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1996 - Theatre

April Adams
467 Potomac Ave., 1R
Buffalo, NY 14213
Home Phone: (716)553-9444
Email: april-a-adams@excite.com
What I'm doing now: I am the Manager of the Theatre School and Education programs at Studio Arena Theatre. Other than that, I am just living back here in Buffalo and visiting Chicago whenever I can.

Comments:  I am the Manager of the Theatre School and Education programs at Studio Arena Theatre.

Clinton Powell  Home Phone: (607)769-7706
Email: coreander@yahoo.com
What I'm doing now: Came back to New York...at an in between stage right now.

Comments: NYSSSA was an extremely important experience. It came at a time in my life where I needed to evaluate not only who I was as an artist, but also who I was as a person.

Hally Gutman
21-59 42nd Street, APT 2L
Astoria, NY 11105
Home Phone: 718-728-8153
Work Phone: 212-484-6733
Email: hallygutman@hotmail.com

What I'm doing now: I am pursuing a career in theatre and working part time for one of the senior vice presidents at AOL/Time Warner.

Comments: I am still in close contact with a number of the students who participated with me in NYSSSA'96 and they have been extremely influential in my life. I run into people all the time here in the city from NYSSSA & a bunch of them even went to Syracuse with me.

Janine Mercandetti
6 Falling Brook Rd.
Fairport, NY 14450
Email: neeners44@hotmail.com

What I'm doing now: Getting ready to graduate and pursue a career in theatre/ film

Comments: NYSSSA is an excellent program. It is still one of the greatest experiences of my life. If you're thinking about being an actor you must attend.

Tamara (Bellenger) Howard
14 Egdewood Park
Rochester, NY 14611
Home Phone: (585)464-0578
Email: howardlt@rochester.rr.com
What I'm doing now: I am married with two little girls. I am head of a drama program for young people called The Citywide Youth Crusade. I really enjoy working with children teaching them things I have learned and experienced

Comments: NYSSSA was an experience that I will never forget ...yes it influenced me! I think anyone who ever participates in NYSSSA will be influenced in some way!

Melissa Ann Rees
Home Phone: (585)233-0504
Email: fascist_panties@yahoo.com
What I'm doing now: I am double majoring in acting and directing and minoring in philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.

Comments: NYSSSA was the time of my life. I still cherish every moment of it.


Leah DeAbreu
694 E. 240th Street
Bronx, NY 10470
Home Phone: 1(718)6714603
Email: dancindiva_1@yahoo.com
What I'm doing now: Currently I am the reigning Ms Black World N.Y.S. My reign ends in August. I am also a full time student at Borough of Manhattan Community College. My major is small business entreprenuership. I hope to open my own dance school in Guyana, South America.
Sara Mayer

What I'm doing now:  Theater: currently finished performing in the Jean Cocteau  Repertory 2003-2004 season (Threepenny Opera, Dona Rosita the  Spinster, The Bourgeois Gentleman),Film: The Sonnet Project, Mona Lisa Smile, Television: Cyberchase

Comments:  The instructors and curriculum were an incredible, exciting  stimulus to propel me into my further studies as a young actor.

George Reddick Email: reddickg@hotmail.com
What I'm doing now: I live in New York and write about theatre for a number of publications. I guess you could say I've turned into an historian of sorts. I "daylight" in Visual Merchandising.
Tony Calandra
3080 35th St.
Astoria, NY 11103
Home Phone: 617-742-8050
Email: calandraart@mac.com
What I'm doing now: Living in NYC working in Manhattan as a Graphic Artist for Paper
Magic Group- specializing in Halloween costumes, accessories, decor, etc
Comments: www.anthonycalandra.com
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