Nicholas Garr (CTP’s Founder, Executive Director and Drama Coordinator) is an actor, writer and director working in film, television and stage. While continuing to teach and perform, Nick has served as an Registered Nurse for 15 years, and as a critical care nurse during the Covid epidemic. He has performed on Broadway, at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Radio City Music Hall, Le Chatlet in Paris, and the National Theatre at the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. Nick has also performed Off-Broadway and around the U.S. in productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll’s House, Godspell, Brigadoon, Orpheus Descending, West Side Story, and Jerome Robbins Broadway, as well as new plays Fast Food Voices and 100 Lives. His television credits include Law and Order, Dream On, Another World, and Loving; Nick has taught master classes for American Dance Machine for the 21st Century, and Steps on Broadway Conservatory.