Emily Harvey Lacroix (Director for Androcles and the Lion and Workshop Director):
A St. Johnsbury Academy alum and current Skidmore College student, Emily Harvey Lacroix is proud to return as a workshop leader and director after making her childhood theatrical debut at VCT more than thirteen years ago. An English major, Physics minor, Emily still makes time to continue her artistic education in Theater, Dance, and Music. She recently participated in a collaborative project with Phil Soltanoff. Her many interests include horses, writing, and science fiction.

Sara Romero (Director for A Pirate’s Life for Me and The Wiz)
Sara has been involved in theater all her life from writing and producing short plays for the neighbors as a child to earning her Bachelor’s Degree in theater, studying Shakespeare in London and Improvisation in Chicago.  This past winter she guest directed “Little Shop of Horrors” at Lyndon Institute and directed “Arsenic and Old Lace with the St. Johnsbury Players.  No stranger to the Vermont Children’s Theater, Sara worked there for a couple of summers before her boys turned her into a baseball mom!!  She rejoined the VCT staff in 2007 and has been the director for Bye, Bye Birdie, The Mikado and Footloose productions at VCT. 

John Walker (Director for A Pirate’s Life For Me)
Mr. Walker has been a working actor and director in television, film and theatre for over thirty years in New York, Los Angeles and London working with Academy Award and Tony Award directors and actors. Mr. Walker did his Undergraduate work at Roger Williams University graduating in the top ten percent of his class with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting and film production. His graduate work was done with the highly competitive professional actors training program at Tony Award winning American Conservatory Theatre, where he had the honor of Acting in lead roles on the main stage as a graduate student. After graduate school he moved to Los Angeles where he began his professional career, winning the LA Times Acting award in 1988. He also spent time training at The Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Drama League in London. The main focus of his acting and directing career has been his study of Shakespeare.  John is currently to chair of the Fine Arts Department at St. Johnsbury Academy.