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18 Sep

Sequoia Sellinger is a NYC based composer, performer, musical director, curator, and stand-up comedian. She is a recent college graduate from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. Being a multidisciplinary artist she has created music/sound design for a number of plays, musicals, dance, film, performance art, video art, pop artists, and for her band, Slow Loris. Recent works include a sci-fi inspired folk musical Gravity of Me Gone that premiered this summer as a part of ANT Fest at Ars Nova, as well as Imogen, a new musical that premiered at SUNY Purchase this past Spring. She has been a composer in residence at Fontainebleau Conservatoire in France, Seal Bay Festival in Maine, at John Zorn's The Stone, as well as Imani Winds Festival at Mannes. For more please check out: www.sequoiasellinger.com   Credits: The Addams Family: Music Director...

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18 Sep

MICHAEL T. WILLIAMS is a Brooklyn and Philadelphia-based theatre maker and arts educator. He is co-founder of AntiGravity Theatre Project, as well as a creator with the company. With AntiGravity and solo Michael has worked with: La Mama ETC, Williamstown Theatre Festival, FringeArts, Pig Iron Theatre Company, MCC Theatre, Trinity Rep, The Winged Cranes Productions (Madrid), El Relo Productions (Madrid), Soho Rep, Blood from a Turnip, 95 Empire, Sleeping Weazel and in Arena Stage's Downstairs Series for New Work and Voices of Now Festival. Michael has taught for the Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design CoLAB, the City University of New York, and University of the Arts, in addition teaching for regional theatre companies and arts education organizations. He is the recipient of the Weston Award for Excellence in Directing for William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain (2009, Brown University) and the Victims' Rights Award for his work with the RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence on Behind Closed Doors, an awareness play. In 2011, Michael was the Bob Alexander Community Engagement Fellow in the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship Program at Arena Stage, where he taught, directed and devised new, ensemble-based work in the DC public schools. From 2011 to 2013, Michael served as the Education Outreach Coordinator at Trinity Repertory Company. MFA...

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14 Aug

Taylor Rae Almonte is a New York based performer who has worked professionally in film, television and on stage. She trained at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, with a focus on Experimental Theatre and Musical Theatre, and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, with a focus on Shakespeare in Performance. Most recently, she worked alongside Richard Gere in Oren Moverman’s newest film “The Dinner” which recently premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival. She has also toured nationally, originating the role of Erika Juno/Rockstar Barbie in a children’s musical entitled, “Barbies Rock N’Royals.” When she is not performing or teaching, Taylor designs websites for performers at TRA-Websites and spends time with her three nieces (who are also her best friends). She assisted with the Improv and Audition Technique Workshop this past summer and is thrilled to be assisting directing "The Addams Family", working with the Improv Troupe at PS. 58 and directing a new Improv Class at PS.11's Behan Academy!   Credits: The Addams Family: Assistant Director & Stage Manager...

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10 Jul

Danielle is thrilled to be choreographing “The Wizard of Oz” for BAL this summer! She has had the good fortune to work all over the country as a performer, teacher, director and choreographer. Danielle’s recent performing credits include “The Pajama Game” and “Jerry’s Girls” at the Gallery Players here in Park Slope, “Motel Rasdell” directed by Tony Award winner Michele Pawk and The Evil Queen in “Snow White and the Battle for Pittsburgh”at the Heights Players. Other performing credits include: Lisa and u/s for Sophie in the original Las Vegas Company of “Mamma Mia!,” Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” (TUTS in Houston), Velma Kelly in “Chicago”, Sally Bowles in “Cabaret”, Erma in “Anything Goes” directed by Tony nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge and the Snow Queen in “Snow Queen” for the late film director Garry Marshall. Danielle’s New York City teaching experience includes instruction in music theatre, dance, acting and choreography with various companies throughout the city including Applause, Stagecoach and New York Kids Club. Other teaching experience includes heading the musical theatre instruction for a number of camps and afterschool enrichment programs in Vero Beach, Florida; jazz, tap, lyrical and hip hop instructor and choreographer for StarStruck Performing Arts...

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