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DramaAdrienne Arditti
Adrienne has been singing for eight years and has played piano for ten years. She began teaching voice lessons at Sitar Arts Center in 2006, and has adored the center ever since! Adrienne directs and sings in the TJ Madrigals, an a cappella ensemble which specializes in early and contemporary music. Musical Theater Workshop Kelly Brasseau
Bio Forthcoming Villains & Heroes (in partnership with Shakespeare Theatre Company) Peter Burroughs
Peter, a tenor, is critically acclaimed as a versatile singing actor whose career encompasses opera, oratorio, musical theatre and even Shakespeare! As recitalist Peter has been hailed intimate and engaging, with solo recital repertoire ranging from classic lieder to Spanish and Latin American dance music. His seven year association with Spanish Dance Society led him to perform with Spanish Dance Theatre, USA in Beyond Flamenco at London's Covent Garden. With Festa Della Voce he has performed in recitals of the music of Schubert, Schumann, Barber, and most recently the music of Spanish composers. His 1999 Washington Opera debut was as Ezekiel Cheever in The Crucible. Since then he has appeared as Don Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Trojan/Cretan Man (Idomeneo, (starring Placido Domingo)), First Prisoner (Fidelio,) and Lamplighter (Manon Lescaut (Starring Veronica Villarroel)). Mr Burroughs has also appeared with the Florentine Opera Company, The Washington Savoyards, the IN Series, Signature Theatre, First Stage Milwaukee, the Shakespeare Theatre, Gallaudet Theatre, as well as Staged readings of Pope Joan by John Musto and Las Bodas de Salsipuedes by Daniel Catan with Maryland Opera Studio. Opera Melissa D'Lando
Melissa D'Lando has been writing since she was able to pick up a pen. Because she loves to tell stories, loves kids, and kind of misses being one, she began volunteering at the Sitar Arts Center in 2007. When she is not busy inspiring the youth of tomorrow, she can be found searching for a decent slice of pizza in Washington, DC. Playwriting Maureen Dwyer
Maureen has performed in cabaret shows and with improvisational troupes in Washington, DC. In the past, Maureen taught early-childhood music to babies, toddlers and their care givers and drama to young children at primary schools. She is enjoying jumping back into the wonderful world of musical theater as one of the Musical Theater Workshop teachers. Maureen graduated from Catholic University of America with a BA in drama. She is currently the Deputy Director of Sitar Arts Center. Musical Theater Workshop Natalie Handel
Natalie has been involved in theater since childhood. She began volunteering at Sitar Arts Center in 2007 as soon as she moved to Washington, DC because she felt empowered by her theater training and she wants to help kids gain the same confidence in their own voices and bodies and have fun playing on stage. She is also interested in aikido and documentary filmmaking. She completed the two year professional program at the Ecole International de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. She is currently a student at the Documentary Institute at George Washington University. Acting Games Chantel Harley
Bio Forthcoming Playwriting (in partnership with Arena Stage) Jennifer Lindsay
Jennifer has over ten years of choral training and plays most melodic/percussive instruments including marimba, xylophone, and vibraphone. She has been volunteering at Sitar Arts Center since 2005. Musical Theater Workshop Helen McMahon
Helen found Sitar Arts Center in 2003, on a sunny spring day in early May, when on a walk on a side street in Adams Morgan neighborhood she stumbled upon a group of young jazz musicians, hip hop dancers, face-paint artists, and poets participating in their spring semester performance week. After learning more about the Center’s mission, she thought the Center would provide a perfect avenue to put her theater background back into practice again (it had gone dormant far too long and she always enjoyed working with youth). Ever since that fateful walk on spring day, she has been coming to Sitar Arts Center where – even better than a spring day – new blossoms can be seen every season Helen received a B.A. degree in Speech and Drama from Catholic University with a minor in Secondary Education. She has previously taught creative dramatics to teenagers at the Columbia School for the Performing Arts in Maryland. Playwriting A. Lorraine Robinson
Lorraine is a professional theater dramaturg, actress and award-winning director. She has worked professionally in DC, TX, RI, NY, and OH with theatres such as Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Contemporary American Theater Company, Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, Rites and Reason, Round House Theatre Company, Washington Shakespeare Theater Company, and African Continuum Theater Company. She is Artistic Producing Director of a not-for-profit multimedia theater and film production company, MuseFire Productions (www.musefire.org). Lorraine recently completed a television directing observership on the Bernie Mac show. She has taught theater at St. Mary’s College of MD, Camp Ballibay summer arts camp and the Dallas Theater Center’s teen/children program. Lorraine was the director of the Sitar Arts Center’s summer musicals The Wiz, Once Upon A Mattress, and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Lorraine has a Master’s Degree in Theater from Brown University and a B.A. in Theater and Psychology (with course work in film studies) from St. Mary’s College of MD. She is currently on staff at Sitar Arts Center as the Director of Programs. Acting, Video |
