The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
CCM Drama 1991

with Cooper Thornton, Philip Solomon,
Eric Weisheit, David Schaplowsky and Nicole Callender as Tituba

1986

1987
Jim Nelson

1988
Jeanne Blessing (Cincinnati) Jeanne was a member of the first graduating class of the Drama BFA undergrad program.
*Toured with the ArtReach Children’s Theatre Company. 1989-1991
*Founding member and actor of the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati 1989-1992
*Local commercial actor for a few years 1989-1994
*Founding member of the Covington Carnegie Theatre 1993-1998
*Performed at other regional and local theatres around Cincinnati,Ohio during the later 1990’s
*Drama Instructor at CCM’s prepatory department from 1997-2001
*Began singing at The Cabaret Nightclub as a singing server in 1999.
*Started singing & performing in Classic Rock n Roll & Jazz bands around Cincinnati in 2000 until the present day.
I am currently singing in a band with my fiance, Mark O’Keefe called The Cincy Rockers!
Please check out our website at www.cincyrockers.com.

Robin Lynn Cornett

Paul Kennedy Paul lives in Verona, Wisconsin with his wife and family and works for Epic Systems Corporation. His twins just left for college this fall.

David White

1989
Hal Adams

Keith Brush

Lori DeAngelis

Tracey Gilbert (New York) " I'm currently doing a show in the New York Musical Theatre Festival called "Bedbugs: The Musical!!!" New York Theatre: Frankenstein and Busted Jesus Comix.

Lisa Jolley

Tracy (Myers) Macmorine (Cincinnati) Tracy is currently the Assistant Director of Operations, Theatre Arts at Xavier University. She was recently re-elected to a second term on the Executive Board of The League of Cincinnati Theatres, and in July completed her Master of Education graduate studies in Multi-cultural Literature for Children (at Xavier). This past year, she chaired the Senior Theatre League of America’s Biennial Theatre Festival; directed two productions for Xavier Players, Overtones and Bert’s Golf Pants; and taught children’s theatre classes at the Great Oaks Saturday Enrichment Program where she adapted and directed the folktales  How the Turtle Cracked His Shell and The Boy Who Drew Cats. Previously she was the Educational Programs Manager for the Educational Theatre Association, where she focused on creating professional development programs and training for Middle and High School theatre teachers as well as educational theatre programs and training for Middle and High School theatre students.  In 2000, she directed and performed movement in Cheryl Couch’s original one-act, My Grandmother’s Chair, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Tracy also spent five years as the Exhibit Programs Coordinator at the Cincinnati Museum Center, where she wrote, directed and produced more than 35 educational theatre productions for the CAST Theatre Program. A number of these original theatre pieces have been licensed for performances at various museums and libraries across the nation.   In 1998, she was part of an Educational Theatre Delegation to South Africa, exchanging ideas with actors, directors, administrators and students from professional and community theaters and theatre training programs in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Capetown, and the townships surrounding of each of these cities. She has taught theatre and creative dramatics for a number of community arts centers and after-school programs, and spent a year as Resident Theatre Artist at Fairfield West Elementary.  Other directing credits include Just for Laughs (2005 Senior Theatre Festival); Just for the Hell of It (2005 Senior Theatre Festival); Carousel (McAuley High School); and Evendale:The Beginning (Evendale Centennial Celebration)

Bill Mutimer (Allentown, Pennsylvania) "I am teaching at Muhlenberg College now in Allentown and freelanceing."

Keith Pillow (Los Angeles) Television: The Shield, Judging Amy, Desperate Housewives, Friends, CSI, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace Theatre: National Tour of the Hal Prince production of Showboat. (Look up Keith at www.imdb.com)

Anita (Lee) Sloan

MaryDay Van Over (Cincinnati) currently resides in Cincinnati with her husband Buzz Wheatly (brother of CCM Musical Theatre grad Sharon Wheatly) and their daughter.

Michael Wainstein (Savannah, Georgia) is currently a Professor of Performing Arts and head of Musical Theatre at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Prior to joining the faculty at SCAD, Michael was the Artistic Director of the Naples Dinner Theatre, a professional company in Naples, Florida, from 1999-2007. In Naples, Michael directed over 90 musicals, while maintaining a freelance career. Michael's other professional engagements include 4 years as Artistic Director of the Firehouse Center in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and leadership of the Topeka Theatre and Lincoln Playhouse. While specializing in musical theatre, Michael has directed productions of Shakespeare, Drama, Comedy and Opera. Michael came to CCM after serving for two years as the Resident Assistant Director of the Cincinnati Opera under the direction of James de Blasis. Michael has worked at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Blowing Rock Stage Company, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Chicago Opera Theatre, Chautauqua Opera, Maggio Musicale, Frankfurt Hauptbuhne, Ashlawn Highland Summer Opera Festival. In addition to his current duties at SCAD, Michael maintains a freelance directing career. Michael graduated with an MFA in Directing from CCM in 1989.

1990
Mary (Beidler) Gearen (Director/Producer) A resident of Minneapolis since 1997, Mary has enjoyed both local and regional work.  For MU Performing Arts in Minneapolis she dramaturged and directed for Timothy Huang on a Jerome Foundation Grant-supported workshop of his new musical March and the Rain, and also with MU she directed the new musical, Filipino Hearts and assistant directed 99 Histories with Cecily Keenan.  With The History Theatre in St. Paul, Mary co-produced two seasons of The Christmas Schooner and directed Runestone for the Raw Stages Festival.  At local Bryant Lake Bowl she directed Lone Star.  More recently at the Avery Schreiber Theatre in Los Angeles she directed and co-produced ADA Award-nominated Before I Disappear a one-person autobiography in story and song that she has developed over the past decade with its transgender writer-composer and star Alexandra Billings.  Under Mary’s direction the show has enjoyed productions in Chicago at Bailiwick Repertory Company, Boston at Theater Offensive’s OUT ON THE EDGE Festival, and in New York City Off-Broadway at The Producer’s Club.  An award-winning Chicago actor, Mary has enjoyed 28 years in theatre as actor, director, producer, teacher, and singer/guitar player.  She holds an MA in theatre history, literature, and criticism from The Ohio State University, and an MFA in performance from The University of Cincinnati College/Conservatory of Music.  Mary formed MBG Productions, Inc., completed “Producing for the Commercial Theatre” at NYC’s Commercial Theatre Institute, and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Her favorite work is the development of new plays, musical and non-, and the exploration of edgy new ideas.

Cheryl Couch (Cincinnati) Cheryl is a freelance director and acting coach and movement specialist working in Cincinnati.

Tammy Keener

Stephen (Mike) McVey

Lynn Mostaghim

Stephanie Smith (Florida)

Sam Womelsdorf (Cincinnati) Longstanding member of the music group Throneberry in Cincinnati. Theatre: Side Man, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Film: Little Man Tate

1991
Mary Gudaitis

Katherine Light (Boston) " I am in Boston with my wife and three kids and in 2002 I received my MBA in Management from Bentley College's McCallum Graduate School of Business. I am an AVP at Cambridge Savings Bank and currently President of the Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce."

Donna Rubin (Cincinnati) From Donna: " I have again returned to Cincinnati after doing my second 'term' in San Francisco. Just wanted to say hello. I have been teaching yoga for the past 4 years and continued my dance training with some of the most amazing teachers. Have also continued to write and perform my music. If you are in Cincinnati and have an interest in Yoga, I am happy to schedule private sessions or small group classes - sliding scale and trades available. Please let me know what your needs are: donnajay5@hotmail.com”

Deanna (Uhlenbrock) Smith (Los Angeles) Congratulations to Diana Maria Riva (CCM Drama 1995) who has been cast in the USA network pilot OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. She will play Amani, an intuitive OR Nurse on the surgery team. “The show is well written, with lots of Medical vocabulary, high intensity filled moments in an operating room, and lots of fake blood!!! I’m playing a nurse/soldier as well... :) BRING IT ON!!!” Diana was the first recipient of the newly created Julia Winter Cohen Career Excellence Award to a graduate of CCM Drama in 2005. Diana currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband Mike and her three children, Erin, Justin, and Sophia. Diana has appeared as series regulars and guest stars on shows including Side Order of Life, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The West Wing, Common Law, Luis, Philly, Less Than Perfect, CSI, The X-Files, Everybody Loves Raymond, Party of Five, The Drew Carey Show, Reba, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Murder One, and NYPD Blue. She also appeared in What Women Want starring Mel Gibson. (Look up Diana at www.imdb.com)

1992
Nicole Callender (New Jersey) Nicole is an actor, a stuntwoman, a certified teacher of stage combat and a fight choreographer.  Some of her favorite NYC and Regional acting credits include Kat in All in the Miming, Anton in Showbusiness, Romaine and others in The Laramie Project, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale, Lily in Crumbs from the Table of Joy,  Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,  D’artagnan in Duelists, The Forgotten Champions,  Doto in A Phoenix too Frequent, Lady McDuff, in Macbeth,  Viola in Twelfth Night,  Joan of Arc and Lady Bona in Henry VI Pts, I, II & III,   Delta in Freeman and Lunatics,  Joy in The Rights,  and Bonita in The Good Times are Killing Me. 

Nicole’s stunt work may be seen in:  Enchanted, Underdog, Super Ex Girlfriend, All My Children, The Black Donnely’s, Across the Universe, The Inside Man, Freedomland, War of the Worlds, Ladder 49, Alfie, Strangers with Candy, Save the Last Dance, Third Watch, Rescue Me, Law & Order SVU, Law & Order, Paid in Full, It’s a Miracle, Now & Again, Full Court Press, O.O Garage, and Oz.

Nicole has been teaching and choreographing stage combat for more than 10 years.  Fight credits include The Lady Cavaliers first film, A Double Edge Sword,  ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, Behind The Mask, Antigone, Hazelwood Jr. High, Twelfth Night and The Miracle Worker to name a few. Nicole is a company member and resident stage combat teacher with Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater in New Jersey.  She teaches the summer stage combat program at The Lee Strassberg Institute, NYC and she also taught stage combat at The American Music and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan for 2 years. (Pictured: Daughters Olivia and Oona.)

Shannon Rae Lutz (Cincinnati) Congratulations to Shannon Rae on her recent ACCLAIM Award winning work on the props for the hit production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, where Shannon serves as resident Props Artisan. Shannon is the Properties Master/Design Assistant and Director of Intern Programming at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.

Dain Paige (Cincinnati) is appearing in Smokey Joes’s Café, The Songs of Leiber & Stoller at the Monmouth Theatre in Newport, Kentucky this June. As Dain says, “I play the white guy." Theatre: The Fantasticks, Grease, The Wizard of Oz, Hansel and Gretel, Godspell, Ragtime, Cabaret, Annie. Visit Dain's website at http://dainpaigeliving.bravehost.com/

Diana Rogers (Florida) Diana is heading up to Capital Rep in NY for the summer to do . . . Always, ..Patsy Cline  Theatre: Les Miserables, Broadway and National Tour, Madame Threnardier, Jack and the Beanstalk at the EnsembleTheatre of Cincinnati, . . . Always, Patsy Cline in Florida.

David Schlapowsky Theatre: Poor Superman in Cincinnati and Chicago.

Deanna Surber

Cooper (Ray) Thornton (Los Angeles) recently guest-starred on the hit NBC sit-com My Name Is Earl Film: Fracture, with Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn and Sir Anthony Hopkins, The House of Sand and Fog with Ben Kingsley, Flightplan with Jodie Foster Television: My Name Is Earl, Hannah Montana, Cold Case, The Practice, Scrubs, Judging Amy, CSI, Las Vegas. Joining his older brother Jack is new baby brother Milo Cooper Thornton, born Sept. 11, 2007.(Look up Cooper on www.imdb.com)

Eric Weisheit

Dennis Whetsel

1993
David Adams (Cincinnati) David’s career has taken him from the Box Office at CCM, to Development at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, to Managing Director of the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. He is currently selling insurance.

Gary Anaple (Cincinnati) Gary and his wife Gina live in Cincinnati, where he works for the local affilaite FOX XIX. (www.fox19.com)

Dr. R. Andrew Holbrook (Ohio and Louisiana) received his Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University. "While I am proud of this achievement, I have not had much time to enjoy the moment. Having accepted an academic appointment as an assistant professor at the University of New Orleans last year, I am now an evacuee from my new home. For the time being, I am teaching and doing research at the Department of Political Science here at Ohio State." Visit his website at http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/grads/holbrook/

Jodie Linver (Cincinnati) Congratulations to Jodie for her work in the Performance Gallery production of fricative, seen in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Jodie is married and lives in Cincinnati where she is a massage therapist, and A Yoga/Pilates instructor. Theatre: Woyceck, Halcyon Days, godsplay at the Performance Gallery and the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Gilgamesh in Uruk: G.I. in Iraq at the Aronoff Center.

Maria Miller (Los Angeles) From Maria: "I just filmed my second national commercial for the US Health Department's center for drug and alcohol abuse.  On June 1st, I will be in an episode of LA Forensics on Court TV." Previous work with MTV and Second City. Since moving to LA, she has starred in 4 independent films. She has launched her own production company called Top Dog Films in October 2005. She is currently serving as a producer on her first feature film Twilight Serenade being produced by Top Dog Films. She can be contacted at maria@topdogfilms.com

Richard Oberacker (New York) Don’t Make Me Pull This Show Over, a new song cycle about parenting, music and lyrics by Richard Oberacker (CCM Drama 1993) and Robert Taylor, directed by Richard E. Hess (CCM Drama Chair), starring Jessica Hendy (CCM Musical Theatre) and Gina Valentine (CCM Musical Theatre), appeared in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. It was named Audience Pick-of-the-Fringe and has been announced as the closing title of the season for the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati next year. Richard’s musical Ace will be seen this fall in a high profile production at the Signature Theatre in Washington, D.C., with plans for Broadway to follow. In addition, congratulations to Richard, who spoke at the CCM Commencement this year, after being named Distinguished Alumni for CCM. Keyboards with National Tours of Cats, Showboat, and Music of the Night, the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Composer of Dracula the Musical and The Gospel According to Fishman. Keyboards, author of award-winning revue Get Your Tickets Now. Richard is currently the music director for the newest Las Vegas sensation, Cirque du Soleil’s greatest extravaganza KA, directed by the internationally acclaimed Robert LePage. He served the same role for Cirque’s DRALION. His award winning musical, ACE, premiered at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the Cincinnati Playhouse before traveling to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. To hear the score from Richard's Journey to the West visit www.journeytothewestthemusical.com

Philip Solomon (Los Angeles) From Philip: “Just shot a scene with Eddie Murphy on his new movie 1000 Words which will be out in 09 or 10, produced the entertainment for the Gala opening of the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin with a cast of over twenty alongside Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, the Austin Ballet, Opera, and local theater companies.  My company has been moving forward working with Disney for the world premiere of Wall-E (which is AWESOME by the way) and the run of the movie at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, contributed to an award winning (BizBash event style Awards) production in Palm Springs, and have productions coming up in LA, Austin, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and numerous others in the works.  The Cirque Du Monde Program in LA has quadrupled with classes now going to The Covenant House and the LA Gay and Lesbian Centers.  Cirque is continuing to send me out as a trainer of their trainers leading workshops in Las Vegas and I will be returning to Cape Town South Africa next month to work with the African coaches there.”
Theatre: Turandot, Tokyo, Japan, Escape From Happiness, Horizon Theatre Co., Faust, Atlanta Opera Co., Hunchback of Notre Dame, Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago, Journey to the West, NYMF, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati Film: In the Flesh, Rush Hour 3. Member of Controlled Airspace, an innovative juggling, musical, comedy duo with Dan Thurmon. Training: The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, The Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Intern Program. Phillip was the drummer for Anti-Heros, a street punk band, which toured the U.S., Canada and Europe and recorded 5 CDs. Philip and his wife Pasha and son Henry and twin daughters, Sophia Marie and Lily Jeanette, reside in a beautiful old home in Los Angeles. Visit the website of his company at www.way2much.com

1994
Drew DiCostanzo (Las Vegas) Dylan Ace DiCostanzo made his entrance to the great stage of life on September 20th DREW received a B.F.A. in Dramatic Performance from one of the top theatre training programs in the United States: The University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. The professional training he received there has provided a large palette of skills to apply to DV8 Reality Magic's performances. After college, Drew continued performing magic for corporate functions, theme parks and special events while also acting professionally with various regional and touring theaters. Drew has created/directed magic for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Opera, Art Reach, the Nauticus Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, Cincinnati Zoo and for DOOLEY, a 10-part PBS television pilot produced by Scripps-Howard which was picked up by Disney. When Drew & Angela met while appearing in the same show at Paramount's Kings Island it became obvious that the two had a dynamic and quirky energy onstage together. They created a show filled with cutting-edge magic that was centered around their classy and fun personalities. Their success led them to Las Vegas, where they continue to perform their classy and fun magic at resorts, casinos, and for the many conventions which are held in Sin City. (Check out Drew's website at www.DREWandANGELA.com)

Dwayne Brown

Keith Gavigan (Los Angeles)

Teresa Mattimore (Cincinnati)

Karen O'Brien (Los Angeles)

Kristin (Orr) Henderson (Cincinnati) Congratulations to Kristin, who was just hired as the Drama Teacher/Drama Director at Seven Hills Middle School in Cincinnati, and on her recent appearance in The True Body: A Radical Truth in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. After several years of working in New York and Connecticut as a director, theater educator and drama therapist, Kristin is now delighted to have settled back in Cincinnati. She and her husband John are the proud parents of two boys ~ Jack and Duncan. She credits CCM daily with having provided her with the tools necessary to creatively parent a toddler (with sanity - relatively - in tact)! 

Jim Rizopoulos (BFA) (Los Angeles) Jim and his wife are the proud parents of a beautiful new baby girl.

1995
Mueen Ahmad (Los Angeles) Mueen will appear as a guest star on an October episode of the hit CBS show NUMB3RS. Congratulations to Mueen, on the recent release of SENT, a short film by Alex Feldman. Theatre: Bombay Dreams (Broadway) Television: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sopranos (HBO), Homicide, Mind of Mencia (Comedy Central)

Julia Carpenter (Los Angeles) From Julia:"Julia recently wrapped work on Surfer, Dude (starring Matthew McConaughey) scheduled for a summer 2008 release.  Another newly completed project includes the film Off The Ledge (currently in post production).  Other than appearing in several "indie" films since moving to Los Angeles, she has had steady work in commercials, appearing in national ads for The Montana Meth Project, Toyota, Rome (HBO Series), White Castle, Petco, among others. Julia is in her fourth season as a company actor and writer for No Shame Theatre - Los Angeles.  Julia forayed into photography as of late, and has had two exhibits of her photos of Graffiti Art in the past year.  Julia can be found on the web at http://www.juliacarpenter.com and on IMDB at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1349934/.

Stephanie Cotton-Snell (Boston) Congratulations to Stephanie for her work in Boston with the theatre company that she created last year: Girl Talk Theatre. She recently presented a new piece, THE BREAKTHROUGH, an original theatre piece created by the Girl Talk Theatre Acting Class at On The Rise in April. ON THE RISE is a non-profit helping women who are homeless or in crisis, find safety and discover new possibilities. Girl Talk Theatre's mission is to empower poor, homeless and marginalized women through the art of theatre. Stephanie and husband Mark are the proud parents of Olivia (12), who is into rock climbing and the electric guitar! Stephanie still performs with Friends of the Groom.

k. Jenny Jones (Cincinnati) Jenny appeared in the 2005 Cincinnati Fringe Festival in dr. pain on main.

Kurt Gerard (Heinlein) (Springfield, Missouri) Congratulations to Kurt, who recently finished his dissertation and secured a publisher for is dissertation-turned-book, Green Theatre- Promoting Ecological Preservation and Advancing the Sustainability of Humanity and Nature . Here is its Amazon link: 
http://www.amazon.com/Promoting-Ecological-Preservation-Advancing Sustainability/dp/3836429527/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201202723&sr=8-1 Kurt currently serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre Performance at Missouri State University where he specializes in acting, movement, and stage combat within the BFA Acting and Musical Theatre Professional Training Programs. Kurt earned his MFA in Acting from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and his PhD in Theatre from Louisiana State University. Kurt is a member of Actors Equity Association (AEA), Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG), and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). He is also an active member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators and Fight Director’s Canada. Kurt has performed and directed extensively since completing his MFA from CCM, with performance credits that include New York, regional theatre, film, commercial print, and over 20 national television spots, as well as directing and stunt/fight choreography credits that encompass film and television as well as regional and university theatre. A few recent performance credits include the Glen Pitre film Home Front, with Tatum O’Neal and Tim Curry, which won best feature film at the San Diego Film Festival, productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Jesus Christ Superstar at Swine Palace under RSC director Barry Kyle, Romeo and Juliet under Kyle and Tina Packer, national commercials for Enterprise, Chevrolet, and Sprite, and the rock climbing documentary The Cassin Ridge, which Kurt hosted. In recent months Kurt has served as director and fight choreographer for Zorro at MSU, director for Rumors and Forum at Tent Theatre, fight director for Goddess and the Magdalene at EPIC Arts Rep in Charlotte, and stunt coordinator on the feature film Albino Farm. He is also the proud owner of Luke, one of his canine companions who, though now happily retired, put smiles on thousands of faces with his performances on Broadway and television.

Kendall Sawhill

Nathan Thomas

Anna (Anne) Webber (Los Angeles) After working for the talent agency Buchwald and Associates in Los Angeles, Anna has returned to Law School.

1996
Damian Baldet (New York) Congratulations to Damian Baldet (CCM Drama 1995) who, after becoming a new father this spring, is returning to The Lion King for 6 weeks as Timon. “I'm going to Taipei to do the Lion King for 6 weeks.  Yes, "They pulled me back in".  Apparently that is in a country called "Taiwan", where all my toys were made when I was little.”

He just finished a run in Mark Twain’s A Murder, A Mystery and a Marriage at the Two River Theatre Co. in Red Bank, New Jersey. Graduate of UC San Diego, MFA in Acting. Theatre: The Lion King (National Tour), Gone Missing, Poor Superman, Nobody's Lunch, Frankenstein, Canard, Canard, Goose

Gabe Byer In Memoriam
Gabriel Byer, who passed away after a motorcycle accident in California in May. At CCM Gabe appeared in productions of The Rivals, Yours for the Asking, Pterodactyls and The Real Thing. His recent passion in California was his new restaurant, The York on York, a gastro-pub that he lovingly restored and re-opened. He was a friend to all, a class act at all times, and the nicest guy you’d ever want to meet. We’ll miss you Gabe. His imdb movie credits include: Faith Happens (2006), Circuit (2001) and Fast Sofa (2001).

C. Ashleigh Caldwell (Los Angeles) C. Ashleigh invites you to check out her movies on Youtube: www.youtube.com/cashleighcaldwell Ashleigh got her SAG card in Los Angeles and worked for The Dating Game! She appeared in the HBO movie Gia. She has released two solo CD’s: Moving to Hollywood, and None More Red.

Jason Matthew Smith (Los Angeles) Graduate school: Northern Illinois University. "I filmed a pilot for HBO last May and am currently awaiting word if we will be picked up. I would be a series lead if it goes.  The next thing you can see me in is Star Trek directed by J.J. Abrams due out in May of 2009.Television: Big Love, Playmakers, Bones, CSI: Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case, Without a Trace, 24, The Bernie Mac Show, Charmed, ER, Six Feet Under, and JAG.

Angela (Angelica) Hurd (Los Angeles) Angelica has settled comfortably in Los Angeles with Spence and their lovely daughter Aurora. Film: Cash Cow Television: The Messenger.

Laura Perkovic (Cleveland) Laura is a lawyer who lives in the Cleveland area with her family.

Christine Probst (Luxembourg) From Christine in Luxembourg: “I ran two different Youth Theatre Workshops, one with the European School for children with English as a second, or third language. The other workshop was in conjunction with a quad-lingual production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The fairies spoke English, the humans spoke German, the Mechanicals spoke Luxembourgish and we used 17th century French songs! Whilst that was going on I was also in a production of Steel Magnolias. I played Annelle, and had a blast! During the summer I participated in another part of the 2007 Year of Culture in a performance art piece, ArtEcho2 at an amazing photo exhibition called The Family of Man by Edward Steichen housed in the fabulous Chateau Clervaux here in Lux. It was a collaboration of the exhibition and the Creative Writing Consortium of Luxembourg. The writers wrote short pieces for a number of photos and we actors interpreted the pieces. A tour was brought around the exhibit to each piece and it was then performed for the private audience. I really enjoyed this experience as it involved the audience and the writers on a very personal level. 

Later in the year, in cold October, I was involved in an original piece called Hurt, Dignified written by American author, Dana Rufolo. It was also a Year of Culture specialty and dealt with the subjects of refugees, isolation and victims of exclusion. It was an amazing and enlightening experience. The play, its meaning, and reason for being came alive when one of our actors (a Nigerian refugee) was stopped by the police.  When it was found out that his papers were not in perfect order he was brought to the detention center and detained for 3 months. This all occurred, two weeks before opening! Try as we might, our actor friend was not and would not be allowed out for the show and in fact faced possible deportation! Our director found a last minute actor to step in, and after long rehearsals, the show went on, with our thoughts and energies to the play fueled with new meaning. The true plight of refugees was breathing in all of us. It was an experience that brought into reality the questions of what is theatre for, why do we do it, what do we want to say with it? I have also been cast as Helen in Design For Living (Noel Coward) with the Theatre des Cappucins/ Grand Theatre du Luxembourg.” 

Brian Robertson (Cincinnati) Coming to Cincinnati from Los Angeles, Brian has spent much of his time working in film and television in the area of cinematography, as well as working as a director and stage manager in Theatre and Opera.  He received his MFA in Directing from CCM.  He is the co-founder of a new theatre in Cincinnati, the Performance Gallery.  Brian has been teaching in the Northern Kentucky University theatre department since 1998 and continues to travel extensively as a freelance Director and Stage Manager. He and his wife live in Covington, Kentucky and are the new parents of TWINS!

Mary Beth Thiels In Memoriam
(A tribute written by classmate Brian Robertson) "Mary Beth was living and working in Chicago. She had a phenomenal voice and was starting to get work through that avenue. She was creating work for the cabaret scene in Chicago. I caught a show once and she was in a run of Falsettos when she experienced the first of several severe headaches and blackout episodes. This would have been in late 1999. Test showed she had a large brain tumor. I saw her in April, 2000, after her first operation, and she was doing well and demonstrating enormous spirit. I saw her again that fall and she was bouncing back and developing new artistic outlets. She had begun work on a book of poetry and showing a strong eye for painting. I have one of her works hanging in our house. She believed she could stay in Chicago. However, the tumor returned and after her second operation she returned to her parents in Louisiana. She was weaker, but had hopes of becoming a massage therapist. She began classes but didn't have the strength to keep up. I saw her in Louisiana in I believe early 2003. Again, amazing spirit and perspective. Her parents were building her a cottage on a lake they own. Then the tumor returned again and she had a third operation. Her health declined rapidly after that and she died in August, 2004. Marybeth had a tremendous soul and I was consistently humbled in her presence by her strength and spirit to the end." - Brian

Brian Wenke (Los Angeles) Visit Brian at www.novajones.com to learn about his career as a solo recording artist

1997
Scott Ackerman (Stockholm, Sweden) From Scott: I'm still living in Stockholm, now with two daughters Zoë, 4, and Ida Rose, 1.5. The last year has been good both personally and professionally. Last year, I created a three-minute performance piece ( I dance ballet on a gymnastik bock(sp?) to tunes of Chopin that was a huge success. Lars Rudolfsson, one of Sweden's top stage directors, saw it and cast me in FUSK ("cheating") a "new-circus" performance with a group of Danish musicians and circus artists. I worked with Lars again in "The Bakery", a seldom performed Brecht play. (www.orionteatern.se) Then I was cast in Hamlet, directed by Lars Norén, a well-known playwright and director, and produced by the Swedish national theater. I play 7 roles, Laertes, Rosencrantz, and Fortinbras to name a few. We played all summer in the outdoor theater Romateatern that's actually an 11th century cloister ruin (www.romateatern.se) on the Swedish island of Gotland. On Friday I fly down to Helsingör (aka Elsinore) where we kick off a national tour of Hamlet (www.riksteatern.se) I've also been in several commercials, one of which was shown internationally on CNN and the Financial News Network.

Che’Rae Adams (Los Angeles) " I am still Producing Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Writers Center. A play we have been working on for one year has been picked up by an equity theatre company in LA called Syzygy for production in 2009 which I am directing. It is called Strange Fruit and is a 6 hour epic (I guess I tend to get those huh?) which explores racism in the 20th century. It is an amazing piece; I'm lucky to be working on it. The play is narrated by Matthew Sheppard and James Baldwin and the lead characters are Billie Holiday, Ethel Rosenberg and Mary Turner. Even Oscar Wilde makes an appearance!” Che’Rae Adams is a freelance director, dramaturg and producer. Theatre: Pandora’s Trunk, Walk’n Thru the Fire, Bonkers to Botox, Fixing Frank She is on the writing faculty for UCLA Extension, The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, and The Learning Annex where she specializes in helping actors to create solo shows. (Visit Che'Rae at www.cheraeadams.com or send an e-mail to cheraeadams@sbcglobal.net.)

Naomi Bailis (Massachusetts) Naomi teaches theatre at the Walnut Hill school in Natick, Massachusetts.

Miriam Brown (Wisconsin) In 1997, Miriam finished up at CCM, having completed her apprenticeship at Actors Theatre of Louisville where she appeared in the Humana Festival.  She then returned to Canada where she has spent most of the last 8 years. She was a company member, artistic advisor, and apprentice wrangler at Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre. She was twice nominated for Vancouver “Jessie” Awards for her acting work with the company (Navy Wife and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.) Other highlights included premiering the title role in the recently published Queen Milli of Galt by Gary Kirkham (Ontario’s Theatre & Company) and acting in and producing Private Eyes by Steven Deitz. She enjoyed teaching advanced acting for two years at Trinity Western University. Between gigs, teaching, coaching gymnastics, typing, answering phones, and guzzling Starbucks, Miriam picked up work in Vancouver’s active film scene.  She was Scarlett Johansson’s stand-in/photo double for the teen flick The Perfect Score and worked on other shows such as Scooby Doo 2, and Smallville. She is a member of Canadian Equity and ACTRA. Miriam has recently gone on hiatus from acting, having married, immigrated to the U.S. (Wisconsin, to be precise), and is mom to 10 month old baby Carlos.

Taren Frazier (Cincinnati) Taren appeared in Woycecked and Left For Dead at the 2005 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Taren is a photographer with John Robert Powers, and works out of his studio at 1940 Dana Avenue, close to Xavier University in Cincinnati. He is an excellent headshot photographer for actors. If you are interested in working with Taren on a headshot he can be reached in the following ways: Cell (513) 205-0131or by E-mail: taren_frazier@hotmail.co. You can visit Taren at his website at www.tarenfrazier.com and at www.myspace.com/frazierphotography

Doug Goodenough (New York) Congratulations to Doug Goodenough (CCM Drama 1997) who sings with the quartet Highline, and recently appeared at The Slipper Room in New York. Doug is a graduate of Harvard’s American Repertory Theatre training program, where he studied in Moscow with the Moscow Art Theatre. Theatre: The King Stag (National Tour), A Lie of the Mind

Jim Haffner (Claifornia) James Haffner is still at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in Stockton, CA. Last March, the Conservatory was invited to the Technische Universität in Berlin, Germany to present excerpts from his fall production of Sondheim's Assassins. The performance was part of an initiative to start a formal exchange in musical theatre between the two schools. This fall, Jim will be staging excerpts from Dave Brubeck's new opera based on Steinbeck's Cannery Row at the Monterey Jazz Festival. In the spring, he will be touring with the opera program once more to Europe to engage in collaborative opera performances with the conservatories in Prague and Bratislava. Next January, Jim returns to Webster University in St. Louis to work as an artist-in-residence, teaching acting and directing in their Opera Studio program. In an attempt to keep up his performing "chops", Jim sang the role of the Baron in Verdi's La Traviata in the Pacific Concert Series and will perform Don Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte next February.

Sandy (Harper) Cockrell (New Jersey) Huge congratulations to Sandy, who is the Artistic Director of a new theatre company that she founded with her husband Clay in New Jersey called J CITY Theater. Their productions have included the Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Archibald MacLeish, J.B, and A Tuna Christmas, and they received a glorious write up in the New York Times about their efforts to bring theatre to Jersey City with their blood, sweat, tears, and Capital One account.  Her off-Broadway credits include: Julius Caesar, The Seagull, Living Proof and The Last Baby Boomer.  Regionally, she has performed with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, St. Louis Repertory and Hudson County Shakespeare Company. (visit www.jcitytheater.org)

Abby Hoover (Minneapolis) Ms. Abigail Hoover is in a smashing rock band called Gordon Globe that plays all over the country.They have a new CD out called Jack- and they are very fun. (Check out their website at www.gordonglobe.com)

Matthew Pyle (Cincinnati) He recently appeared in Sam Shepard's True West at CCM with Dan Davidson, directed by Michael Burnham. Theatre: Iris, Streamers, and Good Boys with the Know Theatre Tribe in Cincinnati.

Kathryn Roseberry (Los Angeles) Television: The Tracey Ullman Show.

Aaron Serotsky (New York) Congratulations to Aaron, our newest DOLLY AWARD Alumni Award winner for Sustained Excellence, and a current cast member of the Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony Award Best Play winning August: Osage County, by Tracey Letts, which recently transferred from the Imperial Theatre to the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. He has performed at theatres across the United States, in plays ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary American comedy, and has been nominated or won awards for Best Actor in Denver, Cincinnati, New Jersey and Delaware. He spent five seasons as a member of the Tony Award winning Denver Center Theater Company, appearing in such plays as Hamlet, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Wit, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and the world première of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Pierre, among others. His performance as Stephen Hoffman in Old Wicked Songs has twice been cited (in two separate productions) as noteworthy for its achievement. Also a singer, Aaron recently played the title role in the critically acclaimed Chicago première of the new musical The Immigrant, for which he was nominated for the 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award. Additional musical credits include Don José in Peter Brook’s Carmen at the Two River Theater Company, and nearly a year touring America with the First National Tour of the Tony Award winning Titanic. Audiences have also enjoyed his work at the regional theaters of Seattle, Atlanta, Phoenix, St. Louis and other American cities. He spent two seasons at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, and another summer at Robert Redford’s Sundance Theater Lab. Aaron has also been seen on television on All My Children. Theatre: Visiting Mr. Green (English Theatre of Frankfurt and Vienna’s English Theatre, Frankenstein, Off Broadway, Crimes of the Heart, This Is How It Goes

Martha (Sorrentino) Liebowitz (New York) From Martha: "Just wanted to let you know, we welcomed a new little boy into our family last month!  Benjamin Simon was born on October 3.  He is the sweetest little guy and I am thrilled to be a mom!”Theatre: Over the River and Through the Woods, Wonder of the World.

Jill Marie (Soltysiak) Schroer (Chicago) Jill is an ensemble member with the Artistic Home theater group in Chicago. "What else? Doing a lot of musical theater as of late and have been doing some cabaret work at a local piano bar as well. Finally I am getting into the age range for the work that fits me. So, I am looking forward to working more often." Theatre: Look Homeward, Angel

Bryan Randall (Los Angeles) Theatre: Fixing Frank Film: The Opposite of Sex

Trish Weaver

1998

Sunshine Cappelletti (New York) Congratulations to Sunshine who recently moved to Washington, D.C. with her fiancé Christopher. They will be married in October in Maryland. She appeared in a production of THE COUNTESS in D.C.Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Twelfth Nigh, A Christmas Carol

Kim Crabtree (TD&P – Stage Management ’98) Kim graduated from Walnut Hills High School (Tom Peters rules) in 1993.  She dropped out of Ohio University towards the end of her second year and later that year became an intern at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.  She then transferred to CCM and received her B.F.A with a stage management emphasis.  In Cincinnati, she did everything imaginable at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati for four years (Lynn Meyers rules), SM’d at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company for two shows (k. Jenny Jones rules), and was the ASM for one Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Dale Hodges rules).  In Cincinnati, she also produced/directed a production of The Compleat Works of Shakespeare [abridged] (Buz Davis rules).  She has AD’d for live TV shoots and award shows.  She has staged managed often; highlights include touring the country with the hysterical Chicano satirists Culture Clash, PSM for Blue Man Group – Chicago, being the rehearsal stage manager for Deaf West Theatre’s Award-winning deaf musical Big River and working at the Mark Taper Forum.  Kim lives in Los Angeles with her college sweetheart, and CCM TD&P master’s grad, Sheree, who works on the Fox lot as an executive assistant.  Kim also produces and directs and is currently working on fundraising/directing/producing a lesbian fairytale musical to open in a 99-seat theater in Los Angeles sometime late in 2008.  Anyone willing to assist her and Sheree in that mission can write them at ccmershelpkim@hotmail.com.  Though her heart is in “small” theater, Kim makes her living as the producing associate and production manager for the Wadsworth and Brentwood Theatres in Los Angeles, 1356-seat and 500 seat theaters on the west side of Los Angeles which are associated with the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway.

Sheree Greco (Class of 1998, TD&P) " I have been working in television production in Los Angeles for about 7 years now and have been fortunate to be a part of such shows as "CSI", "The West Wing", "The O.C.", "The Sopranos" and "Entourage".   I recently began working for 20th Century Fox Television where I assist in overseeing the productions of "How I Met Your Mother", "My Name Is Earl" and the highly anticipated Kelsey Grammer/Patricia Heaton comedy, "Back To You".  I share my life with my CCM sweetheart of nine years, Kim Crabtree.  We hope to have a dog someday!" (Photo on the "Price Is Right" set during the filming of an episode of "How I Met Your Mother".) 

Greg Hellems (Cincinnati) Greg is on the theatre faculty at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He recently directed Ragtime and We Tell The Story: The Songs of Ahrens and Flaherty. He is also on the summer theatre faculty at the Interlochen Academy.

Amy Huck Amy was married in Scotland.

Marie King (Wichita, Kansas) From Marie: "I just closed the world premiere of Waltzing in Heaven, a musical tribute to the WSU football team killed in a plane crash in 1970. It was written by the father of one of the team, and proved a great thing for the community. People can reach me at marie.king@wichita.edu" Marie is the Director of Opera/Musical Theatre at Wichita State University in Kansas.Opera: Le nozze di Figaro, Sognando da Fellini

Tina Manchise (New York) Tina lives in New York, where she is a certified Pilates instructor and dance teacher.

Laura Mann

Kelly McCormick (New York) " I returned at the end of January from a three-month run as Babe in The Pajama Game for Arizona Theatre Company -- it was my most challenging role yet, but ATC is a fantastic place to work and we had a wonderful company. Just yesterday, I returned from two weeks at the O'Neill National Musical Theatre Conference in Connecticut, where I had the privelege of working on a new musical called Myth by John Mercurio with the fabulous Pamela Myers and John Lloyd Young, among others.  It's like an incredibly intense drama camp for adults, with constant rewrites and new material every day.  Words can't express how talented, grounded, and generous each and every person there is -- from writers, to designers, to actors, stage management, etc. It's a very special place. And next . . . drum roll, please . . . I am thrilled to be originating the role of Truly Scrumptious in the 1st National Tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang this fall!" Theatre: Les Miserables (Fantine), Salt Lake City, Her Song, Les Miserables, National Tour, 1776, Pittsburgh CLO with Malcolm Gets, Children of Eden, Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Paul Miller (Chicago) Paul is the Founder and Chief Goof Officer of CircEsteem and a former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown. As part of the 1996-97 Ringling tour, Paul performed throughout the United States in hundreds of shows, where he drove the clown car, walked on stilts, and taught juggling in a pre-circus event known as the "Three Ring Adventure." He then spent the next few years performing and teaching for children of all ages and cultures in places like Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Las Vegas, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and even Japan. From The Greatest Show on Earth to the Greatest Kids in Chi-Town, Paul enjoys goofing off through the great art of circus. He recently traveled to Germany in a circus exchange program.(Check out his website at www.circesteem.org)

Michelle Mullins Congratulations to Michelle on her recent July wedding in Columbus, OH. “I just obtained a master’s degree in social work. I am currently working with adolescent girls that are commercially sexually exploited and victims of domestic human trafficking at Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS). The work is very rewarding! I have also been able to integrate theater into my work with the girls, which they have loved.”

Andrew Nienaber Santa Ana, California Andrew and his wife live in Santa Ana.

Sarah Peters (Los Angeles) Congratulations to Sarah who shares the following news: “I'm sending you a link to the blog I'm writing for Bond Street Theater because I am totally amazed to find myself in India and I thought maybe you would like to see it too. 
http://www.bondstreetblog.blogspot.com/
Sarah just graduated with her MFA in Ensemble based Physical Theatre from the DelľArte School of Physical Theatre in California. 5 years with Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre Programs LA Theater: Twelfth Night, The Dickens Project (Antaeus), Lysistrata 2003 (Will Geer), The Buddha Prince. You can reach Sarah by email at: sarahrara@gmail.com

Philip Watt (New York) appeared in Much Ado About Nothing with the Oberon Theatre Ensemble at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York. He resides in New York and currently teaches at the Jason Bennett Actor’s Workshop in New York.

Jacob White (New York) Jacob has a full time job as an associate producer at an HD Cable TV station in New York. He is signed with the About Artists Agency. Theatre: Between Two Worlds, by Marcia Jean Kurtz, at the HB Playwrights Theatre, Pentecost (Off-Broadway), Floyd Collins (National Tour), Medal of Honor Rag and Lobby Hero, Theatre at St. Mary’s, and Julius Caesar, Theatre for a New Audience in New York, The Dybukk.

1999
Todd Almond (New York) "Todd Almond's songs are elegant, singular and haunting. He's one of
the finest new songwriters to hit the scene in a good long while."
-Michael John LaChiusa

Todd Almond is one of the most sought-after songwriters in NYC. Yale Rep recently commissioned him to write two musicals, and in the past year some of the theater world's greatest singers including Laura
Benanti, Victoria Clark, Michael Arden, Jayne Houdyshell, and Cheyenne Jackson have performed his music. Almond is currently collaborating with Adam Bock, Marcus Gardley, and Lear deBessonet, and this summer he composed music for a short film by Will Eno. As a performer, Almond has been wowing audiences with his inventive and always-surprising live shows. Also known for his radical interpretations of classic musicals (HAIR and the upcoming OLIVER), Almond's work as a musical director includes Michael John LaChiusa's TRES NINAS and Theatre Mitu's AHRAIHSAK. He
has been in residence at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Vassar (NYTW), and was a composer in the inaugural 24 HOUR MUSICALS.

MEXICO CITY is Almond's newest recording of original songs. A minimal and intimate collection, MEXICO CITY features 10 new songs including "The Fire," "Oh, Sean," and the acclaimed "The Margin."

Josh Alscher (New York) Recently filmed a new feature in New York where Josh plays a young Mick Jagger in a scene with Jeffrey Wright. Film: Depression: The Movie Television: Gorilla Black Magic Jesus.

Eydie Faye (Cohen) Mankowski (Los Angeles) Eydie is currently hard at work writing the screenplay for the re-make of the film Little Darlings, and taking care of her beautiful daughters Violet and Ruby, with her husband Ben. Theatre: The Pages of My Diary I'd Rather Not Read, Los Angeles and Cincinnati.

Rick Coons (Los Angeles) “I am currently sitting in MY office at the LA Free Clinic where I test patients for HIV and counsel them.  I just graduated last week with my masters in psychology and I will start a four year PsyD program in August."

Betsie Devan (Cleveland) Congratulations to Betsie on her September wedding in Cleveland, OH. Theatre: The Pages of My Diary I'd Rather Not Read, Los Angeles and Cincinnati.

Chad Gilkison (New York) Congratulations to Chad for being selected as the Official Selection of the 2008 Hoboken International Film Festival and Long Island International Film Festival for his screenplay Kate and Co. They have also been selected for the same honor by the Queens International Film Festival and the Rhode Island International Film Festival. He and his writing partner Scott Parrish are currently searching for funding for this award winning feature film script.

John Graham (Orem, Utah) Congratulations to John who just finished his first year as an Assistant Professor of Voice and Movement at Utah Valley State College. “This semester I taught voice, movement, combat, and history. The big news is that I have successfully negotiated a partnership to produce summer theatre between Utah Valley University and the Sundance Resort. So this Summer I'll be co-producing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and coordinating some workshops up there. They have a beautiful out-door space with the 11,000ft Mt. Timpanogas and its glacier as the back drop. Redford is very excited by this partnership and is fully behind it. Needless to say it's all pretty exciting and a little nerve-wracking at the same time.” Theatre: Twelfth Night and A Christmas Carol at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

Marissa Manzanares (Los Angeles) Theatre: The Pages of My Diary I'd Rather Not Read, Los Angeles.

Lauren Pesca (Chicago)

Chance Pinnell (New York) From Chance in New York: “SCARING THE FISH has been screening with director/cast Q&A's to private venues such as The Core Club, The Producers Guild and The SoHo House in NYC.  After audience testing, it's now going on the festival circuit for a year, then distribution. SOMETIMES, the latest feature with me as the lead & Chrishell Stause as the female lead, is beginning production.  A teaser trailer is up on youtube & the official film site showing me painting 'Jade' (Chrishell) in time-lapse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39CNQLP3Itw For Court TV, Chance started the multimedia action site courttvred.com and developed an original prime time show now in production. His other films include Trust and Coney Island. www.chancepinnell.com.

Jeremy Seymour (Chicago)

Alison Silverman (New York) At 8:30 am on Christmas morning, December 25 2005, Aaron Matthew Guzikowski asked Alison Hope Silverman for her hand in marriage, and of course she merrily replied "YES!" Alison's film short Champagne was a recent winner, again, this time in a film competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). (Check out her website at www.shadycatproductions.com)

2000
Carrie Adams (Los Angeles)
Dominic Bogart (Los Angeles) Des MacAnuff has recently cast Dominic in The Jersey Boys. Dominic is currently in San Francisco with the show before the company heads to Chicago to be the sit down Chicago company. He appeared on the Emmy Awards with The Jersey Boys in their salute to The Sopranos. Theatre: Zhivago, ( La Jolla Playhouse), RENT, Mark Cohen, National Tour, Molly's Dreams and All But Forgotten at Soho Repertory Theatre in New York, Jesus Christ Superstar, Bat Boy. Film: Deacon's Mondays, Summer Nuts, Captive, The King of Irontown. Television: The Chris Rock Show (HBO), Medical Investigation.

Shannon Faith (Cincinnati) Shannon appeared in The True Body: A Radical Truth in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.

Gina Ramsden (New York) Congratulations to Gina on her summer wedding. From Gina: “The film I won Best Actress for last year at the NYC Horror Film Festival 2006 will be released March 2008...worldwide distribution- every major chain. It can rented & TV release too (possibly HD Monster channel among others!) called LAST RITES OF THE DEAD...I'm the unlikely heroine in the story...it's not your typical zombie flick! The company has written the lead role for me in their next movie: The Antichrist...it's in pre-production now...bigger budget, etc . .Also, my fiancé & I opened a children's fitness franchise called My Gym in West Orange NJ last April...we’re doing very well!” Television: As The World Turns Film: Strange

Emily Schnurr (New York)

Randy Sullivan (New York)

Scott Ticen (Pennsylvania)

2001
Alyssa (Hayes) Wolfe (Bloomington, Indiana) Congratulations to Alyssa, as she prepares to move her family this summer for her husband Brian’s acceptance to the PHD program at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. She ran the theater programming for the Patricia Corbett Children's Theater at Cincinnati Museum Center. She and her husband Brian are the proud parents of Charlotte and Penelope.

Nate (Stu) Roderick (Columbus, Ohio) From the artist formerly known as Stu: "Quick update - As is my nature I have taken the extermely scenic route to find myself where I am in this thirtieth year. Since you've seen me last I...
- Played with my band Mike for about two years in and around Cincy
- Spent six months in the woods completing a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. I didn't shave for 8 months. Huge beard.
- Visited the rainforests in Madagascar to see an old friend and lots of lemurs.
- Patroled the beach at night protecting endangered sea turtles on the caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
- Hiked a few more miles and climbed some rocks.
- AND NOW... I got me a job! I've spent the last two and a half years working for COSI (Center of Science and Industry) in Columbus. I travel to elementary schools conducting assemblies and hands-on activities for kids. (I'm such a scientist) I also develop new outreach programs for COSI as well.
-In April I stepped onstage for the first time since leaving CCM and appeared in the Available Light Theatre Company's production of Dead City. It went great and I had a blast.
- Our new group is called GiaNT, and we're hoping to release our first album next year."

Justin Schultz (New York) New York Theatre: John Ferguson at the Mint Theatre, Elvis and Juliet at the Abingdon Theatre Company with Fred Willard, The Bard of Avon at the New York Theatre Workshop, and productions of Anatomy: 1968, Sodom: the Musical!, and Shakedown Street. His regional theatre credits include Harold and Maude, and The Drawer Boy in Dayton at the Human Race Theatre Co., Beautiful Thing in Indianapolis at the Phoenix Theatre, and Caught in the Net with Tony Randall at the Coconut Grove Playhouse. Check out his website and his groovy movies at www.jjustinschultz.com)

Franny Silverman (New York) Congratulations to Franny for her work with the extraordinary Composer/Vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb. She has been working for a couple of years on theatricalizing the composer’s song cycle Myaim Rabim/Great Waters.  Franny directed a 3 night run at PS122 in New York as part of the Best of the Boroughs Festival @ PS122, representing Brooklyn! New York Theatre: Between Two Worlds, by Marcia Jean Kurtz, at the HB Playwrights Commercial: IBM Franny is the Associate Artistic Director with the STORAHTELLING company in New York. She has continued her training with Anne Bogart and The SITI Co. Since she began working with Storahtelling in 2002, Franny has collaborated on and performed in over 30 original productions with the company. She was seen most recently as Frau Shifra in the The Underwater Palace, the inaugural production of the Northwoods Jewish Theatre Company at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. Other local and regional credits and collaborators include Triple Play Theatre, Looking for Lilith, Harbor Theatre, The Culture Project, The Human Race Theatre (OH) and The Phoenix Theatre (IN). See Franny on the web: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/firstlove/index.jsp?orgid=ibm

Stephanie Skaff (New York) Stephanie Skaff develops performance projects that are often influenced by her interest in proletariat stories, her teenage years as a performer in musicals in Ohio, and her curiosity about the diverse possibilities for live art. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Stephanie is currently developing a new work, entitled Make Me One With Everything, based on the sounds and stories of New York City street vendors. The work will be created in collaboration with composer, Paul Damian Hogan, with assistance from The Street Vendor Project and XØ Projects Inc. Make Me One With Everything will be presented in Fall 2007 on the streets in Lower Manhattan where vending is no longer permitted. The work is made possible, in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of The September 11th Fund.

Stephanie has developed several original works at The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Her most recent project, Nice to Understand You: A Tangent in Seven Parts, was based on Hugo Picciani - a custom machinist, radio specialist and conversationalist who leaves nearby - and was created in collaboration with Paul Damian Hogan, Johanna Linsley, Kelly Kivland and Nathan Elbogen. She also performed there in Elizabeth Brown's Rural Electrification, a chamber opera for theremin, voice and recorded sound, based on the advent of electricity in rural America, which included video by Lothar Osterburg.

She sings and plays instruments in the band, Frances, and she works with an organization called Only Make Believe, which brings theater to hospitalized children in NYC. In 2003, she received an award from Princess Grace Foundation-USA for her work with Bond Street Theatre. Visit her website at www.stephanieskaff.com

Keisha Smith

Anthony Hawkins Woods (Columbus) Moved to NYC right after graduating, where he did the national tours of The Rosa Parks Story and Halfway There.  NYC Theatre: Close But No Cigar at the Milagros Theatre, The Mickey and Judy Show at West Bank Cafe, Cocktail Conversations at the Producers Club, and Our History Our Drama at the American Theatre of Actors.  Headed out west and signed with Steingberg's Talent Agency and was cast in Restaurant Stories at Promenade Playhouse.  Film credits:  Traffic dir by Steven Soderburgh, Exit, and Fall From Grace.

David Zelina (Los Angeles) Congratulations to David who has finished a complete cut of his independent film Les is More. In addition, he just booked a guest star on an episode of Mad Men (AMC Thursdays). “I shoot today! It's set in the 60's and they smoke non-stop, so I picked up a pack of herbal cigarettes (that's what they use) last night to practice just in case... Disgusting. I feel like I made out with a dog's ass.” His wife Amy can be seen on national Walmart ads this summer. Film: Welcome To Palm Gardens, PRIMEVAL, and Shiner. Theatre: Antigone, The Catholic Girl's Guide to Losing Your Virginity

2002
Cory Benjamin (Los Angeles) Theatre: Barnum (LA), Grease (Florida) Film: Mission Impossible III www.myspace.com/corybenjaminmusic and www.myspace.com/lusciouslchaim

Mo Doherty (Chicago) From Mo in Chicago. “I have been acting, directing and producing shows in Chicago. Kevin Sketch and I own a condo on the lake. During the day, I am an intellectual property paralegal doing copyrights, trademarks, patents and domain names at a large general practice firm downtown. I am on the Pro Bono Community Service Committee and have done several volunteer programs with Chicago Public Schools, everything from career day to painting murals on the playgrounds of our adoptive schools. I recently Co-Produced and Co-Directed The Vagina Monologues for the 10th annual V-DAY benefit performance at The Spot in Chicago.”

Mike Frieman (Los Angeles) From Mike: "Check in the Dark, (that's my band for those of you who had no idea) was on the Lifetime Channel on Sunday, the 30th, on the series "Side Order Of Life." Our track is played just about 15 minutes into the show. Jason Priestly is making out with a girl in a car to Check in the Dark on the car radio. Visit checkinthedarkmusic.com
Singer/songwriter. Appearing regularly with his band CHECK IN THE DARK all around Los Angeles. Theatre: The Laramie Project, The Garson Theatre Co. (He can be reached at his website blog at : www.myspace.com/michaelfrieman)

Jeff Griffin (New York) Jeff just directed Shakedown Street, a new musical at the NYC International Fringe Festival with songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead. Earlier this summer he directed Will Eno's Flu Season in Austin, Texas.

Annie Hendy (Los Angeles) Congratulations to Annie who recently finished a run of her hit play The Catholic Girl’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity at the Pico Playhouse in Los Angeles. She also completed the screenplay for a film version of the show. . Visit her new website at www.anniehendy.com.

Maria Kelly (New York) Maria is currently appearing in Three Movements in New York at Theatre Row on 42nd Street, a new play about the life of George Balanchine. Theatre: Hamlet (dir. Michael Kahn), An Enemy Of The People, The Beaux' Strategem, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, School For Wives (The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. )Richard III, The Tempest, The Merry Wives of Windsor (The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival)

Tom Korbee (Los Angeles) Check it out! http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=B7AC4BA67F5711DBAB383EF340157CF2&type=
Congratulations to Tom who is now shooting headshots in Los Angeles. Check out his website at www.TCKPHOTO.com Tom is happily married to Jennifer Peterson-Hind (CCM Musicall Theatre 2002). Singer/songwriter. Appearing regularly at VIVA (formerly Cafe Maurice) in Hollywood. Theatre: Showtune (Off-Broadway at the York Theatre Co. in New York), The Laramie Project, The Garson Theatre Co., The Pilgrim, Los Angeles.

Lindsey Marlin (Arizona) Congratulations to Lindsey Marlin on her recent performance in Diane Samuels’ Kindertransport with the Arizona Jewish Theatre Company in Arizona. “The most powerful presence is Lindsey Marlin as Eva's mother, Helga. Convincingly placing her character into a particular time and social class, she conveys both her inner anguish and her need to mask it from her child. She has fewer lines but makes the most of them; in fact, in the play's most haunting moment, she doesn't speak a word, but merely lurks in the shadows, a ghost from the past.” That’s our Lindsey! Film: Stabbing Stupidity Theatre: Pursuit of Happiness ( Actors Theatre of Phoenix), Measure For Measure and The Laramie Project (Garson Theatre Co.), Oscar and Felix (Arizona Jewish Theatre Co.), Voices of Valor, Bluish (Arizona Jewish Theatre Company) Voiceover: Subway and Valley Honda. Check out her website at http://www.lindseymarlin.com.

Tim Semon (TD&P Degree-Stage Management) (New York) Current: A Chorus Line, Broadway Broadway Credits: Wicked (Original Cast), Three Days of Rain (with Julia Roberts), The Color Purple, High Fidelity.

Katie Stuckey (Houston) Congratulations to Katie who continues to sing in Texas with Katie Stuckey and the Swagger, and on her recent engagement to Davis Rushing! Katie was named Best Female Vocalist, and her band Katie Stuckey and the Swagger were named Best Folk Acoustic in the Houston Press Music Awards 2007. They have been nominated again in 2008. Check out Katie's music video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Dl3qyrqHM Television: My Name is Earl Visit Katie's new website at www.katiestuckey.com and hear 3 of her amazing new tracks as a solo artist. Buy the CD!

Nathan Thomas (North Carolina) Imagine my surprise when Nathan appeared in my office last week, after not seeing him since Showcase in New York four years ago. He is doing well in North Carolina, where by day he works with middle school students in programs dealing with self esteem. Theatre: Tartuffe

Torie Wiggins (New York) Your Negro Tour Guide, based on the writings of Cincinnati’s Kathy Wilson, a one woman show starring Torie Wiggins (CCM Drama 2002), directed by Jeff Griffin, who received his MFA in Directing from CCM in 2003, appeared in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk7Gu-8MmZo Television: All My Children Voiceover: Maytag, the voice of Cinematherapy on the Women’s Entertainment Channel, Home Depot, H&M. Theatre: Shakedown Street (NYC International Fringe Festival)

2003
Ben Dobson (New York) returns to the 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival with Running My Ass Off, and Getting Nowhere! He will appear in this new Stacey Morrison play with Courtney Seiberling, and will be directed by Amelia Henderson.Theatre: BRITNEY SPEARS and all the other SHIT We Deal With!

Sarah Jane Fridlich (New York) Sarah Jane appeared in the 2005 Cincinnati Fringe Festival in the popular BRITNEY SPEARS and all the other SHIT We Deal With!

Brandon Jones (New York) “Since we last spoke I worked with Jeff Griffin, Morgan Rosse, Josh Alscher, Franny Silverman and Jonathan Kay in Orange at Center Stage here in NY.  After that, I was in Philadelphia for two weeks filming Incorporated, a film about the Black Mafia in the 1960's.  It was my first lead role (I played Marcus Christianson) in a film and I even got the chance to finally play guitar!  The film will be released September 2008.  The day after wrapping the film I started rehearsal for Beef, a two man show (one black the other white) dealing with the "N" word, and the meaning of true friendship/brotherhood.  It was directed by Jason Podplesky and was part of the Crown Point Festival on the LES at the Henry Street Theatre.  It was a very successful yet brief run.
Now...
I am training to gain 15lbs. of muscle (have gained 6) for my next role in the film Children of Fleeting Light.  It's a film about a group of friends living in "The Keep/Keepskill” that are trying to deal with issues of love, friendship, and self discovery.  Each person wants to leave "The Keep" but it has a stronghold on them as things fall apart each time they do.  We will be shooting in upstate NY, Connecticut, and areas of Boston.  It's crazy going to the gym with a trainer and getting back into the "athlete" mentality.  It's a juicy role and I'm really excited about it.  The character's name is DC and he is the tough guy of the bunch except he has a brain!  He's like an M&M hard on the outside but sweet and soft in the middle.  Think of a bulked up black River Phoenix in Stand By Me. I had to audition 4 times to book the job!  Filming starts in March...”
Off-Broadway: Murder (NYC Premier: Performance Space 122), ALBUM, Dreams of Friendly Aliens at The Abingdon Theater Co. Regional: Othello (Lexington Shakespeare Festival), Charlotte's Web (Theatreworks/USA), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Garson Theatre Company) Film: TRUST 22, Biting Back (New Millennium Pictures), Where God Left His Shoes (Sundance Screenwriter's Lab) Voice Over: International Trucks, Pierre Foods, Kentucky Historical Society Television: Chappelle's Show: Season 2

Amelia Henderson (New York) Better/Worse written by and starring Courtney Seiberling, Stacey (Morrison) Vespaziani, and Amelia Henderson, all CCM Drama 2003, an exploration on  the theme of marriage and companionship, was seen in the Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2008. Theatre: BRITNEY SPEARS and all the other SHIT We Deal With!, Running My Ass Off, and Getting Nowhere!

Edward Hodge (New York) “I finally broke away from the production company I was designing with, and giving it a go with my own business.  I’m doing design and creative direction for corporate shows, theme park entertainment, show doctoring a little, and creating effects for themed attractions. I’m not giving up on the acting, just taking a break, it’s amazing now that I’m on the other side of the casting table how much different the business looks.” Visit his website at www.ehdesignservices.com Theatre: National Tour of Freedom Train with TheatreWorks USA, Britney Spears and all the other SHIT We Deal With! (Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2005).

Melissa Johnson (New York)

Stacy (Morrison) Vespaziani (Pittsburgh) returned to the Cincinnati Fringe Festival for the third consecutive year as a playwright and producer with her theatre company Odds n Ends production. Stacey also starred in her new show, I Take It Back, which was a political coming-of-age story that followed an Ohio woman’s quest to take back her vote cast for George W. Bush during the 2004 presidential election. Playwright: I Take It Back (2007 Cincinnati Fringe Festival), Running My Ass Off, and Getting Nowhere! ( 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival) BRITNEY SPEARS and all the other SHIT We Deal With! ( 2005 Cincinnati Fringe Festival) Check out her production company website at www.oddsandendsproductions.com In addition, she started a Pittsburgh Theatre Blog called Pittsburgh Theatre Connect (http://pghtheatreconnect.blogspot.com/)

Courtney Seiberling (Los Angeles) Better/Worse written by and starring Courtney Seiberling, Stacey (Morrison) Vespaziani, and Amelia Henderson, all CCM Drama 2003, an exploration on  the theme of marriage and companionship, was seen in the Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2008. Theatre: Running My Ass Off, and Getting Nowhere!, Out of Sight, Out of Murder, Britney Spears and all the Other Shit We Deal With Film: The Factory You can e-mail her at: courtneyseiberling@yahoo.com

Samuel Stricklen (New York) Congratulations to Samuel on some amazing news. Samuel just spoke with Anne Bogart on the phone and he has been offered two projects with Anne and her SITI Co. First, he will appear in Radio MacBeth on their September tour to Minnesota and Calgary, Canada. Then, he will originate a new role in Under Construction, the new play created by Anne and the SITI Co. for the Humana Festival of New Plays in March of 2009. The play will be a study of the artist Norman Rockwell. The new show has already been booked for performances in Arizona and Illinois following the Humana debut at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. In addition, watch for Samuel on a national commercial for Verizon and their new Palm Phone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3N2_3Hxqg Also, attached is a funny Maryland Lottery commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZVznHlgzXs Sam is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, with his MFA in Acting. Theatre: bobrauschenbergamerica (Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland with Anne Bogart's SITI Co.) Television: As the World Turns

2004

Jon Catoe (Los Angeles) From Jon: "This summer I will be volunteering at Hole in The Wall Gang Camp, which was conceived and financed by Paul Newman. It's a children's camp for kids with life-threatening illnesses such as HIV, sickle-cell anemia and other Immune deficiencies. Buy his salad dressings! The proceeds go to the camp!" Television: Court TV Theatre: As Bees In Honey Drown, Los Angeles. Commercial: Wendy's

Jordan Delp (Los Angeles) Jordan has recently signed with the Avalon Artists Group in Los Angeles. Heis currently playing Adam in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things in Los Angeles, a role he played at CCM. From Backstage West: "The young, attractive, amiable cast, under the well-targeted direction of Jacob Harvey, gives a quite respectable rendering of this difficult and riveting play, especially Delp, who does meticulous work taking Adam through the tough hurdles of life."

Derek Hake (New York) Recently appeared in Shakedown Street, a new musical at the NYC International Fringe Festival with songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead, directed by Jeff Griffin.

Lindsey Hall (Los Angeles) From Lindsey: "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged (all female cast) has been revived!  We closed in Sept. reopened in Nov. and when we close, I will have been at it a year!!! Plus the playwrights came and said they are pondering releasing an updated version of the script, and they want to use a lot of the jokes we added to it!!  From the show I signed with a manager (Endurance Talent Management) in Sept. and just signed with Origin Talent Agency a couple weeks ago!!!" She is taking classes at the Lesly Kahn Studios.Theatre in LA: Closer Commercial: Dunkin Donuts

Jack Lazzaro (Los Angeles) See Susan Thompson below.

Ben (Pitts) Pitt (Los Angeles) “I just shot a Heineken spot... I got to drive a semi and drink a total of about 30 warm O'Doul’s.” Ben is studying with The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Film: GRIM REAPER

Eric Solomon (Los Angeles) Eric recently re-located to Los Angeles, and was just cast in a production of Closer, where he will play opposite Lindsey Hall.

Susan Thompson (Los Angeles) From Susan in LA: We work for Venivici Rentals and Restoration. Its a location support company for Film and Television shows. Our boss is a Location Manager and created the company. We just finished the show Injustice. We also work for The Medium, and just signed on for a new Michael Douglas movie. Its pretty exciting. Sam Lewis is the business manager, I'm the office manager, and Eric Kilpatrick and Jack Lazzarro do all the labor."

Daniel Wisler (Los Angeles) From Daniel “I just spent the last two nights on a fishing boat in the middle of the ocean being pummeled by waves only to hear the director say, "Cut, let’s take it from the top." Kind of cool, huh?” He is currently shooting the film Troglodyte in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Film: Elijah's Curse, Imperial Violet, The Pledge Television: The Unit, CSI and The Guiding Light Theatre: The Shape of Things (Look for Daniel at www.imdb.com)

Eric Yellin (New York) Eric Yellin just booked an independent feature film called Small Voices, about unfair child labor practices, where he will play a young photographer, and will shoot scenes at JFK and in EGYPT! Congratulations. Theatre: Death of A Salesman Voiceover: Volkswagen

Ben Zelinski (Chicago) Ben is doing improv in Chicago.

2005

Julianna Bloodgood (Cincinnati) Next to Not, created by Michael Burnham (CCM Drama faculty) and Julianna , a piece about extinction, was seen in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Congratulations to Julianna as well, for her work in the Cincinnati Fringe Festival in Anna the Slut and the Almost Chosen One and The True Body: A Radical Truth. Julianna will be joining CCM Drama this fall as an adjunct faculty member teaching Movement II to our sophomores. Theatre: Oleanna, Britney Spears and all the Other Shit We Deal With, The Three Sisters Training: Theatre MITU in Thailand

Havilah Brewster (New York) Havilah is with The Krasny Office in New York City.  New York Theatre includes: The World Premiere of A.R. Gurney's Post Mortem (understudy), The Director, I.E. In Other Words, The Happy Sad and the World Premiere of A.R. Gurney's A Light Lunch at The Flea Theater, as a member of their resident acting company The Bats, 7 Stories High (Fringe NYC), Local Story (The Access Theater), Asking For Trouble (Ensemble Studio Theater).  Readings of note: Ken Urban's The Happy Sad for Harvard University/ART/The Huntington Theater in Boston and I Must Be Off (Roger Rosenblatt Plays) with Alan Alda and Sigourney Weaver for the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference.  Television: Two episodes of ABC Primetime News: *What Would You Do?* ("Talking Down To The Help" and "A Day At The Beach") with John Quinones.

Sonia (Koschoreck) Gardea (Los Angeles) "Next week I graduate from the National Personal Training Institute as a nationally certified trainer! It's been one of the best decisions I've made so far." She is signed with The Brogan Agency for television, commercial, film, print and stunts. Theatre: Hurt So Good (New York), The Flu Season (Austin), Visit her new website at www.soniagardea.com.

Jonathan Kay (New York) From Jonathan: “I booked my first feature film. It's called Once More With Feeling and it stars Robert Forster, Drea De Matteo and Linda Fiorentino. I am playing one half of a singing bowling team. I shoot in August in NYC and Connecticut.” In addition, “We just got word that we are doing a cast album recording for The Body Beautiful, the show I did at the York Theatre.  In addition, I just got a call from my commercial agent and I just booked a SAG commercial for Madison Square Garden.”Jonathan appeared in the new musical version of Gemini as Hershel Weinberger. He appeared in a play called Orange at Center Stage directed by Jeff Griffin. Jonathan is with the Hartig/Hillepo Agency in New York, and commercially with Atlas Talent. He sang the role of Sancho Panza in The Man of La Mancha with the Staten Island Symphony.

Eric Kilpatrick (Los Angeles) Eric appeared in the 2005 Cincinnati Fringe Festival in the popular BRITNEY SPEARS and all the other SHIT We Deal With!

Michael Littig (New York) "As many of you know, I spent the past year in Mongolia as a Fulbright Scholar in Drama.  There, I investigated the relationship between the shaman and the actor, wrote my first play, Children’s Park, participated in cross-cultural collaboration, and conducted numerous interviews across the country.The Fulbright experience, for me, was simply beyond words. It may take awhile for me to articulate my research.  But, I did keep a blog while I was abroad that may give insight into my experience in the land of blue sky.  And I felt compelled to share it with all of you.

Between Worlds  www.michaelinmongolia.blogspot.com

I am also excited to announce an upcoming collaboration with Michi Barall and Jan Leslie Harding on a Chingiss Khan project.  This play will explore the legacy of Chingiss Khan and I am humbled to be working with these two artists." Regional Theatre: Twelfth Night,Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, The Chosen (Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville, Florida), and Julius Ceasar at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

Sam Lewis (Los Angeles) Sam is the business manager for Venivici Rentals and Restoration in Los Angeles.

Mary Jane Schwartz (New York) Mary is a proud member of the Bat company at the Flea Theatre in New York. New York Theatre: Harvey, and Away in a Manger and ie...In Other Words at the Flea Theatre

Allison Sell (New York)

2006

Sal Cacciato (New York) Congratulations to Sal who appeared in Romeo and Juliet with the Human Race Theatre Co. in Dayton. Theatre: The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, The Time of Your Life, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest with New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Judas in Corpus Christi at KNOW THEATRE, Michael Chekhov Institute. Television: Saturday Night Live Commercial: Dave and Busters, Proctor and Gamble, UC

Dan Davidson (Cincinnati) "Just finished the second official production of my One Man Show: SINKORSWIM @ the KNOW Theatre of Cincinnati. My next project: I just booked the National Tour of Calculus: The Musical! The run starts at the beginning of November in St. Louis and will run thru Washington D.C. New York, Canada, Colorado, and ending in Texas @ the end of May! FILM (imdb.com) THEATRE (www.danodav.com)

Sara Gaare (Los Angeles) Sara is currently appearing in the sketch comedy show An Inconvenient Spoof at Second City in Los Angeles. She has completed all levels of training with the Groundlings. She completed a Summer Intensive Training at Second City in Chicago last summer. She also did Cincinnati's Local 48 Hour Film Competition. Theatre at CCM: Ghetto, Top Girls, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Noises Off (Dolly Award Winner), Measure For Measure, The Vagina Monologues.

Dave Groom (New York) will be directing at the Walnut Hill Conservatory in Massachusetts this summer.

Joel Raffee (Cincinnati) Congratulations to Joel who worked the summer of 2007 doing political theater with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, thanks to the internship he had with them before the summer of his Junior Year. He has been in LA since December of 2007. He appeared on NCIS on CBS, which made him SAG eligible, and he has since joined SAG! Theatre: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park productions of A Christmas Carol, Pure Confidence, Reckless and The Yellow Boat. Joel filmed 3 episodes of Navy: NCIS in LA as a featured extra and earned his SAG card. He appeared in Plaza Suite and Sylvia at the Northern Fort Playhouse in South Dakota.

Morgan Rosse(New York) Morgan recently appeared as The Nickname Fairy in The Nickname Fairy in New York. Theatre at CCM: The Little Prince, Marat/Sade, Ghetto (Dolly Award Winner), The Lights, The Life of Galileo (Dolly Award Winner), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dolly Award Winner), Top Girls, Noises Off (Dolly Award Winner), Measure For Measure, The Vagina Monologues. Theatre: Corpus Christi (Know Theatre), DADA, AS Translated to the Stage ( 2005 Cincinnati Fringe Festival), Moonchildren (Back Porch Players, Houston www.thebackporchplayers.com)

Ryann Turner(Los Angeles) Congratulations to Ryann on her recent signing with the Avalon Artists Group in Los Angeles. Theatre at CCM: Ghetto, The Lights, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Elizabeth I (Dolly Award Winner), Noises Off, Measure For Measure.

Lindsey Valitchka (Cincinnati) See www.satori-group.com. Lindsey appeared in the original piece rsvp, presented by The Satori Group, a Seattle based theatre company of which she is a member, in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Theatre: The Satori Group: Hello, Again and iLove The Know Theatre: The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Dream of An Astronaut, Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2005, Sunday in the Park with George, The Full Monty, and The Book of Liz with New Stage Collective, Les Belles-Soeurs

Sara Vaught (Cincinnati) After presenting in the CCM Drama 2006 LA Showcase on a Monday, Sara was called by CBS casting on Tuesday, auditioned on Thursday, and filmed a featured role on NUMB3RS with Olympia Dukakis on Friday of the same week, making her SAG eligible.She will also bedoing a re-mount of the production Between the Water and the Air, the play she went to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with last year at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival this summer with Dan Davidson and in August will be in the Celebrity Theatre's stage production of Misery starring opposite Corbin Bernson. Theatre at CCM: The Glory of Living (Dolly Award Winner), Measure For Measure, Elizabeth I, The Lights, Ghetto (Dolly Award Winner), The Life of Galileo (Dolly Award Winner).


2007
Anthony DarnellSeattle, Washington
Anthony wrote the original piece rsvp, presented by The Satori Group, a Seattle based theatre company of which he is a member, in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. See www.satori-group.com.
Theatre: The Satori Group: Hello, Again and iLove New Stage Collective: Kimberly Akimbo (Cincinnati Entertainment Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor in a Play), Sunday in the Park with George, A Number, The Full Monty, and with the Know Theatre Tribe: After Ashley, Gompers, Hamlet, and The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. Visit Anthony at http://darnellone.googlepages.com/

Elana Ernst Chicago, Illinois
(Visit Elana at www.elanaernst.com) “My next gig on stage is at the Marriott Lincolnshire in Chicago this spring. I will be playing the blonde bitch Sharpay in High School Musical (bitch with HEART, mind you). After High School Musical, which expects a run March thru May and then a remount over the summer, I'll be working on a musical adaptation of the 9/11 reports with LaRed Music Theatre, where I am a resident company member. Check us out at www.laredmusictheatre.org” National Tour: Mamma Mia! Other theatre: The Tempest (First Folio Shakespeare Festival) Gypsy with Patti LuPone ( Ravinia Festival), The Marriott Lincolnshire's (Chicago) production of Bye Bye Birdie, How Can You Run with a Shell on Your Back? and Romeo and Juliet (The Human Race Theatre Co.) Voiceover: Seaworld Aquatica and Hormel Chili

Agustina Filippini McMurray, Pennsylvania
Agustina studied with the Atlantic Theatre Co. in New York in the summer of 2005. Theatre at CCM: The Comedy of Errors, Lysistrata, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Top Girls, Measure For Measure, The Vagina Monologues.


Justin Giddings (Los Angeles) Justin performed with the Cincinnati POPS at Music Hall in The Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean Theatre at CCM: The Lady's Not For Burning, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Glory of Living, Measure for Measure, The Elephant Man, The Comedy of Errors . Industrials: Procter and Gamble.

Courtney Henderson Houston, Texas
(Visit Courtney at www.courtneyhenderson.net) Courtney performed with the Cincinnati POPS at Music Hall in The Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean Theatre at CCM: The Lady's Not For Burning, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Top Girls, Measure For Measure, The Vagina Monologues, The Comedy of Errors.

Blake Kubena(New York)
Congratulations to Blake, who has been cast in the Hudson Theatre production of Mary's Wedding in New York. He will earn his Equity card on this show. He spent a summer in the Next Stage Ensemble with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and returned to appear in The Rivals. He also appeared in the Pick-of-the-Fringe (UN)Natural Disaster in the 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. He also studied at RADA in London. Visit his website at www.blakekubena.com

Amanda Perez New York, New York
Amanda will next appear in Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed at TheaterWorks in Hartford, directed by Rob Ruggiero. http://www.theaterworkshartford.org/ Amanda made her television debut on The Guiding Light. Amanda has signed with Paradigm for legit and for commercial with Group Entertainment in New York. At the CCM DOLLY Awards last year she was recognized for excellence in achievement and performance by a senior. Theatre at CCM: The Comedy of Errors, Lysistrata, The Life of Galileo (Dolly Award Winner), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Top Girls, Noises Off, Measure For Measure, Hedda Gabler. Visit her website at www.amandavperez.com

Susana Silva Porto, Portugal
Theatre at CCM: The Lady's Not For Burning, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Top Girls, The Glory of Living, The Elephant Man.

Adam Standley Seattle, Washington
Adam appeared in the original piece rsvp, presented by The Satori Group, a Seattle based theatre company of which he is a member, in the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Theatre: Hello, Again and iLove with The Satori Group The Know Theatre: Christmas-Yet-To-Come and Hamlet New Stage Collective: Radiant Baby, Sunday in the Park with George, The Full Monty, All We Can Handle, and The Book of Liz with New Stage Collective. Adam studied with Anne Bogart and the SITI Co. in their 4 week intensive training program in Saratoga Springs, New York. Theatre at CCM: Quills (Dolly Award Winner), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Elizabeth I, Noises Off, Measure For Measure (Dolly Award Winner), The Elephant Man See www.satori-group.com.

Rachel Stewart Orlando, Florida
Congratulations to Rachel, who will be a performer at Disney World in Orlando this year. Theatre at CCM: The Comedy of Errors, Quills, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Top Girls. She appeared in Rumors with Sunset Players in Cincinnati (Orchid Award for Excellence in Acting) Visit Rachel at RachelAnneStewart.googlepages.com/ Film: Devil's Grove


Marisa Weatherly Marietta, Georgia
Congratulations to Marisa on her recent work in Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede at Theatre in the Square in Atlanta, Georgia. Other news from Marisa: “I auditioned for a show at the Alliance Theatre called In the Red and Brown Water. I had two call backs and sadly was not cast. I later received a call asking me if I was  interested in understudying. I had never understudied before, but I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity and so I accepted. I was the understudy for 3 roles; Oya, Nia, and Shun. I got to work with Tina Landau as the director, a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and she and Anne Bogart wrote the Viewpoints book. She is just brilliant and to work with her was absolutely incredible. I also got to work with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney.  Tarell is the 2007 winner of the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and a graduate of Yale. Theatre: Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede Visit Marisa at MWeatherly85.googlepages.com

2008
Brandon Burton (New York)
Theatre: Darren Lemming in Take Me Out (New Stage Collective), The Art of Longing and (UN)Natural Disaster (Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2006 and 2007) Other: Cincinnati POPS at Music Hall in The Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean Theatre at CCM: The Comedy of Errors, Big Love, Anon(ymous), Lysistrata, The Glory of Living, Measure For Measure, The Elephant Man. Brandon appeared in the 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival in (UN)Natural Disaster. Commercial: 30 second UC Commercial in celebration of Co-Op at UC.

Lauren Carter (New York)
Lauren is currently filming the new animated feature Prodigies in Paris and Luxembourg. About the movie: "Aton Soumache, producer of Christian Volker’s 2006 Annecy award-winning animated feature Renaissance, is producing another major French CG feature. According to Daily Variety, he and his Onyx Films shingle have joined forces with with French company Fidelite to make Prodigies, a $40 million motion-capture film from director Antoine Charreyron. Victor Antonov, who designed the visuals for the bestselling video game Half-Life 2, is lending his talents as artistic director. He and Charreyron are also developing a game based on the film. Based on French Author Bernard Lenteric’s 1981 cult novel La Nuit des enfants rois, Prodigies revolves around five young geniuses who must be hunted when they use their collective talents to unleash a crime spree in New York City. Character designs are being created by Marvel comic-book artists Humberto Ramos and Francesco Herriera. The film is being animated in color to attract the teenage audience.

Theatre: Carol in David Mamet's Oleanna for Queen-City Off-Broadway, The Full Monty with the New Stage Collective in Cincinnati in the role of Pam, Casualties and dr. pain on main in the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Theatre at CCM: Charley's Aunt, Twelfth Night, The Good Person of Setzuan, Lysistrata, The Glory of Living (Dolly Award Winner), Measure For Measure, Hedda Gabler, the Vagina Monologues Visit Lauren at http://laurenashleycarter.googlepages.com


Adrienne Clark (Seattle, Washington)
Theatre: Hello, Again with the Satori Group, Radiant Baby with New Stage Collective, Waiting for Lefty with Queen City Off-Braodway, dr.pain on main and iLove Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Adrienne's website: http://adrienne.e.clark.googlepages.com The Satori Group: www.satori-group.com Theatre at CCM: Anon(ymous), Twelfth Night, The Good Person of Setzuan, The Glory of Living, Measure for Measure, Hedda Gabler, Lysistrata, Comedy of Errors, Big Love.   Adrienne studied with the SITI Co. in their summer intensive training program in Saratoga Springs. 

Nathan Elam (New York)
Nathan studied in Bangkok, Thailand with Theatre MITU, and is currently in rehearsals in New York for DRC (OR HOW I LEARNED TO ACT IN EIGHT STEPS), which will premiere Off-Broadway this fall. Professional theatre: The Cincinnati Project: When the End of the World Comes (National Underground Freedom Center), (UN)Natural Disaster (Cincinnati Fringe Festival) Theatre At CCM: Anon(ymous), The Good Person of Setzuan, The Comedy of Errors, Charley's Aunt, The Lady's Not For Burning (Dolly Award Winner), The Glory of Living, Measure For Measure, The Elephant Man.

Adrien Finkel (Los Angeles)
"I was having a lovely dinner on Sunset Blvd with Ben Newell on Friday when my agent called to tell me that I have a contract with Disney!   I have been cast as Disney's new entertainment news anchor for a show called Disney 365!  Basically its a 10 minute news show that runs at the top of every hour where me and 2 others will be interviewing celebrities, visiting sets and recording studios, or just updating kids on the latest Disney gossip!" Theatre at CCM: Twelfth Night, The Good Person of Setzuan, Charley's Aunt, The Comedy of Errors, The Lady's Not For Burning, The Glory of Living, The Elephant Man, The Vagina Monologues. Visit her website at: http://asfinkel.googlepages.com/

Jacob Jones Columbus, Ohio
Theatre: Next Stage Ensemble with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Twelfth Night and Henry IV, Pt. 1, dr. pain on main for the Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2005, FUN, by Howard Korder, with Queen City Off-Broadway in Cincinnati, The Miracle Worker with Ovation Theatre Co.Theatre at CCM: The Comedy of Errors, Big Love, Twelfth Night, The Good Person of Setzuan, Lysistrata, The Elephant Man

Joy Lanceta (New York)
Joy has recorded several voice overs, including national spots for Trident, Febreeze, and Time Warner Cable. Listen to her voice-over demo at http://radiojoe.net/demos/joyl.mp3 Theatre at CCM: Anon(ymous), Big Love, The Comedy of Errors, Lysistrata, Measure For Measure. Elsewhere:  (UN)Natural Disaster (Winner of "Pick of the Fringe" and CEA's "Best Alternative Play") for the 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Nick Mangano's staged reading of When the End of the World Comes at the National Underground Freedom Center and The Vagina Monologues for the University of Cincinnati. TV Commercial: 30-second University of Cincinnati Co-Op, "My Company! ." Check out her web-site at www.joylanceta.googlepages.com

Ian Lokey (Los Angeles)
From Ian in Los Angeles: Listen to Ian do all the voices and sounds on this website: http://www.charleyssteakery.com/ “I’ve managed to land a good sized role in the One Act Festival at the Chandler Theatre in NoHo. I’m playing a dancer who “stalks” older gay couples. I know, I know, typecasting, right?” A Mime Is A Terrible Thing to Waste and (UN)Natural Disaster for the Cincinnati Fringe Festival.. Commercial: Maple Street Homes Voice-over: Hewlett Packard, Panasonic's ToughBook Industrial: Champion Windows, Kroger (Check out his website at www.ianlokey.com) Ian was a cast member of the Cincinnati Project ("When the End of the World Comes"), who performed a staged reading of this exciting work in progress at CCM and at the National Underground Freedom Center as a fund raiser for The Harmony Fund. Theatre at CCM: Charley's Aunt, Twelfth Night, The Good Person of Setzuan, Lysistrata, Noises Off (Dolly Award Winner), Measure For Measure, Hedda Gabler.

Kyle Nunn Cincinnati, Ohio
Theatre: The Art of Longing (Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2007) and Anna the Slut and the Almost Chosen One (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Cincinnati Fringe Festival 2008), Master Harold . . . and the Boys, by Athol Fugard, with New Edgecliff Theatre. Theatre at CCM: Big Love, The Good Person of Setzuan, Twelfth Night, The Lady's Not For Burning, Noises Off (Dolly Award Winner), Measure For Measure, The Elephant Man.

Mikhail Roberts
Mikhail was the winner of the Rising Star ACCLAIM Award from the Cincinnati Enquirer for his body of work since moving from Iowa to Cincinnati to study at CCM. Film: The Monster’s Mind, Underdogs, Y-Not  Professional Theatre: A Mime Is A Terrible Thing to Waste (Cincinnati Fringe Festival), Thrill Me, Iris and The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (KNOW Theatre), FUN (Queen City Off-Broadway)and Radiant Baby and The Fully Monty(New Stage Collective) Theatre at CCM: Anon(ymous), The Good Person of Setzuan, Charley's Aunt (Dolly Award winner), The Comedy of Errors, The Lady's Not For Burning (Dolly Award winner) , Hedda Gabler Visit Mikhail at mikhailroberts.bravehost.com

Sarah Stephens (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Current: National Tour of CALCULUS: The Musical. Professional theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), Radiant Baby (New Stage Collective), bare (KNOW Theatre), and The Cincinnati Project: When the End of the World Comes (National Underground Freedom Center) Theatre at CCM: Charley’s Aunt, Anon(ymous), Measure For Measure, The Comedy of Errors Visit her website at: http://sarahellenstephens1.googlepages.com

2009

Katelyn Groh Cincinnati, Ohio
Katelyn is currently studying theater abroad in Northern Ireland at the University of Ulster..  Theater at CCM: Rashomon, Charley's Aunt, Anon(ymous), Lysistrata, and Women's Lab. Other Theater: Desdemona in Othello with ClearStage Cincinnati.  Katelyn was a counselor for a children's theater summer program at Northern Kentucky University called Theater Works, and was the associate head usher for Cirque du Soleil's QUIDAM during its month long stay in Cincinnati.

Kendall Karg Cincinnati, Ohio
Kendall just appeared in Eric Overmyer’s On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning as Mary at CCM, sharing in the ACCLAIM Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.  This past summer, Kendall worked in New York City at Culture Project, a theater focusing on social and political issues, as a production and education intern.  At CCM, Kendall has played Lysistrata in Lysistrata (in which she was nominated for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award as Best Lead Actress in a Play), Olivia in Twelfth Night, Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, The Wigmaker in Rashomon, and Eleanor in Big Love.  She has also been seen as Catherine in Proof. For Tiger Productions: Abigail Williams in The Crucible; f or Clear Stage Cincinnati: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Alais in The Lion in Winter,and Agnes in The Lark. Film and TV: Angie in In Dependece with Freshly Squeezed Films, Sandy Poots in “Pilot,” with Cohesive Partners and the Woman in Block for Ragged Productions.  Kendall has also appeared in the 2008 Fringe Festival in Body Language.  Kendall is looking forward to playing Rachel Corrie in My Name is Rachel Corrie, the 2009 V-Day production of The Vagina Monologues, and a project for the 2009 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.  Check out her website at www.kendallkarg.com.

Britany Middleton Atlanta, Georgia
Britany will soon be graduating with a BFA in dramatic performance from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Britany has interned with Judy Henderson Casting, the Krasny Office, and the Gersh Agency in New York. Theatre at CCM: On The Verge, Dying City, Transmigration, The Good Person of Setzuan, Rashomon, Anon(ymous), Lysistrata, Big Love, The Vagina Monologues. Britany appeared in the 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival in (UN)Natural Disaster.

Benjamin Newell St. Louis, Missouri
Ben Newell, St. Louis, Mo. Credits at CCM: Spring Awakening (Moritz Stiefel), Anon(ymous) (Anon), The Good Person of Setzuan (Carpet Salesman), The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse) and Big Love (Giuliano). Professional Credits: theboysroom, What’s The Point?! (Know Theatre Cincinnati), (Un)Natural Disaster (Cincy Fringe Festival) and The Wizard of Oz (La Comedia).  Ben looks forward to graduating from CCM Drama this Spring.

Jonathan Silver New Milford, New Jersey
Last summer, Jonathan journeyed to the Cincinnati and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals with Anna the Slut and the (Almost) Chosen One.  The summer before, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) 8 week summer intensive program in London.  Theater at CCM: Spring Awakening (Mr Gabor and The Masked Man), Rashomon (The Woodcutter); Twelfth Night (Antonio); Charley’s Aunt (Charley Wykeham); Lysistrata (Magistrate); Comedy on the Bridge (German Captain).  Other Theatre: (Un)Natural Disaster in the 2006 Cincinnati Fringe Festival; The Lion in Winter with Clear Stage Cincinnati.

Alison Vodnoy Porter, Indiana
Playwright and performer, Alison Vodnoy toured her original one-woman show, In Rehearsal, to the Cincinnati, Minnesota, and Indianapolis Fringe Festivals this past summer. She is excited to remount the piece this summer in the Cincinnati area as part of the Covington Arts District, and later, at the Towle Theater in Hammond, Indiana in August. For its premiere in Cincinnati, In Rehearsal was recognized with two Cincinnati ACCLAIM Awards, one for solo performance and one for solo script. In 2009, Alison appeared as Jewel in New Stage Collective’s Dead City.  This summer she’s looking forward to co-writing and performing in PAINTED, an original piece to be premiered at the Cincinnati Fringe, and portraying Carol in the Queen City Players’ production of Oleanna.  Alison’s most recent adventure was to Cachagua, Chile, where studied Alba Emoting with Susana Bloch, the creator of this technique.  Alison has appeared as the title role in Sylvia at the Northern Fort Playhouse, and in the Hollywood short film, Ready? OK! At the Cincinnati Fringe Festival she has popped up in (UN)Natural Disaster and iLove, both of which were Producer's Picks of the Fringe. Alison holds a BFA in Dramatic Performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Visit her website at: www.alisonvodnoy.com