Kim Galway, LCAT, RDT-BCT is a registered drama therapist,  theatre educator, and licensed creative arts therapist with over 15 years of experience. She is committted to developing children's strengths and potential through creativity. She has taught creative drama, acting, and scene study to children and teens (most recently, she taught at WHBPAC) and maintains a private practice in drama therapy. Kim holds a BFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied technique through the Lee Strasberg Institute and NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing.  She has acted off-Broadway, and in film and television. Kim also holds an MA in drama therapy from NYU, and was the director of  Goddard Riverside Community Center's outpatient psychiatric rehabilitation program from 1997-2002. She taught drama therapy and developmental psychology at the New School University and has lectured at conferences and schools across the country. She is the former Chair of the New York Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies, and a published author of several articles and chapters. Her most recent chapter on drama therapy for children with high functioning autism, PDD-NOS and Asperger's was released in October 2009, in the book The Creative Therapies and Autism (Charles C.Thomas). Kim is also the mother of three young children.

John Batterman's  performance career started early as the featured singer at McGill Hall in Jamaica for the annual Christmas benefit show for the blind. Later, he studied at the American Academy of Drama Arts in an intensive summer program and was subsequently invited back as a full time student.  John has extensive directing experience, most notably with the St. John's Players of Elmont, NY where he directed Plaza Suite, Death of a Salesman, On Golden Pond, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?  He has acted in a number of shows including All My Sons, Don't Drink the Water, I Never Sang for My Father,  Of Mice and Men,  The Dining room, Harvey,  Wait Until Dark, Arsenic and Old Lace and as Jesus in Godspell.   John lives on the North Fork and, in addition to teaching theatre skills, works as a counselor at Eastern Long Island Hospital.