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Guest Artists/Lecturers
**Samuel
Buggeln**
New York: the acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere
of Rum & Vodka by Conor McPherson.
Other productions at the Ohio Theatre in SoHo,
where he is an Artistic Associate of that theatre’s
Obie-winning resident company Soho Think
Tank: his adaptation of Marguerite Duras’
Blue Eyes Black Hair (developed at
a New York Theatre Workshop summer residency
at Dartmouth College); David Foley’s The
Last Days of Madalyn Murray O’Hair and Cressida
Among the Greeks, both co-produced by the
Wash & Fold Theatre Project, co-founded
by Buggeln. Over its two-year existence, the
WFTP received grants from the Dramatists’ Guild
and the Peg Sandtvoord Foundation, and a Drama
Desk nomination for Mark Huang’s sound design
on Cressida. Other New York credits include
New Day (Theater for the New City), Sex
is My Religion and Agamemnon vs. Liberace
(both HERE), and The Murders at Argos
(FringeNYC), which also received a Peg Sandtvoord
grant. Regional work: Sleuth (Portland
Stage Co), Rites of Passage, Play by Play
and Dirty Blonde (StageWorks/Hudson, where
he is an Artistic Associate). In Vancouver,
Canada: 2-2-Tango, Come On! and The Two-Headed
Roommate (Liquid Theatre, a company devoted
to site-specific work, co-founded by Buggeln);
the held-over hit The Night Larry Kramer
Kissed Me. Alumnus, Lincoln Center Directors’
Lab.
**David
Bunce**
David Bunce (Fight Choreographer) is an Actor/
Combatant with the Society of American Fight
Directors and resident combat choreographer
at the New York State Theatre Institute. At
the institute, he has choreographed violence
for Man of La Mancha, The Killings Tale,
King Of Shadows, Wait Until Dark, Dial "M"
For Murder, Witness For The Prosecution
and others. David has acted as fall/stunt coordinator
for several productions of Noises Off
including the UAlbany production. Last year
he choreographed the battle at the end of the
Schenectady County Community College production
of Richard III. Film work includes
the violence in Nate Dogg for Damage
Films, Arachnia for Edgewood Studios
and Face Of The Enemy for Mercer Films.
**Ward
Dales**
WARD DALES holds a BFA in Acting from New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Mr. Dales
has performed, designed and directed for the
theatre and cabaret stage in NYC and in Europe,
but has called the Capital Region his creative
home for nearly 15 years. He grew up in this
area, which brings the total to well past 30
years on local stages.
He co-founded Actors’ Collaborative Inc. (ACI),
and served as its Co-Producing Artistic Director
throughout its tenure as Resident Theatre Company
both at the Egg and the Arts Center of the Capital
Region. For ACI, Mr. Dales directed Red
Roses and Petrol, Reckless, Middle-Aged
White Guys, and A Perfect Ganesh, and appeared
on stage for the company in The Baltimore
Waltz, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Private
Eyes, Stoppers and Toppers: A Tribute to Broadway,
and As Bees in Honey Drown. The company
held the reputation of being the area’s premiere
acting and communication training organization
for over a decade.
Local audiences have also seen his work on
stage with Capital Repertory Co., the New York
State Theatre Institute (including their celebrated
Time Warner video production of A Tale of Cinderella),
Albany Civic Theatre, Schenectady Civic Players,
Schenectady Light Opera Company, and Three Dollar
Bill Productions. For Heritage Artists at the
Cohoes Music Hall, he instituted the Friday
Night Cabaret Series and performed in all of
their Gala Award benefits. He recently played
Marvin in Falsettos at the WAMC Performing
Arts Center and premiered his one-man nightclub
act for the Albany Medical Center, Ward Dales:
Taking the Wheel, which played the
State Room in Albany. A professional singer,
Mr. Dales can be heard in area clubs, with performances
slated for this fall and spring at Savannah’s
in downtown Albany.
A regular adjudicator for regional theatre
festivals, he will be judging for the 2006 ESTA
Fest this spring. Mr. Dales developed the drama
portion of the performing arts program at Philip
Livingston Magnet Academy in Albany, where he
served as an instructor and Director of the
Magnet School Programs for 11 years. As Volunteer
Adjunct Professor through the SUNY Albany and
Hudson Valley Community College University in
the High School programs, he is responsible
for developing and teaching the Career Exploration
in Communications and Performing Arts Program
at Albany High School, and directs the after-school
drama program there as well. He is a member
in good standing of the Screen Actors Guild
and Actors’ Equity Association.
**Matthew
Maraffi**
Recent designs: Cats, The Complete History
of America (abridged). Regionally Topdog/Underdog,
Chalk Circles, Spinning into Butter, and Bach
@Leipzig, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, and Romeo and Juliet (Hangar
Theatre). The Underpants, Sly Fox, Veronica’s
Room (Florida Repertory Theatre), Old
Man River (New Victory Theatre, Theatre
West LA), The Devil‘s Music (Florida
Stage), Wit (Syracuse Stage), The
Fabulous Fifties(Tampa Bay PAC,) Cobb
(Melting Pot Theatre, Lucille Lortel Theatre,
Penguin Rep). He is a member of the Adobe Theatre
Company. He is the Scenic Designer on the U.S.
Tour and Italian productions of RENT.
**Gretchen
Michelfeld**
Acting credits include; New Georges, The Women's
Project, The Actors Company Theatre, American
Living Room, The McCarter Theatre in Princeton,
NY Stage and Film, and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
in London. This summer, she starred in Beatrice
Terry's adaptation of The Arabian Nights
(directed by Ms. Terry) at the Actors'
Shakespeare Company in Riverhead, NY. Gretchen
is also a writer, Shakespeare teacher and co-creator
of the award winning, international hit, Lesbian
Pulp-O-Rama! In 2002 she was a guest artist
at Texas A&M University and in 2001 she
taught at the American Academy of Dramatic Art
in NYC. She holds a BA in English and Drama
from Vassar College, and an MFA in Theatre from
Sarah Lawrence College.
**Normi
Noel**
Normi Noel is a voice teacher and a long-time
member of Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts.
She trained with Kristin Linklater, taught voice
at Boston University for six years, and also
worked at New York University Experimental Theatre,
among others. She has coached two Broadway shows
(Frankie and Johnnie and Match) and
acted as a consultant on a three-year project
with Carol Gilligan at Harvard University, studying
girls’ voices and healthy resistance. Currently,
she is teaching voice at Smith College and working
with women veterans.
**Michael
Rosenthal**
Michael has guest-lectured in the subjects
of playwriting and dramatic arts at DeVry Technical
Institute in North Brunswick, New Jersey and
St. Elizabeth's College in Morristown, New Jersey.
Michael holds an MFA in Dramatic Arts with
a concentration in Playwriting, from the Actors
Studio Drama School/New School University in
New York City. Michael is also a proud graduate
of the University at Albany (BA in English Honors
with a minor in Theatre).
As a playwright Michael's work has been seen
several times Off-Off Broadway in New York City.
Michael's latest full-length play Even the
Flowers Were Wasted, was produced by the
DAP Ensemble this September at the Access Theater.
Michael's full-length play Feste San Gatti,
was produced by the DAP Ensemble in December
2002 at the Sanford Meisner Theater. Michael's
one-act play Oleon & On was produced
by DAP Ensemble in August 2001 at the Gershwin
Hotel. Michael's one-act plays Amore e Veleno
and Forgivable Sins were produced
as part of the Actors Studio Drama School's
Repertory Season in 2002 at the Circle in the
Square Theater (Downtown).
Michael directed E. Katharine Kerr's Juno's
Swans for Bristol Road Productions
at the Independent Theatre in November 2000.
Michael also directed Jorshinelle Sonza's How
to Cook Adobo produced by the University
of the Philippines' Alumni Association at the
Filipino National Consulate in Sept. 2001.
Michael is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Michael is also a member and resident playwright
of the DAP Ensemble Ltd. Theatre Company of
New York City. e-mail: mch7rs@aol.com
**Nancy
Saklad**
Nancy has been working in professional theater
for 25 years. When not teaching, she directs
and coaches voice and acting. Directing credits
include: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at
Boston’s Publik Theatre, HOW I LEARNED TO
DRIVE and MOLLY SWEENEY at Durham
Center Stage in NH, OTHER PEOPLES’ MONEY
and LOST IN YONKERS at Seacoast Repertory
Theater, LYSISTRATA and ANTIGONE
at the University of NH and the Moss Hart award-winning
production of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
at Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth,
NH. She has taught acting, voice and directing
at the University of Miami, FL, the University
of NH, Regis College in MA, Queens College in
NY, and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy
in New York City. Nancy is a certified Fitzmaurice
Voicework practitioner with additional specialized
training in Lessac Voicework and Michael Chekov
technique. She is also a recipient of the Kennedy
Center Medallion for service to the New England
Region and recently began an affiliation with
the Pearl Theatre in New York City as a Fitzmaurice
Voicework coach. Nancy is delighted to have
joined the performance faculty at SUNY-New Paltz
this Fall.
**Arthur
Sainer**
Current published books: "The New Radical
Theatre Notebook," Applause
Books. "Zero Dances," a biography
of Zero Mostel, Limelight Editions.
Critiques: Forthcoming -- On Cynthia Ozick's
novel, "Heir to the
Glimmering World," published by Houghton
Mifflin. Review to appear in
American Book Review. Recently -- On Chaim Potok"s
"Old Men at
Midnight," published by Alfred A. Knopf,
appeared in Midstream,
Sept.-Oct. 2004. Playwriting awards include
grants from the National
Foundation for Jewish Culture, Ford Foundation,
Rockefeller Foundation,
Office for Advanced Drama Research at the U.
of Minnesota and the John
Golden Foundation. Have taught at Bennington,
Wesleyan, Hunter,
MIddlebury, Sarah Lawrence, Adelphi, C.W. Post,
Hampshire and the New
School. Have been a panelist at NYSCA, Vermont
Arts Council and the NEA.
Plays performed in New York at LaMama, Theater
for the New City,
Playwrights Horizon, Open Space, Theatre Genesis
and the Cubiculo. In
Minneapolis at the Firehouse Theatre. In Los
Angeles at the Odyssey
Theatre. In Columbus, Ohio at Ohio State. In
Boston at the OM-Theatre
Workshop. In Parma, Italy at the Teatro Reggio
(opera house). Have
participated in workshops with Jerzy Grotowski's
Laboratory Theatre in
Wroclaw, Poland. Early member of the Open Theatre.
Wrote drama and
occasional film criltiques and political articles
for The Village Voice
for two decades, literary editor of Voice Books
in the early Sixties. e-mail: asainer@earthlink.net
**Sarah
Schatz**
Sara Schatz is the Director of the casting
dept. at Richard Frankel Productions where she
currently does additional casting for The Producers
(Broadway, Vegas), The Fantasticks (off-Broadway),
Porgy & Bess (West End, Broadway), Company
(Broadway) as well as development for Broadway,
National and International tours. During her
fours years at Dave Clemmons Casting she served
as an associate casting director on multiple
Broadway shows including Ring of Fire, In
My Life, The Boy From Oz, Brooklyn, and Dracula.
Sara cast the European/Asian tours of West
Side Story (directed and choreographed
by Joey McKneely) and The King & I
(directed by Bobby Garcia), as well as numerous
national tours including Jesus Christ Superstar
(starring Ted Neely), Evita (directed
by Hal Prince), Fosse, Crazy for You, and
Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway: Bare,
Bingo, Captain Louie, the NYC premier of
Charles Mee’s Big Love (Theatre for
a New Audience). Numerous NY readings and workshops
including Tom Kitt’s Feeling Electric (2005
NYMF Festival), Mask (directed by Richard
Maltby Jr.), The Me Nobody Knows (directed
by Scott Schwartz). Regional: Marriott Lincolnshire,
Goodspeed Opera House, Pittsburg CLO. She has
co-taught master classes at several of the countries
finest musical theatre training programs including
NYU, Carnegie Mellon, CCM, Boston Conservatory,
Elon, Baldwin Wallace, Sam Houston State, Oklahoma
City, Point Park, and North Carolina School
of the Arts. As a performer, Sara starred Off-Broadway
in The Donkey Show, and played Maureen
on the national tour of RENT. She holds
a BA in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University.
**Eileen
Schuyler**
Eileen Schuyler has performed in classic and
contemporary plays for professional theaters
including New York, regional, stock and touring
companies, including Studio Arena Theater, Fulton
Opera House, Capital Rep, Soho Repertory Theater,
New York State Theater Institute, Williamstown
Theater Festival, Queens Theater in the Park,
The Producer's Club, The Kennedy Center, Danny
Kaye Playhouse, Cohoes Music Hall, and StageWorks.
A professional voiceover artist, she won an
AUDIE award for her work on the Warner Video
of A Tale of Cinderella, and has recorded scores
of voiceovers for radio and TV commercials,
radio dramas and PBS documentaries. She has
appeared in both studio films, including Scent
of a Woman, Seabiscuit, and The Human Stain,
and independent shorts and features. Eileen
is a member of Actor's Equity, Screen Actors
Guild and AFTRA. She has taught acting to students
of all ages across New York State as a teacher/artist
with New York State Theater Institute, and collaborated
with students on numerous original and scripted
productions. Eileen studied at H B Studios and
the School for Film and Television in NYC, Shakespeare
and Company in Lenox, MA and holds an MA from
SUNY Empire State College. e-mail: erschuyler@aol.com
**Ingrid
Sonnichsen**
**Beatrice
Terry**
Beatrice is a director and playwright based
in Manhattan. This summer she adapted and directed
The Arabian Nights for The Actors Shakespeare
Company in Long Island. Prior to that she directed
Marivaux' Double Infidelity at The
Pearl Theatre Off-Broadway. At the end of 2003,
she was privileged to assist director David
Jones on the acclaimed Broadway production of
The Caretaker, with Patrick Stewart
and Kyle MacLachlan. Other directing projects
have included Art and Betrayal at Vermont
Stage Company, My Father's Funeral and Accident
at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, and
A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot at HERE
Arts Center in New York. In December she will
travel to Sweden for a three-city tour of Lesbian
Pulp-O-Rama!, a loving satire of the lesbian
pulp fiction novels of the '50's and '60's,
which she co-writes, co-directs and performs
in. As a writer she has had productions and
workshops at HERE, the Vital and New Georges
in Manhattan. Beatrice is an affiliated member
of New Georges in Manhattan, an alum of The
Women's Project and Productions Directors Forum,
and a 2002 recipient of The Drama League/Roundabout
Directors Fellowship. Beatrice would like to
thank everyone at U Albany for their hospitality
and kindness. She sends a special shout out
to the crew, designers and most especially the
cast of Tartuffe, who have given their all with
such grace, dedication and joy.
**Elizabeth
Wong**
Elizabeth Wong has just been named 2007 recipient
of the Tanne Foundation Award honoring poets,
performance artists, and playwrights who significantly
contribute to the American cultural landscape.
Honolulu Theatre for Youth commissioned and
produced the world premiere this Spring of Wong’s
new musical for young audiences, “The Magical
Bird,” about a bird that turns people into
stone by pooping on them! Wong is a graduate
of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, with an MFA
in dramatic writing. Her award-winning play
China Doll, about the sensual and glamorous
life of America’s first Chinese-American movie
star Anna May Wong, premiered Off-Broadway at
the West End Theatre. Her other plays include:
Letters to a Student Revolutionary, Kimchee
& Chitlins, The Love Life of aEunuch, and
Dating & Mating in Modern Times. Her
work has been produced by Mixed Blood Theatre
in Minneapolis, Denver Center Theatre for the
Performing Arts, Omaha Magic Theatre, Orphan
Girl Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In the Park,
Honolulu Theatre For Youth, Actors Theatre of
Louisville, to name a few. The Kennedy Center
commissioned her to write an opera libretto
from her adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s “The
Happy Prince,” with Grammy Award-winning
composer Michael Silversher. Wong was a Disney
Writing Fellow, and writer on ABC’s ground-breaking
sitcom with Margaret Cho, All-American Girl.
She is also a recipient of a Yaddo fellowship,
a UCROSS Foundation fellowship, and she was
the inaugural 2005 writer-in-residence at the
Ecole Cantonale d’art du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland.
She is a member of PEN, Dramatist Guild, ASSITEJ,
and the Writers Guild of America, West. Her
website is www.elizabethwong.net
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