Judy Winegard

Judy Winegard was classically trained in the performing arts at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan, New York, as well as, at Ithaca College where she was awarded her BFA in Drama. On tour with a Broadway-bound production of Jekyll and Hyde when she began her return to Yiddishkeit, Judy left her blossoming career in show business for a more promising career as a Jewish wife and mother. Since then she has been a master acting teacher and performance coach for Kol Neshama, a Jewish Girls Conservatory for the Arts and has directed the Emek Theater Program for girls, as well as being an assistant teacher for grades K-8 and was the Performance Director at Yeshiva Ohr Eliyahu in Los Angeles.