Carmen Lamar Daehler
(Junior School Director)
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www.carmenlamarcreative.com
Carmen is an actor, singer, children’s theatre director, and a proud member of the professional actor unions: SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Carmen has appeared in film and television and performed in NYC, regional, cabaret, and summer stock theatre. Her most recent performances include the one-woman show You're Gonna Hear from Me at the Laurie Beechman Theatre during the fall of 2017 with NP singing teacher Steven Silverstein (Musical Director) and NP acting teacher Mollie O'Mara (Director); and the role of Connie Francis in Francis Meets Francis at Symphony Space Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre. She was also in a new musical play, Glockcoma, which premiered at the New York Midtown International Theatre Festival & New York New Works Theatre Festival.
Coming from this rich and varied background in formal acting training and professional work in the industry, Theatre Education has become Carmen’s foremost passion. She has taught at Rutgers University, NYCDA, Texas Institute for Arts in Education; and has led Meisner acting workshops for youths in NYC as well as in St. John, USVI and Texas. Carmen directed musicals at NYC’s Clinton School for Writers and Artists. She also coaches teens privately and her students are represented at Frank Sinatra High School, PPAS; and LaGuardia (the ‘Fame’ school). Carmen studied with the renowned acting teacher Fred Kareman. She holds a BA in Communications and Theatre from Texas A&MCorpus Christi and a MA in Theatre from Hunter College.
Coming from this rich and varied background in formal acting training and professional work in the industry, Theatre Education has become Carmen’s foremost passion. She has taught at Rutgers University, NYCDA, Texas Institute for Arts in Education; and has led Meisner acting workshops for youths in NYC as well as in St. John, USVI and Texas. Carmen directed musicals at NYC’s Clinton School for Writers and Artists. She also coaches teens privately and her students are represented at Frank Sinatra High School, PPAS; and LaGuardia (the ‘Fame’ school). Carmen studied with the renowned acting teacher Fred Kareman. She holds a BA in Communications and Theatre from Texas A&MCorpus Christi and a MA in Theatre from Hunter College.
