Artist In Residence

Andy Goldberg (Director) Directs, produces, and is a teaching artist in New York City for the past fifteen years. After graduating from Stanford University, he spent a season in the education department at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival before moving to New York City and working for the education department of Manhattan Theatre Club (where he continues to work as an active teaching artist.) For over five years he was the Associate Artistic Director of The New Group. As a director he has directed classical works, new plays and musicals all over the world. His most recent productions include The Bomb-itty of Errors, a hip-hop adaptation of The Comedy of Errors which ran off-Broadway for over six months before being seen all over the world,including London's the West End; Daddy Cool, the Boney M musical at the famous Shaftesbury Theatre in London, as well as Hair in Asbury Park, Romeo and Juliet for American Stage, Twelfth Night at LaMaMa, Fair Maid of the West at Pleasance, London, and many others.


 

Josie Bray (Choreographer) has worked most recently as assistant to director/choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge on Ragtime at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre, as well as on the Theatreworks/USA production of Seussical Josie’s New York choreography projects also include the off-broadway plays What to do when you hate all your friends, A Dream Play (St. Ann’s Warehouse), and Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nylon Fusion Collective) Josie holds an MA in Theatre Education and a BA in Theatre/Dance from Emerson College. She is the recipient of several awards including: the Masters Departmental Thesis Award at Emerson, Emerging Artist Award at Green Street Studios funded in part by LEF, and two IRNE awards for Best Choreography of a Musical (small company) in 2005 and 2006. She choreographed for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Promises,Promises, Once Upon a Mattress Little Shop of Horrors while working as Co-Artistic Director of the Animus Ensemble in Boston.


 

Jennifer Sherron Stock comes to the NY-LON Fusion with a rich and diverse background in theatre. A member of SDC, AEA and VASTA she is a director, actor and an accomplished vocal coach. Founder and Director of "Speech Tools for Success" she knows the importance of good speech. A Voice and Speech Professional who teaches at Marymount Manhattan College, City College, John Jay College and Brooklyn College in China, she trained with top voice teachers and doctors in the U.S.A. and in Great Britain. With twenty years of experience, not only does she teach Voice and Speech for the Stage, but has extensive experience with Dialects, Voice and Diction and Remedial Speech. Her work subtly blends key elements of Berry, Linklater, Rodenberg along with London Central School of Speech and Drama. Integrating strategic aspects of both Feldenkrais and Alexander body work with this voice work, she knows that the first step to a free voice is a healthy and free body. Last season she coached NY-LON Fusion's "Fuente Ovejuna" and City College's "School for Scandal." Also a director in her own right, she generally coaches dialects on her own productions such as "Crimes of the Heart" for the Parkside Players, "Noises Off" for the Duluth Playhouse and "Dancing at Lughnasa for the Holmdel Theatre.


 

Mahayana Landowne (Theater Director) Impossible Country (Mudbone Collecive), Medea, Antigone and Tartuffe (Baruch), Fairytale Experiment (Rubulad), MIXED (Baruch), This is Way Beyond My Remote Control (Wild Project), Picasso Project (Luna Stage), The Heiress, (Mint), and Machinal (U. of Rochester). Favorite past productions include The Skriker, Antony and Cleopatra, The Seagull, brass logic, Streetcar Named Desire, Obgynt, King Lear, and Mud. NYU-BFA-acting Yale School of Drama-MFA-directing. She is also currently working on Lush Valley, as collaborator and dramaturg with Kristin Marting. Lush Valley is performance piece about the American Dream and how it shapes and twists our lives. She leads Workshops in Creativity through Radiant Axis (Radiantaxis.com). For more info: yana.landowne.org. As a Director,She is using her skills to do creative grass roots organizing for social issues including Metropolis in Motion, working to overturn the Cabaret Laws, http://www.metropolisinmotion.org, the NYC Dance Parade which brings together over one hundred dance organizations to dance down Broadway. http://www.Danceparade.org, and many art action activities that promote Urban Environmental awareness.