1970's
D.C. ANDERSON (‘76) was nominated for a MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award as a songwriter for his collaboration with Steven Landau – “I am Still” - the title song from his 2006 CD release (over 100 songs available at iTunes). He is currently in Washington, D.C. recording his next CD of all original songs set for release on the LML Music label in February of 2008. D.C. myspace page. (2007)
CLIFF BEMIS (‘70) can be seen as Police Chief McGinnis in the movie Nancy Drew. He is appearing in the first national tour of The Drowsy Chaperon in the role of Feldzig. The tour will end in L.A. next July at the Ahmanson Theatre. Check out the entire tour schedule. (2007)
STEVEN BREESE (‘79) is Director of Theater & Chair of the Department. of Theater & Dance at Christopher Newport University. Three years ago, the department moved into our new $52 million facility, the Ferguson Center for the Arts. The last two summers he performed as a guest artist at the Virginia Shakespeare Festival in Tempest, Complete Works—Abridged, MacBeth and Illyria (a new musical of Twelfth Night). During the fall he directed Tempest/Deconstructed at the Ferguson Center…a new version of Shakespeare’s Tempest. (2007)
DOUG FINLAYSON (’79) is going into his ninth year at Webster University. He directed The Night of the Iguana at Webster. and David Hare’s Via Dolorosa at the New Jewish Theatre in St. Louis. During the summer Doug directed How the Other Half Loves for the Northern Fort Theatre in South Dakota, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth at the St. Louis Shakespeare Company. (2007)
PAT GORSKE PRICE (’73) continues to teach and act as drama director at Oberlin High School. Last year's season included The Odd Couple (female version); a touring children's show, A Sleeping Beauty; an incredibly moving show, and They Danced Real Slow in Jackson, by James Leonard Jr., which did a lot to showcase student versatility and talent; and a murder mystery called The Trouble at the Talent Show. (2007)
BETTE LOU HIGGINS (’74) - worked with the Elyria Pioneer Children's Theatre for their summer season as the Executive Coordinator. She continues to work on Eden Valley programs. (2007)
ALLYNE KOPORC BENTLEY (’78) – now live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Back on May 19, 2007 she was in a production of Suor Angelica, an opera she did while at B-W. This was the first production for the start-up opera company called Bella Bionda. She has also been singing with the Opera LV Chorus doing some concerts last summer. (2007)
RIC ROSE (’78) – teaches at the University of Florida. He did a full-length work, Stabat Mater, composed by a composer friend in town, which was very well received. Ric is still dancing and touring with Dance Alive National Ballet. (2007)
JANET HORVATH WILSON ('76) is a tenured faculty member in the School of Theatre at Illinois Stae University. (2007)
1980's
MARTHAN M. BROWN ('84) this past year appeared in Company at Huntington Play House, Slipper at the Rose at the Paul Cassidy Theater and Cemetery Club at Broadview Heights Spotlight. (2007)
JEAN DOBIE GIEBEL (’82) directed The Winter's Tale in March 2007 for Hofstra University's 58th Annual Shakespeare Festival, where she is Chair of the Department of Drama and Dance. (2007)
DR. STEVEN J. McCARTHY (’82) has been promoted to K-8 theatre specialist for the Los Angeles Unified School District. (2007)
SUSAN DILLON ROBERT ('88) is the Director of Drama at Brookville High School. Brookville was chosen to take a cutting of their fall production The Boys Next Door to the State Edta Thespian Conference. Susan performed in The Waverly Gallery with the Young at Heart Players and in Trees in Futurefest, a festival of new unproduced plays. (2007)
GREGG STICKNEY ('88) performed at Weathervane Community Playhouse in The Full Monty as Harold. (2007)
1990's
RYAN DIETZ ('99) appeared as Toad in A Year with Frog and Toad at The Clarence Brown Theatre in Knoxville, TN. Ryan shot a commercial for "Options" - a chocolate drink by Twinings that is only sold in the UK. During the summer he played The Professor in All the Great Books (Abridged) at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY. Check out Ryan's website. (2007)
DANIEL HAHN ('91) will directed Macbeth at B-W in April of 2008. (2007)
WALID ISSA (’97) is the artistic director (founder) of Cedar Production. Thirty-five plays have been produced in 4 years and Walid directed 16 of them. Walid acted with Jim Carey in The Majestic. (2007)
CHRISTINE JANSON ('92) appeared in Nine at Cain Park. (2007)
PATRICK JANSON ('90) made his International Soloist Debut when he flew to Poland with Nanette Canfield to perform in two concerts of Broadway music in two cities with the Filharmonia Sinfonia Baltica. (2007)
ANGELA JOHNSON ('97) lives in California and continues to freelance in theatre. She is also working on her first album. (2007)
JARED LEAL ('97) reprised the role of "Giorgio" in Passion at the Beck Center for the Arts. Last June, he played "John Adams" in a staged reading of Dearest Friend. A new musical being developed by Kaliope Stage, which explores John Adam's relationship with Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson based on their personal letters. (2007)
DENISE M. POLK ('95) performed in an original production called The Devil You Know. The production served as a benefit for the Domestic Violence Center where she is a volunteer. (2007)
CORRIE PURDUM ('99) staged managed The Tempest and Measure for Measure for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival last summer. In September she headed back to work for The Great Lake Theater Festival. (2007)
CLAY VAN SICKLE (’98) is working in three different live shows in LA: Batman Begins Stunt Show at Six Flags Magic Mountain, where he plays Scarecrow, Dr. Crane and a Ninja; “Knott’s Berry Farms Wild West Stunt Show”, where he plays several different cowboys; and “Terminator 2 3-D” at Universal Studios Hollywood, he plays T-1000, the liquid metal Terminator. Clay recently finished working on Everyman’s War, a WWII drama; he was the armorer and a FX tech. Coming soon is Babysitter Wanted in which he stunt doubled three different actors; Bruce Thomas, Matt Dallas and Bill Mosely. Clay also did some stunt driving and special FZ work on My Name is Bruce. (2007)
CHAD WINTERS ('97) is a theatre instructor at Southeastern Louisiana University where he will be working with fellow B-W alum Jim Winter. (2007)
2000's
BYRON F. ABENS ('02) made his company debut at Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit working as an ASM on The Barber of Seville. After that it was back to Kansas City where Byron continued his work at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre as an ASM on Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. Last summer Byron started his second season at Stages St. Louis for A Little Night Music, The Full Monty, and Crazy for You. (2007)
ERIN BRETT ('02) went to Conway, NH to PSM the summer season for Mount Washington Valley Theatre Company. She went to Syracuse, NY to work folley on Around the World in 80 Days, flyrail on A Christmas Carol, and ASM on Memonpause the Musical. Erin also spent six weeks in New Orleans as the SM for Will Rogers Follies. (2007)
CAMERON MICHALAK ('05) is the assistant technical director at The Cleveland Play House. (2007)
DANIEL CECIL ('05) has finished writing his first full length play called Consent without Consent. Anyone who needs new writing can get a hold of Daniel at daniel.cecil.writing@gmail.com. (2007)
KATIE DiMARCO ('00) was in a production of Playboy of the Western World as Sara Tansy in the fall of 2006. (2007)
CHRISTI ESTERLY ('06) is working toward her Master's Degree in Art Administration at University of Akron. (2007)
TONY HANF ('06) is working at Playhouse Square Center in Cleveland as the Education Program Coordinator. (2007)
AMANDA HARLAND (’05) has been the season stage manager for three summers at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights. Ohio. She has been Assistant Stage Manager for Christmas Carol with Great Lakes Theatre Festival and Cats at Carousel Dinner Theatre. Amanda's most recent credits were Stage Managing Honky Tank Angels, Swing, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Meet John Doe, and Beehive with Carousel Dinner Theatre. Amanda is currently the Production Coordinator of a new company called Journey Projects, and Stage Manager of its new musical, UNBEATABLE: A Musical Journey. She finished the Cleveland staged reading and moved on with the show for a New York Showcase in August. On top of this Amanda learned the art of being a personal assistant for the General Manager of Copperfield Touring and Blue Man Group. (2007)
ALICIA LaVECCHIA HANSON ('06) works at the Great Lakes Theater Festival as an Administrative Assistant. (2007)
BRIAN MARSHALL (’00) - performed in Forbidden Broadway at Playhouse Square Center and Big River (Huck Finn) at Mercury Summer Stock. Spent much of the past year at the Cleveland Play House in productions of My Fair Lady (Charles), The Nutcracker (The Nutcracker) - which is NOT the ballet, and The Jungle Book (Mowgli). (2007)
DAN MARSHALL (’02) was in Big River at Mercury Summer Stock, and also The Cat in The Hat a brand-new revision of Seussical The Musical. This past year Dan went back on the road with If You Give A Mouse A Cookie after being seen in the show Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with Tony Nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo. (2007)
PIERRE-JACQUES BRAULT (’01) has been directing around the Cleveland area this past year. His work was seen at Willoughby Fine Arts (I Love You, You're Perfect..., Scrooge), Heights Youth Theatre. The Acting Out School (The Importance of Being Earnest). He spent the summer as head of Mercury Summer Stock directing Big River, Mame and Seussical. (2007)
MOLLY RICHARDS (’01) has been directing successfully at off-broadway and off-off-broadway theatre around NYC and will be helming Suds at Willoughby Fine Arts in the fall. (2007)
JOANNA MAY HUNKINS (’04) has been seen onstage throughout Northeast Ohio in The Last Five Years and Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Weathervane Playhouse) and Ferdinand the Bull (Cleveland Playhouse). (2007)
MEGAN McCLAIN (’05) served as a script reader for The Goodman Theatre and Collaboration’s Sketchbook 7 in Chicago. In the fall she started a Marketing and PR internship with Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, also in Chicago. (2007)
KATY MICHEL (’05) is now into her second year in Portland, Oregon. She has assistant stage managed for Third Rail Repertory and stage managed for 2Boards Theatre, Teatro de Milagro, and Portland Actor's Ensemble. She spent nine months at Hollywood Lights, learning lighting and coiling lots of soca cable, and nine months at Tears of Joy Theatre as a touring puppeteer. (2007)
REBECCA PRICE ('07) will be on tour this winter/spring with David Copperfield as a Production Assistant. (2008)
LORA RANDOLPH (’05) graduated with a master’s degree in directing theatre from St Mary’s College, London, UK. Since then she has worked as an Assistant Director and Production Assistant with the Asheville Lyric Opera on their productions of The Elixer of Love, The Merry Widow and the tour of La Traviata. She most recently finished assistant directing an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows with the Cambridge Theatre Touring Company in Cambridge, UK. Future projects include directing an adaptation of Ibsen’s Ghosts in London, as well as directing Kurt Weill’s Down in the Valley for the Asheville Lyric Opera. (2007)
JULIE SAAD (’03) has recently moved from New York to Dubai where she is continuing her career as a photographer. (2007)
KATE SIDLEY (04) is currently finishing her first year as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Romania where she is serving as an English teacher at the local arts high school. (2007)
ANDREA SITLER (’00) was Properties Head for the National Tour of Edward Scissorhands. It's a theatrical dance piece created by Matthew Bourne. At the end of May, she was the Properties Head on a brand new tour of SpongeBob Squarepants. (2007)
During April CARLI TAYLOR MILUK (’05) performed with The Natural Bridges Puppets Company in a show titled NBTV. The company traveled and performed with Armed Forces Entertainment (AFE) for Army, Navy, Air Force, NATO, AFRC and their families stationed in Europe. (2007)
JASON YACHANIN (’03) has worked in theatre, film, and television. His latest film, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead was screened at Cannes Film Festival. He can also be seen on Court TVs Forensic Files, and also as a recurring character on the PBS show, Kid Fitness. (2007)
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