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FACULTY

Anne Justine D'Zmura has served as resident director at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis where she directed Peer Gynt, Bert's Folly, Billy and Dago, and Poster of the Cosmos; artistic associate for the NYC-based The Acting Company where she directed the national tours of Macbeth and The Tempest; artistic associate for the Playwright's Center and artistic director for Yale Cabaret. She has served as visiting assistant professor at Denison University, guest director and educator at The Juilliard School, University of Minnesota MFA program, USD/Old Globe Theatre, University of Redlands, and University of Michigan. Additional directing credits include South Coast Repertory, A Noise Within, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and The Cricket Theatre. She was assistant director for Trevor Nunn on Tom Stoppard's Arcadia on Broadway. Anne is the recipient of a National Endowment for The Arts/TCG Directing Fellowship, with which she studied in Bali, Indonesia; and a New York Drama League: New Works/New Directors Grant. She received her MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama and a BA from Hampshire College.

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Craig Fleming, Theatre Studies

Craig Fleming is an actor, director, teacher, and writer. He received his MFA in Acting from CSULB, where he was named Outstanding Graduate for the College of the Arts. His theatre background includes acting and directing for California Repertory, Shakespeare Orange County, Laguna Playhouse, Performance Riverside, and Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, where he directed the Young Conservatory and taught acting for fifteen years. As a writer he worked with the California Young Playwrights Project and in 1981 shared an Emmy for the KCET series "TNRC Presents." In 1988 Craig joined Walt Disney Imagineering, moved to France, and directed the nomenclature and scripting effort for the creation of Disneyland Paris. Prior to becoming an Imagineer, he wrote for Teddy Ruxpin, Muppet Babies, and other talking toys. Craig has been listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

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Joanne Gordon, Artistic Director / Dept. Chair

Dr. Gordon is an award-winning director whose accolades include five Drama-Logue Awards, a Los Angeles Critics Choice Award and being named "Best of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times. She has been instrumental in developing a significant number of original plays and musicals with Cal Rep and is in constant demand as a director both nationally and internationally. Recently her adaptation and production of "Love, Bukowski" was nominated for several awards by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, which also conferred on Cal Rep the Polly Warfield award for best season, a tribute to her first full year as artistic director. She has directed a number of Stephen Sondheim works worldwide, including the first Chinese language production of West Side Story in Beijing. Recent published work includes Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook; an essay on Stephen Sondheim in the Encyclopedia of American Biography, and an essay on August Wilson for the Casebook Series. She is a frequent contributor to The Sondheim Review and her first book, Art Isn't Easy: The Theater of Stephen Sondheim was one of the earliest studies of this great artist's work. As an internationally renowned Sondheim scholar, Gordon directs and conducts workshops in both the U.S. and Europe. Gordon did her undergraduate work in South Africa and her Ph.D. at UCLA.

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Jeff Hickman, Technical Director

Professor Hickman is a graduate of Bucknell University (BA), San Jose State University (MA), and the University of New Orleans (MFA). Prior to coming to CSULB, he was the technical director for the Theatre Department at Villanova University and was the production manager and technical director for Villanova's Summer Shakespeare Festival. In addition, he has designed lights, sound and scenery for both academic and professional theatre. Mr. Hickman has been a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology for more than twenty years. In 1998, he served as Coordinating Chair for USITT's National Conference.

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David Martin Jacques, Lighting Design

David Martin Jacques has designed the lighting for over 300 theatre, opera, television, dance and special event productions. Recent projects include the critically acclaimed productions of Tannhauser for Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Daphne for Teatro la Fenice in Venice, I Lombardi for Teatro Maggio Fiorentino in Florence, Cherubin for Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, and Tales of Hoffman and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Central City Opera. In addition, he recently designed the set and lighting for Los Angeles Philharmonic's The Rehearsal. His designs for television have been broadcast on NBC, A&E, and PBS. Mr. Jacques served as lighting consultant for Walt Disney Creative Entertainment and designed numerous projects for Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios, and Euro Disney. He also designs architectural lighting projects throughout the United States, Europe, and South America.

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Danila Korogodsky, Scenic Design

Danila Korogodsky, a theatre designer and painter, was born in Kaliningrad, Russia to a theatrical family. After graduating from Leningrad Theater Institute in 1977, Danila worked for 10 years as a Resident Designer at The Leningrad Theater for Young Spectators. He also freelanced around the country, did some projects as an illustrator of books, and exhibited his works as a painter. At that time Danila designed more than fifty productions for Moscow's Mossoviet Theater, Novy Theater, Taganka Theater, Drama Theater in Tashkent, Tallin, Baku, Vladivostok, and others. His theater work and his paintings were frequently exhibited both in Russia and abroad. Several of his works have been purchased by museums and private collections. Danila was selected to represent Russia at the 1983 Prague Quadrennial of Stage Design. In 1989, he was invited to design a show for the Honolulu Theater for Youth, and since than has freelanced in the United States as a theatre designer, design professor, and painter. During the past ten years Danila has designed more than seventy shows all around United States. Danila was a guest professor at Indiana University, Bloomington; Ohio State University, Columbus; and was head of the design program at DePaul University, Chicago.

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Barbara Matthews, Wig and Makeup Design

Barbara Matthews received her BA degree in literature from SUNY Buffalo and her MA at CSULB. She is resident makeup and hair designer at CSULB. Over the past twenty years, Barbara has served as makeup designer and consultant for numerous theatres in the Southern California area, including the Tiffany, West Coast Ensemble, Long Beach Studio Theatre, New Theatre, Inc., the Grove Shakespeare Festival, CSU Northridge, Pomona College, Long Beach Opera and the Los Angeles Classical Ballet. She has also designed and conducted seminars for CSULB Dance Department and has written the chapter on makeup for the recent revision of the textbook Dance Production. She was the recipient of Drama-Logue Awards for her makeup designs for The Mikado and Mud People. Barbara is currently on the theatre arts faculties of CSULB, where she teaches Stage Makeup and Design, as well as general theatre courses.

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Patrick McDonough, Theatre Management (emeritus)

Patrick McDonough is a veteran of over 100 productions in university, community, and regional theatre. He has been a founding chair of a theatre department and the founding manager of a university performing arts center; the marketing manager of the Guthrie Theater; a founding member of both the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the International Leadership Association; the Arts, Leadership and Education Program Director for a multi-billion, international foundation; a university provost; and a college president. Dr. McDonough continues to pursue an interest in theatre management and leadership in performing arts organizations, and is currently engaged in a national consulting practice in strategic issues in liberal arts colleges. He has been listed in Who’s Who in America for nearly two decades.

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Ken Novice, Theatre Management

Ken Novice has served as Director of External Affairs at Pasadena Playhouse, State Theatre of California since 2002. He also currently manages Ken Novice Entertainment Marketing, working with such clients as The Salvation Army, Sephra Fountains LLC, and promotional partners including Warner Brothers, American Express and Gelson’s The SuperMarket among others. Prior to 2002 he was Director of Marketing and Public Relations for San Diego's Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre, developing marketing and public relations programs for such shows as Jack O'Brien's acclaimed revival of Damn Yankees, the Tony Award-nominated musical The Full Monty, Henry IV starring John Goodman as well as Sheldon Epp's Tony-nominated hit Play On! among many others. Novice’s credits also include marketing and public relations with the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theater Company and New York's Circle Repertory Company. As Director of Programming for YouthStream Media Networks he developed national marketing and public relations programs for major motion pictures from Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks S.K.G., Buena Vista Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Fox Broadcasting, 20th Century Fox, MGM, New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers Pictures. Novice has been a guest lecturer at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. He holds a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from San Diego State University.

Hugh O'Gorman, Acting

Hugh's most recent Los Angeles appearance was in Johnny on the Spot at the Matrix Theatre. Previously in LA he was seen in Lemonade at the Tamarind Theatre opposite Maxwell Caulfield and Heather Tom, and played C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story at the Court Theatre for director Jules Aaron. Other theatre credits include the Broadway production of Brian Friel's Translations; and on Off-Broadway: The Yiddish Trojan Women (AJT), The Tempest (AEC) and Cloud 9 (Perry Street). As a founding member of New York City's Mint Theatre Company (2002 Drama Desk Award), Hugh directed The Harvest, and appeared as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Nick in The Time of Your Life, and the Doctor in Anton Chekhov: stories from my youth. He has worked in over a dozen regional theatres around the country, most notably the Seattle Repertory, Charlotte Rep, Huntington and Asolo theatres, and has spent summers with the Montana and Idaho Shakespeare festivals. For four years Hugh portrayed Jeff Singer on AMC's critically acclaimed, Emmy and CableAce award-winning show Remember WENN (SAG Award nomination). Other recent television credits include Father Tim on CBS' That's Life; and Burly in the mini-series The 10th Kingdom, US Attorney Chuck Rodman on Law & Order, and a guest turn on ER, all for NBC. For ABC he appeared on One Life to Live and All My Children. He played the lead in the Shooting Gallery feature Upstate. Hugh earned his BA from Cornell University, and his MFA in Acting from the University of Washington.

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Orlando Pabotoy, Movement

Orlando Pabotoy has served on the faculty at Tisch School for the Arts at NYU. He has taught at the Juilliard School, University of Texas in Austin, Bard College, Ramapo College, The Old Globe, UCSD, Cal Arts, Cal State Long Beach, and at The Actors Center in New York. Orlando was a recipient of the 1997 John Houseman Award, a 1998 Fox Fellowship and a 2003 OBIE Award. In addition to teaching, Mr. Pabotoy is a successful director and actor. As a director, Orlando has created, assisted, and staged/co-staged shows for the Juilliard Drama Division, NYU, Actors Center Conservatory, and Ma-Yi Theater Company. As an actor, Orlando has performed at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, New York Theater Workshops, The Metropolitan Opera House, The Old Globe, and Yale Repertory Company. He has done shows for the Division 13 Theater Company (where he is an Artistic Associate), The Flying Machine Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company, IMUA Theater Company, among other New York projects. His television/film credits include being a series regular on Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central) and guest starring on JAG (CBS), In the Weeds (Independent Feature), Blue Hour, The Beat (WB) and Whoopi (NBC).

Nancy Jo Smith, Costume Design

Nancy Jo Smith creates costumes for very diverse venues: theatre, dance, television, video, ice skating, and stunt shows. She received a Themed Entertainment Award for excellence in costume design for "Waterworld" at Universal Studios in Hollywood. Her most recent ice show, "World Rhythms on Ice" at Sea World, California can be seen this summer. Her costumes have appeared in the Cal Rep productions of Bird of Quintain, The Dictator's Nose and Merlin, for which she received a Drama-Logue Award for Costume Design. Nancy Jo is also a fiber artist specializing in Shibori. Her work has been seen in international exhibitions and is sold in galleries across the US.

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Maria Viera, Cinema Studies / Theatre Studies

Dr. Viera is a filmmaker who makes experimental and short narrative films. She holds a Ph.D. in Cinema-Television from the University of Southern California. A scholar in contemporary film theory, she is a published author on diverse topics which range from the films of Woody Allen to the relationship of theory and practice in the teaching of film production. Her most recent publication is a chapter on John Cassavetes in an upcoming anthology on filmic performance style. She is on the advisory board of the journal Creative Screenwriting.

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STAFF

Corey Holst, Resident Designer / Stage Technician

Corey has been a designer and stage technician at Cal State Long Beach for the University Players and the Cal Rep companies for over ten years. Off-campus he can be found working on Fantasmic! at Disneyland Park. He has designed numerous productions including set designs for Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Dracula, Moon Over Buffalo, The Boys of Summer, Sherlock's Last Case, Jacques Brel, the Sand Harbor Shakespeare Festival at Lake Tahoe and Shakespeare By The Sea here in Southern California. He has designed the sound for Richard III, The Lion in Winter, Macbeth, The Grapes of Wrath, Cyrano de Bergerac and many others. Corey has been seen as a performer in such productions as The Music Man, Li'l Abner, Finian's Rainbow, 1776, Bye Bye Birdie, Damn Yankees and is currently singing 50s-style (a cappella) doo-wop with "Biff & the Backups." But Corey's greatest joy is his 2-year-old girl, Madison Elizabeth.

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Eric Imley, Managing Director

Eric Imley oversees all development, marketing, administrative, and financial aspects of Cal Rep and the University Players. Prior to joining Cal Rep he was a Project Manager at Thomas Gregor Associates, an entertainment design firm in El Segundo. Previously he worked in theatre management at theatres all over the United States including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Skirball Cultural Center and A.S.K. Theater Projects. He joined Cal Rep to continue a lifelong passion for presenting new theatrical works. Eric holds an MFA in Theatrical Production Management from UCLA and a BA in Technical Theater from UC Santa Cruz.

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Janet Miller, Production Manager

Janet Miller comes to CSULB from Cornell University where she was the resident stage manager for the Schwartz Center. Janet has worked professionally for the Williamstown Theatre Festival (asst. production manager) and has stage managed over 700 performances of Triple Espressoaround the country and in San Diego. She has both an MFA in Stage Management and an MA in Theatre History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Krannert Center for Performing Arts. She also holds a BA in Theatre and a BA in Religion from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
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Michael Pacciorini, Costume Shop Manager

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Darren Rogholt, Stage Carpenter

A graduate of Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, Darren is also an artist and semi-professional photographer. He has worked for the East LA Classic Theatre and Gothic Moon companies. Darren is also a professional drummer who started his own company, "Mr. Cajón", specializing in Afro-Cuban drums that he designs, builds, and plays. Darren is also a member of Stage of the Arts, specializing in Afro-Cuban drumming and dance.

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Peggy O'Neil Rosales, Edison Theatre Box Office Manager

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Micky Small, Department Coordinator

Micky Small comes to CSULB from NYC where she spent the last several years working in human resources for several nonprofit organizations. She is an actress, writer, and all-around theatre person. She has a BA in Theatre Arts from Southern CT State University and spent two years in the puppetry program at the University of CT. She also completed a 2-year program in screenwriting with Writer's Boot Camp. Micky has been a Board Member for the Fresh Fruit Festival in NYC where she was also the Production Coordinator.

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Rachel Maize, Administrative Support

Rachel Maize received both her BA and MFA in theatre from CSULB. She returns to Cal Rep in the capacity of instructor and administrative assistant. Throughout her career, Rachel has worked on over 40 productions as director, assistant director, stage manager, and/or producer. Most recently she directed Fiddler on the Roof at the Jewish Community Center in Long Beach and The Importance of Being Earnest at Little Fish Theatre Company in San Pedro.

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