Faculty & Staff
New Faces & Old: Changes to Full Time Faculty and Staff
August 2007
After 15 years of award-winning service at Adelphi University, our own
Peter Borchetta (Lighting and Production Technical Director) has left to become the Northeast Regional manager for Genlyte. In this capacity, Peter will oversee the majority of the theatrical, architectural, and industrial lighting projects in the Northeast United States. Whether in the classroom, backstage, or in innumerable planning and production meetings, Mr. Borchetta made a tremndous impace in multiple roles within and beyond te Performing Arts department. A going away party was held for him on hi last day of work at Adelphi, Friday, August 24, 2007.
Nicholas Petron (Professor, Chair)
- Professor Petron again took up his mantle within the National Program on Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction (PONSI) and spent the end of July 2007 reviewing The School for Film and Television located in Manhattan. Professor Petron, who has worked with National PONSI for six years, was joined in evaluation work by Professor Peter Sander of the Department of Drama and Dance at Hofstra.
Maggie Lally (Associate Professor)
- Professor Lally appeared as guest artist and workshop presenter for the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska in June 2007.
- She responded as a director to new works and offered her workshop in RANT to professional and non-professional playwrights alike.
- She was elected Chair of Chairs of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2007-2008 by the eight regional chairs, and will sit on the national board for the Festival.
Sarah Martin (Assistant Professor)
- Professor Martin recently finished collaborating on two shows at Cortland Repertory Theatre: Almost Heaven, directed by Daniel Hess, is a musical revue of the life and music of John Denver. Ten Little Indians, directed by Tony Capone, is a murder mystery by Agatha Christie.
- She is currently involved in a production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses at Bayview Correctional Facility for Women. Dr. Lorraine Moller from John Jay College has been doing theatre with prison inmates for over ten years with her program Rehabilitation through the Arts (RTA). This is the first time that RTA has ventured into a women's facility.
Jon Cantor (Adjunct Professor)
- This summer, Professor Cantor played Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing for New York City's The Drilling Company.
- He will be playing Shamrayev in The Seagull, September 5-16 at the Abingdon Theatre.
Alumni
Adelphi Alumnus Nominated for Tony Award!
May 2007
Justin Bond, a 1985 B.F.A. Graduate, has been nominated for a Tony Award in the Special Theatrical Event Category for his work in Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway. Justin not only co-wrote the material of the production but also plays Kiki. For more information see http://www.kikiandherb.com.
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