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.

Dan Campenelli
Co-founded (with fellow Fordham theatre alums Mike Swift and Brian Murphy) the Family Collective Theatre Company.

Elizabeth Carena
She currently works with Theatre for a New Audience on their capital campaign to build a new classical theatre in the BAM Cultural District in Brooklyn.

Patricia Clarkson
Over thirty movies, beginning with The Untouchables. 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).

Ann Courtney
Performed in The House of Merry by Fordham alumnus Lindsay Sullivan, directed by Paul Mazza for the NY Fringe Festival.

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.

Ian Crawford
Ian is the Artistic Director of Thirsty Turtle Productions most recently directing their production of Dark of the Moon Off-Off Broadway which received favorable reviews from the NY press. He directed a staged reading of a new play, Providence by Cody Daigle and will direct the full production for Maieutic Theatre Works. Ian is an active member of Collective P.A.S.T., a collective of theatre companies that share resources, and he manages two theatre spaces at the 45th Street Theatre. He recently returned to Fordham to create the lighting design for a studio directing project. Ian's online design and directing portfolio can be seen at: www.ianrcrawfordportfolio.blogspot.com.

Kelly Curran
Upon graduation from Fordham in 2006, Kelly was hired for the national tour of Jane Eyre with The Acting Company, earning her union card. She will be joining the company again for their 2008 tour playing Miranda in The Tempest.

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).

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.

Amy Dolan
Amy has been performing professionally since the age of seven. Her credits include principal roles on Broadway in Grease, Showboat and most recently 42nd Street. She is currently dedicated to encouraging and training up and coming theater professionals with workshops, seminars and private coachings as well as working as Outreach and Education Coordinator for Actors Equity Association. She is a Magna cum Laude graduate of Fordham and can be reached through her website.

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.

R.J. Foster
Recently appeared in Edward II at the Bank Street Theater (received a favorable mention in a Variety review for his performance).

Peter Gil-Sheridan
Peter Gil-Sheridan graduated from Fordham in 1998. A playwright and director, his play Topsy Turvy Mouse was recently 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 has recently been awarded the Jerome Fellowship, and he was a finalist for the 2006-2007 Princess Grace Award. His work has been seen/developed at the New York Theatre 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 recently became an adjunct faculty member at Fordham where he often guest directs and mentors young directors. He is the founder of Unbound, a weekly NYC writing group.

At left: Peter Gil-Sheridan (right) and fellow Fordham alum Colin McKenna outside the Cherry Lane Theatre where they had their plays produced as part of the 2007 Mentor Project.

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).

Gretchen Hall
NYU Graduate Acting Program

Mike Kimmel
Most recently, Michael directed Push Production’s NY Premiere of Kraken by Len Jenkin at Walker Space. Prior to that, he directed Push’s critically acclaimed revival of Peter Brook’s Marat/Sade at The Access Theater. Other Productions with Push include Timothy Mansfield’s It’s Not Even Past in NYC and Philadelphia, the 60th Anniversary production of Ferdinand Bruckner’s The Criminals, Jason Pizzarello’s Saving the Greeks: One Tragedy At a Time, And bunkerbaby by Colin McKenna. His work has been seen at Soho Rep, Rattlestick, The Arclight Theater, and Ensemble Studio Theater, among others. Michael also recently directed Mentalist Sam Eaton in The Quantum Eye with a year long run opening in 2007. He is a frequent guest director for Fordham’s Studio Theatre Season.

At left: Michael Kimmel giving notes on a recent production.

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.

Kelly McCants
Finalist for NYU graduate acting program.

Colin McKenna
Colin McKenna is a Brooklyn-based playwright and director. As a playwright, his plays have been presented by La Mama, Soho Rep Writer/Directors Lab, Montana Rep, Push Productions, Boomerang Theatre, Tisch (NYU), and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Colin has directed at Soho Rep, The Tribeca Playhouse, NY Performance Works, and La Mama. He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch (NYU), where he was the 2006 winner of the John Golden Playwriting Award, The Goldberg Playwriting Prize, and The Goldberg Fellowship & Scholarship. Colin was recently named a Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellow, and his play The Secret Agenda of Trees was awarded The National Theatre Conference’s 2007 Stavis Award for Outstanding Emerging Playwright, and was also one of three plays selected for production by The Cherry Lane Theatre as part of their 2007 Mentor Projects. Colin is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Fordham Theatre Program, and he recently directed Fordham’s mainstage production of Man Equals Man.

At left: Colin McKenna (left) and fellow Fordham alum Peter Gil-Sheridan outside the Cherry Lane Theatre where they had their plays produced as part of the 2007 Mentor Project.