Meet Our Teaching Artists

Bronx Native, Isis is an alum of NYU Tisch’s drama department. She is an artist, choreographer, director and writer.  Her art sits at the intersection of a 4 year old who believes in fairy tales and a twenty something queer Black-woman who believes in revolution. She applies this politic in her work   “untitled”, a choreopoem about the maturation of  Black love most recently put up at Hickory Playground.  Other credits include performer in Theater Mitu’s Utopian Hotline, a step choreographer/Adelaide’s u/s/ featured ensemble in  the Guthrie Theater’s production of Guys and Dolls and Danielle in Black Spectrum Theater’s production of Bring it On. 

Composer: The Movie Star & The Mammy (Joe’s Pub), The Sugar Hill Sisters (NYMF). Composer & Lyricist:”Not So Fair-y Tales,” ”The Beautiful Son,” Rainbow Lullaby (Broadway Records), The Harriet Holland Social Club (Movement Theatre Company), The Taming of Romeo & Juliet, Rice & Rocks (Brooklyn Children’s Theatre), Going Home: Movement of Voices (N.Y. Philharmonic’s New World Initiative), This One Girl’s Story (NC A&T, NYMF, Gayfest, GLAAD Media Award nominee). Music direction: The Color Purple (Cape Fear Regional Theatre),Passing Strange (UNCSA), “Queering The Canon: Kander & Ebb” (Ring of Keys), Brecht on Brecht (Off-Broadway) Spiritual Uprising (People’s Light & Theatre), Black Queens Screen Test (The Tank), ”Turn The Volume Up!- Amplifying Black Keys” (Ring of Keys), For Colored Girls (Public Theatre), The Addams Family, We Got Beth, Billy Ragamatag and the Shadow Circus, Shrek, Beauty and The Beast (Piper Theatre), The Fourth Wall (Off-Broadway). Bring The Beat Back (Polyphone Theatre Festival). BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop & Steering Committee. TGBTG!

Jen has been an educator for children and adults of all ages for 25 years. Trained in classical piano, as child she hid show tunes inside her sheet music. She was thrilled to find BCT in 2005 and since then, has been a music director for BCT’s after-school programs and in-school residencies. When she’s not playing the piano, you can usually find Jen in Prospect Park, leading running groups and teaching outdoor fitness classes. Jen has a Master’s of Education and Media from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Adam is an actor/musician based in Brooklyn NY.  He started his journey into the fine arts through Amy Graves and BCT back in 2011 and has been hooked ever since! BCT has encouraged and guided Adam to expand his interests, not only in instrumental music but to vocal productions, movement and drama as well. He is a 2018 graduate of LaGuardia High school and has had the opportunity to work with and on numerous projects across NYC. He is super excited to be able to pass on some of the things he’s learned to the next generation of artists and collaborators with the most important being to have fun, own your work and remember, no one can do it quite like you 🙂

Alexandra Toro is a dedicated teaching artist at Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, blending her passion for theater with her commitment to community building. With a background in theater studies and experience as a child performer, Alexandra believes in providing every student with the opportunity to flourish. She sees the classroom as a platform for unity, where students from diverse backgrounds come together to express themselves freely. Alexandra’s mission is rooted in promoting equality, equity, and inclusion, using theater as a vehicle for empowerment and self-expression.

Following in the footsteps of the long haired rockers that came before them, Paolo has been performing and teaching in musical theater and rock n roll for the last 15 years. From playing around the world on board Celebrity cruise ships, to teaching at the college level at the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Paolo works hard to ensure that the education they bring to the classroom is informed from a lifetime spent working in the musical arts. A frequent collaborator with Second City Improv, Paolo understands the value of flexibility and patience in their teaching style. Whether a student’s desire is to perform as a hobby, or to one day turn their passions into a career, Paolo endeavors to ensure a fulfilling and holistic experience to every child in our program.