Meet Our Teachers

Our staff are all professional creatives with experience from acting to directing and clowning to comedy! We are dedicated to supporting our young artists and the community to be a safe, creative, curious cultivation of talent and teammates.

Meet Our Team

  • Molly O'Steen (She/Her) Program Director & Founder | Scene Study & Sketch Comedy

    Molly O'Steen works with students of all ages to develop their skills and techniques as performers in a nurturing and inclusive environment. Molly uses her B.F.A. in Theatre Education and MSed in Special Education to create personalized theater learning plans for individual students. She studied under Robert Colby, Shakespeare & Co. practitioners, and other renowned theater educators to craft her academically aligned, developmentally appropriate approach. Over the past decade, Molly has worked at independent, public, and special education schools across NYC to provide complex, scaffolded arts instruction. Molly believes students of all learning styles and backgrounds deserve high-quality access to theater education. Molly also works as a freelance film & theater historian, moderating panels with organizations such as American Cinema Editors.

  • Nicole Borbone (She/Her) Physical Theatre

    Nicole is a NYC based actor, choreographer and theatre teacher. She earned her BA in Theatre Performance at Fordham University and is a recent graduate of NYU’s Educational Theatre MA program. Nicole has trained in physical theatre worldwide from New York to Italy to Spain bringing influences of La Coq, commedia dell’arte and contemporary dance to her teachings and work.

  • Franco Pedicini (He/Him) Acting & Devising

    Franco Pedicini is an actor, director, and producer with Wise Fish Theatre Collective. Franco holds a B.A. in English Literature and Theatre from Stony Brook University, and a M.A. in Theatre from Hunter College. He is a member of Actors’ Equity and the Educational Theatre Association. Franco also serves as Theatre Director at the Rippowam Cisqua School in Bedford, NY.