Staff

Lisa Loomis

Drama & Acting Teacher

Lisa is the former Executive Director for Drama Kids of Eastside Seattle. Lisa brings over 20 years of education and drama experience, and she has a real passion for making children feel encouraged and confident in themselves through drama.

Lisa’s background includes a Master’s degree in business combined with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Arts and Interpersonal Communications. She also brings a variety of teaching and organizing experiences, including Professor of graduate courses through DeVry University, a Teacher and Organizer of Summer Youth Drama Camp, Elementary Classroom Teaching assistant, a Teacher of Sunday School Programs, Director of Dramatic Arts Programs through a local church and more!

Mary Brown

Lead Drama & Acting Teacher

Although Mary graduated from the University of Arizona with dual education degrees in liberal and fine arts, it wasn’t until early 2015 that joining Drama Kids enabled the merging of her two greatest passions: Drama and Teaching!

Mary is an avid proponent of providing fine arts exposure and experience to the youth of our increasingly digital world. She feels that sound social and cultural development necessitates “unplugging” from the cycle of constant input!

Through drama “play,” we encourage our children to explore and express themselves in real-time, fostering genuine social interactions. Mary is grateful that Drama Kids can provide such opportunities, despite diminished political and financial support for the arts.

Her passion for “all things Drama” doesn’t cease at the close of the school week: you will often see Mary working at or performing for various theaters in the Puget Sound area.

Tara Cicora

Marketing Manager

Tara Cicora was born in Cleveland Ohio and moved to Seattle in 2006. She majored in communications while at Ohio University and has over fifteen years of experience working in Communications Marketing, Public Relations, and Management; over twenty years of experience in customer service, and ten years of experience in sales. Tara has been offering her skills to businesses of varying sizes in full-time and freelance capacities since college. Tara, an avid show choir singer, dancer, and member of her school’s drama clubs believes that creating a safe environment for children to express their feelings is essential to becoming a productive adults. She has also been training horses (and humans) in dressage and hunter/jumper since she was in college, in what free time she has she likes to read, do yoga and meditate, play with her sword collection (she was on the SCA fencing team in college), her violin and guitar and exercise her dog.

Ethan Penland

Drama & Acting Teacher

Ethan Penland has been teaching drama for years, but this is his first year working for Drama Kids and he can’t wait to work with so many talented young students. Ethan has taught Drama Camps for elementary-aged kids at the Stroum Community Center, directing musicals such as “Aladdin”, “Beauty and the Beast”, and “The Wizard of Oz”. He has also been teaching and directing High School students for the past 2 years, directing shows such as “Radium Girls” and “Godspell”. Ethan Holds a BA in theater arts as well as a MJordan 

Jordan Kerbs

Drama & Acting Teacher

Jordan Kerbs received her BFA in Acting at University of British Columbia Vancouver in
Please add bio or here 2012, where she worked in the Entertainment, Theatre and Film industry for 3 years. Some of her memorable roles include Ms. Lady Lampshade, Babe in Crimes of the Heart, Ines in
No Exit and her debut on the big screen in a Basant Motors commercial.

Jordan enjoys comedy and became an on-going Sketch Comedy Actor at Vancouver Film School. She had the honor of working under the direction of Jackie Blackmore, who taught her the ropes not only to comedy performing, but also producing. When she left Vancouver, she landed in Redmond, Wa where she produced and starred in various comedy shows as well as her One-Woman Show Le Papillon; her life explained through the different stages of a butterfly. Jordan would like to spread some love and light through this world and onto you for making theatre a part of your life; it is an essential art form for the
human race.

She is dedicated to the craft and believes there is a place for everyone to belong in the world of theatre. Over the years, she has taught workshops on Performance Creation and classes to help people become more in touch with their own uniqueness that shines so bright on stage. A big kid at heart, she is truly grateful for teaching the next generation of performers and creatives.

Jeremy Radick

Drama & Acting Teacher

Jeremy started acting professionally at the age of eleven in his native Canada, appearing in dozens of film and television projects, including “The X-Files,” “Psych,” “Reaper,” “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids – The TV Series,” and “Doctor Who.”

He is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City, and has appeared in stage productions in New York, Vancouver, Toronto and here in Seattle.

As a former child actor himself, Jeremy loves introducing kids to the magic of theatre, drama, and the performing arts and has never lost a love of acting up!