The studio is led by two professionally trained artists from Ukraine, Oleg Palme and Lilia Akhatchinskaia. Both of them are passionate about what they do and they live for the studio. They treat all studio members as family, providing advice, understanding, and professional development. The professional resumes outlining the extensive experience of instructors are attached.

The studio sees new participants every season. Through workshops and episode roles, children develop acting skills, presentation skills and other important skills useful for everyday life. There are some members of the studio that have been acting for over 10 years and a few at a 5-7 year level, which puts their acting skills at a very high level due to both experience and long-term training. The instructors always incorporate actors of different levels into plays, so that the senior actors could provide support and an enticing learning environment for the younger generation.

Studio also works closely with the Russian Folk Dance collective "Yablochko" who assist with dance choreography and sometimes even participate in plays themselves.

MEASURING ANTICIPATED RESULTS

The first step in measuring our results is audience response. We are planning to have feedback forms available after each show so that we could have tangible data to analyze. We will look at feedback from people who will watch our show for the first time and feedback from our regular viewers. The feedback will influence our future plans. For example, the scope and theme of performances we chose, the number of times to run the show, the preferred method of delivering the play to English speaking audience will be determined.

In addition, as our dream is to go on tour to Seattle and Oregon with both Russian and English plays, the outcome of the "Dead Souls", our biggest production ever, will show us the feasibility of such a plan. We hope to attract attention from other potential sponsors by presenting a play on a larger scale. We will adjust our long-term plans depending on the financial prospects.