Meet the Team
Director & Choreographer
Stephen Casey
Stephen Casey is a freelance choreographer, director, and dance educator. Select performance credits include the Broadway National, European, and bus & truck touring companies of 42nd St., U.S. tours of 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, and A Chorus Line, the European touring companies of The Rocky Horror Show and Golden Musicals of Broadway, and the Schiller Theatre production of 42nd St. in Berlin, Germany. Stephen spent 16 seasons as the Resident Choreographer and Artistic Director of the Bucks County Playhouse, His work has been presented at numerous professional regional theaters across the U.S. including: Bristol Riverside Theatre, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery Theatre, People’s Light, Act 2 Playhouse, Bucks County Center for the Performing Arts, The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, the Sooner Theatre of Oklahoma, and Arizona Broadway Theatre. Stephen is the proud recipient of three Philadelphia Barrymore Award nominations. Stephen graduated from DeSales University, where he is now an adjunct instructor and has choreographed and/or directed numerous mainstage productions since 2007. Stephen also teaches weekly classes in Broadway Tap, Technique for Musical Theatre, and Musical Theatre Dance at Impact Dance Complex.
Music Director & Producer
Jaime Rogers
Jaime Rogers has served as a music teacher and choir director at Lenape Middle School in Doylestown, PA since 2004. In her role as choir director, Jaime has conducted thousands of students in various choral ensembles in school and community events, adjudications, and collaborative concerts and festivals. Jaime is highly involved in musical theatre as a musical director for Lenape Middle School’s spring musical and as a guest musical director, and sometimes performer, for the Theatre Arts Center’s Summer and Winter productions. In addition to producing high quality music performances, She has enjoyed collaborations with The Bucks County Country Gentleman’s Barbershop Chorus, the Philadelphia Boys Choir, and all of the secondary school choirs in the Central Bucks School District. She has also commissioned and premiered new choral works by Deke Sharon, Amy F. Bernon, Rollo Dilworth, and Nancy Gifford-Humphreys. Jaime also serves as the Vice President of the board of directors of the Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theater Education Center. In her time on the board she has orchestrated an annual international solo contest that has involved over 500 youth singers from all over the world.
Assistant Choreography Director
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara is a freelance choreographer, director and educator. Michael earned his B.F. A. in Musical Theatre from Linwood University. He also trained in musical theatre through the Bucks County Playhouse apprentice program. Michael has served as the director and choreographer for the Lenape Players at Lenape Middle School, since 2020. Michael has performed in numerous musicals including, Sweet Charity, The Sound of Music, 42nd Street, Urinetown, The Merry Wives of Windsor and A Christmas Carol, among many others.
Business Manager & Producer
Kevin Handy
Kevin Handy brings his business, marketing and legal experience to the Doylestown Theatre Academy team. Kevin's children have been involved in dance and musical theatre for approximately ten years, and he has seen how much joy and confidence their involvement in the theatre arts has brought them. With the closure of Theatre Arts Center, Kevin wanted to step up to continue to provide the Central Bucks community with access to a top tier theatre program for youth.
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