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ACT ONE STACI MICHELLE ARMAO JONAS BASOM NAOMI CHAN
KIMBERLY CREASMAN CRAIG DETWEILER MARLENE DICKINSON GILLETTE ELVGREN
LAURALEE FARRER HARVEY JOHNSON TODD JOHNSON ROBERT K. JOHNSTON
KELLY KEATON LINDA KERNS JILL LINCOLN TOM LONG
CHRISTI MARSICO PRIS MCDONALD COURTNEAY SANDERS BART McHENRY
KIM MESSER DALE SAVIDGE PETER SENKBEIL LIN SEXTON
ROBERT SMYTH JOCELYN SLUKA MARCIA WHITEHEAD CLARE SERA 

ACT ONE
Act One trains and mentors Christians of all denominations for careers in mainstream film and television.  We prepare our students to produce film and TV projects that combine mastery of craft with great depth and meaning.  As a non-profit organization, we are wholly devoted to the professional and spiritual development of our students.  Artistry * Professionalism * Substance * Prayer
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STACI MICHELLE ARMAO
Staci is a long-time member of Actors Co-op. She was most recently seen as May in The Nibroc Trilogy (LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, SEE ROCK CITY, and the World Premiere of GULF VIEW DRIVE), for which she received an LA Weekly Award.  Other Co-op roles include Fanny in AS IT IS IN HEAVEN (
LA Drama Critics Ensemble Acting Nomination), Lydia in ALL MY SONS, Essie in THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE, and Clara in EDITH STEIN. Additionally, Staci co-wrote, produced, directed, and performed in the original run of DANCING WITH MY FATHER.

Staci began her performing career as a dancer and was a member in several ballet and modern dance companies.  She has danced in numerous musicals, including THE KING AND I with George Chakiris/Lee Meriwether (soloist), THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, OKLAHOMA, THE WIZ and GUYS AND DOLLS.  TV/Film:  THE CAPTAIN, AMERICAN U (pilot), THE FALLS, STARDUST, EAGLE AGAINST THE SUN, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES and scores of short films.  An alumnus of the Act One screenwriting program, Staci co-wrote the independent short MICHIGAN SKY, currently riding the film festival circuit.  Staci also produced and starred in an independent feature currently in post-production.  She is honored to be working with such an extraordinary group of women.  Thank you to Jim, Rita and Marianne for all they’ve done!
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JONAS BASOM
Jonas Basom is a passionate educator, artist, consultant, and author. He is a national presenter in arts and literacy for schools, organizations, and education conferences. His hands-on workshops train teachers how to use drama in all school subjects to create an optimal learning environment. In 2003 Jonas was named the Bravo Award Winner for Outstanding Arts Specialist of Southern California. Jonas first appeared on stage as the hungry crocodile at the age of six and has been immersed in the performing arts ever since. He received outstanding training at world-renown Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Roosevelt High School, a national top ten theatre program. His professional credits include dozens of productions for stage, film, television, and radio. In Los Angeles, Jonas has engaged hundreds of children at parties and events as “Kuzu the Klown” and helped produce and perform traveling theatre productions for school assemblies. Jonas is accomplished in acting, pantomime, puppetry, tap dance, clowning, singing, improvisation, and voice-over work. 

Jonas received his BA in English and French from Amherst College, and his MA in Education with Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from Pepperdine University. As a teacher, Jonas has worked with students from preschool to adult in both private and public schools. From 1993-2000, Jonas created and managed the Drama Program at the prestigious Buckley School. His curriculum included sequential drama instruction for every child in grades K-5, elective courses for middle school, and annual performances in grades 1-6. In 1999 Buckley won the Bravo Award for Outstanding Visual and Performing Arts School. Since 2000, Jonas has been a traveling theatre teacher and coach for Los Angeles Unified School District's Arts Program. He trains elementary teachers in standards-based theatre arts instruction by teaching 12 model lessons to K-6 students, leading staff development, and coaching teachers individually.

Jonas has taught high school students as a guest artist at numerous schools and conferences. As program director for The Media Workshops, Jonas organized and taught hundreds of high school and college students from around the country in media studies seminars at UCLA. Currently an adjunct professor at California State University LA, Jonas instructs future teachers how to use drama in the classroom. Jonas lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Susan, and their two children, Luke and Grace.
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NAOMI CHAN
Naomi, a native Angeleno, has always dreamed of being on the stage.  She has appeared in numerous productions in the Los Angeles area including several at the Actor’s Co-op, where she was a member for years.  Past productions include Little Shop of Horrors, The Fantasticks, God and Shakespeare, Joan La Pucelle, The Lark, and several others including Sisters of the Winter Madrigal, a Beth Henley world premiere.  TV and film:  The Theory of Everything, and a recurring role as Grace the Maid on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (Disney).  Thanks be to God for every opportunity that has come along.  This performance is dedicated to Dad.  I love you, Daddy!  Thanks for all the stories I get to tell because of you.
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KIMBERLY CREASMAN
Kimberly Creasman is a freelance theatre practitioner and dramatist. She is well known as a mentor and leader to Christian artists and pastors.  She is involved in ministry focused on bu
ilding spiritual leaders for the Chinese World - in church, mission, marketplace, and the arts She is married with two children
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CRAIG DETWEILER
Craig Detweiler, Ph.D., is a filmmaker, author, and cultural commentator
who has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, and National Public Radio.    
 
Craig directs the Reel Spirituality Institute for The Brehm Center at Fuller Seminary.    
His first book, A Matrix of Meanings:  Finding God in Pop Culture, was a finalist for the Gold Medallion in Theology/Doctrine.    His next book, Into the Dark:  Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century, arrives in July 2008.
 
His new documentary, Purple State of Mind, explores the religious and political divide in America with humor and passion (www.purplestateofmind.com). Films he has written include The Duke for Disney’s Buena Vista and the comedic road trip, Extreme Days.  His first doc, Williams Syndrome:  A Highly Musical Species won a Cine Golden Eagle and the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival.
 
Craig is the producer of the 15th annual City of the Angels Film Festival  www.cityofangelsfilmfest.org and the inaugural Reel Lives Film Festival (www.reellives.org) held in conjunction with the World Cancer Congress in Geneva, Switzerland this August.
 
Craig is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Davidson College and earned an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema/TV.    He also holds a Master of Divinity degree and a Ph.D. in Theology and Culture from Fuller Theological Seminary.
 
Craig and his wife, Caroline, live near Sony Studios with their children, Zoe and Theo.

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MARLENE DICKINSON
Marlene Dickinson is a dancer and choreographer who has worked at the intersection of Christianity, dance, and theater, for over 25 years.  As an independent choreographer, Marlene has developed several original theater dance pieces to support the talks of Christian author and speaker Dr. Lori Salierno, Founder of Celebrate Life International (www.celebratelife.org). Marlene has choreographed or performed in more than 25 musicals and revues for theaters, colleges, schools and churches.  Favorite shows include “Hello, Dolly!”  “The Music Man” and “Joseph…” As an actress, she has worked at Indianapolis’ Indiana Repertory Theater and Beef and Boards Dinner Theater, among others, and on numerous cruise ships throughout the Caribbean.  Marlene has worked on several extensive tours to the far East, Europe and Hawaii with Operation Appreciation, a theatrical outreach to the U.S. military.  She also served for ten years as Director of Theater Arts at Church at the Crossing in Indianapolis where she directed productions and choreographed new works, most often drawing on dance as a form of storytelling.  Marlene was a full scholarship recipient and summa cum laude graduate of the Northern Kentucky University Theater performance program.  She has been active in CITA for 15 years, having served on the Board, presented regularly, and helped to coordinate the participation of several professional dance companies at our conferences. Marlene lives in the Atlanta area with her husband, Curtis, and their children, Lily and Tommy.

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GILLETTE ELVGREN

While a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Dr. Gillette Elvgren was head of the M.F.A. directing program and staff director for the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival.  He is co-founder and resident playwright for Saltworks Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, PA., Gillette Elvgren has been writing for over thirty years, his plays and film scripts have been produced by professional organizations throughout the United States and Canada.  There have been approximately 8,000 performances of Elvgren scripts.   He teaches  Directing, Acting,  and Play and Film writing in the Theatre Arts Department at Regent University.
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LAURALEE FARRER
Lauralee Farrer is the principal filmmaker of Burning Heart Productions. She is writer/director of the feature documentary The Fair Trade, the award-winning documentary Laundry and Tosca and the upcoming feature narrative Praying the Hours. Freelance writing for humanitarian organizations took her to Spain when Franco died, to Kenya during the droughts of 1981 and 1991, to Somalia when the war broke out, and to Uganda to write about early outbreaks of AIDS and the plight of its orphans. She wrote of the Sisters of Charity in Ethiopia, was in Moscow when the 1991 coup took place, and when Leningrad became St. Petersburg again. She was in East Germany before and after the wall went down, in Mexico City to write about cultures of poverty, and in U.S. cities like Philadelphia, Houston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Boston to write about American life. Her freelance writing provides the material from which her directing and screenwriting voice emerges, as does her public speaking.
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HARVEY JOHNSON
Harvey is currently Artistic Director of Doma Productions, an Arts organization based in Western PA.  He earned his B.F.A. in Acting from Kent State University and his M.F.A. in directing from Carnegie Mellon University.  Harvey also keeps himself busy as Chairman of the Board of Director for Christians In Theatre Arts (CITA), a national networking organization.  In addition, he is a freelance director and actor.  As an actor he finds work in numerous local, regional and national commercials and industrials.  His directing credits includes directing for professional and amateur theatre companies including Saltworks Theatre Company, The Kuntu Repertory Theatre and The Karamu and Ensemble Theatres of Cleveland, Ohio.  Harvey’s concern since his association with CITA has been the spiritual journey of the artist in which he has worked to promote both at the Board level and in several workshops and intensives. He and his family are members of Sound the Alarm Ministries, Aliquippa, PA.
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TODD JOHNSON
Todd Johnson is the William K. and Delores S. Brehm Associate Professor of Worship, Theology and the Arts. As a member of the Center for Advanced Theological Studies faculty, he is the lead professor in the new PhD concentration in Worship and Culture.

Johnson has a wide range of experience in education, ministry, and social services. Before coming to Fuller, he served on the faculties of North Park Theological Seminary and Loyola University. He has also spent 20 years in church and campus ministry and has been involved in various community projects in and around Chicago’s inner city.

Johnson is currently working on a book about theater and theology (coauthoring with Dale Savidge) that will be part of the Engaging Culture series edited by Fuller professors Robert Johnston and William Dyrness. He is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, The Academy of Homiletics, the American Academy of Religion, the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, and serves as an editorial board member for Questions Liturgique. He is also the recipient of a grant through the Lilly Foundation directing a project to develop a multimedia resource for teaching worship at Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
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ROBERT K. JOHNSTON
As Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, Dr. Johnston teaches students how Christians can best engage movies, culture, and contemporary fiction. Rob has a B.A. from Stanford, a B.D. from Fuller and his Ph.D. (Religion-Theology and Culture) from Duke University.

His latest books include: Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline (2007); Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film (2004); Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film In Dialogue (2006, second edition); Finding God in the Movies 33 Films of Reel Faith (with Catherine Barsotti, 2004).
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KELLY KEATON
Born and raised in Wisconsin-Go Packers! This Cheesehead received undergraduate (Moorhead State in Minnesota) and graduate (UNC-Greensboro) degrees in Theatre. She was nominated twice for an Irene Ryan scholarship award. Favorite roles include Bev in Graceland, Ellen in The Art of Dining and Sister Mary in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all to you. If variety is the spice of life, this character actress is pretty spicy. She was most recently seen in the original 5-woman show Dancing with My Father at the Actors Co-op in Hollywood. Just before that, she played 80-year-old Italian Mrs. Fremus, 40-year-old midwest Karen, and 30- something developmentally disabled Clara in The Boys Next Door. Her first role at Actors Co-op was sassy Southern Butch in Shooting Stars. Since moving to LA she has been seen in several national commercials including, Buick, Hallmark, Scrubbing Bubbles and currently Comcast, Round Table Pizza and Lexus hybrid. She has also worked on several independent films.  Keep an eye out for The Eyes of Scott Robbins and Back Soon. In her first major motion picture, she can be seen scolding Steve Martin and Eugene Levy in Cheaper By the Dozen 2.
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LINDA KERNS
Linda is currently appearing in WICKED at The Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.  Her previous Broadway credits include NINE: The Musical, BIG RIVER, the national companies of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and LES MISERABLES. She is a member of Actors Co-op, and recently received the LA Weekly award for Musical Performance for her role as The Witch in the Co-op’s production of INTO THE WOODS.  Linda has done a bunch of other stuff:  TV, films, more theatre, directing theatre, etc., teaches singing at UCLA, and is thrilled to once again be working  with these talented ladies.
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JILL LINCOLN
Jill Lincoln, M.A., is an assistant professor in the Department of Theater, Film, and Television, at Azusa Pacific University,  where she instructs acting classes, on-camera classes, and directs productions such as the Hollywood Showcase and an original sitcom.

During the last twenty years, Lincoln has worked in regional theater, Broadway, film, and television, as well as instructed at several universities and schools. In addition, Lincoln co-founded and acted as artistic director of the Brennan/Gould Acting Studio in Los Angeles. Her mission is to train aspiring young artists in the technique and skills needed to become transformational actors and better the future of American theater as well as film and television
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TOM LONG

Tom Long is the director, playwright, and chief storyteller for Friends of the Groom Christian Theater Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been a performer for Public Educational Television, and has served as a consultant in youth work and theater for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, the Cincinnati Library, and a number of schools and social agencies throughout Ohio. Tom has an M.A. in theatre from the University of Cincinnati. His religious plays and musicals have been published by Baker's Plays, Chorister’s Guild, Hal Leonard Publishing, Hope Publishing, and the National Christian Education Council of Great Britain. His work has won the Christians in Theatre Arts sketch writing and one-act play writing competitions, two Telly Awards, and a Dove Award nomination.
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CHRISTI MARSICO
Christi Marsico was born and raised in the grizzly bear/rodeo country of Park Country, Wyoming which is an hour and a half outside Yellowstone National Park. Being the oldest of four children and the daughter of a taxidermist, her big sister abilities enabled her to orchestrate neighborhood plays and film stories of great imagination on the family video camera, casting and directing family, friends and pets. After pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Montana, Christi toured the United States in the Montana Repertory's production of "It's A Wonderful Life," twice. Then came the shake down of Detroit. Christi received her Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University's Hilberry Theatre program, and then packed her bags for Los Angeles. While living in LA, she became enamored with writing and all the adventures it can offer. She has written three one-woman shows while pursuing other acting endeavors. Christi is currently residing in Casper, Wyoming working as a writer for the arts and entertainment beat at the Casper Journal. Beyond baking cakes and crafting, Christi is an avid supporter of karaoke and roller skating. She is honored to be a part of such a talented and gifted group of ladies and is thrilled to be back rocking and rolling in California for "Dancing with My Father." Chaka Khan!

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PRIS MCDONALD
Pris McDonald is the Executive/Artistic Director of Master Arts Theatre, a community theatre located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Master Arts provides performance and educational opportunities to both youth and adults, and brings wholesome entertainment and challenging drama to the entire family. Pris taught on the college level for many years, and then helped organize this company which is dedicated to quality drama consistent with a Christian worldview. Master Arts now operates a four-show production season, touring groups, mime, dance and drama classes, and an active summer program for youth.

Especially interested in using the dramatic arts and readers' theater in the church, Pris has been a leader in CITA's Church Drama Festivals and Intensives for numerous years. She often teaches at conferences and is a regular clinician at the national Lillenas Drama Conference each February.
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COURTNEAY SANDERS
Courtneay Sanders is the Director of Theatre at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She received her MFA in Acting from The University of Arkansas. Regional credits include: “Theresa Bedell” in Boy Gets Girl, “Olivia” in Twelfth Night, “Maxine” in The Night of the Iguana, “Lady Capulet” in Romeo and Juliet, “Casey” in Anton in Show Business, “Gwendolyn Fairfax” in The Importance of Being Ernest, and others. She has also worked with Shakespeare and Co, Dallas Shakespeare, and TheatreSquared in various workshop settings. Courtneay is a founding member of The Playhouse Theatre, a new theatre company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While at ORU, Courtneay directs and teaches acting techniques in Meisner, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Hagen, Brecht, Pinter, and Viewpoints.   

 

BART MCHENRY
Bart McHenry is the Chair of the Azusa Pacific University, Department of Theater, Film and Television and also serves as the department's musical theatre specialist, directing a musical every semester.  He has directed over twenty different college and regional theater productions and is often called on for instructing master classes on musical theatre auditioning.  As a performer, Mr. McHenry has appeared regionally in many musicals.  Mr. McHenry graduated from the University of Southern California B.F.A. Acting Conservatory and earned his M.F.A. in Musical Theater from U.C. Irvine.
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KIM MESSER
Kim Messer is a writer, editor and creative product developer. Through publishing, she has the chance to encourage
and teach writers and drama teams. She has written and compiled several books and regularly helps develop and write church musicals. She has a passion for excellence in drama ministry, and recently has begun to develop visual resources for the church.

She worked as Product Line Manager for Lillenas Publishing Company for nine years before becoming a free-lance consultant and writer. Prior to that, she spent time on stage and backstage, and worked with Nashville Children's Theatre and Theatre for Young America, in Kansas City, MO. She currently resides in Baltimore, MD.
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DALE SAVIDGE
Dr. Dale Savidge was instrumental in founding CITA in the mid 1980s, and was elected its first President; he held the presidency until his appointment as Executive Director in 1994.  Dale Savidge earned two Masters degrees in theatre (and studid  at Kent State University) and a PhD in English and Theatre from the University of South Carolina. After teaching collegiate theatre at the undergraduate and graduate levels for fifteen years, in 1996 Dale launched Associates and Savidge, an arts management organization for professional Christian actors.  He resides in Greenville, SC with his wife Tammy, a registered nurse, and their three children: Timothy (married to Maggie), Patricia and Olivia.
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PETER SENKBEIL
Peter serves as Director of Theatre Activities and Associate Professor of Theatre at Concordia University in Irvine, CA.
He holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University, where he wrote his dissertation on professional theatres run by Christians; he is currently at work on a book on the same subject. Peter teaches theatre history and literature, and directs both mainstage and touring plays. Peter is a charter member of CITA and a former chair of its Board of Directors from 1994-1997. Peter is also a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education; has served as a circuit coordinator and play adjudicator for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival; and he worked for two years as the artistic director of Trinity House Theatre, a community theatre run by Christians in Livonia MI.
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LIN SEXTON
Lin Sexton has for 29 years served as Director of Worship Arts at the First Baptist Church of Modesto, California where her duties include drama ministry, writing, editing, video production, directing theatre, mentoring performers and creating worship opportunities through the arts. Currently she is working on a three-year arts outreach project for the Christian churches in Slovenia, utilizing arts teams from her church as they recruit and train arts teams in that Central European nation. Lin has written, staged and toured dozens of dramas and musical theatre productions, and her material has been performed in the USA, Canada, England, New Zealand and Australia.  A contributing author to the Maranatha Worship Bible, Lin currently serves as Worship Leader Magazine’s drama columnist.  She has penned magazine articles, music and gift books and serves as a professional ghost writer.  “As a way of getting out of the four walls of the church,” she says, “I have a second, much loved job as a writing therapist, working with cancer survivors.”
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ROBERT SMYTH
Producing Artistic Director and performer celebrated his 30th year with Lamb's Players in 2006. He has directed over 100 productions for LPT, including Detective Story, Edith Stein, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Woman of No Importance, The Secret Garden, Joyful Noise (here and Off-Broadway), The Great Divorce, Hamlet, Metamorphoses, and Into the Woods. He is the creator and director of the theatre's annual holiday celebration, An American Christmas, at the Hotel Del. The founding member of our Resident Ensemble, his performance credits include Damien, The Boys Next Door, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sleuth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Uncle Vanya, My Fair Lady, 1776, Private Lives, and Art.

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JOCELYN SLUKA
Jocelyn Sluka is a full-time performer, workshop leader, and administrator with Friends of the Groom Theater Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. In her thirty years as a professional actor and singer, she has worked with a variety of regional and educational theaters including the Hollywood Free Theatre, "The Stephen Foster Story," and in touring productions for US troops stationed in Germany.  In addition to performing with Friends of the Groom and teaching acting classes, she appears in regional commercials and industrial films, and is a member of AFTRA.  Jocelyn has a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Kentucky.
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CLARE SERA
Clare Sera was the Director of the improvised comedy show, Theatresports at The Sak Theatre Comedy Lab and Drama Director for Northland Community (mega)Church before moving from Florida to Los Angeles. She turned her improvisation skills toward movie pitches and currently has three screenplays in development at Warner Brothers and Paramount.


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MARCIA WHITEHEAD
Marcia Whitehead was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. She currently lives in the metropolitan New York area, working exclusively with world-renowned vocal instructor, Franco Iglesias. Marcia is an award-winning lirico-spinto soprano, whose vocal gifts were discovered after her college experience in the dramatic arts. She was involved with music at an early age, but her serious pursuit of opera commenced after a choral concert where she stepped in at the last minute for an ailing soloist and an enthusiastic audience member offered to sponsor professional training. Subsequently, her private vocal study has included training with Kathleen Darragh of Los Angeles, and Maestro Franco Iglesias of New York City. Her operatic coaches have included Greg Buchhalter and Luis Menendez of the Metropolitan Opera and international operatic soprano, Juliana Gondek and Ann Baltz of OperaWorks. Additionally, Marcia has studied stage movement with academy award-winning actress Alfre Woodard and language arts with Carmen Brunol.

Marcia was thrilled to perform an aria, composed specifically for her voice, as a guest artist in a production of "Romeo and Juliet," performed at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House. She was also invited to be a guest artist, and sing the role of Abigail in The Crucible for the California State University at Fullerton, California. In addition, Marcia participated in recording the sound tracks for Hanna-Barbera’s  Jetsons: The Movie and The Easter Story.

In an Opera Guild of Southern California competition, she was recognized as an unusual talent, as she performed arias, art songs, oratorio selections, recitatives, duets, trios and ensembles in a rigorous contest, for which she was a finalist and award winner.

Marcia’s years in the professional chorus of California’s Opera Pacific gave her several opportunities to sing “bit” roles and occasionally serve as rehearsal cover for roles lead roles in Der Fliegende Hollander, Manon Lescaut, Un Ballo in Maschera and Cavalleria Rusticana. On two occasions, while rehearsing Tosca and Aida, Marcia was heard by general directors David DiChiera and Patrick Veitch (respectively) who both encouraged her to pursue work on the world’s operatic stages. Though Mr. Veitch was aware that Marcia had come to opera late, having already begun a career in an unrelated field, he pronounced her voice “glorious in the extreme” and told Marcia “you have the voice for which the entire operatic world awaits.” 

Marcia is the subject of the award-winning documentary film, Laundry and Tosca, which has been honored in international film festivals in Europe, Great Britain and the United States. Marcia was presented the award for “Best Music” in Milan for her work in the film. After experiencing a profound encounter with the Lord, Marcia has chosen to focus all her musical energies with a heart for Christian ministry.  In addition to worship concerts, she enjoys presenting both arias and worship music in a faith-based ministry, born out of the film Laundry and Tosca which is a poetic examination of what it means to follow a calling and the abundant living that can result. Ministry opportunities have taken Marcia to Washington DC, New York, California, Oregon, New Mexico, New Jersey, Idaho, Texas and Utah, where Laundry and Tosca was presented at the Windrider Forum at the Sundance Film Festival.

Marcia has performed several classical concert works with choral societies and regional orchestras in California. Her concert repertoire includes works by Verdi, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Faure, Saint-Saens, Britten and Rossini. Marcia’s sacred repertoire includes music composed by contemporary Christian artists and gospel in addition to classical sacred works. Marcia has sung with regional opera companies in Oregon, California, New York, and New Jersey and her operatic repertoire includes Aida, Andrea Chenier, Cavalleria Rusticana, The Crucible, The Consul, Manon Lescaut, Tosca and Un Ballo in Maschera.
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