VYT Staff

 Inspired by the intellect, creativity  and artistic collaboration of her children, Mary is honored to  direct, write, compose and design for VYT. An accomplished actor with dozens of actor/director credits, the Burlington Free Press calls her "an unstoppable force on stage." Times Argus says: "tour de force" and "virtuoso." Mary taught k-12 music and theater for over twenty years. 

 A pianist, vocalist, actor and events manager, Jackie also appears in VYT's Vermont Actor Company productions. In addition to assistant directing, she is the resident expert on hair design and makeup, skills she also puts to use as a bridal/wedding consultant. Her lifelong love of children continues to be nurtured at VYT. 

Kerry Noonan has a degree in Theater Arts from UCLA, and worked as a  professional in Los Angeles for 13 years with  the L.A. Shakespeare Festival, the Grove Shakespeare Festival, Will  & Co., the L.A. Theater Center, the Arizona Theater Company, and  South Coast Repertory Theater, in addition to the company she  co-founded, City Stage, where she also directed. Her film and TV credits are numerous.  

 Taryn Noelle of Stowe is a 2017 recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. She has been performing, teaching,  choreographing, and directing in Vermont for twenty years. She  teaches dance at Green Mountain Performing Arts in Waterbury and is the  Theatre Program director for Stowe High School. Other teaching credits:  Vermont One Act Festival, Green Mountain Performing Arts, Ballet  Wolcott, and the Vermont Young Playwright's Festival. (photo: David Garten)

 Justin Lander is a performer, puppeteer, musician, and cheap artist, and has toured nationally and internationally since 2002.  He is a cofounder of Modern Times Theater and is the emcee of Vermont Vaudeville.  Justin specializes in novelty instruments such as the slide whistle, the bicycle pump, and the human xylophone and teaches workshops for kids and adults in puppetry, junk music and improv comedy.  Justin is an alum of the Bread and Puppet Theater and Bates College. 

As a child, Sarah was right at home in the costume workshop of a university. Her mother was  costumer, her father a leather craftsman. She has inherited a love of color, contrast and pattern and is pleased to make use of her designer's eye and instinct. She is also the VYT scout at thrift stores, junk shops and Goodwill, garnering many finds to serve VYT's commitment to original hand-made costumes of 95% recycled materials.