Phillip Sprayberry Diane Nottle
Conveners
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Thursday, February 14, 2008
8 - 11:30 a.m.
REGISTRATION and COFFEE Location: University Commons, Wayne Hall Lobby
9 – 9:50 a.m. WELCOME and KEYNOTE ADDRESS Presentation: GETTING IT TOGETHER: Me and Follies Speaker: Ted (Theodore S.) Chapin, President and Executive Director of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and author of Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies Conveners: Phillip Sprayberry, media relations coordinator, William Paterson University Diane Nottle, assistant to the editor, culture news, The New York Times Welcome: Ed Weil, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, William Paterson University Session host: Jeffrey Norman, vice president, public affairs, New Jersey Performing Arts Center Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Auditorium 10 – 10:50 a.m. CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Presentation: Those Beautiful Notes: Analyzing Follies Speaker: Jay A. Kawarsky, Ph.D., professor of music theory and composition and musical theatre chair, Westminster College of the Arts Paper: Sondheim Problems, Estill Solutions …Or how does an artist negotiate the dark and hidden woods of the human voice? Speakers: Gail Springer, B.M.Ed., M.M.Ed., Estill CMT, professor of performing arts and Greer Garson Theatre musical director, College of Santa Fe Kimberly Steinhauer, Ph.D., Estill CCI, president of Vocal Innovations, vocal researcher, performer Session host: Ed Matthews, technical director for University Performing Arts, producing director of the New Jersey Playwrights Competition, William Paterson University Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Amy Job Classroom OR Presentation: Sondheim and the Paper Mill Playhouse: The Follies Phenomenon Speaker: Michael Mooney, manager of outreach and access programs, Paper Mill Playhouse Paper: Ugly Is As Ugly Does—Passion: Pitiable, Pathetic, and Poisonous Speaker: Heidi A. Temple, University of Maryland, College Park – Ph.D. student Session host: Shari Selke, production stage manager, William Paterson University Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Paterson Room 2
11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. BRUNCH Presentation: TAKE ME TO THE WORLD: Sondheim and Australia Speaker: Beth Child, Australian professional theatre director and actress Session host: Suzy Highland, Ed.D., dean of students, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Location: University Commons 171 A&B 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. PERFORMANCE (In conjunction with the WPU Midday Artist Series) Performance: COLOR AND LIGHT: Mostly Sondheim Guest Artist: Stephen Bryant, bass-baritone and professor of music, William Paterson University with Warren Helms, pianist Location: Shea Center for Performing Arts 1:30 – 2:20 p.m. MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS PANEL Presentation: YOU COULD DRIVE A PERSON CRAZY: Sondheim and Madness Moderator: Bonnie E. Robson, M.D., D.Psych., DCP, FRCP (C), Canadian psychiatrist Panel: Paula Danzinger, Ph.D., associate professor of counseling, William Paterson University Thomas Heinzen, Ph.D., professor of psychology, William Paterson University Suzy Highland, Ed.D., dean of students, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Session host: Anne Ciliberti, Ph.D., director, William Paterson University Cheng Library Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Auditorium 2:30 – 3:20 p.m. CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Paper: Art Isn’t Easy: Stephen Sondheim and the Musical Theater Art Song Speaker: Patrick M. Horan, Ph.D., educator, Morristown-Beard School Paper: An Analytical Approach to Performing Company: Sondheim’s Musical Roadmap for the Singer-Actor Speaker: Peter Purin, University of Kansas – Ph.D. candidate Session host: Barbara Krajkowski, producing artistic director, Women’s Theater Company, and adjunct faculty, William Paterson University Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Amy Job Classroom OR Presentation: The Follies of Rolling Merrily Along on a Sunday in the Park with No Company: An Overview of the Art of Stephen Sondheim Speaker: Jerry Beal, assistant professor of communication, William Paterson University Paper: The “Intense” Sweeney: A Cognitive Audience Approach to John Doyle’s Interpretation of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd Speaker: Diana Calderazzo, University of Pittsburgh – Ph.D. candidate Session host: Lynn Lazar, manager of research and prospect management, William Paterson University Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Paterson Room 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. RECEPTION, TALK and VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION Sponsor: Paula Danzinger, Ph.D., associate professor of counseling, William Paterson University Presentation: THURSDAY IN THE GALLERY OF ART: Sondheim and Visual Arts Speaker: Mary Coburn, professional actress; former associate chair of fine arts, Parsons School of Design Art Exhibit: New Orleans Center for Creative Arts|Riverfront visual arts students Mary Jane Parker, visual arts educator Session host: Emily Polhamus, visual arts and political science major, William Paterson University Location: University Commons 171 A&B 4:30 p.m. Free evening OR Depart via charter coach to the Princeton Club for dinner followed by the Roundabout Theater’s production of Sunday in the Park with George at Studio 54 Theatre 3
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday, February 15, 2008
8:30 a.m. – noon REGISTRATION and CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Location: University Commons/Wayne Hall Lobby 9 – 9:50 a.m. EDUCATORS PANEL Presentation: CHILDREN WILL LISTEN: Sondheim and Educational Theatre Moderator: Maurice J. Moran Jr., theatre and English educator, Verona High School, and stage director Panel: Michael Mazur, professor of musical theatre, California State University Susan Speidel, former education director, Paper Mill Playhouse Rebecca Strum, Ph.D., performing arts coordinator, Bergen County Academies Dale Alan Zurbrick, theatre educator, retired Session host: Charles Markis, Sagamore Hill Federal Site (President Theodore Roosevelt’s home) chief of visitor services Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Auditorium 10 – 10:50 a.m.
CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Presentation: MASTER CLASS Clinician: Joy Davidson, internationally known mezzo-soprano and arts educator, retired Session host: Nan Guptill Crain, professor of music, William Paterson University Location: Shea 101 OR Paper: Another National Anthem: Stephen Sondheim and the Making of a National Icon Speaker: Korey Rothman, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of theatre, University of Maryland Paper: A Phoenix Rises on the Roof: The Death and Life of a Broadway Musical Speaker: Jerry Beal, assistant professor of communication, William Paterson University Session host: Lynn Lazar, manager of research and prospect management, William Paterson University Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Amy Job Classroom 11 – 11:50 a.m. CRITICS PANEL Presentation: EVERY DAY A LITTLE DEATH: Sondheim and Perspective Moderator: Diane Nottle, assistant to the editor, culture news, The New York Times Panel: Alvin Klein, former critic, The New York Times Eric Grode, chief theatre critic, New York Sun Rick Pender, editor, The Sondheim Review, and theatre critic, Cincinnati CityBeat Session host: Sylvia C. Belinfante-Abdelsalam, arts educator, Butler High School Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Auditorium Noon – 1 p.m. BUFFET LUNCHEON Presentation: NOW; LATER; SOON: Sondheim and History Speaker: Teresa Choate, Ph.D., associate professor and assistant chair of theatre, Kean University Session host: Bernadette Tiernan, executive director, Center for Continuing and Professional Education, William Paterson University Location: University Commons 171 A&B
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1:15 – 2 p.m. CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Paper: Sunday in the Park with Sondheim, Babbitt, and Seurat Speaker: Lara Housez, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music – Ph.D. candidate Paper: With So Little to Be Sure Of: Identity in Anyone Can Whistle Speaker: Robert L. McLaughlin, Ph.D., professor of English, Illinois State University Session host: Ellen Goldstein, performer; founder and president, Wasserman Direct, Inc. Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Amy Job Classroom OR Paper: Loaded Guns, Loaded Questions: Sondheim’s Assassins Reconsidered Speaker: Dan Blim, University of Michigan – Ph.D. pre-candidate Paper: Everybody’s Got the Right: Sondheim, Obsessive Control, and a Redefined American Dream Speaker: David S. Sollish, Bowling Green State University -- Ph.D. candidate Session host: Christina Hoffman, senior communication student, William Paterson University Location: David and Lorraine Cheng Library Paterson Room 2:15 – 3:50 p.m. FILM SCREENING and COMMENTARY Presentation: Hangover Square, a 1945 thriller with a Bernard Hermann score, reportedly made a huge impression on a 15-year-old Sondheim and would play a big role in his conception of Sweeney Todd Speaker: Eric Grode, chief theatre critic, The New York Sun Session host: S.W. Senek, playwright; publication specialist, Dramatist Play Service Location: Hobart Hall Screening Room 4 – 4:45 p.m. LECTURE DEMONSTRATION Presentation: LIAISONS: Sondheim and Jazz Speaker: David Demsey, D.M.A., professor of music and coordinator of jazz studies, William Paterson University Session host: Diane Falk-Romaine, Ed.D., professor and music department chair, William Paterson University Location: Shea 101 5:15 p.m. DINNER and closing comments Presentation: BROADWAY BABY: Sondheim and Current Trends Speaker: Rick Pender, editor, The Sondheim Review and theatre critic, Cincinnati CityBeat Session host: Paula Danzinger, Ph.D., associate professor of counseling, William Paterson University Location: University Commons 171 A&B 7 p.m. WPU Distinguished Lecturer Series STEPHEN SONDHEIM with Anthony Rapp Speaker: Stephen Sondheim Guest Artist: Anthony Rapp Moderator: Sean Patrick Flahaven, associate editor, The Sondheim Review Location: Shea Center for Performing Arts
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of Stephen Sondheim. In the fall, 2007 issue of The Sondheim Review she published a paper titled “The Most Intense: Why audiences responded viscerally to John Doyle’s revival of Sweeney Todd.” Calderazzo has also published on Assassins, and she is the author of an article in this spring’s Theatre Symposium featuring a cognitive analysis of audience laughter in response to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. She has presented papers on Sondheim’s work at the International Federation for Theatre Research conference in Helsinki in 2006 and at several conferences in the United States, and she is in the early stages of work on her dissertation, which explores a cognitive approach to audience emotional engagement with Sondheim’s farce and melodrama. Calderazzo has taught theatre at the University of Pittsburgh, Fordham University, and the University of Central Florida.
Jerry Beal (paper presenter) comes from the world of professional theatre as an actor, director, and teacher. At William Paterson University, he teaches musical theatre, acting, directing, and honors introduction to theatre. As an actor, he has performed Shakespeare, Molière, Neil Simon, Ionesco, Odets, Pinter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bock and Harnick, and Victorian melodrama. He received a Los Angeles Ovation Award nomination for Nicholas Nickleby. As a director, his work includes Simon, Odets, Guare, Paula Vogel, Williams, Miller, Inge, many musicals, and has received five Los Angeles Dramalogue Awards. He has worked in venues from off-Broadway to regional theatre. Sylvia C. Belinfante-Abdelsalam (session host) was New Jersey’s outstanding speech and theatre teacher of the year in 1986 and 2004. This year she is president of the Speech and Theatre Association of New Jersey, which promotes the arts in New Jersey with the New Jersey Education Association convention, fall and spring teacher workshops at Montclair State University and the Paper Mill Playhouse, and the Governor’s Awards in Arts Education competition. In 1992 and 1996 she won the A+ for Kids in New Jersey Award and was seen on WOR-TV with Governor Christie Whitman in a special titled “A Salute to Great Teachers.” She has taught for 30 years at Butler High School and has directed more than 20 musicals, plays, and variety shows. She is also a professor of speech communication at Montclair State University.
Ted (Theodore S.) Chapin (keynote speaker) is president and executive director of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. He has been chairman of the advisory committee for New York City Center’s Encores! series since its inception and serves on several boards including those of the American Theatre Wing, Goodspeed Musicals, Connecticut College, and City Center. He was a Tony Awards nominator for two seasons and is a current member of the Tony Administration Committee. He began his career as production or directorial assistant for the Broadway productions of Follies, The Rothschilds, and The Unknown Soldier and His Wife, as well as Bernstein’s Mass at the Kennedy Center, and Candide in San Francisco. As associate to Alan Arkin, he worked on the original Broadway production of Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys; Twigs, starring Carol Burnett for CBS; and Neil Cuthbert’s The Soft Touch. He was musical director for the National Theatre of the Deaf’s production of Four Saints in Three Acts and producer of the Musical Theatre Lab. His book Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies, was published by Alfred A. Knopf (fall 2003), and in paperback by Applause Books (spring 2005).
Dan Blim (paper presenter) is in his third year at the University of Michigan, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in musicology as well as a graduate certificate in the department of screen arts and cultures. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College in music and art history. Scholarly interests include musical theater, film music, and connections between art and music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has given presentations at the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society and at the Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, and he actively collaborated with the University of Michigan’s student production of Assassins in 2007. He plans to pursue a dissertation on musical collage, and hopes to also return to the air as a DJ at the University of Michigan’s station, WCBN. Stephen Bryant (performer) has given acclaimed performances as a bass-baritone in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, just part of a distinguished career in concert and opera that has taken him around the world. Bryant has sung with the New York City Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Indianapolis Opera. In performance with major orchestras from the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, to the Israel Philharmonic and Japan Philharmonic, his repertory has spanned Mozart and Verdi to Virgil Thomson and Stewart Wallace. His numerous appearances in Handel’s Messiah include collaborations with the Pittsburgh Symphony and Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall, and he has frequently performed in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, with appearances with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch. He is on the faculty at William Paterson University. Diana Calderazzo (paper presenter) is a Ph.D. candidate and teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on theories of audience reception of musical theatre and specifically the work
Beth Child (speaker) began as a professional actor and director in Australia, appearing onstage with Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Chamber Made, Griffin, La Boite, and La Mama in Melbourne; on TV, in shows as diverse as the long-running soap opera Neighbours and Janus; in films (A Cry in the Dark, My Brilliant Career, and The Everlasting Secret Family, among many); and extensively in cabaret and musical theatre, both as devisor/performer and director. She has taught at Ballarat University, worked as drama coach on Neighbours, and served as text trainee and assistant director to Tina Packer at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts. These teaching stints led to her teaching in 2005 at the University of South Carolina Upstate, where she played Prospero in The Tempest and directed Kit Lazaroo’s True Adventures of a Soul Lost at Sea. She began directing professionally in 1992, with credits ranging from cabaret to Shakespeare to short films. In 2007 she directed Macbeth the Contemporary Rock Opera at St. Martins Theatre in Melbourne and the revival of Her Aching Heart at Gasworks and Adelaide Feast. Her production of Searching for Comets is currently running in the Midsumma 2008 festival. 6
Newark and The Washington Times, she has been a frequent guest on News 12 New Jersey’s Daytime Edition. By her own admission, she discovered Sondheim later in life but quickly became a dedicated convert.
E. Teresa Choate (speaker) has directed numerous productions, including Gorky’s Summerfolk (a Los Angeles Times “Pick-of-theWeek”), Oedipus the King on a full-scale reproduction of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, Murder in the Cathedral in a real cathedral, and the Holocaust drama, Playing for Time. Most recently she directed Urinetown, Servant of Two Masters, and Othello at Kean University. She is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and the national president of Alpha Psi Omega, the national honor theatre society. She holds an alphabet soup of degrees in theatre from ivory towers including Catholic University and UCLA. Choate teaches theatre history, performance theory, dramaturgy, script analysis, and dramatic literature. Recent publications include reviews in Theatre Journal of Elliot Goldenthal and Julie Taymor’s opera, Grendel: Transcendence of the Great Big Bad, and Tom Stoppard’s Coast of Utopia.
Joy Davidson (master class clinician), mezzo-soprano, began her career with a professional debut in Rossini’s Cenerentola with Greater Miami Opera and went on to sing 45 roles throughout Europe and North America. She appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala Milano, New York City Opera, Madrid Opera, and San Francisco Opera, to name a few. She performed her signature role, Bizet’s Carmen, more than 300 times. Other frequent roles include Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma, Azucena and Amneris in Verdi’s Trovatore and Aïda, Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther, and Dalila in Saint-Saën’s Samson and Dalila, and leading roles in Menotti operas. She was featured in premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Devils of Loudon and Paradise Lost and Carlisle Floyd’s Bilby’s Doll. She was a guest soloist with major orchestras in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and Leningrad, frequently in works of Mahler, Stravinsky, Ravel, and Beethoven. She was a concert and recital artist for Columbia Artist Management until she retired from singing in 1995. She then headed the department of vocal/opera studies in the music division of New World School of the Arts, where she had begun teaching in 1989. In addition to designing a curriculum specific to students seeking a professional career in serious vocal music, she taught voice, lyric diction, sacred and symphonic vocal literature, vocal pedagogy, and opera history, and directed the Opera Theatre Ensemble.
Anne Ciliberti (session host) is the director of library services at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. She was previously the associate library director and collection development and special projects librarian at the University; a reference librarian for both William Paterson University and Syracuse University; and executive director of the Bergen-Passaic Regional Library Cooperative in Hawthorne, New Jersey. She is also a member of the executive boards of the New Jersey Library Association and the Passaic Area Libraries System and is a member of the New Jersey Library Network Review Board. She received the 1994 Research Award and the 1999 Distinguished Service Awards from the New Jersey Library Association, College and University Section, and the 2000 Meritorious Service Award from the Virtual Academic Library of New Jersey. Mary Coburn (speaker) is the former associate chair of fine arts for the Parsons School of Design in New York City. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and AFTRA, with numerous New York City and regional stage credits. Currently, Coburn is studying to become a celebrant (one who creates and performs personalized ceremonies for individuals, couples, families, and communities) through Celebrant U.S.A. Foundation and Institute, and she is an active hospice volunteer. Coburn received her M.F.A. in painting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Paula Danzinger (executive committee and panelist), a licensed professional counselor in the State of New Jersey specializing in mental health counseling and gerontology, teaches graduate courses on counseling skills and techniques in William Paterson University’s College of Education. The director of the accredited Graduate Counseling Services Program, she specializes in professional development workshops on violence and bullying, recognition of children in need, teacher and counselor burnout, depression in adolescents, and teaching children tolerance, respect, and responsibility. She has also presented papers at many national conferences of topical interest, including “In the Aftermath of September 11,” and “Analyze THIS! Understanding a Character’s Underlying Motivations.” She has served as president of both the New Jersey Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and the New Jersey Counseling Association. Quoted in magazines and newspapers including Redbook, Seventeen, The Star-Ledger of
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David Demsey (speaker) has been professor of music and coordinator of jazz studies at William Paterson University since 1992. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic under André Previn, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Bobby McFerrin, Yuri Temirkanov, and Kurt Masur; with the Kirov Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev; and with the Metropolitan Opera. As a member of the American Saxophone Quartet, he appeared with the National Symphony, toured South America, and appeared on two CDs, one Grammy-nominated. As a jazz performer, he has appeared with the trumpeter Clark Terry, the bassists Milt Hinton and Rufus Reid, and the pianists Mulgrew Miller, James Williams, and Jim McNeely. He has recorded classical and jazz performances on the Centaur and Golden Crest labels. He is also an active author. His “Improvisation and Concepts of Virtuosity” is the final essay in the Oxford Companion to Jazz. He has written books on the composer Alec Wilder and the saxophonist John Coltrane and liner notes for four Verve jazz CDs. He has been a contributing editor for Saxophone Journal for almost 20 years, and he is a Selmer Saxophone clinician. His doctorate is from the Eastman School of Music and he earned his master’s degree at The Juilliard School. Nancy Einreinhofer (executive committee) has been the director of the Ben Shahn Galleries at William Paterson University for more than twenty years. She holds a Ph.D. in museum studies from the University of Leicester, England. An expert on contemporary art, she has curated more than 60 exhibitions exploring various media and philosophies. She has published numerous essays and articles on contemporary art, and her book The American Art Museum: Elitism and Democracy is considered essential reading in the field
in New York City, and Three Songs of Gerald Ginsburg, written for her Merkin Recital Hall debut recital in New York City. She also created the role of Pallas Athena in Samuel Belich’s opera Trojan Women in New York City. She has presented more than 30 different solo recitals of vocal repertoire from the Baroque through the late twentieth century, in the United States and in England. She has also presented recitals and master classes in repertoire and interpretation at several major American universities, as well as clinics on vocal techniques for choirs. A devoted teacher and advocate for young singers, she has participated in the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has also been an officer and on the board of New York Singing Teachers Association.
of museum studies. At William Paterson she initiated the Sculpture on Campus program bringing more than 20 contemporary largescale works to campus. She also instituted the annual national print exhibition from which the University adds to its collection of contemporary prints each year as well as a collection of artists’ books; she has organized four major exhibitions of book arts. Overseeing the University collections, she catalogued the African and Oceanic Collections and established accessible storage complemented with the catalog of the collection available on CD. Diane Falk-Romaine (session host) is chair of the William Paterson University Department of Music. She joined the faculty in 1992 as director of music education. She holds an Ed.D. in music education from Columbia University. Previously she taught at the University of Redlands in Southern California; at Teachers College, Columbia University; Montclair State University; and with the Rutherford (N.J.) public schools. She has had an active career as a soloist and professional chorister performing throughout the United States including concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the White House, and touring with the Goldovsky Grand Opera Company. She has presented clinics at in-service conferences, served as a member of the board of the New Jersey Music Educators Association, and as chair for the National Collegiate Advisory Committee for Music Educators National Conference. Her articles have been published in music education journals and her handbells arrangements published by Harold Flammer. She is an active conductor and musical director.
Thomas Heinzen (panelist) is a professor of psychology at William Paterson University and author of several books, chapters, and journal articles. His research focuses on creativity among populations deemed unlikely to exhibit very much of it; he has published one book documenting creativity among government bureaucrats in New York State and edited another of “natural poetry” created by the frail elderly living in nursing homes. He and his writing partner Susan Nolan are also textbook authors (Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences) and have two other forthcoming books: Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences and a textbook in social psychology (also to be published by Worth). In addition to enjoying Sondheim’s music, Heinzen is interested in the composer’s peculiar ability to make our darkest, most destructive impulses acceptable viewing across a wide range of audiences, and particularly the effects on adolescent artists participating in high school productions of Mr. Sondheim’s works.
Ellen Goldstein (session host) is a member of The Loose Canons, a vocal group that is a cross between Peter, Paul, and Mary and The Capitol Steps. They perform political satire and folk song parodies, along with standard folk/pop numbers. She has also had leading roles in local theatre productions of Kiss Me Kate, The Pajama Game, Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, Oklahoma!, Oliver and Working. She is a substitute cantor at several synagogues in North Central New Jersey. By day, she is founder and president of Wasserman Direct Inc. in Millington, N,J., specializing in direct response media planning and buying, and database analysis.
Warren Helms (pianist) is a faculty member at The Juilliard School and William Paterson University. For 11 years he was on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, where he was musical director of the American Musical Theatre Ensemble and was a coach and accompanist in the opera department. He was assistant conductor and pianist for the Broadway revival of Showboat at the Gershwin Theatre and has performed off-Broadway. He recently performed with the Three Irish Tenors, Aretha Franklin, and Clay Aiken. Cabaret experience includes the Rainbow Room, the Russian Tea Room, La Belle Epoque, Eighty-Eight’s, Danny’s Skylight Room, and the Garrick. He has performed at Weill Recital Hall and Carnegie Hall, as well as appearing in recitals across the United States. He was musical director of the world premiere of Anyone Can…, a ballet choreographed to the music of Stephen Sondheim. He was also the vocal coach and supplied musical preparation for the world premiere of the operatic comedy How To Make Love, by Lawrence and C.C. Widdoes, produced by Chevy Chase. He has collaborated with Drew University, Kean University, and Westminster Choir College and is director of music at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Wayne, New Jersey.
Eric Grode (speaker and panelist) has been assistant editor of The Sondheim Review since its earliest issues in 1995. He joined The New York Sun as chief theatre critic in 2005 after reviewing for Broadway.com, Back Stage, and Time Out New York. He has also written about theatre, books, film, television, and music for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, American Theatre (where he received an Affiliated Writer fellowship), Playbill.com, The Boston Phoenix, TV Guide, and FHM. He is on the advisory board of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at Syracuse University. Favorite Sondheim rhyme: “Or we’d have been left/Bereft/Of F./D.R.” Favorite Sondheim line: “Someday just began.” Nan Guptill Crain (executive committee and session host), a soprano specializing in recital repertoire, has sung three world premieres: Lennox Berkeley’s Sonnet, in Aldeburgh, England; Donato Fornuto’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, at Town Hall 8
Suzy Highland (panelist) is dean of student services at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts|Riverfront, a Louisiana state school of the arts. She serves as counselor for approximately 465 students enrolled in afternoon, evening, and Saturday classes. She was instrumental in facilitating program expansion to include musical theatre, theatre design, and media arts; the addition of late
J.A. Kawarsky (presenter) is professor of music theory and composition and founding director of the music theater program at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J. The courses he has taught have included a comparative analysis course on Rent and La Boheme and, last spring, an analysis course on Sondheim’s Follies. As a composer, he has written for all genres including solo instrument, orchestra, band, choral, vocal, and theater, and has received commissions from numerous ensembles for original works and arrangements. Recently he received his tenth Composer Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). His 40-minute work Prayers for Bobby for choir, orchestra, narrator, and soloists has received numerous performances throughout the United States and Canada and was recorded by the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus. In October 2006, he received the outstanding alumnus award from Iowa State University and was presented with a premiere of Fastidious Notes, a new work for orchestral winds and alto saxophone. His choral music is published by Yelton Rhodes Music of Los Angeles (www. yrmusic.com) and Transcontinental Music. Southern Music of San Antonio. Last fall, he took a leave from education to conduct a national tour of Peter Pan.
day and Saturday classes; flexible core academic scheduling; and the implementation of a statewide summer program that includes a residential component enabling students from across the state to experience specialized arts training. She is on the board of the International Network for the Advancement of Arts Education as counseling committee chair and regional director. Earlier, she was a counselor in private practice; a private school counselor; and a public school counselor, notably for the Carver Creative and Performing Arts Center, later Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama. Christina Hoffman (assistant to the conveners) is a senior at William Paterson University completing a dual major in the Colleges of the Arts and Communication and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Besides her academic achievements, she is also a performer and a producer. On William Paterson University stages, she was seen in Stop Kiss, Seussical, Shakespeare on Love, The American Plan, and End of the World Button. As president of the Pioneer Players, the University’s student theatre group, she is producing the spring performances of Once on This Island. In addition to her student activities, she works at O&M public relations firm in Manhattan and the University’s marketing and public relations department. Patrick M. Horan (paper presenter) is the author of The Importance of Being Paradoxical: Maternal Presence in the Works of Oscar Wilde as well as a number of articles in publications including Nineteenth-Century Prose, Wild About Wilde, and The English Journal. His contributions to The Sondheim Review include articles titled “Underscoring Obsession With Repetition” and “Organizing a Humanities Course Through Sunday in the Park With George.” Horan’s Ph.D. is from Drew University where he specialized in American drama, American Romanticism, modern British literature, modern drama, and twentieth-century opera. In the past 25 years he has directed numerous productions in the New Jersey/New York area and has been musical director and conductor of the following Sondheim works: Company, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Side by Side by Sondheim. He teaches English at Morristown-Beard School. Lara Housez (paper presenter) received a bachelor of honors in music history and master of arts degree in musicology from the University of Western Ontario. She is in her fourth year of doctoral studies in musicology at the Eastman School of Music. With the support of a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she has begun to work on her dissertation, tentatively titled, Stephen Sondheim and the American Musical Theater in the 1960s. She has presented papers on Sondheim, Kurt Weill, and the American musical theater at the annual meetings of the Society for American Music, the Canadian University Music Society, the University of Toronto Graduate Music Symposium, and the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, where she received the Indiana University Press Award for best student paper. Her other research interests include Bertolt Brecht and Broadway, American opera, rhetoric in popular music, women in music, and minimalism. 9
Alvin Klein (panelist) covered theater in New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island, and Westchester County, N.Y., in his 27 years as critic for the regional sections of The New York Times. Previously he was the opening-night critic for WNYC radio in New York, where his first Sondheim review was the original Broadway production of Company. As president of the Drama Desk, he presented Sondheim with the best music award (for Sweeney Todd) on television and established the best orchestration category to honor Jonathan Tunick for Merrily We Roll Along. In previous professional incarnations, he was an industrial psychologist and management consultant, with a master’s degree in psychology, then taught for more than 30 years in the New York City public schools, St. Peter’s College, and adult education centers, with certification as a supervisor of education. He was the only teacher/reporter who showed up at the kick-off for the Young Playwrights Festival, which Sondheim did not forget in his preface to the published edition of young people’s plays. He wrote the liner notes for The Stephen Sondheim Album on the Farnsworth Alley label, and his Web site, The Last Word on Theater (under construction), will criticize the critics, himself included. There was, after all, the time he was so dazed by a new Sondheim song that he raced toward the radio mike after opening night and announced it to the world as “Isn’t It Rich?” Barbara Krajkowski (session host) has been an adjunct professor in the communication department of William Paterson University for more than fifteen years. In 1993, she co-founded the Women’s Theater Company, a nonprofit professional organization of which she has been producing artistic director since its inception. She has extensive experience in directing, producing, acting and costuming for theater. She has directed more than 50 productions, many of them original works having their initial staging and public viewing, often providing dramaturgical assistance. Recently she has directed productions for the Bickford Theatre, the East Lynn Players in Cape May and William Paterson University. She has guided the professional career of her daughter, Jane Krakowski, currently on the TV series 30 Rock, since she was eight years old.
Lynn Lazar (session host) is a pioneer in philanthropic prospect research and has extensive experience in the field for numerous campaigns and projects. She joined the William Paterson University institutional advancement team in 2004 to head the newly created prospect management area. Previously, she had a 12-year career as director of philanthropic research for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, where she oversaw the prospect management department and the Arts Center’s $200 million campaign. A member of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement International, she was president of the New Jersey chapter for six years and has been a featured speaker on prospect research at many fund-raising conferences in the tri-state area. In addition to her day job, she is a veteran actress who has performed and taught theater throughout New York state and New Jersey. She is a co-founder of Imagination Is Magic, a creative theater class for young children.
featured guest appearances by Angela Landsbury and Stephen Sondheim. He holds an M.F.A. in directing from Sarah Lawrence College. Michael C. Mazur (panelist) is a professor of musical theatre at California State University, Chico. Most recently he directed its productions of The King and I and Batboy: The Musical. He has a master of fine arts degree in musical theatre writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is an avid Stephen Sondheim fan, having directed local productions of Into the Woods and West Side Story and served as lighting designer for Merrily We Roll Along at the Little Village Playhouse in Westchester County. Other shows he has directed include Children of Eden, The Sound of Music, Pippin and Drood. Previously he taught speech and theatre at John Carroll University in Cleveland and was music director of the Singing Angels, a youth chorus he led in concert tours to Poland, Germany, Mexico, and England. He has just completed a production of John and Jen at the Blue Room Theatre in Chico, Calif., and is about to begin work on Hair at the Chico Cabaret.
Jay Ludwig (executive committee) received his Ph.D. in theatre at the University of Illinois. He has directed extensively, acted even more extensively, and published in the fields of American theatre history and play production. He joined the faculty at William Paterson University in 1961, served as the first dean of the School of the Arts and Communication for a number of years, and is now a professor of communication. He has taught the “American Theatre” course on campus for a number of years, and has appeared in several musical theatre productions, most recently a production of 1776 in a nearby regional theatre. He regrets that his career does not yet include an appearance in a Sondheim musical.
Robert L. McLaughlin (presenter) is professor of English at Illinois State University. He has published many articles and book chapters on postmodern fiction, especially the work of Thomas Pynchon. From 1993 to 2005 he was editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction. He is the editor of Innovations: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Dalkey Archive Press, 1998) and co-author, with Sally E. Parry, of We’ll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II (University Press of Kentucky, 2006). His work on Stephen Sondheim has appeared in the Journal of American Drama and Theater and The Sondheim Review. Active in central Illinois amateur theater, he has appeared in A Little Night Music (twice), Sweeney Todd, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, and Assassins.
Charles Markis (session host) is chief of visitor services at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site of the National Park Service, home of President Theodore Roosevelt. He oversees content and logistics of the site’s educational programs, presentations, and publications, and supervises the volunteer staff. Previously he was the site supervisor for the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in Manhattan. His 35-year career reflects his many interests: music librarian, educator, company manager for Dance Theater of Harlem, entrepreneur, and concert producer. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from Miami University in Ohio and a certificate in arts administration from New York University. He continues his love of music as an avocation; he performed with the Russian Chamber Chorus of New York for ten years and is a professional church musician. Ed Matthews (session host) is a member of the professional staff at William Paterson University and works professionally in theatre for a variety of companies, colleges, and independent productions in and around New York City. One of his many responsibilities at the University is producing the New Jersey Playwrights Competition. He is directing the winning play in the 2008 contest, a new musical comedy: Margot Frank: The Diary of the Other Young Girl. He directed End of the World Button by S. W. Senek last spring. Other directing credits include: the premiere productions of Just Desserts by Andrea Green and Shakespeare on Love: A Comedic Look at Romance, a series of scenes from Shakespeare that he compiled and edited; this fall he directed Dancer for Money, a series of one-act plays in New York City, and a regional theatre production of My Three Angels. He has also worked as a lighting designer. He had the pleasure of working on A Stephen Sondheim Evening, which
Michael T. Mooney (session presenter) is manager of outreach and access programs at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse. He came to the Paper Mill in 1994 from The Growing Stage in Netcong. He also directs Paper Mill’s Senior Players Workshop, oversees the award-winning Adopt-A-School project and has been both instructor and adjudicator for the S.T.A.R. program. Outside Paper Mill, he serves on the boards of the Fund for the New Jersey Blind, the Kennedy Center’s Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability, the Audio-Description Coalition, and the New Jersey Cultural Access Network. He studied with Sir Alan Ayckbourn and has staged more than 60 plays and musicals in North Jersey, including the American premieres of three Ayckbourn plays. He is the recipient of the 2003 Ann Klein Advocate Award for his work with senior citizens and people with disabilities. His favorite Sondheim musical is Sweeney Todd. www.michaeltmooney.com
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Maurice J. Moran Jr. (panel moderator) has been directing secondary, community, and summer stock productions in New Jersey for more than 30 years. In addition, he has acted in Biloxi Blues, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Fiddler on the Roof, Baby, and, most recently, You Can’t Take It With You. He has also designed sets and lighting for a number of productions, including the recent production of Into the Woods for CDC Theater
in Cranford, N.J. He received his master’s degree in performance studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and teaches high school English, theatre, and video in Verona, N.J.
Orleans by Arthur Roger Gallery. She is the chairperson of the visual arts department at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and a member of the teaching faculty.
Jeffrey Norman (session host) is vice president for public affairs at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the ten-yearold, $187 million world-class performance facility in Newark, N.J. He oversees the center’s long- and short-range media and political strategies; its continuing cultivation of New Jersey’s divergent constituencies; and its volunteer department, with more than 800 active participants. He is a founder and co-chairman of Voices for Life, an alliance of performers united in the fight against AIDS; a member of the board of Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, the Newark Arts Council, and the Center for Non-Profits; and a graduate and past member of the graduate board of Leadership New Jersey. Also an actor and director, he was named by The Star-Ledger of Newark as one of the outstanding supporting dramatic actors of 1994 for his performance in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow with the National Stage Company, received an additional nomination for outstanding featured comic actor of 1998-99 for his performance in the Bickford Theatre’s production of Sly Fox, and received a Perry Award from Recognition for Excellence in Community Theaters for outstanding featured actor in a play for his performance in Jeffrey at the Old Library Theatre in Fair Lawn. Most recently, he has appeared in local and university productions including Falsettos, The Laramie Project, A Class Act and Twilight of the Golds. He made his Manhattan nightclub debut at Don’t Tell Mama in 2004.
Rick Pender (speaker), a veteran arts journalist, is managing editor of The Sondheim Review. He began as a contributor to the magazine in 1998, was named an assistant editor in 2003, and became managing editor in 2004. He has overseen a significant expansion of the magazine’s contents and its overall redesign. He is also a freelance theater critic and columnist for CityBeat, Greater Cincinnati’s leading alternative newspaper. From 1998 until 2006 he was CityBeat’s arts and entertainment editor, managing all arts and entertainment coverage. He is an active member of the American Theatre Critics Association, which he chaired in 2004-05. He served for six years on its executive committee and today is the treasurer of its foundation. He is a regular contributor of interview features (including several with Stephen Sondheim) to Around Cincinnati, a weekly arts magazine on WVXU-FM, a National Public Radio affiliate. He is also director of development for Cincinnati Opera, America’s second-oldest opera company. Emily Polhamus (curator and session host) is a senior at William Paterson University with dual majors in art history and political science. She is active in both the visual and performing arts. She designed several exhibits in the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts and performs in theatrical productions on campus, notably starring roles in the past four New Jersey Playwrights Competition productions. After graduation, she plans to pursue a master’s degree in museum studies.
Diane Nottle (convener) has carried her Sondheim obsession to the newsrooms of The Roanoke (Va.) Times, The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle, The Boston Globe and, for the last 20 years, The New York Times, where she is currently deputy editor for classical music and dance in the culture news department. She was arts editor of the Sunday New Jersey section for more than four years. She has also worked as a freelance writer and editor. She recently earned a certificate in teaching English as a second language from New School University and was strongly tempted to introduce the phrase “Sing out, Louise!” into the Polish educational system during a practicum last summer in Wroclaw. She has seen all the shows (including Bounce and Getting Away With Murder), knows most of the words, and still wants to be Desirée Armfeldt when she grows up. Mary Jane Parker (visual arts educator responsible for exhibition) works in mixed media combining printmaking and painting techniques with glass and bronze sculpture. A native of New Orleans, she received her bachelor of arts degree in studio art from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and her master’s in studio art with an emphasis in printmaking from Illinois State University, Normal. She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2006, a Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 1990 and 2001, and a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Award for Excellence in Works on Paper in 1990. She received an NEA Independent Study Fellowship to travel along the pilgrimage route in France and Spain and studied color woodcut in Florence, Italy, on a Surdna Foundation Fellowship. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in New
Peter Purin (paper presenter) is a first-year Ph.D. student in music theory at the University of Kansas, where he is working with theorist Scott Murphy and musicologist Paul Laird. His research interests are primarily focused on American musical theater, with an emphasis on the works of Sondheim. He received his M.A. in music theory from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and his B.A. in music theory and composition at Elmhurst College. He has a long performance history in professional and college/community theatre. Among his favorite roles is Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods, which he played twice. Bonnie E. Robson (panel moderator) has spent 35 years in clinical adult and child psychiatry, specializing since 1983 in performing arts medicine and performance enhancement for vocal music students, dance students, teachers, administrators, and artistic directors. She has a private practice as a consultant to mental health agencies and schools in Eastern Ontario. She was a consultant to the National Ballet School of Canada from 1983 to1985 and Quinte Ballet School of Canada from 2000. Her original arts-related research makes her a popular speaker/presenter at national and international conferences. She has published her research in such juried journals as the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science and Medical Problems of Performing Artists. She is on the board of Performing Arts Medical Association and has served on the Board of the International Network of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education and chaired the research committee. 11
Korey Rothman (paper presenter) is a visiting assistant professor of theatre history and criticism at the University of Maryland, College Park and the academic director of the South Caroline Washington semester program. Her research interests include Broadway’s “old girls network,” gender and sexuality in the musical, musical theatre pedagogy, the relationship between musical theater and popular culture, and the works of Stephen Sondheim. She has presented her work on musical theatre at a range of national conferences, including the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the American Society for Theatre Research, and, most recently, the American Musical on Stage and Screen: An Interdisciplinary Extravaganza. As a director, her favorite shows have been the musical version of Triumph of Love and Sondheim’s Assassins. Her chapter, titled “’Will You Remember?’: Female Lyricists of Operetta and Musical Comedy,” will appear in the forthcoming book Unsung Contributors: Women Who Created Twentieth Century American Musical Theatre.
Susan Speidel (panelist) was director of education at Paper Mill Playhouse for more than 19 years. She created the award-winning Adopt-A-School Project, the Rising Star Awards, and the Summer Musical Theatre Conservatory. In 2007, she became chair of the performing arts department at Morristown-Beard School and she continues as an adjunct professor for the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Kean University. She received the 1991 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Theatre Education and the 2000 and 2007 New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Applause Awards as well as the 2005 Women’s Studies Scholarship. She was inducted into the National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi last year. As an actress, she appeared off-Broadway in Olio - A Modern Vaudeville and in The Student Prince and numerous concerts at Paper Mill Playhouse. Regional credits include Sweeney Todd, Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Into The Woods, Gypsy, Nunsense, Nine, and Hello, Dolly! She appeared with the Seattle and Portland symphonies and is a frequent soloist with the Key West Pops in Florida where she portrayed Stella Deems in a concert version of Follies.
Shari Selke (session host) joined the William Paterson University professional staff in 1990 as the production stage manager for theatrical productions. For many years she stage-managed all main stage productions for the theatre department and the Performing Arts Theatre Series, in addition to mentoring and training student stage managers for shows in the Hunziker Black Box Theatre. She has taught courses in stage management, theatre workshop, and production lab. With her colleague Ed Matthews, she created and production stage manages the University’s New Jersey Playwrights Competition, currently in its fourth year. Before coming to work for the University, she free-lanced for 10 years with various theatre companies. She is a full member of the Stage Managers’ Association (SMA), the professional association for stage managers. S.W. Senek (session host) is a playwright whose End of the World Button was the winner of the 2006 New Jersey Playwrights Competition at William Paterson University; it had its premiere at Theatre Conspiracy in Ft. Myers, Florida. Fool Circle was the 2005 winner of the Oglebay Institute Towngate Theatre National Playwriting Competition. 9 Months: Inside Out was the 2004 winner of the New Jersey Playwrights Competition. 12 Rounds was nominated for the 2005 NY IT awards for best original short script. It is published by Third Coast Literary Journal (Western Michigan University) and United Stages. An Ongoing Examination of the True Meaning of Life, Outcome, Dog Lovers, and Fallout have been published by Smith and Kraus. A compilation of three short plays titled Simply Simpatico is published by Original Works Publishing. He has a B.F.A. in theatre from Youngstown State University and is a member of the Theater Project and the Dramatists Guild of America.
Phillip Sprayberry (convener) became media relations coordinator for William Paterson University after a 25-year career in arts education in the South. In addition to his work as a publicist, he continues his work in the arts as a freelance stage director and his work in the classroom as an adjunct teacher in the University’s College of the Arts and Communication. Previously, he was lead teacher at B.T.W. Magnet High School, Alabama’s nationally recognized arts magnet high school in Montgomery, and created the highly successful Encore Theatre at Faulkner University. He received a bachelor of arts in music education from Lipscomb University and his master’s in musical theatre from New York University. He is pursuing a doctorate degree at Drew University’s Caspersen School. In younger and thinner days, he appeared on stage in many roles including three in Sondheim shows: the Baker in Into the Woods, Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, and Zangara in Assassins. Gail Springer (paper presenter) has been performing as a singer, dancer, actress, and pianist since her first public appearance on the Dick Bills television show in Albuquerque when she was five. She received her early training at the Sherwood Music School in Chicago and her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of New Mexico. She is a certified master teacher of Estill Voice Training, and maintains a voice studio in Santa Fe. She is a member of Estill Voice International, Voice and Speech Teachers Association, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. A professor of performing arts at the College of Santa Fe since 1980, she has served as musical director, vocal coach, and director for more than 40 productions at the Greer Garson Theatre, including West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Into the Woods. She appears regularly as soprano soloist with many Santa Fe musical organizations.
David S. Sollish (paper presenter) is a third-year Ph.D. student specializing in musical theatre direction in the theatre and film department at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He holds a B.F.A. in acting and directing from West Virginia University and an M.S. in theatre history from Illinois State University. A professional actor and director from Chicago, Sollish is a member of both Actor’s Equity and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and has performed in and/or directed most of the Sondheim canon.
Kimberly Steinhauer (paper presenter) has devoted her entire career to the voice—in song, education, and research. As a singer, she has worked in genres ranging from pop to musical theater to opera to sacred music; her musical theater roles have included the Witch in Into the Woods and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. She 12
Development Center. She addresses and trains a wide range of civic and professional groups on e-commerce, psychology of entrepreneurs, small business development, and work and family issues.
is also soprano soloist and children’s choir director at Mt. Lebanon United Lutheran Church. As a voice educator, she has taught in venues ranging from the public school to the university. She has worked with voice specialist Jo Estill since 1985 and is an Estill Voice Training Certified Course instructor with service distinction. She has directed EVT courses and has been recruited as a voice consultant nationally and internationally. As a voice investigator, she was awarded a $400,000 federal grant through the Veteran’s Administration Healthcare System to study voice motor learning in healthy and disordered aging speakers using Twang from EVT as an alternative treatment for voice disorders. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed voice publications, and she is editor of the Voice Foundation Newsletter and founding partner of Vocal Innovations, LLC, the official source of Estill Voice Training.
Dale Zurbrick (panelist) taught music for more than 30 years in public schools in New York City and State. For 16 years he was director of the award-winning Glen Cove High School Masquers Society. During that time he served as director or musical director for more than four dozen plays and musicals, many of them by Sondheim. During these years he also was musical director and/ or performed in stock productions, several of them Sondheim creations, primarily at the prestigious Music Theatre North in upstate New York near the Canadian border. Since retiring in 2002, he has introduced hundreds of senior citizens, through his Lifelong Learning classes, to the rewards of exploring in depth the brilliance and teaching of Stephen Sondheim. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from the Crane School of Music, SUNY-Potsdam.
Rebecca Strum (panelist) is the performing arts coordinator for The Academy of Visual and Performing Arts at Bergen County Academies, in Hackensack, N.J., where she designed and developed the scope and sequence in theatre arts and has guided the program since its inception in 2001. A member of Actor’s Equity, she worked as an actor off-Broadway and in regional theatre before teaching and directing became her passions. She has staged plays and taught at Kean and William Paterson universities, and Ramapo, Bergen Community, and Marymount Manhattan colleges. She has served as an adjucator for the American College Theatre Festival and a play reader for the Young Playwright’s Festival. She was a resident director at Summerfun Theatre in Montclair, where she staged the New Jersey professional premieres of David Mamet’s Oleanna and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive. Last spring she was awarded a Surdna Arts Teaching Fellowship which enabled her to study and perform in the summer of 2007 at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California. She holds an M.F.A. in acting from Columbia University and received her doctorate from NYU’s department of performance studies. Heidi A. Temple (paper presenter) is a student in the American studies Ph.D. program and the women’s studies certification program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her bachelor’s degree in education, secondary English, and communications from Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pa. She taught high school English, speech, and theatre for seven years, during which she spent summers taking graduate classes in theatre education at Central Washington University. She received her master’s degree in theatre studies, as well as a certification in museum studies from Florida State University in 2006. She plans to continue studying musical theatre’s connection to social and political issues, as well as the representation of the disabled in popular culture. Bernadette Tiernan (executive committee and session host) is the executive director of William Paterson University’s Center for Continuing and Professional Education. Her extensive entrepreneurial credits include co-founding Workplace Skills Traning, Inc., StartSmart® Productions, LLC, and Tiernan Associates, a management consultant operation. She was the associate dean for administration and external affairs at Rutgers Business School and served as the associate state director for the New Jersey Small Business 13
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william paterson university Since its founding in 1855, William Paterson University has grown to become a comprehensive regional institution committed to academic excellence and student success. Accredited by the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges, it offers 35 undergraduate and 19 graduate degree programs as well as professional development programs through its five colleges: College of the Arts and Communication, Cotsakos College of Business, College of Education, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and College of Science and Health. Nearly 11,000 full- and part-time students from a diversity of backgrounds are enrolled at the University. Occupying a 370-acre, wooded campus, the University is located in the hills of suburban Wayne, New Jersey, within an hour of the ocean, the mountains, the Meadowlands, and New York City. William Paterson offers a wide variety of student activities, modern on-campus housing, and the most up-to-date educational facilities. Financial aid is available to qualified students. Life at William Paterson University can be exciting and challenging. To make arrangements to visit the University or for more information about our programs, telephone the Office of Admissions at 973.720.2125 or write to William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470-2103 or visit our Web site at www.wpunj.edu. Arnold Speert, president Ed Weil, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs Stephen Marcone, interim dean, College of the Arts and Communication David Horton, interim associate dean, College of the Arts and Communication Diane Falk-Romaine, chair, Department of Music Joann Lee, chair, Department of Communication Alan Lazarus, chair, Department of Art
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Stephen Bryant, Paula Danzinger, Nancy Einreinhofer, Nan Guptill Crain, Jay Ludwig, Bernadette Tiernan
STAFF
Community Outreach Coordinator: Valerie Marino Assistant to the Conveners: Christina Hoffman Editors: Mary Beth Zeman, Diane Nottle Graphic Design: Nadia Esposito Web master: Yuri Marder Web technician: Christopher Weiss
SPECIAL THANKS
The International NETWORK of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education [http://www.artsschoolsnetwork.org] The William Paterson University Center for Continuing and Professional Education - Bernadette Tiernan, executive director Iris DiMaio, Nancy Friend, Colleen McGill, Sandra Mayberry, Toni Nepolitano, Rosa Williams The William Paterson University Marketing and Public Relations Department Stuart Goldstein, associate vice president; Mary Beth Zeman, public relations director Christine Diehl, Dolores Droumbakis, Joan Floyd, Robert Manuel, Yuri Marder, Barbara Martin, Terry Ross, Sharon Ryan, Bob Verbeek - and -
Joe Caferelli, Ricky Carlo, Juan Cosillo, Dominique Chierico, Drew Cyburt, Kandice Deutsch, Christine Dougherty, Peter Griswold, Hilary Goldman, Cait Grogaard, Lou Hamel, Chris Lutz, Cathy Marstan, Meredith McCarthy, Michael McDonald, Ron Mulligan, Juan Perez, Frank Petrozzino, Pioneer Players, Janis Strasser, Lindsay Tierstein, Chriss Williams, public speaking students
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