Santa Jeaux returns to NLSA with a follow-up to his popular “Art of Storytelling” class. Santa Jeaux’s April session will provide a more intensive 3-part class designed to help students create and/or expand their own storytelling skills by working with ideas for their character’s development and personal background story. Whether you are brand new Santa or a well seasoned entertainer, your performance can be improved, and the feelings of your heart better felt by others, through the enhancement of your own performance skills. So plan on being involved as you learn something that you can, with a little practice, use in your portrayals during the Christmas season. Santa Jeaux will draw upon all of his years of knowledge and experience in the performance arts to present a fun, informative and interactive class!

We are proud to announce that Santa Gordon Pugh will be a Guest Speaker at our April session to discuss “Santa and/or Mrs. Claus Visits to Chronically/Terminally Ill Children. Gordon made his first appearance as Santa over 30 years ago at a local mall in the Birmingham area. Since then, he has worked regularly with sick, injured and chronically ill children, both as Santa, and in his professional career as a counselor, therapist, and as Chaplain of Children’s Hospital of Alabama, where he has worked since 1999. A seasoned public speaker, Gordon has regularly presented at the Association of Professional Chaplains Conference, the Pediatric Chaplains Network Annual Forum, the Alabama Chaplains Association, as well as various universities, hospitals and hospice facilities.  Gordon is looking forward to offering his unique perspective, as both a Santa and a professional in the children’s healthcare industry, so that we may provide the most meaningful Santa experience possible to ill children and their families.