The Department of Theatre has trained theatre artists for about ninety years. Our alumni are visible in many areas - education, professional theatre, television, motion pictures, and production - to mention a few. If you are a Theatre alumna/alumnus, or participated in University Theatre, please share your news with us! You may e-mail to thetinfo@umd.edu or respond immediately by filling out our Alumni Information Form.

Joanna Howard (BA 2006) with Olympia Dukakis in Another Side of the Island at Alpine Theatre Project, August 2008.	Adam Shapiro (BA 2002) in an episode of TNT's The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick

ALUMNI UPDATES

• Amanda Coughlin (BA 2008) is currently working as an apprentice at Imagination Stage in Bethesda with a focus on education. She is doing everything from production crew to assisting and teaching in classes; she'll be working with various education outreach programs at Imagination Stage in the following year hoping to expand her teaching skills with early childhood and elementary school students. [10/08]
• Alison Daniels (BA 2008) is a scenic artist intern with Centerstage and was a production assistant/venue manager for the DC Fringe Festival this past summer. [10/08]
• Genna Davidson (BA 2008) is currently the Development Intern at Arena Stage. Genna has found a very different way to be involved in theater; instead of spending time in acting classes or auditioning for shows, she's involved in the rewarding work of getting artists the money they need to do their work. [10/08]
• Kristina Friedgen (BA 2008) is the assistant choreographer for Grease with the Musical Theatre Center and is currently attending massage therapy school. [12/08]
• Farah Lawal (BA 2008) currently is performing So Do You Love Me Yet?, her one-woman show directed by Leslie Felbain as part of the 2009 DC Fringe Festival. She recently had two poems published in an anthology Liberated Muse Volume I: How I Freed My Soul and performed in 3 spoken word/concert events to promote the book. Previously, she performed her poetry in "Women, Words and Power!" at the Playbill Café in Washington, D.C. She also recently performed in the Washington DC Source Festival in the 10-minute play directed by Karen Berman, How Much For This? and in The Saartjie Project , exploring the life and legacy of Saartjie (Sara) Baartman, at the DC Arts Center. [07/09]
• Jessica Wallace (BA 2008) designed two shows as part of the 2008 Capitol Fringe Festival (The Naked Party and Lebensraum). She is currently a first year graduate student at Temple University, pursuing an MFA in Lighting Design. Her first mainstage show at Temple will be The Caucasian Chalk Circle, being performed in March 2009. [10/08]
• Elizabeth Broder-Oldach (BA 2007) is a teaching artist and apprentice at Imagination Stage as well as a teaching artist it Young Playwrights Theatre. [10/08]
• Joanna Chilcoat (BA 2007) performed during October in Black Mother Funny by DC native and UM Alumna Lisa Horne-Morgan at Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Broadway and 95 th Street in NYC. [10/08]
• Cheng-Ming Chow (BA 2007) is an executive assistant at Studio Theatre. Appeared in 2007 in Babes in Toyland with the Washington Savoyards as a member of the ensemble. [10/08]
• David Fair (BA 2007) moved to Pittsburgh after graduation, where he began a career as an opera singer. He performed roles with Undercroft Opera and Opera Theater of Pillsburgh. In summer 2009, he traveled to Arkansas to perform three roles with Opera in the Ozarks: Peppe in Il Pagliacci, Mayor Upfold in Albert Herring and understudy for Des Grieux in Manon. [07/09]
• Tiffany Rydzy (BA 2007) is living in LA and now performing under the name of Juanita Chase. She has worked on the set of ABC's Brothers and Sisters. Selected appearances during 2008 include: performing in a dance show A Thrance Cabaret and with the Thrance Outlaw Style Theatre company, appeared with Cornerstone Theatre in Someday, and filmed a commercial for a Spanish network. [12/08]
• Tiffany Vega (BA 2007) recently directed and produced 21 by Mimi Lee at Nuyorican Cafe in NYC. She was accepted to Columbia University's Theatre Management and Producing MFA program and begins classes in Fall 2009. She is currently the Associate Producer and Stage Manager of the 2009 Ultimate Latina Theater Festival playing at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe from June 4th-14th in New York City. She is also working on featured productions in the Ultimate Latina Theater Festival by serving as the Co-Director and Co-Producer of the plays Please Hold and 21.[07/09]
• Chris Wilson (BA 2007) will be performing in Imagination Stage's Annual Gala fundraiser this October. After that, he has been cast as the White Rabbit in the world premiere of Alice at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. In the Spring, he will return to Imagination Stage for another world premiere, this time in a musical version of Heidi, where he will be playing Peter, the disgruntled goat herder. He previously was cast in the Washington DC premiere of a new musical version of The Jungle Book at Imagination Stage. He will be playing the role of Mowgli September 25-November 4. After that, he has been cast in The Second Shepherd's Play at Folger Theatre, playing the young shepherd Daw. In the spring, he will return to Imagination stage to play Noah in the world-premiere musical Looking for Roberto Clemente. [10/08]
• Brett Abelman (BA 2006) wrote a ten-minute play which was presented in Journeymen Theatre Ensemble's Fringe show Ball & Chain in July 2008. He is also writing a play for eXtreme eXchange's (extremeexchange.wordpress.com) Fringe one-off immediate-theatre show at Woolly Mammoth, directed by Gwen Grastorf (BA 2004) and featuring Stacy Wilson (BA 2006) and Ora Fruchter (BA 2007). Brett was a guest reviewer for the City Paper's Fringe & Purge blog and posted reviews over the course of the Fringe Festival. [10/08]
• Fran Bastien (BA 2006) is a stage management fellow with the Wilma Theatre and prop master for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. [10/08]
• Erin Baxter (BA 2006) has been working and traveling through Europe. She is currently serving in a stage managment position with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. [12/08]
• Roy S. Chesley II (BA 2006) recently performed in Suzan-Lori Parks's 365 Days/Plays at Morgan State University in Baltimore. [09/07]
• James Gardiner (BA 2006) is currently appearing as Babet in Les Miserables at Signature Theatre, where he was also seen in the Kander & Ebb Overtures Cabaret in June 2008. He wrote the book to a new musical Glory Days with partner Nick Blaemire (music and lyrics). The world premiere was featured as part of Signature Theatre's 2007-2008 Season in January and February 2008. This spring, he will appear as Gabriel/Prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman at Signature Theatre. [12/08]
• Louis Gephardt (BA 2006) accepted a position as a network administrator at Garrison Forest School in Owings Mills, MD. He is lighting designer and set construction supervisor for the Upper School Production of Play On! Louis made his operatic debut in the chorus of the Baltimore Concert Opera's inaugural performance of "Don Giovanni" at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion in Baltimore in March 2009 and will also perform in the chorus for their performance of "A Flight of Puccini" --a 3 act compilation from "La Bohem," "Tosca," and "Madame Butterfly" at the end of April 2009.[04/09]
• Elizabeth Gohlke (BA 2006) began working as a Media Relations intern at Arena Stage in Nov.2006. [11/06]
• Michael Grew (BA 2006) is appearing as Courfeyrac in Les Miserables at Signature Theatre. Previously, some of his appearance include: the premiere of Nest with Signature Theatre, The Brand New Kid, a world premiere work at the Kennedy Center, and in Charter Theatre's Short Order Stories at Arlington's Theatre On the Run. [12/08]
• Art Hall (BA 2006) worked as a principal actor on a horror film "Brood" that is set to hit the festival circuit later this year. He also gained re-occurring work on HBO's "The Wire," earning him entrance into the Screen Actors Guild. He is preparing to move to the LA area in October, to further pursue his career. [07/07]
• Joanna Howard (BA 2006) will be performing the role of "Miranda" opposite Olympia Dukakis in an adaptation of The Tempest at the Alpine Theatre Project in Whitefish, Montana in August 2008. [03/08]
• John LaBombard (BA 2006) is a full-time staff member for Senator Jon Tester (Montana). [09/07]
• Tiernan Madorno (BA 2006) will appear in Busytown at Imagination Stage this fall and continues in patron services at Folger Theatre. Previously, she played in Rorschach Theatre's production of Monster and is now currently "Barbara Demarco" in Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center. She just accepted the role of "Mencha" in New Kid at Imagination Stage.  [10/08]
• Velma Maynard (BA 2006) works with Alice's Phonics Fantasy Theatre, a children's theatre in New Jersey. [06/09]
• Amy Millican (BA 2006) is currently working as Subscriptions Manager The Studio Theatre. She previously worked at Shakespeare Theatre Company in the subscription office. [07/09]
• Katerina Paramana (BA 2006) has been accepted by Laban to study dance in London. She will be there until October 2009. During the summer, she performed with Deviate Theatre, with Dakshina and the Washington Improv group at the Source Theatre. Last year, she performed in Blair Thomas's bunraku puppet show, A Rabbit's Tale with the live music of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She also performed "The Farthest Earth from Thee: A Suite of Sonnets," at the Greenberg Theatre with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, as part of the Shakespeare in Washington Festival. [10/08]
• Ashley Denise Robinson (BA 2006) performed in March with The Civilians in This Beautiful City, a Humana festival world premiere based on interviews by the company. She also performed in the apprentice Humana show Game On. In January, she will be understudying "Alastair" in Unleashed: The Secret Lives of White House Pets at the Kennedy Center. Also in January she will begin rehearsals for Roundheads and Peakheads at Catalyst Theatre. [12/08]
• Betsy Rosen (BA 2006) sets out on a journey to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania in December as a volunteer with Cross-Cultural Solutions. She will be working with children and HIV/AIDS relief. Last year she performed in The Long Christmas Ride Home at Studio Theatre, where she was a puppeteer. She directed Lost Sock: Have you Seen Me for the Madcap Winter Carnival of New Works at the H Street Playhouse and is currently playing Lucrece in The Rape of Lucrece at Washington Shakespeare Company. Betsy will travel to Chicago in April to perform in puppeteer Blair Thomas's new work A Rabbits Tale with Fast Fish Puppet Theatre. Last fall, she played the Girl in Round House Theatre's production of A Prayer for Owen Meaney. [10/08]
• Aaron Taylor (BA 2006 Theatre, BA 2006 English/Theatre Education) is Teacher and Artistic Director for the Theatre Program at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. Their fall 2007 production is Beauty and the Beast. [11/07]
• David Buckler (BA 2005) works as a carpenter at Round House Theatre. [02/06]
• Maribeth Chaprnka (BA 2005) recently was Equity ASM for FEVER/DREAM at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. She recently toured with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange on Small Dances About Big Ideas. She was a Stage Management Apprentice at Round House Theatre and now does a good bit of scenic painting there.   [07/09]
• Brianne Cobuzzi (BA 2005) has been cast in the American premiere of Witches of Eastwick at Signature Theatre for May 2007. She understudied Hope and Little Sally in Urinetown at Signature Theatre and also appeared in Seussical at Imagination Stage in Bethesda. [02/06]
• Jennie Cole (BA 2005) is moving to Ithaca, New York to take the job of Assistant Production Manager at Hangar Theatre. [03/06]
• Malinda Ellerman (BA 2005) has just been cast as the agoraphobic trailer park housewife Jeannie Garstecki in The Great American Trailer Park Musical. This show will be performed at Kensington Arts Theatre May 8 - 23, 2009. Please visit www.katonline.org for more information on Kensington Arts Theatre and the show itself. [03/09]
• Lacey Finkner Talero (BA 2005) is a production assistant at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. [10/08]
• Ben Fisler (Ph.D. 2005) is currently serving as instructor/administrator for the Associate of Arts in Theatre majors at Harford Community College. [09/06]
• Bridget Garwood (BA 2005) worked at an entertainment, marketing and PR company for independent film after graduating. In 2006, she accepted a job as a production coordinator at a documentary film production company in D.C. During summer 2007, whe began acting again and filmed a short about the 2008 presidential race which has been featured on Comedy Central's website as well as the New York Daily News. In fall 2007 she accepted the role of Dinah Marden at Cedar Lane Stages production of Mr Pim Passes By. [01/08]
• Julia Golden (BA 2005) is a Project Enrichment Intern at Arena Stage. [2/06]
• Sean Hoagland (BA 2005) played Laertes in Hamlet at the Hollywood Fight Club. He can be seen in two films from 2007 "Rock Haven" and "Sinners.". [02/08]
• Roni Lancaster (BA 2005) was the ASM for Urinetown and is the soundboard operator for Nevermore at Signature Theatre. [02/06]
• Ameerah LeGrande (BA 2005) is an Acting/Teaching Apprentice at the Round House Theatre.   She was the understudy for Charlotte Bedford, Lori Pine, Patty and Anne Austin in the Round House Theatre's production of Midwives . [02/06]
• Michelle Murad (BA 2005) began working with HGTV's "Get it Sold..." starting in February 2008. [12/08]
• Michele Pace (BA 2005) is busy doing directing, production work, teaching and an internship. [07/07]
• Jennifer Ring (BA 2005) is one of the founding members of the Red Stage Theatre Company in Burlington, Vermont. Their inaugural production, Archibald MacLeish's J.B. opens at the end of July. [07/09]
• Liz Sena (BA 2005) is a Production/Technical Apprentice at Round House Theatre. [02/06]
• Allison Summers (BA 2005) graduated from The Second City Conservatory in Los Angeles. She has been traveling to colleges and teaching a two week improv workshop. [07/09]
• Jennifer "Bunny" Themelis (BA 2005) helped create and appears in a video about Barack Obama, which can be seen on barelypolitical.com [09/07]
• Justin Thomas (MFA 2005) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Design at Grinnell College. He received two nominations for Excellence in Lighting Design in the Dance Metro DC Awards. The nominations were for 3rd Annual Fall Festival of Indian Arts 2006 at The Lincoln Theatre, October 27-28, 2006 and for Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company's Ghosts in our Bedroom , at The Greenberg Theatre, March 31-April 1, 2007. [10/08]
• Sally Weiss (BA 2005) is in her final year of graduate school at Northwestern University and designing shows in the Chicago area. [12/08]
• Noelle Wilson (BA 2005) spent a year working for the Playhouse Merced as a marketing and development intern before she moved to California permanently in the summer of  2006. She has since taught ballet, tap, jazz and hip hop for various programs, wrote and sold freelance articles, and acted her heart out. She was a founding member of the now defunct SoHo Productions and played such roles as Blitzen in "The Eight: Reindeer Monologues," Aunt Polly in the musical "Tom Sawyer," Mrs. Van Daan in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and  Clairee in "Steel Magnolias." Noelle married Micah Chandler on the 6th of May, 2007 and is currently a head teacher for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's summer workshops in Pleasanton, CA. [07/07]
• Elizabeth (EJ) Zimmerman (BA 2005) joined the North American tour of Avenue Q in Toronto this summer as the swing and u/s for the role of Christmas Eve. [09/08]
• Grace Anastasiadis (BA 2004) has been seen at the Top Floor Theater and Howard Community College, and recently has been working with The Shakespeare Project's educational tour Shakespeare Alive! as a teaching artist. Grace teaches musical theater at Dance Foundations and co-directed, stage managed and choreographed A Midsummer Night's Dream at last summer's teen Shakespeare camp at the Rep Stage National Actors' Institute. [07/05]
• Sandy Blackman (BA 2004) lives in the Boston area, where she is finishing her graduate degree at Lesley University for expressive therapies and mental health counseling. She currently works in the expressive therapies field using drama/theatre as a tool for therapy and to teach social skills. She performs regularly as part of a local improv troupe, as well as at Improv Boston in Cambridge, MA. [04/09]
• Erin Branigan (BA 2004) portrayed Benvolio in the production Romeo and Juliet for the Maryland Renaissance Festival. She recently appeared as Sally in the regional premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party with Dominion Stage, Pridefly in The Ash Girl with OnStage Players, and Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie with Wildwood Summer Theater. [12/08]
• Kurt Chiang (BA 2004) is currently working with the Neo-Futurists on the show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC. The production performs 30 plays in 60 minutes, randomly sequencing the plays every night. It is running from Dec 26-Jan 4. Kurt is a company member of The Neo-Futurists in Chicago and holds and administrative position at Northwestern University. [12/08]
• Nathaniel Claridad (BA 2004) has just opened a show Ghost with Insomnia, directed by Ray Aranha, with the Prometheus' Fire Theatre Company in CT. He spent summer of 2008 in the Berkshires rehearsing a new musical My Scary Girl at Barrington Stage Company. In the spring, he appeared as Sir Benjamin Backbite in The School for Scandal at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre. Earlier in the year, he appeared in a premiere production, Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner?, with the Intravenous Theater Company in NYC. In April, he performed in the Kennedy Center's Family Theatre series production of Kite on the Wind . [10/09]
• Maurice Clemons (BA 2004) is in John Vreeke's prodution of Death and the Kings Horseman at Washington Shakespeare Company. [03/06]
• Gwynn V. Fulcher (BA 2004) has been invited to join Shattered Globe Theatre as a company member. SGT has been continually praised for its intimate theatre and received more than ten Jeff Nominations this year alone. Gwynn has served as Actor, Electrician, Dramaturg, SM & ASM for SGT. Currently, she understudied and performed the role of Laura in The Glass Menagerie, is the ASM for the same show, and is taking her first turn as Producer for SGT's upcoming production of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, opening in January 2009. For more about Shattered Globe Theatre go to www.shatteredglobe.org. [12/08]
• Vicki Goldsmith (BA 2004) has been accepted into the Directors Guild of America as a 2nd Assistant Director. She previously ran 1st team for Clint Eastwood's film The Changling starring Angelina Jolie. She joined SAG and the DGA (Director's Guild of America) and worked on the production staff of the TV show CSI:NY as well as working as 2nd Assistant Director on the feature film Sweetwater. [07/09]
• Matthew Gottlieb (BA 2004) is currently rehearsing for the production Touch by Toni Press-Coffman in Chicago. Previously, he appeared in a production of Jeffrey by Paul Rudnicin Baltimore at the Top Floor Theatre. [12/08]
• Gwen Grastorf (BA 2004) is performing in The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman for Constellation Theatre Company at Source Theatre. She appeared in the Capital Fringe Festival in two plays: The Trojan Women by Ellen McLaughlin and Nutshell by Callie Kimball. [10/07]
• Abigail Gustafson (BA 2004) can be seen the the 2007 film "Across the Universe." [03/08]
• T.J. Jackson (BA 2004 Computer Science) is currently a technical director at DreamWorks Animation in LA, where he worked on Bee Movie, Over the Hedge, Flushed Away and Shrek Goes Fourth. [12/08]
• Michael Kelley (BA 2004) teaches English at Blake High Schhool in Montgomery County, Maryland, where he directs the second stage theatre show and runs the afternoon Improvisation Troupe. He starts graduate school for Special Education in fall 2009 and recently became engaged. Michael was the leading player in Pippin with Rockville Musical Theatre in July 2005. He served in a year-long apprenticeship with Round House Theatre and performed in the ensemble of Urinetown at Signature Theatre. [07/09]
• Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans (MA 2004) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Missouri State University, where she teaches three courses, advises the Theatre for Social Change group called BareStage and will be directing Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: LA. [2007]
• Justin Purvis (BA 2004) has been heavily involved with Washington Improv Theater as a performer, teacher and coach. He has been fortunate to play with some of the best improvisers in the area, including fello alum Natasha Rothwell, with whom he co-created a fantastic improv show Exes & Oh's that explores what makes or breaks relationships. He has been working at the DC local AFTRA/SAG office as membership director since 2005. [07/09]
• Dan Ribaudo (BA 2004) was the video designer for Locus, a performance installation animating three distinct spaces with dance, music, scenery and video at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in October. [10/08]
• Jennifer Rimmer (BA 2004) has been working as an opera production stage manager since graduating from UM in over thirteen states. She'll be back in the area, stage-managing an opera in Annapolis in 2009. [10/08]
• Zuanna Sherman (BA 2004) has appeared in many productions in the Washington Area, including the UM 2006 production of The Piano Lesson - in partnership with the African Continuum Theatre Company. He can be seen in the 2005 film "The Instrument." [01/08]
• Deb Sivigny (MFA 2004) was Associate Producer and designed costumes for The Skin of our Teeth in the Gonda Theatre at Georgetown University's Davis Center in July and August 2008. Also involved with the show were lighting designer Brian S. Allard (MFA candidate), sound designer Veronica Lancaster (BA 2005), fight choreographer Casey Kaleba (MA 2004). [10/08]
• Pamela Weiner (BA 2004) was a props intern for the Denver Center Theatre Company and props apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera Company before her current position as props apprentice at the Walnut Street Theatre Company in Philadelphia. [09/07]
• Evelyn Zilberman (BA 2004) has been promoted from Contracts Manager to Director of Tour Management at Columbia Artists Theatricals, LLC in New York, NY.  She now will manage the contracts, sales, and marketing for tours that include CATS, STOMP, CHICAGO, DIRTY ROTTEN Scoundrels, Wonderful Town, and CHITA RIVERA: A DANCERS LIFE. In June, she will also be performing at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater in Rockville, MD as Sheila in A Chorus Line as a fundraiser for the Musical Theater Center. [06/06]
• Abigail Bortnick (BA 2003) graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in May 2006 and is working for King and Spalding in Washignton DC. [11/06]
• Elizabeth Brooks (BA 2003) is currently working towards her M.F.A. in Costume Design at the California Institute of the Arts. [02/06]
• Gregg Buck (MFA 2003) taught Set Design at the University of Memphis 2003-2005. Since 2005, he has been teaching Set Design at Sam Houston State University. He designs in and around the Houston area whenever possible (Stages Reparatory Theatre, Unity Theatre, Texas Reparatory Theatre) and did one gig regionally (Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven, NJ). And Gregg owes it all to Dan Conway. [09/08]
• Dominic D’Andrea (BA 2003) recently directed Good Pictures at the Cherry Lane studio Theatre in New York. He directed Who Stole the Soul by Raul Castillo for Revamped Seventies Soul at HERE Arts Center Mainstage in NYC.He is a co-producer of the 2nd Annual One-Minute Play Festival at TBG Arts Center in NYC in October 2008. He recently directed the world premiere of Ashlin Halfnight's Good Pictures with the Monarch Theatre Company in NYC - which received rave reviews and was listed in the Top 10 productions to see at the NY Fringe Festival. He runs a writers group at the Lark Play Development Center and just finished as the directing fellow at MTC. During the summer and fall he has kept busy doing work for Youngbloods and a project in Chicago. [12/08]
• Amelia Crysler (BA 2003) is appearing as Phebe in As You Like It with the Sweetwater Shakespeare Company. [10/08]
• Kathleen Geldard (MFA 2003) designed costumes for Uncle Vanya at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, running September 10 – October 17, 2004. [09/04]
• John Hopkinz (BA 2003) is a house DJ in clubs throughout DC and Baltimore.
• Sarah Karp (BA 2003) is currently a second year medical student at Columbia University/Ben Gurion Medical School for International Health. While living in Baltimore she performed in the Tempest and Scrooge! At Spotlighter's Theatre and Grease at Just Left of Broadway dinner theatre. In addition she played in the Israeli tour of Anything Goes with the Light Opera Group of the Nejev. [11/06]
• Jamie Klassel (BA 2003) has been living in NYC, appearing in various Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions. She returned to Maryland in October 2006 to appear in the title role of Round House Theatre Company's The Little Prince. She can be seen in the 2005 film "The Instrument." [02/08]
• Thomas Landers (BA 2003) can be seen in the 2005 film "The Instrument." [02/08]
• Muriel Lee (MFA 2003) has received an Allen Lee Hughes fellowship in lighting design at the Arena Stage. [09/04]
• Megan McGill (BA 2003) directed and choreographed the production of Pippin at Rockville Musical Theatre in July 2005. [07/05]
• Jordan Price (BA 2003) played the role of Alexander in The Kennedy Center's touring production of Alexander Who is Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Going to Move. In summer 2005, he played the title role in the Rockville Musical Theatre production of Pippin i[02/06]
• Natasha Rothwell (BA 2003) performed in a brand new show with WIT (Washington Improv Theatrer) called iMusical. She accepted the position as resident House Manager for Woolly Mammoth Theatre in June 2005.[11/06]
• Eve Rounds (BA 2003) will play Julia in The Shakespeare Project's Twelfth Night in summer 2003. [06/03]
• Adam Rutenberg (BA 2003) will be working at the Shakespeare Theatre scene shop. [06/03]
• David White (BA 2003) will be attending the National Stage Combat Workshop in Las Vegas in July 2003. [06/03]
• Autumn Wilson (BA 2003) is performing with the Washington Revels in The Christmas Revels - In Celebration of the Winter Solstice. [12/08]
• Jessica Binder (BA 2002) will be attending Emerson this Fall in Boston to receive her MA in Theatre Education.  During the summer, Jessica attended the Eugene O'Neil National Puppetry Convention where she studied under incredible puppet masters, including some who've been performing with Sesame Street for over 20 years! [07/05]
• Paige Hernandez (BA 2002) performed during October 2008 in the world premiere Kennedy Center commission by award-winning Latino playwright Marco Ramirez, Mermaids, Monsters, and the World Painted Purple. She appeared in Am I Black Enough Yet? at Theatre on the Run in April and May 2008 and The Second Shepard's Play at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in December 2007. She performed as Maria in The School for Scandal at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore in November and December of 2006.  She is currently the Senior Education Fellow at the Community and Engagement Division of Arena Stage. [10/08]
• Nevin Kumar (BA 2002) has been working in film/ marteking and television. He has done Shakespeare and Shakespeare and Company in Lenox. Mas. Currently, he lives in LA, producing and hosting a documentry. [06/06]
• Milagros Ponce De Leon (MFA 2002) designed the set for Uncle Vanya at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, running September 10 – October 17, 2004. Last spring at the 20th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, she was nominated for Outstanding Set Design, Resident Play or Musical, for her design of The Return to Morality at the Rep Stage. [09/04]
• Erika Rose (1997 - 2002) recently appeared in The Soul Collector at Everyman Theatre. [07/09]
• Adam Shapiro (BA 2002) is art designer for Reverb - the latest in playwright Leslye Headland's "Seven Deadly Sins" series. He previously appeared in Assistance/Greed and Bachelorette by Leslye Headland with the IAMA Theatre Company in Los Angeles, where he is a founding member of the company. He recently filmed a Sony/Happy Madison film I Know What Boys Like staring Anna Faris. He is working on another film project called Primitive Technology. He appeared on "Suite Life of Zach and Cody" for Disney Channel and on an episode of NBC's "Medium." He can be seen as the evil Jean LFoote in the Cap'n Crunch commercials and was featured national commercials for Verizon. He also appeared in two Budweiser commercials as well as a commercial for Toyota and Farmers Insurance. He appeared in ABC's "Jake in Progress" and also an episode of "The Gilmore Gilrs." Check his web site at www.Shappy.net [1/09]
• Briel Banks (formerly Briana Lynn) (BA 2001) has appeared in Charley's Aunt at Olney Theatre Center as well as played Phoebe in As You Like It at the Virginia Shakespeare Company and Belle in A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre.   In 2004, she was cast as Martha Washington in the Ron Maxwell film Father of his Country , but the film is currently on hold. She joined AEA in 2004 and understudied for the world premiere of Columbinus at Round House Theatre in 2005. [05/06]
• Kathryn Carlsen (BA 2001) taught Theatre, English and French in a middle school in Montgomery County. Currently going to be attending Brooklyn College to obtain a MFA in Performing Arts Management. [02/03]
• Leigh Ellen Caudill (BA 2001) was recently featured in Zachary Zwillinger Eats People at The Winter Forum, a festival of new short plays at New York City's Looking Glass Theatre. The show won the Judges' and Audience Awards for Best Production. Soon to join the cast of Max and Ruby for the Northeast and Southeast legs of a national tour. She is a shiny new member of Actor's Equity! [01/08]
• Yuval David (BA 2001) performed in a reading of The Teeth of a Comb in December 2008. Formerly Yuval David Cohen, he served as a comedic correspondent for NBC and MySpaceTV for behind-the-scene segments of the Summer Olympics. He recently was cast in an action film Nephilion and has a recurring role on Days of Our Lives. He recently appeared in the film You and the Italian drama Trenches as well as a film The Waiting Room , currently in post-production and one making the festival circuit titled 3 rd of July. [10/08]
• Brooke Houghton (BA 2001) received an M.F.A. in Acting from UNC-Chapel Hill.   She subsequently moved to Studio City, CA, to pursue her acting career. [02/06]
• Steve Lee (BA 2001) appeared in Nutshell at Woolly Mammoth for the Capital Fringe Festival alongside fellow alum Stacy Wilson (BA2006). He has been cast as the lead in Livemansion the Movie, which started filming this past summer. [09/07]
• LeVonne Lindsay (MFA 2001) spent two years as a Allen Lee Hughes Fellow in costume at Arena Stage while working as a freelance costume designer for theatres such as the African Continuum Theatre, Studio Theatre (Second Stage) and the Kennedy Center Youth and Family Programming. She then took a teaching position at Valdosta State University as an Instructor and then as Assistant Professor of Costume Design; currently she is an Assistant Professor of Costume Design at James Madison University this fall and looking forward to getting involved with DC theatre once again. [10/08]
• JP Woodey (BA 2001) is the Lighting Designer at DeSales University where he teachs Lighting Design classes. [09/05]
• Jason Aufdem-Brinke (BA 2000) is currently employed by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. He graduated with credits of over 15 shows in the Department. He has also done work at the Washington Shakespeare Company, Washington Jewish Theatre, and Olney Theatre Center for the Arts (Floor Manager for Bye Bye Birdie). He was gaffer on the film Death of a Nation. [04/01]
• Malaurie Barber (BA 2000) created a newsletter calle Theatre Spotlight during her years at Maryland and performed the role of publisher/editor/publicist and writer. After graduating in December, she has been hired by the Studio Theatre as Assistant Director of Public Relations. Since then, she published the book A Year in Paris as well as other works. [03/07]
• Chuck Benjamin (BA 1997, MFA 2000) has just taken the position as Director of Development and Marketing at Black Rock Center for the Arts in Germantown, Maryland. [09/03]
• Christopher Eucare (BA 2000) plays guitar in a group called Pherashrek. They'll be 5 years old in September. He has done some small guitar session work down in LA and even traveled to Switzerland to play for a band. He works for Northstar Technology corporation at Edwards AFB as well as teaching guitar. He is still involved in theatre doing sound design for some small productions, but is planning on getting more involved down in Los Angeles.
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• Jeremy Goldman (BA 2000) starred as Matt in The Fantasticks at Round House Theatre and as Alexander in The Kennedy Center's national tour of Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day . He also performed in The Kennedy Center's Dreams In The Golden Country and Alexander Who is Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Going to Move . He sings in the professional acappella group Staticflow. Jeremy is now in his third year of law school at the University of Baltimore School of Law and is the father of a two year old boy.  [03/08]
• Norman Hart (Ph.D. 2000) was been hired as Assistant Professor tenure track to be the Director of Musical Theatre at James Madison University, with affiliate faculty status in the Music Department. His duties will include: directing the yearly spring musical, coordinating the fall opera production, teaching musical theatre courses both academic and practical and coordinating the BA and BM programs in musical theatre. [03/02]
• Mia Hemmer (BA 2000) completed her BA in Theatre after leaving the University in 1986 to pursue a career as a professional ballroom dancer. Her future plans include attending graduate school to get a Master's in Education and teach English and Drama. [01/01]
• Jan Johns (Spring 2000) is a member of DC's premiere singing improv group The Capital Steps. Currently, she can be seen in the ensemble of She Loves Me at the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts. [11/01]
• Brad Ranno (BA 2000) is currently working as the theatre technician for the Community College of Baltimore County at Essex and he also free-lances as designer of lights and sound at theatres in the Baltimore-Washington area. He is working on a master's degree in arts administration with Goucher University. [09/06]
• Jake Rothermel (BA 2000) is working as a freelance carpenter in the area. [02/06]
• Genevieve Szary (BA 2000) interned at The Shakespeare Theatre until April 2001. She was hired as the production coodinator for King Lear at the Carter Baron and began working as the production associate at Round House in July 2001. [10/01]
• Risa Binder (BA 1999) had her song "All the While" played on New York's Z100 and also performed at the station's Zootopia concert in Spring 2005. She appeared in The New Artist Songwriting Showcase and Motown Brunch in 2004. [02/06]
• Karen Bradley (BA 1999) recently appeared in the short film The Date by Dobler's Productions for the annual Baltimore 48 hour film festival. She is the Special Events Coordinator at Howard County Recreation and Parks. Part of her job is booking entertainers -- alumni should feel free to contact her and send a press kit for inclusion in their in-house entertainers resource catalog. [09/06]
• Rebecca Carson (MFA 1999) is the productions and operations manager for the Center of Contemporary Arts in St. Louis. [04/00]
• Sean Clark (BA 1999) is now Sean Dagony-Clark after his wedding in July 2000. He is currently employed at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, NY, where he teaches and administers educational technology. [10/08]
• Katie Corrado (BA in English and Theatre, 1999) is in the Master’s program at the Actors Studio at the New School University in New York. [05/00]
• Kosha Engler (BA 1999) appeared as Lu Ann in the John Waters film A Dirty Shame , starring Tracey Ullmann. In October 2003, she moved to London, England, for nine months where she played Lady Macbeth in a fringe production of Macbeth. She also co-wrote a one-act comedy, After Ever After. After returning to the US, she did a voice over for the FAA and participated in a reading of Sky Girls for The Theatre Alliance Pangea Projects. In October 2004, she launched ActorsIlluminated.com, a website for performing artists. In 2005, she went back to London to pursue her acting career in Europe. Previously, she appeared as Friend #1 in episode 10 of HBO's "The Wire. " in the Dreamworks feature film Head of State with Chris Rock, and in the Disney film Tuck Everlasting, as Miles Tuck's wife. [03/06]
• Julie Garner (BA 1999 Theatre/English ED) recently performed as Mother in The Pillowman at Studio Theatre and as one of the clowns in Cirque Viola, a nationally booked circus troupe. In the future, she will be playing Cunningham in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Forum Theatre. [09/07]
• Terra (Stull) Hollern (BA 1999) is currently the Special Events Coordinator in the Office of Emergency Management for Loudoun County Virginia.  Prior to working for Loudoun County, Terra was previously the Event Manager and an Event Coordinator for the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland (2000 - Jan 2008). [12/08]
• Lauren Hyland (BA 1999) is currently the producer and casting director for WILL Interactive, Inc., and interactive video production company, while continuing freelance producing and casting with BrainBox . [02/03]
• Paul Menard (BA 1999) is currently an M.F.A. candidate in dramaturgy and script development at Columbia University.   [02/06]
• Lindsay Moore (BA 1999) is the Assistant Production Manager at The Studio Theatre and the Production Manager of The Studio Theatre’s Second Stage. [04/00]
• Mimen Oniha (BA 1999) started her first year as an MFA in acting at Ohio State University. [11/01]
• Jared Paul (BA 1999) is Director of Entertainment at the new MCI Center in Washington DC. [05/00]
• Licia Spinelli (BA 1999) is currently the Vice President of Marketing and Special Events for the Restaurant Association of Maryland. She has served on the Maryland Life Magazine Board, the UMCP Arts & Humanities Alumni Board & the Alumni Student Affairs Board and looks forward to other ways of supporting the university. A Baltimore resident, she loves running into other MD alums & her Penn State boyfriend has learned to love MD too! [03/07]
• Lisa D. Vivo (BA 1999) works as a Project Enrichment Manager at Arena Stage and initiated "eyeondesign" a National Collegiate Design Competition. [02/06
• Laura Wagner (BA 1999) is a director and producer. She worked as Associate Producer of Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey currently running in IMAX theatres worldwide. She was an Associate Producer of the off-Broadway production of Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets. [09/04]
• Megan Wilson (BA 1999) worked as a reporter and documentary producer for NJN after graduating, a PBS station in New Jersey. Currently she is a television producer at Oxygen Sports, a women's sports series on the cable network Oxygen. [03/02]
• Christian Zonts (BA 1999) co-wrote and starred in the four time award winning independent feature film FIVE LINES. He has been seen in national commercials for KFC and Budweiser and co-starred in a scene with Tom Green in the movie Prankstar. His rapping talents have been showcased on America's Got Talent, ESPN and The Tom Joyner TV show. Christian currently lives in South Korea where he works as an actor in theater productions that are intended to both entertain and teach English. [10/08]
• Cheryl Black (PhD 1998) The University of Alabama Press is publishing her book "The Women of Provincetown: 1915-1922." This spring, she did a joint presentation with Robert K. Sarlos on the Provincetown Players for the University of Malaga's First International Conference on the personal and the political in American theatre and drama and delivered a paper on Provincetown's female playwrights for Tel Aviv University's international and interdisciplinary conference on "The Interactions Arts, Law, and Society." [07/00]
• Eric Bloom (BA 1998) is currently appearing in She Stoops to Conquer at the Folger Theatre. Since graduating, Eric has appeared at Olney Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, The Center Company in Fairfax, and with the Rorschach Theatre. [02/03
• Lisa Marie Cline (BA 1998) is currently working at Fortune Magazine while taking dance classes and singing lessons and pursing acting roles. [05/00]
• Sharon Cohen (BA 1998) spent 7 years after graduation working for a non-profit in College Park. After that, she moved overseas with the military with her husband, two daughters and two step-children. She is currently working as a secretary for the Department of the Air Force, overseas. [05/08]
• Cary (Duschl) Gillett (BA 1998) currently is the Production coordinator for the Department of Theatre. She completed an internship from Olney Theatre Center in July 2000. She joined the Actors Equity in August 2000 to Stage Manage "Therese Raquin" at Olney. She served as the General Manager of the National Players and a free-lance Stage Manager in the DC/MD area. [12/08]
• Demond Fernandez (BA 1998) recently joined News 4 WOAI in San Antonio from WEYI Newscenter 25 in Flint, Michigan, where he was a weekend anchor, crime reporter and "On Your Side" investigator. He received a Michigan Association of Broadcaster's Award for investigative work on a state-wide scandal. [07/09]
• Bonnie Germann (BA 1998) spent her first year out of college assistant directing at the Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, and Theatre of the First Amendment while house managing at Round House. She then taught theatre to 7th grade in Alexandria, VA (with fellow alum Michelle Kanotz as her department chair) and since then she has been in New York working in corporate sales. [11/01]
• William Harrison (BA 1998) Graduated and interned at Vari*Lite in Texas. He worked at WAMU and NPR radio station in DC as Systems Engineer and Webmaster and currently works at WETA TV & FM in Arlington as Manager of Web Technology. He owns two Internet startups. [02/03]
• Michelle Kanotz (BA 1998) is currently the senior writer/editor for NASA's premier magazine, SPINOFF. She previously was the Theatre Department Chairman at Sandburg Middle School where she taught Advanced Theatre and co-directed Up the Down Staircase with alum Bonnie Germann. She married Steve Birdsall (former Sketch-up/Attsa Matta You?! member)in 2000. [10/0
• Deborah Leipzig (BA 1998)is working at VH1 in Talent and Creative Develoipment. She previously worked at 20th Century Fox in Feature Film Casting.[07/03]
• Carrie Nelson Morgan (BA 1998) is in the first national tour of Oklamoma and performed at Wolf Trap June 24-27. [09/04]
• Jennifer Norkin (BA 1998) is playing an agent for CAA in episode #6 for HBO’s comedy “Entourage.” She is a member of AEA and SAG. [09/04]
• Dan Buck (BA 1997) is an elementary school teacher in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [03/06]
• Heather Michele Downey (MA 1997) is an Arts in Education Coordinator at VSA arts where she researched and co-wrote a national curriculum that uses arts activities to teach disability awareness. [05/00]
• Kathleen Farasy (BA 1997) does freelance in costume design and construction for professional theatre and schools in the Washington-Baltimore region. [04/00]
• Anne Fliotsos (PhD 1997) is Associate Professor of Theatre History/Theory/Criticism at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. She is co-author of American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century (U of IL 2008) and co-editor and contributor for Teaching Theatre Today (Palgrave 2004). In addition to publishing in journals and encyclopedias, she manages to direct and create her own works from time to time. She married a Belgian in 2003 and now enjoys fresh waffles and crepes. [07/08]
• Michael M. O'Hara (Ph.D. 1997) is an Associate Dean and Sursa Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Ball State University. He was awarded two of Ball State's highest faculty awards, the Lawhead Teaching Award in the University Core Curriculum for 2001 and the University Teaching Professor Award in 1999. In 2003, Allyn and Bacon published his digital textbook entitled, Explore Theatre: A Backstage Pass. [04/08]
• Rae Toledo (BA 1997) was cast as the lead in the Washington Kennedy Center's Lagniappe shortly after graduating. She then toured the country as a choreograher and eventually moved into production, settling in New York City. In 2000, she opened her own entertainment production company in NYC, and now produces various live events and concerts. She has had the opportunity to work with a broad spectrum of artists, including Stevie Wonder, Liza Minelli, *NSYNC, 98 Degrees, Brian McKnight and R. Kelly, as well as many dignitaries and international heads of state including Mikail Gorbechev, Colin Powell, Queen Noor of Jordan.   In the past few years, she toured the US and Canada in Miss Saigon and performed in The Vagina Monologues in New York City.   She also directed a PSA featuring Matthew Broderick. [02/06]
• Grady Weatherford (BA 1997) appeared in Rorschach Theatre's Rough Magic in which characters from The Tempest land in present-day New York in February 2007. [02/07]
• Devron Young (BA 1997) directed Ain't Misbehavin at Olney Theatre Center in summer 2009. He previously worked as a producer on the movie, RENT . [07/09]] 
• Christine Marie Brown (BA 1996) has been cast as the female lead, "Viola" in Shakespeare play, "Twelfth Night" to run in September and October of 2007 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle, Washington. In 2006, she appeared as Masha in Anton Chekov's Three Sisters at The Center Stage in Baltimore. Before that, she appeared as Violet Robinson in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman at the Kansas City, MO, Rep. Theatre, and as Joanna McClelland Glass in Trying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA. [07/07]
• Anna Drum (BA 1996) is a Project Manager for a company involved in entertainment for corporate venues such as Casinos, Amusement Parks and Conventions. [05/00]
• Rachael Hollingsworth (BA, Music 1996) will be appearing in a new reality TV series by Oprah Winfrey called "Big Give." [02/08] Nick Newlin (M.A. 1996) is a professional variety arts entertainer with the Nicolo Whimsey Show, Theatre Director-in Residence with the Folger Shakespeare Library, keyboard, accordion and vocals artist in Jamnation as well as a private music instructor.[04/00]
• Lily Hung (BA 1996) is working as an associate to a Broadway producer. [05/00]
• Bob Johnson (MFA 1996) is currently Director of Communications at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City. He writes a monthly colum Bitten by a Zebra for the weekly publication The New York Resident. He is the co-author and co-lyricist of the musical Oedipus! (published by Baker's Plays)and is the author of the book to an opera based on the O.J. Simpson trial (with music by composer Anthony Newman). [06/03]
• Heather Joireman (BA 1996) is currently a meeting planner for a telecom event company, and spending much of her time flying around the country. Post-graduation, she spent just under 3 years at Olney Theatre for the Arts as the Production and Company Manager.[12/01]
• Barbara (Addis) Jones (BA 1996) is a National Accounts Support Specialist for Arch Communications where she creates presentations and proposals for national companies requesting wireless communication services. She is currently working toward an MBA. [05/00]
• Darcey Pickard (BA 1996) is a full time licensed masssage therapist who has started her own aromatherapy product line. [09/00]
• Jacqueline Stone (BA 1996) ) is currently rehearsing for the production Touch by Toni Press-Coffman in Chicago. She is a founding company member and Executive Director of TUTA Theatre in Chicago. She has appeared in many of their productions as well as many Chicago theatres such as Chicago Dramatists, The Second City, and Prop Thtr. Jacqueline is the co-founder of Sirens, the longest running all-female improv group in the country. She is a faculty member at The Second City, TUTA, Columbia College, and Education Director for Emerald City Theatre Company.[12/08]
• Jerry Richardson (BA 1996) is currently in 59E59 Theaters' America Off Broadway series in San Francisco in the production of Fubar or Interesting, Incredible, Amazing, Fantastic. He played various roles in theatres all over D.C. for 4 years after graduating from College Park, including The Shakespeare Theatre, RoundHouse, The Folger, Olney, Washington Shakespeare Company, Signature Theatre and others. He currently lives in New York City and has been acting off-Broadway and in regional theatres across the country including Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Fulton Opera House, Florida Studio Theatre, Vermont Shakespeare Company, etc...  He appeared in the Mel Brooks film The Producers. [07/09]
• Jesse Terrill (BA 1996) co-founded the Catalyst Theatre Company, which is producing a production of Lee Blessing's Eleemosynary opening on February 4 and running through February 25, 2006. [02/06]
• Grady Weatherford (BA 1996) is working in the area as an actor at Olney Theatre, National Players (2 years,) Washington Jewish Theatre, Theatre J, Discovery Theatre, Source Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, Project Y, Rorschach Theatre. In 1999, he became Artistic partner with Rorschach Theatre in Washington, DC. and Editor and Assistant Director for WILL Interactive, editing and producing interactive movies. He recently closed JB with Rorschach Theatre in the role of Nickles and will be appearing in MacBett at Washington Shakespeare Company in November and December and Miklat at Theatre J in January 2002. [10/01]
• Shanan Custer Wexler (MA 1996) is adjunct faculty at the College of St. Catherine/University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. She is a resident company member of Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis. [05/00]
• Jodi Rehmert (1992-1996) is currently teaching dance, ballet, tap, jazz and musical theatre at the Chesapeake Arts Center and the Susan Ina Dance Studio in Maryland. [02/06]
• Robin Bernstein (MA 1995) is currently an Assistant Professor Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of History and Literature at Harvard University. In 2006, the University of Michigan Press published her anthology Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater. [2/07]
• Lisa Ramos Coyne (BA 1995)She has completed a M.e.d. program in Special Education and now lives and teaches in Columbia, MD. She co-directed the middle school spring production as well as the Howard County Teachers Chorus. [02/03]
• Eric C. Waldemar, Jr. (BA 1995) won the 1999 National Play Award by the National Repertory Theatre Foundation for In Walks Mem’ry, a full length play written as his MFA thesis at Columbia School of the Arts. [04/00]
• Ellen Harris (BA 1995) is corporate liaison to area businesses - trying to get funding for non-profits and training companies on cause related marketing. [05/00]
• Alan Mingo, Jr. (BA 1995) recently staged Rent in Italy produced by Luciano Pavorotti and is currently starring as Tom Collins in Rent on Broadway. [07/00]
• Mark Fink (BA 1995)Since leaving Maryland he has worked as a driver and vault manager for Brinks before returning to technical theatre at Toby's Dinner Theatre and the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts. He now is Lighting Production Manager for Current Events International an event prod. co. with offices in DC, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. [02/03]
• D. Thomas McCarthy (BA 1995) designed lights for several shows in the DC area before settling into an ATD position at Round House Theatre which led to a TD position there. He currently lives in the Eastern Shore and works as a high-end building and remodelling contractor.[11/01]
• Whitney Byrn (BA 1987, MFA 1994) worked for many years as a costume designer before moving to the Netherlands in 1993 and Copenhagen in 1994 where she worked in Danish theatre as a set designer and costume designer. In 1998, she was awarded a 3 year grant from the Danish Research Counsel to pursue a PhD in the History of Sceneography at the Danish Royal Theatre. She recently taught Introduction to Lighting Design at the University of Copenhagen. [01/01]
• Stephanie Cohen (BA 1994) After spending several years working in production for MTV networks, Stephanie is currently a correspondent for a music iternet company. She scripts and conducts interviews with top music talent. Stephanie also received her Masters Degree in Theatre (Literature)/English from New York University. [08/00]
• Anita Dashiell-Sparks (BA 1994) recently starred in Spunk by George Wolfe at the Vineyard Playhouse at Martha’s Vineyard. She has performed on and off Broadway as well as in regional theatre. After leaving UM, she received an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and with a Fox Foundation Grant (‘98-99) she toured the New York area with her solo piece Resurrection,performing for young audiences. [07/00]
• Alicia Edwards-Smith (BA 1994) just finished Production Stage Managing the "Political Reverend Billy Show" at the New Salon Theatre in New York and is working as a substitute for the Broadway show Miss Saigon. [05/00]
• David Marcus (BA 1994)currently owns and operates TheBuzzNYC.com, the largest free casting website dedicated to finding casting and job notices to performers in the NYC area. [02/03]
• Sarah McDonold (1994) is acting full time in New York. She is currently performing as Varya in The Cherry Orchard at the Gloria Maddox Theatre. [06/00]
• Gail Medford (Ph.D. 1994) was recently appointed coordinator of the Theatre Program at Bowie State University and Acting Director of the University's Faculty Development. State University.   [09/06]
• James Peters (BA 1994) toured with the first national and international company of Showboat and also toured with 42nd Street and A Chorus Line. He is currently teaching as the artistic director of Temecula Dance Company. [12/08]
• Sharona Rozmaryn (MA 1994) is working as a software engineer and software configuration manager at BAE Systems in Rockville. [05/00]
• Ashok Sinha (BA 1994) recently appeared as Dilip in the Philadelphia premiere of Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink at the Wilma Theatre. Also recently made New York City directorial debut with Rehana Mirza's Barriers, a Pan-Asian family drama at HERE Arts Center. [02/03]
• Kristin Thompson (BA 1994) worked as Master Electrician at the Olney Theatre Center for the Arts and at the Round House Theatre before becoming Technical Director for the Community College of Baltimore County - Catonsville Theatre. She also freelances as a lighting designer. [05/01]
• Robert Yeager (BA 1994) freelanced as a lighting tech for about 6 months after graduating, until he setttled down into a full time position with a local company called Current Events International (they do lighting and audio for special events and corporate and political events). He worked his way up to Production Manager and spent 5 years with CEI.He is now working for a brand new company called Vision Technical Group - out of the Philadelphia area - as Operations Manager. VTG does much of the same type of lighting and audio events. [03/02]
• Jeffrey Binder (BA 1993) received a MFA in Acting from New York University/Tisch School in 1998. He was understudy/performed in Side Man in NY and played Al in the original London cast of Side Man at the Apollo Theatre on the West End in 2000. Currently he is performing Zazu in the Lion King on Broadway. [09/04]
• Pam Ritter-Shilling (BA 1993) is the Assistant Director of the North County Rec Center in Anne Arundel County and specializes in Teen Activities in Brooklyn Park. Her focus is using arts and recreation to rebuild pride and respect in the community. [01/01]
• Malini Bawa (MFA 1993) is a freelance journalist - reporting, producing and writing for various TV and radio stations in the Washington/Baltimore area. [05/00]
• Mary Arras (BA 1993) is a web developer for the Nature Conservancy. (05/00)
• Jenni Blong (BA 1993) is acting in movies and television and writing movie scripts. She can be seen in 200 Cigarettes(Lakeshore Pictures), John Waters’Cry-Baby as well several independent films, such as Recipe for Disaster. [05/00]
• Nancy Lynn Powichroski (MA 1993) retired from teaching theatre and English for Baltimore County Public Schools in June 2005.   Aside from her continued involvement in theatre projects and writing, she also currently teaches part-time at Villa Julie College. [02/06]
• Deborah Ager (BA in English, 1993) is writing a publishing poems in the New England Review, Connecticut Review, Quarterly West, American Literary Review and elsewhere. [06/00]
• Michelle Ebert Freire (BA 1993) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, specializing in theatre education at California State University, San Bernardino.  She is currently working towards becoming a registered drama therapist with the National Association for Drama Therapy. [02/06]
• Kevin Grodnitzky (BA 1993) received MS in Nutrition from University of Bridgeport and opened up an office on the upper west side of Manhattan. He is worked as nutritionist for the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artists Program, developing a nutrition specialty in vocal and theatrical performance for professional actors and singers. Currently, he is in private practive as a clinical nutritionist in NYC. He is taking classes at HB acting studio and is working on a one man show to be performed on the cabaret circuit in Manhattan. [10/01]
• Andrew Friedman (BA 1993) is a company member at The Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles. He recently appeared on Six Feet Under, Stacked, and Scrubs. He can also be seen in the upcoming film Bewitched. [06/05]
• William Price (MFA 1993) is the Southeast regional systems manager of Barbizon Lighting Inc., a national organization with 11 offices nation-wide serving the entertainment industry. As the systems manager, he is responsible for designing and executing entertainment lighting, rigging and sound systems. He is also the Vice Chair of local USITT and the liason for Barbizon with the KACTF, Barbizon Award for Design Excellence. [11/01]
• Phil Setren (BA 1983) is Artistic Director of London New Play Festival and a freelance Director and writer. His credits include; High Society with Wayne Sleep (National Tour/UK ), God Only Knows with Derek Jacobi (UK tour and Vaudeville Theatre), Popcorn with Kelly McGillis (Us Premiere/Waterfront), The Boys Next Door with Steve Guttenberg (Comedy Theatre). In 1987 his U. S. production of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy won the London Fringe Award for Best Comedy, which marked the beginning of his career in the UK. With London New Play Festival he has brought over 140 new writers to the stage, and edited the collection of new plays Best of the Festival'. Aurora Metro, 1998. In television he worked on Evil Twin and in film,  Love Child, Three Minute Hero, and Temporary Girl. Plays he has been involved with include: The Guilt Edge , The Model and The Wailing Mall . He received the Time Out Award in 1994 and Peter Brook Empty Space Award in1998. [10/08]
• Laura Thornburg (BA 1993) worked for Paramount Pictures for the last 10 years in digital mastering operations. Her current position is Senior DVD Project Manager.
• Tara Ford-Faulkner (BA 1992) moved to NYC after graduation where she immediately got cast in Some Enchanted Evening directed by another U of MD alum, Sue Rosenstock. She received her AEA card and performed in notable off and off-off broadway productions including Life Support with the Sage Theatre Company, and Little Shakespeare with the Abingdon Theatre Company. She was featured in two episodes of Sex and the City in season 2. She married in 2000 and moved to Massachusetts, where she performs onstage regularly. She just closed in No Way to Treat a Lady at Arlington Stage. [11/25]
• Kate Devore (BA 1992) is in private practice as a Speech Pathologist specializing in voice disorders and working as a theatre voice /dialect coach.[04/00]
• Joseph P. Fickus, III (BA 1992) is moving to Pasadena, CA this fall to begin studying for a Masters of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary. [05/00]
• Lori Lentner (BA 1992) works in Patron Services at the Clarice Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.   She occasionally performs in D.C.. [02/06]
• Sarah Baum (BA 1992) Sarah earned an MFA in Theater Design from the University of Michigan in 1996.  After graduation, she worked for a few companies including the Opera Theater of Saint Louis, the University of Michigan, and the San Francisco Fringe Festival. She has been living in Los Angeles for the past 9 years and is currently the Senior Design Manager at a major automotive web site [06/06
• Deidra Starnes (BA 1992) received her MFA in Theatre from the University of Connecticut. She appeared in the Off Broadway 20th Anniversary production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf directed by Ntozake Shange. She then returned to Washington, DC and has appeared at Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre, Cumberland Theatre, and the African Continuum Theatre. She appears in National & local print advertisements and teaches movement and voice classes for The Theatre Lab. She is married with one child and also teaches drama at Hearst Elementary School. She is casting Associate for the African Continuum Theatre Company. [11/01]
• Joey Sorge (BA 1991) has just been cast in his first Broadway show in a lead role! He will be playing Young Buddy in the Roundabout's Revival of Sondheim's Follies,which starts previewing in March at the Belasco for an open-ended run. He recently made his Off-Broadway debut in the New York premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Nightat Second Stage. [10/00]
• Woody Irvin (BA 1991) is currently working as an Editorial Aide, reporting for the Washington Post's Metro Section. Since graduation he has been active in theatre and television roles with the National Players, Classika Theatre, Maryland Public TV and NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street. He has also been the vocalist for several rock bands. He is married and has a son, born in 2002. [06/03]
• Eric Trumbull (MA 1983, PhD 1991) is a Professor of Theatre Arts / Communication Studies (www.nvcc.edu/home/etrumbull) at Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge and Director of the NoVa Woodbridge Theatre Group (www.nvcc.edu/nwtg) [12/08]
• Pam Simmons Burks (BA 1990) is a Technical Trainer on contract to the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs. She's also working on her photography at http://pamsphotoblog.blogspot.com/ . [10/08]
• Kevin Dyels (BA 1990) is now Director of Corporate Programs for Sign Language Associates. SLA is the worlds largest private interpreting agency. He is responsible for adding interpreters to theatrical and concert productions in five different Cities across America. He is also a professional interpreter, disc Jockey, and sound designer. [07/05]
• Thomas P. Gallahan (BA 1990) is working with DO JUMP! Extremely Physical Theatre, based in Portland Oregon. This company is a mixture of athletic dance, low flying trapeze, and vaudeville-style theatre. He understudied for the recent off-Broadway tour at the New Victory Theatre and will perform at the Kennedy Center in November. [06/00]
• Myles C. Hatch (BA 1990) has worked in stage management with such theatres as; Maine State Music Theatre (ME), The Theater at Monmouth (ME), Arden Theatre Company (PA), Baltimore Shakespeare Festival (MD), The Everyman Theatre (MD), Rep Stage (MD), Horse Cave Theatre (KY), New Stage Theatre (MS), Round House Theatre (MD), Source Theatre Company (D.C.), Washington Stage Guild (D.C.), Washington Jewish Theatre (D.C.), The Asolo Theatre Company (FL), and Westport Country Playhouse (CT). Since 2000, Myles has been a resident stage manager with the Portland Stage Company, in Portland, Maine.  [11/06]
• Maurey Lancaster (MA 1990) is head of Drama/Performing Arts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields High School for girls in London. [09/07]
• Douglas Adams (BA 1989) continued with technical endeavors in theatre after college and into 1994 while working and living in seven different cities in six different states on both coasts. He married in 1992 and is raising his son while working at IBM in Durham. Currently serving as the Secretary of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina since 1995. [02/02] <
• Liz Baqir (BA 1989) is currently the Ticket Office Manager for Cal Performance at the University of California, Berkeley. She also serves on the Board of Directors for BAPTA, the Bay Area Professional Ticketing Association. [12/01]
• Amie Bermowitz (BA 1989) resides in NYC and is currently performing at NJRep in a new musical Bookends directed by Ken Jenkins of "Scrubs" fame. After the run, she is off to Florida to perform on a disney Cruise ship for 6 months playing Cinderella's stepmother. [09/07]
• Rochelle Heath (BA 1989) spent several years doing production management and stage management in Chicago, before relocating to NYC in 1998 to manage public relations for Swissotel/Swissaire Group. She shifted careers in 2005 to outside the box therapies for developmentally disabled children and young adults. She is currently living in Northern CA where she provides individual therapies and creates contemporary stained glass commissions. [01/09]
• Jason Kravits (BA 1989) was recently seen in an episode of Grey's anatomy. He appeared in The Drowsy Chaperone, along with his brother Garth, playing the comedy duo -- Gangster No. 1 and 2 -- in the multiple Tony-award winning musical on Broadway. He also appeared in the cast of Sly Fox by Larry Gelbart (an adaptation of Volpone) at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and has been in various TV series, including ABC's The Practice. [01/09]
• Brad Rhodes (BS in Journalism, 1989) is an Executive Producer with CNN. [05/00]
• Robert Rotenberry (BA 1989)Recently played Jacob in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and has been dong a lot of work as a photographer. Theatre Chair for the Academy for the Performing Arts in Huntington Beach, CA. Also teaches a class in theatre at Golden West College. Currently playing Layman in the World Premiere of Saving the World at the Chance Theatre in Anaheim Hills, CA. Directed The Elephant Man, which was a state (CA) award winner in 2002.[02/03]
• Tina Marie Casamento (BA 1988) understudied for the first national tour of Kiss Me Kate, and performed in the first national tour of Victor/Victoria as well as the Montreal and Vegas companies of Beauty and the Beast. She has performed regionally at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Fulton opera house and the Penobscot Theatre. New York roles include Shelby in The Spitfire Grill at The Gallery Players and was recently noted as an outstanding performer in Backstage and NY Theatre online for her performance of Aurora in That Other Woman's Child. She began her professional career at The Shakespeare Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, and Fords Theatre among others in Washington D.C. She is a casting associate for NETworks theatricals and Bob Cline Casting, heading national tour auditions held in NYC and several major U.S. cities. In 2001 she was a casting associate for pilot season at Warner Brothers Television. She has been coaching and directing for over 15 years. In 1999, she was presented the Teacher Recognition Award by the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program for her work as a musical theater coach. She received training at Carnegie Melon University, as well as B.A.D.A. in Oxford (England). She has just been given a seat as a national Panelist in Musical Theatre for the NFAA. She has a thriving coaching studio and a recording business www.BroadwayDemo.com which she owns and operates with her husband. Visit her website at www.TinaMarieC.com [12/08]
• Shallah (Weiss) Jewel (BA 1988) owns a public relations company with an emphasis on hospitality, tourism and entertainment clients. [05/00]
• Mallory D. Peirce (BA 1988) is Development Director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she was previously Director of Membership. [05/00]
• Gloria Peabody Gallagher (MA 1987) is retired from acting and directing and concentrating on writing. [05/00]
• Eric Stewart (BA 1987) began a career in real estate after college. In 2004, he became a talk show host on 630WMAL in Washington DC where he discusses buying and selling real estate - and everything in between. He now has two shows on Sunday morning; one called Pointing You Home with Eric Stewart (PointingYouHome.com) and the other called Rightsizing Your Home. Eric is married with 5 children and currently lives in the house he grew up in. [12/08]
• Mary Rea Kaye (BA 1987) is currently raising her daughter and teaching children’s theatre at the Bell Center for the Performing Arts in Maine. [05/00]
• Michael Gibbons (BA 1987) worked for fifteen years in the US Air Force as a B-52 and B-1 navigator. Now tests flights out of Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City, OK. [02/03]
• Maureen Gough Decombe (BA 1986) is a landscape designer and owner of Green Willow Gardens, a landscape contracting firm specializing in residential garden installations & maintenance.  She is a member of the Horticulture faculty at Foothill College, and lives in Sausalito, CA. [06/05]
• Brad Baker (MA 1986) is Chair of Theatre at Collin county Community College in Plano TX, He was recently honored as the CASE/Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year in the Nation for 2000. He has directed and performed in more than 50 professional productions, including the national touring companies of Annie,Carousel, and served as an artistic associate for the Broadway company of Sarafina! His film credits include, Broadcast News,Barry Levinson'sAvalon,Coal Miner's Daughter and John Waters'Cry-Baby. He shot a cameo appearance this past summer in the independant film North of Nowhere. [04/01]
• Michael Rease (BA 1986) appeared in 25 professional shows in the Washington-Baltimore corridor. Most recently, he was seen as Jeff in Brigadoon and Sir Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes with 2nd Star Productions.  He has also perfomed with Chesapeake Music Hall, Lazy Susan Dinner Theater; Petrucci's Dinner Theater, F. Scott Black's and White Marsh to name a few. In 2001, he was cast in the national tour of Big River. He is currently the Manager of Corporate Relations for the National Association of Independent Schools in DC and a part-time Wedding DJ. [07/05]
• Jacqueline Torres (BA 1986) can be seen in films "The Price of the American Dream" and the Mexican films "La Paloma y el Gavilan," "Clave Secreta", "El Guero Estrada", "Acabame de Matar", "Cuatro Meses de Libertad" and "Blind Dolls". She had supporting roles in the North American films "Miss Castaway", "Two Coyotes", "Perfect Assasins", and the Mexican film "El Senor de los Cerros". Co-starring roles in the North American TV series: "ER", and "The District" as well as recurring roles in Puerto Rican TV Series "Con lo que cuenta este Pais", "Marcano...El Show", and Telemundo's TV series "La Hora Lunatica". She has performed in over 25 theater plays mainly for Hispanic audiences in Los Angeles CA, Puerto Rico and Mexico as well as directed, wrote and produced for films and TV. [03/08]
• John Touhey (BA 1986)is a writer/director living in the NYC area. He is the co-founder of the independent film production company Magicfying Films, LLC. His film September 12th won the Best Feature award at the Longbaugh Film Festival and the Audience and Jury Awards for Best Feature at the Long Island Film Festival. He is currently prepping his next feature and working on various videos and short films. John is also the head writer and story editor for the animated series "Chaotic" which is currently airing on the CW network and on Jetix on cable. [10/08]
• Bryan Ashby (BA 1985) since graduating has worked as an actor, director, singer/dancer, and music director. In 1991 he launched Ashby & Associates. As president, he oversees all aspects of production and administration- and has been listed in the top twenty AV companies in the D.C. area for two years in a row. He has received numerous awards for his work as a director and is recognized as an expert on casting issues and working with actors. Bryan can be seen as host on the HGTV show Building Character.[07/03]
• Gwen Brown (Ph.D. 1985) is Professor of Communication at Radford University. [05/00]
• Gregg Stull (MA 1985) is Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Mary Washington College. Prior to his position, he was Managing Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Director of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in 1992 & 1996. [07/03]
• Adrienne W. Athanas (BA 1984) is a full-time mother and part-time actress, performing at dinner theatres and other venue in the Washington area. [05/00]
• Malcom Nichols (BA 1984) is Production Stage Manager for Maryland Ensemble Theatre - a non equity, not-for-profit theater company. [05/00]
• Alice Newcomb (BA 1984) is the Assistant Director of Public Relations at Brooklyn College. She does ongoing "under five" work on the Guiding Light, has performed off-off-Broadway, and done voice overs for non-profit radio. [05/00]
• Gene Ferrick (BA in theatre and RTVF, 1984) is Master General Admin Assistant to the Dean in the College of Live Sciences at the University of Maryland. [06/00)
• Nathan Rosen (MA 1984) is teaching theatre full time at Atholton High School in Columbia, MD. Recent productions include The Bald Soprano, Ah Wilderness!, Into the Woods, Antigone, and Fiddler on the Roof. [07/04]
• Kelly (Kelso) Anthony (BA 1983) continued to study dance, and choreographed musicals for high schools and community theatre groups in the Baltimore/Annapolis area after she graduated from UMD. She performed with Liberty Showcase Theatre 1986-1989, and worked as a performer and dance ensemble director for the Maryland Renaissance Festival 1989-2003. She has one film credit, the role of the dance teacher in the black gospel film "Shepherd of a Pure Heart." Since 2003, she has also been dancing and competing in Irish dance with the Culkin School (www.Culkinschool.com). [03/07]
• Lois (Hopkins) Sanders (BA 1983) can be seen on stage in a variety of venue in the Washington area, including The Studio Theatre, the P.G. Playhouse, Petrucci’s Dinner Theatre as well as with the Columbia Players and British Embassy Players. [05/00]
• Diane Burakow (MA 1983) is Artistic Director of Little Theatre of Alexandria as well as auditioning, directing and a member of SAG. [06/00]
• Laura Novak Mead (BA 1983) is completing her MBA with the goal of starting a professional theatre company teaching curriculum through entertainment. She has had an active career as a singer/actress and working on industrial films, commercials, main stage theatre, dinner theatre and musical revues. She has an MS in Curriculum and Instruction. [06/00]
• Rick Sabatini (BA 1983) is currently the Senior Broadcast Graphics Designer for Cool Dry Place Editorial in NYC (division of DDB Worldwide Communications). He recently created graphics running on TV spots for clients such as Exxon/Mobil, Hasbro, Westin, NY State Lottery and Hershey. [08/01]
• Phil Setren (BA 1983) is Artistic Director of London New Play Festival and a freelance Director and writer. His credits include; High Society with Wayne Sleep (National Tour/UK ), God Only Knows with Derek Jacobi (UK tour and Vaudeville Theatre), Popcorn with Kelly McGillis (Us Premiere/Waterfront), The Boys Next Door with Steve Guttenberg (Comedy Theatre). In 1987 his U. S. production of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy won the London Fringe Award for Best Comedy, which marked the beginning of his career in the UK. With London New Play Festival he has brought over 140 new writers to the stage, and edited the collection of new plays Best of the Festival' . Aurora Metro, 1998. In television he worked on Evil Twin and in film,  Love Child, Three Minute Hero, and Temporary Girl. Plays he has been involved with include: The Guilt Edge , The Model and The Wailing Mall . He received the Time Out Award in 1994 and Peter Brook Empty Space Award in1998. [10/08]
• Brad Van Grack (BA 1983) is currently a member of the political satire group The Capitol Steps. He has performed all over the country and abroad doing everything from Shakespeare at the London Academy of Dramatic Art to musicals in Atlantic City. Recentl, he appeared in "Unzippin My Doodah" at the Houseman Theater Off-Broadway with The Capitol Steps. He was voted by Playbill On-line "Best Featured Actor in a Musical". In addition, he co-starred on an episode of West Wing, has done feature film work, and has directed locally for equity and dinner theaters. [1/02]
• Douglas Wilson (BA 1983) worked in the Chicago and Cleveland markets after graduating. Beginning in 2002, he supplemented his income by substitute teaching and found that to be satisfying. He is a member of AEA. As a divorced father, he spends much of his time raising his son Drew (1992). After the memorial ceremony for Dr. O'Leary, Doug reunited with Dr. Cynthia Jay who lives in El Paso - he hopes to shorten the distance factor of their relationship in the near future. [11/07]
• Karen Gail Kessler (BA 1982) handles marketing, sales, and public relations for Theatre-By-The-Sea in Matunuck, RI. She is the publicity chairperson for The Community Players in Pawtucket, RI and is a volunteer reader for Insight Radio. [05/00]
• Elizabeth Naylor (BA 1982) is the Tour Producer for the USO World HQ, producing celebrity music and sports figures for the troops overseas. [04/00]
• Floyd Starnes (BA 1982) is currently the principal of an elementary school in Silver Spring, after many years as a first grade teacher. He and his partner have two children and live close to the University. After graduating, he lived in New York and worked in the office of an Off-Broadway Theatre Company and as an assistant talent agent. [10/08]
• Deborah Starobin Armstrong (BS in Business, 1982) is the national leader of The Handmade Afghans to Thank Our Armed Forces Project (www.Rectangle6x9.org). When not working on thanking those wounded in service to the USA, she is displaying her nature photography or working at the Clagett Farm and the University Of Maryland. [11/07]
• Mike Carney (BA 1982) is married with two children and working in Orlando for Walt Disney World Entertainment as a stage technician and talent coordinator for the Disney Magic Music Day’s program. [07/00]
• Chip Bolcik (1978-1981) has spent 25 years making a living as an actor. He started doing voice-overs when he was working at the Folger Theater in DC. After 911, he moved his family west to Hollywood, where he is still doing voice-overs, but also is making a serious attempt to write and sell movies. He wrote and directed several plays in New York and found that he loves writing. [07/05]
• Kenneth J. Lewis (BA 1981) recently returned to Wolf Trap as Production Manager. He was at Yale School of Drama ('86), then from 1989-1995 here at Wolf Trap, and 1995-1999, adjunct faculty member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Dept. of Dramatic Art. He served as Production Manager for Playmakers Rep. Co. at Chapel Hill. [04/00]
• Alan S. Eisen (BA 1981) received my MS in Information Systems from AU (1986); worked for Wang Laboratories after college, and with IBM since 1987. Currently, he is a Client Manager with IBM Federal and has traveled extensively, recently to Africa (South Africa and Zimbabwe) and Chile (including Easter Island). He recently started taking voice lessons. [01/08]
• Wayne Duvall (BA 1981) is a professional actor in Los Angeles. Most notably, he co-starred in the recent Coen Brother's film O' Brother Where Art Thou? and the Paramount release Hard Rain with Morgan Freeman. On TV, he is in a recurring role on the CBS The District. Other films he appeared in include: Apollo 13, Evolution, My Fellow Americans, among others. Past TV credits incluse the X Files, Judging Amy, and Diagnosis Murder. [11/01]
• Charles L. Wilson (BA 1981) is owner of Remax Metropolitan Realty in Rockville, MD. [05/00]
• Ruth Pritchard-Kelly (BA 1981) is a lawyer in a private firm which specializes in satellites and international communications. [07/00]
• Lorrie Ledesma (BA 1980) works as a stagehand through I.A.T.S.E. Local 22 (the local union), primarily at the Kennedy Center as an electrician. [05/00]
• Jill Kyle-Keith (BA 1979) is a professional puppeteer who was inspired by her puppetry teacher at the University of Maryland. [04/00]
• Lawrence Redmond (BA 1979) has been active in Washington Theatre since returning from NYC in 1982. He is an eight-time nominee and two-time recipient of the Helen Hayes Award, and multiple recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship Grant. Recent work includes the role of Jerry Springer in Jerry Springer: The Opera at Studio Theatre 2ndStage, Montague in Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Antigonus/Time in The Winter's Tale at Folger Theatre and the Interrogator in Rock 'n' Roll at The Studio Theatre. [10/08]
• Daniel MacLean Wagner (BA 1979, MA 1982) is Chair and Professor at the Department of Theatre at the University of Maryland as well as Acting Chair of the Department of Dance. Dan has a very active career in the Washington area as a lighting designer and is a 8 time recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design. [09/07]
• Rick Adamson (Inguanti) (BA 1979) After doing some theatre for several years, Rick has focused his efforts on voiceovers, audiobook narration and educational and corporate communications as a spokesman and actor. He's married with three boys and lives in northern NJ. Click him on the web at www.RickAdamson.com [11/07]
• Gail Berman (BA 1978) Was appointed President of Paramount Pictures in March 2005. Previously, she was etertainment President of Fox Broadcasting Co. (since May 2000). She was listed on the One Hundred Notable Alumni list for the University in 1999. She is the former President of Regency Television, the studio that created Malcolm in the Middle. She is married to fellow alum William (Bill) Masters, a TV writer and producer.[07/05]
• Lynne Wintersteller- McGrath (BA 1978) played Mrs. Muir in the musical production of Ghost and Mrs. Muir in LA at the NoHo Cultural Arts Center in North Hollywood.   She also participated in a reading of Rasputin: The Musical at the John Houseman Theatre. [02/06]
• Saundra (Daniel) Cuyler (MA 1978) is training an acting troups for the drama ministry in her church and enjoying retirement. [05/00]
• Bruce Kluger (BA 1978) is a writer, columnist and commentator whose work appears regularly in newspapers and magazines across the country, as well as on the internet, and on TV and radio stations nationwide. Currently a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today, Bruce is also a featured columnist for Parenting magazine and a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Psychology Today and The Los Angeles Times. Formerly an editor of Playboy magazine and a columnist for Us Weekly, Bruce has written for The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, Newsweek, Arrive, Time.com, Salon.com, Alternet.org and the Sesame Street Workshop. He co-edited the books The Right Words at the Right Time, The Right Words at the Right Time, Vol. 2 and Thanks & Giving: All Year Long, all by Marlo Thomas. As an actor, Bruce appeared in the movies The Chosen, The Burning and Playing For Keeps, and on the TV show Diff’rent Strokes. Television enthusiasts might also remember Bruce from his three-year assignment as an on-air correspondent for the E! Channel’s The Gossip Show.[ 10/05]
• Joel Snyder (MA 1978) is a specialist for arts presenting organizations at the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an internationally recognized "audio describer" and trainer of describers to aid people who are blind or have low vision. In addition, his acting credits include regional theatre, dinner theatre, children’s theatre, as well as film work.[04/00]
• R. Patrick Williams (MA 1978) works in the office of Media Relations and Marketing at Utah State University where he is the senior writer and President’s speech and commentary writer. [05/00]
• William Lucas Walker (BA 1978, BS Journalism) worked at U.S. News and World Report before founding Dragonfly Theatre Company in New York City, where he collaborated with Pulizer-Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson to produce a collection of one-acts. He moved to LA in 1991 and was selected for the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop. He has since written for the sitcoms Roseanne, Frasier (Emmy Award) Cybill and Will and Grace. He created the critically acclaimed Showtime series The Chris Isaak Show. Heis currently at work on a novel and a screenplay. [09/07]
• Richard Atkins (BA 1977) is currently working on his new play The Men of Mahjong with playwright/dramaturg Mark Medoff who will direct the piece in Palm Springs in April of 2006. Bob Newhart and George Segal are looking at the script for the two leads. Before that, he worked in NYC as a top hotel pianist as well as playing for such clients as the New York Yankees, Edgar Bronfman at Seagrams, the Broadcaster’s Foundation and Howard Stern’s daughter’s bat mitzvah party. He has also worked as an actor in many regional and Off-Broadway productions. After 9/11, he moved his wife Cheryl and 12 year old daughter Rebecca to New Mexico where he is working with Governor Bill Richardson to build a 13 million dollar cultural arts center between Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
• John Combs (BA 1977) spent over 20 years in NYC studying and applying his acting craft. He now lives in Los Angeles and is a member of the classical acting company, The Antaeus Company, as well as the ground-breaking Circle-X theatre company. He has appeared in many plays in LA as well as co-starring on TV shows such as Judging Amy, Crossing Jordan, The District, Dragnet, Family Law, and Law and Order, among others.  He is a very active member of the theatre community in Los Angeles and enjoys the challenges of bringing live theatre to the community. [12/06]
• Nancy L. Sawyer (BA 1977) is currently working with a small startup business company testing software. She worked at the Public Theatre in New York from graduation through 1980. [05/00]
• Bradford Watkins (BA 1977) is a freelance consultant in theatrical marketing and public relations for a national touring company, a freelance director, and a judge for the Helen Hayes Awards. [05/00]
• Sal Ritz (BA 1977) toured the country as an actor/lecturer for Rick Trow Productions, Philadelphia, after graduating and then attended the John Davidson Singer's Summer Workshop, Catalina Island, CA in 1979. He served as Advisor and Director of the Voorhees High School Theatre from 1987-2003 and 2003-2005 he assisted in the creation of the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts in Bethlehem, PA, serving as it's first Artistic Director of Theatre and Production. As of Sept. 2005, he has been the Producing Director for the Saucon Valley School District Fine Arts. Sal operates his own theatrical production company and also works as a casual laborer for IATSE Local #200 Bethlehem, PA. In his career, Sal has directed and designed over 60 plays and musicals. [09/08]
• William (Bill) Masters (BA 1976) After graduating, Masters got some small acting jobs in the area and put together a stand up comedy routine. In 1980, after performing regularly at Washington clubs such as Garvin's and the Cellar Door, he moved to New York and married Gail Berman (BA 1978), who had become a theater producer. He has produced episodes of "Murphy Brown," and "It's Like, You Know...," with fellow Maryland grad, golfing partner and personal friend, Peter Mehlman ('77 BA History). [02/01]
• Thomas Donahue (MA 1976) received a PhD in Public Communications from the University of Maryland in 1990, and is now the Chair of the Drama Department at the Catholic University of America. [02/03]
• Stephen Judge (BA 1976) Graduate of Boston College Law School in 1982. Currently the Associate Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire. Also a trial lawyer.[02/03]
• Kevin Murray (BA 1975) is currently Managing Director and Casting Director for Theatre of the First Amendment (TFA) of the George Mason University for the Arts. He served as TFA's Company Manager from 1991-98 and adjunct faculty at GMU. He spent 25 years as a freelance actor in film, TV, and on stage and was co-founder of DC's Smallbeer Theatre Co. Mr. Murray is married to Mary Lechter (BA 1985). [04/01]
• Deborah R. Lapidus (BA in English, 1974) has been teaching at Juilliard in the Drama Division the past twelve years and at NYU for nineteen. In the near future she will be directing "Camelot" at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Most recently, she was Musical Supervisor for La Ronde (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and Waiting for Lefty (Blue Light), both directed by Joanne Woodward. [04/00]
• Ilene Marks-Savage (BA 1974) works as a performing arts teacher at a school for special needs students in Annapolis, Maryland. She also directed the first musical comedy at the Harbour School, Annie . Prior to her teaching career, she was a professional makeup artist for nine years. [02/06]
• Mary Wise (BA 1974) attended the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College in 1975, and worked as a circus clown and juggler for the next three years. Since then, she developed her career in technical communication. She now directs the design and development of all product documentation and online help for Manugistics, a supply chain management software company. She is active in the international Society for Technical Communication, where she served on the Board of Directors and as President. She is a frequent conference keynote speaker and presenter on technical communication topics. [11/01]
• Elizabeth Loftus Singer (BA in Theatre, BS in Journalism, 1974-9) is a Psychotherapist in private practice. [05/00]
• Katie Helene (BA English/Theatre, 1973) works in the Special Programs office of the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. [05/00]
• Eugene Kallman (1972) (who was in Man and the Masses, Camino Real, Hairy Apeand other University Theatre productions) and Jack Kyrieleison(also class of '72)Man of La Mancha, Henry IVetc.) have teamed up. Jack has written a musical, Reunion,directed by Ron Holgate, which Eugene produced in New York off-Broadway to rave reviews. Now the two of them are bringing it to Ford's Theatre for a long run from March through June. This play-within-a-play weaves the actual works of key Civil War figures and period music into a patriotic celebration of struggle, inspiration, and freedom. Reunion depicts a vaudeville troupe of six actors led by Harry Hawk - the actor who was on stage at the time Lincoln was shot. Jack conceived Reunion in 1992 and spent the next three years researching the events and music of the Civil War period. Eugene lives in Santa Monica and writes screen plays. The two of them are planning a project for A&E Television. [04/00]
• Jack Kyrieleison (1972)Wrote the book to Reunion - directed by Ron Holgate and produced at Ford’s Theatre. Previously played in NY. A play within a play--which weaves the actual works of key civil war figures and period music into a musical epic in miniature. [02/03]
• Rosemary Pardee Slocum (BA 1972) is currently designing costumes for Arena Stage and the Kennedy Center, and has been a 7 time nominee and recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design, as well as resident designer at The Round House Theatre, Interact Theatre Company, the Everyman Theatre, and Gallaudet University Department of Theatre. [02/03]
• Dr. Carole W. Singleton (MA 1971, Ph.D. 1975) is Professor of Theatre at Howard University, Director of College Productions, Chair of the Committee on Research for the National Association of Schools of Theatre, and Coordinator of Theatre Education at Howard University.[04/00]
• Tom Garey (BA 1971) received his MA from the University of California, Santa Barbara.   He is the Academic Chair of the Theatre Department and Director of Design and Technology at Santa Barbara City College where he has taught for the past thirty years. [02/06]
• Michele Ehrgott Kyrieleison (BA 1971)makes her professional career as a wig artist. [02/03]
• Nancy Lee Torchia (BA 1970) performs North Indian classical music at colleges and other venue throughout the U.S. and in India and Europe. [05/00]
• Judith Freeman Garey (BS Speech & Drama Education 1970) completed her MA at the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara.   She is a Fellow of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Higher Education and currently teaches and directs at Ventura College, Ventura, CA.   [02/06]
• Glorie Magram (BA in Secondary Education, 1970) handles employee training and development for the federal government.[06/00]
• Arthur Runyan (BA 1970) went on to receive M.Div. (Master of Divinity) from Lancaster Theological Seminary in 1983. Pastored Metropolitan Community Churches in Lancaster, PA, Richmond, VA and Piscataway, NJ for a total of 20 years. Currently retired from parish ministry, is now working a part-time itinerant evangelist while holding down a day job as a system analyst for
  Johnson & Johnson. He and his partner, Mike and their three cats live in central New Jersey. [10/03]
• Edward S. Sandler (BA 1969, MA 1971) is the Director of Membership Services at the League of American Theatres and Producers Inc. and President of Edward S. Sandler Productions in New York.[03/06]
• Linda H. Blocker (BA 1969) is teaching at Bridgewater State College teaching teachers how to pass the state’s teacher certification exam. She works lighting shows and sings in two choruses. [05/00]
• Robert Kazley (BA 1969) is the owner of a motorcycle parts store for Harley-Davidson. [05/00]
• Marc A. Rehr (BA 1967, MA 1969) is semi-retired and teaching theatre part time at a community college and selling real estate. [05/00]
• Ellen B. Rudolph (MA 1969) is n National Arts Program Officer for the Surdna Foundation, Inc. where she designed and implemented the foundation’s first initiative supporting arts and education. [05/00]
• Sue Blaustein Jeweler (BS 1969) is an educational consultant and published writer. After 30 years of teaching, she has retired from a distinguished career which included being awarded the Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award. [05/00]
• Stephen C. Grossman (BA 1969) is a television producer who specializes in half hour film sit coms. He just completed a pilot for CBS/Paramount and was the producer for the last 3 Newhart series. [07/00]
• Alan P. Kurland (BA 1968) is the Vice-President and Treasurer of the Asolo-FSU Theatre in Sarasota FL.[09/04]
• Margaret Elkins Frost (BA 1968) teaches dance (creative movement, ballet, jazz and modern) at a local dance studio. [05/00]
• Paula Beldock Rehr (BA 1968) is retiring after 30 years with Montgomery County Public Schools. She is a TV producer for MCPS Cable TV and the winner of two Telly Awards and has an Emmy nomination to her credit. [05/00]
• Jane Lewis Rushefsky (BS 1967) is Director of Educational Resources at Temple Beth El, a survivor interviewer for Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, and consultant for the Center of Holocaust Awareness and Information in Rochester, NY. [05/00]
• Judith M. Fiterman (BA 1966) has spent the last 30 years at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. [05/00]
• Ilene S. Solomon (BA 1966) is currently teaching in the state of Maryland. She has done some work in movies and entered the Rose Bud Competition a few years ago for some videos she directed, produced, and shot. [05/00]
• Ellen (Schlimer) Katz (BS in Education, 1966) is Director at the Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy - the rare and fatal brain disorder which Dudley Moore has. After leaving the University of Maryland, she taught vocal music and performed solo for many events and organizations. [06/00]
• John C. Ford (BA 1964, MA 1965)has his own consulting firm, specializing in management development and organizational leadership. [05/00]
• Barbara Levin Gold (BS 1964) is a social worker with older adults in senior centers. [05/00]
• Mary Anne Sambora Rhodes (BA 1964) is Dean of Liberal Arts at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, IL. [05/00]
• Barbara G. Rosenthal (BA 1964, MA 1970) is President of Rosenthal Qualitative Research (private consultant in marketing and public opinion research). [05/00]
• Sandra Osburn Cherry (BA 1963) is teaching mathematics - looking forward to retirement this year.[05/00]
• Anne Marie (Southworth) Marenka (BA 1962, MA 1964) is a contract specialist for the US Army Aviation Missile Command, Aviation Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center in Redstone Arsenal, AZ. [05/00]
• Lillian Boyce Wray (BA 1962) is a freelance writer and book editor. [05/00]
• Bonnie Waters McGowan (MA 1965) is president of the Board of Managers of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, CT. [05/00]
• Elizabeth Isenstead (BA 1961) teaches Humanities Core Curriculum to Non-Native Speakers of English and to Mainstream Students, Fundamentals of Writing to Non-Native Speakers of English and Feldenkrais Awarness through Movement classes at the Manhattan School of Music where she has been teaching since 1991. [03/07]
• Clare Wootten Crawford-Mason (BA 1958) is a TV producer and author with a distinguished list of credits. She was a founding editor of People magazine, the first woman senior producer for NBC, and the producer of W. Edwards Deming: The Prophet of Quality (a documentary on the American management seer and his philosophy, PBS) and the 34 volume Deming Video Library. In addition, she produced the groundbreaking (first TV documentary) Abortion: The Single Issue,It Only Happens Next Door,and Until Death Do Us Part for NBC on the subjects of abortion, child abuse and spouse abuse. [05/00]
• Arthur D. Sills (MSEE and MSMATH 1957-1963) retired from the Naval Research Laboratory in 1990 and now works in private industry. He enjoys flying small aircraft and is active in Christian Evangelism - currently working in prisons. [05/00]
• Phyllis Samuelson Kolodner (BA 1956) has been a travel agent the past 25 years. At UM she was the business manager for University Theatre and organized the trip for the airforce with the Theatre Department to the Azores, Iceland and Bermuda. Jim Henson was one of the acts they took along. [05/00]
• Rheda Becker (BA 1956) is a music narrator who has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She was the narrator for world premieres of works by Ernst Krenek, Earl Kim, Robert Hall Lewis and Jonathan Holland and has served on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. [07/00]
• Clarita (Watkins) Bahjat (BA 1955) has had an active career as a singer/actress performing equity stock, professional non-equity theatre and doing voice overs in the Washington area and the state of New York. [05/00]
• Charles Rosen (Summer Theatre 1955) works in interior design. He participated in the University Theatre production of Fiddler on the Roofin 1982. [05/00]
• Marsha Oshrine Stoller (BA 1955, MA 1956) has been associated with several non-profits - primarily to raise funds. [05/00]
• Jane C. Pfeiffer (BA 1954) , Management Consultant, is the former Chair of the Board of the National Broadcasting Company. Her major areas of consulting are management organization, communications and government relations. She holds directorships in Ashland Oil, International Paper Company, J.C. Penney Company, and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. She is a trustee of the University of Notre Dame and the Overseas Development Council, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Conference Board, and the Economic Club. [05/00]
• Demetrios S. Lambros (BS 1953) is retired. [05/00]
• Jean Hagerman Collins (BA 1951) is semi-retired and a part-time secretary. [05/00]
• Joyce Marmelstein Hyatt (BA 1951, MA 1953) is a certified Trainer, Educator and Practitioner (TEP) in Psychodrama, Sociometry & Group Psychotherapy. She directs Psychodrama and presents training workshops. [05/00]
• Mollee Coppel Kruger (B.A. 1950) is a freelance writer - producer - director - performer for the First Lady Players, a touring professional group the presents "Ladies First" - an award winning musical production about Presidential wives. [04/00]
• Kennard Bird Calfee (BA 1950) is an English language advisor, consultant and instructor - and active volunteer. [05/00]
• Dr. E. Donald Causey (BA and MA, 1950 & 1951) After an active career in medicine, Dr. Causey is retired and traveling extensively. [05/00]
• Bernard (Buff) Shurr (BA 1950) is actively directing in professional theatre, musical theatre, industrial shows, and opera. [05/00]
• Nancy Clapp Mellon (BS 1949) is retired from teaching and enjoys volunteer opportunities. [05/00]
• Jaclyn A. (Thompson) Ritterpusch (1948-1949) is a retired appraiser. [05/00]
• John W. Stuntz (BS 1947, MSEE 1950), a former Hale Award Winner, is retired from a career in engineering and management. He met his wife, Sandy, backstage at the Tawes Theatre when he was a juvenile and she handled props. [05/00]
• Allen Bowers (BA 1949) is a writing tutor at the University of Maryland campus Writing Center. [07/00]
• Alma (Finkelstein) Lewis (BA 1944) is a docent tour guide at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. [05/00]
• Marjorie Cook Burton (BS 1943) is retired and enjoying gold and volunteering hospice care. [05/00]
• Jane Chapin Watson (BS in Institutional Management, 1943) is a retired teacher and consulting dietician. [05/00]
• Dr. Ben Williamowsky (1942-1944) is consultant to "The Crandus Group" in sale and appraisals of dental practices. He is an active volunteer and enjoys golf and traveling. [05/00]
• H. Irvin Cook (1940) is retired and working at the Rotary Club. [05/00]
• Patricia Schutz Browne (BA 1939) is enjoying her retirement years playing golf, bridge and line dancing. After graduating from UM, she had her own ballroom dance studio and contracted with the USO to teach classes. In addition, in Thailand, she taught English to the military who were coming back to the US. [05/00]

On February 15, 2003, The Department of Theatre hosted A Celebration of the Legacy of Rudolph E. Pugliese and Roger L. Meersman. Alumni and friends joined us to honor these two figureheads of the Department of Theatre.



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