Mrs. Stafford performed in her first of many professional musicals when she was only 16-years-old, performing summer stock at Rainbow Stage. She has received extensive training in dance and voice and studied at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Manitoba Theatre Centre. Mrs. Stafford began her teaching career by instructing theatrical make-up classes at Harvard University’s summer program while completing her graduate studies at Tufts. She has served as a faculty member at Hartnell College in Salinas and was part of the original team that started the professional summer program, Western Stage at Hartnell. Additionally, Mrs. Stafford has worked as a freelance makeup artist for several performing arts organizations throughout Southern California. She has served as makeup artist for Three Dogs and a Bone at the Geffen Playhouse, the McCoy Rigby’s Wizard of Oz at La Mirada, and served as the resident makeup artist for the Fullerton Civic Light Opera Company for more than 30 years.

Ms. Bae freelanced as a fashion and costume design illustrator for television shows and operas, as well as an assistant stylist for music videos and commercials. As an exhibiting artist, she has shown in Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Florence, Italy. Most recently her work was featured at the Torrance Art Museum, the ARC Gallery in Chicago, and the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, where she was awarded an Artistic Selection Award.

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.

A few of her favorite roles include the title role in Peter Pan, Rizzo in Grease, The Witch in Into The Woods, DeLee in Smokey Joe’s Café, for which she won the Theater League Award and received a patte nomination, The Waitress in Working, Joan in Dames at Sea, and Patsy in Crazy For You.

Since returning to California, she has pioneered a drama therapy program at Orange County School of the Arts, facilitated a drama therapy group for adults with Down syndrome, and is conducting group therapy at several prominent addiction treatment facilities, including Promises Treatment Center and Simple Recovery.  There, she she has been using psychodrama, as well as other drama therapy techniques to aid adults suffering from addictions. In 2013, she began offering private and semi-private independent group sessions and has begun work on her first book due next spring, entitled It's Time To Get Off The Couch, about how to use drama therapy's powerful techniques to change lives.

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.

Some of Mr. Smith’s notable performances include the West Coast Premiere of Spinning Into Butter by Rebecca Gillman, The Miser -- a collaboration between Berkeley Rep and Theatre de le June Lune, A Christmas Carol, and The Imaginary Invalid.

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.