Stage Door Performing Arts Academy Faculty

Caylyn (JV) Jarmon Vinson, M.Ed.

Director of Education

Caylyn Jarmon-Vinson (she/her) is a theatre artist with an extensive background in performance & education. She’s toured all across the country with different theater’s, serving both as a teaching artist & as a performer. Caylyn holds a BFA in Performance as well as a Master’s of Education in Theatre Education. This training, along with her touring experience (Hampstead Stage Company, Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre, Bright Star Touring) & few years as a Title I educator bring a unique perspective to Stage Door. Caylyn has a passion for theatre & is excited to be a part of the impact that Stage Door makes on the community!

Magda Roub

Music Director

Magda Roub (she/her) is an Atlanta-based actor and vocal coach and she is so excited to be a part of the Stage Door team! She received her BFA in Theatre from Valdosta State University in 2021, and is about to begin a Masters of Music in Vocal Pedagogy program with Shenandoah Conservatory. Favorite theatrical credits include Ilse (Spring Awakening), Yvonne (Sunday in the Park with George), and Bret (Calvin Berger).

Education Associate: Patty de La Garza

Patty is a Mexican actor based in Atlanta. Some Highlights of her recent projects are Little Becky Two Shoes in Actor’s Express Urinetown (2023), Lola in the World premiere of Square Blues on the Horizon Theater Stage (2022), Iris (et all) in the world premiere of The Guava Tree, El Guayabo a Bilingual Musical(2021), Desdemona and Diana on the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern’s mainstage(2020), Winnie Foster in GET’s 2019-2020 TYA tour, and Mercutio and the Prince with Atlanta Shakespeare Company’s Education tour in 2018-2019. Knowing how much art impacts people’s lives Patty is also a teaching artist with theater’s like the Alliance, Stagedoor, and the Atlanta Shakespeare Company as well as in programs such as Chopart that provides arts to teens experiencing homelessness and creates projects like “The Body Language Project” choreographing and dancing to spoken word poetry, music and video to create social justice pieces about race, sexual abuse and mental disorders.

Education Associate: Tyshawn Gooden

Tyshawn Gooden is thrilled to be with Stage Door Theatre! Select Previous Credits: Atlanta: RED: A Crayon’s Musical (Out Front Theatre Company); Mercury, Cabaret (Actor’s Express); The Little Prince, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Synchronicity Theatre); As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing:60, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus and Cressida, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern); And Then They Came For Me (Georgia Ensemble Theatre); Rathskeller (SheATL Festival); RENT (Act3 Productions). Regional: The Hound of the Baskervilles (The REV Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Warehouse Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (The Phoenix Theatre); Hamlet (Dramatic Question Theatre). Educational: Home, Evil Dead: The Musical, The Scarlet Letter, Abigail/1702, Romeo & Juliet, Mother Hicks, Spring Awakening, Dreaming Emmett (University of West Georgia). IG: @its_all_gooden

Education Associate: Nidalas Madden

Nidalas Simone Madden is a Atlanta-based artist and educator. She began her acting career as far back as elementary school with her first audition being the Music Man (she was not cast). But it inspired her to continue her acting quest. Upon graduating from Georgia Southern University, she racked up several acting credits through her active role in their theatre department such as Lesley in House of Yes or Ida Jackson in Amen Corner. Atlanta credits include Gwendolyn in Contemporary Classics Importance of Being Earnest and Emilia in Tiny Theatres Company’s Othello. She has performed on the Atlanta Shakespeare Company in Much Ado About Nothing and Merchant of Venice. She has always loved sharing her love of acting with students. With a degree in theatre and education, she is so happy to be working with Stage Door Theatre this summer.

Education Associate: Bobbi Twiggs

Bobbi Twiggs is a writer, performer, and educator born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Their most recent play, The Pros and Cons of Killing Your Cult Leader, received a Suzi Bass Award Recommendation and was a finalist for BroadwayWorld Atlanta’s 2023 Best New Play after two sold out runs at Aurora Theatre and The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse. They have been featured as a performer and comedian with Dad’s Garage Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Write Club Atlanta, The Georgia Rennaissance Festival, and The Atlanta Fringe Festival. In addition to their work in theatre, Bobbi has been a teacher in special education since 2020, creating differentiated curriculum and lesson plans for neurodivergent and dyslexic students. Bobbi graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Media Arts Production from Georgia Gwinnett College.