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]
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