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Department Chairman
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Charles Wittreich - Director of Theatres and Academic Chair - An SCCC Theatre Training Program alumnus (Class of ‘86), Charles continued his theatre training at Penn State University where he earned a BFA in Theatre Production. He then returned to Suffolk where he was employed as the resident scenic designer for four wonderful years. Charles left Suffolk for graduate studies and earned an MFA in Scenic Design (studying with John Ezell) from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He spent the next few years freelancing in New York, joining United Scenic Artists and working as an assistant
on Broadway shows by day (Little Me, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, The Sound of Music, Jitney, The Judas Kiss, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Marlena, Lion in Winter, among others) and a designer on the “off-off scene” by night (John Montgomery Theatre Company, Encompass Music Theatre, Metropolitan Playhouse and others). During his time in New York he had the good fortune to assist designers John Ezell, Eldon Elder, Loren Sherman, Bob Crowley, John Arnone, David Gallo and Heidi Ettinger. He has designed regionally at the New Jersey and Texas Shakespeare Festivals, Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, the Classic Stage Company, the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City and many, many others. SCCC credits include Director for The School for Scandal, Godspell, Guys and Dolls and Women on Fire, and was Set Designer for The Rose of Treason, A Midwinter Night’s Dream, Sins of the Mother and St. Crispin’s Day. Since being appointed Chairman of the Theatre Training Program, Charles established The Long Island Shakespeare Festival with the help of the emeritus theatre faculty. He continues to serve as Executive Director and principle set designer for LISF.[-] Hide
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Full Time Faculty
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Maureen D'Elia - Maureen is a graduate of the Theatre Training Program at Suffolk County Community College. Directing credits include The Rimers of Eldritch at Long Island University, CW Post, Vanities, The School for Scandal, The Hot L Baltimore, Sins of the Mother and The Imaginary Invalid at SCCC. Regional Theatre credits include Rizzo in Grease, Josie in A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Mrs. Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession. She appeared as Emilia, the Lady Abbess in the Long Island Shakespeare Festival’s production of A Comedy of Errors and in the original play, Rug
Rage, at the American College Theatre Festival. Maureen is currently employed by the college as a Theatre instructor and the Performing Arts Coordinator at the Grant Campus.[-] Hide
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Stephen Green - Sound Designer and Technical Director - Stephen attended SUNY, Albany where he earned degrees in both Theatrical Production and Physics. He earned his MFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts in Technical Direction with a concentration in Scenic Automation. Professional experience includes work as a control systems designer for J.R. Clancy, a theatrical equipment manufacturer. He has designed and commissioned stage machinery control systems in such places as the Juilliard School, the San Francisco Opera House, Teatro National in Barcelona and the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. Most recently at the Metropolitan Opera he worked with machinery for special effects for many operas such as La Boheme, LaTraviata and Moses Und Arron. SCCC credits include Technical Director for A View From The Bridge, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, The Children’s Hour, Biloxi Blues, The Glass Menagerie, The Secret Garden, Dancing At Lughnasa, The School For Scandal, The Rose Of Treason, Godspell, American Buffalo, Vanities, Bent, Lysistrata, A Midwinter Night’s Dream, Metamorphoses, St. Crispin’s Day and All My Sons. He was Sound Designer and Technical Director for A View From The Bridge, Guys and Dolls, Heathen Valley, The Fantasticks and Angels in America, and Scenic Designer and Technical Director for The Hot L Baltimore and The Imaginary Invalid. Stephen was Technical Director for the Long Island Shakespeare Festival’s first four seasons.[-] Hide
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Jason Kankel - Lighting Designer - Jason received his MFA in Lighting Design from Rutgers University. He has designed several productions in New York, including the Off-Broadway production of A Naughty Night directed by William Martin, The Bride of Olneyville Square, directed by Robert Castle, The Wool Gatherer at the Flat Iron Theatre, Four Dogs and the Bone at the Harold Clerman Theatre, and Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed, directed by William Martin at the UBU Repertory Theatre. Jason also assisted F. Mitchel Dana in several productions including To Kill A
Mockingbird at the Walnut Street Theatre and the Off-Broadway production of Murder in America at the Second Stage Theatre. Jason designed the lighting for LKB Dance company at George Street Playhouse, and the New Jersey Repertory Company. Designs include Ends, A World I Never Made, On Golden Pond, directed by Stuart Von, and Find Me a Voice. SCCC credits include: Lighting Designer for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum, The Children’s Hour, St. Crispin’s Day, and All My Sons, Scenic and Lighting Designer for Biloxi Blues, The Secret Garden, Dancing at Lughnasa, The School for Scandal, SS Glencairn, The Rose of Treason, Godspell, The Laramie Project and Bent, Production Manager for Spoon River Anthology, and Sound Designer for American Buffalo, Vanities, and The Imaginary Invalid. Jason was the Lighting Designer for the first four seasons of the Long Island Shakespeare Festival, and the Lighting Consultant for the 2004 season.[-] Hide
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Jo Curtis Lester - Jo Curtis joins the Theatre faculty, continuing a career in teaching both graduate and undergraduate voice/speech (Louisiana State University). Ms. Lester received her MFA in directing, and theatre history and criticism from Ohio University. Most recently she served as resident vocal coach for Swine Palace Productions in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has worked as a vocal coach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Ohio University School of Theatre, Open Door Theatre, and Cornish College of the Arts. Prior to teaching at LSU, she served as the voice and speech professor
and vocal coach for the BFA Performance Program at Ohio University, where she also directed Sand Castles, Ball and Chain and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was last seen in the Swine Palace production of Death of a Salesman. Her favorite roles include Vittoria in The White Devil, Viola in Twelfth Night, and Kate in The Shrew. She is a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and serves as a private voice, speech, dialects, and dialect modification coach. Ms. Lester was dialect coach for the SCCC production of St. Crispin’s Day, and Directed Angels in America last season.[-] Hide
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Lachlin Loud - Scenic Designer, Lachlin received his BA from Humboldt State University, his BSLA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and his MFA from John Ezell’s Scenic Design Program at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He has designed, built and painted scenery for theatre, film and television in Seattle, Kansas City, New York, Toronto, Hilton Head, Grand Rapids and the Madison Valley in Montana. SCCC credits include props for Biloxi Blues and The Rose of Treason, and Scenic Designer for The Secret Garden, Dancing at Lughnasa, The School for Scandal, Godspell, American
Buffalo, Vanities, Bent, Lysistrata, Metamorphoses, The Fantasticks, Angels in America, The Imaginary Invalid and All My Sons. Lachlin was Scenic Designer and Technical Director for The Laramie Project and Heathen Valley, Associate Scenic Designer for Guys and Dolls, A Midwinter Night’s Dream and St. Crispin’s Day, and Scenic Artist and Properties Designer for The Hot L Baltimore.[-] Hide
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Steven Lantz-Gefroh - Steven directed the inaugural season of the Long Island Shakespeare Festival’s production of Romeo and Juliet and was Acting and Fight Coach, Bartender and Proprietor, Player and Baptista Minola in the 2001 season’s production of The Taming Of The Shrew. Other directing credits at SCCC include: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Lost in Yonkers, The Glass Menagerie, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, The Children’s Hour, The Secret Garden, American Buffalo and Bent. As a professional actor, Mr. Lantz-Gefroh is a veteran of over 45
Shakespearean roles including Hamlet, Henry V, Romeo and Mercutio, Hotspur and Prince Hal, Jacques, Bassanio, Sir Toby Belch et. al. He has worked in New York, London and extensively in regional theatres (Yale Rep., St. Louis Rep., Missouri and Milwaukee Reps., American Players Theatre, Buffalo Studio Arena, etc.) and on original plays with writers such as Romulus Linney, Irene Fornes, Israel Horowitz and Richard Greenberg. Steven's Long Island Shakespeare Festival credits include Duncan and Macduff in Macbeth, and Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing. Steven is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and is proud to be a faculty member in the Theatre department at SCCC.[-] Hide
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Raymond Reardon - Ray holds an AS in Theatre from Suffolk County Community College. He is presently the Technical Director of the Van Nostrand Theatre at the Grant Campus of SCCC. In the fall of 2001, Ray was the sound designer for the SCCC production of Godspell. Ray has worked with companies such as the Pavi Taylor 2 Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, The Three Irish Tenors and Forbidden Broadway. In addition, at the
Brookhaven Amphitheater, where he is Lighting Director, he has worked with such artists as O-Town, Blues Traveler, Joan Jett and the Black Hearts, and the Mighty, Mighty BossTones, just to name a few.[-] Hide
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Andrew Wittkamper - Costume Designer, Andrew attended Indiana University in Bloomington, where he earned undergraduate degrees in both Fashion Design and Costume Construction Technology. He later attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, earning his MFA in Costume Design. Andrew began his professional work in the New York costume shops Barbara Matera, Ltd., and Parsons-Meares, Ltd., building costumes for Broadway plays, musicals, ballets, film, and for numerous Disney parades and ice shows. He has helped produce costumes for Cats, Phantom of the Opera,
The Lion King, Uncle Vanya, Arms and the Man, and for the film Hearts in Atlantis, starring Anthony Hopkins. Andrew has also worked at the Santa Fe Opera, building costumes for numerous operas, including Carmen, Idomeneo, The Magic Flute, and La Traviata. Andrew’s costume designs have been seen at Theatre for the New City and the KGB Red Room Theatre in New York, and at the Shadowbox Theatre for children in Brooklyn. Regional credits include work in New England, including designs for The Miser, She Stoops to Conquer, and Waiting for Godot at Deerfield Academy, and The Mystery of Irma Vep and Light Up the Sky at Smith College. University of Massachusetts designs include The Tempest, Marisol, Naga-Mandala, and Stop Kiss, among others. Andrew has been a member of the Theatre Department faculty at SCCC since 2001, and as Resident Costume Designer has designed costumes for the past twenty-three department productions, including four seasons of the Long Island Shakespeare Festival.[-] Hide
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Professor Emeriti
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Barbara A. Baird - Barbara received a BA in Theatre from Syracuse University and an MA in Theatre and Design from Smith College, in addition to study at Carnegie Mellon University and doctoral study at Penn State. During the past 30-odd years at Suffolk County Community College she has directed and designed costumes for many plays including The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Everyman and The Oresteia. Costume design includes The Tempest, one enduring piece from which surfaces in Noah.
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Richard Johnson - Richard is a graduate of the University of Texas. Among the many SCCC theatre productions he has directed are Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry IV Part I, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Hamlet and Measure for Measure, Moliere's The Learned Ladies, The Miser and The Doctor in Spite of Himself. The Fantasticks, Mother Courage and Blythe Spirit are among the more contemporary plays he has directed here. After 30 years
of service at Suffolk County Community College, he recently retired from his position as teacher, Chair of the Theatre Department, Director of Theatres, and Coordinator of the Performing Arts Series. Richard is artistic mentor for the Long Island Shakespeare Festival.[-] Hide
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David Miller - D. E. Miller celebrates more than 40 years at SCCC. He teaches Acting I, Acting II, Understanding Theatre and Introduction to Human Communication, and is a founding member of the Theatre Program at SCCC. He holds a BA from Miami University (Ohio) and an MA from the University of Minnesota. Professor Miller has directed over 60 productions at the college, including four plays by Neil Simon (Barefoot In The Park, California Suite, Biloxi Blues and Brighton Beach Memoirs). He has worked and/or studied with Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Dustin Hoffman, Sandy Dennis,
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Harriette Novick - Harriette has been a member of the SCCC theatre faculty since 1968. She received a BS in Speech/Theatre from Ithaca College and an MS from SUNY Stony Brook. She also completed 30 graduate credits in Speech Arts at NY University. Prior to joining the faculty, she studied acting with Lee Strasberg. She has continued her studies since joining the faculty through courses in acting, voice and diction, and scene study at HB Studios in NYC. Professor Novick has maintained professional development through several national and regional conferences including the American
Theatre Association and the American College Theatre Festival. Some of the workshops and seminars she has attended include those devoted to the craft of acting and voice improvement. Her directing credits at SCCC include Agnes of God, All My Sons, All the Way Home, As Is, Back Up Slow and Talk Like Flo, The Birthday Party, Buried Child, Cabaret, Death Of A Salesman, Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie?, Equus, Finian’s Rainbow, Inherit the Wind, The Madwoman of Chaillot, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Poor Players, Cowboy Mouth, A Separate Piece, A Streetcar Named Desire, True West, Waiting for Lefty, When You Coming Back, Red Ryder?, The Rose of Treason, The Laramie Project and Falsettos which went off to complete in the KCACTF competition. Although Professor Novick retired in 1997, she still continues to teach Acting I and has remained an active force in the department. She was also acting coach for the Long Island Shakespeare Festival's production of Much Ado About Nothing in 2003. [-] Hide
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Claire Love - Wardrobe Supervisor, Clairita worked at SUNY Old Westbury as costume shop supervisor. While there, she was costume designer for their production of Runaways for which she received recognition from the ACTF board. She has also freelanced as a dresser for the Tilles Center at CW Post. For the past five years, she has been the wardrobe supervisor here at Suffolk. Her SCCC credits include The School for Scandal, The Rose of Treason, Godspell, SS Glencairn, American Buffalo, Vanities, The Laramie Project and Bent. Clarita was Wardrobe Supervisor and Assistant to
the Costume Designer for the SCCC production of Guys and Dolls, was Wardrobe Supervisor, Principal Stitcher and Lead Assistant for Lysistrata, was Principal Stitcher for the SCCC production of Heathen Valley, Wardrobe Supervisor, Lead Costume Assistant and First Hand for A Midwinter Night’s Dream, and was Wardrobe Supervisor for The Hot L Baltimore, Metamorphoses, The Fantasticks, St. Crispin’s Day, Angels in America, The Imaginary Invalid and All My Sons. Clarita was Wardrobe Supervisor and Costume Design Assistant for the 2004 season of the Long Island Shakespeare Festival. [-] Hide
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Ed Haynes - Ed received both BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and attended the Yale School of Drama and the Polokov Studio in New York. Haynes has designed scenery and costumes for Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, and international productions as well as film. He worked on the first Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof and later on Hair. He also worked on many productions at the Metropolitan Opera and designed the National Ballet's production of Cinderella, featuring the late Dame Margot Fonteyn. He designed costumes for the SCCC
productions of Mother Courage, The Fantasticks, and scenery and costumes for Cabaret. He spent several years as a leading designer of plays, musicals, opera, ballet and television in South Africa.[-] Hide
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Gary Ris - Sound Designer, Gary started producing sound for the Shea Theatre in 1991. Shows that he has designed for include, The Oresteia, Macbeth, House of Blue Leaves, As Is, The Foreigner, Temptations, Tartuffe, The Scarlet Letter, Much Ado About Nothing, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, The Secret Garden, The Rose of Treason, SS Glencairn, The Laramie Project, Bent, St. Crispin’s Day, The Imaginary Invalid, Odysseus Died From AIDS, The Rocky Horror Show, The Arabian Nights, Into The Woods, Forgery, Ceasar, Once Upon A Mattress and Cyrano deBergerac among others. He is the Associate Dean of Computer Information Systems at the college. Gary was
Sound Designer for the past five seasons of the Long Island Shakespeare Festival.[-] Hide
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