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THE THEATRE & DANCE ALUMNI NETWORK
 

PROFESSIONAL CAREERS

Liz Hines '95 is now Manager of Operations Accounting for CBS Television in New York City. Previously, she served as Controller of Broadway Asia Entertainment and she spent 8 years with RIchard Frankel Productions as company manager, assistant finance director, and finance director of Broadway Television Network. She is also producing stage and independent film projects in New York, including The Grecian Formula for the 2008 NYC Fringe Festival. Anna Liza Recto '90 is a manager for Vincent Cirrincione Associates, Ltd. in Los Angeles and a regional alumni contact for Souther L.A. She spent 8 years working as an agent and casting director in NYC before moving to the West Coast to continue her career in the entertainment industry. Susan Ilene (Shulman) Johnson '81:Director of Communications, PENN Medicine Development and Alumni Relations. Professional actor whose credits include: TV: Seinfeld, Mad About You, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Nash Bridges, Family Matters, Payne, Film: Nine Months. Liz Jurist '02 earned an MA in Performing Arts Administration from New York University and is currently the senior sales analyst for Disney Theatrical Productions, where she forecasts sales and revenue for Broadway productions as well as national and international companies. Dena (Diperstein) Bodo '02 is the Manager of Entertainment at Sesame Place and is consulting with the other Anheuser-Busch parks as they add the Sesame Street characters to their parks. Becca Schneider ’06 is an Operations Manager for Marquee Merchandise in New York, NY. Benji Shaw '07 is an assistant to the President of Disney Theatricals. Amanda Johnson ’07 is the Finance Manager for Broadway Asia. Bonnie MacDonald ’07 is the Special Events Manager at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. Crystal Smart '05 Sales Director/Business Relations Manager for Northern Stage, a professional theatre in White River Junction, VT. Jenn Haltman '04 is the casting assistant at the New York Theatre Workshop. Debbie Lutz ‘05 is Marketing Coordinator for Big Honcho Media, an entertainment promotions company in New York City.

Katie Most '07 is the Calderwood Pavilion House Manager at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, MA and a freelance Equity stage manager. Patricia Sorbie’07 completed a one year program in scenic painting at Yale School of Drama. Kate Foretek'06 continues her job as Assistant Audio Coordinator at Lehigh University for the Zoellner Arts Center and has recently designed fo the Virginia Stage Company. Lauren Scattolini '05 is currently the Assistant Master Electrician at Actor’s Theater of Louisville. Annie Simon’05 is attending NYU's graduate program in Costume Design. Noelle Tate'05 is an Education Outreach Coordinator at the Visual Arts Center in Summit, N.J. Jen Corman-Greene'03 is doing freelance lighting work in Salem, Oregon. Rachel (Shapiro) Alderman '01, is the Audience Development Associate and Volunteer Coordinator for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, CT.

Emily Abruzzi '02 is a Yoga teacher and bodyworker and continuing her somatic studies with The School for Body-Mind Centering®.  She has been a company member of Mock Turtle Marionette Theater since 2003, touring the Mid-Atlantic region. Melissa Emick Hottenstein '03 opened the Endless Mountains Dance Center in Towanda, PA in 2003 and now accommodates over 200 students.Melissa Cooper '05 is the Tour Coordinator for Koresh Dance Company. Emily Scanlon '05 works with physiological and behaviorally disordered children as therepeutic support staff at a regional behavioral health center.Jon Reimer'06 is teaching English, working as a translator, and directing plays in Tokyo, Japan. Leah Elizabeth Goldstein '05 is earning a Masters of Social Work (MSW) from Fordham and continuing her acting career. She was the female lead in "Natural Causes" which is currently doing the film festival circuit. Kristy Greener'05 is the full-time drama teacher/productions director at The Langley Private School in Mclean, VA. She teaches Middle School drama and public speaking and directs productions for Langley.

Zachary Mannheimer '99, Artistic Director, Subjective Theatre Company, NYC, producing the critically acclaimed version of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger; a daring rendition of Eugene Ionesco's Victims of Duty; and the controversial Mac Wellman play, 7 Blowjobs. John Carhart III '90 is co-owner of Reel Life Film LLC, a creative solution for a full service production and post-production company (www.rlf-nyc.com). John served as assistant editor for Rick McKay’s award-winning feature documentary, Broadway: The Golden Age  and has edited the films Kottentail and Easter.  John received his editing training at The Edit Center in NYC in 2001.Scott Olson '84, Professor in the theatre department at Columbia College in Chicago; coordinator of all the Acting I classes and the core acting teacher for the Act One graduate Conservatory program.  Company member of Caffeine Theatre in Chicago where he appeared in The Cocktail Party and Translations last season along with directing their production of The Antigone Project.

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