pamela kinter

Founder, Artistic Director, and Acting Coach

Pamela Kinter is a performer and director, but above all, an educator.  Her professional career began at the University of Maryland, with degrees in Acting Technique and Directing. She was asked to direct a children’s theatre production in Chicago over twenty years ago when…lightning struck! She realized that the natural ability of children to create, explore, and simply TRY was something to be encouraged and celebrated! Pam founded Stagelights in Greensboro, NC in 2010 to help children in the Triad explore the joys of theatre. She is proud to be growing Stagelights into a high quality, educational theatre program that was recently named, as a partner with Guilford County Child Development, in a national STEAM grant to bring theatre arts to the youngest and most economically challenged Triad students. Pam is beyond excited to be fulfilling her life-long dream of offering full-year, theatre arts programs! 

amy shope

Choreographer, Tap Instructor, and Business Manager

Amy Shope is a professional dance teacher, performer, choreographer, writer, and bookkeeper in the Triad area. Amy joined with Stagelights in the summer of 2013 to choreograph the summer musical program, and she was so excited to help Stagelights develop into a year-round studio. Amy is also currently an adjunct instructor at UNC-Greensboro.

Amy trained at the Anna Marie Dance Studio in Wilmington, DE from the age of 4, learning ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, and musical theatre. She received her BA in Dance and BS in Chemistry from Connecticut College in 2012 before receiving her MA in Dance Theories and Practices at UNC-Greensboro in 2014. Shows she has choreographed include You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown; Annie Get Your Gun; Bye Bye Birdie; Legally Blonde; Kiss Me, Kate; Spamalot; The Pajama Game;The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Chicago; The Addams Family; Freaky Friday; Newsies; Crazy For You; and Something Rotten. For years, Amy was a freelance writer for Dance Spirit and Dance Retailer News magazines and has presented her research at the Society of Dance History Scholars conferences in Trondheim, Norway (2013) and at Iowa State University (2014). She is a certified Essentrics™ instructor, teaching adult workout classes to strengthen and stretch all muscles of the body to help create a leaner, fitter, and younger physique. She also loves to bake!

anna Smith

Tech Director; Acting and Juggling Instructor

Anna Smith is a High School English and Theatre arts educator for Guilford County Schools. As a high school student, she was heavily involved in the arts and loved the sense of community she found among her peers. Anna received her BA in English Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and began teaching at Northern Guilford High School in 2014. After a year of only teaching English, she was given the opportunity to also teach theatre classes. She was fortunate enough to participate in Stagelights Mainstage the summer before she began her new career as a theatre teacher and took away many valuable lessons in how to best structure her program. Shows she has directed include Seussical The Musical, Beauty and the Beast, and Les Miserables. She has continued to participate in Mainstage as a director for the Junior Division show and can occasionally be seen performing in a Stagelights production as well. Anna is also an avid juggler and is always happy to show off her skills!