Children, Youth & Families

Brian Hampton, Director of CYF
Brian is very excited to be returning to the role of Director of CYF. Previously, Brian has served in this position as well as the director of the 20’s and 30’s group, Youth Group leader, the producer of six seasons of the Marble new play festival “The Puzzle” and more. Other experiences include the Director of Operations at Treasure Trunk Theatre, working with the Marquee Events department at Universal Studios Hollywood, and as a creative writing teacher for both kids and adults. As a writer, he’s written original sketches and plays for numerous Marble Homecoming shows as well as the CYF Christmas plays, “The Christmas Angel Auditions,” “Shepherd High,” “All the World Celebrates Christmas,” and “As If It Were Yesterday.” He’s also the playwright of the teen plays “Gossip” and “USERNAME” as well as “The Jungle Fun Room” and others. He loves to cook, watch great movies, hiking, and swimming. Brian is looking forward to a fun, exciting, and inspiring year with the kids, youth, and families!

Fred Meads, Director of Children’s and Youth Choirs
Fred is excited to be back again this year leading our children’s and youth choirs. He originally worked at Marble Church from 2009-12 and then returned in 2018. Fred lives in Lawrenceville, NJ and serves as Director of the Princeton Boychoir and Associate Director of the Princeton Girlchoir. Throughout his music career, he has worked with children and youth in various teaching and church positions in NC, IN, NJ and NY. Fred enjoys teaching our talented singers each week as they learn to express their faith through song.

Sarah Cheatham, Youth Director
Sarah is overjoyed to be joining the Marble family as the new Youth Director! Sarah is from North Carolina and grew up in the Presbyterian Church. She earned her BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch in 2016 and has been living and working in NYC ever since. Sarah is a teaching artist as well as an actor and voice over artist. Along with leading the Marble youth group, she also volunteers in the Children’s Ministry of Bethel CAN and at the Bowery Mission. Sarah loves to sing, play board games, eat southern food, travel, watch college basketball (Go Tar Heels!), and spend time with her wonderful friends and family. She is honored and humbled to join the youth on their faith journey and excited to grow and learn along with them through building community, serving others, and having fun!

Olivia St. Peter, Lead Teaching Artist, Pre-K through 1st Grades
Olivia is so excited to be joining the team at Marble! Olivia graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Musical Theatre in 2021 and moved to NYC shortly after where she began her acting and teaching artist journey. She has worked with Virginia Repertory Theatre and Treehouse Shakers, as well as a voice-over artist with NPR. Outside of theatre, Olivia can usually be found listening to Taylor Swift, buying too many plants, or watching Gilmore Girls!

Oanfa Quan, Lead Teacher 2nd - 4th Grades
“Miss Oanfa” is returning for the 2022-2023 Church School year! Her family has been a part of Marble since the ministry of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. However, the spiritual education of children has been where Miss Oanfa has answered the call to serve. She graduated from Pace University-NYC with a double Major in Political Science/Communications and a Business Minor. Her studies continued with a degree in Medical Massage Therapy from the Swedish Institute (NYC), but she is most proud of a recently completed 2-year program in Theological and Biblical Studies. Using this, as well as the artistic creations she is known for, Miss Oanfa looks forward to continuing learning, creating and growing in God’s love with her students!

Chris Vega, Lead Teacher, 5th and 6th Grades
Chris is looking forward to returning for another year with the CYF team. A native New Yorker originally from the Bronx, he has been a Marble member for thirteen years. Chris is a chemical engineer by background with an MBA in finance and a Masters of Divinity from New York Theological Seminary. He has been part of the CYF team for several years including chaperoning the youth mission trip to St. Thomas in 2020. During the week he manages the distribution and supply chain operations of a sugar refinery in Yonkers. Chris uses the graphic novel and comic book medium to teach his students biblical stories and Christian tradition. In his spare time he enjoys reading speculative fiction, weight lifting and boxing.

Kenya Powell, Teaching Artist / Child Care Provider
Kenya is very excited to be returning to Marble’s CYF and to be with her extended church family after such a long time apart due to the pandemic. Kenya’s love for kids is so great that not only is she around them for her full-time job (with the NYC public school system) but she loves Sundays at Marble with the CYF as well. In her spare time, Kenya loves reading, shopping, and hanging out with her two kids as much as possible. We are thrilled to have Kenya back in the CYF this year!

Kevin Loreque, Teaching Artist, 5th and 6th Grades
Kevin has been in the performing arts since he was four years old and knows how it can help shape young people’s lives in positive ways. He has been in over 100 different theatre productions, from Broadway tours to regional theaters, has coached and helped actors and young artists for years, and lately has been doing more television and film. Kevin is grateful to be back at Marble Collegiate Church, thanks to Brian Hampton, where he’s had the pleasure of performing in a few different plays. And now he’s thrilled to be working with and teaching a new generation of young artists.

Siobhan Stevenson, Teaching Artist, Pre-K through 1st Grades
Siobhan is very excited to join Marble’s CYF for her first year! A Bay Area native, she graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and has been in New York ever since. Since graduating, she has split her time between a career in hospitality and acting and directing with Bizarre Noir Theatre Company (her New York theatre family with whom she’s been delighted to work for the last 10 years). Outside of teaching, theatre, and work, you can most often find her at the beach as often as the weather permits and hanging out with her pit-lab mix who doesn’t know he’s too big to be a lap dog, Buddy.