Ms. Lopez serves as the Artistic Director for Yorba Linda Spotlight Theater Company where she enjoys watching aspiring young artists create, thrive and live out their passions onstage. She has directed and choreographed over 50 productions including Side Show, The Addams Family, Legally Blonde, School of Rock, How to Succeed, Little Shop of Horrors, Barnum, Annie Get Your Gun, Once on this Island, Footloose, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Children of Eden, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.  Ms. Lopez won The Spirit of the Macy award for Best Choreography for OCSA’s 2017 Musical Theater production of  Footloose. She is also an award winning performing artist who has appeared all over Southern California at theaters such as Moonlight Amphitheater, Performance Riverside, Candlelight Pavilion, and Saddleback CLO. Among her favorite roles are the title role in Peter Pan, Rizzo in Grease, The Witch in Into The Woods, DeLee in Smokey Joes Café (Theater League Award, Patte nomination), The Waitress in Working, and Joan in Dames at Sea. She enjoys all aspects of the artistic world and truly enjoys sharing her passion with the next generation.  

While wrapping up at CSUF, Ms. Foster started working at the “Happiest Place on Earth” where she hosts and coordinates groups from all walks of Performing Arts and gets to support their events. On top of working at the Disneyland Resort for the past nine years, she also teaches at Yorba Linda Spotlight, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing performing arts education and performance opportunities to the aspiring artists of Orange County and surrounding areas.

Mr. Hare’s photography has been featured at the Hibbleton Gallery in Fullerton and the Cypress Photography Department Gallery. His work has been published in Sunset Magazine, Orange Coast Magazine, and Builder and Developer Magazine. His clients include Apple Inc., American Institute of Architects, Southern California Gas Company, Discovery Science Center, WAT&G Architects, and Fairfield Timeshares. His honors include local, regional, and national awards.

Ms. Jacoby has directed, assistant directed, and co-produced over 25 plays in Los Angeles and New York City. As an actress, you can find her in multiple independent films running the film festival gamut. She recently wrote, produced, and starred in the short film, A Loan Officer and a Gentleman, which just had its East Coast Premiere at the Garden State Film Festival. She also can be found performing alongside Matthew Morrison in the film After the Reality, which just had its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

She has performed in numerous professional stage productions around Los Angeles and New York City, performing in original and published work, musicals, and festivals, including the 6 month run of the first ever “13 by Shanley” Festival in LA. Katy frequents the television and soap opera world quite a bit, having recurring roles on General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, and Days of Our Lives. She also works alongside fellow alumni and casting director, Rick Messina, assistant directing the 2016 and 2017 OCSA student showcase.Katy Jacoby is an alumna (MT ’97); she majored in theatre arts and also pursued a minor in broadcast journalism at Temple University.

For the past 10 years she has been the managing director of the 68 Cent Crew Theatre Company (Theatre 68) in Los Angeles, which holds chapters in both Los Angeles and New York City. Ms. Jacoby has directed, assistant directed, and co-produced over 25 plays in Los Angeles and New York City. As an actress, you can find her in multiple independent films running the film festival gamut.

She recently wrote, produced, and starred in the short film, A Loan Officer and a Gentleman, which just had its East Coast Premiere at the Garden State Film Festival. She also can be found performing alongside Matthew Morrison in the film After the Reality, which just had its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival. She has performed in numerous professional stage productions around Los Angeles and New York City, performing in original and published work, musicals, and festivals, including the 6 month run of the first ever “13 by Shanley” Festival in LA. Katy frequents the television and soap opera world quite a bit, having recurring roles on General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, and Days of Our Lives. She also works alongside fellow alumni and casting director, Rick Messina, assistant directing the 2016 and 2017 OCSA student showcase.

Ms. Knox enjoys writing creatively in all genres; an advocate of less is more, she believes in writing in shorter, deeper increments to help adolescents form strong connections to the voice inside. Although writing is her passion, she finds it equally interesting to bring performance into class, in an effort to help the words on the page take life.

She grew up performing on the stage and has had the opportunity to develop characters in several original plays and musicals. Elise has also worked extensively in the film world both as an actress and a screenwriter. She has appeared in several national commercials, TV shows, films and web series, and won Best Screenplay at the International Family Film Festival for her original screenplay, Mischief Makers. Elise is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity and currently serves on the Board of the USC Society of Trojan Women as the Orange County Programming Chair.

Her experience and dreams then led her to move back to Southern California to pursue a career in VFX. She's had the privilege of being an artist and painter in visual effects on films for Walt Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, Nickelodeon, and other film and television studios on films such as Atlantis, Stuart Little 2, Meet The Robinsons, Bolt, Polar Express, and others. She is grateful to be a voting member of the Emmy Academy of the Arts, Television, and Sciences.

Ms. Leese has a passion for teaching and sharing her knowledge and experience in art. She has taught drawing, painting, and art classes to both adults and children, and is a teacher and private tutor in traditional and digital media. She loves to make learning exciting and interesting through storytelling and teaching various techniques. She is also the founder and executive director of a non-profit to help heal trauma and PTSD through the arts.

His poetry has been published with DMQ Review and Nimrod, among other journals, and his drawings, prints and sculptures were exhibited in a solo show at Taller Espacio Alternativo and, in part, at Galería Quetzalli and Casa Oaxaca in Mexico. He has taught in Mexico, on a Native American reservation and at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. In addition to teaching Creative Writing with IA at Orange County School for the Arts, Bryce currently teaches Composition at UC Irvine and directs Summer Camp at the Griffin Club in Los Angeles.

His current endeavors include teaching at studios, and working as an assistant director at the Monterey Jazz Summer Camp, and giving back to the church communities that helped shape him as a music director. Jamond is looking forward to pushing the limits and carrying on the legacy of m-pact music group for which he now sings baritone. Outside of music, he absolutely loves all things food and puts as much passion into eating and making food as he does music.

Since 2002, Mr. McMullen has been choreographing and directing with his own company Round of Applause. Before he began directing, he designed for the theatre in venues ranging from 60 to 3,000 seat capacities. From children’s theatre, equity waiver, civic light opera, to music circus, Mr. McMullen enjoyed the varied challenges each space has to offer. He has designed and assistant designed sets, costumes, and scenery on a variety of projects in regional theatres and on Broadway.  He has also had the unique opportunity to work with designers Christopher Barreca and Douglas Rogers, as well as Directors Glenn Casale and Matthew August.

Mr. Shim teaches various forms of dance, including jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, modern, disco, and swing, among others. With each dance form, students not only learn about technique, but also the history of each dance. Other areas he focuses on include auditioning, choreography, conditioning, and health. Outside of teaching for the Integrated Arts Conservatory, he continues to work in the Parade Department at the Disneyland Resort, as a dance instructor for Active Learning in Santa Ana, and as a dance fitness instructor at Equinox Gyms in Irvine and Huntington Beach.

Ms. Smith spent 10 years in Taos, New Mexico producing, performing, and directing at the Taos Center for the Arts and the Metta Theater. She has also taught classes at Taos Filmmakers Initiative, Goldenwest College, and California State University, Fullerton, among others.

He was assistant director for Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland, and he was also featured in an interactive video Healthy U, which ran for seven years. Mr. Vetrovec studied improv at the South Coast Repertory with writer and director Greg Atkins, The Groundlings, and Held2gether Improv. He has also teaches improv at the South Coast Repertory.

Her performance of Franz Schubert's Moment Musicals Opus 94, No. 2 and 6 can be heard in filmmaker William Lu's award-winning dance film, STILL; the film screened at film festivals in The United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Spain, The Netherlands, South Korea, Nepal, and Australia.

Professionally, she co-produced and performed in By:CoAstal, a production of contemporary dance pieces that opened in various venues in Los Angeles and New York. Ms. Zimmerman was a guest artist for The Federation in London, and recently appeared in Dance for Camera work shown in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was hired by LinkedIn to co-choreograph a large company flash mob for their 10th anniversary. In 2012 Ms. Zimmerman co-founded the LA Follies, a dance company inspired by classic Hollywood films and musicals, which she continues to choreograph for and co-direct. Throughout the past year, the LA Follies have performed at the Dorothy Chandler, the US Grand Prix, the Carpenter Center, and Fox Studios, among others.