Whereby
TheatreDepartment
Senior
an d Juniors*
meet
with esteemed
Theatre Arts Alums with important information about Life After Drew.
Friday,
28
in the Actors’ Labin the
new
Dorothy
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Starring: Michael
Barrett-Jones, Andrea
Cibelli,
James
Lemon, Suzanne
Longley,
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Brought to you by the fabulous theatre
faculty.
Refreshments will, of course,
be served. Be there or be terribly square.
*by special
arrangement,
this year Snazzy Sophomores are
welcome to attend!
To
Cheekie News
For photos of Big Shmooze, 2002
| THEN |
NOW |
| Michael Barrett-Jones ACTING: The Respectful Prostitute;Pippin; Into the Woods; Cecile; Pericles; Home Free Freshwater DIRECTED: Sister Mary Ignatius; Shadowplay; The Shadow Box; Weird Romance (musical) STAGE MANAGEMENT: Samuel's Therapy WRITING: Shadowplay DESIGNED: Savage/Love, Sets -- Cheekie Award; Sister Mary, Sets; Shadowplay, Sets;Fire in the Basement, Sets; Snowman Breaking the Ice, Costumes; Sister Mary, Sound; Shadow Box, Sound Tech Staff for three years; DUDS Board Secretary Sophomore Year; DUDS Board Director of Activities Junior and Senior Years; Produced DUDS Cabaret Senior Year Worked with James Lemon's Theatre Company one summer Interned with NJSF Junior Year, 2 semester Independent Study with them Senior Year, hired upon graduation as Ass't to Bonnie and Joe |
Since Graduation, 1995-1996, NJSF Administrative Assistant/Casting Associate; 1996-2000, Union County Arts Center, first as Box Office Manager then as Director of Marketing and Public Relations. While there served on the Rahway Center Partnership and chaired the town's Marketing Committee 2000-2002, Louise Wise Services, Ass't Director of Development and PR; 2002-present, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Ass't Director of Development and PR, Company Publicist Other Activities: "Witti Repartee", drag alter ego. Has performed in dozens of venues throughout the NY Metro area including clubs, bars, theatres and as a soloist at Carnegie Hall. Hosted a weekly gay version of "The Weakest Link from May - December 2002. Witti hosted DUDS BALL 2000. New York City Gay Men's Chorus. Member of the First Tenor section since 1998, and have appeared at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and on the Today Show. Have appeared with Harvey Fierstein, Kristin Chenoweth, Al Gore (!!!), Sam Harris and others. Am in my third year as a member of their board of directors. Witti is currently the reigning Queen of the organization. Rahway Shakespeare Company. From 1997-2000 was the director of the Rahway Shakespeare Company, teaching classes, producing scene nights and fully realised, if shortened, versions of Twelfth Night, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Space Odyssey. Tooth and Nil Theatre Company. Directed their summer 2002 production of David's Redhaired Death at St. Mark's Theatre in NYC. |
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Andrea Cibelli (CLA 1991)
During her senior year, she served as Chair of DUDS. She was also a member of Tech Staff her junior and senior year. Andrea directed and set designed Mr. Marshall's Myth her senior year. Throughout her years at Drew she was also a stage manager, set designer, costume designer, props designer, carpenter and choreographer. |
When not at
Drew, she was the House Seat Coordinator Intern for Lincoln Center Festival
99 and the Operations Intern for Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
in 2000. After college, she worked with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, LaGuardia High School for Music, Art and the Performing Arts and once again with Lincoln Center Festival. Currently she is the Assistant Production Manager for the Little Orchestra Societyand the Resident Stage Manager for Palistage. She just started a production company, Boot & Rally Productions, with fellow Drew grad Christian Pedone. |
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| Laura Dougherty
(CLA 97) Primarily an actor, she contributed a great deal of effort into
her interests in Latin American Studies, which culminated in her honors
thesis, for which she directed Maria Irene Fornes' The Conduct
of Life, employing directorial techniques of Augusto Boal.
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Life post-Drew has found Laura pursuing
additional theatre training and education. Inspired by an advanced-acting
class focused on voice and speech, she has twice attended intensive voice
and speech training programs with Arthur Lessac. She is
currently earning her certification in Lessac instruction. She is currently
completing her MFA degree in theatre from Arizona State University.
She was drawn to Arizona due to the program's strength in theatre education,
as the emphasis of her degree is in Theatre for Youth. While
in Arizona, she has continued acting, and her studies of Latin American theatre.
Last fall she directed Griselda Gambaro's Antigona Furiosa.
She is thrilled to have returned to Drew, teaching here as an internship towards her MFA. She plans to continue teaching at the university level, as well as working with young actors. |
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| Kate Hess graduated magna cum laude from Drew University with a BA in theatre, and minors in music and women's studies |
Most
recently appeared Off-Broadway in Muttat MCC and in NINE
(not the musical) at 45 Bleecker. Other New York credits include;
The Handbagat Manhattan Theater Source, Love's Labour's
Lost and Measure for Measure with Women's Shakespeare Company,
S iddhartha, Fragments of Sleep, and The Moment Before at HERE
Arts Center. In 2001, she founded Thermodynamic Theater Company where she served as managing director and publicist. With TTC, she produced and appeared in 12th Night, Apocalypso! and Spooky Dog and the Teenage Gang Mysteries; a critics pick of Backstage, NYtheater.com, ShowbusinessWeekly, and the New York Fringe Festival. She has also assisted on projects for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, National Dance Institute, and worked with the producers of Blue Man Group, The Donkey Show, and Broadway on Broadway. . She has also studied at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in Londonand at The Juilliard School. She is currently working on a production of Aristophanes' Lysistrataas part of an international non-violent theatrical protest to the war in Iraq; for more information or to get involved visit www.lysistrataproject.com. |
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Brianne Kellogg
(CLA 02)
Majored in Theatre Arts & Religion. Produced Plays-in-Process for two years, worked with Rosemary McLaughlinand Hannah Fujiki DeVorkin on the Hallie Flanagan Play Series; directed "Famous Dead People" and "The Playground Prophecy," acted occasionally, interned with PTNJ as both an administrative assistant and a teacher, and in general tried everything the department offered! |
Second-year graduate student in the M.F.A. Theater program at Sarah Lawrence College,where she studies Playwriting and Theater Education. Most recently at SLC, she has directed "Waltzing DeNiro" by Lynn Martin, wrote "The Delivery Boy" for a showcase of short plays by graduate students, and is currently revising her full-length play "a dream of a winged boy" for an upcoming production. She is active with the youth in her community, teaching theater to middle-school students and disabled teens in the Bronx, as well as working with a drama therapist to counsel emotionally disturbed youth. |
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| James W.
Lemon (CLA 1994) is a native of Newark who graduated with degrees in both psychology and Theatre Arts. Credits while at Drew: Directing - 1992 – 94: Savage Love - by Joe Chaikin & Sam Shepard Once on This Island Acting - 1990 – 94: Mountain Language Pippin Elektra Pericles I Dentity Crisis Godspell |
He has served
as assistant to the educational director at the New Jersey Playwrights
Theatre and taught Theatre Arts at the Newark Chad Science Academy.
In his career as a theatre practitioner, Mr. Lemon founded Destiny Productions
Inc., a non- profit educational company for inner-city youth and has
directed such projects as "Godspell," "The Wiz," "Once On this Island," "The
Colored Museum," "Othello," "Savage/Love" and several one acts and original
works. As an actor, he has been seen on the stage in such roles as
Gower of Shakespeare's "Pericles," The Leading Player in "Pippin," Ritchie
in a "Chorus Line," and as Othello. Since he joined African Globe TheatreWorks in 1995 as Producing Artistic Director, Mr. Lemon has been responsible for building an ensemble of actors to produce plays at Newark Symphony Hall. James W. Lemon has directed and produced numerous plays including "The Daughters of Lee Roi-Jones," "Africanus the King," "Ruthy," "When A Diva Dreams," "Negro Building," and "A Silver Throne", "All That Jive," "A Raisin In the Sun," " For colored Girls," “Amen Corner” and most recently wrote and produced "Three Faces". Currently African Globe TheatreWorks is producing its 8th season of plays and has earned the distinction of being New Jersey’s premier African American theatre company. |
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| Suzanne Longley
(CLA 1998) graduated with a double major in Theatre Arts and Behavioral Science. She found herself thoroughly ensconsed in the Theatre program during her four years, designing, stage managing and generally making things happen. She gained much experience from various internships at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (formerly New Jersey Shakespeare Festival). |
After graduation she joined the
Peace Corps and spent two and a half years in Burkina Faso West
Africa, where her stage management skills came in remarkably handy.
Upon her return to the U.S., she decided she might be good at fund-raising and came back to the supportive environment of The Shakespeare Theatre to test the waters and learn how to raise money to support the essential, creative work that artists do to maintain a modicum of humanity in today's society. |
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| Maryanne Melloan
(CLA 1983) After graduating with a theatre major from Drew, Maryanne did the boheme thing in New York for a few years: writing plays for a theatre company, playing in a rock band, working subsistence jobs -- that kind of thing. She'd always wanted to write for the screen and got a few jobs writing for Nickelodeon and MTV in New York. |
In 1990, she made the leap to L.A.
(but the cautious way: by going to graduate school.) After receiving an
M.F.A.in screenwriting from The American Film Institute, Maryanne
started writing for television. Her first show was a drama that no one watched,
but thenshe moved into sitcoms, writing and producing shows such as "Partners,"
"The Tom Show," and "Suddenly Susan." In 1998 she was commissioned
by Showtime to adapt the book "Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star"into
a movie. She's been writing for "The Chris Isaak Show," also on Showtime,
for the past three years, and is currently the Co-Executive Producer. Maryanne has also kept her hand in playwriting over the years. Her plays have been staged at theatres such as Playwrights' Theatre of New Jersey, Playwrights' Horizons and Primary Stages in New York, and for the HBO New Writers Project and the Mark Taper Forum (Mentor Playwrights' Program) in L.A. She's also taught screenwriting at the American Film Institute, UCLA Extension and, currently, at Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York. |
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