Mary Reich, M.F.A., is a movement educator, choreographer and co- director of SomeBodiesMovingCompany. She has been researching movement and art making for the last 27 years focusing on improvisation, somatic awareness, creative research and performance. She currently is working towards a PhD in Expressive Arts Education/Therapy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.
Cynthia Stokes
Director Cynthia Stokes’ staging credits include Opera Carolina, Cincinnati Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, the Florentine Opera, Opera Pacific, San Diego Opera, and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Recent engagements for Ms. Stokes include Margaret Garner at Opera Carolina and Cincinnati Opera, and Il trovatore at The Florentine Opera. Ms. Stokes has also staged new commissions for Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera and San Diego Opera including Murder at the Opera which she co-wrote with composer Edward Barnes.
An accomplished stage director, her theatrical credits include the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, and New York Theatre Workshop. She teaches acting and directing at the University of California at San Diego where she received her M.F.A.
Cory Hibbs
Cory Hibbs (b. 1978, San Diego, CA) DMA Composition, The Peabody
Conservatory of the John Hopkins University; M.Mus, Music Theory
Pedagogy, The Peabody Conservatory of the John Hopkins University;
M.Mus. Composition, Boston University; B.Mus. Composition, San Diego
State University.
Awards include the 2007 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award, the
2007 Macht Orchestra Composition Competition, and the 2005 Boston
University Composition Competition for his orchestral piece “Last Year,
In New England." Also, in 2005 Cory won the Malloy Miller Prize in
Composition for his Piano Sonata, “Commonwealth Sonata.”
Cory studied acting at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford
University. Also an accomplished poet, he serves as librettist and
lyricist for his vocal works and wrote the libretto for the one act
opera by fellow Peabody composer Ruby Fulton, entitled “These Are The
Times.”
Bernard Baldan
Bernard is a founding member of The San Diego Repertory Theatre, Indian Magique Repertory Theatre, and created the role of ‘Scrooge’ in an Diego’s longest running production, ‘A Christmas Carol’. Other San Diego performances include Brodin in the west coast premiere of ‘Red Noses’, Father Rivard in ‘The Runner Stumbles, Boo in ‘The Marriage of Bette and Boo’, Blue in ‘The Unseen Hand’. He also performed the role of Ben Silverman in the last production performed in the original Old Globe Theater, ‘The Sunshine Boys’.
In Los Angeles he performed at The Comedy Store, The Improvisation, and the Laugh Factory before landing reoccurring roles on ‘Days of Our Lives’, ‘Hart to Hart’, and ‘Crazy Like a Fox’. After two years as staff riter at Universal Studios, he returned to San Diego to finish work on, ‘The Boise Club’; a play recently produced at The Laguna Playhouse, directed by D.W. Jacobs.
Awards include Old Globe Atlas Awards or lead and supporting roles, Drama Circle Award, USA Film Festival. Member of Actor’s Equity – Screen Actor’s Guild.
Executive Director of 3Arts Foundation (an arts education company).
Lynne Jennings
Like most puppeteers, Lynne has experience in many phases of the art: as a
designer, builder, teaching artist, writer, director, consultant, presenter,
performer, with more than 30 years in the field and in the schools. Long active
at local, regional, and national levels, she holds awards for her service from
each. From 1977-2002, she was on the staff of the majority of regional and
national puppet festivals held in this country and directed two. She is one of
the founding (and current) staff of PuppetFest MidWest, an annual independent
puppet festival whose mission is to grow, inspire and strengthen live puppet
theatre. She served on the Board of Directors of UNIMA-USA (the US branch of the
International Puppeteers organization) for 13 years, with 6 as VP, and 5 as
Citations (the highest award for puppetry in North America) Chairperson. She is
currently the chief administrator of the San Diego Guild of Puppetry/Puppetry
Center of San Diego, as they work to grow a permanent place for the art in the
southernmost corner of the Pacific Southwest.
Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor’s recent credits include: Rounding Third (Snowy Range Theatre), Tango (UCSD/ La Jolla Playhouse), The Deception (La Jolla Playhouse), The Near East and Election Day (BNPF ‘06 & ’07), Heart of a Dog, Measure for Measure, The Skin of Our Teeth (UCSD) He graduated with a BFA from the University of Wyoming and an MFA from the University of California – San Diego. Brandon Taylor is also a proud member of Actors’ Equity.
Kim Walsh
has taught acting, voice and Shakespeare throughout the country and abroad during the last twenty years and currently teaches at UCSD, MiraCosta College and La Jolla Playhouse. She has acted professionally in film, television and regional theatre, including the Signature Theatre in New York and locally at La Jolla Playhouse. Kim received degrees in theatre from Emerson College in Boston and her M.F.A. in Acting from UCSD.
Annie Hinton
is an Independent Theatre Artist who teaches, acts,
writes, directs and produces. Film: Bring It On, Outta Time, 29th &
Gay. TV: Jenni Project (Disney), Veronica Mars (recurring) and many
others. Theatre: Old Globe, The Hostage (Jack O’Brien); Seattle Rep,
Our Town (Dan Sullivan); San Diego Rep, The Clean House; Cygnet
Theatre, Book of Liz; North Coast Rep, Importance of Being Earnest,
and Travesties (San Diego Critics and Patte Ensemble Award);
Playwright: Cecil Without Artie, (Best of Fest) Sweet Dreams For A.J.
(Best of Fest) MotherTongues (Public Arts Advisory Arts Grant). Annie
also channels her creative energy into her private students, dialect
coaching for La Jolla Playhouse and Cygnet Theatre among others, and
is a Freeway-Flyer Theatre Professor of many years at USD, SDSU,
Palomar, City, Grossmont, and Southwestern Colleges.
Lisa Berger
is a Director, Teacher and Actor. She received her MFA in Directing from the University of Montana and completed the 2-year intensive in the Meisner technique at the William Esper Studio in NYC. Her directing credits include The Long Christmas Ride Home (Patte Award), Our Town, Pirates of Penzance, Looking for Normal, Handbag (co-author), Come Back to the Five and Dime......, Picnic, The Boys Next Door. In addition she directed over 7 plays for the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Creating Original Opera program in NYC. As an actor, she toured with the Montana Repertory Theatre. She co-authored a two woman show called Rita and Inez: The true Queens of Femininity that toured throughout the US and Canada and was included in the Toyota Comedy Festival in NYC. Lisa has worked as a teaching artist for Broadway's The Lion King and Footloose, and locally at the La Jolla Playhouse. She currently teaches theatre at Mira Costa College, Cal State San Marcos and UCSD.
V. Nadja Lancelot
Guest Designer
David Weiner
Guest Designer
