Madeline Dempster, Director of the American Theater Dance Workshop
My two passions have always been education and the performing arts. Growing
up in Queens, fifteen minutes by subway to New York City, my parents took
me to all the Broadway shows. I studied dance at Charlie Lowe’s studio,
a school in Manhattan where many professional children learned not only
ballet, tap and jazz,
but singing, acting and performing
skills that I remember
to this day.
Moving to Long Island at the age of ten, my high school years were dominated
by my love for English literature, singing in our A Cappella choir and performing
in any play I could get a part in. Two of my fellow choir members and I
formed a singing group called The Melodears, and we had a top
forty record.
