Our Staff
Brady Amoonclark, Artistic Director
Brady Amoonclark serves as Artistic Director for Children’s Shakespeare Theatre. Previous Directing credits with CST include: Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure, Henry VIII, Macbeth and Anouihl’s Antigone. Other directing experience includes The Wizard of Oz, Xanadu, and Mary Poppins with Helen Hayes Youth Theatre, Cinderella at Fieldstone Middle School, Closer at Nyack Village Theatre, and The Fantasticks off-off-Broadway. Shakespeare experience includes acting with the former Judith Shakespeare Company. Brady has acted, directed, stage-managed, run lights, created websites, dressed actors, and swept floors in all manner of theatrical productions ranging from community, scholastic, parochial, to regional, Off-Off and Off-Broadway settings.
Giverny Petitmermet, Director & Office Manager
Giverny Petitmermet is an actor/director/producer/creator who was based in NYC for over a decade. She is the Artistic Director of the theatre company, The New Collectives, and Lead Teaching Artist for the company's education wing, The Young Collectives, where she has lead many Shakespeare camps. Giverny is a founding member of BREAD Arts Collective and the Program Director for Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). She is currently a teaching artist at Theater O in Ossining and taught art and drama at Transfiguration School in Tarrytown. With CST, Giverny has directed Comedy of Errors, assistant directed Henry VIII and Cymbeline, and costume designed As You Like It. She received her BFA in Acting with a minor in Art History from Boston University and studied theatre at both the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) and the British American Dramatics Academy (BADA). www.givernypetitmermet.com
Grey Johnson, Director
Grey has been an arts administrator for many years most notably as Director of Membership at American Ballet Theatre and WBGO Jazz88, Marketing Director at Crossroads Theatre and Managing Director at Boston Shakespeare Company. Artistically he has acted on stage and been responsible for directing over 100 professional productions in the New York and Boston metro areas. Grey has taught and directed young people in theatre for many decades at Boston Shakespeare Company, Boston Youth Theatre, Harvard University, Billerica House of Correction, Daytop Drug Rehabilitation Program, Middlesex Community College, Pocantico Hills School, Plymouth State College, MIT and now at Children’s Shakespeare Theatre.
Marco Jo Clate, Assistant Director
Marco Jo is a screenwriter and theatre artist. She trained at NYU as an actress, then began creating her own work, which inspired a love for writing and directing. Her plays have been staged at Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC Fringe Festival, and more. She has worked with theater kids from elementary to high school as a choreographer, director, and teacher. Marco Jo assisted with CST’s Antigone, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night.
Ellie Greenway, Assistant Director
Ellie is a former CST alumna who is honored to be returning as an assistant director this year. Ellie holds a bachelor’s degree in Theater from SUNY Potsdam. Outside of CST, Ellie continues to foster her love for theatre at Elmwood Playhouse as a performer as well as at her job at Red Owl Academy where she directed a short play with both fours classes.
Amy Griffin, Assistant Director
Amy Griffin is a professional director and actor who loves working with young people. Recent directing credits include: Aida, Tuck Everlasting, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, and the critically acclaimed production of Fun Home at White Plains Performing Arts Center; The 39 Steps, Shout!, and The Taffetas (Depot Theatre); Closet Space and Oregon (Music Theatre of CT), and Blue’s Clues Live (Nickelodeon). As an actor, Amy has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in First National Tours, and in countless regional productions, including seven (!) flights as Peter Pan (Independent Theatre Award). Amy lives in Nyack with her fabulous husband and son, and is also a private acting coach.
Megan Kip-Holden, Assistant Director
Megan was a NYC based actor/singer/dancer for over a decade, traveling the country performing in tours, regionally, and off-off Broadway. Some of her favorite theatre credits include Wizard of Oz, The Comedy of Errors, Les Misérables (directed by Broadway actor David Hugo) and Company. With CST Megan was the the assistant director for Much Ado, Cymbeline, Romeo & Juliet, and Two Noble Kinsmen, choreographer for Romeo & Juliet and As You Like It, and costume designer for Comedy of Errors. She is honored to be a part of this wonderful company. She currently lives in Nyack with her two children and partner and works as a postpartum doula when not in the theatre.