Tim McCarty

Founder and President
Mr. McCarty is the founder and president of Quest: arts for everyone, a not for profit company committed to using the arts to promote understanding among all peoples, to promote excellence in schools and in the work place, and to enable people who have been marginalized to achieve their full potential. 

For 21 years, Mr. McCarty worked in a variety of positions at Gallaudet University's Model Secondary School for the Deaf.  For the last eight years, he served as the Artistic Director for the school’s internationally acclaimed Performing Arts Program.  In 1993, Mr. McCarty was honored as a White House Presidential Scholar Outstanding Teacher.  His students have won national acting and playwriting competitions.  They have performed or worked on such films as Mr. Holland's Opus, Natural Born Killers, Plainclothes, and Children of a Lesser God.  His students have also guest starred in a wide variety of television shows including Breaking Ground, Reasonable Doubts, Quantum Leap, Beauty and the Beast, and Cagney and Lacey.  Mr. McCarty's students have gone on to study theatre and dance at such prestigious institutions as New York University's Tisch School of Drama, State University of New York at Purchase, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. 

Mr. McCarty’s work has carried him to schools, theatres, festivals, and conventions across the United States and throughout the world.  He has produced, directed, and participated in tours to Japan, Russia, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Romania.  He is the author of four plays and has regularly written articles and columns about arts and arts education for nationally distributed publications.