About Us
We Strive to provide an engaging, safe and creative envoironment for students by offering exciting experiences in musical theatre and drama productions. Our goal is to inspire and strengthen self-confidence, individual expression, and theatre performance skills, while also developing life-long values, teamwork, and the love of performing live theatre for comunity. The Acting Troupe of Lambert is designed to hone the vocal, acting and dance skills set of students who have the desire, discipline, and passion for performing. We strive to saturate our students in all aspects of the theatre, allowing them to gain experience with:
- Acting Techniques
- Blocking
- Vocal Techniques
- Choreography
- Ensemble Building
- Character Analysis & Development
- Stage Management, Lighting Design
- Costume Design, Sound Design
- Set Design & Construction
- Direction
In order to provide this saturation and in order to provide as many opportunities that we do, our performances are class-based. Students wanting to participate in performances of our main-stage show must audition for class placement, and then once in the class, they will audition for specific roles in the class show. Our Tech theatre class will also work on every show in class as well as portfolio projects and craft skills and are required to participate as a crew member in one show during the year. Our introduction acting class is our only class that does not require after school rehearsals or have a guaranteed performance opportunity – it is a great class for the theatre curious student who may have a full plate of other commitments but still wants to have the fun, exploration, and collaboration of the theatre experience. We encourage our students to create and participate in student run performances either through the ATL club or Improv and hope to facilitate these opportunities as we continue to evolve our program.
ATL is a diverse, inclusive, and equitable program committed to a nondiscriminatory approach and provide equal opportunity for all students. We cultivate a positive family atmoshpere and a place for students to be themselves.
Who’s Who – Our Teachers
Sabrina Lloyd
(Theatre Director, Tech I, II, III, Acting, Advanced Acting, Advanced Musical Theatre, Competition Musical Theatre, Thespian Troupe Director)
Sabrina was born in Silver Springs, MD but swiftly moved west to Colorado, then Northern California, South West Florida, Chicago, IL, Bloomington, IN, Los Angeles, CA and now Sugar Hill, GA. She received her BFA in acting from Florida State University and her MFA in Directing from Indiana University which had a focus on both professional directing as well pedagogy and where she taught acting as part of her assistantship. While in Chicago, she co-founded and was the Artistic Director of GroundUp Theatre, a federal non-profit, that ran a 2 to 4 show season – including an annual free Shakespeare in the park partnership with the Chicago City Parks district, and an annual anti-Valentine’s cabaret based on real love(and break up) letter which had a critically acclaimed 12 year run in Chicago and 2 years in LA at IO West and other venues.
While in LA, she was a decades-long member of the acclaimed Sacred Fools Theater Company. She has worked as a Casting Assistant both commercially and theatrically, as well as an independent Casting Director. Prior to joining Lambert, she worked as a Script Coverage Analyst for STX and as a freelance director and acting coach. Her family includes her partner David (who has written for the Star Wars and Transformers franchises) and her son Adam who has so many ambitions he wants to build a mall so all of his jobs can be housed in one place. She also has two old cats and a Betta named Fred.
Ryan Wason
(Music Director, Advanced Musical Theatre, Competition Musical Theatre)
Ryan Wason, father to spirited daughters Ella and Daphne and partner to Kate, is the Director of Chorus at Lambert High School in Forsyth County. Born in northeastern Ohio, Wason earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Heidelberg College (OH) in 2003. Wason spent 7 years teaching in the Tiffin (OH) Catholic Schools and Aurora (OH) City Schools, teaching music at all grade levels K-12. In 2010, Mr. Wason moved to Forsyth County to take his current position at Lambert High School. During the course of his career, in addition to his responsibilities as Chorus Director, Mr. Wason has taught Acting, Advanced Drama, Musical Theatre, Technical Theatre, Music Theory and AP Music Theory, and Orchestra courses.
Choruses under Wason’s direction have consistently received Excellent and Superior ratings in performance and sight reading at Large Group Performance Evaluations in Ohio and Georgia. Adjudicators have consistently praised the Lambert Choruses for their beautiful tone, expressive singing, attention to detail, and professional performances. As one sight reading adjudicator said, “Wow! A result of excellent teaching and willing, enthusiastic students. Hard work in music is so worth it!… Speechless – simply speechless! You made my day!” Students who participate in Chorus at Lambert have received opportunities to perform regionally and internationally, including performances at the Candlelight Processional and Festival Disney experiences in Orlando, FL, and invited performances in London, England and Rome, Italy. Mr. Wason has consistently developed students who participate in GMEA District and All State Choruses, Governor’s Honors Program, and GHSA Literary Competition.
As Music Director for the Acting Troupe of Lambert, Mr. Wason has had a hand in the development of student performers and the program. Since 2010, the ATL has produced musicals for the GHSA Region One Act Play competition 10 times and has received 5 2nd place finishes and 4 Region Championships (2012, 2018, 2019, 2022). The ATL won the 7A State One Act Play Championships for their productions of Fiddler on the Roof (2018) and She Loves Me (2019) and Tuck Everlasting (2022). Mr. Wason has been recognized by the Shuler Hensley Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards 5 times, most recently including a nomination for Music Direction for the 2019 production of Newsies and Honorable Mention for the 2022 production of The SpongeBob Musical.
A three-time finalist for Teacher of the Year at Lambert (2013, 2016, 2022), Wason recently collaborated with choral music educators at the county and state level to review choral music education literacy standards and curriculum. In addition to this work, Wason is consistently included in various Choral and Musical Theatre curriculum development opportunities. As a choral performer, Mr. Wason enjoys performing with the Orpheus Men’s Ensemble, composed of choral music professionals from North Georgia. During the past 8 years, Wason has performed with and conducted this incredible ensemble, including performing at the 2019 Georgia Music Educators In-Service Conference and the 2021 American Choral Directors Association Southern Regional Conference in Raleigh, NC.
Emily McMullan
(Technical Director, Theatre Tech I, II, III)
Born in Conyers, GA, Emily spent her formative years right here in Suwanee GA. She was in the first 8th grade class of Riverwatch Middle School and graduated from South Forsyth High School right down the road. There was a brief existence in Natchitoches Louisiana, but it was too humid to remember.
Once Emily left the war eagle nest, she landed at Georgia College and State University. There she earned a Bachelors of Arts in Theatre, specializing in technical theatre while also earning the right to say she worked props for Honey Boo Boo during two years of its time on air. While at GCSU, she also earned her Bachelors of Science in Mathematics with a concentration in teaching. Upon her graduation, she presented a study that focused on blending the Kinesthetic practices of Theatre into the Mathematics classroom in order to alleviate math anxiety in children. During her time at GCSU, she was the head of the Props Department for three years, Props Master for Anything Goes, while also spending time board operator, stage managing, costume making, and set building for shows over the years. Her greatest fun was being chosen for a T.A. position in StageCraft and managing the off-site set building shop during her later years at the college.
In 2017 McMullan began her career of teaching in Savannah, GA at Woodville Tompkins Technical and Career High School. This was a school with no fine arts program within its walls. No arts class, music, chorus, or theatre. There she focused on helping her students gain confidence in their math skills while assisting her husband as he was a band director at a neighboring school. While teaching in Savannah, Emily enrolled into Georgia Southern University and earned her Masters of Arts in Teaching. During her years in Savannah, Emily spent time acting with the Richmond Hill Community Theatre.
In 2021, McMullan and her family moved up to Canton GA and began her work at Lambert. It’s certainly an experience to teacher her Mother’s former students, as some have been taught by Mrs. Mary Harper who taught at Sharon Elementary for 13 years. There were three long years of Miss M complaining about her hour long drive, and now she can happily say that her family of her husband John and her hoard of pets have happily settled 25 minutes away. 2024 marks Emily’s second year in experiencing the joy in working in the theater once more.
Questions: email us at atlboosterclub@gmail.com
