Teaching Artists

Rose Bedard

Rose Bedard, affectionately known as “Rosie B.” is a freelance artist, choreographer, and teacher under her LLC 2INSPIRE Dance. She can be found inspiring, teaching, and choreographing at local studios and universities in and outside of Vermont. She is the creator/director of her own adult dance company, SynRgy Dance Company. Rose has the pleasure to work with many dance studios around the state on a recreational and competitive level as well as continuing her own training in NYC, Boston, and beyond. She has been coach of the Mt. Mansfield Union dance team for 16 years.

Tom Cleary

Pianist/keyboardist/composer Tom Cleary teaches in the jazz studies program at UVM, coordinates the Flynn jazz program, and teaches private lessons in his home studio. He co-leads the jazz quartet Birdcode with vocalist Amber deLaurentis, and has performed and recorded with Mike Gordon, Ray Vega, Ellen Powell, Brian McCarthy, Patricia Julien, and Jamie Masefield. His work in musical theater includes music direction for shows at Northern Stage, Saint Michael's Playhouse, and UVM Theater. Visit his website and blog.

Tracy Martin

Tracy Martin teaches young children around the state as well as through the Flynn’s signature Words Come Alive school program. She studied dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and received her MFA in dance from UWM. She is the artistic director of Phantom Theater, a venue that produces original works in dance, theater, and music.

photo credit: Emily Boedecker

“Professor” Ben t. Matchstick

“Professor” Ben t. Matchstick is the founder of the Montpelier-based Cardboard Teck Institute. He is the co-creator of the PinBox 3000 cardboard tabletop pinball machine kit (with Pete Talbot). He co-conceived the original Hadestown (with Anaïs Mitchell), now on Broadway. He has worked as a youth advocate, librarian, café owner, educator, puppeteer, artist, game master, and entrepreneur in Vermont for 20+ years. He has a BA in Theater from Northwestern University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.

Sara McMahon

Sara has been involved in the research, teaching, performing of movement as a form of artistic and personal development for the past 40 years. Her teaching approach draws from elements of Bartenieff Fundamentals, Body-Mind Centering, basic principles of anatomy and kinesiology, and improvisational and modern dance techniques. She has extensive training in Modern Dance, Body Mind Dancing, and is a Dance for PD® certified teacher.

Ferene Paris Meyer

(She/her)

As the owner of All Heart Inspirations, Ferene creates heart-centered spaces through workshops, community engagements, culinary art, and more! Through storytelling, she aspires to make a collective difference within our local community and beyond one story at a time. We all have stories worthy of telling. What’s yours?! Learn more about Ferene and upcoming offerings on her website.

Alison Mott

Alison Mott studied ballet, modern, and jazz technique as a young teen at the Brooklyn College Preparatory Center for the Arts in NYC. Here in Vermont, she has performed with Heather Bryce, and Joy Madden, and Lida Winfield in multiple performances, including dancing for Bess O'Brien's documentary All of Me. She was founding organizer of the Burlington International Contact Jam (reboot), and also a founding organizer of Traces! with Hannah Satterlee.

Susan Palmer

Susan Palmer is an actor, director, theater teacher, and playwright. She has been teaching and performing for the past 25 years in the US, Canada, and abroad. Locally, she has performed and directed with Vermont Stage Company, Vermont Shakespeare Festival, and Middlebury Acting Company. She earned her MFA in theater directing from Middlesex University in London. Susan is a certified K-12 Theatre Arts teacher and teaches theatre full time at Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans.

Gina Stevensen

Gina Stevensen is an award-winning playwright, performer, and teaching artist with an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch. Before moving to Burlington, she spent 13 years in New York City, where she taught theater and creative writing at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, The Brooklyn College Community Partnership, Leave Out Violence, The Writer’s Rock, Writopia Lab, and more. She is a 2023 Vermont Arts Council/NEA Creation Grant recipient. Her plays have been developed in NYC, London, and across the country. Since moving to Vermont, she's worked as a performer and dramaturg with Vermont Stage, Middlebury Acting Company, and Vermont Shakespeare Festival, and is the co-creator of the Front Porch Follies.

Pamela Tetteh

Pamela Tetteh is a 22-year-old Ghanaian woman who was born and raised in the Bronx, NY. Pamela specializes in the areas of being a mover, dancer, choreographer, and visualist, and a creative artist in general. She specializes in African, Afrobeats, contemporary, praise, dancehall/soca, and so much more! She is finishing her B.A at the University of Vermont and focusing on opening up her own dance company. She has also started her own business, M.E.L.A Productions, which combines her passion for dance, people, art, and love.

Stefanie Weigand

Stefanie Weigand (she/her) enjoys working as a presenter, clinician, and guest conductor across the region. She directs the Polaris Singers at Northern VT University, where she also teaches musical theater; has served as president and membership chair of the VT chapter of American Choral Directors Association; currently serves as the Chair of the NAfME Council for Choral Education; and is director of education with Music-COMP. Stefanie toured nationally with Children’s Theatre Company and works as a performer, pit musician, and music director in New York and Vermont, appearing with TURNmusic, the Vermont Philharmonic, Stowe Theatre Guild, Lyric Theatre, and more.