Academy Instructor

Ms. Verdon has been teaching theatre for almost a decade. She recently relocated from San Diego, where she taught extensively with San Diego Junior Theatre (the oldest continuing children’s theatre program in the country), in addition to working with theatres including The Old Globe, North Coast Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and Lamb’s Players Theatre. While in Colorado Springs, she was a public school drama director, and the Theatre Education Coordinator for the C.S. Fine Arts Center. In this role, she expanded its educational offerings and created museum theatre curriculum. She has also worked extensively as a performer with favorite credits including Beth in Dinner with Friends, Rita in Little Eyolf, Isabella and Mistress Overdone in Measure for Measure, Rebecca in Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home, and Rose in Dancing at Lughnasa.