ARTISTIC STAFF

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Carrie DeGraw (Casting Associate) is a senior theater management major from Union Springs, NY. During her time at Syracuse, she has been the Department of Drama’s casting associate, as well as a production assistant for the Department and Syracuse Stage. Previously, Carrie was a management intern at Jermyn Street Theatre in London, England, and the development apprentice at Theatre Aspen in Aspen, Colorado, where she currently is working as the management & board coordinator and apprentice program coordinator.

Amani Dorn (Voice and Dialect Coach ) is an actor/singer/dancer/ teacher from Austin, TX, currently residing in Atlanta, GA. She received an M.F.A. in acting from the University of California, Irvine, and has 18 years of professional experience in performance, teaching, and coaching. She got her start performing in musicals in Austin while an undergrad at the University of Texas and has since performed and coached with and for actors all over the world. While pursuing her M.F.A., she was introduced to Knight-Thompson Speechwork and Fitzmaurice Voicework and has since pursued both certifications and continues her career as a dialect coach. Amanidorndialects.com

Blake Segal (Voice and Dialect Coach) is an actor and dialect coach, and he is delighted to return to Syracuse University’s Department of Drama. Dialect coaching credits include NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, The Araca Project, Fault Line Theatre; Regional: Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Berkshire Theatre Group, Two River Theater, PlayMakers Rep, Cleveland Musical Theatre, Luna Stage, Passages Theatre, and Walkerspace at SoHo Rep; Educational: Yale School of Drama, Fordham, Columbia, Syracuse, Kean, and Stella Adler. Blake currently serves on the voice/verse faculty of Syracuse University’s Department of Drama. As an actor, he has performed on film and television, off-Broadway, in major regional theaters across the country, and on the national tour of Mary Poppins. M.F.A. in acting: Yale School of Drama. www.blakesegal.com

Stephen Cross (Movement Coach) is an associate professor of movement at Syracuse University. He is the artistic director of Building Company Theater, based in Syracuse, and the founding artistic director of the Irondale Ensemble Project Canada based in Nova Scotia. Recent productions with Building Company Theater include Fragile White Guy and Immigration Dialogue, and in October, 2020, he guided the development and presentation of a new work titled Hypothetical News Magazine. Additionally, with Building Company he has partnered with several

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community organizations to develop arts based programs for their constituents. Most recently he built an arts centered curriculum for Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in partnership with the iApologize Foundation.

Tess Vocalina (she/her) (Stage Manager) is junior stage management major from Orange, CT. Department of Drama credits include stage manager for Movie Night (studio project), assistant stage manager for In Love and Warcraft (mainstage), and The

Matchmaker (mainstage). She recently served as the assistant stage manager and assistant company manager for Cortland Repertory Theatre for the entirety of their 50th anniversary season as well as the stage management intern for Syracuse Stage’s Somewhere Over the Border. Tess would like to thank this incredible company for their collaboration, communication, and wonderful energy throughout this process. She would also like to thank all the people in her life for their immense love and support.

ASSISTANTS & ASSOCIATES

Luke Blumencranz (Assistant Scenic Designer) is a sophomore theater design and technology major from Jericho, NY.

Dassi Cohen (Assistant Stage Manager ) is a freshman stage management major from Baltimore, MD.

Brooklyn Green (she/her) (Assistant Costume Designer) is a sophomore theater design and technology major with a concentration in costume and lighting design from San Diego, CA.

Jay Korter (he/him) (Assistant Lighting Designer) is a sophomore theater design and technology major from Syracuse, NY.

Mabel McPhee (Assistant Scenic Designer ) is a sophomore theater design and technology major with a concentration in lighting and scenic design from Plantsville, CT.

Maya Zepeda (Assistant Stage Manager) is a sophomore stage management major from Los Angeles, CA.

Director

Gilbert McCauley is presently a professor in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts. He has served as the produc- ing artistic director of the Oakland Ensemble Theatre, resident director at Rites and Reason Theatre, as an acting company member of the Rep-

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ertory Theatre of St. Louis, and he is a former participant in the New York Drama League’s Directors Project. He has also served on the theater faculties at University of California at Berkeley, California State University at Dominguez Hills, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Rhode Island College, and University of Rhode Island at Kingston. Mr. McCauley has directed Off-Broadway and at regional theaters around the country including Arena Stage, Arkansas Repertory Theater, Goodman Theatre, New Century Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, and the National Theatre of Ghana. His directing credits include salt/city/blues by Kyle Bass,

Athol Fugard’s Master Harold...and the Boys, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We are Proud to Present..., The Call by Tanya Barfield, Cheryl L. West’s Jar the Floor, The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez, Gees Bend by Elyzabeth GregoryWilder, Hell in High Water and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley, Peter Morgan’s Frost/ Nixon , August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson , and Fences , Charles Fuller’s A Soldier ’ s Play, and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie He is pleased to be doing his second production for the Syracuse University Department of Drama with the creative assistance of his beloved wife Shay.

Playwright

Robert O’Hara has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies, and the Herb Alpert Award. Broadway: Slave Play (Tony nomination). Off Broadway: He directed the world premieres of Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, Nikkole Salter and Dania Guiria’s In the Continuum, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’s Wild with Happy, Kirsten Childs’s Bella: An American Tall Tale, Baum and Cheri’s Gun and Powder at Signature

Theater, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun at Williamstown Theater Festival, Aziza Barnes’s BLKS at MCC, Inda Craig-Galvan’s Black Superhero Magic Mama at The Geffen Theater, the Universes‘s Uni/Son, inspired by the poetry of August Wilson at OSF, and Shakespeare’s Macbeth at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, as well as his own plays, Mankind, Bootycandy, and Insurrection: Holding History. His plays Zombie: The American and Barbecue world premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theater and The Public Theater, respectively.

CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA

Ralph Zito (he, him) is in his thirteenth year as chair of the Department of Drama. He came to Syracuse University from the Juilliard School Drama Division, where he had been a teacher and director from 1992 to 2010 and chair of the Voice and Speech Department since 1999. He was a director and adjunct lecturer in the Barnard College Theater Department from 2006 until 2010 and has been a guest artist at training programs across the country, including the Old Globe in San Diego, The University of Texas at Austin, and the Academy for Classical Acting in Washington, DC. Directing credits for the Department of Drama include: The Spitfire Grill, As You Like It, Gruesome Playground Injuries, and The Aliens. He has served as a voice, text or dialect consultant for numerous professional productions both on and off-Broadway, including: The Light in the Piazza; Awake and Sing!; The Herbal Bed; Mrs. Klein; The Fiery Furnace; The Time of the Cuckoo (Lincoln Center Theatre); Tongue of a Bird; The Merchant of Venice (New York

Shakespeare Festival); The Pitchfork Disney (Blue Light Theatre Company); Birdy (The Women’s Project); The Model Apartment (Primary Stages); the New York premiere of Tony Kushner’s SLAVS! (New York Theatre Workshop); and The African Company Presents Richard III (The Acting Company). His regional theater credits include numerous productions at The Shakespeare Theatre and Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Syracuse Stage; Baltimore CENTERSTAGE; Hartford Stage; and the McCarter Theatre, among others. A former touring member of The Acting Company, he served as artistic associate of The Chautauqua Theatre Company for seven years and was a member of the Board of Directors of The American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) for six years. He is a graduate of Harvard University, The Juilliard School, and the American Center for the Alexander Technique. He was recently awarded the prestigious Juilliard President’s Medal in recognition of his contributions to both Juilliard and to the broader performing arts community.

About The Department Of Drama

Part of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Syracuse University Department of Drama offers degree programs in acting, musical theater, theater design and technology, stage management, and theater management utilizing conservatory-style training in a university setting and in collaboration with Syracuse Stage. With much appreciation, the Department of Drama wishes to acknowledge the valuable contribution of the Syracuse Stage staff.

About The Department Of Drama

While students are responsible for designing the technical elements of most Drama productions, implementing these designs requires a significant contribution by the professional staff of the Syracuse Stage production department.

Syracuse University Department Of Drama

Chair.......................................................................................................................................Ralph Zito

Business Manager.................................................................................................................Lisa Tucci

Administrative Specialist...............................................................................................Leslie Noble

Director, Tepper Semester in NYC...............................................................................Erica Jensen

Academic Operations Manager, Tepper Semester NYC.....................................Casey O’Neil

Associate Music Director.................................................................................................Jacob Carll

Dean, VPA...................................................................................................................Michael S. Tick

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Christine Albright-Tufts

Robert Andrusko

Rufus Bonds, Jr.

Jacob Carll

Kiira Schmidt Carper

Brian Cimmet

James A. Clark

Stephen Cross

Danyon Davis

Izmir Ickbal

Rebecca Karpoff

Andrea Leigh-Smith

Daisy Long

David Lowenstein

Celia Madeoy

Carmen Martinez

Adjunct Faculty

Jill Anderson

Dianna Angell

Alec Barbour

Kathleen Baum

Bradley Beckman

Kerry Bereza

Dave Bowman

Don Buschmann

Diane Coloton

Gretchen Darrow-Crotty

Marina de Ratmiroff

Danita Emma

Kathryn Fathers

Marcus Herndon

Jacqueline R. Herter

Emily Holm

Robert Hupp

Sandra Knapp

Richard Koons

Nicholas Kowerko

Zizi Majid

Michael McCurdy

Aldo Katton Santiago

Mendez

Kathryn Miranda

Amanda Moore

Accompanists

Kerry Bereza, Abel Searor

Katherine McGerr

Thom Miller

Ricky Pak

Felipe Panamá

Holly Thuma

Kathleen Wrinn

Ralph Zito

Leslie Noble

Whitney Pak

Stuart Plymesser

Rebecca Schuetz

Hanni Schwarzlander

Abel Searor

Blake Segal

SEVAN

Randy Steffen

Bradley Stone

Joseph Whelan

Matthew Winning

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