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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Michelle Chassé, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Michelle Chassé began teaching ballet, jazz, and musical theater dance at the Conservatory in 1994 and is a professor of theater. She became resident choreographer and musical theater dance coordinator in 2000 and chair of musical theater dance in 2013. She currently teaches ballet, jazz, and musical theater dance classes, as well as the musical theater […]
Catherine A. Walker, University of Michigan
Catherine A. Walker is an associate professor of music in the Department of Musical Theatre and has worked extensively as a music director, conductor, vocal coach, pianist, educator, and clinician for over 35 years. Walker serves annually as a mentor and judge for the national Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Vocal Academy. Other music direction credits […]
Rick Edinger, Carnegie Mellon University
Rick Edinger (he/they) is a proud queer AAPI music supervisor, conductor, educator, vocal coach, pianist, and actor. They serve as the Area Chair for the Acting/ Music Theater program & Associate Professor of Music Theater at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. For the School of Drama, they have served as Music Director or Music […]
Heather Benton, Montclair State University
Heather Benton is an actor/ director that specializes in integrated approaches to actor training and physical theatre. She has created and/or performed original and devised work in New York City: Performateria: Immersive Theatre Festival(Blessed Unrest), undergroundzero festival (Chasing Immortality: A Performance Lecture, Automotive, Half Awake and Falling Through the Sky), East River Commedia (Serenade and Philosopher Fox, The Magnificent […]
John Simpkins, Penn State University
John Simpkins has recently directed the World premieres of Legendale (Denmark’s Fredericia Teater) and Raging Skillet (Theaterworks Hartford – starring Dana Smith-Croll, Marilyn Sokol, George Salazar). He directed the three-time Drama Desk nominated Off-Broadway production of Bloodsong of Love: The Rock and Roll Spaghetti Western (by Joe Iconis) at Ars Nova. He also directed Iconis’ […]
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