Our teaching artists are not only industry professionals, but they also serve as dedicated mentors who guide students through challenges. We focus on celebrating growth in every capacity while leading with empathy. Meet our fantastic team of Teaching Artists!

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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: Sarah Palm

Sarah Palm

Sarah is a Minnesota-born actress, artist, and activist.  She holds an MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and undergraduate degrees in Film Production and Theatre Arts from Minnesota State University – Moorhead and North Dakota State University, respectively.  As a principal voice talent/sometimes writer and director for a radio drama style podcast, she is constantly honing her craft as a storyteller and working on her collection of weird voices.  Sarah is an experienced teacher of voice and acting at the university level as well as acting and improvisation for younger students.  She finds genuine joy in theatre and loves getting to play and perform with actors of all ages.

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.

Education Associate: Courtlyn Holt

Courtlyn Holt (she/her) is excited to share her love of dance with Stage Door Theatre as a dance instructor and choreographer! Some of her favorite teaching artist credits include The Springer Theatre Academy (musical theatre voice and musical theatre dance), GA Thescon (advanced tap), Academy Dance Center (musical theatre, contemporary, lyrical, and jazz), and Pink Slipper School of Dance (ballet, tap, and jazz). Along with teaching dance, Courtlyn has also music directed the musicals A Christmas Story (Springer Opera House) and School House Rock (Springer Opera House). Some of her favorite professional acting credits include Legally Blonde (Elle Woods), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Xanadu (Kira), and Shrek the Musical (Gingy).

Education Associate: Carter Eldridge

Carter Eldridge

Carter Eldridge is an actor, teaching artist, and arts advocate from Columbus, GA. He holds degrees from Columbus State University and the University of Georgia and has years of experience teaching theatre skills to ages K-12, in subjects such as improv and sketch writing, at the Springer Theatre Academy. He lives by the Academy’s mission of Life Skills through Stage Skills. He also works in education with the Columbus Museum as their Community Outreach Coordinator, where he champions arts education and its impact on students.

Education Associate: Cole Kiker

Cole Kiker

Cole Kiker is an actor and writer originally from Columbus, GA, now based in Atlanta. Recent theatre credits include Barbecue, Reefer Madness, Grease, Tapas IX: The Bow, R+J Theory and A Tired Blood’s Epiphany. Film and TV credits include stream it!, Snapped: Killer Couples, and Johnny I Want My Liver Back. He is currently a house performer for the Alley Cats Improv team at the Alley Stage in Marietta and will soon join the touring company of The Inventive Princess of Floralee at Stage Door as an understudy. He holds an Associate’s in Communications from Columbus State University and just recently graduated with a Bachelor’s in Theatre and Performance Studies from Kennesaw