Josh Lewis the Founder and Artistic Director of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective.
Prior to moving to Sleepy Hollow in 2017, he lived in New York City for three decades, where
he worked as an actor, director, writer, and educator with nuremous theater companies including
the Atlantic Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, Naked Angels, The 52nd Street Project, and was
an original cast member and co-writer of C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, which evolved into the Tony
Award winning 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

As a member of the comedy group, The Bert Fershners, Josh performed at theaters and clubs all
over New York, throughout the country, and at festivals around the world including HBO’s
Aspen Comedy Festival, Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The group also worked frequently with Comedy Central, creating and performing original
content for the channel.

Josh’s career as an author includes his children’s book series, Super Chicken Nugget Boy,
published by Disney/Hyperion.

In 2014, Josh co-created and served as co-artistic director for the Atlantic Acting School’s
Atlantic Farm Team - a producing branch of the Atlantic Acting School and Atlantic Theater
Company. In 2017, he created and served as artistic director for the Young Playwrights program
for Operation Exodus, an organization dedicated to mentoring Latino youth in Washington
Heights.

As an educator, Josh has taught for numerous institutions including NYU, the Yale School of
Drama, Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, the New York Film Academy, the New York City Public
School System, and the Atlantic Acting School, where he was on the faculty for fifteen years.
Since moving to the Hudson Valley, he has taught for the Hudson Valle

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Amy Witmer is the secretary of the Board of Directors of the Sleepy Hollow Arts Collective (SHAC). Amy co-founded SHAC's Sleepy Hollow Community Band in 2024. She is a trumpet player, as well as board member and music librarian with the Hudson Valley Wind Ensemble. Amy is on the Advisory Board of MusicWorks, which provides virtually free music lessons to Sleepy Hollow High School students in need. She was President and founding board member of the nonprofit early childhood program, Let’s Play! A Place for Families from 2015-2020. She is active with the local schools through the Performing Arts Boosters and the PTA. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Elizabethtown College. Amy lives in Sleepy Hollow with her husband, Michael, and their children, Emmett, Nora and Felix. 

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Giverny Petitmermet is an actor/director/producer/educator. She received her BFA in Acting with a minor in Art History from Boston University and studied theatre at both the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) and the British American Dramatics Academy (BADA). 

Giverny is the Artistic Director/Executive Producer of The New Collectives and Lead Teaching Artist for their education wing, The Young Collectives, where she has lead many Shakespeare camps. She is also a founding member of BREAD Arts Collective. Giverny taught art and drama at Transfiguration School in Tarrytown. She works with Theater O in Ossining and Children's Shakespeare Theatre in Nyack.