INSTRUCTORS

Scrumbly Koldewyn 

Scrumbly has written songs and music directed professionally for over 50 years. He helped found four groups of performers - The Cockettes, The Distractions, The Jesters vocal trio, and Cockettes Nouveau. Scrumbly has been teaching at Stagebridge for over 20 years. In high school, he played guitar and sang folk songs on the school stage and in outside groups.

Wayne Harris

Wayne Harris is an award-winning solo performer, writer, educator, curriculum innovator and musician. Wayne’s plays include Mother’s Milk, which was both an homage to Wayne's mother and a nuanced picture of St. Louis during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. Mother’s Milk ran for 14 Weeks in San Francisco and garnered a Fringe Award at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival. In The May Day Parade, Wayne fused his love for drum and bugle corps with his personal childhood battle with polio. His latest play, “Train Stories,” was critically acclaimed and garnered a Bay Area Broadway.com Nomination in 3 categories, including ”2023 Best New Play”.

Wayne was invited by the U.S. State Department to travel to the Middle East and perform his play, The Letter; Martin Luther King at the Crossroads. A gifted artist with wide-ranging interests, Wayne is passionate about storytelling that combines his lived experience with hopeful declarations for the future.

In addition, he is currently a facilitator for an exciting and important project, The Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project, guiding formerly incarcerated adults in creating, producing, and performing their personal stories.

Wayne travels extensively throughout the U.S., providing “Improvisation & Performance” workshops for Youth Pageantry groups (marching bands, dance teams, etc.) and is currently working with The Berkeley Repertory Theater in community outreach programs.

Kim Saunders

Kim Saunders has performed at: The Nat Horne Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse, American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. She is also a professional director, choreographer, and teaching artist. She has taught acting and Shakespeare at Stagebridge in the past and is looking forward to returning.  She is an award-winning director and has been nominated for acting and choreography by TBA and BATCC.

Kevin X. Dong

Kevin X. Dong is a music director, pianist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who directs and performs all around the SF Bay Area, including as the resident pianist of Chorus Eclectic in Dublin. Kevin primarily works in musical theater as a music director, vocal director, and pit orchestra musician. Favorite past credits include Cabaret (MD/Accordion/Violin/Clarinet), LIZZIE (Guitar/Keyboard), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Keyboard), The Last Five Years (Piano), Next to Normal (Piano), A Man of No Importance (Keyboard/Accordion/Percussion), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Piano)

Radhika Rao

Radhika Rao is excited for Stagebridge Summer Camp! She is a bilingual actor and teacher, residing in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of S.F. She loves travel, foreign languages, and new experiences! Radhika earned a doctoral degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she focused on theater and the performance of citizenship. Her educational work includes working with populations spanning from elementary school students to senior citizens; with universities and schools to non-profits and multinational companies- the common thread being creating more empathetic and courageous conversations through the power of storytelling and role-play. Collaborators include Prague Shakespeare Company, University of San Francisco, Stanford University, Samuel Merritt University, San Francisco Police Department, UC Hastings School of Law, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Urban High School, Leela Improv, Cutting Ball Theater, Shotgun Players, Larkin St Youth Services, and LifeTheater Service. She’s happy for you to check out her out on Instagram @radhikarao77 or on www.radhikarao.org Jeanne Haynes

Jeanne Haynes: Inspired by a Stagebridge storytelling seminar 23 years ago, Haynes abandoned her media relations consulting business to become a full-time performer and teacher. Theater venues include SF Theater Festival, Bay Area Storytelling Festival, SF and Berkeley Marsh, Brava! in San Francisco, Julia Morgan Theatre and Ashby Stage in Berkeley, regional Telebrations, KPFA FM, Berkeley Public Radio. A former news reporter with a degree in Journalism, she draws from her communication background to tell personal and traditional tales. She has taught more than 300 adults in ongoing weekly classes at Stagebridge and conducts senior workshops. As an artist in residence, she has taught some 3,000 students in 20+ Bay Area schools.

Sara Toby Moore

Sara Toby Moore (Toby) is a celebrated San Francisco actor, writer, educator, and physical comedian. Over a 35-year career, Moore has created & performed eccentric characters and full shows for Circus, Off-Broadway, Nightclub, and Regional Theater. Moore’s high-octane style of performing was championed early on by impresario Merv Griffin, who licensed her to conjure and perform such mayhem as a flying diva with a hydraulic-rising wig and a spring-action human cannonball at his casino showroom! She has been a Clown with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus and a Puppeteer for The Krofft Puppets. As an educator, Toby was the Director of the NEA-award-winning graduate program, The Clown Conservatory at Circus

Center and has taught Acting, Improv, Solo Performance, and Clowning nationwide to both youth and adults. Her one-person, multi-character circus play Show Ho has played to sold-out houses in San Francisco and New York and garnered effusive reviews for Moore’s ability to character morph!

Daphne Wong

Daphne Wong | Daphne Wong is a tap dancer and musician who revels in creative projects of all kinds.  She has tap danced in scuba flippers for Genevieve Quick’s Planet Celadon: Our Receiver Is Operating, performed with La Mezcla in Pachuquismo, appeared in the Rhythm ISS retrospective in Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance, and joined world-renowned Sam Weber in Morton Gould's Tap Dance Concerto with the Golden Gate Symphony, of which she's also a member as a violinist. In the studio, Daphne strives to foster a supportive, encouraging community and wholeheartedly believes that the best learning happens when you're having fun with friends.

Terrance Kelly

Terrance Kelley has garnered extensive musical credentials in both gospel and jazz music. His operatic range and joyous emotional feel for the music make him a popular soloist as well as an accomplished director, composer, and arranger. His credits include choral arrangements on albums by Linda Ronstadt and the Kronos Quartet and gospel arrangements of popular music for TV and video soundtracks. In addition, he wrote or arranged most of the music for each of the choir’s albums. Mr. Kelly received an Emmy Award for his choral arrangement of OIGC’s KGO-TV public service announcement.

In 2005, he received the Local Heroes Award from KQED Television for his directorship of the Oakland Interfaith Youth Choir and was also honored at the Gospel Music Awards. In 2013, he was awarded the Dr. Edwin Hawkins Excellence Award.

Mr. Kelly currently serves as Minister of Magnification at Oakland’s Imani Community Church. He has traveled as far as Australia and Israel to teach gospel music and, since 1982, has served as Gospel Choir Director for Jazz Camp West, hosted by Living Jazz. In addition to his other endeavors, he is a semi-regular member of the San Francisco Opera Chorus.

His father, the late Ed Kelly, was an esteemed jazz and gospel pianist. His mother, the late Faye Kelly, was a gospel choir director and pianist.

Paul Daniels

Paul Daniels is a Bay Area producer, director, singer, and songwriter. He is currently Director of Music at St. Columba Roman Catholic Church, a member of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM), and owner/operator of EeeeBop Music (ASCAP) in Hercules. He is also Assistant Director for the Oakland Interfaith Family of Choirs under its Artistic Director, Terrance Kelly, which includes the Gospel Choir (OIGC), the Community Choir (OICC), and the Youth Choir (OIYC). He is the published songwriter for “I Want My Savior” on the OIGC album, We’ve Come A Mighty Long Way. Mr. Daniels served the theatre community as Musical Director for Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s production of Black and Blue, Black Nativity, and Abbie Rhone’s production of Dark Towne Follies. As a recording artist, he released his first CD, Something Good, under his own recording label in 2006. Internationally, he was featured in a United Nations concert in Kazakhstan, commemorating the Council of World Religions in 2018. With OIGC, he has sung in the Holy Land, Canada, Costa Rica, and Australia. You can find out more about Paul Daniels by going to his website, www.eeeebop.com.

Martin Holtz

Martin Holtz has been a theatre artist and educator for 40 years, creating numerous programs and events produced primarily in South Florida and the San Francisco Bay Area.

He was a featured performer in the South Florida Shakespeare Festival, Miami Beach Art Deco Festival, and the New World Festival. He was the artistic director of Unexpected Company and a psychodrama therapist in the Mt Sinai addiction treatment program. Martin has been an instructor and director at Stagebridge in Oakland since 2007. He is a founder and performing member of the Bay Area Playback theatre.