Sandy Faison, Neighborhood Playhouse

Sandy Faison is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse, where she studied with Sanford Meisner  She holds a BA from Hamilton College and a Master’s degree from NYU’s Steinhardt School Of Education.  On Broadway, she created the role of Grace Farrell in ANNIE and was in the original companies of Is There Life After High School? by Craig […]

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Michael Hanley, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Hanley is a sought-after pedagogue, combining his experience as a classical singer and teacher into well-rounded classical and musical theater teaching styles. His students have achieved success in a variety of genres including musical theater, opera, and commercial music. From 2013 to 2015, Hanley served on the faculty of Syracuse University’s Department of Drama and […]

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Quin Gordon, UNCSA School of Drama

Quin is a professional theatre director recently transplanted from the NYC. His NYC directing credits include: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Sonnet Repertory Theatre), The Dinner Party (Lincoln Center Institute), Babette’s Feast (World Premiere-Threads Theatre Co.), Hot Cripple (Seeing Place Theater), Things We Want (TheatreLab), Red Light Winter(DPVCT), Modern Love (Theatre Row), The Power of the Crystals (NYC Fringe Fest). Regionally he has directed Shostakovich’s Hamlet (Aspen Music Festival, John Mauceri-conductor). Quin is a graduate […]

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McCaela Donovan, Boston University

McCaela Donovan is an Elliot Norton and IRNE award winning actress, theatre educator, and audition coach and is thrilled to be here with the ArtsBridge team. She has served as Associate Artistic Director and founding member of Bridge Repertory Theatre of Boston. She has performed Off Broadway and in various regional theatres, including Primary Stages, […]

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Lynn Helding, USC Thornton School of Music

Lynn Helding is Professor of Practice in Vocal Pedagogy at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Singing and author of the journal’s “Mindful Voice” column, which illuminates current research in the cognitive, neuro- and social sciences as they relate to music teaching, learning and performance. […]

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Salvatore Champagne, Oberlin Conservatory

Salvatore Champagne has appeared in opera houses and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe. His career began in 1988 when he was chosen to be the tenor soloist in a European tour of Leonard Bernstein’s Songfest conducted by the composer.  Immediately thereafter he joined the ensemble of the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Germany, […]

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Ralph Zito, Syracuse University

Ralph Zito has been the drama chair at Syracuse since 2010. Before Syracuse, he was the chairman of the voice and speech department of the Juilliard School’s drama division. As a voice, text and dialect coach, he worked on and off-Broadway and for several national tours, as well as many regional theaters. Ralph will be […]

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Patty Thom, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Patty Thom is currently the Chair of Voice and Opera at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, a position she has held since 2003. Previous to that she was the Director of Music at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA, a boarding high school for young performing and visual artists. She was also […]

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Amy Rogers, Pace University

Amy Rogers (Director of the BFA Musical Theater Program at Pace University) created and developed the BFA Musical Theatre degree program. The Musical Theater program at Pace University began in 2002 and started with six majors; over the span of seven years, Rogers along with her professional faculty, has created a world-class BFA Musical Theater […]

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Rhonda Rider, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Rhonda Rider, Chair of Strings at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, served as the cellist of the Naumburg Award winning Lydian Quartet and Triple Helix Piano Trio for over twenty years. Rider has adjudicated and served on the panels of Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff and Stulberg Competitions, American String Teachers’ Association and the National Endowment for […]

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