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Graduate Acting Class Notes

The following is a list of what just some of our graduates have been doing.  If you would like to let your fellow alumni know what you've been up to, be sure to submit your own class note to be published on the web and in the Tisch Newsletter.


Bill Gordh 1973 Graduate Acting

Made debut with NY Philharmonic on April 2, 2005 as narrator and librettist of "Instrument Village: The Roaring Mountain" with composer Jon Deak. It was commissioned by the orchestra. Currently working on the 8th Instrument Village piece with Jon Deak that will be performed Dec 15th, 2007 at Avery Fisher Hall. Recent Books published "Stories in Action" (Libraries Unlimited, 2006), "Building a Children's Chapel" (Church Publishing, 2007)

Lynnanne Zager 1976 Graduate Acting
Web Site: http://www.lazager.com/

Lynnanne is proud to be the Voice of Dharma and it's computers on ABC's "Lost".  Most recently she contributed her voice to "The Office" as the GPS that drives Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson into the lake.  Previous credits include ''Wedding Crashers'', ''The Nativity Story'', ''The Holiday'', ''Criminal Minds'', ''Crossing Jordan'' and the voice of the City of Hope's Breast Cancer Center in Los Angeles.

Rocco Sisto 1977 Graduate Acting

A two-time Obie Award-winning actor, played “Menelaus” in Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0, a play that puts a modern spin on the classic Euripedes tale.

Harley Jane Kozak 1980 Graduate Acting
Web Site: www.harleyjanekozak.com

In August 2007, Doubleday published 3rd novel, a murder mystery, entitled DEAD EX. Currently writing the 4th novel in the series.

topWill Badgett  1981 Graduate Acting

Member of Los Angeles Classical Theatre Lab recently performed Prometheus in a staged reading of a new adaptation of Prometheus Bound in LA.  Next heading to Newport News, VA to perform Crooks in Of Mice opening July 2, 2008 at Tidewater Regional Rep.

 

 

Tony Kushner 
1984 Graduate Acting

Tony Kushner was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2006 Academy Awards for Steven Spielberg’s film, Munich,also nominated for Best Picture.

Debra Maconaughey 1984 Graduate Acting

Ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Southeast Florida, Priest -in- Charge of St. Columba Episcopal Church, Marathon, Florida; active in hunger and education issues in Uganda and active in helping to rebuild Southern Sudan with a mission.

Billy Crudup 1994 Graduate Acting

Starred in Dedication a film by Justin Theroux and starring Mandy Moore, Mia Farrow, Harvey Keitel and Bob Ballaban.

Robert Adanto 1994 Graduate Acting
Web Site: www.therisingtidefilm.com

Robert Adanto's documentary The Rising Tide, which explores The People's Republic of China's meteroric march towards the future through the work of some of its leading video artists and photographers, was part of Constant Stream: China 08.

topDaniel Sunjata 1998 Graduate Acting

Stars as “Christian” in the Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by David Leveaux at the Richard Rogers theatre.

Abigail Solomon  2000 Graduate Acting

Is producing Susan Johnston’s '00 (MFA, Dramatic Writing) play How Cissy Grew, which was part of the Grad Acting October Fest and the NYU Reading Series, both in Los Angeles. Erin O’Brien '91 and her husband, James Denton (Desperate Housewives) will star.

Manoel Felciano 2004 Graduate Acting

Stars in Trumpery by Peter Parnell at the Atlantic Theatre Company. 

Jeremy Rishe 2005 Graduate Acting
Web Site: www.jeremyrishe.com

Jeremy Rishe has performed the role of “Adam Lipschitz” in the off-Broadway play Jewtopia over 200 times. In the fall of 2007, Jeremy played “Young Reuven” in The Cleveland Play House's production of The Chosen by Chaim Potok and Aaron Posner. Jeremy Rishe is represented by Davis Spylios Managment: 212-581-5766