Teak Welch (They/Them) grew up in Dallas where they attended the Dallas Ballet Center for 15 years. They studied ballet, tap, jazz, modern, hip hop, and lyrical. They were a teaching assistant while there and went on to teach Musical Theater dance in their summer workshops for the next 4 years. They attended Booker T. Washington HS for the Performing and Visual Arts, where they split their studies between theater and dance.
Teak has been involved in professional theater since a very young age and continues to love this form of expression more than twenty years later. They grew up performing with their musical parents on the road and have appeared in many productions in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area over the years. They performed on an Equity stage for the first time at the age of ten in a production of Peter Pan as Michael Darling. To this day, they refuse to ever truly grow up. Some favorite roles include Hen in Giggle Giggle Quack- Dallas Children’s Theater National Tour; Kelli in Hands on a Hardbody; Bess in The Human Comedy; Dre/Rhiannon/Evelyn/Others in Precious Little; Anna (Original readings) in Creep: The Musical; Eveline in (Original reading), The Manufactured Myth of Eveline Flynn. And the cherry on top was dancing in the prominent LGBTQIA+ fundraising event, Broadway Backwards, in 2018.
Wendy Welch happily moved to the Berkshires from Dallas in 2019. She was in WAM Theatre’s zoom production of ‘Roe’, the WAM Gala at the Mahaiwe, and directed and performed in ‘A Broadway Cabaret’ at Dewey Hall in Sheffield the last 2 Decembers. She has spent her 35 year career in the theater as an actor, director, coach, and teacher. She received her BFA in Acting from SMU, and did graduate studies there as well. She studied at HB Studio and was an intern at Chelsea Theater in NYC. While living in NYC she and husband, singer/songwriter Willy Welch, and their band were regulars in the NYC folk circuit (Folk City, Bitter End, Speakeasy, West Bank Café) and around the country. In Dallas, Wendy worked at most of the D/FW theaters and regionally, in roles from Margaret Johnson in Light in the Piazza, Sally Durant in Follies, Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Madame Armfeldt in Little Night Music, and Mrs. Bennet in Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice, to name a few. She has been seen in many commercials, TV: Murder Made Me Famous, Deadline Crime, Barney and Friends, Sweet Tornado, Film: Upstream Color, Occupy Texas, Cyberdancing, and the Emmy Award nominated documentary Shatter The Silence. Wendy has taught voice and coached privately for over 25 years. She taught Voice and Diction at SMU, Musical Theater and Acting at Richland College, and Musical Theater/Performance/Audition Master Classes at SMU, OCU and USI, as well as in public professional settings. She has taught and directed a number of musicals in colleges, and teen camps including Dallas Theater Center, Lyric Stage, Dallas Ballet Center, Park Cities Dance.
Mackenzie Wolcott (she/they) is a director, choreographer, and theatre multi-hyphenate from Dayton, Ohio. Mackenzie received a BFA in Musical Theatre from West Virginia University and has worked at children’s theatre’s all over the country. At WVU, Mackenzie studied under Maureen Mansfield Kaddar (Paul Taylor Dance Company), General MacArthur Hambrick (Cats and A Chorus Line Broadway & Nat’l Tours), and Matthew Saffron (TapDogs). Most recently onstage, Mackenzie has been seen in Next to Normal (Natalie), Sweet Charity (u/s Nikki & Helene), 35MM: A Musical Exhibition (Lindsay), and The Secret Garden (Ensemble & Dance Captain). Offstage, Mackenzie has directed and choreographed for high schools, after-school programs, summer camps, youth theatre productions, and has served as dance captain for several collegiate and professional shows.
Isadora Wolfe is a dance-theater artist located in New York City and the Berkshires. She is currently an Artistic Associate of Punchdrunk, following her tenures as Resident Director and Associate Artistic Director at Sleep No More. Isadora has collaborated with makers such as Johannes Wieland (Kassel, Germany and original member of Wieland’s NYC company), Martha Clarke (Garden of Earthly Delights, Angel Reapers), Punchdrunk (Sleep No More), Richard Jones (The Hairy Ape), David Auburn, Maxine Doyle and Gerald Casel. She has taught for companies and institutions including Alvin Ailey II, Ballet Hispanico, Jacob’s Pillow, Marymount Manhattan, NYU’s Tisch School, Rutger’s University and Springboard Dance Festival; and is on faculty at The Juilliard School where she continues to develop her Acting for Dancers course. www.isadoramovementarts.com
Daphne Zneimer is originally from Los Angeles, CA where she trained with Los Angeles Classical Ballet, Yuri Grigoriev, and Marat Daukayev School of Ballet. When in Los Angeles, she has performed with Royal Danish Ballet, Los Angeles Classical Ballet and been a guest artist for Aoelian Ballet. Daphne has studied during the summers with ABT, the Kirov Academy, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School, and LINES Ballet. Daphne spent a decade in San Francisco dancing nationally and internationally with Liss Fain Dance, Napoles Ballet, Adhesive Dance Theatre, Perceptions West, Maligrad, and Push Up Something Hidden. Daphne graduated with a B.F.A in Ballet Pedagogy from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. There she was featured in La Bayadere, Sleeping Beauty, works by Martha Graham, the title role of Juliet in Jean Grand-Maitre’s Romeo and Juliet and, performed with Adam Miller Dance Project. When Daphne moved back to Los Angeles she earned her pilates certification from Whole Body Method. Daphne is now teaching dance and pilates at Marat Daukayev School of Ballet and Bodyscape PT Clinic. Her focus is using all her ballet, modern, and pilates knowledge to build strong and healthy movers and dancers.
