Helen Farmer, Molloy/CAP21 Theatre Arts Program

Helen Farmer (she/her) regional credits include: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Stratford Festival, Crossroads Theater, The Classical Theatre Lab, Shakespeare in the Rough, Theatre and Co, Dorset Theatre, and Co-Lab Arts. New York theatre includes work with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Project Y Theatre, Boundless Theatre Project. Recent projects include: the US premiere of Kotryna […]

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Julie Boyd, The New School, Fordham University, Queens College/CUNY

Julie Boyd is an accomplished Actor, Educator, Director and Coach based in New York City. She has decades of experience at the highest levels of University training programs and is the Director of the Fordham Summer Musical Theatre Workshop. New York acting credits include “The Man Who Came to Dinner” (Roundabout/PBS) directed by Jerry Zaks, and […]

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Kevin Wilson, Oklahoma City University

Kevin Wilson joins the Wanda Bass School of Music in the Fall of 2024. A native of Oklahoma, he comes to Oklahoma City University after spending 16 years as a Professor of Voice and Director of Vocal Pedagogy at the Boston Conservatory. While at the conservatory, he established the Master of Music degree in Vocal […]

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Jason Aquila, Baldwin Wallace University

Pianist and Vocal Coach Jason Aquila is the Music Director for the Voice Performance program at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. He recently prepared the BW production of Dido and Aeneas, which he also led from the harpsichord. Jason has served as coach and assistant music director for many recent productions at Baldwin Wallace, including La […]

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Steve Cardamone, University of Minnesota

Steve lives in Minneapolis with his brilliant wife Georgina Stoyles and amazing daughter Zoey. He has been part of the faculty for the University of Minnesota BFA Actor Training Program since 2005, teaching Play Analysis, Acting Shakespeare, Auditioning, and Period Styles, and has directed several Shakespeare productions at the university and regionally. Acting credits include […]

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Ashton Byrum, University of Oklahoma

Professor and Director of the A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at the University of Oklahoma. Go Sooners! Following a long acting career in New York and around the world, Ashton earned his MFA in Directing with an emphasis in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in 2010. He […]

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Joe Olivieri, UCLA

Joe Olivieri is Head of Acting in the Department of Theater at UCLA. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, he was Head of the MFA and BFA Acting Programs at West Virginia University. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). Joe recently appeared in the world premiere stage adaptation of It’s A Wonderful […]

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Ingrid Sonnichsen, Carnegie Mellon University

Ingrid Sonnichsen has acted professionally for over forty years in regional theaters such as the Huntington, ART, and the Charles (Boston), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), Mark Taper Forum and LAAT (Los Angeles), Long Wharf (New Haven), and Ford’s Theater and the Kennedy Center in D.C.  and the Pittsburgh Public Theater. She’s worked on Broadway (Best Friend), Off-Broadway (Dylan and Measure for Measure), and […]

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Bruce Roach, University of Minnesota

Bruce Roach is an actor, director and educator whose work has taken him across the U.S. and abroad. He is an M.F.A. graduate of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Favorite roles he has performed include Iago, Leontes and Richard III. His diverse directing credits range from Shakespeare and Gilbert and Sullivan to Tracy Letts and Suzan Lori-Parks. […]

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Roger Grodsky, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Roger Grodsky is a tenured professor of musical theater at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and is the musical director and vocal coach for CCM’s musical theatre training program. He has served as musical director and conductor for CCM’s productions of Oklahoma!, Passion, Spring Awakening, Hello Again, Anything Goes, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, Cabaret, On the Town, The Mystery […]

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