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Katcy Stephen ’16
KATCY
STEPHAN ’16 is the social media editor for Variety, managing a portfolio with millions of followers and conducting interviews with
major entertainment industry players. After graduating from Providence College in 2016 with degrees in Theatre and English, she obtained a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. Katcy previously worked for Access Hollywood and BuzzFeed News, where she created content for social platforms and traveled the country reporting live from major cultural events. She also makes regular television appearances as an on-camera media and pop culture expert.
Mollie Giancola ’22
MOLLIE GIANCOLA ’22 is a second-year graduate student at NYU Steinhardt studying K-12 dance education. After graduating from Providence College, Mollie decided to utilize her psychology degree and dance minor to pursue a career that combined her passions and skills: working with children and dancing. Since moving to New York City, Mollie has worked at Buckle My Shoe preschool with toddlers, participated in professional dance opportunities, taught various dance classes and workshops in schools and studios in NYC and Martha’s Vineyard, worked with the most talented dance educators, and achieved a comprehensive Pilates certification. She recently accepted a job teaching reformer Pilates at Body Evolutions NYC. She attributes much of her preparedness and successes to her education at Providence College, where professors introduced her to the varieties, opportunities, and depths within the dance world. Once Mollie graduates and becomes a New York State certified dance educator, she will continue teaching dance and general education in the early childhood education setting while performing with various dance groups and expanding on her goals within Pilates.
Alison R. Simone ’16
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SON R. SIMONE ’16 is a New York City based Equity Stage Manager who earned her MFA in Stage Management from Columbia University. Most recently Alison was the Assistant Stage Manager for Straight Line Crazy at The Shed. She was first assistant stage manager on the 10th anniversary production of ROCK OF AGES. She has worked in both non-for-profit and commercial theater in New York City. Check out more at www.alisonsimone.com
Troy Quinn ’05
Troy Quinn ’05 is quickly establishing himself as one of his generation’s most versatile young artists. Lauded for his energetic and riveting, yet sensitive conducting, Quinn is in his fourth season as Music Director of the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra in Kentucky. He is also the Music Director of the Venice Symphony in Florida where he conducts both the classical and pops concert series. Quinn is also the former Music Director of the Juneau Symphony. Equally at home in the pops and commercial world, Quinn has performed and recorded with some of the most popular artists of our time, including The Rolling Stones, Barry Manilow, Josh Groban, Jennifer Hudson, and Jackie Evancho. In addition to his concert work, Quinn has worked extensively in the television and recording industry in Los Angeles, having made appearances on such hit T.V. shows as Fox’s GLEE, NBC’s The Voice, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno while recording on films like The Call of the Wild and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He serves on the faculty at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and has previously served as a faculty member at Providence College.
John O’Hurley ’77
John O’Hurley ’77 was a ubiquitous sitcom guest star in the ’90s, appearing on countless shows, notably Seinfeld as Elaine’s cheerfully clueless boss. After graduating from Providence College with a B.A. in Theatre, he honed his craft on stage before embarking on a successful soap-opera career, but his flair for comedy landed him in prime time. Due to his high-profile Seinfeld role and quick wit, he became a sought-after host and commercial pitchman, and also lent his distinctive timbre to animated series and radio. In 2005, O’Hurley was a contestant on the first edition of Dancing with the Stars. The favorite to win, he lost to General Hospital’s Kelly Monaco. The decision was so controversial that the two ended up with their own dance-off special, which O’Hurley won. In 2006, he took over as the fifth host of Family Feud, a position he held until 2010. Aside from acting work, O’Hurley has enjoyed success in music. He is a self-taught pianist and a classically trained singer, and has appeared onstage in professional productions of Chicago (as Billy Flynn) and Spamalot (as King Arthur.)
Christine Cestaro ’11
CHRISTINE CESTARO ’11 currently working as a writer for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. After graduating from the Theatre program at Providence College she landed her dream job as an NBC Universal Page as part of their East Coast Page Program. She happily donned a gray suit and peacock pin. This lead to her next post-graduate job at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a year later. She has not worn any blond wigs since Gypsy (2011). Her other PC Credits include Charley’s Aunt (2008) and Talk Radio (2010). She was also part of the Wardrobe Running Crew for Waiting for Lefty (2009) and Romeo and Juliet (2010).
Lucille Loren Vasquez ’21
LUCILLE LOREN VASQUEZ ’21 is an actor, singer, writer, and dancer based in the Bronx. She graduated from Providence College in 2021 with a BA in Theatre and a minor in Entrepreneurship. Her most recent live performance was the original production of The Love Hate Club at Theatre Row. She is currently in rehearsal for the new play titled E.G.G by Emile Lacheny that is taking part in the New York Theatre Festival this fall. Other stage acting credits include For the Love of Lina as Lina, Cast(e) as herself, The Misanthrope as Celimene, and Lost Girl as Katie (the lost girl). Her film acting credits include her performance in Raising Isaac, Oranges, Porcelain, Shift, and Perspective of Love. Lucille has a special interest in workshopping new material and productions. She joined Art Defined’s inaugural Flip the Script Anthology Performance with her most recent play Up Against which tackles themes of family, violence, and womanhood. Lucille trained at Deena Levy’s Theatre Studio studying Meisner’s technique and is undergoing voice training with Melissa Cintron at Pelham Music Arts Studio. Lucille’s play, Shift the Rain, explores how modern culture and gentrification permanently alters the fabric of a stronghold community in the Bronx. The play tells the story of Diamond and Lila- two best friends whose lives get turned around unexpectedly. Set in a community in the Bronx, the girls face a looming threat to their lives and the community they were raised in due to the inevitable consequences of gentrification. Diamond and Lila are limited to their imagination and stories of other neighborhoods who have been affected, to understand what this will mean for them.
Billy Nawrocki ’12
BILLY NAWROCKI ’12 is a film editor, director, and screenwriter who has helped launch a start-up sports network in Connecticut, created his production company, D.I.Y or DIE Productions, LLC, and has found success in the horror genre with his short films and screenplays placing in many notable festivals and competitions. He has edited three feature films that have been distributed by notable companies such as Gravitas Ventures and Breaking Glass Pictures. Most recently, he was the lead editor for Bleacher Report’s Branded Content team, Playmaker, at Warner Bros. Discovery, creating and editing campaigns for clients such Facebook, Best Buy, Netflix, Ubisoft, Tissot, National Guard, INTEL, Gatorade, Uber Eats, TNT, Adidas, Ford, Footlocker, and more. He is currently a freelance editor working for notable brands such as Vogue, Samsung , Cartier, Tom Ford, 818 Tequila, Google, and William Grant and Sons. He is in pre-production on his debut feature film that will tentatively be shooting in the fall of 2024.
Colleen (Rosati) McCormack ’07
Colleen (Rosati) McCormack ’07 is the Manager of Creative Development at Disney Theatrical Group in New York City. In her roles as Dramaturg and Line Producer, she has worked on such shows as The Lion King, Aladdin, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, Mary Poppins, Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, AIDA and the upcoming Frozen both on Broadway and Internationally. She has developed The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Freaky Friday, High School Musical, and Camp Rock for licensing to professional, amateur and school theaters, and oversees the musical adaptations for Disney’s Broadway JR collection, including such titles as Mulan JR., The Lion King JR. and Winnie the Pooh KIDS. Colleen was a contributor and editor for Newsies: Stories of the Unlikely Broadway Hit and can be heard singing on the Hunchback of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording. Outside of her work with Disney Theatrical Group, she is a founding member of Two Turns Theatre Company and served as a producer for 8-Minute Musicals at the New York Musical Festival.
Stephanie (Kraus) Carr ’96
STEPHANIE (KRAUS) CARR ’96 holds the position of Business Manager for Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ (since the fall of 2014). Paper Mill Playhouse was the recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award; and currently has two shows that originated at PMP playing on Broadway in the 2017 Season: Bandstand and A Bronx Tale. A member of Actors’ Equity, Stephanie occasionally continues to perform with Pushcart Players, NJ’s touring theatre for young audiences, for whom she worked for 16 years prior to Paper Mill. She also serves as a professional church cantor and soprano soloist. Stephanie lives in Morris County, NJ with her husband, Robert Carr (of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance), and daughter, Sabrina.
Wally Dunn ’82
Wally Dunn ’82 has been performing on Broadway, television, and films for over thirty years since graduating from PC. His Broadway credits include The Iceman Cometh (with Nathan Lane) at B.A.M., Spamalot, Gypsy (Bernadette Peters), One Mo’ Time, Master Class. National Tours: West Side Story, Spamalot, All Shook Up, Master Class. Off-Broadway credits include Roundabout, Vineyard, Theatre for a New Audience. Regional: Goodspeed, Hangar Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, Hartford Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public, McCarter Theatre, New York Stage & Film, Geva. Film: The School of Rock, In & Out, In Dreams, The Opportunists, 24 Hour Woman, The Good Shepard. TV: 30 Rock, The Carrie Diaries, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU. In summer 2017, Dunn performed in the Cape Playhouse production of Gypsy.
More from our alumni!
David Barbour ‘79 is editor of Lighting & Sound America, a monthly trade publication covering technology in live entertainment, including Broadway, concert touring, corporate events, theatre architecture, houses of worship, and more. He reviews theatre for the magazine’s web site. He is co-president (with Charles Wright) of the Drama Desk. He is a member of the nominating committee for the Henry Hewes Design Awards and recently completed a stint as a judge for the Obie Awards. He edited A Theatre Project, a memoir by Richard Pilbrow, the noted lighting designer, producer, and theatre consultant, and is currently working with him on a book about London’s National Theatre.
Sarah Elizabeth Bedard ’09 received her MFA in acting from Brandeis University in May 2014. She can currently be seen in the Gloucester Stage Company’s production of A Measure of Normalcy. Recently, Sarah participated in The Boston Theatre Marathon’s Warm-Up Lap (Huntington Theatre Company’s Hair of the Dog), workshops at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre as well as the Mad Dash. Sarah is a freelance fight choreographer (Company One, Brown Box Theatre Project, Brandeis University), a director at Stoneham Theatre’s Young Company, and a theatre educator with the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild, playing the role of Maire in Brian Friel’s Translations produced by Bad Habit Productions at the Roberts Theater, Calderwood Pavilion in the Boston Center for the Arts. Other favorite previous credits include Company One’s Shockheaded Peter, Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Phèdre (Ismene), Berkshire Theatre Festival’s A Christmas Carol (Belle/Mrs. Cratchit), Shakespeare & Company’s Dibbledance SWAY, Mettawee River Theatre’s Taliesin, Boston Public Works’ Three (Jenni), Bad Habit Productions’ Translations (Maire) and Arcadia (Hannah).
Amanda Blake Davis ’98 has been a writer, improvisor and sketch comedienne in Chicago for the last decade. She has performed with the famed Second City Theatre in their National Touring Company, the Las Vegas stage and the resident company The Second City etc, where she won a Jeff Award for Best Actress in a Revue for Studs Turkels Not Working. She improvises with Virgin Daiquiri and Baby Wants Candy and co-wrote the original musical Broads on Boards, produced by the Annoyance Theater. Most recently, Amanda is credited for writing the music and lyrics for Fifty Shades! The Musical: The Original Parody, Now playing in New York City. She resides in Los Angeles.
John Bowab ’55 has achieved great success in New York and Los Angeles, both as a director and a producer of television and theatre. Most recently he directed the World Premiere of Rest, In Pieces starring Marcia Wallace, the 2 year Off-Broadway run of My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m In Therapy, the National Tour of Legends starring Linda Evans and Joan Collins, and The Night of the Hunter (book and lyrics by Stephen Cole, music by Calibe Richardson), which opened at the Willows Theatre in Concord California. In recent years to benefit The Actors Fund he has directed and co-produced along with Martin Wiviot The Monday Night Concert Series at the world famous Pantages Theater in Los Angeles paying tribute in May of 2011 to the music of Billy Barnes, preceded by the 90th Birthday Celebration of Carol Channing just to name a few.
Richard Brundage ’81 recently played Ken Gorman in Neil Simon’s Rumors at the Broward Stage Door Theatre, where success led to the role of Cap’n Andy in the theatre’s holiday production of Show Boat. He has signed to play lead roles in Noises Off, The Fantasticks, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, and a new play called The Unicycle Of Life at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse (NH) for summer 2013. This is Richard’s fifth consecutive summer with the Playhouse.
Brendan Byrnes ’92 Brendan was in the Off-Broadway production of the new play, Pyramid of the Sun at the Hudson Guild Theatre, NYC, Nite-Club Confidential at Sierra Rep in Sacramento, CA., The Screams of Kitty Genovese at the Theatre at St.Clements as a part of The New York Musical Theatre Festival, NYC. He also has a recurring role in the HBO television pilot Say Uncle and can be seen in the Disney film Enchanted, opening November 2007. Brendan also had the pleasure of returning to PC in the spring of 2005 to direct and choreograph Brigadoon, the inaugural production at the Angell Blackfriars Theatre in the new Smith Center for the Arts.
Ted Boyce-Smith ’11 is a New York City based lighting and projection designer for Theater, Opera, Dance and Events. Some of his recent credits include: And Then They Came For Me (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, AL), Conway (Theaterlab, NYC), The Album: Here There Are Blueberries, (Workshop Production / Tectonic Theater Project), Red Speedo, Baltimore and Rage (Quinnipiac University), Anything That Gives Off Light (The TEAM & The National Theatre of Scotland, US Tour / Off Broadway), Hadrian & Antinous (Lenfest Center for the Arts, NYC), Trouble in Mind (AADA, NYC), An Evening With Renée Fleming (Michigan Opera Theater, MI), Uncle Vanya (The Cutting Ball Theater). Recent associate design: Circle Jerk Live! (Mitu580, PJ/LD: David Bengali) Spongebob Squarepants The Musical (Broadway, PJ: Peter Nigrini), Eugene Onegin (Michigan Opera Theater, LD: Robert Wierzel), We Shall Not Be Moved (Opera Philadelphia, The Apollo & The Dutch National Opera, LD: Robert Wierzel). Ted holds an MFA in theatrical design form New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. For more information please visit www.tedboycesmith.com
Nicholas Cipriano ’08 currently works as Senior Broadcast Studio Manager for Fresenius Medical Care, after working many years in a video and television production capacity for Lax Sports Network. After graduating PC, he provided costuming, lighting and stage management for a production of Dramma Sacro di Santa Giocondina, a passion play produced by the Pontelandolfo Italian-American Community in Waterbury, CT. He can be seen acting and volunteering regularly at the Footlight Club in Boston, MA, where in 2019 he earned a nomination for a DASH award (Best Supporting Actor) for his work in Blood Relations.
Ted Deasy ‘87 has appeared in productions in New York and at regional theatres throughout the country including: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Rep, Delaware Theatre Company, GeVa Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.
Melissa Fallon ’06 is a SAG and AFTRA actress. She co-produced a film in 2009 that received two awards from the Coney Island Film Festival and the New York International Independent Film Festival.
Liz (Figlock) Gonsalves ’83 received her Ph.D. at Boston College and has been the department head for English Language Arts at Abington High School in Abington, MA since 1996. Liz is also the advisor of SAM, the AHS Student Arts MAgazine. She was the host of A Very Open Mic Night, PoetryOutland, and Massmouth at AHS and as a judge for the local ESU Shakespeare Competition at Coyle and Cassidy High School in Taunton, where PC Alumna Carol (Caufield) Mecca ’83 is the head of the Fine Arts Department.
Dan Foster ’79 directed Outside Mullingar at the Hudson Stage Co. in the spring and this summer directed Other Desert Cities at the Nantucket Theatre Workshop.
Carl Gudenius ‘80 is professor of design in the Department of Theatre & Dance at George Washington University in Washington , DC and heads their graduate program. He owns a fabrication shop called Pro-Scenic, Inc. which produces scenery for theatre, television and corporate events. Carl returns to Providence College to design for Angell Blackfriars Theatre Mainstage Productions.
Richard Warner ‘73 taught acting at the University of Virginia for 30 years where he had the honor of coaching, among many others: Tina Fey, Ben McKenzie (Gotham, The O.C.), Sean Patrick Thomas (Cruel Intentions, Barbershop), Jason George (Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19), Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy, Everwood) and Emily Swallow (The Mandalorian, Supernatural, The Mentalist). He was awarded the UVa’s Outstanding Teacher Award, the Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professorship and was selected as an inaugural member of the University Academy of Teaching. As an active member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA, Richard studied In New York City with Michael Howard and performed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Chelsea Theatre Center, W.P.A. Theatre and Douglas Fairbanks Theatre. He has acted regionally in over one hundred roles in many prestigious regional theaters. Film credits include: Homer Benson in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln; Dr. Ezra Abbott in Ridley Scott’s Killing Lincoln; Chester Bowles in National Geographic channel’s Killing Kennedy; Vic LeClue in Patriot Son. Richard played the lead opposite Grey’s Anatomy’s Sarah Drew in the short film, Waking Marshall Walker and created the role of L.P. Everett for Homicide, Life on the Street. As a director, he has staged Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, A Raisin in the Sun, Cloud Nine, Fuddy Meers, The Foreigner, A Man for All Seasons, Misalliance, Suddenly Last Summer, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Laramie Project, Lend Me a Tenor, Lost in Yonkers, Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and True West.
Adrienne Johnson-Lister ’05 is the Managing Director of Santa Monica Repertory Theater, and Stage Manages for AMDA College of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles. Highlights of her PC career include calling the inaugural show at the Smith Center for the Arts, and getting to sit in the Red Sox dugout for the filming of Fever Pitch, directed by the Farrelly brothers.
Nicole Kempskie ’95 has worked extensively as a writer, theater artist, and educator in New York City and Boston. Her musical Helen on 86th St., with composer Robby Stamper, premiered in New York City in 2011. The one-hour school edition is published and licensed through Playscripts, Inc. and has been performed across the country and internationally. Other musical collaborations with Stamper include The Order of Things, It’s About Time, and multiple children’s musicals produced at Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, which she co-founded and served as Artistic Director of from 2004-2011. She has published over fifty theater and film educational resource guides for Brooklyn Academy of Music and Lincoln Center Theater that include works by Beckett, Pinter, Odets, Ibsen, and Shakespeare. Her work has been supported by fellowships, residencies, and mentorships with Stowe Story Labs, The Marble House Project, The Off-Broadway Alliance, and the Noepe Center for Literary Arts. Awards and recognitions include: finalist for the Kleban Prize for lyric writing; International Family Film Festival Screenplay Winner, International Screenwriter Association Fast Track Fellowship Top 6, London Film Awards Screenplay Finalist, Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist, Final Draft Big Break Quarter-finalist (all for Helen on 86th St.), and Table Read my Screenplay Semi-finalist (for Co-op). She holds a Master’s degree from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at New York University and is pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College
Joe Menino ’77 In September 2012 Joe played the King of France in the Arkansas Rep production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V. Joe is based in New York. Other roles in NY include: Glyn Maxwell’s Agamemnon Home, Art, Iphegenia at Aulis, Hapgood, No Exit, An Enemy of the People, I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document. Joe and his wife Kathy are Co-Artisitic Directors at the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble in New York City.
Chris O’Neil ‘91 holds a position with The Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Mr. O’Neil is responsible for the center’s facility management, business operations, and event logistics during 200 performances a year. He recently completed a Master’s Degree in Non-Profit Studies at University of Richmond. Active in local nonprofit organizations, he is an executive member on the board of the Richmond Catholic Theatre.
Kathryn A. (Parrella) Calnan ’94 has served as Director of Development since 2010 for Trinity Repertory Company, the Tony Award winning theater that was named State Theater of Rhode Island in 2013 in recognition of its 50th anniversary season. Previously, Kathy has worked as an Arts Fundraising Consultant for the Franklin Performing Arts Company, Director of Development at Providence Performing Arts Center, General Manager at New Repertory Theatre, Associate Managing Director at Yale Repertory Theatre, and (Interim) Manager of Theatrical Programming at The Kennedy Center. Kathy currently serves as a Class Agent for PC and co-chaired the class of 1994’s 20th anniversary reunion and fundraising drive. She has her MFA in Theater Management from the Yale School of Drama and lives in Medway, MA with her husband Michael and their three daughters.
Bob Perry ’78 performed in a number of productions during his four years at PC, including 1776, Rashoman, One Flew Over The Cockoos Nest and You Can’t Take It With You. A couple of years after graduating, he joined the US Navy and retired this past October after 32 Years. He recently returned to the stage, completing a show in Boston for Wax Wings Production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot as Judge Littlefield and reprized the role for Mad Hat Theater Company in Jan 2014. Bob also completed a Shakespeare showcase at Trinity Rep. as Angelo in Measure for Measure, with Fred Sullivan instructing. He is currently finishing his Fine Arts degree in Theater (Acting concentrate) at URI and was recently cast as Don Juan in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. “I am proof you can go back to the things you have always loved and wanted to pursue and make them come true.”
Therese Plaehn ’01 Earned her MFA from A.R.T.’s Institute with the Moscow Art Theatre at Harvard. She recently played Emily Webb in Our Town at the Huntington Theatre directed by David Cromer. Additional credits include Masha in Three Sisters, A (radically condensed and expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, after David Foster Wallace (Chocolate Factory dir. Daniel Fish), Gloucester Blue (dir. Israel Horovitz), Dancing at Lughnasa (Gallery Players), Tape (NYC revival); Paradise Lost (A.R.T. dir. Daniel Fish), Dying City (Stonington Opera House), The Well of the Saints (Sugan). Television credits include – Hatfields & McCoys (NBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), Onion News Network (IFC), Onion News Empire (Amazon).
Amanda Kay Ritchie ’10 is currently working at the two-time Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center where she is the Program Administrator of the National Theater Institute, offering six undergraduate theater training intensives including the only opportunity for U.S. undergraduates to train at the famed Moscow Art Theatre School. In the last year, she has been instrumental in the launch of the National Music Theater Institute; an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center entitled Launchpad of the American Theater: The O’Neill Since 1964; and a new book The O’Neill: The Transformation of Modern American Theater published by Yale University Press. She has previously held positions with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (working for National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Kennedy Center Honors, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and the Millennium Stage), the DeVos Institute for Arts Management, and Playwrights Horizons
Mike Sablone ’98 Mike is the Producing Artistic Director of the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina, a job he started in 2017. The Warehouse is Greenville’s premier professional regional theatre, where community engagement and education complement thought-provoking theatre experiences. Before joining The Warehouse he was a dramaturg for Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Kirk Douglas Theatre) in Los Angeles. While there he was the dramaturg for Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman’s BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON and saw the musical through its development including productions at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and Public Theater to its run on Broadway at the Jacobs Theater. Other notable theatre world premieres include David Henry Hwang’s Pulitzer Prize finalist YELLOW FACE (Mark Taper Forum); Matt Sax and Eric Rosen’s hip-hop musical VENICE (Kansas City Rep, Kirk Douglas Theatre), which Time Magazine called “The year’s [2010] best musical”; Culture Clash’s PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO (Mark Taper Forum); John Belluso’s HENRY FLAMETHROWA (Trinity Rep); Paul Grellong’s RADIO FREE EMERSON (Gamm) and POWER OF SAIL (Warehouse Theatre). He has developed work at CTG, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Repertory, Trinity Rep, and the Denver Theatre Center. He spent five years as Director of Development for John Krasinski’s production company Sunday Night, serving as the Executive Producer of Krasinski’s THE HOLLARS and Co-Producer of the Gus Van Sant film PROMISED LAND.
Mike Scafati ’96 teaches acting and filmmaking at The Meadowbrook School of Weston in Massachusetts. Mike has acted and directed in the International 48 Hour Film Project in Boston each spring, working with dozens of middle school students to make a movie in only 48 Hours. The School’s productions, “King’s Gambit” received Best of Boston honors for the second consecutive year, including three awards including “Best Special Effects.” (Watch it at www.youtube.com/themeadowbrookschool.)
Peter Waugh ’05 worked on a few regional productions in CT before moving to New York in 2006. After several years of auditioning and working on projects in and around NYC he decided to look into the non-performance side of the theatre world. Since 2011 Peter has worked for Broadway Inbound, a division of The Shubert Organization that is focused on selling tickets and Broadway experiences to the tourism and travel industry. Peter’s role as Domestic Sales Manager has him seeing just about every Broadway and Off-Broadway production and then traveling all over the US and Canada promoting Broadway as a destination for travelers.
The Friars Cell, 1973
The Friars Cell was located in the former Television Room in the basement of Stephen Hall from 1969 to 1982. In 1994 Stephen Hall was renovated and became the Feinstein Academic Center.
Smith Center for the Arts 2005-present
Huntington Theatre, Boston 2012
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