Education team
Shakespeare Instructor, Director and Theatre Pedagogue
Actor and Theatre Pedagogue
Actor and Theatre Pedagogue
In 2005 Conor began his education in Comedy Writing and Performance where he was taught by former SNL and SCTV cast members. Conor performed comedy on various Toronto stages, Yuk Yuks, Second City, Bad Dog Theatre and the Comedy Bar. Stand up Comedy, Improvisational Comedy and Sketch Comedy are all formats he has vast experience with.
Between 2010 and 2013, Conor returned to Ireland to pursue an education in Drama Performance and Facilitation, so he could refine his performance abilities but also learn more about sharing and teaching his passions Comedy performance and Acting. Conor performed in numerous plays and gained more experience as an actor.
Actor and Theatre Pedagogue
Tracey Grey trained at the Guildford School of Acting specialising in musical theatre and started her career touring on musical and dramatic stages in the UK. Productions include an off-musical, “Travellers” premiering at the Covent Garden Festival and Blood Brothers a the Phoenix Theatre, London. Tours include, On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard and the musical the Red bard Murder, where she played the title role of Maria. Tracey also toured as solo-singer with the Cliff Longhurst Bigband.
More than half her professional life has been in Germany where she has continued to successfully work as a voiceover artist, actress, director and theatre educator. In addition to performance work, she founded Stagecoach Theater Arts in Frankfurt in 2004. Currently, she runs her own studio for private voice and acting coaching, specifically supporting young performers through the highly competitive process of drama school auditions at renowned schools worldwide. Tracey Is co-founder of Shakespeare Frankfurt (with PJ Escobio) and Production Manager for the annual open air ‘Shakespeare in the Garden’ performances in cooperation with the Frankfurt Botanical Gardens, and since 2018 she has been teaching IB theatre part-time at local international school.
Actor and Theatre Pedagogue
Singer, Actor, Choreographer, Theatre Pedagogue
Music therapist, theatre pedagogue and performer
Moriah-Jane is music therapist, theatre pedagogue, project manager, and performer. Originally from South Africa, she has been in Frankfurt since 2017. She graduated with a music therapy degree, with a minor in drama and speech therapy facilitation.She is either running therapy sessions with clients, running music and theatre pedagogue programs, or heading up her creative therapy project, The Inspired Project, which works to bring inspiration and healing, targeted toward women, but open for all. She has worked mainly with children, and youth who are on the Autism spectrum. She has also been privileged enough to work as a trauma counsellor with women who have been affected by sex trafficking and trade, which has opened doors to doing this on an international level. This is what her heart bleeds for. She is passionate about creating music, art and movement, because ultimately if she can live out her creativity she can pass the tools on to others. At the end of the day, her heart is to equip each child and person with their unique voice, and she believes that music is a powerful tool to do so.
Theatre Pedagogue
Melanie is an Irish actor/singer who grew up in Frankfurt before attending drama school at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. While in the UK she played some of her favourite roles, including Victorian boxer Violet Hunter in Joy Wilkinson’s The Sweet Science of Bruising, and Anna in the musical Spring Awakening by Stephen Sater. Not only a singer, she also loves to play music, mainly on the piano or guitar, and often accompanies herself.She is a great lover of languages as well as music, and did her first educational acting job when she appeared in the web series So Leben Wir in Deutschland for BBC Bitesize, intended for GCSE German students in the UK.Now back in her old home town, she has joined the Education team at the English Theatre Frankfurt as both a pedagogue and a performer, playing Maid Marian in the production of Robin Hood directed by PJ Escobio, for which she is also fight captain; putting her British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat qualification to good use.As the daughter of a teacher, Melanie is very excited to start getting involved with theatre education, and is keen to make a difference in supporting the next generation of young creatives.
Artist and Theatre Pedagogue
Benjamin is also an accomplished musician. He plays the ukulele, harmonica, and piano, and has composed numerous songs, jingles for commercials, as well as pieces for operettas and films. Notably, he wrote all the music for an educational children’s operetta, “The Fisherman’s Clever Daughter”.
An experienced teacher, Benjamin has taught students of all age groups. His passion for teaching music, dance, and acting to young talents has led him to Stagecoach Frankfurt Nord, where he coaches the advanced group and, of course, to The
English Theatre of Frankfurt. He eagerly looks forward to continuing to use his wealth of experience and skills to help bring his students to their own personal stage of life.
Actor and Theatre Pedagogue
Emma Teitge trained at the Institute of the Arts Barcelona, where she graduated with a first-class Bachelor’s degree in Acting. She spent her early life in a musical theatre school and in private singing, dancing, acting and piano lessons, to make her way onto the stage. Some of her credits include Desdemona in Othello, Cordelia in King Lear and Mariane in Tartuffe.
Emma loves working with children and witnessing their development. She has been teaching Stagecoach groups since 2015 and has attended numerous teacher training courses since then. She has also been working as a substitute teacher in a primary school and has led several after-school programmes. In her Bachelor’s thesis, she studied the impact of the performing arts on the development of children and young people and is certain that they strengthen qualities such as self-confidence, resilience, empathy and teamwork.
Emma is very excited to share her passion and fun for the stage at the English Theatre Frankfurt!
Actor and Theatre Pedagogue
Actor and Theatre Pedagogue
Actor and Theatre Pedagogue