Meet the Team
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Shayna Ronen
Shayna is a native of Walnut Creek and discovered theater...
Director of Operations
Emily Hurlbut
Emily fell in love with theatre after seeing her first show, Wicked...
Finance Manager
Donna Le Tourneau
A San Francisco native, Donna has loved musical theatre...
Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Jarusha Ariel
Jarusha received her BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College...
Community Liaison
Elizabeth Carlson
Elizabeth, also known as Liz, loves working behind the scenes...
*Shayna & Jarusha are carrying on the Legacy of Edward Belasco. CLICK HERE to read their history and learn where their vision for the Performing Arts Center began!
Meet our Instructors
Benny Garcia
ICDT! Teacher
Benjamin Rafael Garcia developed a passion for theatre...
Jill Thompson
ICDT! Teacher
Jill Thompson is a teacher, coach, and speaker. Jill spent her college days as a music
Micaela Groman
ICDT! Teacher
Micaela Groman has been an active teaching artist in the Bay Area for over a...
Cristina Grosser
ICDT! Teacher
Cristina has been an Early Educator for the past ten years with a local lab school...
Karen McMahon
ICDT! Teacher
Karen grew up loving the arts and knows the value of music, song and dance for all ages...
Joan & Craig
Guest Instructors
Craig and Joan’s professional partnership spans over 25 years...
Eric Fraisher Hayes
ICDT! Teacher
Eric Fraisher Hayes holds an MFA in Acting from the Theatre School at DePaul...
Lawrence Pech
ICDT! Teacher
Mikhail Baryshnikov invited Lawrence Pech to join American Ballet Theater in 1980.
Courtnee Rhone
Guest Instructor
Courtnee graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans
George Nikitas
ICDT! Teacher
George Nikitas is a bay area native who’s directing, choreography...
Marcia Cope-Hart
ICDT! Teacher
Marcia Cope-Hart has a vast professional performing career...
Joallyn Bohn
Guest Instructor
Joallyn began seriously studying ballroom dancing in 1995, although she had...
Our Board of Directors
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Shayna Ronen
Jarusha Ariel
Rae Corr
Clay Rosenthal
Shanti Belasco
Jake Nicholson
Our Roots
ICDT! stems from an existing family of theatre lovers bonded by The Belasco Theatre Company where Co-Founders Shayna and Jarusha spent the majority of their childhood. It was through the Belasco experience that their love of theatre grew and the seed of ICDT! was planted. Looking back on the unique experience they were given through Belasco, they know it was an important gift they need to pass on. The friendships and community that develop within a theatre company are so precious, especially in a world where we are linked so tightly with technology rather than ourselves and others. ICDT! is not only looking to develop talented performers, but to give our youth the tools needed to mature into confident, creative adults who will succeed in anything they put their minds to!
Shayna & Jarusha with Edward Belasco, 1997