Meet Our Team
Ashley Morgan Bloom: Founder & CEO
Ashley Morgan Bloom is a professional actress, a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and the founder and CEO of Bloom Performing Arts. She has taught improvisation, acting, public speaking, movement, and debate in New York City’s top private schools for the past ten years. Ashley played a supporting role in a Sundance official selection film, was a New York Times top ten show leading actress, and most recently played Reporter Ainsley Neil in the feature film "The Final Hour," starring Eric Roberts, Clifton Powell, and Manny Perez. Ashley made her Co-Star debut on Law & Order SVU, Season 21. To learn more about her acting work, visit ashleymorganbloom.com.
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Sydney Tennant: Director of Social Media
Sydney is so excited to be joining the Bloom team! Originally from Los Angeles, she relocated to New York in 2014. She has degrees in International Affairs and Theater from Skidmore College. Additionally, she studied Shakespearean acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. She has previously worked with SITI Company, the Geffen Playhouse, and the Los Angeles Drama Club in their community outreach and educational programing departments. She is a working actor, and a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Alyssa Bianca: Operations Coordinator
Alyssa is an actor and singer based in NYC with an MFA from the Savannah College of Art & Design. A Connecticut native, she caught the performing arts bug at the age of 2 when she was wrangled into her first dance class—itchy tutu and all. Alyssa brings years of teaching experience and a positive energy into every classroom, creating joyful, inclusive spaces where kids and creativity thrive.
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Thammie Laine Quách: Director of Choreography
Thammie Laine Quách is a Vietnamese-American actor born and raised in Queens, New York. She graduated from NYU Tisch with a BFA in Drama and has performed in theater productions in NYC. For the past three years, she has been working as an Arts & Crafts Specialist at Commonpoint, teaching 6th-8th graders the many creative possibilities the world can offer. She is stoked to join the Bloom team and grow as a teaching artist! Her acting work can be found at thammiequach.com.
Olivia Baker: Social Media Designer
Olivia was lucky enough to find the amazing BPA team while living in Los Angeles. She loves being able to bring her creativity and love for art and performance into her work here. Olivia currently works in tech sales while pursuing a career in acting. She strongly believes in the importance of fostering young minds in the arts and in the importance of performance starting at a young age.
Hope Dyra
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Hope is originally from Nashville, but her love of performance has taken her far from home — in 2020, Hope graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Marymount Manhattan College. In 2019, she received a certificate in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). Growing up learning from incredible theatre artists has inspired Hope to share and nurture the love she has for performing with her students through Bloom Performing Arts. Let’s bloom together!
Maddie Booth: Senior Advisory Board Member
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An Illinois native, Maddie Booth brings her passion for the arts all the way to New York City.
With a degree in Theatre Performance from Marymount Manhattan College, Maddie is excited to share her variety of knowledge with Bloom Performing Arts’ young artists. She believes in empowering her students to express themselves in creative and compelling ways. The original team member, Maddie has been working with Ashley since day one, serving as both a teaching artist and the social media director to help Bloom Performing Arts bloom and grow.
Sadie Prenda
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Sadie grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska where she did speech, choir, theater, and cello. She recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in performing arts. Now, she is an avid writer and all around creative. She can't wait to work with the next generation of storytellers and creatives!
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Marie Zaccagnino
Marie Zaccagnino was born and raised in Buffalo, NY! She moved to NYC when she was 18 years old to attend Pace University, where she graduated with a BFA in Film, Television, Voice-Overs & Commercials. She has performed in plays with the Alpha NYC Theatre Company. She will be performing her first lead role in The Postman Always Rings Twice at the Producers Club in NYC this fall. She is an actress who strives to make audiences feel inspired and happy. The arts and storytelling are in need in our world more than ever. She is so grateful to be able to pass on what she has learned throughout her artistic career to the younger generation of artists, with Bloom Performing Arts!
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Brittany Smith
Brittany Smith was born and raised in Orlando FL. With a devoted passion for performing arts, she found herself studying for a BFA at Savannah College of Art and Design. While she is working to achieve her own credits, she found another love for teaching and helping others reach their own dreams. She is more than thrilled to be a part of the BPA family and to help it expand and flourish in Savannah, GA.
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Rose Messenger
Rose Messenger is a twenty-two year old singer, actor, writer, and teaching artist. Originally from New Brunswick, Canada, Rose is newly based in New York City after graduating from the BFA Musical Theatre program at The University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music (CCM). She continues to perform and share her love of theatre through education in both the United States and Canada, and is thrilled to be joining the BPA team! Rose prides herself on creating the same fun, positive, and accepting atmosphere that was created for her as a young theatre student.
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Hannah V. Boyens
Hannah V. Boyens moved from Spencer, Iowa to New York City in 2022 to pursue the arts of film, music and theatre. Before this she attendended Oklahoma City University and obtained a BFA in film production and wrote and directed several short films and plays, she also has a BA in Music and has performed in operas, short films, musicals, and plays. Hannah is grateful to be joining Bloom, as she believes helping others create art is one of the most wonderful experiences in the world.
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Janine Mills
Born and raised in Northern Vermont, Janine has spent the majority of her adult life in NY. Favorite theater credits include Annie in Round and Round the Garden (Dragonfly Multicultural Arts, NJ), Prudence in Beyond Therapy (Charles Stewart Howard Playhouse, LA), Wanda in The Baby Dance (Phantom Theater, VT), and Sarah in Time Stands Still (Players Theatre, NYC). She has acted in several independent films and numerous Columbia University Theater and Film MFA student projects. She received training at Grace Kiley Acting, Stella Adler, AMAW, John Rosenfeld Studios, and Groundlings. Janine participated in the Gaga Intensive with the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv and the Juilliard Extension Division 2023 Summer Drama Intensive. She couldn’t be happier to join the Bloom team and—having been blessed with extraordinary teachers in acting, singing and dance throughout her life—is delighted to now encourage her own students toward the most truthful expressions of themselves.
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Maya Bracha
Maya is originally from Israel and moved to NYC to study acting. She graduated from the two year conservatory program at the Stella Adler studio. She directed a solo show called “The Living Room”. With enthusiasm about storytelling and personal growth, she is excited to share the magic with bloom performing arts.
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Brianna Roberts
Brianna Roberts, a native of Greensboro, NC, has dedicated 14 years to honing her craft as an actress. She recently earned her BFA in Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design. Outside of acting, Brianna is a passionate writer who enjoys spending quality time with her family and being a foodie.
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Sanai Johnson
Sanai Johnson recently earned her BFA in Professional Theatre in her hometown in North Carolina. She gained her love for the arts when she started dancing at the age of 6. Now she loves exploring other ways to express her emotions through acting, poetry, art. If she’s not in the studio then you can find her somewhere out in nature soaking in the sun!
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John Viggiano
John Viggiano is an actor, writer, and director currently based in New York City. He grew up in the suburbs of Austin, TX where he started performing at a young age at ZACH Theater. He attended Rider University, where he earned his BFA in Musical Theatre, graduating in May 2022. During his time at Rider, he performed in Hair, Pete (Her) Pan, Elegies, as well as several cabarets and the staged workshop of HIde and Seek. He also directed, choreographed, music directed, and consulted on over 15 cabarets and student productions during his four years there. Since graduation he has performed at MTWichita (42nd Street, Kinky Boots, The Wizard of Oz, The Drowsy Chaperone, Live Holiday Special), workshopped for Signature Theatre (Private Jones), performed dueling pianos for RWS Entertainment aboard the MSC Seashore, and directed and written for the non-profit arts organization, Broadway Dreams.
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Giovanna Dalla
Giovanna Dalla Vecchia is a NY-based storyteller originally from Brazil who believes in art as an instrument to a healthier life. An honors graduate from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama and a minor in Creative Writing, where she completed her Primary and Advanced Training in Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Giovanna recently published her first bilingual poetry book titled "O Meu Amor é um Pé de Amora." [My Love is a Blackberry Tree], a recollection of her childhood and journey to self. Her work tends to revolve around the belief that we all have a garden inside us worthy of care and blossoming. With that, Giovanna is delighted to join the Bloom team and deepen her craft as a teaching artist. You can find her at floresereis.com or on Instagram @floresereis or most probably underneath a blackberry tree.
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Olivia E. Hardy
Originally from Southern New Jersey, Olivia is a Broadway performer and musical artist based in Brooklyn, NYC! Additionally, she has worked extensively with programs like the International Thespian Society and Broadway Cares to bring theatre education to students across the country. She is super excited to be joining Bloom this semester!
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Nicole Wheeler
I am an actress from the Southeast Region who is excited to be living the dream here in New York! Acting has been a lifelong love of mine ever since I first got on stage at age 11 to play one of the tassels on the magic carpet in Aladdin Jr. (I've come a long way since then), moving more to the film side of the business you can catch me on Lifetime, The Roku Channel, and keep an eye out for me on Peacock in the New Year!
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Emma Chart
Originally hailing from a small mountain town in rural British Columbia, Canada, Emma moved to New York to pursue acting in 2016! She discovered a deep passion for teaching through supporting theater and improv workshops with the Stella Adler Arts Justice Outreach program. They have worked with youth through to seniors and believe in the power of intergenerational community building and healing through art-making, and the need for sharing our unique voices with the world. Emma enjoys creating accessible, whimsical, and out-of-the-box theater experiences with her students. She has had the joy of teaching with Eryc Taylor Dance Outreach, Child’s Play New York, Stella Adler Arts Justice, and Playground Opera.
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Becca George
Becca George is from Silicon Valley, California, and initially fell in love with acting at around 10 years old during a summer camp drama activity. She's been in many dance programs throughout her life and has always loved the expression she gets through artistic movement. In high school, she was a choreographer for the dance team, as well as a regular performer in her theater program. She came to Savannah in 2018 for SCAD, where she majored in Performing Arts with a double minor in Dance and Illustration. She's been working with St. Andrew's School since graduating, as she loves childcare and being able to connect with the next generations. She's very excited to be able to do that through the teaching of Bloom Performing Arts as well now.
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Scenarious Thurmond
Scenarious Thurmond is a multidisciplinary Artist. She received her BA in Sociology at Georgia State University and is a recent graduate of Columbia University's MFA in Acting Program. She has taught theatre to students virtually, in person and even abroad in
Dominican Republic. She likes to create art that is inspiring, contrary, and silly.
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Emerson Helmbrecht
Hailing from beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia, Emerson is a Brooklyn-based actor, director, and teaching artist who uses joy as his creative engine to share and celebrate the good, the true, and the beautiful. Emerson has studied acting at New York’s premiere studios (NYU The MSNR Studio, The Atlantic Acting School, The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting), acted in many of Shakespeare’s plays (Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, The Winter’s Tale, Henry V, Henry VI Part 3), and currently apprentices as a teaching artist with Suzy PetchEam, Field Programs Director at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting’s Arts Justice Division, an organization which brings Theatre to community centers, schools, rehabilitation facilities and the Department of Corrections.
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Belle Le
Belle Lê is a Vietnamese-American artist based in NYC. She attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and received a BFA in acting. She was raised in San Jose, California, where she was introduced to the magic of the arts and theater. She can’t wait to spread that magic with Bloom Performing Arts!
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Grant Sparr
Grant Sparr (he/him) is a 23-year-old actor, musician, and producer from Bel Air, Maryland. He has been working and auditioning regularly since moving to New York from Tampa, FL, two years ago. Recently, he took part in the world premiere of Winning is Winning (Hoi Polloi, dir. Alec Duffy). Since August, him and his good friend Meg Gallo have been producing cabarets under their production company, Uh Umm Productions. When not doing theatre, he can be found making use of his AMC Stubs membership or reading a book. Website: grantsparr.com
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Fabi Vargas
Fabi Vargas is a Peruvian actor, singer, and aerial dancer based in New York City. Born and raised in Lima, she has a deep connection with the beach, road trips and the vast Peruvian gastronomy, especially desserts. With years of experience in her hometown, she decided to move to NY in 2023 and continue her training at Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where she is a proud graduate. Fabi is also an English as a second language teacher, where she has helped both children and adults overcome their fear of speaking English and learn through play for over five years.