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Festival 44 Guest Artists



		David Auburn - Plays include The Columnist (forthcoming: MTC/Broadway, spring 2012), The New York Idea (adaptation; Atlantic Theatre Co. 2011), Amateurs and An Upset (EST Marathons), Proof (2001 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, New York Drama Critics Circle Award), and Skyscraper (Greenwich House, 1997). He also worked on Jonathan Larson's posthumous musical Tick Tick Boom (2002). He has written numerous screenplays, including The Girl in the Park (also dir.) and The Lakehouse. Recent directing credits include the world premiere of Michael Weller’s Side Effects (MCC, 2011), Tennessee Williams’ Period of Adjustment (Berkshire Theater Festival, 2011), and Albee’s A Delicate Balance (BTF, 2010). His work has been published in Harper's Magazine and the New England Review; and he was a contributing editor to the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus.
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		Karen Anselm is a Professor of Theatre, Costume Designer and Director at Bloomsburg University. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, costume designs include: Anon(ymous) at BU, You Can't Take It With You at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, The Three Sisters at La MaMa, NYC and Wolf Sonata Bacchae at Dell Arte in Blue Lake, CA. She directed Trojan Women and Lysistrata, which toured to the International Theatre Institute Festival of Ancient Greek Drama in Cyprus. Karen is presently KCACTF National Chair of Design, Technologies, & Management, and has served as Chair of Region II, Chair of Chairs, Member-at-Large and on the National Selection Team of 2003. In June 2011, she attended the Prague Quadrennial with the KCACTF national DTM award recipients

		Brad Buffum teaches at University of Nebraska – Lincoln’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. This is also Brad’s 14th year as Production Stage Manger for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Nebraska’s only Actors’ Equity Association theatre. While at UNL, he has been PSM for such blockbusters as A Christmas Carol (several versions), Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! And nearly forty productions for NRT, including Carnival. As instructor for Introduction to Theatre, he has widened the horizons of nearly 4,000 non–theatre majors. He has stage managed productions for UNL in Russia, Poland and around the Midwest. An active participant in KCACTF, he serves on the selection team for Region V and is the stage management coordinator at the national festival. He is web master for kcactf.org and works to promote recognition for student stage managers across the US.

		Joseph Flauto received a BA in art from Youngstown University and a Masters in Theatre from Bowling Green University in Ohio. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans. His first position was as costume designer at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He then went on to receive tenure at the State University of New York, College at Potsdam where he designed sets, lights, and costumes for numerous productions. During that time he also began to work professionally which led to an opportunity to work for a year in England as the Head of Design at Crewe Theatre, a small professional theatre in northwest England. In 1978 he joined the faculty at the University of Evansville as set and lighting designer. Since then, in addition to his work at the University of Evansville, he has worked professionally as a set and costume designer nationally and regionally. In 2006 he was recognized as Artist of the Year by the Southwestern Indiana Arts Council.  His credits include numerous set and lighting designs for UE productions seen at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival regional festivals and several as part of national festivals at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He has been an active member of that organization and has been awarded a Gold Medallion in recognition for his years of service.  Professionally, Joe has worked at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The New Harmony Theatre, The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, and for many years at the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Holland, Mi. He is a member of National Partners of American Theatre and United Scenic Artists, 829.

		Shelley Graham studied theatre history and dramaturgy at Brigham Young University. She has taught theatre at BYU and also at Gainesville State College in Georgia. She has dramaturged productions for a number of institutions, including Brigham Young University, Pioneer Theatre Company, American West Heritage Center, and Provo Theatre Company.

		Jim Greer is a former Professor and Chair of Theatre at St. Louis Community College at Meramec in St. Louis. He has many years of experience as a director, actor, and designer. Since his retirement in 2007 he has become active as a playwright and has had two plays produced and another opening in February 2012. He has been an active member of KCACTF for many years. On a national level he has served as liaison between the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and KCACTF. Jim is also one of the original members of NAPAT where he serves as Awards Chair. On a Regional level he has served as respondent, selection team member, Irene Ryan judge, Regional Advisory Committee, and local coordinator for Festival XXXVII in St. Louis. He served three years as Professional Development Coordinator for Region 5. Jim was also the 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion. Outside of his involvement with KCACTF Jim has served as a Board Member and President of Missouri Citizens for the Arts where he actively lobbies for the arts on a state and national level. He received the 2002 Missouri Arts Advocacy Award and the 2008 Fred Laas Memorial Award for his contribution to Missouri Arts Education. He served on the Missouri Arts Council's Citizens Advisory Panel for Theatre. Presently he and his wife divide their time between homes in Phoenix and St. Louis.

		Richard "Buzz" Herman is Chair and Professor of Theatre at the University of Central Missouri. He holds his PhD in Directing and Acting from Texas Tech University. Buzz teaches courses in directing, acting, and theatre history and has served as director for over 100 academic and professional productions. For the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Buzz serves as the Region V Chair of the New Plays Program, has served as Assistant Irene Ryan Coordinator, regional respondent, regional advisory board member, regional selections team member, director for the Ten-Minute Play Festival and Irene Ryan judge. Buzz is the Past-President of the Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri. His honors include the Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Central Missouri Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri Outstanding Teacher Award.

		Gregg Henry (Artistic Director- KCACTF) Recent productions: Hub Theatre - Wonderful Life, the Kennedy Center - Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major, Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe, Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple, Dreams in the Golden Country, The Light of Excalibur, Round House Theatre- Melanie Marnich's A Sleeping Country, Washington Shakespeare Company- Julie Jensen's Two-Headed and Barbara Field's adaptation of Scaramouche. He directed the US Premieres of Morris Panych's Girl in the Goldfish Bowl for Metro Stage and Daniel MacIvor's You Are Here for Theatre Alliance. Centerstage First Look series: The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph. For Arena Stage Downstairs series: Biography of a Constellation by Lila Rose Kaplan and The Near East by Alex Lewin. For Catholic University: Whales by Bob Bartlett, Miranda is Morning by Stephen Spotswood, and Listen by Meg Schadl. He is artistic associate for New Works and Commissions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences and coordinates the Kennedy Center/Kenan Trust Performing Arts Fellowship Program. For ten years, he curated and co-produced the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, a free event at the Kennedy Center, featuring concert readings and open rehearsals of new work by the theatres in the DC Metro area. For these Festivals he produced special readings of Marco Ramirez' A Million Billion Thunders or Where Two Trees Make an X, Gregg Mozgala's Sex on Wheels, Lee Blessing's The Scottish Play and Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot, Shakespeare in Hollywood, The Three Musketeers and Treasure Island. He produces the annual MFA Playwrights' Workshop at the Kennedy Center in association with NNPN and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University. Gregg has acted, directed, and/or staged the fights with the Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals. He received his MFA in Acting from the University of Michigan and is formerly the director of theatre and an associate professor at Iowa State University. He is proud to serve on the Board of Taffety Punk Theatre Company, on the National Advisory Board of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas [LMDA], and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

		Dr. Rebecca Hilliker is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance where she teaches directing and dramatic literature. She has published numerous articles and reviews for such journals as Theatre Journal, Theatre History Studies, Within the Dramatic Spectrum, New England Theatre Journal, Nineteenth Century Theatre, and the Journal of Popular Culture. She has directed over 50 productions during her career and including a co-directed production of Susan Glaspel's Trifles for the symposium "Susan Glaspel's Trifles: Culture, Society and the Law" that took place in Tel Aviv. Rebecca is former chair for the KCACTF Region VII, has served on the national selection team and is currently National Chair of KCACTF. She is a strong advocate of supporting new student work and developed the one-act festivals of original student plays that takes place each year in Region VII. Her production of Acetylene written by student Erik Ramsey was selected in regional competition as a new student play national winner and presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Rebecca assisted Moises Kaufman in the development of the play The Laramie Project and appears in the HBO movie of the production both as an actor and character. She is the recipient of the prestigious Horace Robinson Award from the Northwest Drama Conference for her contributions to the region as director, educator and leader. She has also received two Kennedy Center Medallions for her service—one regional and one national and 9 Certificates of Merit for her directing.

		Benjamin Hohman is the Properties & Display Director at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, where he has worked for the past 19 years. He is also an active member of the national Prop Master organization: the Society of Properties Artisan Managers (SPAM). He also spent several years working at Actor’s Theater in Louisville, KY, and owns his own production company that builds theatrical productions, parade floats, and special event items.

		Julie Jensen is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for New American Plays for White Money, the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work for The Lost Vegas Series, and the LA Weekly Award for Best New Play for Two-Headed. She has received the McKnight National Playwriting Fellowship for Wait!, the TCG/NEA Playwriting Residency for Wait!, a major grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts for Dust Eaters, and the Edgerton Foundation Grant for Billion Dollar Baby. Her work has been produced in London, Frankfurt, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as in this country in New York and theatres nationwide. She Was My Brother was produced last season at Plan B Theatre, Last Lists of My Mad Mother was produced this season at Pygmalion Theatre, both in Salt Lake City, and Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie was produced at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey last season. Her play Two-Headed will be produced by Utah State University Theatre in April. She has been commissioned by Mark Taper Forum, ASK Theatre Projects, Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Salt Lake Acting Company, Geva Theatre, and Philadelphia Theatre Company, Penn State University, and Dramatic Publishing. Her work is published by Dramatic Publishing, Dramatists Play Service, and Playscripts, Inc. Her book on playwriting Playwriting: Brief and Brilliant has just been published by Smith and Kraus. She is currently the Resident Playwright at Salt Lake Acting Company and regional representative for the Dramatists Guild of America.

		Stephen Landon teaches introductory and advanced Theatre Design courses as well as Scenic Painting, Modernism, AutoCAD, Study Abroad London and is the resident Scene Designer at University of Michigan-Flint. Mr. Landon has numerous design credits with regional theatres in Michigan, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. Stephen is the Co-Vice Chair of Design Technology and Management for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Region III. He is also an advocate of bicycle based commuting on the UM-Flint campus.

		Kari Margolis has been committed to the creation of original theatre productions and the exploration of the actor's craft for three decades. She is Artistic Director of the international touring MB Adaptors Company founded in New York City in 1984. She has created seventeen original, evening-length productions that have received critical acclaim nationally and abroad. Kari has also developed several original productions with university students, two of which were invited to the Region VIII Festival and one to the Kennedy Center. She has also created large-scale, site-specific works for such places as the Brooklyn Museum, the Minnesota Science Museum and the Beach at Coney Island NY.   Ms. Margolis has developed a unique physical approach to actor training and theatre creation and has run an International Training Center since 1984. The Margolis Method Center is located in Highland Lake NY. and has a student body of over fifty artists per season. Kari conducts master classes, extended residencies and lecture demonstrations throughout the United States and internationally, is a published author and public speaker. Kari has been a Master Teacher at the Kennedy Center's ACTF in Washington D.C. for twelve years.      Ms. Margolis' original theatre productions have been recognized with:  Six Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Pew/TCG National Artist Fellowship, a "Bessie" NY Performance Award, a Creative Capital Foundation National Fellowship, a Bush Foundation Fellowship, three McKnight Foundation Interdisciplinary and Playwriting Fellowships,  two Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships and a Jerome Travel Grant among many other prestigious awards.

		Marilyn McIntyre’s theatre credits include leading roles on and off Broadway, regionally (South Coast Rep, Alley Theatre, Utah Shakespeare, et al) and in LA where has garnered multiple Ovation, LA Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, and BackStage Garlands awards and nominations for her work with such companies as VS., Matrix, Interact, among others. Most recently she played “The Mother” in Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal at the Open Fist. Ms. McIntyre’s numerous TV credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Watch Over Me (series regular), Judging Amy, et al. Film credits include, Heaven’s Rain (opp. Mike Vogel-The Help and Blue Valentine), Kurt Kuenne’s Shuffle, First Daughter (Forest Whitaker, dir.), Ring 2, Peter Berg’s Very Bad Things, and the hit short, George Lucas in Love among others. She starred in the festival favorite short, Into The Unknown, which is currently part of the nationwide traveling arts exhibit, “America: Now and Here!”. Ms. McIntyre teaches at the Howard Fine Acting Studio, Ted Brunetti Studio, SAG Hollywood Conservatory at AFI, and “Elon in LA” (Elon University, NC). She has taught at Cal State-Northridge, the Old Globe/USD MFA Program, USC, UT-Austin, et al. She holds a BFA (UNC School of the Arts) and an MFA (Penn State). She studied with Uta Hagen in her LA Master Classes, and is featured on her teaching video doing Object Exercise #10. http://www.MarilynMcIntyre.com

		Margot Melcon is the literary manager and dramaturg at Marin Theatre Company where she produces the New Works Reading Series and administers two annual new play prize competitions in addition to acting as production dramaturg on all shows. Prior to joining Marin in 2008, she worked in the literary and publications departments at A.C.T. She is a freelance writer for American Theatre magazine and HowlRound and was a fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill Playwrights Festival. She is a graduate of California State University, Chico.

		Tom Miller was an Actor for over 25 years, performing in National Tours, Regional Theatre, Off Broadway and Europe. Additionally, he performed with the Atlanta Ballet, Ballet Florida, the Carl Radcliff Dance Theatre and at Opryland USA, prior to joining the staff of Actors' Equity. He can be seen in the documentary "Show Business - The Road To Broadway" hosting a Broadway opening night Gypsy Robe presentation. For over a decade Tom served as a voter for the annual Tony Awards. Tom is a graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Education. Proud Equity Member since 1983.

		Dave Mortensen holds a BA from Brigham Young University with an emphasis in Directing and Dramaturgy and extended experience in producing and production management. Since 2005, he has produced 25 shows including 12 premieres of new scripts. In January 2010, he started the Utah Theater Bloggers Association (www.utahtheaterbloggers.com) in an attempt to address the limited arts coverage in Northern Utah. The site has authored over 400 reviews by 50 bloggers scattered across the state from Logan to St. George. He serves as Founding Editor of the UTBA, is co-founder of Mortal Fools Theatre Project and is an alumnus of the Commercial Theatre Institute.

		Allison Mosier is a Los Angeles-based actor and director. Currently Allison can be seen across the country playing Shelly Tibbits in WTFU, an award-winning comedy from Reel Spiel Productions. She is also appearing in the award winning production of Pulp Shakespeare at Theater Asylum in Los Angeles. Recent film/tv credits include: The Dentist, The Honeymoon, Obama Or Yo Mama, Morning Bitch, One Life to Live and As the World Turns and numerous commercials. Recent theatrical credits include Radio Broadway: The Hits of 1958 at Town Hall in Manhattan, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert at Lincoln Center, and The Fantasticks. Favorite New York and regional credits include Kiss Me Kate (Lois Lane/Bianca), The Full Monty (Georgie), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Marguerite) and Jekyll and Hyde (Emma). Recent directing projects include Squiggy and the Goldfish (Workshop Theatre-NYC), The Who's Tommy (National Tour), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Staten Island Philharmonic), The New Kid (Regional Tour), Freefall (Theatre Studio Inc.) and Sex, Love and Premature Evacuation (OC Centric). Allison has also been on the production teams of nine Broadway shows.

		Daniel L. Patterson is Chair of the Theatre and Dance department at Keene State College in New Hampshire. In addition to being past chair of the Region I festival, Professor Patterson chairs the Critics Institute, is a respondent, serves on the selection team, is a member of the executive board, and is a reader for the new play program of KCACTF. His productions of Terra Nova, The Servant of Two Masters and Next Time by Fire were performed at the Regional Festival. Professor Patterson received his BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied directing under to the tutelage of Dr. Francis Hodge. In 1975Professor Patterson was a co-founder of the THEATREWORKS company at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs which is recognized for its "Playwright's Forum" and the THEATREWORKS Shakespeare Festival. Professor Patterson has acted in numerous Shakespeare companies around the country and is proud of the fact that he has performed in fourteen of the Bard's works. Professor Patterson is also proud of the Kennedy Center Medallion that he was awarded for his work as Chair/Host of Region I from 2000 to 2003.

		Kevin Rahm is a 1994 a national Irene Ryan acting scholarship winner from BYU. Kevin began his screen-acting career with a number of small television guest roles before becoming a regular on the second season of Christina Applegate’s Jesse in 1999. In 2001, he joined the cast of the legal drama Judging Amy and continued to appear on the show into its fifth season. In 2004 he appeared in the remake of Alfie, and made several guest appearances on television shows ranging from Grey's Anatomy to CSI. In 2007, he joined the cast of ABC's hit series Desperate Housewives as Lee McDermott. He also appeared on Friends as Tim, Monica’s inexperienced sous-chef, on AMC’s Mad Men as Ted Chaough, from the rival firm CGC, and as Brad Elias, used car salesman, on CBS’s The Mentalist. In addition, he has been a member of South Coast Repertory and Pacific Resident Theatre. Among his many stage credits are All My Sons, Macbeth, Of Mice and Men, Inherit the Wind, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Waiting for Godot; other film credits include L. A. Blues, and Nurse Betty. He has also guested on Without a Trace, Scrubs, CSI: Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: New York, Beverly Hills 90210 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Kevin currently portrays Jack, Annie's ex-brother-in-law and crush, on the Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter. Kevin is represented by the Gersh Agency.

		Jerry Rapier has been Producing Director of Plan-B Theatre Company (Salt Lake City, Utah) for 12 years, where he has directed nearly two dozen productions, including one that played Toronto's Fringe Festival in Canada and another that transferred to an off-Broadway run in New York. Jerry was an adjunct instructor in the University of Utah's Department of Theatre from 2005-2007, served on the national Board of Governors of the Human Rights Campaign from 2007-2009, received Salt Lake City's Mayor's Artist Award in the Performing Arts in 2008 and was a Theatre Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Idaho and is one of the few members of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society based in Utah.

		Steve Reynolds directs plays and teaches playwriting, acting, dramatic literature, and a course on creating documentary theatre at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH. He is the current NPP Member-at-Large for KCACTF. He has served on the 2009 KCACTF National Selection Team, as NPP Chair of Region III, and as a playwriting mentor at the National Festival. He was given a Gold Medallion Award in Region III in 2008. He holds a BA from Tufts University and a MA and Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Michigan. He has taught at Wittenberg since 1981.

		Alejandro Rodriguez is an actor, poet and educator. As a teaching-artist he's worked with youth in classrooms across the country, including with The New Orleans Project, as a Resident Artist for the Boys & Girls Club of Washington D.C., and with The Acting Company. Alejandro has been volunteering, training volunteers and Administrating ASTEP programs since 2006. He has a BFA from The Juilliard School, where he received the Michel St. Denis prize for outstanding achievement. He has since performed on stage, film, and in commercials, including Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Guthrie Theater and at the Arizona Theatre Company, the Shakespeare Center of LA, and at Lincoln Center. He recently created the role of Charlie Baseball in the premiere of Michael Mejia's Ghetto Babylon at the Soho Playhouse, and returned to Juilliard for the final installment of John Barton's adaptation of The Greeks, directed by Brian Mertes. He's originally from Miami, Florida. www.asteponline.org

		Hilary Russell-Bauer is n actor, director, and teacher, Ms. Russell has worked at the Mark Taper Forum with their New Works Project, South Coast Repertory as a member of their acting ensemble and a faculty member of the their Adult & Youth Conservatory. She has worked as a guest artist instructor through South Coast Rep’s Neighborhood Conservatory for the Orange County On Track program focusing on at-risk youth. Her professional directing credits include the long running Days of ’98 Show in Skagway, Alaska, The Laramie Project, and the highly acclaimed West Coast Premieres of Neil LaBute’s Medea Redux and Bash. Her stage acting credits: Spring Awakening, The Heiress, Pygmalion, Three Sisters, Hedda Gabler, A Lie of the Mind, Night of the Iguana, Easter, The Killing of Sister George, Lepers and Sweeney Todd. She is a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity Association. Ms. Russell holds a B.A. in Theatre & Film from Brigham Young University and an M.F.A. in Acting from California State University, Fullerton.

		Matthew Tibbs is the Resident Sound Designer for Pioneer Theatre Company and Adjunct Faculty teaching sound design for the University of Utah. Recent sound designs for PTC include Rent, Next to Normal, and the world premier of Find and Sign. Matthew has previously worked for Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, and Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati. Matthew has also been the sound designer on several award winning films and video projects. Matthew holds an M.F.A. in Sound Design from University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and a B.A. from George Fox University.

		Russell T. Warne is an assistant professor of psychology at Utah Valley University. He earned his B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Theatre Studies from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (with an emphasis in Research, Measurement, and Statistics) from Texas A&M University. He originally started reviewing productions 5 years ago privately for his friends on Facebook. In 2010, he was one of the first people invited to be part of Utah Theater Bloggers Association (UTBA), based on his years of reviewing live theatre. He was quickly made assistant editor and is now managing editor of UTBA, where he has written one-third of the reviews of Shakespeare productions published on the site. Although Russell is mostly a theatre critic today, he has also been an actor (Ragtime, The Red Badge of Courage) music director (West Side Story twice, Joyful Noise), and playwright (The Decameron).

		Tom Woldt is the Immediate-Past Chair of KCACTF Region V and is a proud recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion. He serves as Chair and Professor of the Department of Theatre Arts at Simpson College in Iowa. He received his undergraduate degree from South Dakota State University, his M.F.A. in Directing from Minnesota State University, Mankato, his Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and interned at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Tom directed The Woman In Black, which appeared at the 2000 Region V KCACTF Festival and was chosen as the Honorable Mention production to the National Festival in Washington. In 2000, Tom received Simpson College's Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Recent directing projects have included: The Learned Ladies, Henry 5, Push Up: 1-3, Into the Woods, The Trojan Women: Stories of Love and War, On the Razzle, Expecting Isabel and Five Course Love (Williamston Theatre "Subscriber's Choice Awards" for Best Show and Best Ensemble; Lansing Journal's top five musicals of the year for the 2010 season.) His other affiliations include Associate/Educator Level membership in Stage Directors and Choreographers society (SDC.)