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Professor Peter Cummings
has recently retired from 37 years of teaching at Hobart and William
Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He has published work on Shakespeare,
Spencer, The History of American Poetry, Violin Making, Modern Film
and Turtles. He has been a semi-professional cyclist and tri-athlete
for many years and is a lover of sonnet. With several hundred written
and many published. |
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B.A. in Special Education,
William Paterson College. M.A. in Educational Theatre, New York
University. M.F.A. in Directing and Playwriting from Sarah Lawrence
College. Artistic director for the Icarus Theatre Ensemble and Assistant
Professor of Theatre at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Has taught
acting and improvisation for Rutgers University, The Oberlin College
Theatre Institute, Theatre for a New Audience and The Mustard Seed
Theatre Lab in NYC. Has taught courses in playwriting for The NY
Shakespeare Festival's Playwriting in the Schools program at The
Joseph Papp Public Theatre and for Playwright's Theatre of NJ. |
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M.A., Theatre Education and
Social Change, Empire State College. Civic Fellowship from Cornell
for therapeautic clowning program, 2002-2003. Performed in Russia
and Afghanistan with Patch Adams. Active and commissioned mask-maker.
Board member of NY State Theatre and Education Association. |
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M.F.A. in Creative writing,
New School University, NYC. B.A.with major in music, Bates College,
ME. Taught at New School University. Poems published in Ploughshares,
Northwest Review, Rattapallax, Lilliput Review and other magazines.
His first book, "Dynamite on a China Plate" is forthcoming from
Backwaters Press. |
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Alexis Santi earned his MFA
in Creative Writing from George Mason University in fiction. He
is the recipient of many accolades in his career so far, including
a prestigious international translation grant with the Romanian
government. In addition to teaching creative writing, Santi has
been a Peace Corps volunteer, worked for the federal government,
brewed coffee at Starbucks, sold subs at Shortstop and been a marketing
executive in the PR industry. His creative work has been published
and translated in numerous places including: The Hartford Courant,
The Ithaca Journal, Cubista Magazine, The Tompkins Weekly, Revista
22 and The Plum Ruby Review. His short story collection is entitled
The Time We Had. He recently finished his first novel: a book about
drug running, Hungarian gangsters and rock and roll entitled The
Song of the Midnight Rider. He is the founder and Editor in Chief
of Our Stories literary journal, found at www.ourstories.us. He
has masthead credits for over a dozen newspapers, newsletters and
other publications. |
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M.A., Linguistics, Italian,
and B.A., Italian, French, and Foreign Language Education, University
of Colorado. Extensive teaching experience includes being a senior
lecturer, Dept. of Modern Languages, Cornell University, and instructor
for BOCES, Ithaca. Fulbright teacher at the Facoltà di Magistero,
Rome. |
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Krista Scott teaches voice,
speech and acting at the University of Connecticut, and is a certified
Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. She has assisted Catherine
Fitzmaurice in certifications courses and voice intensives, and
conducted a two-day Shakespeare and Fitzmaurice Voicework intensive
at Ithaca College, where she taught the work for six years in the
Department of Theatre Arts. She has coached voice, dialect and text
locally for the Hangar and Kitchen theatres, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse,
Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Ithaca
College. Her MFA in Acting was earned from The University of Minnesota. |
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Studied at the Mozarteum and
teacher's college in Salzburg, Austria. Founding faculty member
of CSMA, now celebrating her 51st year of teaching both recorder
music and German language and culture. |
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