The Addison Repertory Theatre at the Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury is Vermont's sole active Career and Technical Education Performing Arts program. The two-year program allows students to choose a concentration in either Technical Theatre or Performance; as it is the only program of its sort in the state, students from any Vermont school many access the program. 

Founded in 1994, many A.R.T. graduates have gone on to successful careers in the arts. Recently, A.R.T. alum and Emmy-nominated actor Jake Lacy gave the program a shout-out in an interview with the Wall Street Journal: he considered dropping out of school in the 10th grade. But then he fell in love with acting as a teenager, enrolling at the Hannaford Career Center’s Addison Repertory Theater in Middlebury, Vt. The vocational program’s teachers Candace Burkle and Steve Small gave him the confidence to pursue the arts as a career, and kept him from “continuing down a path that would’ve been destructive and of no use to the world,” he said.

I am proud to continue the program, which I took over when founder Steve Small retired in 2018. Some of my students have gone on to study at such schools as Emerson, Ithaca, Princeton, Wagner, The New School, Carnegie Mellon, Syracuse, Sarah Lawrence, Bishop's, and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. 

In recent years, I have been able to introduce new opportunities for students such as credit at the Community College of Vermont (students can earn 3 credits in ENG1070 Effective Speaking), membership in the International Thespian Society Troupe 11930, and membership in the United States Institute of Theatre Technology's student chapter.