Meet Our Instructors
Theater Education Department
Erin chenard
Erin Chenard is a lyric soprano and voice teacher with 14 years teaching experience. Erin is a professional member of NATS, and has served on the voice faculty of the Portland Conservatory of Music, Bay Chamber Music School, and the University of Maine at Augusta.
Erin’s voice students have successfully auditioned for District and All-State honors choruses as well as NATS song festivals, been cast in musical theatre productions, and gained acceptance into college and university voice performance programs. Erin is a graduate of Westminster Choir College and the University of Southern Maine School of Music and holds an M.M. in Voice Pedagogy and Performance.
Erin sings professionally throughout Maine and New England, and currently teaches at Chenard Voice Studio in downtown Bath.
BETH SAUFLER
With over 30 years in teaching theater to young actors, Beth Saufler is an enthusiastic theater teacher with a passion for fostering creativity and collaboration. She has worked with diverse student populations in a variety of settings including schools, recreational departments, and community theaters. A classroom teacher for over 40 years, Beth is dedicated to creating a supporting and engaging learning environment where students can build confidence.
She enjoys acting herself, but her greatest joy is directing young actors and watching their confidence COME ALIVE when they get up on stage to ACT!
Christina longstreeth
Christina Longstreeth is a choreographer, dance instructor, and musical theater performer based in Brunswick, Maine. She grew up dancing and performing in Pittsfield, Massachusetts eventually making her professional musical theater debut at Barrington Stage Company in their 2013 production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. After moving to Mount Desert Island in 2013 she opened Terpsichore MDI, a dance and creative movement studio in Bar Harbor. During this time she choreographed Shrek and Seussical for Acadia Community Theater, taught dance workshops in schools, and worked with Summer Festival of the Arts as the dance instructor for their performing arts program before moving to southern Maine in 2019. Since then she has choreographed for contemporary ballet companies, film projects and local theater companies including Midcoast Youth Theater and Studio Theater of Bath.