Lakewood Instructors

Tamara Carroll

Tamara Carroll has just returned from her second summer as a director at Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp in Connecticut. During the year she enjoys combining theatre with education as a touring stage manager for Oregon Children's Theatre and Sight Educational Theatre, and has taught classes for The Young Players. She believes that an early introduction to the arts is invaluable to the survival of culture, and commends parents who, like her own, go out of their way to make sure their children have access to creative opportunities.

Sandra Peabody

Sandra Peabody is an Emmy award winning writer and producer and also manages talent. Student acting credits include local TV/Film work, and weekly leads on network Television series and major films including guest starring roles on Boston Public, Providence, ER, Law and Order, Just Shoot Me, Judging Amy, 3rd Rock and Without a Trace.

Liz Hayden

Liz Hayden has an MFA in theatre and managed her own arts camp in Santa Monica, CA, prior to moving back home to Portland where she teaches, directs and acts.

Nancy McDonald

Nancy McDonald's acting credits include theatre, film and television. She founded the Shakespeare Stage Company in New York and The Writer's Lab in LA, teaches for Oregon Children's Theatre, Atkinson Graduate School of Management and PCC, and is a producer at Magaurn Video Media.

Douglas Webster

Douglas Webster is a performing teacher, director and producer.  Locally, he is winner of the 2009 Drammy Award for Best Actor in a Musical (Les Misérables, Broadway Rose). Winner of the New York Joy In Singing and Concert Artists Guild Awards, he has performed as soloist with orchestra and in recital across forty-six states in venues including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Opera, on PBS, NPR and on Broadway. His recordings include classical and popular music CDs for Koch, New World, Yamaha, Kultur Video and the Grammy™ Nominated Disney Spectacular for Telarc. Mr. Webster made his debut singing the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's epic theater piece, MASS. He has since led twenty productions, including the premiere at Carnegie Hall, Dallas, Portland, Eugene, Denver, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania and The Vatican. As an educator, he has served on the faculties at the University of Oregon (Director of Opera), University of Memphis, and the summer programs for SUNY-Stony Brook and Colorado State University-Pueblo. He has been a guest teacher/clinician for university programs including: The Royal Conservatory in Toronto, The National Conservatory of Latvia, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and Colorado State University - Ft. Collins, presented by the College Music Society as a key-note speaker and clinician.  He holds degrees from Northwestern University and Indiana University, from which he received the Singing Hoosier Distinguished Alumni Award in 2005. His studies also include: The Banff Centre School of the Arts, Aspen School of Music, Santa Fe Opera and the Centre International de Formation Musicale (Nice, France). Douglas Webster currently lives in Portland with his wife, cellist and composer, Elizabeth Byrd.