Keara Hailey Gordon is the Director and Co-Founder of Practically Dramatic and leads Music Together® programs in Metuchen, South Orange, Maplewood, and Millburn. With over 20 years of experience as a Music Together® instructor, Keara brings a lifelong passion for the performing arts and arts education to her work. She is a seasoned performer with more than 35 years in the industry as a member of Actor’s Equity and SAG. Keara is a New Jersey-certified Theatre educator (K–12) with a Master’s degree in Theatre Studies from Montclair State University. She is dedicated to inspiring creativity, confidence, and connection in every child and family she works with.

Becki Tarby is a seasoned public school Vocal and General Music Educator with experience teaching PreK through 5th graders. She holds a BM and MEd in Music Education from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. As an Orff-Shulwerk certified educator, Becki is passionate about helping musicians of all ages create their own music and take ownership of the music they share and perform. 

Aja is a passionate educator with over two decades of teaching experience specializing in early childhood special and general education. Her career has been defined by her commitment to creating environments where children can learn, grow, and thrive. She integrates her love for music, movement, into her teaching, using innovative strategies to deepen student engagement and understanding.

Her expertise in social-emotional learning (SEL) and educational leadership has made her a trusted mentor and coach to both students and fellow educators. Aja’s experience working with preschool and kindergarten inclusion classes focused on individualized instruction and community collaboration.

Aja holds a Master's degree in Special Education from The George Washington University and a Bachelor's degree in Human Development from Howard University. 

Aimee Willis holds a BA from UCLA and a MM from Northwestern. Her operatic career started at the young age of 22 when, directly out of college, she became a leading soprano at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Berlin Opera) in Berlin, Germany. She has performed with famous conductors all over the world, including Giuseppe Sinopoli, Jiri Kout, Richard Buckley, Carlo Rizzi, Christopher Keene and Fred Scott. In her concert work, she was fortunate to be included in Guiseppe Sinopoli’s first Carmen with Agnes Baltsa, accompanied by the Danish Radio Orchestra and broadcast in Copenhagen, which she then reprised in Berlin with Baltsa, Neil Shicoff and Denyce Graves.

Also under the baton of Sinopoli at the Santa Cecilia in Rome, Aimee performed Parsifal with Waltraut Meier and Rene Kollo. At the Interlaken Festival in Switzerland, Ms. Willis sang selections  from Porgy and Bess with one of the great portrayers of Porgy, Simon Estes. In addition, Aimee sang numerous performances at the Berlin Philharmonic, including Bach’s B Minor Mass and St. Matthews’ Passion.

Since returning to America, Aimee is creating a buzz with her critically acclaimed portrayals of Salome (Atlanta Opera), Tosca (Opera Fort Worth), Leonore (Fidelio: Atlanta Opera), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin: in Russian with the Hawaii Opera and Atlanta Opera) The Countess (The Marriage Of Figaro: Hawaii Opera), Amelia (Un Ballo in Maschera: Arizona Opera), and Elisabetta (Don Carlo: Arizona Opera) to name a few.