Dustin has been an actor and a student of acting for 19 years. He began in 2004 taking acting classes and workshops at EPAC and fell in love with performing. He would later go on to study acting at Binghamton University and would eventually attain his Masters in Fine Arts degree for Acting from the New School for Drama in New York City. While in New York City he had the privilege of studying with Tony award-winning actor Ron Liebman, Casey Biggs, Cotter Smith, Joe Grifasi, and Peter Jay Fernandez. Dialects, stage combat, classical texts, improvisation, and collaboration, are a few of the skills that he specializes in. Dustin has also performed Off-Broadway in New York City's Fringe Festival as well as internationally. Dustin has now come back home where his journey began, sharing all that he has learned over the past two decades with young performers. 

Upstate New York based voice teacher and performer.  An Iowa native, Ms. Duhr-Ramirez earned a B.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Iowa. Elizabeth earned a M.M. in Opera from the joint program between Binghamton University and Tri Cities Opera, where she was a Resident Artist and performed in many roles.  As an active concert artist she has served in many concert venues all across the country. Beth has recently become a certified Music Together teacher. 

EPAC is proud to welcome Wendy Stafford on to the EPAC team. She has been a great addition to the Kids Theater Workshop, and now she's teaching at the EPAC School of Performing Arts. Wendy is a NYS Licensed Music Educator with a BFA from Ithaca College, an MFA from Boston Conservatory, and is now offering private music instruction in winds, strings, piano, voice and music theory while meeting guide lines for wearing masks and social distancing.

Private drum lessons focus on snare drum technique, rhythm reading, drumset independence, NYSSMA, All-County, and College Audition prep. Chris is co-author with renowned session drummer, Gary Chester, of the Internationally acclaimed drumset books, The New Breed and New Breed II. Classes are offered periodically to supplement private lessons with a focus on ensemble playing and performance. Chris' passion for drumming is infectious!

Al Miele has taught private drum lessons in Endicott for many years. He has studied with Joe Roma, Tony Monforte, and Chris Adams. Al's focus is on hand and foot technique, reading, and drum set coordination.

Andrew Bailey is beyond thrilled to begin teaching at EPAC. He first began dancing in Binghamton at The Dance Connection while in high school, where he learned Tap, Jazz & Hip Hop. He continued dancing in many productions at EPAC including their former resident dance company DANCE STORIES. He has choreographed for many productions at the theater including Heathers:The Musical, The Producers, Kinky Boots & Legally Blonde: The Musical. For the past 9 years he has been lead choreographer for EPACS yearly BURLESQUE show where he also serves as director. 

His class will be a HIGH ENERGY adult dance class, bringing together many different styles to learn a new routine every few weeks to keep it fresh & fun.

Lucia is an EPAC Choreographer who would like to teach the basics of Musical Theatre, Jazz and Lyrical Dance technique. Lucia is a student at the FUSE Dance Center in Binghamton. Lucia has also been a student in the EPAC Kids Theater Workshop for many years now and has performed on the EPAC stage in numerous EPAC Productions. She also performs in her High School Productions at U-E as well.

Kevin Oriol has been running the EPAC Sound Board for a couple of years now, and he can't wait to teach some basic beginner style guitar lessons to people of any age or skill level at EPAC.