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Filmmaking
Lara Teeter, Webster Leigh Gerdine School of the Arts, Associate Professor Musical Theatre. Lara Teeter is a professional singer, actor, dancer and currently teaches at Webster University with the Conservatory of Theatre Arts. |
Brian King, USC Thornton School of Music, Director, Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television Associate Professor of Practice of Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television. Brian King, associate professor and director of the scoring for motion pictures and television program, is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and USC. King has worked in the industry as a composer, orchestrator, player, engineer and producer. Some of his feature film projects include Rushmore, The Rugrats Movie and Get Bruce working with the likes of Mark Mothersbaugh and Michael Feinstein. He has composed and produced music for episodic television including The Proud Family, King of Queens and The Love Chronicles, as well as composing additional music for a recent VH1 feature film Play'd. He also scored and produced the music for the off-Broadway theatrical production of the comedy The Godfadda Workout.
Dirk Matthews, Film Faculty and Associate Director Columbia College Portfolio Center.While attending Columbia College Chicago as a student, I was a Film & Video Major with a Cinematography concentration. After freelancing for several years, I began training as a Counselor, specializing in trauma recovery using art and Gestalt therapies. I received my Certified Addictions Counselor certification from the state of Arizona in 1994, and returned to Chicago in 1997 to begin teaching in the Film Department as an adjunct faculty member. My favorite classes to teach draw on my skills as a photographer and cinematographer incorporated with my fascination of the interpretation of images in relation to narrative structure.
David Templeton, College of Charleston, School of the Arts, Assistant Professor Voice and Opera. David Templeton has garnered critical and popular praise as much for the stunning quality of his vocal portrayals, as for his striking dramatic and physical presence. Internationally, he has been admired as Silvio in I Pagliacci and Valentin in Faust with Opera de Puerto Rico, as Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello in La Bohème, and Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette for Edmonton Opera, Marcello in La Bohème and Valentin in Faust for both Winnipeg Opera and Manitoba Opera. In the United States, Mr. Templeton has appeared to great effect with Nevada Opera, Opera Columbus, Toledo Opera, Hawaii Opera, Sarasota Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, Fresno Opera, Piedmont Opera, Mobile Opera, and Illinois Opera, among others.
Deanna McBroom, College of Charleston School of the Arts, Professor Voice/Director of the Voice Program. Deanna McBroom is recognized as one of the Southeast's leading sopranos and voice teachers, and she brings that wealth of performing experience into the voice studio. Frequent concert, symphonic, and opera appearances include Spoleto Festival USA, Louisville Bach Society, Charlotte, Savannah, Columbia, Augusta, and Charleston symphonies, Greenville Chorale, Pennsylvania Opera Festival, and recitals from Washington, D.C. to Atlanta and recently at Dalkeith Palace near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Kent Gash, NYU Tisch, Director of New Studio on Broadway: Music Theatre and Acting. Mr. Gash is former Associate Artistic Director of The Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff, recipient of the 2007 Tony Award for sustained excellence in the American Regional Theatre, where he directed and choreographed 26 Miles (World Premiere), August Wilson’s Radio Golf, Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, (Winner of the Suzi Bass Award for Best Choreography) Sleuth, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, Jelly's Last Jam (Winner of seven Suzi Bass Awards for Best Musical, Best Director and Best Choreography) Tick, Tick… Boom, Five Guys Named Moe, Topdog/Underdog (co-production with Trinity Repertory Co. and New Rep., winner of the Boston Theatre Critics Circle Elliot Norton Award-Best Director, 2004-05) August Wilson’s King Hedley II, Shakespeare's R&J, and Pacific Overtures (co-production with Cincinnati Playhouse and North Shore Music Theatre, Winner of the Atlanta Journal Constitution citation for Best Show of the Year, The Elliot Norton Award for Best Musical of 2003 and nine Independent Reviewers of New England Awards including Best Musical and Best Director of a Musical).
Kim Russo, Fine Arts Department Head, Ringling College of Art and DesignTyler School of Art (Art); Indiana University (Art). Kim is the recipient of several residency fellowships, including the Lenz Foundation, Caldera, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts. Her work is included in the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA; and several private collections including Glenn Horowitz, New York, NY; Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA; and Amanda and Keith Innes, Santa Fe, NM. Exhibitions of her work throughout the United States and Ireland include an April 2008 solo show at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM. From 2005-2008, Kim served as chair of the art department at the College of Santa Fe, where she received the Manual Lujan Senior Award for student advising. She was recently included in a list of the 150 top artists in Santa Fe by Santa Fean Magazine. In addition to her studio work, Kim was an art critic for the Albuquerque Journal North.
Michael Wyshock, Faculty Visual Arts, Ringling College of Art and DesignUniversity of Delaware (Painting; Minor - History); Florida State University (Painting and Digital Video). Mr. Wyshock, who has also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design/Pont Aven School of Art in Brittany, France, is a painter, filmmaker, and video artist who combines multiple mediums of art to produce rich, provoking, and experimental images. His paintings are responses to environmental contamination but also examine space and dimension through color and shape. His video projects include fabric sculptures that hold choreographed animated projections on multiple surfaces and materials like water, plastics and crumbled glass creating a dialog of chaos that informs his painting. Recent international exhibitions for his work include the COP15 in Denmark, Art Basel in Switzerland, and the Museum of Modern Art and Illustration, Valencia, Spain.
