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She has directed over 75 stage productions. Her award-winning short film, Close the Door, is currently receiving accolades on the festival circuit. In addition to directing, Michelle has also worked as a casting associate for major motion pictures and independent films.

As an actor, Michelle has performed in over 50 plays, television shows, commercials, and films, including Tammy Duane in the Oscar-nominated film Johnny Flynton, and she has been a member of SAG-AFTRA for 20 years.

Her screenplay, The Holler, has placed in several highly competitive and industry-respected screenplay competitions, including the International Page Awards and BlueCat Screenplay Competition. She has also written numerous feature, short, and commercial scripts.

As a certified k-12 theatre teacher with 18 years of experience in education, Michelle has taught theatre, acting, and film in public schools and as a private coach. She loves sharing her passion for story and stage with students of all ages.


Christin Ross is a playwright, poet and teaching artist. She received a BFA in Theatre Studies from Southern Methodist University and trained with the British American Drama Academy in London.

As a playwright, Christin’s work has been professionally produced in New York, DC, Dallas, Boston, Seattle and Chattanooga. She was a National Finalist of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her play Cold Soup and won a residency at the Incubator Arts Project in NYC for her play Morbid Poetry. A collection of her poems, the basis for Morbid Poetry, was recently published into a book.

Before moving with her family to Chattanooga, Christin taught playwriting and creative drama with the acclaimed Arena Stage and Imagination Stage in Washington, DC. She loves working with young storytellers as their imaginations are limitless and inspiring.

Rachel is a certified Holden Qigong teacher dedicated to helping people create a harmonious flow of energy in body, heart, and mind. Through qigong, Rachel guides students to release stress, cultivate vitality, and move with effortless ease, all while fostering mental clarity and emotional resilience.

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Chris began playing the guitar over 30 years ago. In 2022, he earned an advanced professional certificate in guitar from Berklee College of Music. He believes that music education should be personalized to the student. He would like his students to learn the fundamentals of music while embracing their personal musical interests. He is willing to teach anyone who would like to learn. All ages are welcome.

Hannah is a recent graduate of Vanderbilt University, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and Psychology. She is an interdisciplinary artist and a current MFA candidate at Maryland Institute College of Art. Hannah loves working in a multitude of mediums, but some of her favorites are ceramic, sculpture, installation, video, photography, mixed media, and found objects. She believes that art is for everyone and is committed to sharing her love for artmaking with others, no matter what their prior experience may be.

Caitlin McManigell has been passionate about dance and movement since she began her training at 8 years old. She trained at Shreveport Dance Academy in Louisiana with R.A.D technique in ballet,
Pointe, Several Jazz Techniques and a few Hip-Hop genres. She moved to Oklahoma City her senior year of Highschool to continue at her high- school in the Dance Visions Troup which began her Modern training. After graduation, she was accepted at the University of Central Oklahoma where every Dance form possible was taught to her and she graduated Top Performer in her class of 2014 with
a BFA in Dance Performance. She then moved to Miami, FL to be apart of Dance Now! Miami for a season. She traveled around Florida and did freelance work in music festival such a EarthDance for a few years. Becoming a mother and wife transformed her existence into building a movement class for all ages and abilities especially for prenatal and postnatal families. She believes we must continue to fight to keep movement in our daily routine and loves doing it in a fun and interactive way that can be integrated in our daily lives for years to come.

Marshall Farrell moved to Signal Mountain in the Summer of 2024 with his wife, Erin and two-year old daughter, Heidi. Marshall became the Elementary Music Teacher at Tommie F. Brown Academy near UTC after eight years of teaching music in Nashville, Charlotte North Carolina, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from The Ohio State University and a Master's degree in the same field from the University of Georgia.

Jenison Eduave is a Chattanooga native and began her dance training in 2003 through the Dance Alive and TIP
Scholarship program at Ballet Tennessee, under
direction of Barry and Anna VanCura. She trained in ballet, pointe, modern and jazz technique, and was featured in many roles as a company member and professional training student. Jenison began her teaching career in 2013 and has been on faculty at Ballet Tennessee, Weave Dance Company and Creative Arts Guild and has worked
as a guest choreographer with the Chattanooga Boys Choir and Project Motion.

Jenison has studied and performed with Weave Dance Company and The Pop-up Project, and has participated in summer programs with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Sidra Bell Dance New York, and Yin Yue Dance Company. Through the Ailey School, she completed a Horton Technique teacher training program. In 2018,
Jenison was a two-time recipient of the Community Cultural Connections grant through ArtsBuild. She used the grant funds to create two productions called "Celebrations: a Community Collaboration,” a presentation of original bodies of work in dance, music, and visual arts that highlighted local professional artists in the
Chattanooga area.


Jenison holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga. From 2018-2020 Jenison served as Program Administrator at Ballet Tennessee, where she shared her love of teaching, choreographing, and arts Administration, and from 2020-2022 she served as Outreach/Education Director of The Pop-Up Project. While in her role with The Pop-up Project, she created and
implemented a youth outreach program for underserved youth in Chattanooga.

Jenison performed as a professional artist and choreographed with The Pop-up Project in their immersive productions of “If These Walls Could Talk” (2022) and “Until the Sun Rises” (2023). In the summers of 2022 and 2023, she worked alongside Anna
VanCura and The Pop-up Project to relaunch the Dance Alive program. Jenison will continue her efforts in the relaunch of the legendary outreach program.

Currently, she serves as Artistic Director of Dance at Baylor School. Jenison serves as guest faculty for Ignite! Tennessee Youth Dance Festival, and continues to support and
work with dancers in the Chattanooga community. Beyond dance, Jenison enjoys reading and spending time with her husband, Jeri, and their dog, Amora.

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Nahanni has over 30 years of experience performing in front of the camera in film and television, print, and on stage.

After studying classical theater in Toronto, she started a modelling career in Paris, France where her acting ability helped differentiate her from other models and landed her monthly spreads in Vogue and commercials for L’Oreal, Diet Coke and her first acting job in the Italian film Summertime. She moved to New York to pursue an acting career and has studied and worked in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto, Canada. She started acting on daytime television, with roles on One Life to Live, Guiding Light, and All My Children, and moved on to primetime series regular roles on CBC’s Liberty Street and NBC’s Third Watch, and guest stars on shows like Law and Order, and Spin City. She has worked opposite actors such as Greg Kinnear on Emmy award winning The Kennedys, Kevin Costner in For Love of the Game, John Turturro in HBO’s Sugartime, Gary Cole in An Officer and a Murderer, and Mark Ruffalo in Eric Bogosian’s Griller directed by Bob Falls at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Booky and the Secret Santa opposite Megan Follows. Between tv and film jobs she wrote and directed plays with City Lab at Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Television credits include an iconic guest starring role on Netflix hit Orange is the New Black opposite Kate Mulgrew, guest stars on Cracked, The Following, Minority Report and recurring roles on Epitome’s Open Heart and Degrassi: Next Class. She won Best Supporting Actress at the London International Film Festival for her role as Li Bradford, Jenna Ushkowitz’s adoptive mother in indie film Yellow Fever. Recent credits include the season finale of CBS’ Ransom, another guest starring role on the the 20th season finale of NBC’s Law and Order: SVU, and a guest starring role on CBS’ Blue Bloods.

Nahanni started studying acting with HB Studio teacher Walt Witcover in New York. She trained in Method techniques including Meisner with David Kagen and the Playhouse West in Los Angeles and Strasberg with Janine Manatis. As technology and styles of acting evolved, she moved to The Barrow Group in New York with Seth Barrish and Lee Brock, which offers a performance style based on simplicity, clarity and spontaneity. She was mentored by the late Curt Dempster at Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she developed her writing and directing skills and her passion for self empowerment and initiating projects. Working with acting coach Lewis Baumander, focusing on authenticity and the demands of the camera and HD, gave her the insight and inspiration to help other actors adjust their style to this technology, and she began coaching at LB Studios.

After 10 years of teaching classes, coaching privately, and taping auditions at LB Studios she launched her own Acting Studio and created a series of online courses.

Designed to accelerate an actors career with the most up to date information regarding the film and television industry, acting techniques, and the tools needed to thrive as a working actor, PRO Actor Confidence provides and unshakeable foundation for success. As students progress, they learn the business, the craft, and on-set skills & etiquette from an insider with Advanced On Set Confidence.

Nahanni coaches actors privately and in online classes, with instruction tailored for each individual actor’s success. She works to empower actors to not only “book the job” and prepare to excel on set, but also to create their own projects, and fulfill their dreams for a rewarding, successful, and sustainable career in the entertainment industry.

Married to Stunt Coordinator and Producer Steve Lucescu (The Shape of Water, Cinderella Man, Chicago), mother of two young performers Chloe (Locke & Key, Condor) and Aram (The Boys, Workin’ Moms), as dual citizens Nahanni and family work in both the US and Canada.

Madi Coffey is a sophomore clarinet performance major at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She plays in many ensembles at UTC, and she spends a lot of her time teaching students and learning about music. Madi also plays professionally around Chattanooga whenever she gets the chance. Madi welcomes any student between grades 6 and 12 and is willing to work with any level of playing.

Kellen Shiles teaches guitar, bass guitar, and ukulele to all ages and skill levels. He is experienced in a wide range of musical styles from the more commonly heard including Jazz, Rock, Funk, Country, and Blues to more exotic styles from the Caribbean and Latin America, Celtic, Hawaiian Ukulele, as well as some African and Indian music as well. He teaches children often, but has also worked with people of all ages up to 80 years old.