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| Theatre & Language Arts Faculty |
| Holly Adams |
| A professional performer, playwright, mask maker, and teaching artist for the past 25 years, Holly Adams' work as an artist in residence for schools and universities links academic and arts curricula, and centers on arts-based academic curriculum. Holly taught in Connecticut's "Fame School" before moving to Tompkins County and has been an artist in residence for over 14 years of NYSCA's arts programs. She has given professional development workshops in conjunction with NYS Alliance for Arts Education, NYS Council on the Arts, the Community Arts Partnership, NYS Theatre Education Association, and various theater companies. Holly is a graduate of the Dell 'Arte School of Physical Theater, and holds a Masters degree in Theatre, Education, and Social Change from Empire State College. Holly’s favorite performances include: Further Adventures of Clown at the Hangar Theatre, Third Man in The Baltimore Waltz, Bird Legends with Kakeru at Cornell, VOICES/lives with co-creator and performer Pete Rush, The Oral Tradition at the West End Theatre in NYC, Richard III in Kynge’s Games, and Jen in Gossip at the Kitchen Theatre, all of the animals in My Father’s Dragon, Alanna for Full-Cast Audiobooks by Tamora Pierce, as well as eight years with commedia dell’arte companies. |
| Doreen Alsen |
| See listing under Music (Ensembles & Group Classes) |
| Asia Dillon |
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Asia Dillon is an Ithaca native. After attending the (Lehman) Alternative Community School, she attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Graduating from the Studio Program there in 2004, Asia went on to perform lead roles in shows including, “The Three Extacies”, “Cat On a Hot Tin Roof”, and “Twelfth Night”. Asia continued to live and work in New York City, doing several national commercials with her agency, Cunningham-Escott-Slevin-Doherty, until 2008 when she decided it was time to bring it on home and make a niche for herself in the Ithaca theater community. Since her return she has worked with Theatre Incognita as an actor and stage manager, and with The Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca both as an actor and teaching assistant. She was most recently seen as Rachel Corrie in “My Name is Rachel Corrie” and as Puck in “A Midsummer Night's Dream”. Asia looks forward to playing Hamlet, directed by Siouxsie Easter, in early 2012. |
| Liz Livesay |
| See listing under Dance Faculty |
| Tami Sluyter-Bennett |
| Tami received her Masters in Theatre Arts from California State University, Sacramento in 2003. She has been active in the theatre in various roles including: actor, singer, dancer, director and playwright. In 2003 she received a stipend from the women's Resources Artist in Residency program at Sacramento State to produce a staged reading of one of her original plays. She has also had opportunity to teach artistic programs during her many years of work in the human services field. During this time she had the opportunity to facilitate recreational activities for patients in a psychiatric hospital and was a choir director for adults with special needs. She has also had the opportunity to work with children in various roles including child care worker at a day care and mother to her two lovely girls. |