Helping productions create safe, compliant, education-focused experiences for child performers.
Studio Teacher • Child Welfare Compliance • Production Consulting
Meet Joy Brutus, MAT
Joy Brutus is a certified Illinois educator, Studio Teacher, and Child Welfare Compliance Specialist with more than 27 years of experience in education and extensive experience across television, film, streaming productions, commercials, and theatre.
As an IATSE Local 476 member, Joy partners with production teams, Assistant Directors, UPMs, parents, guardians, schools, and young performers to support educational continuity, child welfare, and compliance with Illinois child labor requirements.
Her approach is calm, collaborative, child-centered, and production-minded.
Because successful work with minors requires more than compliance—it requires preparation, collaboration, and care.
Services for Productions Working With Minors
Studio Teacher + Welfare Worker
On-set educational continuity and child welfare support for minors working in film, television, commercials, and production.
Preproduction Child Welfare & Compliance Consulting
Early planning and compliance guidance to help productions prepare for the educational, scheduling, documentation, and welfare needs of child performers.
Production Support + Training
Practical guidance and training for production teams working with minors—from preparation and communication through child-welfare compliance.
Mobile Classroom + Kit Options
Every production is different, and every young performer is too.
Kit rates are per production day.
Essential classroom supplies with a limited selection of age-appropriate instructional and recreational resources.
Expanded mobile classroom support with additional academic materials, creative resources, educational games, puzzles, and enrichment activities tailored to the minor.
Comprehensive mobile classroom support with expanded instructional resources, specialty enrichment, interactive activities, and additional indoor/outdoor recreation when appropriate.
Planning a Production With Minors?
Let’s make sure your team is prepared before the first child performer arrives.
Studio Schoolhouse™ provides studio teaching, child welfare compliance, preproduction planning, and production support for projects working with minors. Book Joy Brutus, MAT, for experienced, child-centered guidance that helps productions stay prepared, compliant, and focused on the needs of young performers.