TEACHING ARTISTS
Director of Arts-in-Education
Robert LeMaire has been working with children and young adults for over twenty-years. During the 1990’s he coordinated Education Programs, including running the Junior Apprenticeship Program, at Historic Cold Spring Village in Cape May County. Since 2001, he’s worked as an Educational Computer Specialist for the Ocean City (NJ) School District, assisting students and teachers in use of technology.
As an actor, he appeared in Vistas of Democracy, a video in NJ Network Public Television's Educational NJ Legacy Series, and the History Channel's Civil War Terror. Since 2001, Robert has performed almost yearly in ELTC productions, including To the Ladies, The Dictator, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Late Christopher Bean, and Dracula. For ten years, he’s worked the live sound effects and performed in ELTC’s radio-style Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter detective productions.
His love of acting led him to directing. For the Ocean City High School Drama Guild, he was the assistant director for Robin Hood, Legally Blonde: The Musical, A Christmas Carol, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Bye-Bye Birdie. He directed Footloose: The Musical, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Spamalot.
Wishing to further support keeping theater in schools, Robert is the President of the Board of Trustees for the Chartertech High School for the Performing Arts, a public school, in Somers Point, NJ.
Heading up ELTC’s Student Summer Workshop and getting involved with other arts-in-education opportunities is, as he said, “not only a chance to share my experiences and passion of and for the performing arts, but is also an opportunity to learn and grow with the next generation of actors and theater lovers."
Robert, along with other Education Directors, was honored by The New Jersey Theatre Alliance at its fall 2018 gala.
Artistic Director/Teaching Artist
Gayle Stahlhuth (full bio with Staff bios) In the early 1980s, she was a pioneer in the artist-in-residence movement, being one of the first theater professionals to receive a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in this “new” program designed to put art back into public schools. She is on The Arts in Education rosters for New York, New Jersey, Utah, and Wyoming. For her work, she was selected to be one of two hundred artists of different disciplines listed in the "Directory of Community Artists" published by the National Endowment for the Arts. She's been a member of Actors' Equity Association for over 40 years, and is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and The Dramatists Guild.
Gayle Stahlhuth (full bio with Staff bios) In the early 1980s, she was a pioneer in the artist-in-residence movement, being one of the first theater professionals to receive a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in this “new” program designed to put art back into public schools. She is on The Arts in Education rosters for New York, New Jersey, Utah, and Wyoming. For her work, she was selected to be one of two hundred artists of different disciplines listed in the "Directory of Community Artists" published by the National Endowment for the Arts. She's been a member of Actors' Equity Association for over 40 years, and is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and The Dramatists Guild.
Guest Teaching Artists
Tom Byrn received accolates when he portayed the 16th President in ELTC's Mr. Lincoln in 2015 and 2016,in Cape May and at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensembe when the productions traveled there. This marked his seventh ELTC production, and he'll be back in 2017 taking on the lead in Will Rogers' U.S.A. Recent acting work has included Within the Law at East Lynne; One Slight Hitch by Lewis Black (Cider Mill Playhouse, NY); Jane Austen Readings (Franklin Stage Company, NY); and Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker (The REP Stage, Baltimore/D.C.). He has acted at various theaters in the Philadelphia area, including, People's Light & Theatre, Interact, Lantern, Act II Playhouse, and Montgomery, and at various theaters in PA, NY, and Ohio. Tom is an Associate Member of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, in Bloomsburg, PA, where he spent eleven years as a full-time Ensemble Member, acting, directing, writing, and teaching. He has performed solo in The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris (twice!) and in two of his own works. He is co-editor of the trade paperback Letters to the Editor (Simon & Schuster) and a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. He is a graduate of Vassar College. Member AEA. Tom has taught ELTC workshops for ages 10-85.
James Rana ELTC credits: Huckleberry Finn (playwright), Zorro! (playwright/performer), The Poe Mysteries (playwright/performer), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (playwright), Strictly Dishonorable, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, and Detectives Holmes and Carter. OTHER THEATER: Ensemble Studio Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Pan Asian Rep, Comedysportz NY, Royal Shakespeare Co. (UK), Worth Street Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Globe Neuss and Bonn Biennale (Germany), Actors Shakespeare Company, Princeton Rep, Ocean Professional Theatre, Coney Island USA, Classical Theatre of Harlem. FILM/TELEVISION: Swim Little Fish Swim, The War Within, A Girl Like You With A Boy Like Me (Accolade Award), The Assassin, Looking For Pablo, Law & Order: SVU, One Life To Live, As The World Turns, Conan O'Brien, Third Watch, Chicago Fire. RADIO: Poe: A Celebration (wrote and narrated) for NPR. WRITING: So Long, Pluto (Camino Real Playhouse), From the Earth To The Moon (Workshop: Tri State Actors Theatre). James is the co-producing director of the Actors Shakespeare Company in Jersey City. Member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild and The Players Club. He has performed for ELTC fundraisers and taught theater and juggling workshops in Cape May for ELTC's after-school programs, in-school programs, and for special ELTC workshops held at The First Presbyterian Church for ages 10-90..
James has been performing in The Band's Visit on Broadway since previews began in the fall of 2017.
James has been performing in The Band's Visit on Broadway since previews began in the fall of 2017.
