Keturah Stickann has a degree in dance education from Columbia College Chicago and was the Associate Artistic Director for Cerulean Dance Theatre in Chicago. She was also the Assistant to the Director for the Malashock Dance San Diego from 2001-2005. She has helped to create operas at New York City Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, San Diego Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and more. Along with creating her own stage and video performance pieces with her husband, John Menier, through their production company, And How! Productions, she works with the Envision theatre students at Canyon Crest Academy and has done so since the school’s inception in 2004.
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.
Tim McKnight
Tim McKnight is a professional musician and teacher in the San Diego area. He holds his Bachelor in Music Education and Masters in Vocal Accompanying and Coaching from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to being the Director of Music at Chalice Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Escondido, he also teaches a studio of 25 piano and voice students. Tim has served as musical director, conductor, vocal coach and pianist for numerous musical theater productions throughout San Diego, including San Diego Junior Theatre’s recent production of “Merrily We Roll Along” as well as North Coast Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of “Baby”.
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 San 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 writer 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).
Matt Asciutto
Matt Asciutto recently graduated from University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor's of Science in Cognitive Neuropsychology. This fact does not legitimize him as one to teach theater, but it does make him interesting. Matt's legitimacy is derived from his membership in a professional comedic improvisation troupe, his employment as a writer, and also his work with instructing students ages 8 to 18. He performs regularly at the National Comedy Theater in San Diego, where he is also director and head instructor of the NCT High School League. He also teaches improvisation and acting to students ages 8 through 18 at the North County Coastal CYT.
He is also the creator, producer, head writer and rotating director of the Wimbly Humor Institute sketch comedy troupe. He has just recently returned from an engagement as a member of the comedic writing team for the entertainment department of the Venitian Hotel in Las Vegas.
