Artists + Staff — Full Circle Theater Collaborative

Who we are

Gina Fearn (She/Her)

Gina Fearn is an Actor, director and arts educator. She has performed with the York Theater Company in Manhattan as well as regional theaters throughout New York, Ohio and New England. She was last seen as Helen in Vermont Stage’s production of Fun Home. Gina founded the performing arts program at Unity Charter school in New Jersey, and has co-directed 17 productions with Flynn Summer Youth Theater Company. Gina has taught and directed through Vermont Stage company, South Burlington High School, Flynn Arts, Folsom School, and Island Arts, and is thrilled to be a part of this exciting new program giving voice and creating powerful human connection through the arts.

Amy Halpin Riley (She/Her)

Amy has discovered the impact of theater as a vehicle for growth and youth development through her work as an artist educator in Vermont for the past 10 years. Her experience includes Director of Education for Vermont Stage where she founded the Youth Company and managed the Vermont Young Playwrights Program. She directed and taught at FlynnArts and was the Producing Artistic Director of the Flynn Youth Theater Company. Amy was a theater major at LeMoyne College, where she studied everything from Brecht to comedia del’ arte. She was accepted into the Second City Conservatory in Chicago and studied alongside extraordinary improvisers and sketch comedy artists. Amy moved to NYC and had a brief stint with the Uprights Citizens Brigade, occasional appearing on their Comedy Central television show and taking classes at the theater. Locally, Amy has performed with Vermont Stage, Stealing From Work and Vermont Young Playwrights, among others.

Randal Pierce (he/him)

Randal Pierce is a Burlington-based performer, composer, teacher, and music director. He has a degree in piano performance from McGill's Schulich School of Music and spent six years performing in Montreal's vibrant music and theater scenes. Randal has toured internationally with the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts and played at major music festivals throughout the US and Canada. He has been commissioned to write theater and film works for VT Stage Company, The Flynn Theater, Main Street Landing, The Green Mountain Film Festival, In Tandem Arts, BCA, Big Picture Theater and The Festival of Fools. He is thrilled to be music directing for Full Circle Theater Collaborative!

Alex Hudson (she/her)

Alex is a Montreal native living in Shelburne, and holds degrees in Acting and Performance Studies from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and University College Dublin. She has been teaching acting and public speaking at the university level for over ten years. A mindfulness coach and founder of The Creative Mindfulness School, Alex continues to act in local productions and is a member of the sketch group Stealing From Work.

She is thrilled to be on the Full Circle Theatre Collaborative team.

Rebecca Raskin (she/her)

Rebecca has been refining her skills as a choreographer for the past 12 years, beginning with the Stowe Theater Guild, and building her experience and repertoire as a teaching artist with the Flynn Theater Show Choirs. In between, she has worked on productions with Lyric Theater, Essex High School, Champlain Valley High School, Girls Night Out Productions and more. She trained and performed with the Berkshire Ballet for 12 years and though ballet was her first love, musical theater has given her access to a fuller range of movement and expressiveness; the power of connecting performers and audience members through storytelling never ceases to move and inspire her. A former attorney, Rebecca now holds a degree in clinical mental health and school counseling, and finds her work in those fields both helpful and illuminating in her artistic work with students.

Emily Robbins (She/her)

Emily Robbins is an experienced arts educator, human development specialist, and emergent strategist. Emily holds a Master of Education in Human Development & Psychology (Child Advocacy) from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education (K-5) from the University of Vermont. Informed by both her formal scholarship and her years as a street-level bureaucrat interacting with children, families, and colleagues, she believes we build and cultivate community through simple, positive interactions that encourage self-efficacy and a deeper understanding of lifespan development. Emily loves to be a part of Full Circle Theater Collaborative, where that belief in the importance of community is considered a fundamental truth. She has directed, produced, and music-directed shows with The Flynn, Belmont Dramatic Club, and Hinesburg Community School, and has been a vocal coach for 12 years. Born in Burlington, raised in Charlotte, and currently residing in Vergennes, Emily enjoys spending her free time with her husband, son, and two dogs!

Leila Teitelman (She/her)

Leila is a teaching artist and practitioner from New Hampshire. She holds a B.A. in theater from Connecticut College and an MFA in theatrical writing from Lesley University where she presented her thesis, Mother of all Monsters: How Horror Became a Feminist Genre, on the intersection of femme bodies and the grotesque. Plays include: Awful People Pray (National Playwrights’ Conference Semi-Finalist, Princess Grace Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Table Work Press recommendation, Working Title Productions, Clauder Competition NH Winner), Baby Cakes (B-Street Theater New Comedy Festival, The Hearth Theater Co.), and A Place for Us (The Kennedy Center, Boston Theater Marathon). Leila was a 2017/2018 resident playwright at Athena Theater and a 2019/2020 resident playwright of the Inkubator writers group. As a performer, she has worked with Vermont Stage, Middlebury Acting Co, David Dorfman Dance, The College Light Opera Company, The Hearth, Roundabout Theater, NYC Fringe and NYC Musical Theater Festivals. Leila has worked in Education and Literary offices at Manhattan Theatre Club, New Dramatists, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Keene State College, Barrington Stage Company and UVM where she currently serves as theater faculty.

Helena Morris (she/her)

Helena has a BA in theater from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, and has been performing improv comedy professionally for ten years. She has directed and produced a variety of theater productions for students in her home state of Connecticut, including musicals, sketch shows, improv shows, and student-written pieces. Helena has been teaching improv comedy and theater for the past eight years with the Sea Tea Comedy Theater, the Charter Oak Cultural Center and Playhouse on Park in Hartford, CT. Helena loves the technical side of theater as well, working in her college scene shop, and stage managing for Playhouse on Park, Sea Tea Comedy Theater, and Full Circle Theater. Helena is thrilled to continue her career in arts education here in Vermont with Full Circle Theater!

Laura Wolfsen (She/her)

Laura studied musical theater at Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC. She has since lived and worked here in VT with her husband, children, and their fluffy friends. She has most recently directed for VT Stage Co. in their fundraiser production of True West. Some of her favorite recent roles include Liz in Women in Jeopardy, Sylvia in The Thin Place and Lieserl in Relativity with VT Stage Co., the Witch in Into the Woods with Lyric Theatre Co., Belle/Mrs. Fred in Christmas Carol with Middlebury Acting Co., Anne in A Little Night Music, and Rosa Bud in The Mystery of Edwin Drood with Skinner Barn Theater. Laura has had the pleasure of teaching with Full Circle’s Show Choir team, choreographing FCTC’s James and the Giant Peach, Jr., and playing the Adult Women in Spring Awakening. Thank you, Amy and Gina, for welcoming me into this beautiful theatrical family!