Laura Gouin is the owner and director at Center Stage Academy of Performing Arts. She holds a Masters Indiana Teacher License and a Masters in Directing with over ten years of teaching experience. She has directed and acted for the last fifteen years and her works have been seen on the community and university stages as well as in Chicago and New York. She is also actively involved in local and regional theatre and works as the Artistic Director of New World Arts in Goshen. Her students have gone on to successful careers in the arts and many have received scholarships to pursue artistic development at the university level.