Instructor

Asia is a trained dancer from Los Angeles who studied Film and Visual Storytelling in college. She has developed choreography for over fifteen different showcases, films, and media content. Ballet, musical theater jazz, contemporary, lyrical, and hip hop are all styles she is more than familiar with, having taught classes for each one. 

Along with dancing and choreography, Asia is highly proficient in writing and video production. She has written several published short stories and has worked as a scriptwriter and story editor on various short films. Asia has also composed music and edited videos for both film projects and social media for the past five years.

Asia is extremely honored to contribute her knowledge of dance and storytelling to Lovegood!

Artistic Director, Director, Instructor

Evan is originally from California but spent the first 5 years after HS traveling/ performing and directing. Evan since has almost 15 years of performing experience and is thrilled to be sharing it with young budding artists. His real passion is to teach young singing actors to be in touch with their emotion and how to filter real life into their performance. Evan has been recently getting into directing youth theater beginning with Journey Theater Arts Group and is now the artistic director of Lovegood Performing Arts Company.

Instructor, Director, Choreographer

Grace grew up all over the United States, but spent most of her life sporadically in the good ol’ Midwest. A lonely childhood with solace found in musicals from the Golden Age of Broadway ignited her zealous love of theatre. She is passionate about art, storytelling and character development through movement and choreography. She views the actor as an athlete and strives to grow students in their technique, strength and stamina.

Grace earned her BA in Fine Arts from Indiana University where she also studied dance and theatrical arts. She has worked in multiple facets of theatre since then including directing, choreographing, tech/design, teaching and performing.

Instructor, Choreographer

Madeleine has been dancing since the age of 2 and has developed a deep passion for teaching over the years. She spent her childhood dancing at various studios throughout the Vancouver/Portland area, with the majority of time spent on competitive hip hop, tap, and contemporary companies at Groove Nation Dance Academy. She then went on to train at the University of Washington with Broadway choreographers such as Steven Sofia, Marc Mendonca, as well as performers from the Rockettes and multiple Broadway shows. In addition to dancing, Madeleine loves Disneyland, psychology, and her family & three cats.

Instructor

Ruth is an Oregon native who has been bringing musical theater to life with the Beaverton youth theater community since she was 9 years old. Now, having thoroughly and irreversably aged out of the youth portion, she is overjoyed to bring her years of experience in acting, teaching, classical and musical theater vocal training to the next generation of students. 

Ruth has previously taght both acting and musical theater classes and received vocal training both privately and at George Fox University. When not sharing her love for singing and acting, Ruth can be found spending time with her husband, any cat she comes across, and the rest of her friends and family.