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Nicole Alifante
Understudied Modern Orthodox Off Broadway starring Molly Ringwald. Also performed in Lobby Hero in the NYC performance directed by Mark Brokaw. She then played the role at Hartford Theater Works and later at The Barrington Stage Company; appeared in the McCarter Theater's production of A Christmas Carol. She has worked in NYC theatre under the direction of Larry Sacharow, Matthew Maguire, Gabriel Barre and Jack Cummings. She will be producing and starring in a play written by John Cariani, Tony nominated actor. She is a very proud member of Transport Group, a 3-year-old theatre company whose last production, First Lady Suite, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Her TV credits include Guiding Light, Law and Order-Criminal Intent, and various commercials and voice overs. Nicole is currently an audition coach.
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Melissa Alfieri
NYU Deafness Rehabilitation Masters Program.
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Scott Antonucci
Chicago Theatre credits include The Play About the Baby at the Goodman Theatre and Steppenwolf’s production of The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan directed by Tina Landau. Scott is currently acting and writing in Los Angeles. |
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Jeremy Antunes
NYU Graduate Program in Playwriting.
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Noel Arthur
Dean’s Fellow Columbia MFA Acting Program. Currently living in LA -- Guest Starring on ER Fall 2005, and co-starring on Strong Medicine Fall 2005 on Lifetime.
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Greg Balla
Performing with Blue Man Group in Boston. |
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Tom Baran
Tom Baran most recently has a recurring role as Tony on As the World Turns. He is also doing an ITUNES audio soap called Scripts & Scruples. He has performed Off Broadway as the romantic lead in Boys Just Wanna Have Fun and the crazy Hot Guy in Awesome 80's Prom. He has done numerous print ads and his TV commercials include Comcast Cable, AXE Body Spray and Brooks Brothers. |
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Jeff Barry
After graduating from Fordham Jeff went directly into the acting program at the Yale School of Drama. Recently Jeff has worked at The Guthrie Theater, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Dorset Theatre Festival and here in NYC for Gorilla Rep. His film and TV credits include: Guiding Light, The Frederick Douglas Project, Liberty, Low Fidelity, and Ash, among others. Jeff is also the co-artistic director of the Miscreant Theatre. |
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Brian Bauman
CalArts, Suzan-Lori Parks’s Playwriting Program (1 of 2 accepted).
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Sarah Bell
Created Mayhaps Production Co. with fellow alums Mitchell Malnati (playwright), Maura Smith (director) and Kristin Pecci (lighting designer); staged first performance of original work in April 2005. See www.mayhaps.net.
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Christy Benanti
Christy Benanti graduated from Fordham in 2003 as a Theatre Production Major. Her Off-Broadway stage management credits include: Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding, The Great Divorce, The Fantasy Party, One Man's War, and The Great Divide. She is currently working on producing a revival of the Grand Guignol (Theatre of Horror) for Off- Broadway 2009. Christy also co-founded the Shortened Attention Span Theatre, which produces three one-act festivals throughout the year, and she is one of the theatre managers at The Players Theatre in Greenwich Village.
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Eve Bernfeld
MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College. Eve is currently the Education Coordinator at Off Square Theatre Company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She previously worked at The New Victory Theater and The Singers Forum and is a founding member of Riot Act, Inc., an experimental theatre company also based in Jackson Hole.
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Christian Bester
Chris appeared in the NYC premiere of fellow alum Peter Gil- Sheridan’s play Top Ten at the Sanford Meisner theatre. Other NY credits include The House of Merry, The Rape of the Lock (both NYC Fringe) and Beyond Therapy. Chris recently wrote, directed, and acted in a short film entitled Dreaming of Lydia which features Fordham alums Paul Young, Chris Tramantana and Dean Imperial.
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Bill Bowen
Has been working sound at various theatres around town, most recently Hedda Gabler at New York Theatre Workshop and the Off-Broadway production of Hurly Burly starring Ethan Hawke.
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Michael Briatico
Director of sales for After School Productions: (Picon Pie, and the upcoming musical Trolls). Member of the New Perspectives Theatre Company: (Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare Fools & Villains, etc..) Most recent credits include: Mother and Sister to Me, (Blackfriars Theater Company), The Capital Mall (Theater at St.Clements), Hell's Kitchen (ongoing musical workshop), and Alice In Wonderland at Upstairs at Studio 54.
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Soraya Broukhim
Soraya received her Equity card shortly after graduation working in NYC and regional theatre. She performed in Wintertime by Charles L. Mee at San Jose Rep and Woyzeck at the Culture Project in NYC. She starred in a film called Love in 3 Minutes which had its premier in the First Run Film Festival at NYU's Kantor Center. Other NYC shows: Carcass by Peter Hirshbein directed by Mayanna Landowne; The Gut Girls by Sarah Daniels at the Chocolate Factory Company Flying Fig. Other recent film: The Push. Soraya is currently working with the NYC Theatre group Ripe Time.
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Christina Bryant
Christina Bryant is a Fordham directing graduate who loves to make things…. She has worked in the art department for several music videos, short films, and plays where she designed, constructed and assisted with sets, props, and costumes. She was also the assistant to the producer on the film The Brave One. Music videos include projects for the Dresden Dolls, Fluttr and Only Son; short films include the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival winner Binding Silence and the 48 Hour Film Festival winner Merry Christmas, I Got You Herpes; plays include assistant directing Paul Guyet’s Pointless, one of the 2008 Shortened Attention Span Festival winners. Currently, she is focusing on her lifelong passion for puppetry. Christina has interned with such puppet companies as The Lone Wolf Tribe on The Bride, with Basil Twist on Arias with a Twist, and built the naked puppet Julio for the Fordham Underground Comedy Troupe. She was a puppeteer in The Ludicrous Trial of Mr. P. at HERE Art Center and most recently in the Fordham University Alumni Company’s production of The Martian Chronicles directed by Elizabeth Margid.
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Micah Bucey
Most recently Micah appeared in Fleet Week: The Musical at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Prior to that, he received a Fringe NYC Overall Excellence Award for his performance in his one-man show at the 2004 NY Fringe Festival. He went on to perform the show at the West End Theatre to rave reviews and sold out performances. Micah also founded and operates Y Theatre? Other credits include performing in The House of Merry by Fordham alumnus Lindsay Sullivan, for the NY Fringe Festival. |
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Graham Burk
Graham graduated in 2007 as a performance theatre major. Upon graduation, he taught a summer theatre intensive at an Arts school in New Orleans and was subsequently hired for a tour with the Chamber Theatre Company out of Boston. |
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Dan Campenelli
Co-founded (with fellow Fordham theatre alums Mike Swift and Brian Murphy) the Family Collective Theatre Company.
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Elizabeth Carena
Elizabeth Carena (FCLC ’03) currently serves as Capital Associate at Theatre for a New Audience, where she works on their capital campaign to build a new classical theater in the BAM Cultural District in Brooklyn. She also serves as Managing Director and affiliated artist of 2008 Bessie Award-winner Third Rail Projects, with whom she traveled to Hong Kong in December 2007 to perform at the Swire Island East Urban Dance Festival. Additionally, she regularly performs and records with the Brooklyn-based bands Ann Courtney & the Late Bloomers (with Fordham Theatre alums Ann Courtney and David Giambusso) and Clair (with Fordham Theatre alum Lindsay Sullivan).
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Victoire Charles
NY: Upcoming Hillary (New Georges); Last seen in The Fordham Alumni Company and Puppeteers Cooperative presentation of The Martian Chronicles; The Acting Company’s National Tour and Off-Broadway run of The Tempest and Moby Dick Rehearsed; Abandon (La MaMa Etc.) Meet John Doe (Dodger Stages/NAMF); Laughing Pictures (Flea Theatre); and Down From The Flatbottom (The Mint/Absolute Theatre Company); Regional: The Trojan Women (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre, DC). Film: Huis Clos (Vincenzo Tripodo), In Silent Spaces (Safiya Songhai). BA in theatre from Fordham and MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible, As You Like It, Top Girls, Blues For An Alabama Sky and You Never Can Tell.
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Megan Chernock
[Television] Law and Order.
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Kerry Chipman
Since graduating in 2004, Kerry has been designing scenery Off-off Broadway, including the 2006 Mentor Project at the Cherry Lane Theatre and the 2007 Fringe and NYMF festivals. Recently, she designed the set for The Martian Chronicles, the inaugural show for the Fordham Alumni Theatre Company. She is currently attending the University of Tennessee Knoxville for her MFA in Set Design.
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Tiana Christoforidis
A 1997 graduate of Fordham, Tiana is the Cultural Arts Director of the Great South Bay YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts, (Bay Shore, NY) where she directs, teaches and serves as an administrator for theatre arts classes and cultural arts programs.
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Patricia Clarkson
Over thirty movies, beginning with The Untouchables. Recent films include Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona , Elegy, Phoebe in Wonderland, All the King's Men, and Good Night, and Good Luck. Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress in Pieces of April; Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Actress The Station Agent and Best Supporting Actress Pieces of April. (2004). Emmy for HBO’s Six Feet Under (2004). |
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Brian Cohen
After graduating from Fordham in 1995 as a theatre performance major, Brian has continued his education by pursuing a PhD at Victorian College for the Arts (Melbourne, Australia). He also has a Graduate Certificate from the London Dramatic Academy. He is Artistic Director of TRAX, an arts company based in Melbourne: www.trax.org. |
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Justin Costello
Justin is a 2001 Fordham graduate. [Film] Shot an adaptation of the play Jacob which originated in the Fordham studio theatre; currently working on writing first feature film.
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Ann Courtney
Performed in The House of Merry by Fordham alumnus Lindsay Sullivan, directed by Paul Mazza for the NY Fringe Festival. |
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Douglas Cox
Doug graduated from Fordham in 1980. He is a lighting designer for theater, television, opera, concerts and architecture. Doug won the Lumen Award and IALD Waterbury Award for Architectural Lighting and received an Emmy nomination for NBC’s 2004 Election Night coverage. He has been the assistant designer on sixteen Broadway productions and is Trustee of United Scenic Artists, Local 829 of IATSE, the National Labor Union representing Designers and Scenic Artists for the American Theatre.
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Ian Crawford
Ian is the Operations Manager at The Atlantic Theater Company and the Artistic Director of Thirsty Turtle Productions. He most recently curated TTP's first annual Summer Workshops series in which he directed a new play, REMiors, by Fordham playwriting alum Leah Hendrick. Since graduation Ian has directed a number of plays including two new plays for the Fordham playwriting program. Ian's online design and directing portfolio can be seen here. |
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Maria Teresa Creasey
Upon graduation, worked at the O’Neill Center as an actor. |
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Jill Creighton
Jill is an Assistant Casting Director at Guiding Light.
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John Cudia
[Broadway] The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables. Twice nominated for a National Broadway Theatre Award for his performance as Raoul with the national touring company of Phantom (also did National Tour of Les Mis). [Regional] Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, Tony in West Side Story, Freddy Hill in My Fair Lady, South Pacific opposite Cathy Rigby. John has also done concert work as a featured tenor soloist singing opera arias.
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Kelly Curran
[Off-Broadway] Moby Dick – Rehearsed, The Tempest, & Jane Eyre with The Acting Company, Knives & Spoons Go on the Right at 59E59, and Violent Delights at The Public Theater. [Regional] Romeo & Juliet workshop at The McCarter and Dracula with The Barnstormers. Kelley graduated from Fordham in 2006 in theatre performance. Other training includes the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab, BADA at Oxford, and private voice with Liz Smith. In 2009, Kelley will be performing at The Guthrie & The New Victory as Princess Katherine & the boy in Henry V. |
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Lauren Davis
Upon graduation, Lauren was cast as Miranda in the Pulse Ensemble Theatre's production of The Tempest. She also performed in a three month run of the play Sassy Mamas at the historic Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn. Lauren is currently the host of a new TV show called Firebrand that airs nightly on the ION Network.
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Rita DeAngelo
Stage Manager: [West End] Royal National Theatre (Hamlet); [Off-Broadway] New Victory Theatre (Sunjata); [Regional] The Guthrie Theatre; [Tours] Ah, Wilderness!; A Midsummer Night's Dream;
[Other] Disney MGM Studios; Production Stage Manager for Dance Theatre of Harlem, National and International Touring; Disney Cruise Line; Broadway Asia; New York Harlem Opera; and Porgy and Bess (European tour).
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Doug DeBeech
Doug appeared in the 2006 Toronto Film Festival winner Bella. He recently completed a film with Clifton Collins Jr. and Emily DeRavin called The Perfect Game (due out spring '08) and is starting production on a new feature with Mindy Sterling scheduled for release summer '08. He was recently attached as a series regular for an MTV networks scripted drama. Other television credits include Quarterlife, Another World, Third Watch and a role written for him on HBO's Six Feet Under. Film credits include Checkout, Little Black Box, Suckerpunch and Together Alone. Recent stage work include the Los Angeles Times comedy pick Gratuity Not Included. Doug currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Eleni Delopoulos
Eleni's career out of school began when she played the lead in the Off-Broadway musical A Stoop On Orchard Street where she worked for over 400 performances. Since then, she has worked regionally at The Theater Barn in The Kathy and Mo Show; at the Cohoes Music Hall as Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and Sister Robert Ann in Meshuggah-Nuns!; at Shawnee Playhouse as Carlotta in Phantom and Ruth in Pirates of Penzance. In the coming year, Eleni will be playing the role of Vera in a national tour of Mame. Beyond performing, Eleni is an owner of a year round camp program for teens where she teaches theater and is the writer of a new show Lysistrata the Musical which had a run at Fordham. The musical has had successful runs Off Off-Broadway, regionally and has been workshopped with a Broadway cast at New York Theater Workshop. Recently, she was lucky enough to work under the direction of Jen Cody in Urinetown at the Carousel Theater in OH.
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Cheryl Dennis
[Broadway] Management Assistant, A View from the Bridge (1997); General Manager, Metamorphoses (2002); Golda's Balcony (2003); 'night, Mother (2004); Steel Magnolias (2005).
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Fataah Dihaan
Fataah recently appeared in a Microsoft Commercial and The Making of Eugenie Doe, as part of the Ohio Theatre's Summer Thinktank Festival.
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Stephanie DiMaggio
After graduating from Fordham in 2004, Stephanie went on to receive her MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program at TISCH School of the Arts. As an actor her work has been seen at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Culture Project, HERE Arts Center, Theatre Studio Inc., The Ohio, Mark Taper Forum and most recently at New York Stage and Film. TV/Film credits include Guiding Light and the short film The First Born. Stephanie has directed pieces for Center Stage’s Rebel Verses Festival, and as a writer her work has been seen at The York Workshop and at NYU. She was honored to be selected for a tandem interview with the late director and teacher Lawrence Sacharow for the book Acting Teachers of America: A Vital Tradition, which was published last year.
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Amy Dolan
Amy has served as the national education and outreach coordinator at Actors' Equity Association. In addition to many regional theatre credits, Amy’s Broadway credits include Grease and the original Broadway company of the revival of 42nd Street. She also appeared in the West End production of Showboat. She is a Magna cum Laude graduate of Fordham and can be reached through her website. |
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Peter J. Downing
Creative Director, Tribeca Family Festival (for Tribeca Film Festival).
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Leonard Dozier
Leonard is the founder of Cineplay Productions, a theatre group with a mission to amalgamate cinema and theatre. Recent credits include Cineplay’s A Raisin in the Sun, and a stage version of Stephen King’s Misery. As a director, he has directed Cineplay’s stage adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress, and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman. Recently, Leonard completed an audiobook for the world-renowned Creflo Dollar after being signed to Spoken Books Publishing. He has also done an assortment of promos that include Coca Cola, the Foster Grandparent Program, Urban Smooth Entertainment, and WXXY, the area’s gospel station. An ASCAP songwriter, Leonard has penned and recorded more than 30 songs, including his wedding song (When I Say) with Grammy-nominee George Mesterhazy. Leonard has performed at the Bitter End in New York and has had his songs played on WTTH, WXXY, and WLFR.
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Molly Drummond
Since graduation, Molly has been working consistently as a voice-over artist doing commercials and various shows for PBS and Nickelodeon. She is also a certified Yoga instructor. |
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Pat Dugan
Pat’s regional theatre credits include Florida Studio Theatre and the Hangar Theatre.
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Noah Dunham
Noah most recently played John in the Thirsty Turtle Production Company’s Dark of the Moon Off-Off Broadway, receiving great reviews from Backstage, The Village Voice and the New Yorker. He is currently working on several independent projects including several street art performance pieces and founding a theatre arts collaboration company.
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Tom Escovar
Tom Escovar graduated from Fordham in 1996 as a performance major. He is one of the founders of Push Productions, Inc., one of the premiere independent theatre companies in New York City. Tom has independently produced and acted in seven productions since 1999: Kraken by Len Jenkin (Herman Melville) at Walkerspace, Marat/Sade (Jean Paul Marat) at Access Theater, Saving The Greeks; One Tragedy at a Time (Oedipus) at 14th St. Y Theater, Faith (Adam) Milagro Theater, The Criminals (Frank) at The Present Company, Geography of a Horse Dreamer (Santee) at Tribeca Playhouse and The Erpingham Camp (Erpingham) at the Michael Weller Theater. Other productions as an actor: Boys’ Life (Jack) at American Theater of Actors, Fantasy Plays at FringeNYC ‘01 and Pick Up Six FringeNYC ’02. Tom has co-produced bunkerbaby by Colin McKenna at the Milagro Theater, It’s Not Even Past and Shannon In Ambient Light at The Bottle Factory Theater by Timothy Mansfield, and John Walker: the Musical at FringeNYC ’04.
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Laura Feldman
Upon graduation, Laura was hired for the 2005-2006 season at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota. She interned for the summer and they offered her a full-time position that includes designing cabaret and children's shows as well as assisting the set designers for the mainstage.
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Robin Fontaine
Shortly after graduating, Robin embarked on an 18 month tour of Europe as a performer with the English Eurythmy Theatre. In 2000, she moved to San Francisco, where she directed Talking With Angels at the Magic theater, and Proof at the Off-Market theater, and began working as an independent Director/Producer in film and video. She has worked on everything from music videos to documentaries to narrative films. Favorite projects include The Seagull (feature), Dead Edward (short), The Grace Project (music video), and Hope (short, winner of three festival awards). Most recently, she produded 5 permanent multi-media installations for the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. In Fall of 2006, she attended the Dublin Theater Festival with a one woman show she directed. She can be reached through her website: www.tinboxtwo.com.
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Marco Formosa
Upon graduation, Marco founded the imPULSE Theatre Co. with fellow Fordham alum Holly-Anne Ruggiero. They produced their first shows at the HERE Arts Center - Easy Money written and directed by Fordham alum Mitchell D. Malnati, and The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie written by Albert Innaurato, directed by Holly-Anne Ruggiero (Marco appeared as Benno). Other imPULSE productions include Edward Albee's The American Dream in which Marco played the role of Grandma, and Happy Goy in the House of Shiva by Fordham playwriting alum Andy Snyder, directed by Holly-Anne Ruggiero. Marco has also worked with such companies as the Faux-Real Theatre Co., Push Productions, One-Year Lease, and the Island Shakespeare Co. Marco is currently enrolled at the New School For Drama.
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Greg Foro
[Regional Theatre] James and the Giant Peach (James), Romeo and Juliet (Sampson), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon/Quince) at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Heaven and Earth (Anthony) at N.J. Repertory Company, Greater Tuna (Arles Struvie) and The Wizard of Oz (Wizard) at Findlay Summerstock-Ohio. [New York Theatre] 20th Anniversary Revival of Michael McClure's VKTMS: Orestes in Scenes (Orestes) with Verse Theatre Manhattan, Dream/Play and The Job (Both in NYCFringe), Ibsen’s Ghosts at Columbia University (Osvald), Ramona Quimby National Tour (TheatreworksUSA). [Feature Film/Televison] One Day In January (Featured At The Cannes Film Festival), Guiding Light, The Making of... (director, Peter Coston). [Directing] Glow (written by fellow alum Peter Gil-Sheridan) at Stella Adler Theatre with The Figments (of which he is a founding member), When Santo Domingo Isn't Enough with The Downtown Urban Theatre Festival (Winner Best Play 2006), Three More Sleepless Nights at The Present Company, Boys' Life at The American Theatre of Actors with fellow Alumni’s Working For Tips Productions, The Fantasy Plays in NYCFringe, Temple at Manhattan Theatre Source. Greg recently graduated from The Alabama Shakespeare Festival's MFA Program for Acting and was involved with an educational outreach program teaching Shakespeare to area teens in rural Alabama. Member of Actors Equity Association.
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Lauren Fortgang
[Film] 116, a short selected as part of The Pistol Project, an independent film festival in Tokyo;
[Television] Law and Order; [Theatre] staged reading of Laughing Pictures by Matthew Maguire at The Flea Theatre; and work with several Off Off-Broadway companies founded by Fordham alums: The Performance Project, Opal Productions, Working for Tips Productions, Coyote Group, and Push Productions. |
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R.J. Foster
Edward II (Bank Street Theatre), East Village Writer Bloc (Manhattan Theatre Source), Three Ways (Altered Stages), Toys in the Attic, Cave Dwellers, Hamlet (Pearl Theatre Company), Eggs In A Basket (New York Theater Workshop), Twelfth Night (Pulse Ensemble Theatre). |
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Joe Galan
NYC credits: Founding Member, writer, and performer with the comedy troupe, FUCT, which has appeared at The Cherry Lane Theatre, Caroline's on Broadway, Broadway Comedy Club, The Producer's Club, The Rattlestick Theatre, Spotlight Live, Upright Citizen's Brigade and the Austin Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. FUCT was the winner of the 2008 SkitSkat Live Comedy Festival for Best Comedy Troupe. Joe was also the winner of the 2003 NY Fringe Festival Award for Best Set Design for The House of Merry. He is also a recent attorney and senior partner of The Galan Law Firm, P.C.
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Sarah Gifford
[Film] Lead roles in feature-length indie Elevation Due West, the short film Tete a Tete, and the feature-length film Sign directed by Calvin Wynter; currently working with children at The Learning Center in Washington D.C.
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Peter Gil-Sheridan
Peter Gil-Sheridan graduated from Fordham in 1998. A playwright and director, his play Topsy Turvy Mouse was selected for development as part of the Cherry Lane Theatre’s Mentor Project and was the winner of the Timothy Smith Prize from the National New Play Network. Peter was recently the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship at the Playwright's Center and has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre to write a new play to premiere in April 2009. This year he had residencies at the Ucross Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. His work has been seen/developed at New York Theater Workshop, The Lark Theatre, The Sundance Institute, The Kennedy Center, the New York International Fringe Festival, The University of Colorado at Boulder, A Theatre Group of Silverton, Colorado, The Toy Box Theatre, the figments, Working for Tips Productions, Riverside Theatre of Iowa City, and Prospect Theatre Company. Peter is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Playwright’s Workshop and is an adjunct faculty member at Fordham where he often guest directs and mentors young directors.
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Betty Gilpin
Betty Gilpin, upon graduating in2008 as a theatre performance major was cast in Second Stage’s production of Good Boys and True, by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, directed by Scott Ellis.
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Todd Giordano
Todd graduated from Fordham in 2003 as both a performance and design and production major. He served as Master Electrician for the Fordham Theatre Company from 2003-2005. Since graduation, he has worked as a theatre electrician for many venues including the Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, SC and the Bard Summerscape Festival. In New York, he has worked on many shows as a freelance electrician including the Off-Broadway hit, Altar Boyz Todd has also worked and trained extensively in physical theatre and clown.
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Molly Goforth
After graduation from Fordham, attended Rutgers' Graduate Program in Acting, and the Vahktangov Theatre School in Moscow.
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Tara Good
Tara Good is currently employed at the Middle East Policy Council in Washington D.C as an assistant editor for Middle East Policy Journal. She is also a contributing writer for the online magazine Bustedhalo.com. She received her Masters from New York University in Performance Studies and her undergraduate degree from Fordham University, NYC, in Performance and International/Inter-cultural Studies. Research interests include comparative study of Christianity and Islam in the Levant, transnationalism, ritual, identity formation, political theology and the performance of religiosity as cultural agency. She has studied with the following theater companies: The Moscow Art Theater (Moscow, Russia) The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (Pontedera, Italy) and Yuyachkani (Lima, Peru). As a recipient of the State Department’s “Critical Language Scholarship” she spent the summer of 2007 in Jordan studying Arabic.
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Morgan Gould
After spending her senior year interning at the Lark Play Development Center, Morgan (a '08 directing and performance major) was hired as a member of the artistic administrative staff, which helps to serve and develop new plays by domestic and international artists with diverse and vital perspectives. Morgan also recently stage managed the first-ever Fordham Alumni Theare Company Production, The Martian Chronicles, written and directed by Elizabeth Margid. Additionally, after working with director Paul Willis and playwright Sheila Callaghan on Fordham's workshop of CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE in spring 2008, Morgan was asked to assistant direct the premiere production being produced by 13P. This winter, Morgan is also directing a new play by fellow Fordham Theatre Alum Leah Hendrick (06') with The Figments Production Co., founded by Fordham Theatre Alum Greg Foro ('00).
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Zabryna Guevara
Zabryna Guevara graduated from Fordham University’s Bachelor of Arts theatre program with honors. [Off-Broadway] credits include: Sonia Flew (SPF, ’06), El Paso Blue (SPF, ’04); Santa Concepción (The Public Theatre); The Cook, Tight Embrace, Now and Then (Intar); Bulrusher (Urban Stages); Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (Page 73 Productions). [Regional] The Cook (Connecticut Critics Circle nominee, Hartford Stage); Twelfth Night (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Sonia Flew, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Breath, Boom! (The Huntington Theatre); Noises Off (Studio Arena); Hamlet (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Dreamlandia (Dallas Theatre Center). [Film & Television] 3 Lbs, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, The Sopranos, The Jury, Everyone's Depressed, Whispers (HBO, Sundance Film Festival, Gordon Parks Film Festival Award).
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Gretchen Hall
NYU Graduate Acting Program |
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Alexis Harper
Alexis most recently performed in A King Island Christmas (The New York State Theatre Institute, dir. Patricia Birch). National Tour: Fiddler on the Roof (40th Anniversary tour, u/s Hodel, Tzeitel). Other credits include the inaugural season of C-R productions at the Cohoes Music Hall: The Diary of Anne Frank (Miep), Into the Woods (Florinda), Nuncrackers (u/s Amnesia), and Mame (Pegeen). Favorite West Coast credits: She Loves Me (Ritter), Annie (Star to Be), and two years on faculty and staff at Huntington Beach, California’s Academy for the Performing Arts. Proud member of AEA.
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Nakia Henry
[Broadway] Hot Feet. [Regional] Soweto! A Township is Calling; Gospel at Colonus; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Company member: Detroit Dance Theatre; Company member and choreographer: Inner City Dance Scope (Detroit, MI). |
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Jessica Hermosilla
After graduating from Fordham Jessica spent several years working in theatre both in New York and Australia before returning to school to obtain an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance (IDHA) from the Center for International Health and Cooperation. The multi-disciplinary course is aimed at providing a comprehensive insight into the needs of the victims of man made and natural disasters in acute and chronic settings. It is run in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons, Univ. of Geneva, and Fordham Univ. Jessica currently works for Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Boarders). In May 2005, she returned after nine months working in Darfur, Sudan. Her goal is to eventually use theatre as a tool towards creating awareness of humanitarian issues and rehabilitation for children and women who are victims of violence.
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Trinidad Hernandez
Doctoral student, University of Houston; Founder, PERFORMANCE/SCHOOL (the world's first high school Performance Studies Program); National educator awards from the Educational Theatre Association, Toyota Corporation, Fulbright Memorial Fund, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Kappa Delta Pi.
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John Benjamin Hickey
[Film] The Bone Collector, The General’s Daughter, The Ice Storm, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Hamlet;
[Television] Sex and the City, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life in the Streets.
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Phil Horton
After Fordham, Phil pursued his acting training at Carnegie Mellon University and The Moscow Art Theatre where he received two MFA's in Acting. Currently, he’s in the process of forming a theatre company. Their first production, El Salvador, will go up Feb. 2005 in NYC. Please check out Phil’s website for upcoming details.
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Van Hughes
Van Hughes is currently appearing in 9 To 5 The Musical (lyrics/music by Dolly Parton) with Allison Janney at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. He most recently appeared in the world premiere new musical Saved at Playwrights Horizons, NYC originating the role of Patrick. [Broadway] Hairspray (also Las Vegas). [Film] Tenure with Luke Wilson, Rachel Getting Married with Anne Hathaway directed by Jonathan Demme, Sex and the City: The Movie, Inside Man, Book of Love, A Step Toward Tomorrow. [TV] Law and Order: SVU & Criminal Intent, Six Degrees, As The World Turns (recurring), NASA Connect (host), and Bob Dylan's music video for When the Deal Goes Down.
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Carla Jackson
Yale Graduate Theatre Management Program; worked with Ben Mordecai on producing several August Wilson plays.
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Britta Jensen
Attended Columbia University's Teachers College for her MA in English Education. Britta is concentrating on how to integrate theatre and performance into literature education. Britta's past work includes working at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health as their Drama Therapist, and Columbia University Social Psychiatry Research Unit. Britta has directed for Davai Theatre Ensemble, the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and Murasaki Productions. Her play Mighty Nebulae is in development and her documentary Believing recently had a preliminary screening.
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John Johnson
John Johnson is a New York City native and resident who graduated from Fordham with a B.A. in Theatre Management. John interned during his junior year in the offices of Producers Elizabeth I. McCann and Joey Parnes; he was hired by them upon his graduation his management career with them has continued on productions such as Copenhagen; The Play About the Baby; Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia; Tuesdays with Morrie; Beckett/Albee; Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Well; Butley; Passing Strange; Equus; and Hair. Since 2001, John has worked on the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, serving most recently as Associate Producer for the past 3 telecasts.
Pictured: John Johnson with Marian Seldes, opening night of the Broadway production of Equus
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Joel Johnstone
[Film & Television] Brothers of KVL; Ed (NBC); Read 180 (Scholastic Television); Lessons; Urban Gothic (Channel 5-UK); Fossil Fight. [Theatre] A Sense of Place; Room 3/4; and Waiting at the Paradise Theatre; Romeo & Juliet at American Theatre for Actors; Twelfth Night at the Bridgelane Theatre in London. |
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Richardson Jones
Richardson Jones is a proud company member of Push Productions, Inc. With Push he has performed in Marat/Sade, Shannon in Ambient Light, and Kraken. Richardson is currently in the M.F.A. acting program at the American Conservatory Theatre. |
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Jeffrey James Keyes
Credits include: 59E59 Theater, 78th Street Theatre Lab, EST, The LAByrinth Theater, Creative Mechanics, Fn Productions, Theatre Askew, The Strawberry Festival, Allentown Shakespeare. Books: Stage This, Too! and Italy From A Backpack. His magazine writing includes: Metrosource, The Out Traveler, The Advocate, and Theatre Today; also the "Regional Report" column for the Drama League. MFA in Playwriting, Columbia University. |
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Mike Kimmel
Most recently, Michael oversaw the premiere of Shaun Gunning's Writer's Block as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival as well as Ian Mcwethy’s Actor’s are F*@#ing Stupid at The Wild Project. As Creative Director for Push Productions, Michael has overseen numerous productions, including last year’s NYC premieres of both Len Jenkin’s Kraken at walkerspace and Timothy Mansfield’s January 1986 as part of The New York Fringe Festival. Other shows for Push include Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade at the Access Theater, Jason Pizzarello’s Saving the Greeks: One Tragedy at a Time, Coln Mckenna’s bunkerbaby, and the 60th anniversary production of Ferdinand Bruckner’s The Criminals. His work has been seen at venues all over the city, including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Soho Rep., The Flea, The Arclight, Rattlestick, and many others. Michael is an adjunct faculty member at Fordham.
At left: Michael Kimmel giving notes on a recent production.
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Karina Kramer-Schevers
Produced several plays at Surf Reality and the Producers Club as part of the NY Fringe Festival.
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Kristine Kuroiwa
Woyzeck at the Culture Project, NYC. Kristine is a member of ActiveEye Theater Company, recently completing a show, Dojoji, at Cleveland Public Theatre.
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Cynthia LaForte
Cynthia (2006 performance graduate) has worked on several television shows and films including As the World Turns, Gossip Girl and Pier’s End Productions WAKE. She was also cast in the Montana Meth Project Ad entitled Boyfriend, directed by Darren Aronofsky, and as the host for the MTV show Hit Me Back. Cynthia also continues to work as a professional model. |
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Annette Verga Lagier
Assistant Stage Manager for Kia Corthron's new play Light Raise the Roof at New York Theatre Workshop. Prior to that, Annette was ASM for the Public Theatre’s production of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out (Annette moved with the production when it went to Broadway.) |
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Allyson Lapidus
Since graduating, Allyson has worked as a costume design assistant on various shows at the Public Theater, the LAByrinth, Playwrights' Horizons, and MCC, as well as on several films, including Duplex and Uptown Girls. She currently works in the costume department for Law and Order, SVU.
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Bethany Schultz Larsen
Bethany is the office manager for Barlow & Hartman Public Relations, a Broadway and Off-Broadway Theatre Press Office. She is one of the founders of The Milk Can Theatre Company (founded in the Summer of 2003), a collective of playwrights, directors, and a composer. The company grew out of the Looking Glass Theatre Laboratory (2000-2003) and is dedicated to new play development. More information can be found at www.milkcantheatre.org.
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Philip LaSalle
[Film & Television] Law & Order SVU (principle); Reel Women (principle); Guiding Light.
[Theatre] Scenes from an Execution at La Jolla Playhouse; The Three Sisters and Nine Plays by Howard Barker at Weiss Center for Performing Arts; The Crucible and Diary of a Scoundrel at Tabakov Theater-Russia. M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Guenia Lemos
2000 graduate in Theatre Performance. [Television] Jenny Lupo (sister-in-law to Detective Lupo) on Law and Order; As The World Turns, One Life to Live. [Film] The Mercy Man, The Night Listener, Father Son Holy Ghost. [Theatre] The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and The Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Place Setting by Jack Canfora; Love and Murder by Arthur Giron at New Jersey Rep, and The Bubble by Frank J. Avella at the Bank Street Theatre. Visit Guenia's website. |
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Laetitia Leon
2007 Theatre Performance graduate. Upon graduation, Laetitia apprenticed at Williamstown Theatre Festival and was subsequently cast in a lab production working with directors Roger Rees and Alex Timbers. |
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Sara Levine
Workshop of an original rock/a cappella musical through the BMI Musical Theatre Writer's Program which was picked up for an Equity national tour by Theatreworks/USA. Sara has also been doing lots of freelance recording, club singing, and original work with BMI.
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Lou Liberatore
[Film] It’s My Party; [Television] Sex and the City, Law and Order, Tales of the City, Who’s the Boss?; [Broadway] Burn This (Tony Award nomination), As Is; [Off-Broadway] Appearances at Circle Rep, Naked Angels, Manhattan Theatre Club, among others.
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Christina Lind
Christina Lind graduated from Fordham in 2005 as a theatre performance major. New York Theatre: Dutchman (u/s Lula, subway rider) at The Cherry Lane Theatre (dir. Bill Duke); The Desert written and directed by Matthew Maguire at HERE; Lascivious Something (reading) at Roundabout Theatre Company (dir. Daniella Topol) and The Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project (dir. Suzanne Agins); Phaedra x3 also at The Cherry Lane (dir. Ianthe Demos). Regional: Metamorphoses at Capital Rep. Film/Television/Commercials: Alabama (Sarah) for Zippo Focus Productions, New York, NY, dir. Jordan Friedman, Pranjal Shriwastava; Mona Lisa Smile for Smile Productions Inc., New York, NY; MTV/L’Oreal.
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Heather Lind
Heather Lind graduated as a theatre performance major in 2005. New York theatre includes The Desert written and directed by Matthew Maguire at HERE; Shangri La at Queens Theatre in the Park; Talk of the Walk Up at Manhattan Theatre Source; River Deep, A Tribute to Tina Turner at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwright’s Horizons; Men at Manhattan Repertory Theatre; Passing Aggressing at Theatre 80; Herself at The Looking Glass Theatre and Underwater (reading) at New Dramatists. [ Regional ] Metamorphoses at Capital Rep; Moon Over Buffalo at Cider Mill Playhouse; Grease and Gypsy at Park Playhouse Inc. Television: Guiding Light; Law and Order; various commercials. She was accepted into NYU’s Graduate Acting Program for entrance Fall 2007.
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David Lomax
[Film] Professional stunt man in numerous films; [Television] The Sopranos; [Theatre] Playwright and Company Member of the NJ Shakespeare Festival. David is pictured here with Annie Parisse in the Fordham Mainstage production of Antigone by Jean Anouilh, directed by Michael Massee.
At left: David Lomax and Annie Parisse in the Fordham mainstage production of Antigone directed by Michael Massee. |
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Carl Louis
2006 Performance graduate; working with the Classical Theatre of Harlem. [Film] Unknown Soldier (Ellison; Best Narrative Feature at Los Angeles Film Festival and nominated for John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award). |
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Rod Maiorano
Rod is currently in pre-production for the feature film Vive Napoleon! TV credits include Law & Order and Mind of Mencia. Film credits include Love the Hard Way, Restaurant, Broke Even, and The Pitch. He also has appeared in commercials, most notably the NY Lottery commercial with "that stupid dog"! |
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Elzbieta Majchrzak
Columbia University Arts Administration Program
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Toni Mansfield
Toni Mansfield (formerly Miniero) is a 2003 graduate of Fordham, majoring liberal arts theatre. After graduating from Fordham, Toni attended Columbia University's physical therapy program. She received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2007. In Nov 2007, she married Northwestern PhD candidate Greg Mansfield. Toni hopes to pursue both dance medicine and animal rehabilitation. Yes, a strange combination, but so was theatre and science pre-requisites, so she's used to it.
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Bridget Markov
Production partner with Kai Brothers, Production Managers; has worked consistently as a stage manager with Soho Rep and other NYC theatres.
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Janio Marrero
Janio Marrero is the Production and Facilities Manager at the Cherry Lane Theatre. He is also a freelance Production Manager and Technical Director and he owns a Custom Made Carpentry Company called Al Gusto. New York acting credits include Erendira and Salome at HERE Arts Center, Luces de Bohemia and Momma's Boyz at Repertorio Espanol. He is a member of the Comedy Troupe FUCT, and has performed with them at Caroline's, Broadway Comedy Club, the Cherry Lane Theatre, the Producer's Club and the Rattlestick Theater. Janio recently acquired a book deal with a Simon and Schuster imprint.
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Melissa Marsala
[Film] Mickey Blue Eyes; [Television] The Sopranos; Six Feet Under; The West Wing.
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Kellie McCants
Kellie McCants is a 2002 graduate and currently resides in Manhattan. Both Kellie and Fordham voice instructor, Elena McGhee, performed together in the Classical Theatre of Harlem's production of Funnyhouse of a Negro. A few highlights for Kellie since graduating was the opportunity to perform in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and continuing to strengthen her craft by studying with the LAByrinth Theater Company, Susan Batson's Black Nexxus and withTasha Smith. Kellie finally has legit and commerical representation and remains focused and grateful on this artistic journey she has chosen.
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Bill McCay
Under a variety of pseudonyms as well as his own name, Bill McCay is the author of more than seventy books, including such series as the Race Against Time, The Three Investigators, Young Indiana Jones, and Tom Clancy’s Net Force. He has also worked with Stan Lee on Riftworld, a science fiction comedy-adventure set in the comics business. McCay has also written five novels based on the film Stargate. His fantasy short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and his Star Trek novel Chains of Command (co-written with E.L. Flood) spent several weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.
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Maria McConville
Maria McConville has appeared in The Last One Left (MITF-Jewel Box) and Inside Out (HERE), both written by Fordham playwright alum Jason Pizzarello. She played 10-year-old Hannah in Hannah and the Hollow Challah (78th St. Theater Lab), directed by Fordham's Elizabeth Margid. Alongside fellow Fordham theatre alums Aaron Rhyne and Pizzarello, she created the theatre education portionof their company (Live Project) and taught 3rd, 4th and 5th graders in Pelham, NY. She is also a Teaching Artist with Theatre For a New Audience. Other acting credits include Viola in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park-ing Lot), Atomic Farmgirl (78th St. Theater Lab), JUMP! (The Kirk on Theatre Row), Moral Values: A Grand Farce...(NYC Fringe) written by fellow alum, Ian McWethy, As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Park-ing Lot), Limitless Joy with the International WOW Co. (CSV) and the International WOW Co’s film Memorial Day. For her performance in First Time Out of Bounds with The Drilling Co. at the 78th St. Theatre Lab, she received a NY IT (New York Innovative Theatre) Award for Outstanding Actress which was presented to her by Marian Seldes. Maria McConville married fellow alum, Jason Pizzarello, in April 2008.
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Carrie McCrossen
Since graduation, Carrie has appeared in the NY International Fringe Festival's hit Moral Values: a Grand Farce or Me No Likey the Homo Touch-Touch, in Vital Children's Radiant Ruby, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival's It's Not Even Past and Push Production's Saving the Greeks. She is a contributing member of the theatre company Live Project and the producer of FREEPLAY, a reading series for emerging playwrights. Visit her website: www.carriemccrossen.com |
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Dylan McDermott
[Film] In the Line of Fire, Home for the Holidays, ‘Til There Was You, Steel Magnolias, Twister, Hamburger Hill, Miracle on 34th Street; [Television] The Practice; [ Broadway] Biloxi Blues; [Theatre] Golden Boy (directed by Joanne Woodward, Williamstown Theater Festival).
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Colin McKenna
A playwright, screenwriter, and director, Colin’s plays have been presented by The Cherry Lane, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, La MaMa, Soho Rep, Montana Rep, Boomerang Theatre, Tisch (NYU), and, his resident company, Push Productions. He has directed at The Wild Project, Tisch School of the Arts NYU, Fordham, The Strasberg Institute, La MaMa, Soho Rep, The Tribeca Playhouse, NY Performance Works, and The Dramatists’ Guild. Colin holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts NYU, where he was awarded the Goldberg Playwriting Fellowship and a full Scholarship. Since he completed his MFA in 2006, his play, The Secret Agenda of Trees, debuted Off-Broadway at the historic CherryLane Theatre as part of their Mentor project, and another play, anybody, premiered at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Colin hasreceived numerous playwriting awards: The National Theatre Conference’s Stavis Award for Outstanding Emerging Playwright, The Goldberg Fellowship & Scholarship, The Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellow, finalist for the Yale Drama Series, and The John Golden Playwriting Prize. Next season, his plays The Secret Agenda of Trees (produced by Push Prod. and directed by Michael Kimmel)and parking lot lonely heart are slated for New York productions as well. He wrote the short film, Anybody, which was seen atthe Tribeca Screening Room, Big Muddy Film Festival 2008,Methodfest 2008, and WorldFest Houston 2008. He is on the adjunct theatre faculty at Fordham, and is currently in LA pursuing film projects with Anonymous Content.
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Michaela McManus
Michaela attended NYU's graduate acting program before leaving to pursue her career in Los Angeles. She has been added to the cast of One Tree Hill for a multi-episode arc as a "tough but kind" New York editor assigned to work on Lucas' novel. Michaela has just signed on as a series regular for season 10 of Law & Order SVU as ADA Kim Grayleck. Also this year: a guest spot on CSI NY, and a few more episodes of One Tree Hill's upcoming Season 6. |
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Ian McWethy
Ian McWethy graduated from Fordham in 2005. [Film/TV] Law and Order: CI, The Girl in the Park (written and directed by David Auburn), Daily Pops (LEAD in a sitcom Pilot for MTV) as well as commercials for Comedy Central, MTV and most recently a spot for Microsoft(directed by Michel Gondry). Ian is also a playwright who's credits include Moral Values A Grand Farce or Me No Likey the Homo Touch-Touch (The Village Gate Theatre), Actors Are F@#*ing Stupid (The Wild Project), and Harold P. Truthington Presents The Absolutely True Story of Robin Hood AKA Rob Hat Guy which was recently published by Playscripts and can be purchased at their website.
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Lisette Medina
Lisette graduated from Fordham in 2005. She recently performed a monologue show called Men at the Manhattan Theater Repertory. |
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Matthew Melchiorre (Stage Manager)
Member of Actors' Equity Association since 2003. [Broadway ] All Shook Up, Nathan Lane, Susan Stroman and Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs. [Off Broadway] Robby Benson's Open Heart (Cherry Lane Theatre), The Architecture of Loss (New York Theatre Workshop), Fiction, Blue, Give Me Your Answer, Do! (Roundabout), Further Than The Furthest Thing, Wonder of the World, Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine, Current Events, La Terrasse (Manhattan Theatre Club). [Regional] As Bees In Honey Drown (Provincetown Repertory Theatre), Baby, Grease, Romeo and Bernadette, Blue, Annie, Miss Saigon, My Fair Lady, The King and I (Paper Mill Playhouse)
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Pete Mele
Pete Mele is currently working for Rosie O'Donnell's For All Kids Foundation. |
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Frances Mercanti-Anthony
Frances Mercanti-Anthony is originally from Haddonfield, New Jersey. [ Broadway ] Original Broadway company of the musical Spring Awakening directed by Michael Mayer at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. She played Betsy in the Ken Urban play I (Heart) Kant with the Committee Theatre, and was seen in the Off-Broadway production Mr. Marmalade directed by Michael Greif at the Roundabout Theatre Company. She has also frequently performed and is an active company member of Amphibian Productions based out of Fort Worth, Texas. With this company she has performed the roles of Matt in Matt and Ben in Fort Worth, Marge in the staged reading of The Talented Mr. Ripley both at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art and at Dodger Stages in New York City, and the Countess in The True History of Julia Pastrana... both in Fort Worth and in a critically acclaimed extended run at the Greenwich Street Theatre in New York. Frances is a proud member of Actor's Equity and lives in Brooklyn, NY
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Jennifer Lynn Michael
[Television] Law and Order; indie film project with fellow alum Bill Pennell (Greenbadge Film Co.); currently writing, producing and soon to be performing in her one-woman show: Jennifer's Outs Don't Count. |
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Liz Miller
Liz is a stage manager in NYC. New York theatre includes: Cymbeline for Lincoln Center Theater; Assistant Stage Manager on the Public Theater's Romeo & Juliet for Shakepeare in the Park, the Broadway revival of Butley, starring Nathan Lane, and also for Lincoln Center Theater: The House in Town (by Richard Greenberg) and the Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Seascape. |
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Mark Modzwelewski
Mark Modzelewski moved to LA in 2002. While there he was offered a job to teach drama at a summer camp. That led to an invitation for him to teach high school theatre. He is now entering his fifth year at Wickenburg High School in AZ. Mark has also served as Co-District Arts-in-Education Coordinator for the past four years.
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Brianne Moncrief
Since Fordham, Brianne has appeared on the last season of the Sopranos, in numerous commercials, and a handful of plays around N.Y.C. Brianne can now be seen regularly on ABC’s All My Children as Colby Chandler! |
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Laura Mottolo
Worked as Play Development Assistant at Manhattan Theatre Club for several years after graduation; Fall 2005: applying to medical school.
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Alison Murphy
Alison teaches in the New York City Public School system and runs an after-school drama program.
Alison Murphy (right) is pictured here with John Ort in the Fordham mainstage production of Angels in America, Part I, by Tony Kushner, directed by Julie Boyd. Kushner came to talk to the Fordham cast about the play. |
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Brian Murray
Working with New Georges Theatre Company |
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Amelia Nickles
As a result of Fordham senior showcase, was cast as an understudy in The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Roundabout on Broadway; went on to graduate acting program at ART in Boston/Moscow. |
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Heidi Niedermeyer
New York Theatre Credits: Actors are Fu@#?ng Stupid, Kraken (Push Productions), Texas Lawman (37 Arts, Reading), Undergraound (Classic Stage Company, Workshop), Medea(Looking Glass Theatre), Office Sonata (Impetuous Theatre Co.), The Audition (Wings Theatre), Trojan Women (HERE Arts Center). Williamstown Theatre Festival: (Non-Equity Company, Mainstage 2008) Flea in Her Ear (Antoinette), Free Theatre (Bonnie), Hungry (Leah); (Act One Company 2007): Help Yourself (Kay), The Prophet Mohammed: A Musical! (Fatima), Thursday (Marcy), Greylock Theatre Project. TV/FILM/WEB: Guiding Light (U5), The Beautiful Lie (MTV Movie Award), Perception, The Basement (Columbia Grad), Podopera Brooklyn (Heather), Alaya Herbal Water.
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Brian Normant
Member of Push Productions which produced Colin Hodges’ play bunkerbaby at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center in New York, Bruckner’s The Criminals at Present Theatre Company, and the American premiere of Faith by Meredith Oakes at New York’s Clemente Soto Velez.
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Heidi O'Connell
Heidi O'Connell (FCLC Performance 2006) has been the Assistant Lighting Supervisor of The Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival since September of 2006. While at The Public she has been involved in all NYSF mainstage and festival productions, including Shakespeare in the Park and The Under The Radar Festival. She is a member of the Amnesia Wars family including Parenthetical (i) Innuendo improv with fellow FCLC '06 alum, Katherine Barna. Heidi is currently part of the MA Advanced Theatre Practice Dramaturgy Strand at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, class of 2009.
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Jen Oda
[Film] Brooklyn Knights, Spiderman 3, The Brave One. [Theatre] Abandon at La Mama ETC. |
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Kelley Rae O'Donnell
Kelley is a member of NYC's LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman - Co-Artistic Directors). New York stage credits include: Becoming Jack (LAByrinth), Apocalypse (NY Neo-Futurists), 6-Pack (NY Neo-Futurists and 24 Seven Lab), 1:23 (LAByrinth), Twenty Anything (Developing Artists' Rebel Verses), 92 Jonquil Lane (Prospect Theatre Co.), Faith (Push Productions), The 24-Hour Plays, Celebrity (Directed by John Gould Rubin), You Can Clap Now (NYC Hip Hop Festival), Just Back from Guatemala Broke Again (Stupida Boyz & Moxie Films sketch comedy), Extremities, Women of Manhattan, Of Mice and Men, Blue Window. Television credits include: Guiding Light (CBS), One Life To Live (ABC), The IT Factor (BRAVO) and In The Mix (PBS). Film credits include: The Saint of Avenue B, Acme Pictures Summer Project, The Bench, Beyond Recognition, On Your Mark (directed by Dylan Kidd), and Damned.
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Anthony Ong
Anthony Ong (Class of 2003)- National Tour: Miss Saigon (Swing/Assistant Dance Captain). Regional: My One and Only (Achmed/Ensemble) at Broward Stage Door Theatre (FL), Miss Saigon (Assistant Commissar/Club Owner) at Majestic Theater (MA), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ching Ho) at Cohoes Music Hall (NY); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ching Ho) at Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre (IN). |
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John Ort
[Regional] Summer and Smoke (Paper Mill Playhouse & Hartford Stage), A Christmas Carol '03-'05, Peter and Jerry - u/s, Metamorphoses - u/s (Hartford Stage), Terminating (Long Wharf Theater), La Bayadere (NY State Theater - Lincoln Center). [NY Theatre] Top Ten (Sanford Meisner Theater), Boys' Life (ATA), TheJob (NYC Fringe Festival). [Film] Sun Kissed, Soda Pop (Willing Suspension Films), Rolling (Red Shift Films). Most recently John has been working in casting for ABC Primetime in NY. He also works as a freelance casting director in theatre. |
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Sarah Orth
UCLA MFA Program in Producing; previously Managing Director of the Melting Pot Theatre in NYC, worked with The Directors Company; Program Director of the Harold Prince Musical Theatre Program; Co-founder and Artistic/Producing Director of Wide Sky Theatre Company.
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Annie Parisse
Annie Parisse joined the esteemed cast of NBC’s Emmy Award-winning Law & Order in January 2005 as new Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia. Her other television credits include Friends, Third Watch, Big Apple and Julia Lindsey Snyder on As The World Turns (Daytime Emmy nomination). Her film credits include Tickling Leo, First Person Singular, Definitely, Maybe, Woman in Burka, Blackbird, National Treasure, Monster-in-Law, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and Prime. Theatre credits include [Broadway] Prelude to a Kiss at the Roundabout Theatre; [Off-Broadway] The Internationalist at the Vineyard Theatre; The Credeaux Canvas at Playwrights Horizons. [Regional] Coastal Disturbances at Berkshire Theatre Festival. Annie has joined the adjunct theatre faculty at Fordham teaching Acting for the Camera.
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Robert John Parry IV
Robert John Parry IV is a graduate of the Playwriting track in the class of 2008, currently residing in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is the new Director of Audience Development and Relations for The Electric Theatre Company, Scranton's largest professional theatre. He is currently beginning work on a new one act play, and is helping to produce concerts and events throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. |
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Sonia M. Pasqual
Currently, Sonia has decided to work as a freelance designer for her new lighting company, Amethyst Design Entertainment, LLC. Having a great working experience at Walt Disney World Entertainment where she started at Magic Kingdom then on to Downtown Disney, Pleasure Island, Sonia decided to focus on her own company in spring 2007. Sonia has made some humble achievements such as being accepted onto the Walt Disney World, Lighting Design Global Bench and facilitated classes for Lighting the Disney Way. She was also accepted to the Parson's School of Design in New York to pursue her MFA in Architecture Lighting, but choose to pursue more professional work in many areas before going on to grad school.
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Kristen Pecci
Kristen Pecci graduated from Fordham in 2004 as a Theatre Design and Production major, concentrating in Lighting Design. Following graduation, she teamed up with fellow Fordham alums to found Mayhaps Productions and worked as the Lighting Designer and Technical Director for their successful off-Broadway run of alumni Mitch Malnati’s comedy, GIRLS!. Other NYC lighting design credits include the NY premiere of Playing House (HERE Arts Center), Bent (Shapiro Theatre), Tsunami (Fordham) and Down the Road (Theatre 22). Following an internship as the Assistant Master Electrician at The Julliard School, Kristen worked as an apprentice electrician for the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC. Most recently, Kristen has shifted her focus from theatrical design to architectural design, and is working as the Technical/Design Coordinator for an architectural construction consulting firm in NYC while she pursues a degree in Architecture from NYIT.
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Bill Pennell
Class of 1993. Performed in Playwrights Horizons’ staged reading of Edward Albee's The Lorca Play with David Strathairn, directed by Lawrence Sacharow; former Creative Director, Verex Entertainment; co-directed/produced/acted in film version of Action, written by Sam Shepard. Graduated Law School2004; currently with Abrams Artists Agency, LA. |
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Hannah Perryman
Hannah graduated from Fordham in 2006 as a Design & Production Major. She currently works in Television Production for Music Choice, the Cable TV Music Channels.
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Sara Phillips
Sara works as an actor and a vocal coach. Recent vocal coaching includes the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Summer 2008 season), and in Spring 2009, she will join the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for a third season, coaching Don Quixote and Much Ado about Nothing. She has also coached for two seasons at American Players Theatre. As an actor, appearances include the world premiere of Eric Simonson's The Only Thing at Madison Repertory Theatre, and Paulina in The Winter's Tale at Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. |
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Jason Pizzarello
Jason Pizzarello is a 2004 graduate of the Playwriting Program. His full-length plays include: InsideOut, produced at the Here Arts Center, and nominated for a 2006 Innovative Theatre Award; The Last One Left, produced by Geek, Ink in the Midtown International Theater Festival; Saving the Greeks: One Tragedy at a Time, produced by Push Productions at the 14th Street Y Theater; Glued to Grammy, produced at Here; and Children of Jok: the boy with three arms. Seven of his plays are published by Playscripts, Inc. and have been produced in more than 20 states as well as in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Syria, and Thailand. He is the co-founder and Creative director of Live Project, a mixed media performance group founded in 2002 with director Aaron Rhyne.
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Johnnie Planco
Johnnie Planco was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Fordham University at Lincoln Center with a BFA in Theater he joined the famed William Morris Agency Mailroom in 1972 and stayed with the Agency until 2000. In those 28 years he became the youngest Department Head and Service Vice President in the Agency's history, running both the Motion Picture department in New York and running and creating the William Morris Talent Department. Among the clients he represented were Tom Hanks, Richard Gere, John Malkovich, Rock Hudson, Michael Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Robert Altman, Susan Sarandon, John Cassavettes and Abel Ferrarra. After leaving William Morris he and Gene Parseghian formed Parseghian Planco, a Management and Production company. Their clients include Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Schrader, Lauren Bacall, Judi Dench, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter O’Toole, Phylicia Rashad, Scott Glenn and Franco Zefferelli. In2002 they merged with Untitled Entertainment, a Los Angeles Management firm whose clients include Naomi Watts, Ashton Kutcher, Penelope Cruz and Hillary Swank. In addition, Parseghian Planco have produced two feature films Perfume with Peter Gallagher, Omar Epps and Jeff Goldblum as well as Paul Schrader’s The Walker with Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Lily Tomlin, Willem Dafoe and Ned Beatty scheduled for release in 2007. They also produced William Mastrosimone’s play The Stone Carver this summer at the Soho Playhouse.
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Anna Podolak
Anna received her BA in Theatre from Fordham in 2002. She appears on stages both in Poland and the U.S. Theatre: A Lie Of The Mind (Beth) at the Michael Chekhov Theatre Company; Blyskawica and The Return of the Riding Hood Red at the International Theatre Festival in Poland; Mrs. Gould’s 1913 Holiday Special (Mrs. Gould); The Divine Comedy (Beatrice) Akt 21 Theatre; Uncle Vanya (Sonya) Theatre of J. Osterwa, Poland. TV: A&E Biographies as Charlotte Stoker. Visit her website: www.annapodolak.com. |
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Catherine Popowytsch
Cathy Popowytsch graduated from Fordham in 2003. After graduation, she worked as the Marketing Assistant at Playwrights Horizons for three years. She is currently the Director of Marketing at New York Theatre Workshop.
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Richard Prioleau
Theatre: Six Degrees of Separation at the Gallery Players Theatre, the national tour of The Color of Justice (Theatreworks USA), Abandon at La MaMa, E.T.C. in assoc. with Creation Production Co.(directed by Matthew Maguire), norway.today, at the Chopin Theatre, Chicago with THALATTA! Theatre International. Man-Made at the Ohio Theatre. Television/Film: As The World Turns, the independent short Three and a Half Thoughts (winner of Best Short at the Harlem International Film Festival); and the Japanese film, Sushi Prince (Ouiji)! Richard is a member of Actor's Equity Association. MFA - ACT, San Francisco 2011 |
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Annie Purcell
[Broadway] The Coast of Utopia and Awake and Sing (u/s) both at Lincoln Center. [Off-Broadway] Cycling Past the Matterhorn (u/s). [Regional] Uncle Vanya (California Shakespeare Festival). [TV]The Black Donnelys. [FILM] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. As a playwright: Book the Third. M.F.A.: NYU Graduate Acting Program.
Pictured: Annie Purcell in Uncle Vanya at California Shakespeare Festival, August 2008, dir: Timothy Near.
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Colleen Quinn
Primetime Series Development (both 1/2 hour comedy and one hour drama) at Warner Bros. [Television, Los Angeles] directed and produced a play starring West Wing cast member Nicole Robinson; author of many essays, one of which she recently read on NPR. Colleen is currently in development to host her own radio talk show in Los Angeles.
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Brian Reilly
Member of Push Productions which produced Bruckner’s The Criminals at Present Theatre Company, and the American premiere of Faith by Meredith Oakes at New York’s Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center; actor in various NYC theatres.
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Juan Reinoso
Juan Reinoso began the independent feature film production company Wayfinder Films in 2003. He has since gone on to write and direct the feature film Down the Road and is currently in early pre-production stages for his next feature film tentatively titled An Oklahoma Tragedy. As a producer/executive producer: the dramatic feature film Homecoming starring Josh Hamilton and Joseph Cross; the supernatural horror film The Last Tomorrow; the recently wrapped psychological thriller Dream House (in which he also plays a supporting role). He is currently producing the documentary feature Made in Japan, narrated by Elijah Wood. Other films in development include Survive the Night and Among the Shadows, as well as other various features and short films. As an Executive Producer he is currently attached to several feature films. He has also produced and/or directed music videos and commercials.
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Rich Rella
Since graduating from Fordham in 2001 Richard has earned an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College, earned a full-time professorship at Monmouth University (teaching Theater Appreciation), and is currently in the Off-Broadway production of Tony N' Tina's Wedding. Richard can also be seen in the Touchstone Pictures film Confessions of a Shopaholic (opening February 2009). |
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Aaron Rhyne
Aaron Rhyne is a director and video artist specializing in theatrical video and projection design. His video designs include the recent New York premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall, which he will be re-creating next year at the Sydney Opera House in Australia, the current revival of Stephen Schwartz’ Working (Asolo Rep and The Old Globe), Amiri Baraka's Dutchman (Cherry Lane), The JAP Show (Actors Temple and US Tour), Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry Lane), Flags (59E59), and Monica Bill Barnes’ Suddenly Summer Somewhere (Dancepace). He has done extensive video work with Caden Manson’s Big Art Group and has toured with them through Europe and the U.S. with The House of No More and Flicker. He directed and designed InsideOut, which was nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award. Other directing credits include Playing House (HERE), Bent (Columbia University), Glued to Grammy (HERE), Princess Ivona (Polish Cultural Institute). Additionally, Mr. Rhyne directs music videos, commercials, and performance projects for television.
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Luke Robertson
[Film] Jack in Imaginary Heroes with Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, and Emile Hirsch; Abner Easley in Levity opposite Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter and Kirsten Dunst. Founded Home Productions Company with fellow alum Aaron Rhyne. [TELEVISION] Third Watch. See his entry in the IMDb movie database. |
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Jessica Rodwick
Since graduating, Jessica has performed in many NYC productions, done a National tour of The Diary of Anne Frank, and worked on a few independent films. She's been a freelance writer for newspapers, and works during the day as a Production Editor for a Publishing company. She is a member of the 'Red Monkey Theatre Group', which focuses on classical plays, and recently played 'Cassia', in their controversial production of Julius Caesar. She also continues to work with fellow Fordham alumni, and is developing/writing plays of her own.
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Max Rosenberg
Law School at Yeshiva University, having obtained a joint masters from Columbia and Union Theological Seminary in Religious Studies.
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Holly Anne Ruggiero
Ms. Ruggiero is the Artistic Director of imPULSE Theatre in New York City, a freelance director, writer, Acting Staff member for the Broadway Artists Alliance and Master Class Professor at University’s around the country. Her producing partner, Joey Oliva is also a Fordham Graduate. Recent Awards: Top 30 under 30/Theare in VARIETY East; Top Theatre Artists of 2007, New England Theatre World 2007; Best Director, MITF, New York Summer 2007; Best Director, Theatre World 2007. Recent New York Directing credits include: City of Light (Book Writer/Director - BMI); Wine Lovers, A Romance in Six Glasses (Producer - Richard Frankel, Studio 54 Upstairs); Platforms (NYMF); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (MITF), Dancing with Abandon (Hartman). Selected Credits: [Broadway / National Tour / West End] Jersey Boys (Resident Director – Broadway; First National); Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Broadway; First National); Dracula; Zhivago (U.S/London); As You Like It; Metamorphoses (U.S./London); Much Ado About Nothing (London); Cover Girls (U.S./Europe). [Off-Broadway] Secrets of A Soccer Mom; Journey to Jersey Boys; The American Dream; Autophobia; Broadway Spotlight 2005-2007; Where are you going, Where have you been? [Regional] Joseph And….Dreamcoat; Forum; Credo, Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Crave for the Backyard Company and What The Butler Saw for CTWA in Los Angeles. As a writer Ms. Ruggiero has written dozens of one person shows for Broadway artists and published musicians that have been performed at the Ars Nova Theatre, Triad Theatre, Carnival Cruise Line and Majestic Theatre in Boston. She has recently been hired by Disney Creative Entertainment as a writer for International New Musicals. Upcoming: The Full Monty (Yale); Inventing Avi Aviv (Abingdon Theatre/NY). Ms. Ruggiero is represented by Creative Artists Agency in New York City.
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Jen Ruper
Cal Arts MFA Program in Film, Theatre, and TV Directing.
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Alondra Salinas
Alondra Salinas graduated in 2005. While in NYC she appeared in Machinal (Manhattan Theatre Source), Sodom's Wife (440 Studios), and Attention Craving Maniac (Belt Theatre) she also directed Lanzo and Running Through the Fog for the TSI Playtime Series. In 2006 she returned to Mexico City to continue working on [Theatre] Calabazasen la Luna; [Film]J-ok'el, Tres Piezas de Amor en un fin de Semana; [TV] Los Simuladores. Alondra has also studied at The Moscow Art Theatre, The Bali Purnati Arts Center, and participated in the 6th International Symposium for Directors in LaMaMa Umbria, Italy. She also participated in the selection session at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards in 2007. Alondra has been accepted to L'Ecole Lecoq in Paris, to start in Fall 2008.
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Marilyn Sanchez
A 2001 graduate of the Fordham Theatre Program, Marilyn recently appeared as Princess Margaret, in Romberg's The Student Prince with The Treasure Coast Opera Society. She also appeared in the chorus of La Boheme with TCOS at The Sunrise Theater, Ft. Pierce, FL.
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Damian Santucci
Damian graduated in theatre performance from Fordham. After working for the New York Rangers for two years, he is now the Manager of Event Production at Madison Square Garden where he acts as producer for all the building’s sporting, concert, theatre, and special events.
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Patti Saraniero
A 1989 Fordham grad, Patti consults, researches, and teaches theatre. You can take the girl out of stage management but apparently you can’t take the stage manager out of the girl. She is visiting faculty in the graduate stage management program at the University of California, San Diego. She is also on faculty in the theatre department at the University of San Diego.
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Stacie Leigh Scaduto
Stacie recently started a new digital video company called Small Media XL.
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Taylor Schilling
NYU Graduate Acting Program; [Film] Taylor played Jackie in Dark Matter (starring Meryl Streep) |
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Justin Sherin
Justin Sherin's plays have been produced or developed at the Royal Court Theatre, the Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company, 59 E59, Shattered Globe Theatre, and the Pleasance Edinburgh. A former Associate Director of Yale Cabaret, he's a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where he received the Audrey Wood and Eugene O'Neill Scholarships. Justin was most recently literary assistant at Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Pictured: Off-Broadway production of Justin Sherin’s Mickey Mouse is Dead at 59E59 Theatre. Pictured: James Lloyd Reynolds, Marnye Young, and Anthony Manna.
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Nisrine Shehadah
Former production major, Nisrine Shehadah, ('01), moved to Lebanon after graduation and taught English for a year to children in the Shatila refugee camp. She has been accepted to enter the graduate program in International Educational Development at Columbia University's Teacher's College starting January '05.
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Graham Skipper
Graham Skipper graduated from Fordham University with a B.A. in Theatre Performance in 2005. New York Theatre: Moral Values: A Grand Farce or Me No Likey The Homo Touch-Touch (Estaban, Binky) at The Village Theatre, NYC Fringe Festival 2006; InsideOut (Harold) at HERE Arts Center; Twinicide: 2+2=2 (Luc, Dr. Junction, et al) at The West End Theatre; Marat/Sade (Cucurucu) at The Access Theatre; Paradise Lost (Moloch) at The Bank Street Theatre. Regional: The Passion Play (Judas, Herod) at Park Performing Arts Center, Union City, NJ. He also continues to perform in the comedy troupe FUCT, performing at Rattlestick Theatre, The Producers Club, Upright Citizens Brigade, and The Studio at Cherry Lane all in NYC. |
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Carolyn Smith
[NYC Theatre] Freedom Sea (workshop) by France-Luce Benson at Atlantic Stage 2, The People Speak (workshop)by Anthony Arnove at Culture Project/45 Bleecker, Book of Lambert (workshop) by Leslie Lee at Manhattan Theatre Club, Floating Underwater for Ensemble Studio Theatre's “Going to the River” Festival. [TV] What Would you Do? Carolyn was an apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville where she appeared in the world premiere of Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular during the Humana Festival of New American Plays. |
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Andy Snyder
Recently had his play Happy Goy in the House of Shiva produced in NYC at the Arthur Seleen Theatre (fellow Fordham alum Holly Anne Ruggiero directing with fellow alum Marco Formosa and Fordham theatre major Kate Chadwick in the cast). Andy works with Barlow & Hartman Public Relations doing press for Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre.
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Tawny Sorensen
Tawny Sorensen graduated as a performance major in 2002 and received her MFA in acting from the New School for Drama in 2007. She most recently made her directorial debut with Next by Amy Schulz at the Sargent Theatre at ATA as part of the NSD Playwrights’ Seven Deadly Sins Festival. [Stage] Oh, Momma (Algonquin Theatre) A Gravedigger’s Tale (Gene Frankel Theatre), Senior Night (Studio Theatre at Theatre Row), Last Call, Black Snow, The Remnants of this People, Exile Here, The Miracle Worker, Miss Julie and The Blue Room (New School for Drama), Hamlet (Footlight Players), and Exile (Blue Heron Arts Center). [Television] Explorer: Moment of Death (National Geographic), Guiding Light, and various other NY productions. [Independent Film] Said the Green to the White (Pattree Productions) and Norm (Flimstar Productions).
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Steve Sosnowski
Stephen Sosnowski (class of 2003) is a Senior Account Executive at Spotco, one of the leading entertainment advertising agencies. At Spotco, his Broadway credits have included The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, The Color Purple, Chicago, August Wilson’s Radio Golf, Frost/Nixon, The Vertical Hour, Dirty Dancing and Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5. He is now supervising account services for The New York Botanical Garden. Formerly the Director of Events for The Antoinette Perry “TONY” Awards, where he worked for three consecutive telecasts, Sosnowski currently serves as a producingadvisor for Matthew Maguire and Susan Mosakowski’s CreationProduction Company. As a producer, Sosnowski spearheaded the20th anniversary production of Martin Sherman’s acclaimedTony-nominated play, BENT at the Schapiro Theatre. Other producing projects include A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the 45th StreetTheatre which later toured the Harry Chapin Outdoor Amphitheatre at Eisenhower Park in Hempstead, NY, and a workshop production ofMr. Anonymous, a rock musical at the York Theatre Company. Heholds a BA in Theatre from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University. Sosnowski is also honored to serve as an adjunct professor of Theatre Management at Fordham College at Lincoln Center.
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Jennifer Stanislaski
2007 Design & Production graduate. Upon graduation, Jennifer secured an Art Consultant position with Dillon Gallery in Chelsea. She works extensively with clients and visual artists in New York and internationally to help in promoting up and coming work, as well as, established and emerging artist's careers.
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Jeff Stanley
Jeff Stanley graduated from Fordham in 1998 and received his MFA in Directing from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in May of 2008. In New York he has worked with The American Globe Theater, Prospect Theater Company, several NY International Fringe Festivals, the 78th Street Theater Lab and the Playwrights in Production Series at Fordham. He has also directed at the University of Iowa and the Bologna Performing Arts Center in Cleveland, Mississippi and assistant directed Michael Wilson on the anniversary production of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof at Hartford Stage. He resides in Greensboro, North Carolina, home of Triad Stage where he will direct Shakespeare's R & J by Joe Calarco in April of 2009. He recently accepted the position of Company Manager of PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, NC.
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Taylor Steel
Taylor graduated in 2006 as a Theatre Performance major. She recently filmed an independent feature called "Our Lady of Victory" directed by Tim Chambers with Ellen Burstyn, Carla Gugino, David Boreanaz, and Marley Shelton. |
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Lindsay Sullivan
Had her play The House of Merry produced in 2003 NYC Fringe Festival.
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Michael Swift
Michael graduated Fordham in 2004 and went to University of East Anglia in England to get his Masters. He returned to New York to co-found Family Tree, an artists collective, with fellow alums Dan Campanelli and Brian Murphy. Recent productions include September 12 (which he wrote and directed) and prior to that, a jazz/theatre fusion: Harpo + Juliet by Dan Campanelli and Swift’s Francois' Love (both plays set to jazz) at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the East Village, NYC. |
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Sasha Taublieb
Sasha is in the Masters Program in Educational Theatre at NYU (English and Theatre dual certification track). Her artwork has been exhibited in Manhattan Theatre Source's Estrogenius Festival for the past three years and she recently returned from a workshop in Brazil with the director Augusto Boal. Recent acting credits include appearing as Uriah in Brecht's The Elephant Calf at NYU. |
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Christopher Tramantana
Regional Theatre credits include: Ludovico in The Life of Galileo, Stephen Undershaft in Major Barbara, Etienne in A Flea In Her Ear, Edmund in King Lear, and George Deever in All My Sons at the Clarence Brown Theatre in Tennessee. New York credits include Bent, Playing House at HERE (both directed by Fordham Theatre alum Aaron Rhyne), Othello, and The Fantasy Plays (written by FCLC Theatre Alum Peter Gil-Sheridan and directed by FCLC alum Jeff Stanley). |
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Miguel Tuason
After departing Fordham, Miguel worked as a theatrical publicist at Boneau/Bryan-Brown, James LL Morrison & Associates, and The Pete Sanders Group. Throughout the 1990's, he worked with such clients as Disney Theatrical Productions (Beauty and the Beast, King David and The Lion King), The Really Useful Group (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Sunset Boulevard), Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Drama Dept., LAByrinth Theatre Company, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Signature Theatre Company, Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!, Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat in Annie Get Your Gun, Lebo M, The Donkey Show, Tap Dogs, among others. From 2001-04, he lived in Prague, the Czech Republic, where he, ran the 'expat' magazine, think again; stage managed the play, Out at Sea; and published an internal 'coffee table' employee guidebook for a Czech/Canadian mobile phone company, Oskar. In late 2004, Miguel returned to his hometown, Washington, DC, where he now works as a Bids & Proposals Director for a local Department of Defense contractor. |
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Amirh Vann
NYU Graduate Program for Acting. [Theatre] Blueprint at the Kirk Theatre, NYC; The Making of Eugenie Doe at the Ohio Theatre Ice Factory Festival; Tut's wife in The Mystery of King Tut for TheatreWorks USA. Princess Grace Fellow; Artist in Residence at Community Works in NYC. |
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Annette Verga-Lagier
Was Assistant Stage Manager for Kia Corthron's play Light Raise the Roof at New York Theatre Workshop. Prior to that, Annette was ASM for the Public Theatre’s production of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out (Annette moved with the production when it went to Broadway.) |
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Trish Vignola
Trish Vignola (FCLC 2000) worked as a Equity Stage Manager upon graduation. She then moved on to receive her Masters Degree from Rutgers, The Stage University of New Jersey and publish in several academic journals. Trish is currently studying at the prestigious Second City Conservatory in Chicago, in the fields of Improv as well as Music Improv. Her comedy was recently seen in the 10th Anniversary Del Close Marathon in New York and she's currently a Writer/Performer for the highly controversial but critically acclaimed Best Church of God in Chicago. |
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Julie Wallach
Julie graduated in 2001 and has been in numerous plays around the city, most recently performing in the sketch comedy show, We're Not Gonna Take It at The Producer's Club, as well as the Christmas Charity show (also at The Producer's Club) entitled A Very Jaggered X-Mas. She landed a supporting role in the indy film King of 42nd St, directed by John Montgomery and had a featured guest spot on the Oxygen Network's show Can You Tell? Most recently, she co-founded her own improv troupe called The Sample Platter. |
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Matthew Walsh
Company member at Shakespeare Theatre in DC. |
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Denzel Washington
A two-time Academy Award winning actor, Denzel Washington’s film credits include: The Taking of Pelham 123, American Gangster, Man on Fire, The Manchurian Candidate, Out of Time, Antwone Fisher (Director), John Q, The Bone Collector, The Siege, The Preacher’s Wife, Courage Under Fire, Devil in a Blue Dress, The Pelican Brief, Much Ado About Nothing, Philadelphia, Malcolm X, Mo Better Blues, Glory, A Soldier’s Story. [Television] St. Elsewhere. [Broadway] Brutus in Julius Caesar. |
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Donan Whelan
Donan recently completed filming a feature in Los Angeles with Stray Dog Productions entitled Chronicles of a Love Unfound. Other film includes Shelley Figg for AFI. Los Angeles theatre includes the critically-acclaimed American Premiere of My Boy Jack at International City Theatre and Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio) for The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company. New York theatre includes a two-year run in Mono and the premiere of Your Best Friend for Another Urban Riff.
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Michael Williams
Mike Williams graduated from Fordham in 2006 as a playwriting major. He will finish an MA in Economics in December 2008 and an MS in Mathematics in 2010 both from NYU.
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Virginia Williams
[Television] All My Children (principle).
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Kit Williamson
[Broadway] Talk Radio (Spike, u/s Kent ). [Off-Broadway] Made in Poland (Bogus) at 59E59, The Docks (Frankie) and How to Quit Smoking (Sonny) at The Atlantic, presented by At Play Productions. [Off-Off Broadway] Marat/Sade (Roux), Second Life (Jamie) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Flute). Kit is a member of the Old Vic: New Voices New York Network and a founding member of At Play Productions. |
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Sara Wordsworth
Sara Wordsworth graduated from FCLC in 1998. Sara co-wrote the musical, In Transit, which was selected for the 2008 Eugene O'Neill Music Theatre Conference. She can be heard on the Original Cast Album of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo, the Musical (Darla/Pearl), a well as on the vocal track of the live stage version at the Walt Disney World Resort. Favorite regional credits include Once Upon a Mattress at Chautauqua Opera (Princess Winnifred), Jekyll & Hyde (Lucy) and A Chorus Line (Sheila), and she has toured with A Christmas Carol and The Tell-Tale Heart (Theatreworks/USA). A freelance recording artist, she has been a featured soloist at many notable NYC venues including Lincoln Center’s Merkin Hall, Symphony Space, The Duplex,Downtime, The Century Center, Rockefeller Center, and on nationally syndicated XM Radio. She contributed lyrics for vocal selections in the family musical Changuita Perla (University of Texas, Austin), and her screenplay, Winter Rose, was an award recipient in Upstream Production’s Original Screenplay competition. She served as a consultant for the New Jersey State Board of Education’s Arts Curriculum Development Committee, and was a writer’s assistant for Good Morning America as well as a freelance field reporter for The Gayle King Show. Sara is based in New York City, where she is a lyricist in the Tony Award-Winning BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
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Julie Yap
Fordham Law School. |
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Paul Young
National tour of The Rainmaker, The Fantasy Plays (NY Fringe Festival), The Criminals at Present Theatre Company, Crimes of the Heart at Center Stage. |
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Romana Zajac
Hired by Manhattan Theatre Club to work in technical production. |
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Joe Zuzel
After graduating from Fordham Joe worked as a music teacher for two different schools teaching pre-k through 8th grade in the South Bronx and East Harlem, as well as working for a number of puppet companies. He was awarded several grants for developing professional development programs in puppetry to solidify language arts and social studies standards in the schools. During this time, he was also developing and recording his own music for a band he formed shortly after graduation. Currently, Joe is the performing arts teacher for a residential school in Brooklyn, CT that specializes in behavioral and social disorders. He teaches music, acting, and puppetry as well as supervising the band and chorus. |
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