WEDNESDAY FACULTY

  • Darius Wright, OCU MT class of 2014, is an actor, real estate agent, and writer based in New York City. Broadway: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS; BACK TO THE FUTURE; NEW YORK, NEW YORK; MJ; PRETTY WOMAN; A BRONX TALE. Tour: MATILDA. Regional: KING JAMES, COME FROM AWAY. TV: “FBI”,“Katy Keene”

  • Sara Edwards is a New York City-based director and choreographer who over the past 10 years has excelled as a collaborator on new works and revivals on Broadway and national tours with Broadway’s top creatives. 

    For Broadway 2026, Sara  will direct and choreograph a new musical revue, Let The Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo conceived by Jack Viertel and music supervised by Sonny Paladino.  

    Other Broadway credits: Pirates! The Penzance Musical with Jinkx Monsoon and David Hyde Pierce, Barry Manilow’s Harmony, Hugh Jackman in The Music Man, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and David Hyde Pierce in Hello Dolly! (NYC and restaged for tour), After Midnight with Fantasia, Patti LaBelle, and KD Lang (Tony award for best choreography), as well as the Radio City Rockettes Spring Spectacular, New York City Ballet, Tony Awards, PBS Great Performances, Secret Garden at the Ahmanson, The Sting with Harry Connick Jr at Papermill, five NY City Center Encores! productions, and Hugh Jackman’s Arena World Tour. She has enjoyed many regional spaces as director and choreographer throughout the country, creating productions including Ragtime, The Music Man,  Anything Goes, White Christmas, Tick Tick Boom!, Grease! 

    Sara also creates for RWS Global for Azamara International Cruise Lines and the Medora Musical in North Dakota.  Sara loves teaching student and professional workshops and creating one of a kind performances pieces for benefit concerts for Bette Midler’s Hulaween and Bernadette Peters' Broadway Barks.

    As a performer, Sara has appeared on Broadway in She Loves Me, Follies, Chaplin, and White Christmas and in regional theaters across the country, from LaJolla Playhouse to North Shore Music Theater in Boston. She got her start in Hershey, PA, is a proud graduate of Oklahoma City University, and she and her wonderful husband raise two lego obsessed boys on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. @Sara_cathleen 

  • Alicia Albright is a NYC based Broadway performing artist, dancer, singer, actor,  choreographer, creator, avid traveller and dance/yoga/meditation and empowerment teacher.  Some of her credits include: Broadway - Disney's Frozen the Musical( OBC/Swing), Wicked (Dance Captain/Swing). Touring/ Regional -  Wicked, Frozen, Barnum, A Chorus Line, Jesus Christ Superstar, All Shook Up, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.   She has also toured the US and globally teaching as well as performing with dance companies such as Donald McKayle's Etude Ensemble and has worked as a featured performer and Associate Choreographer at Transcendence Theatre Company. Her passion is to infuse everything she does with deep love and create a safe space for growth, connection, courage, creativity, possibility and love for all people that she works with. 

    @alciaalbright

  • Paige Faure is a performer, teacher and director/choreographer based in NYC/NJ. She has been in seven Broadway shows, most recently “Old Friends” starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga, as well as “Miss Saigon”, “A Beautiful Noise”, “Company”, “How To Succeed…”, “Bullets Over Broadway” and “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella” in which she starred as the title role. She’s toured with 5 other Broadway shows and been a part of the creation of dozens more, being on the development teams for shows like “Tuck Everlasting”, “Sweeney Todd” and “Beetlejuice”. She was the choreographer for the smash hit “Jersey Boys” at The Rev theatre and will be choreographing “Carousel” for them later this year. Paige was the associate director of “Frozen” at Papermill Playhouse this winter, and assisted staging the current National Tour of “A Beautiful Noise”. Paige has a passion for teaching artists of all ages - not just how to be grand performers, but how also to be great company members, kind collaborators, and how to use simple tools for inner and outer well-being.