Faculty Bios
Goldner Conservatory faculty members are professionally trained in their area of discipline, They are “professionals teaching the profession,” as actors, directors, dancers and designers. Our artists undergo an interview process, as well as background checks, including criminal, sex offender and work history, conducted in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act and other legal requirements.
Kim Cozort Kay
(Director of Education) A multi-award-winning actress, (Metrolina Theatre Best Actress, Curtain Up and 3 Carbonell awards,) Kim is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and Screen Actors’ Guild. Kim has bachelor and master degrees in music education with a concentration in vocal performance. She has shared the boards with Broadway veterans Charles Nelson Reilly, Hal Holbrook, Rachel Bay Jones, Alison Fraser and Richard Kind. As Education Director at the award-winning Blowing Rock Stage Company, Kim produced productions of High School Musical, High School Musical 2 and the tours of Sleepwalk and Bang, Bang, You're Dead. Credits also include music direction: Bak Middle School of the Arts, Kravis' Disney in Schools Program as well as directing STAGE AWAKENINGS at the Kravis Center. Kim resides in Jupiter with her husband, actor/director/teacher Kenneth Kay. Together, they formed their own production company (Kay-Squared Productions) in anticipation of the world premiere of Kim’s one-woman show, Silver Shadows; Dark Side of the Mountain, which garnered her the 2022 North Carolina Society of Historians Award of Excellence for a Theatre Performance.
Briley Crisafi
Briley Crisafi is a lifelong performer who is passionate about the arts’ capability to positively impact culture. Crisafi has been trained in classical ballet, contemporary, and various forms of competitive dance; and has a richbackground in voice and musical theatre. In recent years, she has enjoyed writing and directing full-length stage plays for students through local organizations. She is very excited to now be working with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in order to share her joy and knowledge with the upcoming generation of performing artists.
Kayla Grammerstorf
Kayla Grammerstorf is a dance performer, choreographer, and educator originally from the Philadelphia region. She is a recent graduate of Muhlenberg College where she pursued degrees in Dance Performance and Accounting. Kayla has been trained in Classical and Contemporary Ballet, Modern, Jazz, Pointe, Tap, and Hip-Hop. She was involved in a tap company based in Philadelphia called Footwerx and had the opportunity to perform at the Wilma Theater, Arts Bank Theater, and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. At Muhlenberg College, Kayla had the chance to work with artists Heidi Cruz-Austin, Karen Dearborn, Natalie Gotter, Randall Anthony Smith, guest artist Melanie George, and several student choreographers. Kayla has choreographed five musicals for the Phoenixville Area Middle School and multiple dance pieces for studios in the Philadelphia area. As a choreographer and educator, she strives to create an environment for dancers to grow and find their voice in her movement. Kayla is very excited to be joining the Maltz Jupiter Theatre faculty as they prepare for these upcoming projects.
Torie D’Alessandro
Torie D’Alessandro (she/her) is a performer and choreographer in Florida. Performance credits: Dancer for Virgin Voyages (UntitledDanceShowPartyThing), Nat’l tour of Sesame Street Live! Let’s Party! (Oscar the Grouch and puppeteer), performer at The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum (Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof), performer at Connecticut Repertory Theatre (Ali in Mamma Mia and Kit Kat girl in Cabaret) and more. Choreography credits: The Henegar Center (The Addams Family, The Little Mermaid, Avenue Q (Puppet master), The Full Monty, Zombie Prom, Fame jr ) Cocoa Village Playhouse (9 to 5: The Musical, Hot Pink! The band: Elton John), Triple Arts: Moving Story (“Slap that Bass”) and more. She has worked with many people including Charlotte and Christopher D’amboise, Terrence Mann, Mary Ann Lamb, Ani Taj, Sam Pinkleton and more. She received a full ride talent scholarship to Florida School of the Arts and received her A.S. Degree in Musical Theatre. She also received the Outstanding graduate for Performing Arts Award.
Om Jae
Om Jae (he/him/his) is a Guyanese-American Artist born in New York. Former Assistant Artistic Director and Resident Acting Coach of a SoFlo Theatre for the past five years, he has since then resigned to branch out to full-time Performing and Fight & Intimacy Direction across the United States. Current member with the Society of American Fight Directors, he was recently honored with their ‘Best Performer Award’ at their 2021 NSCW, and since then has charcuteried his training and choreography across the country by working with some of the most renowned names in the industry. His work in theatre has been recognized across SoFlo, including the Sun Sentinel and Miami Times. However, his first love being film, he often frequents between the screen and stage while making use of his Fitzmaurice Concentration on his degree teaching Private Voice/Acting lessons (as his schedule permits!). He believes Art “provides an escape for those who are unable to free themselves”, and thanks all his peers and betters, whose genius inspires him to continue to create. Special thanks to Kim Cozort, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Lee Soroko, David Reed, and all his mentors - that whom without he would not be here. IG@omjae_official”
KENNETH KAY
Kenneth Kay (AEA/SAG-AFTRA/MFA) is a multiple award-winning Actor and Director with over 40 years of Professional Theatre & Film Experience. In addition to his numerous theatre and film credits, Mr. Kay previously served as the Artistic Director for the Burt Reynolds’ Institute for Theatre Training and the acclaimed Blowing Rock Stage Company in North Carolina. As a teacher, he currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Drama for Palm Beach Atlantic University and as a Resident Teaching Artist with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s Professional Training Program. Plus, for the last nine years, Mr. Kay has conducted a variety of preparatory workshops and seminars for the Florida Professional Theatre Association’s annual audition
RACHAEL LAGASSE
Rachael Lagasse is floored with excitement and appreciation to be a part of teaching young minds the art of creativity. She is a New World School of the Arts Alumni, there she earned her BFA and Conservatory degree in Theatre. Her love for acting has been with her for many, many years, but she has had a new found love of working with children in just the last year. She discovered this during her time of being a teacher assistant at Center For Creative Education where she works alongside children daily in helping them to better understand how to connect the arts to their learning.
Honeybee Moise
Honeybee is an International Performing Artist and Educator. A native Floridian raised in West Palm Beach, Florida. She began her training at the local School of the Arts and remains a proud Alumna of U.B. Kinsey Elementary, Bak Middle, and G-Star School of the Arts. After graduating from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honeybee traveled all over the nation to train, perform, educate and create. Performing has given Honeybee the opportunity to travel and work with DJ Khaled, Mary J Blige, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Coke, Wendy’s, Amazon, Showtime, Virgin Voyages, Sony Hall, Montclair Pride, Paramount, Broadway Dance Center and so much more. Honeybee aims for greatness and leads with love in all her endeavors. She is excited to share her artistry with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre.
MARY STUCCHI
Mary Stucchi graduated from Palm Beach Atlantic University in 2007, where she studied theatre and communication. Since then, her dedication to education, performance, and photography has led her down multiple entrepreneurial paths. Stucchi owns a portrait photography business, and has worked extensively in performance and production roles for companies such as The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival, MOD27 Improvisation, and StoryMakers. Mary’s most treasured teaching experience involved homeschooling 4 girls in Kilimanjaro, East Africa for one year. She has led many workshops for arts camps and global education programs locally and internationally. Most Saturdays, you can find Mary at the Kravis Center, where she manages De George Academy, a scholarship-based performing arts school for economically disadvantaged students. Mary is thankful for every student she meets, because they inspire her to keep learning with them.
Gareth Williams
Gareth Williams' career stretches back some 40 years, gaining his equity card in a 1981 production of Little Mary Sunshine at the Burt Reynolds’ Theatre in Jupiter, Florida. There he studied with Charles Nelson Reilly who insisted Gareth move to NYC to study at HB Studios with legendary Uta Hagen, which he did and remained for six years. A founding member of Naked Angels Theatre Company in New York City, where he worked closely with actors such as Laurence Fishburne, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor, James Gandolfini, Paul Giamatti, and Matthew Broderick to name only a few. He has been in World Premier Plays such as Beth Henley’s Signature at The Actor’s Gang, Richard Greenberg’s Hurrah At Last at South Coast Repertory and most recently The Last Vig, starring Burt Young. He has been in the West Coast Premiers of Warren Leight’s Side Man with Mare Winningham at Pasadena Playhouse, and Keith Curran’s The Stand In with Kristen Johnston. Recent Film credits include playing a lead in DownEast with Greg Finley and Kirk Fox, Gutterbee with Ewen Bremner and W Earl Brown, Love After Love with Andie MacDowell and Chris O’Dowd, Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women with Annette Bening and Greta Gerwig. Gareth’s extensive TV credits include S.W.A.T, Into The Dark, NCIS NOLA, MindHunter, True Detective, This Is Us, Masters Of Sex, The Shield and Deadwood, The Mentalist, CSI: NY, Law & Order: LA, Terriers, Castle, Mad Men, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs, Judging Amy, CSI: Miami along with many others reaching all the way back to 1994 in Homicide: Life On The Street. Ten years ago Gareth started the production company Detroit Street Films, whose emphasis is on micro budget, short films. We have now produced in excess of thirty short films, several of which have been accepted into and won awards in film festivals around the country.