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 a part-time 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; Something Rotten; Anything Goes; and Urinetown. 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!
Danny Paparozzi
Music Director and Vocal Instructor
Danny Paparozzi is a classically trained tenor. Danny began singing in earnest through community musical theater as a high schooler, and he also has experience in the classical repertoire, having performed in numerous operas at the professional level. Previously, Danny was an active member of Opera Wilmington, performing in concerts with the company and in all of its operatic productions since its debut with The Merry Widow in 2014. In 2015, he performed with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra as Tamino in their collaborative production of The Magic Flute with UNCW’s Opera Outreach Program. His recent productions include the role of Le Remendado in Bizet's Carmen and Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni. He looks forward to helping the next generation foster their own love of music and performance.
Alexandria waning
Dance Instructor - Jazz, Ballet and Musical Theatre
Alexandria Waning's passion for dance ignited at age five, when she began training at Lake Shore Dance in Port Washington, Wisconsin. She honed her skills in ballet, jazz, lyrical, and contemporary, and excelled as a member of the studio's competition team.
Continuing her education, Alexandria earned a BFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Post-graduation, she choreographed for showcases at Danceworks Inc. and shared her expertise through their outreach program.
A move to South Carolina expanded her teaching horizons, where she has inspired students at a Summerville middle school and dance studio for 10 years. Specializing in lyrical and jazz, she crafted compelling and award winning routines for the competition team. She has now relocated to North Carolina to continue teaching!
With over 15 years of studio experience, Alexandria completed her second season with Inspire as a judge, motivating a wider audience of young dancers to discover their own passion for movement. She is also providing personalized masterclasses and professional critiques for studios and collegiate dance teams in the South East.
sarah dick
Vocal Instructor
Sarah Dick is a soprano originally from Panama City, Fl. Growing up she was involved in musical theatre and regularly performed and played gigs around her hometown. After receiving her Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Montevallo, she began teaching alongside performing, and that has become a huge passion for her. Sarah since moved to North Carolina to begin her post-graduate journey attending UNCG to get her Master’s in Vocal Pedagogy and Performance. When not in class, she can be found singing, teaching, or at your local antique store searching for music boxes. Sarah is thrilled and incredibly grateful to join the incredible team at Stagelights!
lucas moncada zoll
Vocal Instructor
Lucas Moncada Zoll is a tenor currently pursuing a Master of Music in Vocal Performance & Pedagogy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), where he studies with Dr. Robert Wells. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he studied with Dr. Jourdan Laine Howell.
Lucas has recently appeared with UNCG Opera Theatre, performing in El Gato con Botas and El Grumete. His solo appearances include performances with the San Antonio Mastersingers, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the UTSA Chamber Singers.
Mackenzie Moore
Assistant Instructor - Musical Theatre and Voice
MacKenzie Moore is a current student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro pursuing her BFA in Musical Theatre with a minor in Music. She has been part of the Stagelights family for more than 10 years, beginning as a student, and has now joined the team, assisting and teaching in any way she can. Some of her recent stage credits include The Lightning Thief, Side Show, and Sweeney Todd, as well as serving as the AMD for the US post-Broadway premiere of Lempicka. When she is not performing, she is usually listening to all kinds of music(Jazz, Rock, Folk, etc.), hanging out with her 2 cats, or watching reality TV with her family and friends. MacKenzie has truly found her love of theater and teaching through her time at Stagelights. She hopes to share her passion to inspire students not only to be more confident in themselves but also to give them a space to discover their own voice, something that doing theater definitely showed her!