“All The World’s A Stage”- Shakespeare

 LAUREN CAMP | Program Director / Lead Teaching Artist

Claire Camp| Guest Teaching Artist

At a young age Claire began her training as a classical ballet dancer in Marin County, California. She later moved across the country to learn/train in other forms of contemporary and modern dance, graduating with a BFA from SUNY Purchase. With an undying love for theatre driven dance, singing, and acting, Claire inevitably landed in the world of Musical Theatre, TV&Film. She most recently played the role of Judy Turner in A Chorus Line at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Claire has had the privilege of learning/working with such choreographers as Sarah O’ Gleby, Andy Blankenbuehler, Bill T. Jones, Sergio Trujillo, Rob Ashford, and Wayne Cilento. Credits include ,TV: “The Gilded Age” “West World” “Three Women”“Fosse/Verdon”, Broadway: “Frozen”; The Revival op of “Cats”,National Tours: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”; “Flashdance the Musical”, Other: “In Your Arms” The Old Globe; “American Dance Machine” The JoyceTheatre. Throughout Claire’s professional career she’s also been a teaching artists at numerous schools across the country, and is a current faculty member at Brooklyn Ballet and Metropolitan Ballet. She can’t imagine her life without being introduced to the performing arts at a young age, and is thrilled to be able to share the joy and magic that theatre can bring to the Spotlight Kids community. 

JOHN COYNE | Music Director and Acting Coach

John Coyne is a musical theater songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and performer. Off-Broadway: Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet (Original Music). John arranged and orchestrated two EPs with Ben Crawford (Phantom of the Opera); one features reimagined Golden Age classics, and the other consists of updated holiday favorites. He is currently at work on a musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. John is passionate about passing his love of theater on to the next generation; not only as a worthwhile craft and hobby, but as a sustaining interest that can help children in all areas of their lives.

Kira Stone | Lead Teaching Artist

Kira Mahealani Stone (she/her) grew up dancing and doing theater in her hometown Kaneohe, Hawaii. She moved to NYC in 2019 to attend NYU Tisch and graduated cum laude in May 2023 with a BFA in Drama and a minor in Educational Theatre. During her time at NYU, Kira was able to study abroad in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with the NYU “Shakespeare In Performance” program as well as be a part of several studio productions including a devised technology-heavy piece (pandemic theater woo!) with Tisch Drama Stage. Some regional theater credits include A Chorus Line, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wolves, Disney’s Newsies, and Timon of Athens. This year Kira is focusing on auditions, training, creating new work with her extremely talented peers and, of course, fine tuning her teaching skills. Kira has been a dresser and helper for spotlight in the past but this is her first year teaching full time and she couldn’t be happier. She hopes to be someone that kids can look up to the same way that she looked up to so many of her theater instructors growing up.

Ally Boyle | Teaching Artist

Ally Boyle (any pronouns) grew up moving in and out of the country, but always found a home in the arts no matter where they ended up. Ally moved to New York in 2019 for college and graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Drama and Cinema Studies– two equally consistent and lucrative fields, to their parent’s delight. Driven by curiosity and determined to remain a life-long student, Ally consistently enjoys taking on new roles in artistic environments, including set and properties design, dramaturgy, script editing and criticism, and most recently, direction. They’re currently spending time developing an upcoming theatrical project, sending in self tapes in excess and reading and watching anything they can get their hands on. Ally is also intensely passionate about the accessibility of the arts to young people and strives to learn about and develop ways to sustainably provide young people from any background (especially queer and trans* individuals) with well-supported spaces to explore, evolve and embrace themselves boldly. They are overjoyed to be back in the classroom, and can’t wait to continue learning right alongside their students!