Theatre Costume Design: Blackstone Magik: The Magic of Lawrence and Priscilla-American Tour, ICT: A Christmas Carol, Swimming In The Shallows, Dreams Of A Sunday Afternoon, Panama, Cal Rep; Vinegar Tom, Workshop360; Vinegar Tom, Pride and Prejudice, University of Southern California; The Magician, Broadway Bound Musical Workshop; Pinocchio, Great American Children’s Theatre Co. Tour; Johnny Johnson, Odyssey Theatre (Drama-Logue Award nominee); Gaité Parisienne, Los Angeles Chamber Ballet Tour; Orphans, Downey Civic Light Opera. Concerts and PAs: Maureen McGovern, The Pointer Sisters, Nell Carter, The Fifth Dimension, Swoosie Kurtz, Ali McGraw, Kathy Ireland, Dyan Cannon, Diahann Carroll, Cindy Williams. Affiliations: Costume Designers Guild, IATSE 892; United Scenic Artists, IATSE 829; ATAS; USITT. Gayle Baizer holds an MFA in Costume Design from CSULB and teaches in the Theatre Department
Jody received her MFA in Theatre Management from CSULB. Credits include Kids Stuff Expo (co-founder, executive producer); Opera Pacific (associate director of development); Pacific Symphony Orchestra (market ing manager); Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach (Cultural Arts Director); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (stage manager). Jody received her BA from California State University, Fullerton.
Dr. Snider’s second year on the faculty of CSULB and Cal Rep, also teaches Voice and the Alexander Technique at Loyola Marymount University. Dr. Snider has sung professionally with Opera Pacific and Pacific Chorale. His students can be seen with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Opera, Pacific Chorale, and numerous venues nationally. Dr. Snider is active as music director for opera and musical theatre including regular guest directing for the Sinatra Opera Workshop at LMU, and as a clinician for workshops in the Alexander Technique.
Maria Mayenzet’s career has spanned over twenty-five years working in regional theatre, film and television. Her favorite theatre roles include Frida in Cal Rep’s Dreams of a Sunday Afternoon and Nurse Edna in Cider House Rules, Calista in The Fair Penitent at L.A.T.C and the title role in Tamara. Her film credits include Jagged Edge, Proud Men, Dead Sexy, Macbeth and Messenger of Death. Her television credits include, Tour of Duty, Forever, Journey to Mars, Mancuso FBI and Murder She Wrote. She directed her original work Women of the World in Spring of 2008 at Saddleback College.
William Francis McGuire spent five years as a company member at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis where roles included Frederick in Joanne Akalaitis’s production of The Rover, Medvedenko in The Seagull, Professor Begriffenfeldt and The Boyg in Peer Gynt (directed by Anne Justine D’Zmura) and many others. Other roles include Jack in The Boys Next Door at the American Repertory Theatre in Boston, Pistol in Henry V at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C., Cleante in Tartuffe and Mr. Marcus in The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at South Coast Repertory. Mr. McGuire has been a series regular on Nickelodeon’s 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd, and has guest starred on Close to Home, Joan of Arcadia, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, The Guardian, Navy N.C.I.S., Dragnet, ER, JAG, Arliss, The Practice, The Division, Charmed and Seventh Heaven. Films include The Day After Tomorrow, Mission Impossible III, Shimmer and the Disney T.V. movie Tru Confessions. He has taught at the Guthrie Theatre, University of Minnesota, Denison University and UCLA Extension, and has an MFA from Yale School of Drama.
