About Us & Our Programs
About Us & Our Programs
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What do we offer?
Fall programming offers something for everyone:
She Kills Monsters, for ages 13-18, rehearsing Saturdays 10:30-1 beginning September 12
Our fall workshop series, 9-10:30 every Saturday beginning September 12, focusing on production skills
Thursday night drop-ins, 6-8, open to everyone, time and space to work on whatever you bring in
Monday game nights, 6-8, open to everyone - come and have some fun playing theater games
Winter/spring programming being announced now!
Emily Bronte, Teenage Necromancer, ages 11-18, rehearsing Saturdays 11-1 beginning January 16,
performances April 2-4
Macbeth, ages 11-18, February vacation
Flexibility/Musical Theater Dance, Saturdays 9-10 am; Scene Study, Saturdays 10-11 am - open to everyone
Thursday night drop-ins, 6-8, open to everyone, time and space to work on whatever you bring in
Monday game nights, 6-8, open to everyone - come and have some fun playing theater games
Sunday Night Playwrights Workshop - alternating Sundays, 7-8 pm, for 6th-8th grades and 9th-12th grades
Staff
Staff
Founder & Artistic Director:
Shay Wainwright
Founder & Artistic Director:
Shay Wainwright
Shay Wainwright (she/they) has been active in theater for more than forty years. Currently, she runs the drama program at Lynnfield Middle School, which has tripled in size during her tenure. In 2024 she received A Healthy Lynnfield’s Champion for Youth award, nominated by the students for her role in supporting, encouraging, and challenging them to spread their wings. She has directed over a dozen shows in the last five years, including working with Our Lady of the Assumption School, Reagle Music Theater, and Colonial Chorus Players. Shay believes strongly in the way theater can create community, foster confidence, and give students access to new ways to express themselves.
Technical Director:
Emerson Reed
Emerson Reed (they/them) is an actor and freelance creative from Kansas City, Missouri. Em studied Theatre Performance and American Sign Language Interpreting in undergrad at William Woods University, and then received an additional two years of training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in NYC. They love all parts of the creation of theatre and look forward to continuing to share their passion and knowledge with a new generation. For the past 7 summers they have returned to Kansas City to teach for the Kansas City Repertory’s youth theatre ensemble, and while they will miss that company, they are so excited to be helping found one here in their new home of Massachusetts!
Technical Consultant:
Sylvie Zedaker
Sylvie Zedaker (She/They) is a fabricator and makeup-artist from the Midwest. She studied Intermedia Art at Ball State University, while specializing in painting and sculpture. She has studied makeup for 10 years, from beauty to special effects prosthetics, working with film crews, stage productions, and hospital education programs. Now, based in Salem, they have found a community here in Massachusetts working with other creatives in film, theatre, and immersive attractions to help bring magic to life behind the scenes.
Playwriting Consultant:
Sam Noble
Sam Noble (they/she) is a playwright and educator based in the greater Boston area. Noble's plays have been produced through Boston Playwright's Theatre, Smith College, Perseverance Theatre, Copious Love Productions, Sunny Side of the Street Theater, The Rockwell Winter Playwrights Series, and as part the Queer Voices Festival through Boston Theater Company and Moonbox productions, the Brickbottom Playreading Series, and in the Boston Theatre Marathon, in partnership with ART, the Nora Theatre Company, and Sleeping Weazel. They have acted as a fellow in the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute and through New Repertory Theatre's Next Voices fellowship, and are an alum of the Kennedy Center's MFA Playwright's Workshop and an affiliated artist with the National New Play Network. Noble has worked as a dramaturg developing new works through Boston University and Boston Playwright's Theatre, and has taught at Boston University, Bay Path University, Wheaton College, Emerson College, at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and as part of the Massachusetts Young Playwright's Project. They act as Associate Artistic Director of Sleeping Weazel and hold an MFA from Boston University.
Fall Workshop series:
Fall Workshop series:
Stage Combat Coordinator
Cari Keebaugh
November 7, November 14
Cari Keebaugh (she/they) is a SAFD-certified actor combatant who loves to help tell stories through safely designed violence. She believes that stage combat is for everyone and that every actor deserves to feel epic while performing their choreography. Cari has choreographed the violence for shows ranging from silly to serious and everything in between, from the slapstick humor of A King & No King (Theatre@First) to mass battles and axe-versus-claymore fights in Macbeth (Dream Role Players). Her other recent violence design includes non-traditional weapons in Mrs Hawking: Blood & Water (Breaking Light Productions), depictions of domestic violence in Verona Falls (Footlight Club), and fish slaps and flying popcorn in a boardwalk-themed Twelfth Night (Dive In Productions).
When she isn't teaching or choreographing punches, she's often throwing them herself as the titular character in the Mrs. Hawking theatrical series (available on YouTube). She also voices Eloise Trapeze in The Madmen's Guild series (on the PMRP podcast), frequently haunts audiences as various spirits in the PEM's Haunted Histories Halloween shows, and recently caused chaos as Perkins the Butler (Quannapowitt Players' The Play That Goes Wrong).
Follow all her theatrical adventures at http://www.VeryCari.com!
Stage Makeup
Sylvie Zedaker
November 21, December 5
Choreographers
Patrick Malone
Katie McGuinness
Patrick started his musical theater experience five years ago, and is honored to have been given the opportunity to choreograph musicals such as Little Shop of Horrors, The Lightning Thief, Rock of Ages, and coming up, Cabaret and Footloose. He’s starred in shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar as Caiaphas, High School Musical as Chad, and Clue as Miss Scarlet. While dancing can be scary for some, he is excited to lead welcoming and all-inclusive dance classes where participants can feel at ease, but are also encouraged to step out of their comfort zone.
Katie has been dancing for 14 years and choreographing for 3. She began her dance training at LeAnne Leslie’s School of Theatrical Dance in Lynn, where she became a competition team member at the age of 12 and a Company member at 13. She is trained in ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, acro, lyrical, and of course, musical theater. Previous choreography includes The Lightning Thief, Beetlejuice Jr., and Rock of Ages: Teen Edition. When she’s not dancing or choreographing, Katie can often be found with a good book, out to eat with her friends, or rewatching Gilmore Girls. She’s beyond excited to share her love of dance and theater with students this summer, and hopes to help make Here Be Dragons the fun and safe creative environment she has found theater to be.
Sabrina Hayman
Ella Hodsdon
Sabrina is thrilled to be working with Here Be Dragons! She is going to be a junior in high school and has been choreographing for Shay since eighth grade. She has done dance for thirteen years and has trained in all different styles. She is part of her school's dance team, theater department, and soccer and tennis teams. The first show Sabrina choreographed was Beauty and the Beast Jr, in which she also played Mrs. Potts. She has been part of the theater community since second grade and is excited to expand her horizons in theater.
Ella is so excited to be helping choreograph for Here Be Dragons! She is going to be a junior at Lynnfield High School and she has been choreographing for Shay since the summer before her freshman year. Ella has been a competitive dancer at the Dance School of Wakefield since she was 9 and has been dancing for 14 years! She is well versed in many styles: ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, modern and musical theater. She is also a student teacher at her dance school, does track and field, and is on her high school dance team, as well as performing in her high school's musicals and working as crew for Drama Fest. Ella has been involved in theater since 6th grade and is so excited to continue her theater education and journey with Shay!
Flexibility and Stretching:
Katie Kwiatek
Katie has been doing theatre for eight years and has been in over a dozen shows. She has also been doing gymnastics and flexibility training for four years. Some of her past roles have been The Acrobat in Matilda Jr. and Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors. She is so excited to be working with Here Be Dragons!
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