Teaching ArtistsKevin Bergen is a Barrymore Award-nominated actor and a member of the Resident Ensemble of Artists at People’s Light (A Tale of Two Cities, The Persians, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Twelfth Night, Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine). Other Philadelphia region credits include: The Wilma Theatre, Arden Theatre, Bristol Riverside Theatre, and InterAct Theatre. Kevin has acted Off- and Off-off- Broadway and appeared in independent films, and on The Guiding Light. He is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard.Jano Cohen is certified in The Alexander Technique by the Alexander Alliance and is a teaching member of Alexander Technique International. She has been teaching the Alexander Technique independently since 1988. She holds an M.F.A. in dance from Temple University and a B.A. in dance from Bennington College. Melanye Finister has been a company member with People’s Light since 1991. She has appeared in over a dozen plays at PLTC, most recently: The Persians, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Giver, Something You Did, Fabulation and The Member of the Wedding. Other theatres she has worked with include Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden, InterAct, Venture Theatre, The Wilma, and The Walnut Street Theatre. Melanye was the Director of Youth Summerstage last year, and has twenty years of teaching experience. Jessica Conda recently completed a residency with People's Light at Collingdale Community School in Philadelphia. Jess has been teaching creative dramatics at Montgomery Theater since 2005, and helped develop the Young Actors' Company, a year-long program where high school students create an original play with a Philadelphia playwright. From 2002-2005, Jess was on staff at Arcadia University's Camp Shakespeare, where she directed seven productions with elementary, junior high and high school students. As an actor, Jess has worked with such companies as Brat Productions, Pig Iron Theatre Company, The Walnut Street Theater, 11th Hour Theatre Company and Flashpoint Theatre Company. She holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Arcadia University. Delanté Keys is a recent graduate of Arcadia University’s B.F.A. Acting Program. Since graduation, he has appeared in Living News at the National Constitution Center, Six Degrees of Separation at Allen’s Lane Theater, Curio Theatre Company’s The Nutcracker and What the Butler Saw, and the world premiere of Black Gold with Interact Theatre Company. Martina Plag creates puppetry, primarily for adult audiences, to address contemporary issues and to advocate social change and awareness. She is German-born and trained as an architect. Martina established her own puppetry atelier: studium-praxis in March 2008. Under Martina’s artistic direction studium-praxis has presented two original productions locally and at the Joyce SoHO in New York City. Her masks, puppets and automata have been in numerous juried exhibitions and she has been awarded four residencies for her work. Plag has designed puppets, sets and prototypes for local, national and international theatre, dance and opera companies. She has worked as puppet wrangler for PBS Kids Sprout's Let’s Go and The Sharing Shows. Her self-produced experimental short film, mantra, was chosen to participate at the 2006 Philadelphia International GLBT Film Festival. The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Puppetry Conference showed her live and film puppet performances in June 2007. She performed at the Puppeteers of America’s Puppet Rampage 2007. Martina curated a “Puppetry Slam Philadelphia !!!” series at Curio Theatre in West Philadelphia this past season and her production of “crane’s promise” open at Philadelphia’s Community Education Center’s Meeting House Theater in May 2009. June 2009 had Ms. Plag performing her toy theatre adaptation of Howard Zinn’s “Emma” at the Festival of Jewish Theatre and Ideas at Theater Three (home of the Mint Theater), in NYC.
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