Teaching Staff Profiles

Terry Brennan is a professional actor who worked for Mum Puppet Theatre, Enchantment Theatre Company, Simpatico Theatre Project, and the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival among others. Terry has toured the country several times as an actor and has been teaching Shakespeare to kids for over 6 years.

Mark Goodman has taught English at local colleges and secondary schools, including creative writing at The Crefeld School and Project Learn. His garden/nature articles and poems have appeared in magazines, newspapers, and literary journals. He writes gardening and book review columns for the Weavers Way Co-op newspaper.

Cornelia Keitzman BA in Fine Arts from Bryn Mawr College, math and art teacher for many years in many locations. Cornelia is a second generation potter, West Mt. Airy local, monther of many boys and teacher and studio manager at Allens Lane Art Center.

Peggy Leiby is a director and founding member of FiddleKicks, a percussive performance group based in Philadelphia since 1996. She has taught Appalachian clogging in the Philadelphia region since 1998. www.fiddlekicks.com

Pauline Houston McCall received her B.A. from the Moore College of Art and Design. She is a multimedia artist and an energetic educational professional. Pauline has worked for The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Congresso de Latinos Unitos, the Village of Arts and Humanities, the Mural Arts Program, and Perkins Center for the Arts. She is also the founder and director of the nationally acclaimed women artist collective “WOMEN HOLLER”.

Kim Soles has been photographing nature for over twenty-five years. She has been inspiring children through artistic means for over ten years. Her desire to establish an outlet for children to spend more time in nature combined with her ability to work artistically with different mediums has led to a series of ongoing art/nature experiences.

Kim Williams has been teaching drama and creative arts for the past 20 years in Philadelphia Area after school programs. For fifteen years she was the drama specialist at Allen s Lane Art Center Summer Day Camp, where she wrote, directed and produced the Camp’s final productions involving 120-165 students. She is the choreographer at LaSalle College High School, the director/choreographer at Archbishop Ryan High School Musical Theatre and has directed and choreographed grade school and high school productions throughout the Philadelphia Area for many years. She started the Allens Lane Dance Program in 2002 which continues to flourish today. Kim has lived and toured professionally throughout the world, but returned to her native Mount Airy to raise her family where she believes peace on earth actually exists.

Rivkah Walton holds an MFA in Crafts from Tyler School of Art, and is a Mt. Airy sculptor working in clay portraiture and assemblage (see studio-rw.com). Her life-long interest in psychology and spirituality led her to establish the Institute for Contemporary Midrash (biblical interpretation), where she directed the training programs in the arts.

Timothy Yue has been tap dancing since 1987.  He has studied tap with LaVaughn Robinson and Tabla (Indian classical drumming) with K. Prashant.  He is a dancer and choreographer for Tap Team Two and Company, and has performed “Hoofing in America” at schools in seven states.