Brady Amoonclark,
artistic director

Brady Amoonclark serves as Artistic Director for Children’s Shakespeare Theatre. Previous Directing credits with CST include: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure, Macbeth and Anouihl’s Antigone. Other directing experience includes The Wizard of Oz, Xanadu, and Mary Poppins with Helen Hayes Youth Theatre, Cinderella at Fieldstone Middle School, Closer at Nyack Village Theatre, and The Fantasticks off-off-Broadway. Shakespeare experience includes acting with the former Judith Shakespeare Company. Brady has acted, directed, stage-managed, run lights, created websites, dressed actors, and swept floors in all manner of theatrical productions ranging from community, scholastic, parochial, to regional, Off-Off and Off-Broadway settings.

Grey Johnson,
Managing Director

Grey has been an arts administrator for many years most notably as Director of Membership at American Ballet Theatre and WBGO Jazz88, Marketing Director at Crossroads Theatre and Managing Director at Boston Shakespeare Company. Artistically he has acted on stage and been responsible for directing over 100 professional productions in the New York and Boston metro areas. Grey has taught and directed young people in theatre for many decades at Boston Shakespeare Company, Boston Youth Theatre, Harvard Univesity, Billerica House of Correction, Daytop Drug Rehabilitation Program, Middlesex Community College, Pocantico Hills School, Plymouth State College, MIT and now at Children’s Shakespeare Theatre. 

Marco jo clate,
assistant director

Marco Jo is a screenwriter and theatre artist. She trained at NYU as an actress, then began creating her own work, which inspired a love for writing and directing. Her plays have been staged at Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC Fringe Festival, and more. She has worked with theater kids from elementary to high school as a choreographer, director, and teacher. Marco Jo assisted with CST’s Antigone, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night.

amy griffin,
assistant director

Amy Griffin is a professional director and actor who loves working with young people. Recent directing credits include: Aida, Tuck Everlasting, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, and the critically acclaimed production of Fun Home at White Plains Performing Arts Center;  The 39 Steps, Shout!, and The Taffetas (Depot Theatre); Closet Space and Oregon (Music Theatre of CT), and Blue’s Clues Live (Nickelodeon). As an actor, Amy has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in First National Tours, and in countless regional productions, including seven (!) flights as Peter Pan (Independent Theatre Award). Amy lives in Nyack with her fabulous husband and son, and is also a private acting coach. www.Amy-Griffin.com 

nina carbone,
office manager

Nina Carbone is an alumna of Children’s Shakespeare Theatre. They were a part of the company for 7 years, and performed in more than 20 productions with the theatre including lead roles in Henry V, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Queen Lear. They have taught at the CST Summer Sessions since 2019 and have been the company’s office manager since September 2022. Nina now lives in Rhode Island with their dog Comrade and studies psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and queer studies at Rhode Island College.