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Name: Jean Dobie Giebel
Title: Chairperson
Address: 203b John Cranford Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-6681
E-mail: drmjdg@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Jean Dobie Giebel (Acting, Play Analysis) has served as associate director for both The Mint Theater and Riverside Shakespeare Company. As an actor, she has appeared off-Broadway with Riverside Shakespeare in Macbeth, and in Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing and Love's Labours Lost for Riverside Shakespeare in the Park; other New York credits include The Hostage and On the Verge at Pulse Ensemble Theater; regional/guest artist appearances include Marat/Sade, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Robber Bridegroom and the cabaret Kennedy's Kids. She is a founding member of Asylum Theatre Company, where she has appeared in The Brutality of Fact, The Butterfly Collection, and What Remains – Long Island Voices of 9/11, on which she also served as dramaturg. Her New York directing credits include productions at the New 42nd Street Theatre, The Mint Theater, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and Riverside Shakespeare Company. She administers the Harold and Marilyn Cohen Playwriting Competition each year, and has developed and directed several Cohen Award-winning plays for the Annual Samuel French Original Short Play Festival. She regularly participates in the Association of Theatre in Higher Education New Play Development Program. Hofstra University directing credits include productions as diverse as Tartuffe, No Mercy, Baby with the Bathwater, Footfalls and Not I, The Adding Machine, Romeo and Juliet, and Sweet Charity. She recently developed and directed Amy Mihyang's (Class of '05) one-woman show for the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her chapter "Significant Action: A Unifying Approach to Acting" appears in Method Acting Reconsidered: Theory, Practice, Future (St. Martin's Press, 2000). She lives with her husband, Tim, and their very best production: Amelia Louise.
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Name: Robin Becker
Title: Dance
Address: 203C John Cranford Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5448
E-mail: drmrkb@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Robin Becker (Modern,Choreography) is the artistic director of Robin Becker Dance. Her choreography has been presented at the Joyce Theater in New York City and at numerous venues across the country. She was a principal dancer with the Eleo Pomare Dance Company, and also performed with the Martha Graham Company and the Pearl Lang Dance Company. She has been on the faculties of the American Ballet Theatre, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and the Princeton Ballet. Ms. Becker is an authorized teacher of the somatic practice Continuum Movement, and continues to teach workshops nationally and internationally.
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Name: Stormy Brandenburger
Title: Dance
Address: 203D Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5446
E-mail: drmszb@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Stormy Brandenberger (Modern, Choreography I and II, Dance Production) is a collaborative choreographer whose modern dance, multimedia collaborations and theatre works have been seen in both the United States and Europe. Her modern dance choreography and multimedia works have been highlighted on Channel 13 and Eye On Dance. She is the recipient of many choreography grants and fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, and Creative Artist Project Choreographer's Grant. Her most recent projects have been Index to Idioms, with performance artist Deb Margolin at the Cultural Project Theater in New York City, and Dress Suits to Hire, which received a 2006 GLAAD nomination for Outstanding New York Theatre: off-off Broadway.
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Name: Jonathan Cantor
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: 104 Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: drmjic@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Jonathan Cantor has acted, directed, and taught theater
in professional and educational settings throughout the country. A native New
Yorker, he returned home in 2002. Since that time, he taught at the New Jersey Shakespeare
Festival, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York Film Academy, Long Island University, and The Powers Studio. Prior
to that, he was a full-time faculty member at the University of Miami, in Coral
Gables, FL. As part of their Conservatory Program, he taught acting and directing.
He has also been on the faculty of Roosevelt University, Barat College, and
Central College. As an actor, Jon played Raoul in the NJ premiere of
Lee Blessing’s Whores at NJ Rep/Playwrights Theatre of NJ. Recent
NY credits include Boss/Client in Worth (Urban Stages), L. Ron Hubbard in Moonchild
(NY International Fringe Festival) and Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Looking
Glass Theatre). He was also a company member of the Jean Cocteau Rep (3 seasons),
where he performed L’aiglon, Philoctetes, and Cymbeline, to name a few.
Other regional work includes the title role in Uncle Vanya (ELT/Chicago), House of the Seven Gables, The Legacy, Far East (New Theatre), Our Country’s
Good (City Theatre Co.), Television: Innocent Until Proven Guilty, and Miller's
Court. Numerous commercials and industrials. Director: Three Rivers Shakespeare,
Fordham University, Kohler Center, Attic Ensemble. He is a member of AFTRA,
SAG, and Equity.
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Name: Royston Coppenger
Title: Assistant Professor of Drama
Degrees: B.A., University of Tennessee; M.F.A., Yale School of Drama, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism; D.F.A., Yale School of Drama
Address: 017 Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-6540
E-mail: drmrpc@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Royston Coppenger (Styles, Directing) is a writer, director and dramaturg known for his radical approach to the interpretation of classic plays. His writing credits include co-authorship (with Travis Preston) of The Last American in Paris/Le Dernier Americain Paris, Paradise Bound Part II, and The December Project, as well as Snow White and the Drag Queen with Alejandro Madero. His original theater works Hopper and Moses were produced at HERE in New York City. His translations include Roberto Zucco, In the Loneliness of the Cottonfields, and Key West, all by French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltes. In Switzerland, he conceived and directed Am Anfang war das Teater for the Teatro Palino in Baden. His New York directing credits include his own adaptation of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me at the Ohio Theater; Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit at Theater Row Theater; Stanislaw Witkiewicz The Pragmatists in a gutted mansion on the Upper East Side; Two Small Bodies at the Samuel Beckett Theater; and the world premiere of Stevan Arbona's Saturn's Children at HERE. At Hofstra University he has directed productions of The Workroom, The Maids, Pericles, Angel Street, A Dream Play, and The Threepenny Opera. He has most recently directed King John for the Hofstra Shakespeare Festival; other recent directing credits include Dido and Aeneas/An Incomplete Education for the Bronx Opera and The Importance of Being Earnest for Brave New World Repertory, and The Great White Hope in the Prospect Park Bandshell as part of the annual "Celebrate Brooklyn" festival. His short film, Das Kapital: The Movie – Chapter 8 was recently screened at Anthology Film Archives as part of the "New Filmmakers" series. He has taught courses in theater and popular culture at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon and NYU. He holds a Doctor of Fine Arts degree in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from the Yale School of Drama. His daughter, Matilda, is now a happy first-grader.
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Name: Rychard Curtiss
Title: Technical Director and Lighting Designer
Degrees: B.A., Eastern Connecticut State University (cum laude) in Fine Arts, minors in Theatre and Radio and Television Management; M.F.A., Northern Illinois University in Theatre Design and Technology, emphasis on technical direction and lighting design
Address: 239 Calkins
Phone: (516) 463-5767
E-mail: drmrlc@hofstra.edu
Web: http://theatreguy.com/
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Bio: Rychard Curtiss (Lighting and Sound Design, Stage Management) is in his 10th year at Hofstra and is the Drama Department's director of lighting. He has an M.F.A. in theatre design and technology from Northern Illinois University and a B.A. in art history from Eastern Connecticut State University; professionally, his designs have been seen in NYC, off-Broadway and at a variety of regional theatre companies around the country. He became a member of the Actors' Equity Association working as a stage manager and actor in August 2004. For examples of his work, visit his Web site, theatreguy.com.
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Name: Christopher Dippel
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: 104 Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: drmczd@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Christopher Dippel (Acting, Play Analysis) is an actor, director, and playwright with credits including four seasons at the Brown County Playhouse, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, the Long Island Shakespeare Festival, and the Helen Hayes Theatre Company. Three of his plays, Lick the Mouse, You Ask for It..., and ...You Got It have been produced in both New York and Chicago. Favorite roles include Lenny in Of Mice and Men, Orgon in Tartuffe, and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Recent directing credits include The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, Fuddy Meers, and A Christmas Carol. He is also a founding member of the New York Neo-Futurists who write and perform Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind in Manhattan at the Kraine Theatre 50 weeks a year. He received his M.F.A. in acting from Indiana University, Bloomington.
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Name: Edward Elefterion
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: 104 Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: drmeze@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Edward Elefterian (Acting, Biomechanics). Professor Elefterian's company, Rabbit Hole Ensemble, was formed in August 2005 and has produced two original plays: The Siblings at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in July (with Hofstra alum, Emily Surabian '06) and The Transformation of Dr. Jekyl (with Hofstra alum and co-founder, Emily Hartford '05) at the Fringe Festival in August 2006. He received his M.F.A. in directing from Indiana University, Bloomington.
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Name: Anita Feldman
Title: Assistant Professor, Adjunct Professor in Dance Program
Degrees: B.A., University of Illinois in Dance Education; M.A., Teachers College at Columbia University in Dance Education
Address: 122 P.F.C.
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: anita@netmonger.net
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Bio: Anita Feldman (Tap, Modern, Kinesiology, Choreography, and Methods of Teaching) has a B.A. in dance education from the University of Illinois and an M.A. in dance education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Since 1983 Professor Feldman has gained an international reputation as a leading innovator of tap dance, choreographing pieces in collaboration with new music composers that incorporate electronics and the patented "Tap Dance Instrument," a wood and brass multi-timbrel floor. She was artistic director of Anita Feldman Tap from 1983-1999, an innovative tap dance/new music company that performed in the United States, Japan and Germany at universities and festivals in both dance and new music venues, including the Colorado Dance Festival, the Boston Dance Umbrella, Dance Theater Workshop, the Whitney Museum, the American Dance Festival, the Village Gate, National Performance Network Residencies, New Music America, Seibu's Studio 200 in Tokyo, and Podewil in Berlin. In addition to teaching at Hofstra, she is also on the dance faculty of Columbia University's, Teachers College, and she has taught as a guest artist at universities around the world. Her choreography received numerous grants, including six from the National Endowment for the Arts, six from the New York State Council on the Arts and two from Meet the Composer/Choreography Commissions. She is the author of Inside Tap: Technique and Improvisation for Today's Tap Dancer, published by Princeton Books.
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Name: Liza Gennaro
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Bio: Liza Gennaro (Choreography in the Theatre and Dance Appreciation) choreographed the
critically acclaimed Broadway revival of The Most Happy Fella, directed by Gerald Gutierrez, and Once Upon a Mattress, starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Her choreography has been presented throughout the United States in regional theaters, including the Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, and the Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2005 she choreographed the 30th anniversary national tour of Annie. Ms. Gennaro holds a master's degree in dance studies from New York University-Gallatin School.
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Name: Dyane Harvey-Salaam
Title: Guest Artist, Dance
Address: 139 Calkins
Phone: (516) 463-5444
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Bio: Dyane Harvey-Salaam (Modern and Pilates). Ms. Harvey-Salaam's career has taken place on Broadway, film, television and the concert stage. She has danced for major modern dance choreographers such as Fred Benjamin, Eleo Pomare, Alvin Ailey, Ze'eva Cohen, and Dianne McIntyre. Dyane has appeared in Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, Timbuktu and The Wiz. She is a founding member of Abdel Salaam's Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. Her choreographic and teaching experiences have placed her at Princeton University, Howard
University, the University of Florida at Gainesville, The Acting Company, the New Federal Theatre, and New York University's graduate acting program. She has received two Audelco Awards, the Monarch Merit Award and the Ira Aldridge Award.
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Name: James Hart
Title: Production Manager/Technical Director/Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: New Academic Building M03
Phone: (516) 463-7029
E-mail
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Bio:
James P Hart Jr. (Production Manager/Technical Director/Adjunct Assistant Professor) originally hails from Southern California. While there, he received his bachelor's degree from Whittier College. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Lighting Design from the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He has worked as the Technical Director for such theaters as Flat Rock Playhouse, The State Theatre of North Carolina; The Porthouse Theater, in Kent, Ohio; and the Summer Theatre of New Canaan, in Connecticut. He has worked as the Technical Director/Resident Lighting Designer for such theaters as The Burt Reynolds Institute, in Tequesta, Florida; and Pirate Playhouse, on Sanibel Island, Florida. He has held positions at other academic institutions including, Whittier College, Kent State University, University of Central Florida, and Salisbury University.
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Name: David M. Henderson
Title: Set and Costume Design
Degrees: B.F.A. 1989, Drama, Carnegie Mellon; M.F.A. 1992, Costume and Scenic Design, Carnegie Mellon
Address: 128 Calkins Hall
Phone: (516) 463-5236
E-mail: drmdzh@hofstra.edu
Web: http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/david_m_henderson
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Bio: David Henderson (Costume/Set Design, Makeup) has been a freelance set and costume designer since 1989. He has designed at many theaters across the country, including the Seattle Group Theater, Honolulu Theater For Youth, Tacoma Actor's Guild, Pittsburgh's City Theater, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, and The American Studio Theater in New York. Before coming to Hofstra, David taught various drama courses at Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham College, and the University of Pittsburgh. This past season at Hofstra, David designed the costumes for the Shakespeare Festival production of King John, and the slide projections for The Laramie Project; he recently designed the costumes for an independent short film, I Love You, I'm Sorry and I'll Never Do It Again. His short films, Ghost Story and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dumpling, have screened at numerous festivals, including the FAIF International Film Festival, Brooklyn International Kids Film Fest, Garden State Film Festival, Cloud 9 Film Festival, Lake County Film Festival, Audience Choice Festival, Flint Film Festival and the Dam Short Film Festival. He has an M.F.A. in costume and scenic design from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Name: James J. Kolb
Title:
Professor of Drama
Degrees: B.A., St. John Fisher College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Address: 104B John Cranford Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5449
E-mail: drmjjk@hofstra.edu
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Bio: James J. Kolb (Theatre History, Literature, Styles) has a B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York. His M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University.
A teacher of theatre history and dramatic literature since 1969, Professor Kolb taught for 15 years at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, where he was also chairman of the Theatre Arts Program for seven years and was a frequent stage director of musicals, operas and plays. After three years as a full-time administrator in University College for Continuing Education at Hofstra, Professor Kolb returned to the classroom as a full-time teacher in the fall of 1988. He served as chair of the Department of Drama and Dance at Hofstra University from 2000 to 2006.
As a "Speaker in the Humanities" from 1990 to 1995, he lectured extensively for the New York Council for the Humanities on aspects of the American musical theatre throughout New York State. During 2003-2005 he was once again a "Speaker in the Humanities," presenting a lecture on "Eugene O'Neill and the Drama of the Dysfunctional American Family." For more than a decade, Professor Kolb taught an annual undergraduate course in the American Musical Theatre, and he continues to lecture extensively in public libraries and senior centers on various aspects of musical theater, drama, and opera. Recent publications include an essay, "The Cid: Four Operatic Transformations of a Spanish Classic," in The Hispanic Connection: Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World, edited by Zenia Sacks DaSilva (Greenwood Press, April 2004); as well as co-editing with Arthur Gewirtz on Experimenters, Rebels, and Disparate Voices: The Theatre of the 1920s Celebrates American Diversity (Greenwood Press/Praeger, July 2003) and Art, Glitter, and Glitz: Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America (Greenwood Press/Praeger, October 2004).
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Name: Diane Lichtenberger
Title: Dance
Address: 209 Dempster
Phone: (516) 463-5207
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Name: Rachel List
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: 104 Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: drmrzl@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Rachel List (Ballet) was a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and is currently
performing nationally and internationally with the New York Baroque Dance Company.
Ms. List has been teaching ballet since 1978 and created numerous works for her own
company from 1985-1995. She has given master classes in Baroque dance at universities
across the United States, and has been a movement consultant/choreographer for the Pearl Theatre in New York City. Ms. List holds an M.F.A. from the University of
Wisconsin/Milwaukee.
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Name: Amy Marshall
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: 104 Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: drmagm@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Amy Marshall (Modern) was born in Kyoto, Japan, and raised in Sandwich, New
Hampshire, where she began her formal training in ballet and theater dance with Paula
Vinzi. She went on to study modern dance with Milton Myers and David Parsons at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and graduated in 1992 with honors from Goucher College with a double major in dance and theater. Since then, she has worked with Parsons Dance
Company, David Storey Danceworks, Cortez and Company, and Taylor 2. She left Taylor 2 to start her own company, which she established in February 2000. While influenced by Paul Taylor and David Parsons, Ms. Marshall has developed her own distinctive voice. Ms. Marshall has taught master classes and residencies throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, and currently teaches at Dancespace in New York City.
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Name: Maureen Connoly McFeely
Title: Adjunct Professor
Phone: (516) 463-0267
E-mail: engmcm@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Maureen Connoly McFeely (Theater Appreciation, Theater Today, Shakespeare) also teaches in the English Department. She has served as dramaturg for 15 Shakespeare Festival productions. She teaches Shakespeare on campus and off, and sees and reviews as many Shakespeare productions as she can.
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Name: Deirdre McGuire
Title: Costumes and Set Design
Address: 013 Emily Lowe
Phone: (516) 463-6643
E-mail: drmdzm@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Deirdre McGuire (Costume Construction, Theatre Design) divides her time between costume and scenic designs for Department productions while teaching related technical courses. She has a B.A. in theatre production from Hofstra University, a post-graduate diploma in theatre design and management from Victoria University in Manchester, England, and an M.F.A. in costume design from Penn State University. Before coming to Hofstra in 1975, she was costume designer for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and senior designer and technical director for the Drama Department at California State College, San Bernardino campus, the first woman to hold that position. During her career, she has designed nearly 200 productions, including 19 of Shakespeare's plays in 26 different productions. For 13 years, she designed scenery and costumes for Hofstra's Opera Theatre for the Department of Music. The American College Theatre Festival has three times sighted her for excellence in design – for the costume designs for Strindberg's Easter and Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and the scenic design for Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera. Miss McGuire is a recipient of the George M. Estabrook Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Name: Ilona Pierce
Title: Assistant Professor
Address: 11 Emily Lowe Hall
Phone: (516) 463-6645
E-mail: drmimp@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Ilona Pierce (Voice and Speech, Acting) has her M.F.A. in voice and speech coaching and training from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, with internships at The Juilliard School and Yale School of Drama. Her B.F.A. in musical theatre is from Ithaca College. Ilona has taught on the theater faculties of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford and Ithaca College, and as associate faculty for the Canadian National Voice Intensive. Her roles as an actress include: Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, Julie in Julie Johnson, Rosalind in As You Like It and Bette Davis et al in the one-woman version of Me and Jezebel. As a voice/dialect coach, Ilona has worked for Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, The Denver Center Theatre Company, Aspen Theatre in the Park and The Hangar Theatre. Her original children's plays have been produced in Colorado and Long Island. Ilona and her husband have two young
children.
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Name:
Cindy Rosenthal
Title:
Associate Professor
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Bio:
Associate Professor Cindy Rosenthal has taught acting and interdisciplinary
courses in performance at Hofstra University’s School for University
Studies since 1998, as well as courses in theatre studies for Hofstra’s
New College and courses in women’s studies in Hofstra’s HCLAS.
She received her Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University,
her M.A. from NYU’s Gallatin Division in literature in performance,
and her B.A. in English and drama, magna cum laude, from Tufts University.
Dr. Rosenthal directed Top Girls, Beckett Shorts, and The
Waiting Room at New College, as well as A Piece of My Heart for
Hofstra’s 2004 “Day of Dialogue.” She has performed
in regional theatre and musical tours (including seasons at New Jersey
Shakespeare Festival, Buffalo Studio Arena, and Stagewest), in a Clio
Award-winning commercial, and in Hofstra’s original production
of The Vagina Monologues. Dr. Rosenthal has contributed essays
to Theatre Survey, Women and Performance, and TDR,
including the recent TDR cover story (summer 2006) “Ellen
Stewart: La Mama of Us All,” and the Stessin Award-winning article,
also in TDR, “The Personal, the Political, the Gardens
and NYU” (fall 2002). She co-edited Restaging the Sixties:
Radical Theatres and Their Legacies, with James Harding for University
of Michigan Press (2006). She was selected as the public speaking consultant
of Hofstra’s Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence in 2005.
As a founding member of the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, since 1986, she
has conceived, performed, directed, and produced works in Middlebury,
Vermont and Juneau, Alaska. Favorite roles at Bread Loaf include the
Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Lucy in The Threepenny Opera,
and Sonia in Uncle Vanya.
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Name: Peter Sander
Title: Professor of Drama
Degrees: B.A., Brandeis University (cum laude) in Hebrew Literature; M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University in Directing on Heinz and Mellon Fellowships
Address: 019 Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5447
E-mail: drmpms@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Peter Sander (Acting, Shakespeare, Play Analysis) was a Hallmark Distinguished Professor and director of performance programs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and head of the Professional Actor Training Program at Ohio University. For three years he was NEA Dramaturg at the Cleveland Play House. His direction of Moonchildren in Chicago was nominated for two Jefferson Awards, and his production of The Criminals was seen at the first ACTF in Washington. He received the P.E.N-Goethe House Translation Prize for his 1972 rendering of Ice Age, and he is the co-author with Morris Carnovsky of The Actor's Eye. His production of Vivien, a one-woman play about Vivien Leigh, for the American Theatre of Actors in New York, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. At Hofstra he most recently directed a production of Madeleine George's The Most Massive Woman Wins and The Laramie Project.
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Name: Amanda Smith
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: Roosevelt Hall
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: amanda.l.smith@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Amanda Smith (Dance Appreciation) holds master's degrees from both the University of
Michigan (dance) and Pennsylvania State University (English). She is a long-time contributor to Dance Magazine, and her articles have also appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her interviews with authors, including Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie, have appeared in Publishers Weekly. Her photographs have appeared on book jackets and in Dance Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Boston Phoenix, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. For several years she has been writing audits for the New York State Council on the Arts. She is on the faculties of Coe College and Hofstra University.
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Name: Beth Soll
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: 17 Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5448
E-mail: drmbzs@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Beth Soll (Dance History) is the artistic director of Beth Soll & Company, which was
formed in 1977. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts,
many Massachusetts agencies, and numerous corporations. She directed the dance program at Boston University (1973-1977) and then at MIT (1977-1997), and has also taught at colleges throughout the country. In 1999, Soll earned a Ph.D. from Boston University. Her dissertation, Will Modern Dance Survive?: Lessons to be Learned from the Pioneers and Unsung Visionaries of Modern Dance, was published in 2002.
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Name: Arthur Solari
Title: Senior Dance Accompanist
Address: 17 Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5126
E-mail: drmazs@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Arthur Solari (Senior Dance Accompanist and Composer) was cited by The New York Times and the Newark Star-Ledger as "virtuosic" and "an up-and-coming composer," respectively. Arthur Solari specializes in music of the avant-garde. Mr. Solari has appeared throughout the world as a member of the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, New Jersey New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Avantguard, the electro-acoustic group Amalgam and as a solo artist. As a composer, Mr. Solari has premiered works at the American Dance Festival, Joyce Theater, Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, St. Mark's Church, the University of California at Berkeley, Frascati Theater of Amsterdam, Chisenhale Dance Space of London, Princeton University, and the Knitting Factory.
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Name: Maxine Steinman
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: 104 Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: drmmzs@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Maxine Steinman (Modern) received her undergraduate degree from Adelphi University
and her graduate degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. As a dancer, she has worked in the companies of Eleo Pomare, Mafata Dance Company, and the Denshawn Repertory Dancers. Her choreography has been seen in the United States, Brazil, Spain, and Japan. She is the director of LINKS (Limón Initiative Nuturing Kids), an outreach program for high schools within New York City, run by the José Limón Dance Company.
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Name: Lance Westergard
Title: Associate Professor (Dance: Ballet & Choreography, Reconstructions for Spring Dance Concert)
Degrees: B.F.A. Juilliard School
Address: 104A John Cranford Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5661
E-mail: drmlzw@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Lance Westergard (Director of Dance), a graduate of the Juilliard School, made his debut
at the Metropolitan Opera House in a work especially created for him by the great choreographer, Antony Tudor, entitled Concerning Oracles. As a performer, he has worked with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, Eliot Feld's American Ballet Company, Lotte Goslar's Pantomime Circus, Kathryn Posin Dance Company (associate director), Los Angeles Dance Theater (co-director), and Remy Charlip's International All Stars. He has been the ballet master for both the Joffrey II Dancers and Ballet Hispanico of New York. His choreographic talents have been recognized with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. Mr. Westergard received a certificate in honorarium for his achievement in dance from the Isadora Duncan Institute, and is a board member of the Lotte Goslar Pantomime Circus Foundation.
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Name: Robert Westley
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Bio: Robert Westley (Movement, Stage Combat) has acted, directed, choreographed movement and staged violence for theaters, opera houses and film companies across the country. His work has been seen at such venues as the The Huntington Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Central City Opera, Chautauqua Opera, The Lost Colony, Boston Academy of Music, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Jewish Emu Theatre and the New York's Fringe Festival. Recent theatrical productions include Macbeth, West Side Story, The Fantasticks, Private Lives, Moon Over Buffalo, Noises Off, A Skull in Connemara, Othello and Company, and the operas Tosca, I Pagliacci, Les Contes D'Hoffmann and Carmen. He has taught acting, theatrical movement and stage combat at Boston University's School of Theatre Arts and Opera Institute, the North Carolina School of the Arts, National Theatre Conservatory, the University of Alabama, Temple University and numerous workshops and intensives nationally and internationally. A certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, Robert holds a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University's School of Theatre Arts Professional Theatre Training Program and a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from Northern Illinois University, and performs and directs for Goodfoot Movement Productions, which he co-founded and serves as managing director.
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Name: Lynn Wheat
Title: Shop Manager / Technical Director
Address: New Academic Building, M02
Phone: (516) 463-7030
E-mail
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Bio:
Lynn Wheat (Shop Manager/ Technical Director) has been a technical director/ carpenter over the last 6 years in venues, including Goodspeed Opera House, CT; Hartford Stage, CT; The Alley Theatre, TX; Summer Opera Theatre Co., Washihgton,D.C. Most recently she was the Assistant Technical Director for the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY, where her skills contributed to a successful run of The Who’s Tommy staring Euan Morton. Lynn has worked with the Bay Street Theatre since 2003 on every Mainstage production. Some of which are; The Boyfriend, directed by Julie Andrews, designed by Tony Walton which led to her inclusion on the build of the national tour; Limonade Tous les Jours staring Alan Alda, directed by Zoe Caldwell, and Darwin in Malibu directed by Daniel Gerroll and designed by Gary Hygom. Lynn holds a BFA in Production/Design from Fredonia State.
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Name: Karla Wolfangle
Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Address: 104 Adams Playhouse
Phone: (516) 463-5444
E-mail: drmkzw@hofstra.edu
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Bio: Karla Wolfangle (Modern and Choreography) is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music and danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1981-1993. Ms. Wolfangle was also a member of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, the Boston Ballet, and was co-director and co-founder of the Cliff Keuter Dance Company. Her choreography has been presented in New York City at City Center, the Cunningham Dance Center, Dance Theater Workshop and the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Ms. Wolfangle choreographed and performed in Woody Allen's feature film Small Time Crooks. She was invited by the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival to present her choreography as part of Paul Taylor's 70th birthday celebration. Presently, she is on the faculty at Hofstra, Barnard College and New School University, and spends her summers teaching and choreographing at American Ballet Theatre's Summer Intensive.
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