The Storefront Studio

The world may be a stage, and all the men and women merely players, but at The Storefront Studio, participants are more than just players; they come alive on stage in song and dance. “This is about real musical theatre, which is about finding the music in theatre and the theatre in music,” says the acting studio's co-founder and artistic director, Gerald Isaac. An alumnus of the National Theatre School of Canada, Gerald is an experienced teacher and mentor, having directed and acted as a vocal coach, and given master classes for the Ryerson Theatre School, the Stratford Festival and the Canadian College of Performing Arts, to name a few.

Gerald also brings his vast professional on-stage experience to students of all ages and abilities at The Storefront Studio. Along with his wife, Shea Isaac, he provides group and individual classes in performing arts training in voice (spoken and sung), drama, improv and movement. “When each student starts with us, we give them a studio journal and have them write this quote on the first page: ‘Luck is when preparation meets opportunity,’" says Gerald. “We prepare them for when opportunity strikes. Every one of our students, old and young, can repeat this quote.”