Dima Pustovit
An MC, host, actor, teacher, now a coach at ProEnglish Drama School. 2007-2016 Dima studied and acted at Дивный Замок theatre-studio; 2009-2014 - an actor of Вавилон theatre. After graduation he spent a year in a secondary school teaching English and leading a theatre studion. 2015 he started to work as a host and MC. He cooks, drinks, likes hugging, can't remember names and tries to do everything right. :) "Why am I at ProEnglish Drama School? Experience and knowledge received can't just sit there, it's time to share what I know and love." Current Groups with Dima Pustovit TEENS GROUP 1 (Mon Thu 16:30-18:30) Starts Jan 13 PERFORMANCE COURSE (Group 31) (Mon Thu 19:00-21:00) 4 months - and you participate in the real performance on stage. Starts Jan 13
Alex Borovenskiy
Our Alex)) Founder and executive director of ProEnglish Drama School and ProEnglish Theatre and Druzya Language School. Actor and director with 5+ years of experience with independent theatres (Маскамрад, Splash Theatre, 3S, Kyiv Players, ProEnglish Theatre). As an experienced TEFL teacher and acting coach Alex always says "English is my profession, Theatre is my passion" Alex taught the following groups at ProEnglish Drama School: Group 0, Group1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, Group 15 He staged over 100 m0nologues and dialogues, 2 performances of ProEnglish Drama School and 5 performances of ProEnglish Theatre ProEnglish Drama School The City Was There (by Ray Bradbury) Something in The Mist (by Stephen King) ProEnglish Theatre Hamster Saga (by Yasmina Reza) Cripples of Inishmaan (by Martin McDonagh) The House of Yes (by Wendy MacLeod) AMORphine (by Mikhail Bulgakov, co-production with Yurii Radionov) Swipe Left (by Harold Tinder) Current Groups with Alex YOUNG BLOGGER mini-course (Jan 09,10,11,12 14:00-17:00) Acting workshops
Valerie Zubchenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giHrpJ0RHg4&feature=youtu.be Valerie — the most sound coach at ProEnglish Drama School. Opera singer by diplome, actress at ProEnglish Theatre, conductor, acting coach, vocal coach and accent coach. She's a very creative and active person sharing her knowledge and experience with her students. In ProEnglish Drama School she staged: Casino Monologues (best monologues 2017) Relationshit Happens House of Rising Sin English Songs as Poetry Exam Bunker Park Station Valerie has taught the following Groups at ProEnglish Drama School: Group 9, Group 13, Group18, Group 20, Group 26, Group 32, Group 35 She might as well teach yours!) Current Groups with Valerie Zubchenko SCENES GROUP (Group 35) (Mon 19:00-22:00 Sat 14:00-17:00) Individual classes of VOCAL in English Individual classes of ACCENT REDUCTION in English
Tanya Shelepko
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soek0AednXc[/embed] Tanya Shelepko was an actress in Вавилон theatre for 5 years. She has various work experience working for Tychina museum, Event Manager Assistant at PR-Time, teaching English in Kyiv business lyceum. There she founded Sirius theatre studio, staged several performances that took part in international festivals. She has also worked for Green Forest language school. At this stage of her life Tanya is an acting coach at ProEnglish Drama School, theatre director at ProEnglish Theatre and someone important at Cambridge University Press. She likes languages, does oil painting, writes strange songs, plays guitar, goes camping. At ProEnglish Drama School Tanya taught Group 5, Group 17. At ProEnglish Drama School Tanya Shelepko has staged: "Table for One," "Suitcase Monologues," "Turning Point Stories," "Stories by O," "The Cage", "Don't Keep Calm", performances "7 Stories", "Slam!" At ProEnglish Theatre she has directed "The Birthday Party" (by Harold Pinter), "Vdali" (by Salvador Dali diaries), "DoNothing" (by Meyenburg) Current Groups with Tanya Shelepko SCENES GROUP (Group 36) (Tue 19:00-22:00 Sat 11:00-14:00)
Marianna Moroz
Marianna Moroz Lantern Fairy Marianna was born in a family of actors and linguists, so she started acting since started breathing. Since 1997 to 2007 she trained in drama, modern, folk dance, ballet, vocal and music at Theater faculty of Kiev Children Academy of Arts in Ukraine. Marianna holds a Diploma in Drama and is an accomplished Dancer and Singer. Since the age of five Marianna performed in a many TV, movie and theatre projects. She was taking classes of Indian classical dance Bharatnatyam with Anna Smirnova-Radjhans, tribal fusion with Katarina Kolyada. From 2014 to 2016 she was a head teacher of English language and Drama in First Children Academy. Marianna has also performed in Circus Madness production in China as a fire dancer and light performer. After she moved in Hong Kong Marianna become a member of Hong Kong Fire Circle and established Lantern Fairies Art international show project which is combination of fire manipulation, circus art, dance, plastic theatre and illusionism. Marianna created special LED performance for China Hong Kong International Tattoo Convention, participated Spirit Tribe The Lost Valley festival in Libo (Guizhou, China), Tuen Mun Art Festival in Hong Kong. In 2019 Marianna had presented an integrated educational art project Theater Lab, specially prepared for Koktebel Jazz Festival in Kiev, Ukraine. Children in the age of 8-16 have undergone an intensive English speaking acting course which lasted for two weeks. As the result, musical play The Musicians of Bremen had been presented on the Koktebel Jazz Festival main stage with live music support. Marianna believes if you didn't lose yourself in the youngest age you will never get a problem with self identification. She is leading children to exploring their talents and interests. Marianna passionate about performing arts, travel, philosophy, psychology and oriental culture. In ProEnglish Drama School Marianna teaches groups of Kids and Teeenagers and this is LOVE!!! Current Groups with Marianna KIDS GROUP (Sat Sun 14:00-16:00) starts Jan 11 TEENS 2 GROUP (Tue Thu 16:00-18:00) starts Jan 09
Anabell Ramirez
Heart and soul of ProEnglish. Creative, energetic and very dedicated. Also, our Belle is hard not to like. Also Anabell is an actress in ProEnglish (main character in «The City Was There», «Hamster Saga», «The House of Yes», "Heavenly Creatures", "Blondi" and others) and teaches Spanish at Druzya Language School! Also she founded her own publishing house - Makondo Publications and organizes cultural events.
Katya Panchuk
Vocal coach at ProEnglish Drama School. A musician and a singer. Plays jazz, hip hop, neo soul. Her first education is a teacher of English and French. She teaches English starting from 2013. She also teaches vocal starting from 2016. She thinks that singing can open the creative spirit of any person. Everyone can sing!
Nellie Petlick
Nellie is an American, originally from St. Joseph, a small town in the state of Michigan. She studied theatre at university, and worked professionally as a stage manager in New York and Indiana before moving to Ukraine in 2016. Nellie was a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching English for two years in Vinnyts’ka oblast, and also co-founded Camp ACT, an English-language summer theatre camp for Ukrainian teenagers. After she finished her service with Peace Corps, she decided to stay in Ukraine and moved to Kyiv. The only thing she doesn’t like about Ukraine is холодець, and the thing she misses most from America is peanut butter and her cats.
Julia Sosnovska
Julia is enthusiastic, active and infectiously energetic! She has 9 years of continuous acting experience with multiple theatrical companies and projects, including one year of acting coaching for adults. Also she's the guest actress for Ivano-Frankivsk National Drama Theatre. Julia is a certified English teacher and has a degree in Pedagogy. Currently she's studying at Kyiv National Ivan Karpenko-Kary University of Theatre, Film and Television. She adores Shakespeare so her students may be sure they'll learn Richard III or Cordelia's monologues one day.
Peter Kaufman
Peter Mezey Kaufman is a NY-born actor, director, improvisation theatre coach, public speech coach. Founder of Red Ball Theatre, and creator of Comedy Goulash show at Pro.Act Fest-2019. From his base in Budapest he has trained TEDx speakers, corporate executives and spoken at IBM and Google. Strives to explore deeper into stage acting, improvisation and group interactions; focuses on "presence on-stage", including breathing exercises and relaxing on-stage to bring out your full powers, emotional expression and awareness, connecting with your partner and the audience, "MC"ing and setting the stage for a good performance, energy and group dynamics and team-work. Current Groups with Peter Kaufman IMPROV Group (Group 30) with bi-weekly performances of Comedy Lab (Mon, Thu) 19:00-22:00