Suzy DeVore is an actress, teacher and director.  She has been teaching theatre for over 10 years and acting and dancing since she was in grade school.  She has taught acting from beginning to professional levels.  A couple of her highlights include teaching theatre improv games for special needs children and coaching a private student to reaching her union status in Los Angeles, CA.  She started teaching theatre at HCC in Ybor in 2009.  She also currently pursues a professional acting career in theatre, film and tv.  She can be seen in numerous local commercials and indie films.  While in NYC highlights include “Sopranos” and “Carlitos Way”.  Some favorite theatre roles are “Extremities”, “Laura”, and “The Shadow Box”.  Suzy holds her MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School, New School University in New York City and her BA in Dance from Point Park College, Pittsburgh, PA.  You can find out more about Suzy at her website www.suzydevore.com.

Rosemary Orlando has dedicated the past twenty five years to Tampa Bay performance art and theatrical endeavors.  Her vast experience in acting, directing and stage management has made her tremendous assets to the community.  She has served as artistic director for two professional theatre companies, The Alice People Theatre and Warehouse Theatre. She acted in over twenty productions thus the transition to directing and stage management came naturally to Rosemary.  Her impact in the acting community is felt through her inspirational work and knowledge of all aspects of theater. Although, she dappled in television, talent director for Shamu TV, and cinema her passion is in theater and integrating philanthropy into her work.  Motivated to share her experience Rosemary is currently teaching at The University of South Florida, Hillsborough Community College and The University of Tampa.  Using theater as a form of self-expression Rosemary works directly with troubled youth combining the trials and tribulations of youth offenders with introspection techniques involved in improvisation. 

Mr. Williams received his MFA from Florida State University. He has studied with Lester Polakof at the Studio & Forum of Stage Design in NYC and taken master classes in scenography with Josef Svoboda. He holds lighting design membership in United Scenic Artists local #829.  Professionally, he was a member of the Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre during the mid 70’s. Since then some of the artists he has designed for include American StageTheatre; Patel Conservatory Youth Ballet – Straz Perf. Arts Center; Joe Goode; The Munich Free Theatre; The Tampa Ballet; Lynn Wimmer and Friends Dance Co.; Al Hirt's Superbowl Jazz Concert; Jose Molina Bailes Espanoles at Carnegie Hall; USF Dance Ensemble's performance at the International Festival of Arts at Cairo, Egypt; exhibits at the Museum of Science & Industry, Tampa; and Bits N' Pieces Giant Puppet Theatre national tour.  Before joining HCC Mr. Williams taught at the University of South Florida where he was head of  the Theatre Design program. He has received a number of Meritorious Achievement Awards for Excellence in Design from the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts for USF productions with the American College Theatre Festival (ACTF). His work can be seen in “World Stage Design 2005”, published by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).

Jack Clark Jack has taught Acting One at HCC Ybor City Campus, and Viewpoints Training for Actors at the University of Tampa. He acted as Associate Professor at Florida State University and is a recent graduate at York University’s Programs in Theatre and Dance Studies, Toronto. Jack is a choreographer, teacher and performance mentor to many young artists. His teaching embraces a devotion to enrich the performance skills for both theatre and dance. During his tenure at FSU he mentored MFA and undergraduate concerts while leading movement classes for opera and theatre. As a theatre scholar, his cross-disciplinary, collaborative work in performance techniques explores the creative exchange within opera, theatre and dance training. Jack’s theatre training includes: Meyerhold Biomechanics under Kathleen Baum of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Centre; Theatre Compositional Improvisation and devising with Tatiana Jennings, fellow of the Academy of Theatre Arts, Moscow, along with Karin Randoja and Ker Wells, artistist directors of Primus Theatre, Toronto; Voice Shaping with Katherine Duncanson, co-founder of URGE, Toronto, and Paul de Jong graduate of the Central School of Speech and Drama in London; Anne Bogart's Viewpoints with Michael Greyeyes, York University; and an internship with Theatre Gargantua - a multi-disciplinary, ensemble-focused collective in Toronto, during the creative stage of a new work, IMPRINTS – the Ancestry Project. His performance credits include Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes, directed by Regina Kapatenakis of the National Theatre of Greece), and Bertolf Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins, directed by Michael McConnell of Lyric Opera, Cleveland.

Keith Arsenault   Mr. Arsenault varied career has seen him serve on the staff of The Joffrey Ballet, Opera Company of Boston, Palm Beach Opera, Ballet Puertorriqueno and Nacional Ballet de Colombia and as General Manager of the San Francisco production of the Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9.   As a Writer/Director of corporate and special event productions he has worked for Hilton Hotels, Federal Express, ServiceMaster Clean and Harley-Davidson among others. He has directed productions at Elitch Gardens Theme Park in Denver Colorado and the award winning X-Cellerations at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and done major lighting design projects for Paramount’s Carowinds and King’s Dominion theme parks.   His recent work has been seen as the Lighting Designer for American Stage Company’s production of King Hedley II, Scenic and Lighting Designer for The Gorilla Theatre’s Jane Eyre & Six Degrees of Separation, Scenic and Lighting Designer for Stageworks A Picasso, Lighting Designer for The Gorilla Theatre’s Bach at Leipzig, The Woman in Black and A Christmas Trio. He has served as the Lighting Designer for The St. Petersburg Opera productions of Don Giovanni, The Merry Widow, La Traviata, Into the Woods, Carmen, A Little Night Music and Madama Butterfly among others. He served as the Lighting, Sound and Projection Designer for composer David Pomeranz’s world premiere production of Chaplin – A Life in Concert.  He is currently the Executive Producer of CIRCUS NEXUS which has appeared at corporate events, colleges and performing arts centers across the country, He operates International Arts & Entertainment Group which provides specialized services and consulting for the Arts and Entertainment Industry. He also serves as the Manager of the recently renovated performing arts facilities for Hillsborough Community College’s Ybor City campus.