Victor Maog is an award-winning stage director and educator whose work has reached over half the continental United States. At the age of twenty, Maog was appointed as the youngest Artistic Director of the ten-year-old Theatre Arts Project of San Joaquin County in Stockton, CA, which claimed the nation's highest welfare rate. At the helm of this $350,000 Department of Labor summer initiative, he led the hundred-member inner-city company to the Presidential Award for Outstanding Academic Enrichment. By age twenty-two, he had taught and directed in over a dozen states, performed with the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe, attained his first university residencies, and was on the faculty of NYU's Creative Arts Team.

Since that time, he's collaborated at NYSF/Public Theater, Hartford Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Lark Play Development Center, MCC Theater, New Dramatists, and directed/taught for NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University, and others. He has developed and directed new works including his three-man adaptation of The Tempest, Grammy Winner John Selder's hip hop piece News to Me, Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff's martial arts experimental dance work Voice of the Dragon, and traveled to Phnom Penh in preparation for his American staging of Him Sophy's fusion of ancient instruments and rock-and-roll in Where Elephants Weep, a contemporary Cambodian opera. Maog also co-devised Journey Theatre for Immigrants' Theatre Project - an ensemble creation with international victims of war and torture.

He is the recipient of the prestigious NEA/TCG Career Development Award, Paula Altvater Fellowship at Cornerstone Theatre Company, and the Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Off Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. A member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Partial Comfort Productions, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, he has been a mentor director for the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival and represented the United States as a delegate to the International Theatre Institute/UNESCO's 31st World Congress in Manila. He attained a B.A., with a concentration in Global Leadership and Performance Studies, from New York University's Gallatin School and is honored to be a part of Perry-Manfield's pioneering work.

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Joel Gelpe is a conductor, pianist, vocal coach and composer/lyricist. As conductor/music director he has led over one hundred shows, including the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Evita directed by Broadway legend Harold Prince, and a National Tour of 42nd Street. Recent New York area credits include the music direction for Theatre TenTen's The Singapore Mikado, Music-Theatre Group's The Odyssey at the 92nd Street Y (starring Mary Beth Hurt and Kate Burton), and productions of Swing, Cabaret, Chicago, Hot Mikado and Footloose at the Westchester Broadway Theatre. In the symphonic world, Joel has served as Music Director of the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, for whom he conducted dozens of concerts, including the world premiere of The Skümbaag Show (featuring the alternative rock band Skümbaag) as well as more traditional yet challenging fare such as Bruckner's 4th, Brahms' 3rd & 4th, and Bartok's 3rd piano concerto. As a composer/lyricist, Joel's long association with the New York City-based company TADA! has yielded six New York productions of his family shows The Little Moon Theater and The Little House of Cookies. His children's songs have also been performed at The White House. In the political/satirical realm, he has contributed songs to numerous topical revues by The Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis. In 2004 he released his first CD of original satirical songs entitled "Civility in America." Currently Joel serves as Coach/Accompanist and Music Director for the BFA Musical Theatre Program at Ithaca College, where he also teaches classes in Musical Theatre Repertoire, History of American Musical Theatre and recently conducted the world premiere of the new musical The Count of Monte Cristo. Education: MM Arizona State University, BME Hartt School of Music.

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David Baecker is spending his tenth summer with the theatre department at Perry-Mansfield. His previous P-M directing credits include Mad Forest, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Laramie Project, The Overcoat and others. Additionally, David has participated in several New Works Festival workshops (The Hudsucker Proxy, A Place at Forest Lawn, and Rodeo) and has coordinated P-M in the UK, the camp's London study program with Shakespeare's Globe. During the rest of the year, David is an assistant professor of theatre at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. His recent directing credits for Sage include The Turn of the Screw, Proof, Anton in Show Business and Boston Marriage. He is currently involved in a three-year theatrical exploration of beauty and body image called MIRROR MIRROR. David acts and educates with the New York State Theatre Institute, performing in such shows as 1776 (Thomas Jefferson), Miracle on 34th Street (Fred Gailey), Anastasia (Dr. Serensky) and The Lark (Brother Ladvenu). He has acted with Theater Voices in Albany and has performed off-Broadway, at the Seattle Fringe Festival, Queens Theatre in the Park and with such companies as the Asolo Theatre Festival and Actor's Theatre of Louisville. David has a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.F.A. from Florida State University, and has studied at the FSU London Study Center and Shakespeare's Globe.

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Michael Cassara, is a Casting Director, Director, and Producer based in New York City and dedicated to developing and fostering the growth of new musicals, plays, and film projects. He is incredibly pleased to be returning to Perry-Mansfield, where he directed a workshop production of Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk's musical The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown in the 2007 New Works Festival, starring Donna Bullock and Thom Sesma. Since the formation of Michael Cassara Casting in 2003, projects have included A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (Sondheim Center, starring Richard Kind), Cassandra's Angel (workshop, starring Malcolm Gets), The Molly Maguires (Pre-Broadway Workshop, dir. Sheryl Kaller, mus. dir John McDaniel), Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie (National Tour), If This Hat Could Talk (National Tour, directed by Tony®-Award winner George Faison), The Gig (York Theatre Concert/Cast Recording), The Unauthorized Autobiography Of Samantha Brown (Makor, w/ Michael Arden and Celia Keenan-Bolger), Joy (off-Broadway), and countless readings and workshops. He presently serves as the resident casting director for the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts (Fairfield, IA), the Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory and the Kitchen Theatre Company (Ithaca, NY), and has recently cast productions for the Vineyard Playhouse (Martha's Vineyard, MA), the Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD), and many other regional theatres throughout the US. As the resident casting director for the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Michael has cast over two dozen individual projects since the festival's inception in 2004, including The Yellow Wood (dir. Tony®-Award winner B. D. Wong). Before opening his own casting office, Michael worked in casting with Johnson-Liff Casting Associates, Ltd. and Cameron Mackintosh, Inc. Michael recently completed casting his first feature film, Clear Blue Tuesday, directed by Elizabeth Lucas and set for release in late 2008. Originally a performer, Michael is a native Clevelander and a graduate of the musical theatre program at Otterbein College. He regularly teaches musical theatre performance, and lectures on entertainment industry topics, in New York City and throughout the world. Member, Casting Society of America. For more information please visit his website at www.michaelcassara.net .

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Alex Correia is currently the Director in Residency for the INTAR Actors' Collective where he directed 365 Plays/ 365 Days by Suzan Lori Parks and Thorny Bushes, a Staged Radio Novella, written by INTAR Playwrights Group. In INTAR's New Works Lab he directed plays by Desi Moreno-Penson, Cusi Cram, Mando Alvardo, and Mariana Carreno. Some of his Directing Credits include: The Woman by Michael John Garces for the 24hr Plays Company; Dwarfs by Harold Pinter and Dutchman by LeRoi Jones at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop; I Am Yours by Judith Thompson at Center Stage (NY); and Othello by William Shakespeare at the John Houseman Studio Theater (NY). Assistant Director credits include: assisting Gregory Boyd on Design for Living by Noel Coward at Williamstown Theater Festival, Andrei Serban on Lysistrata by Aristophanies at A.R.T. (Boston), Christopher Bayes on Scapin by Moliere at the Intiman Theater (Seattle) and The Court Theater (Chicago), and Andrei Belgrader on King Stag by Carlo Gozzi at The Juilliard School (NY). Alex Correia was a fellowship recipient of The Artist Diploma Program for Theater Directors at the Juilliard School (2000-2003). At Juilliard his directing projects included: Appreciation by Francine Volpe, Pericles by William Shakespeare, Road to Nirvana by Arthur Kopit, and his Directing Thesis was A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. As a teaching artist, he has taught Scene Study, Acting Technique, Improvisation/Theater Games, and a Shakespeare Workshop at the West Palm Children's Theater in Florida, the Fledgling Film Camp in Vermont, and Vermont Arts Imstitute in Lyndonville, Vermont.

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Rusty de Lucia was originally introduced to theater by Charlotte Perry and attended P-M first as a student (1955-1957) and later as a faculty member (1958-1965, 1989 to present). Rusty holds an MA in Theater and English from Western State College of Gunnison, CO and a BS degree from the State University of New York, Oneonta. Rusty currently teaches both Theater and English at the Steamboat Springs Middle School and is a Board Member for the Steamboat Community Players. Her recent directing credits include Twelve Angry Jurors and Cinderella. This is Rusty's 27th summer of teaching theater at camp.

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Pianist and harpsichordist Michael Eisenberg has been presented by Carnegie Hall in New York City as a recitalist and chamber musician in an ongoing series of 17th-century Italian repertoire. He has performed in Brazil, Argentina, France, Spain, England, Austria, Germany, Italy, Canada, and throughout the United States. He recently returned from an engagement as featured guest at the 2007 International Keyboard Festival in Almeria, Spain. Mr. Eisenberg's performance credits include appearances with the New York Virtuosi Symphony, the Queens Orchestra, and the Convent Cathedral Choir. He has also toured internationally with the Harlem Theater and been featured on National Public Radio in the United States. As a distinguished conductor and vocal coach on the Metropolitan Opera Guild roster, Mr. Eisenberg has been noted for his expressive and dynamic musical readings. He is the founding artistic director of acclaimed chamber ensemble Le Nuove Musiche and director of outreach and concert programs for NYC-based Joy of New Music, Inc. An internationally recognized expert on early music notation and performance, Mr. Eisenberg is the Bibliographical Society of America 2007-2008 Fellow and the Harvard University-Houghton Library 2008-2009 Fellow, and travels as a guest speaker and performer to premier universities and events around the world. His numerous fellowships include the Sylvia Marlowe Fellowship for Harpsichord. He holds Masters degrees in both harpsichord and piano from The Mannes College of Music and is currently a Ph.D. candidate completing a dissertation on the early history of music engraving and its role in stylistic dissemination. Mr. Eisenberg has recorded the award-winning Forbidden Dance, showcasing music of the early Baroque on Dorian/EMA; and is the pianist for A Simple Pleasure on IMS recording featuring Canadian soprano Patricia Sonego.

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Oskar Eustis is the Artistic Director of The Public Theater and has worked as a director, dramaturg, and artistic director for theaters around the country. From 1981 through 1986 he was resident director and dramaturg at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco, and Artistic Director until 1989, when he moved to the L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum as Associate Artistic Director until 1994. Mr. Eustis then served as Artistic Director at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island for eleven years. In 2005 he took the helm at New York's Public Theater. Throughout his career, Mr. Eustis has been dedicated to the development of new plays as both a director and a producer. At The Public he directed the New York premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise. At Trinity Rep, he directed the world premiere of Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production); Homebody/Kabul (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production); the world premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise; Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director); Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika; as well as world premieres of plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ellen McLaughlin, and Eduardo Machado. He commissioned Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco and directed its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum. He was a professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance at Brown University, where he founded and chaired the Trinity Rep/Brown University Consortium for professional theater training. He received an honorary doctorate from Brown in 2001 and currently serves as Professor of Dramatic Writing and Arts and Public Policy at New York University.

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Jonathan Farmer is a NYC based writer, performer and director. Since 2001, Jonathan has been writing and directing new work for children at Andy's Summer Playhouse in Wilton, NH. As an actor, he has performed at HERE Arts Center, Vital Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Chocolate Factory, Syracuse Stage, and others. He is a founding member of High Fidelity Theatre Company. Jonathan originated the roles of Doofus in David Lindsay-Abaire's Snow Angel and Alan in John C. Russell's Barbie and Ken: The Untold Story. He has worked with Dan Hurlin, David Dorfman, Brian Selznick, Christopher Williams, Emily Decola, David Michael Friend, and is a frequent collaborator with the Obscuras (a Dadaist nostalgia band). Currently, he is developing a solo object theatre piece, Unearthed, for Dixon Place and St. Anne's Warehouse and is canvassing in a mock campaign to elect Eugene V. Debs for president in 2008. Jonathan received his BFA in Acting from Syracuse University.

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Lorraine Goodman: After twenty years as a professional performer, appearing on Broadway in Terrence McNally's "Master Class", (Ms. Goodman performed the role of "Sharon" - originally played by Tony-award winner Audra McDonald - over 100 times, with all three Broadway Marias: Zoe Caldwell, Patti LuPone, and Dixie Carter); "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and "Les Misérables", Ms Goodman has turned to directing and teaching. Her production of "Master Class" which she staged for the Anchorage Opera was later featured at Edward Albee's Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, Alaska, in June 2002. In February 2003, she returned to Alaska to direct her first full-length opera, "Die Fledermaus," for the Anchorage Opera Company, for which she also authored a new English translation. In June 2003, Ms Goodman was invited back to the Last Frontier Theater Conference where she directed a production of Romulus Linney's "Heathen Valley." It was while starring in "Phantom of the Opera" and living in Germany that she began her teaching career, at the Stella Academy of Hamburg. Upon returning to the United States, she continued to teach, first at NYU's CAP 21, and ultimately landing at the Music Conservatory of Westchester (MCW), where she has taught both Musical Theater Performance and private voice since 2003. As a director, Ms. Goodman has worked in various mediums – from opera to plays and musicals. Last summer she directed the very successful "The Mikado Comes to Titipu" – an adaptation for young performers of Gilbert & Sullivan's beloved operetta for the Summer Theater Program at the MCW. And this past March, she conceived and directed a "Montage from Hair" for a benefit performance at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Goodman is thrilled to join the faculty at Perry-Mansfield and looks forward to an exciting summer making art under the vista of the Rocky Mountains.

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Robin Amy Gordon is happy to join the Perry-Mansfield theatre faculty. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting and New Works Creation from The Ohio State University and an interdisciplinary B.A. in Dance and Theatre from Reed College, and she is an active member of AEA and AFTRA. From 2002-2008, Robin was Artistic Associate for the Contemporary American Theatre Company (CATCO), where she collaborated with guest artists and artistic staff as consultant, coach, choreographer, assistant director, or performer on numerous productions. Recent choreography for professional and educational theatre includes The Complete History of America (Abridged), Beauty and the Beast, and Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Recent performances include Sarah in Edward Albee's Seascape, Maggie in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Elena in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Original works for the stage include an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper; R & J, a two-person adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, and I Fell Away, a psycho-physical tale of indecision from a modern-day Ophelia. Also an educator, Robin has taught theatre courses at Kenyon College, Otterbein College, Clark State College, University of Toledo, The Ohio State University, and The Wellington School.

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Philip Hernández is the only man in Broadway history to have played both Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert in Les Miserables. He made his Broadway debut in the Original Cast of the Tony Award-winning Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Harold Prince. In Kiss, he created the role of Esteban and later went on to play the impassioned revolutionary Valentin in London's West End and on Broadway. Philip also created the role of the Reverend Gonzalez opposite Marc Anthony and Ruben Blades in the Original Cast of Paul Simon's The Capeman. He starred as Don Quixote in the acclaimed Paper Mill Playhouse revival of Man of La Mancha and as Rico (yes, he wore a diamond) in the National Tour of Barry Manilow's Copacabana. He recently completed a 15-month run as Juan Peron in Harold Prince's 25th Anniversary North American Tour of EVITA. Philip played attorney Enrico Alvarez on ABC's All My Children and has also appeared in featured roles on the daytime dramas One Life To Live, Loving and Another World. He has worked in concert with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein, Robert Shaw and Zubin Mehta, and with Symphony orchestras throughout the United States. Jazz Review called the release of his Latin-Jazz CD, The beat of my heart, "A gift from the heart from one of America's great voices." Mr. Hernandez was also co-founder and Executive Producer of New York's award-winning classical ensemble Judith Shakespeare Company. As a private coach in NYC, Philip helps students develop an individual, healthy, flexible vocal technique, and prepares them for auditioning and working in today's professional musical theatre. Mr. Hernández is a faculty member at New York's American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), and teaches master classes and workshops at theatres and universities across North America. He holds a degree in Theatre and Educational Psychology from the State University of New York and studied acting under the tutelage of legendary teachers Stella Adler and Larry Moss. His favorite role is being "daddy" to his ten-year-old daughter, Mariah.

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Joan Holden was principal playwright for the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe from l967 to 2000: creating, as author or head writer, a satire a year for the Troupe's annual summer season in the parks. Selected titles: THE INDEPENDENT FEMALE, OR A MAN HAS HIS PRIDE; THE DRAGON LADY'S REVENGE; FALSE PROMISES; THE HOTEL UNIVERSE; the FACTWINO trilogy; RIPPED VAN WINKLE; SEEING DOUBLE; BACK TO NORMAL, SOCIAL WORK, and CITY FOR SALE. With composer-lyricist Bruce Barthol and others, she also wrote most of the Troupe's major indoor productions in the 1980's and 1990's: AMERICANS, OR LAST TANGO IN HUAHUATENANGO; STEELTOWN; SPAIN/36, and OFFSHORE. Since the l980's, Holden has enjoyed a parallel career as a translator and adaptor of comedies: Dario Fo's THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST an OPEN COUPLE for the Eureka Theater, Beaumarchais' THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and Fo's THE POPE AND THE WITCH for the American Conservatory Theater, and Ben Jonson's VOLPONE and THE ALCHEMIST for the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. With director Dan Chumley, she has created shows in collaboration with artists in Israel, the Philippines, Nepal and Hong Kong. NICKEL AND DIMED, Holden's stage adaptation of the best-seller by Barbara Ehrenreich, was commissioned by the Intiman Theatre in 2002, and subsequently produced at the Mark Taper Forum, the Trinity Repertory Company, the Guthrie Lab, the Cleveland Public Theater, TheatreWorks, Brava! for Women in the Arts, the Uppsala Staateater (Sweden), and dozens of smaller theaters and universities. PARIS ON THE PLATTE, about an early-1900's clash between reformers and machine politicians in Denver, was commissioned and produced by Curious Theatre there in 2005. MALL-MART, THE MUSICAL received a workshop production at BRAVA! FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS, San Francisco, in 2006 and opened at Curious Theatre in April, 2007. Ms. Holden served on peer panels for the California Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts. She has received Bay Area Critics' Circle, Dramalogue, and Los Angeles Critics' Circle awards; playwriting grants from the Rockefeller and Gerbode Foundations; the San Francisco Working Women's Festival Working Woman of the Year award, and, with SFMT, the San Francisco Media Alliance Golden Gadfly Award. In 2007 the BAY GUARDIAN named her a Local Hero.

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Aaron Jafferis has performed his hip hop poetry at Madison Square Garden, the Kennedy Center, and the National Poetry Slam Championships, where he was the 1997 Open Rap Slam champion. His hip hop musical Kingdom (music by Ian Williams) won a 2008 Richard Rodgers Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and the award for Most Promising New Musical at the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival. His solo hip hop play No Lie has been seen at the Nuyorican Poets Café, H.E.R.E., Passage Theatre, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, and at high schools and colleges across the country. His hip hop play Shakespeare: The Remix (music by Gihieh Lee) was commissioned by TheatreWorks (Palo Alto) and performed by TheatreWorks, St. Louis Black Rep, Capital Rep, Zachary Scott Theatre, and Collective Consciousness. He is currently working on The Weird Sisters, a hip hop opera about young women surviving in the city. In 2007, Aaron was named one of "50 To Watch" by The Dramatist. He has received artist residencies from the MacDowell Colony, TheatreWorks, and Weston Playhouse. He has written poetry for the Urban Bush Women dance troupe and for The Nation and Northeast magazines. He received his BA in Arts & Social Change from the University of California at Berkeley, studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and received his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU, where he was an Alberto Vilar Global Fellow in the Performing Arts. For the last decade he has taught playwriting, poetry, and hip hop theatre in urban high schools, middle schools, and detention centers.

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Will MacAdams is a playwright and director based in New York City. Past directing credits include: TopDog/UnderDog, Game On, The Open Road Anthology (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Krapp's Last Tape (Symphony Space, New York City); One Flea Spare (Columbia University); Peter Handke's Kaspar (Afrika Cultural Centre, Johannesburg); and Awaken New Haven, a four-neighborhood, five-hour theatrical event produced by Long Wharf Theatre. As a playwright, he is currently writing Cruising the Divide, a community-based play that will be performed by Actors Theatre of Louisville's Apprentice/Intern Company in May. Other plays include Freedom River, Waiting for Justice, and Eye to Eye (co-writer), created with young people and future officers from the New Haven Police Department. Mr. MacAdams is a 2000 recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. He received a B.A. in Theater and Anthropology from Yale University and an M.F.A. in Theater Directing from Columbia University.

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Joseph Price is the Associate Head of Acting at the MFA Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Missouri Kansas City. UMKC is affiliated with the Kansas City Repertory Theatre (LORT). At KC Rep he has acted in productions of Winter's Tale, Indian Ink and Inherit the Wind and choreographed fights for Company, Liaisons Dangereuses, The Miracle Worker and Major Barbara. He is a founding member of A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago, Oasis Theatre Company in Buffalo, where he has served as Associate Artistic Director and he is currently an Artistic Associate with Kansas City Actors Theatre. Additional regional theatre acting credits include: Death of a Salesman, Johnny Pye, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Born Guilty. As a director, Joseph Price has staged the world premiere of the musical Wildboy, by Sesame Street head writer Lou Berger and the Midwest premiers of Painted Alice and Bright Ideas. Other credits include: Blue/Orange, Fuddy Meers and The Shape of Things at the Unicorn Theatre. In the past three years, he has directed three Martin McDonagh plays: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (October2007). At the University of Missouri, Kansas City he has directed over 20 productions including: Present Laugher, Boesman and Lena, Tape, The Importance of Being Earnest, Polaroid Stories, Mad Forest and The Circus Show. For five years, he served on the AIDS Council of Greater Kansas City where he produced and conceived theatre and concerts for The Black Church of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS. In June 2006, he met the love of his life, Cristina Pippa, at Perry-Mansfield. On December 16, 2006 he proposed in Lower Perry. Cristina, in snowshoes, accepted and they were married in September.

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Sylvia Rands is one of New Zealand's most cherished and inspirational teachers of Voice, Transformational Process and the craft of Acting. She teaches a unique Vocal Process, developed over the last 18 years, which benefits theatre, dance and singing professionals as well as anyone interested in deepening and widening the quality of their self-expression and becoming more authentic in their creative process. As a seasoned actor, director and teacher Sylvia has developed her work from her own experience in performance; she moves beyond the traditional approach to the voice as merely an instrument, working at a deeper level connecting the voice to the whole self. She teaches a complete range of vocal technique and practice which can be applied to all environments — from actor training to presentation skills for corporate clients. Group work is supported by one-on-one diagnostic sessions and her unique Sound Healing ( energy work ). which is designed to clear emotional, physical and spiritual pathways to achieve full health and self-expression. VocalVision Voicework is an integration of vocal, therapeutic and spiritual Mastery: it has been fed by the work of Kristin Linklater, Shakespeare & Co, Hakomi Bodywork - USA , Lichtenberg Institute - Germany, Roy Hart Theatre and Pantheatre - France , Frankie Armstrong, Cicely Berry - Britain , and a wide range of metaphysical teaching. Sylvia Rands trained at Theatre Corporate, Auckland's most cutting-edge theatre company of the seventies, working continuously across New Zealand over the next two decades as actress, director, devisor and voice artist in classical work, comedy, musicals; stage, television and film. In 1985 Sylvia was nominated Best Actress for her role in NZ's first million dollar period drama, Hanlon, and in 1995 Best Supporting Actress for her comedy role in the movie Bonjour Timothy. Sylvia is particularly passionate about the worlds of Chekhov and Shakespeare and creating new cross-disciplinary work using language, text and sound. Her innovative solo Shakespeare show Such Sweet Thunder, using text from 14 of Shakespeare's plays, premiered at the 1990 NZ International Festival of the Arts and toured the country to great acclaim. From 1997- 2005 Sylvia taught at several of Australia's key actor-training institutions: Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, University of Western Sydney and The Actor's Centre, Sydney. She is currently Head of Voice at New Zealand's premier theatre training institution: Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. Here she is seeding her new vocal training, which focuses on accessing emotional authenticity as a key to the development of full Presence in the actor. She has developed a system of teaching an embodied vocal process by working with the Five Elements - Earth, Water, Fire and Air plus Ether. This she uses as the framework for her classroom teaching and her public workshops, which she continues to run as part of her private practice. Sylvia has just finished playing Prospero in a flip-coin production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Auckland to full houses and much acclaim.

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Jennifer McCray Rincon received her B.A. in Theatre Studies from Yale University and an M.F.A. in directing from the Yale School of Drama. She began her career as the assistant to Nikos Psacharopoulos for many years at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. At Williamstown, Ms. Rincon began a long working relationship with Gerald Gutierrez. She was the Staff Repertory Director for the Acting Company under his artistic direction. She is the recipient of many awards, including The Boris Sagal directing grant at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the NEA Directing Fellowship at Playwrights' Horizons under the Artistic Direction of Andre Bishop. She received a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Bogota, Colombia, where she directed her own adaptation of Three Sisters at the Teatro Popular de Bogota. Ms. Rincon was the Head of Acting at the prestigious National Theatre Conservatory for 17 years, directing over 50 productions. In Colorado, she was the Artistic Director of The Lizard Head Theatre Company in Telluride and has directed at the Denver Center Theatre Company and El Centro Su Teatro. Most recently, Ms. Rincon has been co-directing and co-producing a new play, Expedition 6, written and directed by Bill Pullman.

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Not only style but substance is the benchmark of director Otis Sallid's work. His accomplishments as a director and choreographer in theater, television and film are known throughout the entertainment industry. His work in Spike Lee's SCHOOL DAZE, DO THE RIGHT THING and MALCOLM X, the opening titles for the television shows LIVING SINGLE and SUDDENLY SUSAN, Disney's SISTER ACT II and Thomas Carter's SWING KIDS has positioned him amongst the most notable producer/director/ choreographers, the latter winning him the BOB FOSSE L.A. CHOREOGRAPHERS DANCE AWARD.

Otis Sallid attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. A full scholarship to the JUILLIARD SCHOOL followed, where the conservatory continued to shape his choreographic style and prepared him for his entry into the world of theater, film and television.

After Juilliard, Otis worked his way as an actor-dancer through numerous Broadway shows and dance companies. The experience on Broadway and in acting companies served to expand Sallid's interest as he realized his dream to write, produce, choreograph and direct. While working on Broadway he formed his theater company called The New Art Ensemble. It consisted of ten dancers, singers and actors. Everyone in the company was considered a "triple threat". In his first season, Otis was able to produce the company on Broadway at THE EDISON THEATER. The reviews were tremendous.

Otis Sallid's commercial directing career began with the organization of his production company PICTURE OTIS VISUALS. Within the first year Otis directed and produced more than a dozen high end national commercials for clients such as FORD, COCA COLA, GENERAL MOTORS, SPRITE, McDONALD'S AND GEORGIA STATE LOTTERY. This garnered him several commercial awards as well as appearing on the reels of such major corporations as PROCTER AND GAMBLE and MCDONALD'S.

After tucking a successful commercial career under his belt, Otis moved on to the world of music videos. Here he was able to mingle his talents as an innovative choreographer and an imaginative director. These efforts won him the M.T.V. and MUSIC VIDEO PRODUCERS ASSOCIATIONS AWARD.

As a television director he has directed several episodes of LIVING SINGLE, FOR YOUR LOVE and the dance sequences for THE NIKKI COX SHOW. His childrens television credits include GULLAH GULLAH for NICKELODEON and OUT OF THE BOX for DISNEY. He has also directed, choreographed and produced the opening titles for SUDDENLY SUSAN, THE JEFF FOXWORTHY SHOW, LIVING SINGLE and the end credits for the film SISTER ACT II. In his spare time he penned the title song for the late night hit musical television show SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO and SUDDENLY SUSAN.

In 1995 Sallid conceived the hit Broadway show SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, and in 1996 he choreographed the 69TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS. For the rest of the decade Otis went on to work with such artists as Faith Hill, Bill Cosby, Brooke Sheilds, Marion Jones (Olympic Gold Medalist), Christina Ricci, Patti LaBelle, Tony Bennett, Julio lglesia, Denzel Washington, Billy Crystal, Sam Jackson, Robert Sean Leonard, Gregory Hines, Spike Lee, Lawrence Fishburn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Janet Jackson, Prince, Vanessa Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Debbie Allen, James Ingram, Viveca Fox, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Don Cheatle, Queen Latifah, and lyanla Van Zant.

As the new millenium approached, Otis's thoughts and talents turned to writing."There was a need and a hunger to tell stories that reflected a world that seemed somehow over looked." Having no prior experience as a writer Otis put pen to paper and wrote his first book of short stories called HARLEM STORIES, Stories from his childhood and of growing up in Harlem, New York. In the summer of 2002 Otis finished his second piece which was a musical stage play. It was called SPIRITUAL, a contemporary look at Negro Spirituals. SPIRITUAL opened to six weeks of sold out houses at The West Angeles Theater Center starring Bebe Winans, Pauletta Washington, Vanessa Bell Calloway and Kyme.

In 2004, once again returning to the musical idiom, Otis Sallid wrote BIG OTIS JUMP UP BLUES REVUE. It was a tribute to Big Joe Turner and all the great artist who made "jump up blues" and eventually rock and roll music famous. It's historical signifigance on the world musical landscape had gone widely unoticed and Otis thought that it was time for a musical that had the importance of Fats Waller's Ain't Misbehavin to be acknowledged. The reviews were outstanding. The next wriiting assignment was a dance musical entitled MANCINI featuring the music of Henry Mancini. In between writing assignments, Otis found time to direct and choreograph projects outside of his own. He directed LIL BUDDA at The Eugene O'Neal Center. In 2005 he choreographed Charlayne's Woodard's FLIGHT at The Kirk Douglass Theater and directed the opera gala for Opera Noire at The Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Both projects received tremendous acclaim.

Currently Otis has been teaching drama at Phildanco, The Philadelphia Dance Company for their summer intensive. He is also appearing in GOSPEL! GOSPEL! GOSPEL!, a play that he has written. It is running in Los Angeles for the month of July and August of 2005.

In 2006 Otis directed an interview show called Infiniti In Black featuring Elvis Mitchel , film critic for the New York Times it premiered on BET. He also produced, directed and choreographed the 2006 opening live event of Super Bowl XL featuring Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Josh Stone and John Legend.

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Eric Ting is Associate Artistic Director at Long Wharf Theatre. Recent directing credits include The Bluest Eye (Hartford Stage / Long Wharf Theatre), Underneath the Lintel (Long Wharf, 05/06 Connecticut Critics Circle awards for Best Director and Best Production of a Play) and The Little Prince (Round House Theatre). He also recently designed puppets for Opera Boston's production of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers and projections and animations for Childsplay's Tomas and the Library Lady. Upcoming: adapting and directing Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Long Wharf 2009). Co-founder of Company Ajar - a provocative physical theatre mingling puppetry, mask, and music with original and found text - Ting's work has been presented internationally, including France, Canada, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Bali. Ting has assisted such esteemed directors as Bartlett Sher (Singing Forest), Liviu Ciulei, Lou Bellamy (Darker Face of the Earth), Henryk Baranowksi (Oresteia), Carey Perloff, Gordon Edelstein and Loy Arcenas (The Romance of Magno Rubio). Original plays include Rwanda: A Vaudeville, Comfort Women and Miss Waldron's Red Colobus.

Ting has a BFA in Directing, Playwriting & Puppetry from West Virginia University and an MFA in Performance Studies from the International Actor Training Academy - University of Tennessee; he also has extensive training in the LeCoq method. He has taught acting, directing, mask, and puppetry in various workshops and at the University of Tennessee, and was head instructor for the West Virginia University Children's Theatre Workshop for three years. He has led playwriting workshops for survivors of domestic violence, and spearheaded a four-year association with the Scotts Run Settlement House (WV) After School Program for underprivileged children. Awards and grants include a 2004-2006 TCG New Generations Future Leaders fellowship and the 06/07 Jerome & Roslyn Milstein Meyer Career Development Prize.

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Terry Waldo, the protégé of the late Eubie Blake, is a virtuoso ragtime, stride, and blues pianist. He is also a vocalist and performer — famous for his dry wit. Terry has produced and arranged over 50 albums, including a ragtime orchestra album for BMG. He has performed and composed for many TV programs and films including The Naked Dance: The Music of Storyville for PBS. Terry's music can also be heard on the soundtrack of the recent PBS documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. His This Is Ragtime, currently being republished by Jazz at Lincoln Center, is the definitive book on the subject and his 26-part series, of the same title, produced for National Public Radio, fueled the 1970s ragtime revival. He is also performing in numerous theatrical projects including his two one-man shows, Eubie & Me and The Naked Dance: The Music of Storyville now being booked by Columbia Artists. Waldo has previously been music director of a number of other shows about historical jazz figures, among them: Mr. Jelly Lord (based on the life of Jelly Roll Morton and directed by Vernel Bagneris), Down Hearted Blues: Bessie Smith, Ambassador Satch (on Louis Armstrong and directed by André De Shields and performed on London's West End), the Playwrights Horizon's production of Heliotrope Bouquet (based on the life of Scott Joplin and directed by Joe Morton) and Waldo's own show, Shake That Thing, which opened at the Queens Theater in the Park in 1999. Waldo was composer and music director for the sequel to Sugar Babies called Scandals. Last year he composed the music for a Chekhov short story adaptation called Trophy Wife for La Mama Theater. This year he composed the music for Sex, Drugs & Ukuleles directed by Victor Maog for The Theater For the New City.

Terry has taught courses on Musical Theater, Film and Jazz history at Ohio State University, Denison University and Queens College and has presented numerous seminars in various universities. He is currently developing a vaudeville show package for children of multi-media materials for performance and historical study. He will be teaching a two-week course on ragtime music for Jazz At Lincoln Center in 2009. Terry has worked and studied with many world famous theatrical figures, including Tom O'Horgan (director of the original Broadway productions of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar), Ralph Allen (writer of Broadway's Sugar Babies), and Eubie Blake (composer of the first All-Black Broadway show, Shuffle Along in 1921). Terry has appeared in concerts worldwide, including several shows for George Wein's JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Recently, he appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall where he presented the world premiere of a Eubie Blake concerto.

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