Guest Lighting Designer of William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead (2013)

 

 

Heather Vaughan-Southard

Artistic Director of Repertory Dance Concert (2014)
Guest Choreographer of Dance is the Answer (2012)
Guest Choreographer of Dancing in Our Time (2010)
Guest Choreographer of DanceFest (2008)

 

 

Tony Kushner 

Dev Janki

 

 

 

R. MacKenzie Lewis

Carl Pasbjerg

Guest Broadway Theatrical Manager and Producer 
In residence during Memphis at Wharton Center (2012)

 

 

Peter DiMuro

Guest Choreographer of Dance is the Answer (2012)

 

 

 

David Solomon

Resident Artist for Pump Up the Volume! (2012)

 

 

 

Jeff Thompson

Resident Composer for Pump Up the Volume! (2012)

 

 

 

Jeremy Desmon

Resident Bookwriter & Lyricist for Pump Up the Volume! (2012)

 

 

 

Rick Thomas

Guest Sound Designer for Legally Blonde (2012)

 

 

 

 

Heather Fleming

Guest Wig and Makeup Designer (2009) 
Guest Wig Designer of The Beaux' Stratagem (2011)

 

 

Jen Bender

Guest Director of The Wizard of Oz (2011)

 

 

 

Suzan-Lori Parks

Guest Playwright of In The Blood (2010)

 

 

 

John Lepard

 

 

 

Rob Odoriso

Guest Scene Designer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2009)

 

 

 

Joanna McClelland Glass

 

 

 

Scott Burkell

Guest Director of Rent (2010)

 

 

 

Jin-Wen Yu

Guest Choreographer of Dancing in Or Time (2010)

 

 

 

David Furumoto

Guest Director of Trojan Women (2009)

 

 

 

Carolyn Pavlick

Guest Choreographer of Dancing in Our Time (2010)

 

 

 

Ballet Hispanico

Dance Master Class (2011)

 

 

 

Tommy A. Gomez

Guest Director of The Rocky Horror Show (2009)
Guest Director of Pygmalion (2007)

 

 

Christian Cherry

Guest Composer of Dancing in Our Time (2010)

 

 

 

David Gonzalez

Guest Instructor of Storytelling and Performance (2009)

 

 

 

David Grindle

Guest Instructor of Stage Management (2009)

 

 

 

Jeff Daniels

Guest Lecturer on the Business of Acting (2008)

 

 

 

Lisa Kron

Playwright of Well (2008)

 

 

 

Laura Bell Bundy

Star of Legally Blonde (2008)

 

 

 

Dr. Melissa Thompson

Resident Visiting Performance Artist (2008-2009)

 

 

 

Greg Ganakas

Guest Director of Babes in Arms (2008)

 

 

 

Randy Skinner

Original Choreographer of Babes in Arms (2008)

 

 

 

Vincent E. Thomas

Guest Choreographer of DanceFest (2008)

 

 

 

Brian Bedford

Internationally Acclaimed Actor in residence with 
Stratford Festival of Canada Residency (2007)

 

Melody Cooper’s screenplay, Northern Cross, an action thriller that deals with illegal immigration, was a 2nd Round Finalist in the Austin Film Festival, an Official Selection of both the 2009 Mexico International Film Festival and the 2009 Action On Film Festival.

Her most recent play, Sweet Mercy, which deals with the genocide in Rwanda, was developed by New York Stage and Film in their summer Powerhouse series, and was presented as staged readings at Primary Stages in NY and Antaeus Theater in Los Angeles.

Her one-act, Truth Be Told, was produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Going to the River Festival for 2009. Melody is the recipient of the Jane Chambers Award for Playwriting for Day of Reckoning, a play about the forgotten 19th century black activist Lucy Parsons. Day of Reckoning also won the MultiStages New Works Competition in NY and was produced at New Theatre in Miami.

Her one-act, Reading Zimbabwe, was produced in NYC three times in 2003 (including by Epic Rep at DR2 with premieres by Lee Blessing and Romulus Linney). She has received two commissions: from Epic Rep to write a new play, and from Labor Voices to develop Truth Be Told, a piece focusing on the tragic events surrounding an Iraqi reporter.

Her play proposal Absolute Magnitude, about five time-scrambled female astronomers, was a Sloan New Play Initiative finalist.