of the Arts and Dance with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. She has studied Dance and Theatre Arts at City College of New York; where she also obtained a degree in Psychology. Megan has also studied Musical Theatre, Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap and Ballet at Broadway Dance Center and the New Dance Group. Megan has performed with The Harlem Repertory Theatre and has had the pleasure of being an assistant dance teacher at the 92nd street Y; Harkness Dance Center. Megan has also had the privilege of working with students in NYC public schools teaching musical theater, theater history and dance. Megan enjoys performing and teaching students of all ages and abilities. Megan is also a choreographer for the GCAC Competition Dance Team and is very proud of the members of the competition team for all their amazing achievements and dedication.
ROBERT HOFFMANN, a graduate of Hunter College with a Master’s in Music Education, has developed his vocal and teaching ability through a variety of life experiences. He has directed, and continues to direct, Broadway Bound shows here at the Gold Coast Arts Center. He is an award winning composer who has compiled a library of over 400 songs. “My hope is that children learn how to work as a team and to help one another in order to meet the goals that I have set for them.” Robert is also a performer in the arts and has recently performed at a benefit theatre production for St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital. He has been a skilled vocalist, private instructor, and drama teacher for the last twenty-five years.
AMANDA MONTONI has been trained in dance for over 21 years. She has been teaching students from the age of three years old to adults for many years now as well. It is one of her passions that has branched put into musical theatre and the performing arts world. When she is not teaching, she works as a choreographer at schools and companies around Long Island and Queens.
Amanda Montoni’s drive in life is musical theatre. Trained throughout high school and college, she moved onto performing professionally. She is also a co-founder/producer of a theatre company in Jamaica Estates, Queens, and works as a director/choreographer in schools, companies, and theatre groups throughout Queens and Long Island. She has taught students from the young age of 3 to adults. Theatre sparks imagination and creation, and she loves to see student imagination come to life. www.amandamontoni.com
JONATHAN PALMIOTTI is a Musical Theatre-trained singer and actor in Queens, New York. Jonathan received an AS degree from Queensborough Community College in Theatre and Music Performance and a BFA degree in Musical Theatre performance at Long Island University Post. At QCC, Jonathan played the role of Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, and was subsequently chosen as a KCACTF Musical Theatre Initiative nominee to compete in Massachusetts for the Richard Maltby Junior Award. Jonathan also performed in a workshopped production of a new opera produced and composed by Monk Parrots Productions called Bum Phillips at La MaMa in the East Village. Most recently, he made his Off-Broadway debut performing in the Midtown International Theatre Festival as well as the Theatre for the New City-Dream Up Festival. Jonathan has worked with several Broadway and Off-Broadway actors and musicians including Javier Muñoz (In the Heights, Hamilton), Matt Dickson (War Horse) and Dr. Bryan Wade (Finian’s Rainbow). In addition to acting, Jonathan instructs students in piano, acting and vocal training techniques. He began teaching Introduction to Acting at the Gold Coast Arts Center in 2015. Since graduating from LIU-Post, Jonathan’s goal is to continue to nurture the emerging talent of students in musical theatre, as well as his vocal, piano, and acting students, while continuing to pursue a successful acting career of his own.
BRETT ROELOFS has taught musical theater for years at “In the Spotlight” and “TheaterKidz” Performing Arts Academies, having directed young actors age 7-17 in over 40 musicals throughout New York. As a pianist and composer, he has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, the New York Center for Contemporary Opera, Merkin Concert Hall, NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, the Davenport Theatre, the Producer’s Club, 777 Theatre, Times Square Art Center, the Waldorf Astoria, NY Irish Arts Center, LaTea Theatre, Flushing Town Hall, and the Warwick Music Festival. Brett’s musical, “Birthday Boy”, enjoyed a successful run as part of last summer’s Planet Connections Theatre Festivity on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
MATTHEW WOOD received his Bachelors’ in Drama & Theatre from Queens College. He has performed at the Irish Theatre at the University of Galway in Galway, Ireland with the Bank of Ireland Theatre and studied with Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea, Tony Award Nominee Charles Repole, Susan Einhorn and Broadway stars such as Paul Michael Valley (1776) and John Hickok (Aida, Little Women). Matthew also received vocal training from Paul Michael Valley and studied film acting with Zach Galligan (star of Gremlins). Before graduating in 2009, he received the Robin Hirshfield Miller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting. He spent the last two years as the Drama Specialist for the Central Queens Y Program at PS 165 in Kew Gardens, and directed the Theatre Arts/Drama outreach program at Bleeker JHS 185, The Caroline Atkinson School in Freeport, Long Island, and for the Gold Coast Arts Center.