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Jodi Stevens Bryce
Director
Jodi Stevens Bryce (1990, BFA Theater) has spent the last 17 years working on and off-Broadway and at professional regional theaters near her home in Fairfield County, CT, winning a Connecticut Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical in 2017. Jodi is the proud founder and director of SBEstudio, her home-based conservatory where she teaches private voice, acting, college prep, career coaching, and group classes with her husband and star-studded team. As a member of the NYSTA and NATS, Jodi feels her mission through teaching is to build whole and healthy individuals from the inside out.
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Chris Coogan
Musical Director
Chris Coogan has played pop with Phoebe Snow, Donna Summers, Bette Middler and Darlene Love, broadway with Paul Newman, Jim Naughton and Kelli O’Hara and jazz with Randy Brecker, Sal Salvador, and with his own Chris Coogan Quartet. He teaches Jazz at the University of Bridgeport and music directs at churches, synagogues, and local theaters as well as leads the Good News Gospel Choir. The New York Times has called him a “masterful performer.”
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Sarah Peterson
Company Manager
Sarah Peterson, a singer and actress in her own rite, has worked with SBEstudio for the past two years to help grow the studio and business alongside her friend and mentor Jodi Stevens Bryce. Sarah is thrilled to be producing "The Sound of Music," and especially enjoys working with the students to see them grow as aritists each semester. Bravo to all and "Break a Leg!"
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Casey Lerner
Set Design and Art
Casey Lerner is a student and artist attending Weston High School. He is thrilled to be interning and working with SBEstudio, where he gets to utilize his creative side, work to help mentor younger students, and spend more time at his Norfield Church, where he is also a percussionist for Sunday Services.