
2023 Teaching Artists
Click below to meet our 2023 Camp Teaching artists.
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Dani Stoller
Lead Teaching Artist - MTI Sessions 1 & 2(she/her)
Dani Stoller is a DC-based actor and playwright originally from Brooklyn, NY. As an actor, she has had the pleasure of performing at Arena Stage (My Body, No Choice Helen Hayes nomination: best supporting performer in a play), Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Keegan Theatre, 1st Stage (Bat Boy Helen Hayes nomination: best supporting actress in a musical), Theater J, and The Kennedy Center, as well as across the country while on a national tour. Her playwriting credits include: Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes (Signature Theatre), The Joy That Carries You co-written with Awa Sal Secka (Olney Theatre Center, which was nominated for five Helen Hayes Awards and won the Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play in May 2023), Stepping Back In (Theater J/Adas), The Voices on Blackwell Island (Signature Theatre), and Girlhood (Round House Theatre). Her play, The Play About the Shiva was a finalist for Theater J's Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize in 2022. Her adaptation, Just Great: a retelling of some book by F Scott Fitzgerald was recently published by Broadway Licensing. She received her BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and is currently an MFA playwriting candidate at CUA's Rome School of Drama. Upcoming: Emma Goldman in Ragtime at Signature Theatre. www.danistoller.com -
Paige Rammelkamp
Music Director - MTI Session 1(she/her)
Paige Rammelkamp is a music teacher, classically trained pianist, aspiring vocal arranger, and proud alumna of American University. During the day, she works as an accompanist at American University and Howard University, as adjunct faculty at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and as an audition pianist at Signature Theatre and Olney Theatre Center. She has also taught classes at Adventure Theatre since 2014. Notable music direction credits include: Urinetown, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Workhouse Arts Center), Ichabod: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Creative Cauldron), First Date (NextStop Theatre Co.), The Bridges of Madison County (Red Branch Theatre Co.), Bonnie & Clyde (Monumental Theatre Co.), . In the evenings, after camp, you can find her music directing First Date at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre. -
Turner Hitt
Choreographer - MTI Session 1 & Summer Stock(they/them)
Turner Hitt is thrilled to be rejoining Olney Theatre, where they previously served as the Education Administration Apprentice for the 2018-19 season. Since finishing the Olney apprenticeship, Turner has worked in a variety of school and theatre settings in just as wide of a variety of roles. Currently, Turner is gearing up to start their second year in the Drama Therapy master's program at Lesley University in Boston. Turner has dance & theatre education, performance, and choreography experience stretching over the past 10 years, and is looking forward to exercising that muscle once again at Olney Theatre's summer camps.
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Pamela Wilt
Music Director - Summer Stock(she/her)
Pamela Wilt is very pleased to be returning to Olney Theatre Center Summer Stock! She has been a theatre musical director and keyboardist for 40 years, and most recently played keyboards for The World Goes ‘Round at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, and for Olney’s The Music Man and Beauty and the Beast. Pam was a staff composer and youth music editor for The United Methodist Publishing House in Nashville and has numerous anthems and articles published with them, including the Youth Musical, “Back to Bethlehem.” She has worked extensively with school musicals, theatre camps, and childrens’ church choirs, and served many years as a substitute teacher, grades K-12 with the Scotch Plains-Fanwood (NJ) and Parkland (PA) school systems. -
Meredith Eib
Music Director - MTI Session 2she/her
Meredith Eib is a voice teacher, singer and musical theatre performer based in Washington, DC. Favorite recent musical theatre credits include: Kate Monster (Avenue Q), Rona Lisa Peretti (25th… Spelling Bee), Audrey (Little Shop of Horrors), Miss Honey (Matilda), Jo March (Little Women), Cinderella (Cinderella), and more. She has performed with DC area theaters such as Olney Theatre Center, Constellation Theatre Company, Adventure Theatre, Next Stop Theatre Company and more. In concert, she’s performed as a headliner with the SummerSet DC Concert Series on the National Mall and has also sung at venues such as the Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, The Washington Arts Club, DAR Constitution Museum, and more. She is featured on the original cast recordings of 19 (an original musical about the suffragette’s fight for the 19th amendment) and Blueberries for Sal with Adventure Theatre Company. As a voice teacher, Meredith is on the Musical Theatre Voice Faculty at both Catholic University of America’s Rome School of Music and Temple University’s Boyer College of Music, Theatre and Dance. Additionally, Meredith has taught on the voice faculty of Boston Conservatory’s Musical Theatre Dance Intensive and Vocal Choral Intensive and is a Teaching Fellow for Voice and Speech at Harvard Summer School. Meredith holds an MFA in Musical Theatre Vocal Pedagogy from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a BM in Musical Theatre from Catholic University.
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Nikki Mirza
Choreographer - MTI Session 2(she/her)
DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: Dance Nation (Choreographer, AD); Constellation Theatre Company: The School For Lies (AD); NextStop Theatre Company: Every Brilliant Thing (Director), Matilda (Choreographer); 1st Stage: Secret Things (Choreographer, AD). REGIONAL: Goodspeed Opera House: Christmas in Connecticut (AD); La Jolla Playhouse: Bhangin’ It (AD, Swing); Weathervane Playhouse: 9 to 5 (Director, Choreographer), Kinky Boots (Director, Choreographer); Creede Repertory Theatre: Cinderella (Choreographer). UPCOMING: Olney Theatre Center: INK (Choreographer); La Jolla Playhouse: POP Tour 2024 (Director).
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Sabrina Zanello Jackson
Lead Teaching Artist - Summer Stock(she/her/ella)
Sabrina Zanello Jackson has double the last names for double the fun. She is the current Education & Community Engagement Apprentice at Olney Theatre and is very excited to be teaching Summer Stock! Outside of Olney, Sabrina is a dramaturg, book editor, director, and community organizer. She uses art to identify cycles of history, imagine transformative civic engagement, and heal together. She is passionate about consent, centering accessibility, and reimagining safety. In her “free time”, Sabrina enjoys nature walks, dancing, baking empanadas, and throwing frisbees for her family's many border collies (Carnegie Mellon Dramaturgy '22). www.sabrinazanellojackson.art
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Ceci Smith
Jr. Counselor - Summer Stock -
Jadyn Chase
Jr. Counselor (RISE Program Volunteer) - MTI Session 1 & 2 -
Maya Morales
Jr. Counselor (RISE Program Volunteer) - All Three Sessions! -
Cora Barr
Jr. Counselor - MTI Session 2 -
Andrea Adelantar
Jr. Counselor - Summer Stock -
Natalia Diaz
Jr. Counselor - Summer Stock