Louis Colaianni (Voice Coach) is a Voice and Speech coach for Broadway and regional theatre. He was Will Ferrell's vocal coach for the Broadway and HBO productions of You're Welcome, America. He has been Voice and Text Director for productions at: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Shakespeare & Company, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. For fifteen years was resident voice, speech and text coach at Kansas City Repertory Theatre (formerly Missouri Repertory Theatre); taught workshops in voice, phonetics, sound and movement, and text in Europe and U.S.; taught in numerous theatre programs including Pace University/Actors Studio; Vassar College; SUNY Purchase; The O'Neill Theatre Center; Columbia University; Ohio University, Dartmouth College, Trinity Repertory Theatre / Conservatory (Anne Bogart, Artistic Director); Hunter College, The New Actors Workshop, American Conservatory Theater, University of California: Santa Cruz, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Carolina, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Shakespeare & Company. He has written The Joy of Phonetics and Accents; Bringing Speech to Life; How to Speak Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Names: A New Pronouncing Dictionary.
Josh Prince (Choreographer) Broadway: Shrek, The Musical (Dreamworks/Neal St. Productions, dir. Jason Moore,) New York City: The Bridge Project (BAM/The Old Vic, dir. Sam Mendes); The Jerry Springer Opera (starring Harvey Keitel, dir. Jason Moore) at Carnegie Hall; Camelot (starring Gabriel Byrne, dir. Lonny Price) with the NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center (Televised on PBS); and All Singing All Dancing (choreographer/co-director,Town Hall). Josh has also had the pleasure of choreographing and/or directing Calvin Berger (MTC 7@7 Series), Dance Break 2007 (New World Stages), Emerald Man (NYMF), Break Out In Song (If My Friends Could See Me Now) flash mob at Time Warner Center, Barnum, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, One Way Ticket To Hell, The Full Monty, The Big Funk, La Boheme, and Singin' In The Rain. Previous Broadway/National Tour acting credits include: The Producers, in which he starred as Carmen Ghia opposite Martin Short and Jason Alexander, Saturday Night Fever, Little Me, and Cats. In addition to numerous regional roles and concerts, Josh has soloed twice at Town Hall in their Broadway By the Year series. Earlier New York City credits include Babes In Arms, Do Re Mi, and Pajama Game for City Center Encores! and Paul Bunyan at NYC Opera. Off-Broadway he has starred in Forbidden Broadway and the play, In The Wings, as well as I Can Get It For You Wholesale (York Musicals in Mufti) and So Long 174th St. (Musicals Tonight). Film and Television credits include Law and Order: SVU, the Warner Bros. film, A Cinderella Story, starring Hillary Duff, and he recently taped an episode of MTV's reality show Taking The Stage, where he appeared as a guest choreographer. Upcoming: Choreographing the next Bridge Project (BAM/Old Vic), and choreographing the national tour of Shrek, The Musical (Dreamworks).
Veronique Ory (Producer) recently re-located to New York from Los Angeles after producing the Off-Broadway sensation STITCHING by Athony Neilson in Hollywood. She most recently was Associate Producer for Caucasian Chalk Circle with PL115; Nathan + Joe Comedy Show at Comix NY. Ms. Ory is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Athena Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles. She has produced all twelve Athena Theatre productions since 2003. Some highlights include their most recent Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
which played to sold out houses at the Lankershim Arts Center. The Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel and Proof by David Auburn won members of the casts Best Actor/Actress of the year by Metro LA and Reviewplays.com. "We strive for theatre that entertains, informs, enlightens, questions and deepens audience awareness to vital modern issues."
Andrew Ingkavet (Sound Designer) composes for film, theater, television and new media and recently won Best Movie Music at the 2009 Garden State Film Festival for his score to New Jersey's Red October. Variety said of his score to feature film Noelle (2007), "Obviously a labor of love for all parties involved, Beecher Cotton's moody lensing of Cape Cod winterscapes and Andrew Ingkavet's delicate musical score are the film's standout production values." Andrew has a Bachelors of Music from New York University where he scored student films for Adam Sandler and founded band/comedy troupe The Zoning Board- a major hit at college radio. In the early 90's, Andrew was one of the first VJ's for MTV-Asia launching the satellite network across Asia. Currently, Andrew is founder/Head Monk of audio agency 300 Monks (300monks.com), providing audio branding, music supervision, licensing and custom scoring to ad agencies, producers, & film studios. You can see hear more of Ingkavet's work at http://www.ingkavet.org
Rachelle Beckerman (Lighting Design) has a BA from SUNY Buffalo in Photography and Theatre Production & Technology. She headed to Ohio University after a two year hiatus from the arts and studied with Ursula Belden and Michael Lincoln where she received her MFA in Lighting and Scenic Design. In her first year at OU Rachelle spent a term studying at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London, where the three months she spent exploring opened her eyes to alterNative Theatre practices. A year and a half later, she found herself submerged in work on the 2007 Prague Quadrennial (PQ) with Ursula Belden, building the OU submission as well as assisting Ursula with work on the USA national and student exhibits. The summer of 2007 was consumed with attending PQ 07 and interning with Warner en Consorten, a street theatre company in Amsterdam, NL. In the months with Warner en Consorten, she spent time in the studio discovering, rehearsing and expanding pieces with the company and performing in The Netherlands, as well as Aurillac, France. Rachelle's recent activities have included production design for Elizabeth Audley's all over. for Fringe NYC, Emily by Chris Cragin with The Firebone Theatre Company and working on the design of the USA USITT student exhibit for PQ 2011.
