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| Musical Department |
| Claudia Asbury
Musical Theatre Department. Director, choreographer, dancer. Appeared in
five Broadway shows: Mack & Mabel with Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters,
So Long 174th Street with Robert Morse, The Act with Liza Minnelli, Evita with
Patti LuPone, and Sophisticated Ladies with Gregory Hines. Directed and choreographed
the first .S./U.S.S.R. joint production of Sophisticated Ladies as well as five national and
international productions of the same show, including the Kennedy Center
production in Washington, D.C. Co-choreographer of the opening ceremonies
of the Olympics in Los Angeles, 1984. Associate choreographer of
the 1986 Academy Awards. A choreographer on the film Cotton Club directed
by Francis Ford Coppola. Choreographer of Chaplin starring Anthony Newley
and of industrials. Member: AEA, AFTRA, SAG, SSD&C. |
 Brian Aschinger Musical Theatre
and Acting Departments. Director, music director, conductor. Directed the
American tour of Howard Goodall's The Hired Man, Off-Broadway and codirected
Goodall's Girlfriends with the composer in London's West End. Directed and
music directed more than 200 productions in regional and stock theatre, including Cabaret at
Yale University. Serves as Music Director and Conductor of the
Shrewsbury Chorale. Artistic Director of The Heritage Project, which
performs in N.Y. and N.J. Has worked with Norman Luboff and Roger Wagner.
Training: B.M., Boston University. Additional study: Boston University,
New York University, and with Howard Hanson, Erich Leinsdorf, and Lloyd
Richards. Member: SSD&C. |
Darren R. Cohen Musical
Theatre Department. Director, pianist. Associate Conductor, national tour
of Chicago. N.Y.C. credits: Musical
Director of Zombie Prom (Variety Arts Theatre),
Carnival (York Theatre), Outer Critic's Circle Award-Best Revival; The
Funtasticks, And the World
Goes Round, A ... My Name is Still Alice, Anyone
Can Whistle, Daydreams, Show me Where the Good Times Are, Georgy, A Chorus
Line, and the workshop of Arthur. Regional credits: Musical Director
of Cabaret (Barrington Stage, Orpheum), A Grand
Night for Singing (North Shore), and Little Shop of Horrors (MUNY and the
Kansas City Starlight),
world premiere of Off-Key, Assassins, Flora the
Red Menace, Jacques Brel, Beehive, Closer than Ever, Sally Blane, Make
Someone Happy, and Entirely Sophie. National tours: Grease and Some Enchanted
Evening. Recordings include Ben Bagley's Broadway Revisited. Training:
B.M., Eastman School of Music. |
| William A. Cox Musical Theatre
Department. Pianist. music conductor. arranger for more than 50 productions,
seven of them on Broadway. Worked with Angela Lansbury, Betty Buckley, Barbara Cook, Zero Mostel,
Hal Linden, Sandy Duncan, and Madonna. Conducted two Presidential Inaugurals;
guest conducted the Boston Pops, the Baltimore, Dallas, and London Symphonies.
Conducted in Israel, Greece, Jordan, and India. Winner: Fulbright Foundation
and Ayrian awards. Training: M.F.A., B.F.A., University of Buffalo.
Member: AF of M. (N.Y. and L.A.) |
| Richard Danley Musical Theatre
Department. Accompanist, conductor, arranger. Musical Director/arranger
for Peter Duchin's Broadway revues. Music Director for cabarets in New York,
Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Featured pianist with "Broadway and Barbershop" at Carnegie
Hall. Other credits include: arranger/conductor for Broadway-style
reviews in N.Y.C., Montreal, Switzerland, and Texas. Conductor for industrials
in South Carolina and Hawaii. Television credits include daytime dramas.
Training: B.S., David Lipscomb University. Member: AFTRA, AF of M. |
| Marcia Milgrorn Dodge Musical
Theatre Department. Director, choreographer. N.Y.: High Society (Broadway-Associate
Choreographer), Radio Gals (Houseman), Closer than Ever (Cherry Lane), The Loman Family
Picnic (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Music Man (New York City Opera), Romance
in Hard Times (New York Shakespeare Festival). Regional: One Foot on the
Floor (Denver Center), Angel Street (Olgonquit Playhouse), Accomplice (American
Stage Festival, StageWest), The Crucifer of Blood, High Spirits, Sullivan
& Gilbert with George Grizzard (Phoenix Theatre), On the Town (Goodspeed
House, Arena Stage), Off-Key (George Street), Anything Goes (Birmingham Theatre), and Ain't
Misbehavin' (six LORT theatres, two Barrymore Award nominations). Collaborations
with Rupert Holmes, Stephen Sondheim, Des McAnuff, Robert Falls, Joanne
Woodward. Television: "Sesame Street" and "Remember Wenn." Training:
baccalaureate, University of Michigan. |
 Jeffrey Dunn Musical Theatre
Department. Director. Directed European tours of Oklahoma!, Cabaret (in
German), Chicago (in German and English), Annie Get Your Gun, Guys & Dolls,
On the Town, and West Side Story. Directed the first NYC revivals of the musicals Two Gentlemen
of Verona and The Streets of New York in addition to the premiere productions
of musicals by Alan Menken, Micki Grant, and Gary Schocker. Directed Cabaret
(nominated for four Connecticut Critics Awards including Best Director), Follies,
How to Succeed.., The King & I, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, West Side
Story, Show Boat, and The Sound of Music. Teaching experience: Marymount Manhattan
College, Syracuse University, SUNY- New Paltz, NYU, Weist Barron, and American Theatre Dance.
Training: Brooklyn College. Has been a theatrical agent (Fifi Oscard, Bret
Adams) and a casting director (Guber/Gross Productions), "Search For Tomorrow"
(Jay Binder Casting). |
| Mathew Eisenstein Musical
Theatre Department. Pianist, musical director. Credits include Assistant
Conductor of the pre-Broadway tour of Applause starring Stephanie Powers;
keyboardist for the Broadway productions of Once Upon a Mattress, Annie,
and The Lion King; rehearsal pianist for Candide; pianist for I Love You,
You're Perfect, Now Change. Regional credits: No No Nanette and Applause
(Papermill Playhouse), Phantom, Singin'in the Rain, Joseph & the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, Damn Yankees (Westchester Broadway Theatre), and
West Side Story (Colonial Theatre). Toured internationally and nationally
with Tovah Feldshuh, Anything Goes, and the Gingerbread Players. |
 Phillip George Musical Theatre
Department Actor, director. Credits include 12 editions of Forbidden Broadway
in New York, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, and the national tour. Directed
Forbidden Hollywood in New York and Los Angeles. Collaborator on Whoop-Dee-Doo,
directing the New York and London productions. Associate
Director on When Pigs Fly (Douglas Fairbanks). Directing credits:
La Mama, PS 122, Here and Nada, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Philemon,
The Roar of the Greasepaint, and A Doctor in Spite of Himself. Resident
director, King's Head Theatre, London. Acting roles include: Forbidden
Broadway, The Remarkable Ruth Fields and regionally in The Importance
of Being Earnest, As You Like It, Side by Side by Sondheim, Forum, and
1776. |
 Linda Glick Musical Theatre
Department. Singer, actress, writer. Headliner in top nightspots, theatres,
hotels worldwide. Extensive N.Y.C. cabaret appearances include Eighty Eights,
the Triad, the Rainbow Grill/Rainbow & Stars. Performed with
Sid Caesar, Paul Reiser, and Peter Allen. Off-Broadway and regional credits
include leading roles in California Suite, They're Playing our Song, An
Evening of Kurt Weill. Teaching experience: The Actors Institute, The Singers
Forum (guest teacher: Advanced Cabaret Workshop), the Ron Panvini School
of Singing. Private coaching. Training: B.S., M.A., Columbia University;
Juilliard School of Music (Prep Div.); Neighborhood Playhouse. Studied
with Michael Howard, Olympia
Dukakis, Stella Adler, Marge Livingston, Andy Anselmo, among others.
Member: AEA, AFTRA. |
| Mark Goodman Musical Theatre
Department. Musical director, accompanist. Conducted the European tour
and Cleveland Opera production (starring Bebe Neuwirth) of West Side Story. As Conductor,
national tours include: Mame starring Juliet Prowse and Jesus Christ Superstar
starring Ted Neeley. As Assistant Conductor, national tours include: Woman
of the Year starring Lauren Bacall, Evita, and the 1981 revival of Oklahoma!
Assistant Conductor for the Broadway and national tour productions
of Zorba starring Anthony Quinn. As Conductor, regional credits include:
Paper Mill Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, Actor's Theatre of Louisville,
Walnut Street Theatre, and North Shore Music Theatre, St. Louis Municipal
Opera. Training: B.S., M.M., University of Maryland. |
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Michael Leeds Musical Theatre
Department. Director, choreographer, writer. Broadway: wrote and
directed the Tony-nominated musical, Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway credits:
directed and choreographed Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh-The Songs of Allan Sherman
(Drama Desk Award Nomination), Lypsinka-A Day in the Life, Showing Off, and Hot
Klezmer at the American Jewish Theatre. Directed at Playwright's Horizons and
Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Directed the premiere of Arthur Miller's
Playing for Time (Edinburgh Theatre Festival), which won a Festival
First. Authored, directed, and choreographed Mating Habits of the Urban
Mammal, which premiered in Boston. Directed Miracles (as well as co-authored with Joe Stein),
with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, music by Marvin Hamlisch, Stephen Schwartz, and David Shire. |
| Ed Linderman Musical Theatre
Department. Composer, performer. Composed music for the Broadway musical
comedy, Something's Afoot, and the Emmy-winning NBC's Children's TV special,
The Maltese Unicorn. Created the Off-Broadway cabaret revue Broadway Jukebox
and has appeared in concerts and nightclubs across the country. Broadway debut
as Perchik in the original company of Fiddler on the Roof, appeared in
the NY Shakespeare Festival's Tony-winning Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Musical Director for Off-Broadway and national tour companies of God-
spell, Ionescopade, Scrambled Feet, Children of Adam, and From the
Second City. Composing the score for the new Broadway musical Fragrant
Harbour. Teaching experience: guest artist at the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret
Symposium, master classes at the Interlochen Summer Music Festival, and
at Penn State University. Training: DePaul University; Northwestern
University; The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Member: The Dramatist's
Guild, AEA, AGVA and BMI. |
| Nathan Matthews Musical Theatre
Department. Music director, accompanist. N.Y.C. credits: Artistic Director
of the Riverside Opera Ensemble, Conductor of the premiere of Zandonai's
Giulietta e Romeo and producer of the opening-night AIDS benefit with Leonard
Bernstein as honorary chair. Creator and arranger of the Rodgers
and Hart musical theatre piece, Where or When. Was Mark Hamill's keyboard coach
for Amadeus. Music Director for Off-Broadway revival of They're Playing our Song.
Served on the music staff of the Santa Fe Opera and toured
North America for Columbia Artists and Karlsrud Concerts as a solo
pianist and accompanist. Regional credits: Music Director for The Amorous
Flea (Riverside Theatre) and for Evita, Oklahoma, The Music Man, and
Camelot(Library Theatre) Training: M.M., Vocal Coaching and Accompaniment,
University of Illinois. |
| Laurie McDermott Musical
Theatre Department. Actor, singer, performer. Former company member of
the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco performing with William
Hurt in Good, Kathryn Crosby in Charley's Aunt, and as Belle in the last
performance of A Christmas Carol at the Orpheum. Played Maggie in Lend me a Tenor, Shirley
in Lady Be Good, Anne in Shenandoah, and Nina in The Seagull, among other roles.
Television credits include: "The Gary Shandling Show" and "The Young
and the Restless." Training: B.A., University of California at Los Angeles;
M.F.A., A.C.T. Member: AEA, SAG, AFTRA. |
| Thomas Mills Musical Theatre
Department. Director, choreographer. Resident director-choreographer
for the American Song Series at the Smithsonian for three years. Worked extensively
directing in cabaret in New York City, winning the Bistro Award for outstanding direction in
1994. New York credits: Let it Ride at the Lamb's Theatre, Rasputin, Witch's
Tate, and Are we There Yet? Regional credits: directed productions
of Pippin, Baby, and directed/choreographed a stage version of Comfortably
Numb. Assisting Michael Leeds on the musical Miracles and is assistant
directing and providing choreography for A Little Night Music at
Houston Grand Opera. |
 Elaine Petricoff Chair, Musical
Theatre Department. Director. Performed on Broadway in Grease, The Me Nobody
Knows, and The End of the World, directed by Harold Prince. Off-Broadway credits: Roundabout
Theatre, West Side Arts Theatre, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Toured in
West Side Story with Leslie Uggams and Fiddler on the Roof with Leonard
Nimoy; numerous appearances in stock, industrials, and commercials. Directed
Off-Broadway and stock; assisted Tommy Tune and Arthur Kopit. Directed
A Little Night Music and Falsettos for the Skylight Opera Company and Uncle
Vanya for New York University. Teaching experience: Berkshire Theatre Festival;
directed and choreographed for the Unicorn Stage. Developing the musical Runaway
Beauty Queen with Rhonda Coullet. Training: B.S., Syracuse University; private studies
with Sanford Meisner. |
 Virginia Sandifur Musical
Theatre Department. Actress, singer, dancer. Appeared in the original Broadway
productions of Follies (as the
young Alexis Smith), I Love my Wife (co-starring
opposite James Naughton), Smith (co-starring opposite Don Murray), Rodgers
and Hart, Oliver, Perfectly Frank, and Company. In the first national tour
of Applause, co-starred as Eve Harrington opposite Lauren Bacall. Featured
in the Broadway concert Sondheim-A Musical Tribute and the Cy Coleman Tribute
at Lincoln Center. Guest appearances on TV include "The Equalizer" (and
many solo singing performances for its soundtrack). Played Ellie
in the feature film Deadly Hero, starring James Earl Jones and Don Murray.
Regional credits include: Mrs. Early in the Paper Mill Playhouse revival
of No No Nanette. Extensive voiceover work includes Mike Nichols' Working
Girl, Ron Howard's The Paper, and Frank Oz's In and Out with Kevin Klein.
Training: Royal Academy of Dance, U.K, |
| Steven Silverstein Musical
Theatre Department. Musical director, composer, conductor. Broadway
credits: Blood Brothers and Swinging on a Star. Off- Broadway credits: The Green Heart
(Manhattan Theatre Club), A Doll's Life, Kelly (York Theatre), Annie Warbucks, and When Pigs
Fly. Regional credits include: Chocolate Soldier, Pal Joey (Goodspeed
Opera House), Godspell (The MUNY), and Gypsy with Betty Buckley (Papermill
Playhouse). Worked with Charles Strouse at the 92nd Street Y in the Lyrics
and Lyricists Series; pianist, Children of Eden for the Hal Prince Director's
Company and Musical Director for The Prince and the Pauper at the O'Neill.
Teaching experience: Marymount Manhattan College, St. Bart's
Playhouse, Musical Theater Works. Training: M.A., Music Composition,
New York University; B.A., Theatre, B.S., Finance, University of Bridgeport.
Additional training: B.M.I. Musical Theatre Workshop. Private study with
Peter Howard. |
| Laurence Sobel Musical Theatre
Department. Music director, pianist. Performed at Williamstown Theatre
Festival, Hampton Playhouse, and Gateway Playhouse. National tours include:
Song and Dance and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Performed
at Don't Tell Mama and other clubs. Training: B.A., Harvard College. |
| James Stenborg Musical Theatre
Department. Musical director, conductor, coach, pianist. Broadway
credits include: West Side Story (revival), Sweeney Todd, and Grand Hotel. Off-Broadway
credits include: orchestrations for Yours, Annie, and Pacific Overtures (revival).
Television credits include: "The Making of West Side Story" (PBS). Teaching
experience: O'Neill Theatre Center, Ecole de Comediens (Paris), La Scuola
di Theatro (Bologna), LGITMK (Leningrad). Training: B.A., University
of Minnesota. Conducting training: Monte Carlo Opera and Canford School
(England). Member AFM. |
| Peter Susser Musical Theatre
Department. Composer, cellist. Commissioned by a variety of orchestras
and ensembles including Speculum Musicae, the Queen's Chamber Band, the Sage City
Symphony, and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. Teaching experience: Columbia University,
New York University, The MacDowell Colony. Training: Doctorate in
Music Composition, Columbia University; master's, Cello Performance, Manhattan
School of Music. Awards: The Pablo Casals prize and the Ravel Competition. |
| Christine Talbott Musical
Theatre Department. Music director, accompanist. Off-and Off-Off-Broadway
credits include: On The Road to Victory, Lady Be Good, The Coconuts, Meteor
Girl, and I Make me a Promise. Regional and stock credits include: Evita,
Chicago, Cabaret, My Fair Lady, 110 in the Shade, Singin' in the Rain,
and Carnival. Toured nationally in A Chorus Line. Training: The Peabody
Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. Additional training: New
School for Social Research, Juilliard Pre-College of Music, and The Mannes Preparatory
School of Music. |
| Bradley Vieth Voice Department.
Conductor, pianist. Conducting credits: The Grand Duchess (Chicago Opera
Theatre); L'Enfant et les Sortileges (Dorian Opera Theatre); Wings (Joseph Papp
Public Theatre) (cast album); A Little Night Music (Joseph Jefferson Award-Best
Musical Direction); and Another Midsummer Night (Goodman Theatre); Triumph of Love (Baltimore
Center Stage and Yale Repertory Theatre). Resident Conductor at Theater
Hagen, Germany. Repertoire included Cavalleria Rusticana, The Abduction
from the Seraglio, and Cabaret. European tours: Carmen, Little Shop of
Horrors, On the Town, West Side Story, and Chicago.
Teaching experience: University of Texas, Opera Department; University
of Minnesota at Duluth. Training: B.M., Oberlin Conservatory; M.M.,
The University of Texas at Austin; postgraduate work, The University of
Texas at Austin. |
| William Wade Musical Theatre
Department. Musical director, composer-lyricist, teacher. Directed
more than one hundred regional shows and cabarets. Founding faculty member of
the Professional Musical Theatre Workshop at the Manhattan School of Music; served on the
faculty at the University of Washington and Eckerd College. Accompanied numerous
professional dance groups including American Ballet Theatre, Mark Morris
Dance Group, National Dance Institute, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, and
Fosse: A Celebration in Song and Dance. omposer/lyricist credits include:
The Journey produced at Tampa Theatre and Fantasia on Carols of the Nativity
commissioned by the Florida Boychoir. Developing the musical, Warsaw. Training:
B.A., Music Composition, University of South Florida. |
| Robert Webb Musical Theatre
Department. Accompanist, conductor, arranger, vocal coach.
Broadway debut: dance arranger, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Television:
Duo pianos with Bill Cox (AMDA faculty member) for "I Do! I Do!" with Lee Remick
and Hal Linden. Keyboard soloist for Our Town with Hal Holbrook. Regional credits:
solo on-stage pianist, Wild Oats (CTG/Mark Taper Forum); vocal coach, Baltimore Center Stage.
Conductor/arranger for Actors Theatre of Louisville (The Wizard of Oz); San Jose CLO;
Theatre Under the Stars, Houston. Film credits: vocal coach on six Disney films
including Beauty and the Beast (Angela Lansbury) and Aladdin (Robin Williams).
Training: B.A., University of California at Los Angeles; apprentice-taught at Los Angeles
Civic Light Opera Workshop. |
 William Wesbrooks Musical
Theatre Department. Director, playwright. Directing credits include My
One & Only with Jodi Benson and Hinton Battle, Peter Pan with Judy
Blazer and Patrick Quinn, Claudia Reilly's Astronauts for the Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music, The Pirates ofPenzance, and Private Lives for Theatre
Virginia, The Fantasticks for Gran Teatro la Fenice's Carnival Theatre In
Venice and Palermo and national tours of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers,
Meet me in St.Louis, Gypsy, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story. Awards:
C.A.P.S. Fellowship; Ludwig Vogelstein Grant; a development grant from the Pilgrims
Project. Co-wrote the libretto for Barbary Keep, a ballad opera which
was awarded a 1994 development grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts. Collaborated with Maury Yeston on the book (based on the original
by Larry Gelbart) for History Loves Company, and directed that show's
world premiere at Chicago's Lincolnshire Theatre. Member: SSD
& C, Dramatists Guild, AEA. |
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