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Jackie Borck
Jackie has a Masters in Performing Arts and Theater Education from Emerson College. She taught drama in the curriculum at the Pierce and Heath Schools in Brookline. In 1999 she co-founded Artbarn Community Theater where she now works as Executive Director. Jackie continues to put the role of muse back in amusement.
Matthew Kossack
Matthew has taught dance and drama for a variety of organizations throughout the Boston area including Chelsea Youth Theatre, Creative Arts at Tufts University, and Arlington Center for the Arts, and his choreography has been seen on the stages of The Longwood Players, Open Door Theater, Newton Country Players and The Performing Arts Connection.  Matthew is a regular performer with Theatre Espresso, a touring educational theatre company, and in his younger days was a competitve ice dancer and member of Team USA Figure Skating.  These days he is most often found dancing through the streets of Boston, to the music in his own head.
Mica Richards
Mica graduated from the New England Conservatory with a Bachelor’s degree in Music and Jazz Piano Performance. She has taught music to children in a variety of camp and school settings including the Creative Arts at Park. Mica teaches piano privately and has two CD’s out entitled Properties of Motion and Mica Richards Live. Mica writes her best songs driving down the freeway, singing into her tape recorder.

Kirsten Opstad
Kirsten graduated from Emerson College with her BFA in Theatre Design and Technology. In addition to her work with the Ducks, Cats, and Rafters, Kirsten freelances as a scenic and lighting designer in Boston. She has designed for the A.R.T. Institute, The Theatre Offensive, Company One with the Phoenix Theatre, 11:11, Green Street Studios, and the Open Road Theatre. When not cutting cardboard, she's doing improv comedy at ImprovBoston and Improv Asylum or singing songs to anybody who'll listen.
Euridice Rivas
Euridice graduated from Berklee College of Music in Songwriting. Involved with music since her childhood in Caracas, Venezuela, she is a vocal instructor at Jeannie Deva Voice Studios in Boston. Visual arts design has been her hobby, as her nickname suggests. Ms. Fix It enjoys pulling things apart and putting them back together again.

Laura Stillman
Laura studied Dance Therapy at Skidmore College, concentrating in Ballet. Laura has been the choreographer and co-director for the Pierce School play for five years. Her first passion being dance and movement, Laura’s next love, aside from her family, is eating dark chocolate with almonds.

Kerry O'Donnell
Kerry's  experience ranges from coordinating the scenery design for the Pirerce School theater program and developing a social studies curriculum incorporating multicultural folk tales and art history. Kerry loves the fact that she can see unusual patterns through her kitchen window, where the sunlight shines.


Adam Brooks
Adam has composed for, directed for and played with many productions throughout Boston and Cleveland, including Second City, Habitat for Insanity, and ImprovBoston. He has also taught and composed for kids in various capacities, including the Charles River Creative Arts Program in Dover. He is currently studying film scoring at the Berklee College of Music. Adam hopes to continue his passion of writing silly music for silly people for years to come.

Emily Payne
Emily has been teaching, performing and composing kids' music in Boston since earning her BFA in Music Composition from New College of  Florida in 2006.  She can also be seen playing piano and trombone at  ImprovBoston, or working as a professional clown all over New  England.  Emily is still trying to decide whether being a teacher  
influences her clown program, or the other way around.
Emma Putnam
Emma is a graduate of Emerson College and holds a B.A. in Musical Theatre performance and Arts Management. When not teaching and choreographing for Artbarn, Emma can be found in a variety of places flexing her performance skills. Emma's enthusiasm for theatre and dance is only matched by her enthusiasm for snuggling. She's still trying to find a way to combine all three.