Victor Maog

Victor Maog is a stage director and educator with national and international credits. He has collaborated at the NYSF/Public Theatre, Hartford Stage, Williamstown, Ma-Yi, Lark, MCC, The Working Theatre, New Dramatists, Intar, and directed/taught for NYU/Tisch, UPenn, Fordham, and others.

Victor was one of six directors in the United States to become a Fellow of the 2004-06 National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Program, in addition to being awarded the 2005 Paula Altvater Fellowship at Cornerstone, 2000-2002 Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Second Stage, and the 1993 U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Presidential Award for Outstanding Academic Enrichment for his collaborations with disadvantaged youth.

A member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Partial Comfort Productions, Gotham Stage Company, and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Victor has been a mentor director for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival and served as a U.S. Delegate to the 31st International Theatre Institute/UNESCO World Congress in Manila. His long-term collaboration, Total Power Exchange by Edith Freni, was nominated for the “New American Plays for Russia” initiative, which is funded by the U.S. embassy in Moscow under the auspices of the Bilateral Presidential Commission. In addition, Matthew Paul Olmos’ The Nature of Captivity, which he directed as part of Mabou Mines’ 40th season, was recently awarded ”Top Prize for the Americas” — out of over 1000 plays — in the BBC’s 2011 International Playwrighting Competition.

A graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School with concentrations in Global Leadership and Performance Studies, Victor enters his fifth season as Director of Theatre at Perry-Mansfield. Under his leadership the Theatre and Music Theatre Department has embarked on the Original Works Initiative where nationally and internationally recognized artists create works for and often in collaboration with P-M’s unique student body. In 2011, he launched P-M Premieres (producing 4 world premieres), P-M Professional Track/New Works Festival (in collaboration with Second Stage Theatre) and the P-M Winter Intensive at The Juilliard School.

Alex Correia

Alex Correia is a New York City-based stage director and educator. Currently he is on faculty at New York City’s Professional Performing Arts High School teaching acting and directing. He served as Resident Director at Off Broadway’s INTAR Theatre from 2007 to 2009 and the Director of INTAR’s Actors Collective from 2006 to 2009. He has developed new plays at INTAR, The Lark Play Development Center, and the MFA Dramatic Writing Program at New York University. Directing Credits include Dwarfs by Harold Pinter and Dutchman by LeRoi Jones at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; Leak by Fernanda Coppel and Three to a Session by Desi Moreno-Penson at INTAR; Thorny Bushes – a Staged Musical Radio Play at the Daryl Roth Cabaret Theatre; The Woman by Michael John Garces for the 24hr Plays Company; I Am Yours by Judith Thompson at Center Stage NY; and Othello by Shakespeare at the John Houseman Theatre. He has served as assistant director to: Andrei Belgrader on The Cherry Orchard at Off Broadway’s Classic Stage Company starring John Turturro and Dianne Wiest; Gregory Boyd on Design for Living by Noel Coward at the Williamstown Theater Festival starring Marissa Tomei and Campbell Scott; Andrei Serban on Lysistrata at Boston’s A.R.T starring Cherry Jones; and Chris Bayes on Scapin by Moliere at the Seattle’s Intiman Theater and Chicago’s The Court Theater. Mr. Correia is a proud graduate of The Juilliard School where he received the three-year Andrew W. Mellon Directing Fellowship and holds a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College.

Julie McBride

Julie McBride holds degrees from the Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music and the Mannes College of Music. Broadway and other New York credits include American Idiot, Next to Normal, In The Heights, The Addams Family, The Lion King, Inner Voices: Solo Musicals (Zipper Theatre), The Happy Elf (music written by Harry Connick Jr.), Judas and Me (NYMF), and Pride and Predjudice (Eastman Theatre). Regional credits include Daddy Long Legs (Northlight Theatre, La Mirada Center for the Performing Arts, and Laguna Playhouse), Unknown Soldier (Huntington Theatre), Tales From The Bad Years (Theatreworks Palo Alto). She has served on the faculties of Syracuse Universityʼs Tepper Program and The Juilliard School (Drama Division, MAP).

Philip Hernandez

Philip Hernández is the only man in Broadway history to have played both Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert in Les Miserables. He made his Broadway debut in the Original Cast of the Tony Award-winning Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Harold Prince. In Kiss, he created the role of Esteban and later went on to play the impassioned revolutionary Valentin in London’s West End and on Broadway. Philip also created the role of the Reverend Gonzalez opposite Marc Anthony and Ruben Blades in the Original Cast of Paul Simon’s The Capeman. He starred as Rico (yes, he wore a diamond) in the National Tour of Barry Manilow’s Copacabana, played Juan Peron in Harold Prince’s 25th Anniversary North American Tour of EVITA and starred in the World Premier of Jose Cruz Gonzalez’ play Sunsets and Margaritas at the Denver Center For The Performing Arts.

Philip played attorney Enrico Alvarez on ABC’s All My Children and has been featured on the daytime dramas One Life To Live, Loving and Another World. He has also appeared on the hit series Ugly Betty, Damages and Person of Interest. And recently completed filming on his first independent feature film The Normals.

On the concert stage he has worked with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein, Robert Shaw and Zubin Mehta, and with Symphony orchestras throughout the United States. Jazz Review called the release of his Latin-Jazz CD, The beat of my heart, “A gift from the heart from one of America’s great voices.”

As a private coach in NYC, Philip prepares students for auditioning and working in today’s professional theatre by helping them develop an individual, healthy, flexible vocal technique and teaching them to discover personal power and specificity in their use of text. Mr. Hernández has been a faculty member at New York’s American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) and NYU’s Cap 21 program. He teaches master classes and workshops at theatres and universities across North America. He holds a degree in Theatre and Educational Psychology from the State University of New York and studied acting under the tutelage of legendary teachers Stella Adler and Larry Moss.

His favorite role is being “daddy” to his fourteen-year-old daughter, Mariah.

Andrea Thome

Andrea Thome is a Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born playwright who grew up navigating the multiple landscapes and languages that inhabit her plays. Her dramas, absurd comedies, play translations and video satires have been presented at theaters, galleries and universities around the U.S. and Latin America (including: INTAR, Victory Gardens Theater, Cherry Red Productions, Exit Art, Brava, & The Public’s Under the Radar). She is a New Voices/New York fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, where her play Pinkolandia received the “Launching New Plays into the Repertoire” fellowship, which supports 4 productions of the play nationwide. Her play Undone is published in ‘Out of Time & Place: An Anthology of Plays by the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab’ (published by Women’s Project & Productions, 2010). Andrea’s translation of Neva, by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón, will be produced at the Public Theater in their 2012-2013 season. Andrea became a playwright by necessity in San Francisco, where she and her fellow Red Rocket Theater company members helped pay the theater’s rent by creating and producing a new play each month. Andrea also co-directs FULANA, a New York-based satire collective that creates cutting-edge political & cultural parodies (www.fulana.org). Andrea is a member of New Dramatists and has received fellowships from NYFA, the City of Oakland, INTAR, New York University (MFA Fellow), and the Women’s Project. Andrea has taught at various universities, schools and cultural centers nationwide, and directs the Lark Play Development Center’s U.S.-México Playwright Exchange.

Nell Balaban

Nell Balaban is a freelance theatre director based in New York City. She attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a B.F.A. candidate at the Experimental Theatre Wing.
With a focus on developing new plays and musicals, she’s worked around the country at theatres including The Cleveland Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Rubicon, Papermill Playhouse, The Alley and The Alliance, as well as in New York City at The Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club and on Broadway where she was the Assistant Director on Golda’s Balcony. For Brave New World Theatre Company in Brooklyn, she directed GB Shaw’s Heartbreak House and Too Much Candy, a new play by Cynthia Babak. She developed and directed My Dad’s Crazier Than Your Dad, written and performed by Katherine Heller, at the 2010 NY International Fringe Festival and for The Boy In The Basement (also by Katharine Heller) she won an Outstanding Direction award at the NY International Fringe Festival in 2008. Nell currently serves as Associate Director on the John Caird/Paul Gordon musical Daddy Long Legs which has been touring the country for the last 2 years, and is developing a new piece with Paul Gordon called DEATH: The Musical. Also a composer, Nell’s music can be heard in various films including the documentary “30 Years From Here” directed by Joshua Rosenzweig, and an as-yet untitled documentary about Parmahansa Yogananda directed by the Oscar-Nominated filmmaker Paola di Florio.

Timothy Splain

Timothy Splain is a freelance conductor, pianist, and music director based in New York City. New York productions include A Minister’s Wife (Lincoln Center Theater), Adding Machine (Minetta Lane), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (NYMF), The Hundred Dresses (Atlantic for Kids), and Death Takes A Holiday (Roundabout). National tour credits include Little House on the Prairie. He received a B.A. in Music from the University of Chicago. Regional and Chicago credits include Rent, and Adding Machine (both dir. David Cromer), Next To Normal (Milwaukee Rep), Little House on the Prairie (Paper Mill Playhouse), Altar Boyz, (Drury Lane Water Tower), Threepenny Opera (The Hypocrites), She Loves Me, A Minister’s Wife, A Little Night Music (Writers’ Theatre).

James Rushin

James makes his way to his first Summer at Perry Mansfield this Summer through the warnings from his friends and family that he won’t want to come back. He brings with him his experience as a music director since working on Cabaret for Comtra Community Theater at age 13, along with years of composing, performing in classical, jazz, pop, rock, and metal (yes, metal) settings, and his experience as a lyricist, essayist, and published poet. His work has recently taken him across town to work on Pop! at City Theater as well as across the country touring with the post-rock group Ribbons. His musical, Off with her Maidenhead, co-written with Amy Claussen, recently was selected to be a part of the first year of The Pitch musical theater festival this Summer in Auburn, NY. Over the past year he became a teacher and accompanist at Steel City Improv Theater, the only all-improv house in Pittsburgh, where he plays for several groups, including musical improv group The LuPones, who have been selected as a featured troupe at this year’s Del Close Marathonin New York City.

James started his teaching career at a very early age when he was apprenticed to mezzo-soprano Brenda Menjivar just out of middle school. He continues to teach voice, piano, bass, written and aural theory, composition, and acting both privately and in various studios around the Pittsburgh area. He is just as excited to teach as he is to perform this Summer at PM.