achievements
Aaron Anderson
Co-owner, The Critical Communications Group, a nationally recognized company that trains executive leaders, healthcare practitioners, and members of the legal profession in such areas as Leadership Presence, Cultural Competency, and Difficult Conversations.Upcoming contracts:
The Federal Reserve BankThe Veteran's Administration Hospital
VCU/MCV Department of Internal Medicine
VCU/MCV School of Nursing and the VCU Brand Center
VCU/MCV Massey Cancer Center.
Fight Director, Fifty Words, Farragut North, The History of Light, Contemporary American Theatre Festival Master Teacher, Swords and Surf Stage Combat Workshop, University of Hawaii
Noreen Barnes
Presentation, "Where There's Smoke... The Changing use of Tobacco on Stage," SETC Theatre Symposium, Wake Forest University, Spring 2009External evaluator, Wake Forest University Department of Theatre's production of King Lear, Spring 2009
Barry Bell
Creator and Director, VCU's Student Voices Orientation Program, Summer 2009Director, The Who's Tommy, Theatre VCU, April 2010
Patti D'Beck
Director/Choreographer, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Barksdale/Theatre IV, Summer 2009A Chorus Line, Pioneer Theatre Co., Spring 2010
Choreographer, Peter and the Wolf, Imagination Stage, Winter 2010
Choreographer, 42nd Street, Pioneer Theatre Co., Fall 2010
Toni-Leslie James
Winner
Obie Award 2009, Sustained Excellence in Costume DesignLucille Lortel, Costume Design Nomination for Wig Out, Winter 2009
Costume Designer
Broadway production of Finian's Rainbow, St. James Theatre, New York, NY, Fall 2009
Wig Out, Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY, Fall 2008
A Civil War Christmas, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven CT, Winter 2008
The Devil's Music, George Street Theatre, New Brunswick New Jersey
3 Mo' Divas, PBS Television, Apollo Theatre, Geva Theatre
Finian's Rainbow, City Center Encores!, New York, NY, Spring 2009
Bell, Book and Candle, Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY
Boy and His Soul, Vineyard Theatre, New York, NY, upcoming
Finian's Rainbow, Broadway, St. James Theatre, New York, NY, upcoming
The Brother/Sister Plays, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL, upcoming
Exhibitions:
Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Nov. 2008-May 2009)Ron Keller
Scenic Designer
Thoroughly Modern Millie, Barksdale, Richmond, Summer 2009Company, Nevada Conservatory Theatre, Las Vegas , Fall 2009
Man of La Mancha, Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville, Tennessee, Fall 2009
The Royal Family, Louisiana State University, September 2009
Chair of Design and Technology, Region IV (9 states); Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival,
09-10
David S. Leong
Co-owner, The Critical Communications Group, a nationally recognized company that trains executive leaders, healthcare practitioners, and members of the legal profession in such areas as Leadership Presence, Cultural Competency, and Difficult Conversations.Dream Effects designer, Things of Dry Hours starring Delroy Lindo, New York Theatre Workshop, summer 2009.
Upcoming contracts:
The Federal Reserve BankThe Veteran's Administration Hospital
VCU/MCV Department of Internal Medicine
VCU/MCV School of Nursing and the VCU Brand Center
VCU/MCV Massey Cancer Center.
Fight Choreographer
Broadway production of Billy Elliott the musical. Winner of ten 2009 Tony Awards including Best Musical, ongoingLegacy of Light, Arena Stage, Fall 2009
Quality of Life, Arena Stage, Summer 2009
Director, Peter and the Wolf, Imagination Stage, Winter 2009
Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
Director, Grapes of Wrath, a collaborative production between Theatre VCU and Barksdale Theatre in February 2010Creator, in collaboration with The Daily Planet and the Conciliation Project: A production that will focus on "Addiction" and "homelessness."
Janet Rodgers
Co-author with Frankie Armstrong Acting and Singing with Archetypes. Published by Hal Leonard Publishing under their Limelight Editions banner. Release date: Winter. 2010Travelled with VCU students to Serbia, Romania and England to study, Summer 2009