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Marie Captain (Director/Musical Director/Producer)

Founder of the Theatre Arts Workshop.  Marie has directed school, community, and regional theatre for over 30 years.  She has directed musicals at the Emelin Theatre and stages reading at the West Side Arts Theatre.  She directs The Contemporary Theatre Arts Workshop in Armonk, NY, and teaches piano, guitar, voice and computer music.  She musically directed the Off, Off Broadway production of "The Wonderful Story Of the Babes In The Wood", and 3 songs she composed were featured in it.  Marie has also composed the music for "My Poppa", "Rosalita", "Revelations", "Dick Whittington", "Princess", "Velveteen Rabbit" and "Canterville Ghost" which was presented at Sun Flower Productions in Milford, PA.  Spring ‘05 Marie wrote script, music and directed “RAMA” performed in Tarrytown, NY.  In her spare time, Marie's completed a degree in Parapsychology, continues to study holistic health and energetic healing, is a Reiki Master, is now a Certified Feng Shui consultant, and is writing a book.

 

Lisa Jordan (Director/Musical Director/Producer)

Lisa has been performing since the age of three.  She has and continues to appear in a variety of shows in regional theaters, summer stocks and off Broadway.  Some of her favorite and most notable performances are “Cabaret”, “Camelot”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “South Pacific”, and “Annie Get Your Gun”.  She is currently busy with voice-over work, teaching private voice lessons, private self-defense coaching, and party performing.  Lisa Jordan is a Reiki Master and Certified Feng Shui Consultant.  She is currently in the midst of writing a book on Feng Shui.  Lisa is very proud of her CD, "The Mystery of The Box in The Attic," a narrative story put to classical music for young listeners- produced by Helicon Records.

 

TJ O'Sullivan (Director/Choreographer)

This marks TJ's ninth season as director and choreographer for Theatre Arts Workshop. He also performed in their productions of Fosse (which he directed/choreographed), A Chorus Line (Paul) and two productions of Footloose (Ren/Wes). TJ has held the position of Artistic Director at the Academy of Mt. St. Ursula High School and has continued to work with them for over ten years.  He also worked as asst. choreographer/costume designer for Chicago and Footloose at the Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre in Wytheville, VA. Some of his other director/choregrapher/producer credits include: Crazy for You, Anything Goes, Footloose, The Pajama Game, Godspell, Urinetown, Annie and Cinderella. TJ is currently managing two up and coming recording artists, Justin Biaggi and the Hopeless Romantics (www.myspace.com/hopelessjustin) and Kristine Henriks (www.kristinehenriks.com), through his company O’Sullivan Talent Management, Inc. You can also see his choreography with up and coming recording artist Tiffany Martinez.  He is also in the process of writing a full scale musical comedy and a series of adolescent self-help books. TJ recently graduated with his Masters of Arts degree and certification in school counseling.

 

Amanda Scarcella (Drama Teacher/Music Teacher)

Amanda began dance lessons at age six. By twelve years old, she had professional voice, acting and improvisation training under her belt. She was selected for a Westchester Arts Program in which she co-wrote and performed in Why, Grandma ,Why? an original production at Manhattanville College. She has also participated in school, community and private productions such as Rumors (Cookie), Our Town (Mrs. Webb), Play On (Phyllis), It’s A Wonderful Life (Aunt Tilly), Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Brother Gad), Grease, and Anything Goes. She has extensive stage crew experience, often times volunteering for set construction for the aforementioned shows, as well as a Summerstock production of Seesaw. She was also featured in a private production through All For Arts in which she performed a medley of scenes, songs and monologues from shows such as: Gypsy, Les Miserables, Isn’t It Romantic, and Guys and Dolls. She has performed in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 productions of The Vagina Monologues at The University at Albany. She has also participated in Theatre Arts Workshop productions of Footloose (Eleanor Dunbar). Amanda has a double bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and English from the University at Albany, and is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in both Elementary and Adolescent Education.

 

John Stillwaggon (Drama Teacher/Improvisation)

John is thrilled to be joining the Theatre Arts Workshop family.  Having completed a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education, John served as the Workshop Master of the National Players Touring Shakespeare Company, designing and executing workshops in acting and play-writing for students of all ages nationwide.  He returned to New York to continue his teaching and acting careers, and to complete a Master's in Acting at CUNY Brooklyn.  John has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Acting at Brooklyn College, as an Acting Instructor with Fine Arts Connection of New Jersey, and (currently) as an Assistant Teacher/Drama Specialist at the Canarsie Childhood Center in Brooklyn, and as the Founder and Director of the Act-Out!  Acting School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.  Off-Broadway: The Deciders (Dick Cheney), The Last One Left (Eddie).  Regional: The Sound Of Music (Paper Mill Playhouse); Twilight (Boomerang Theatre Co.); Death of a Salesman (Happy); The Music Man (Harold Hill); Joseph... (title); Evita (Che); Sweeney Todd (Tobias); West Side Story (Riff).  National Tours: Tartuffe (Damis); As You Like It (Duke Senior).  TV/Film: Law & Order, CSI:NY, Chapelle's Show, When in Rome (with Kristen Bell and Danny Devito).  John would like to thank everyone at TAW, as well as God, his friends, and his family.

 

 

 

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