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Steven Yuhasz, Executive Director
Steven produced Streakin’ and Pterodactyl Island Off Broadway and The Visit, The Normal Heart, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas for The Actor’s Fund of America on Broadway. He is a Founding Producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival has been the Associate General Manager for Papermill Playhouse, Producing Director for Capital Rep and oversaw the transition of the New Apollo Theatre in NYC to the Academy as the Creative Producer. He has directed Off Broadway Flamingo Court with Anita Gillette and Jamie Farr, and worked at numerous regional theatres around the country including Goodspeed, The Westport Playhouse, Casa Manana, Ogunquit Playhouse, The Dallas Theatre Center and The McCarter Theatre. His has appeared on Broadway in Peter Pan with Sandy Duncan, and Zorba with Anthony Quinn.
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Robert Levinstein, Associate Producer
Robert has spent three years as Associate Producer at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine and had the opportunity to help expand programming and shape relations with the community at that theatre. He is also the Co-founder of 22Q Entertainment LLC, a NYC based production company specializing in Site-Specific Theatre as well as corporate events and casting. Most recently 22Q Entertainment was Associate Producer for the Oxygen TV Network 2011/2012 Upfront Events, and lead producer of the critically acclaimed NYC premieres of The Spoon River Project in the historic Green-wood Cemetery and It is Done at the Mean Fiddler Bar and Grill. A Los Angeles production, also produced by 22Q Entertainment openned at the Pig 'N Whistle on Hollywood Blvd in May. As a much sought after Stage Manager, he's worked on Broadway: Waiting in the Wings (With Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris); Voices in the Dark (with Judith Ivey), Parade. National Tours: Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Camelot with Michael York. Robert wants to thank Steven Yuhasz for the opportunity to spend the summer in beautiful Connecticut. Shemgratulations!
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Emily Bryan, Director of Education
Emily is a Darien native and a former Shakespeare professor. She has taught at Dominican College, West Point, Northwestern and Brown. Prior to writing her dissertation on the lives of boy actors on the Shakespearean stage, Emily worked for the Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival as the assistant to the Executive Producer and as a Casting Assistant. She has also worked as a dramaturg for the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and gave pre-show lectures for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. MA, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-Upon-Avon; PhD, Northwestern.
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Claire Kelly, Director of Youth Programs
Claire holds a Masters of Arts degree from New York University. She has taught theater to students from pre-school through high school and served as Director of Drama at Proctor Academy in New Hampshire. Additionally, Claire has worked in the theater as a director, actor, producer, and in arts management. She has worked at the Guthrie Theater, the Roundabout Theater, the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, the Ordway Music Theater, and the George Street Playhouse among others. As a theater educator Claire delights in exploring the dramatic arts by empowering the creative, self-expression of her students. Claire is also a yoga teacher.
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Scott Bartelson, Producing Associate
Scott holds a B.S. in Educational Theater from New York University. He has worked as the Assistant General Manager at Town Square Productions, Inc. and works as a teaching artist at various theater companies and schools. Scott was an active member of the Shakespeare-to-Go touring troupe in NYC, which brings sixty-minute versions of Shakespeare plays to inner city schools. He also was a production assistant on A Tale of Two Cities, the new musical at the Hirschfeld Theatre and performs in the Downtown Cabaret Children's Theater Company in Bridgeport.
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