Appendix C: Service

Coordinator of Musical Theatre 

2006-2018 

Department Chair 

2018-present 

Chair various department Search Committees 

Chair Department Personnel Committee 

Chair Department Curriculum Committee 

Established and Current Chair Department Anti-Racism Advocacy Committee

Attended as presenter of workshops in Musical Theatre Performance, Acting, Theatre Dance and Auditioning . Recruitment representative at college fair for High School prospective students 

Attended College Recruitment fair and adjudicated auditions for prospective students 

Attended as representative for recruitment of prospective students, Enlisted assistance of several alumni for support in recruitment efforts 

Recruitment and program auditions in NYC 

Conceived, wrote, directed and choreographed educational musical revue. Musical Theatre Students performed and interacted with students in various regional High Schools 

Shakespeare on Broadway; a revue combining Shakespearean text with songs from Broadway Musicals based on his work 

Red White and Broadway; a revue looking at American history as represented in Broadway musicals 

Arranged for theatre professionals to hold master classes and Q &A sessions with Musical Theatre Majors, Including: 2003-present 

Franc D’Ambrosio International recording star and performer, “Longest Running Phantom”, Broadway, International and National tours, Anthony Corleone in Godfather III feature film.

Mary GIattino, Broadway and National Tours, Associate Choreographer Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, Billy Elliot, Fun Home, Associate Director/Choreographer White Christmas Broadway National Tour 

Jonalyn Saxer, Broadway Original Cast, Mean Girls, White Christmas, Honeymoon in Vegas, Broadway Companies Bullets Over Broadway, Cats, 1st National Tour Mean Girls (Karen) Upcoming feature film; West Side Story

Jeff Whiting Broadway Associate Choreographer, Hairspray, Bullets Over Broadway, Off Broadway and National Tour Director/Choreographer, Artistic Director Open Jar Productions, NYC

Anthony Festa (SUNY Cortland MT Alumni) 1st National Tour Miss Saigon (Chris), National Tour Wicked (Fiyero), International Tour West Side Story (Tony) Off Broadway, Desperate Measures, Bare.

Jeff Brooks (SUNY Cortland MT Alumni) 1st National Tour Bullets Over Broadway (Cheech), National Tour Beauty and the Beast (Gaston)also arranged for Beauty and the Beast cast “talkback“ after performance in Syracuse.

Established Performing Arts Department “Town Hall” meeting to facilitate discussion about race and racism in our Department, College, Community and professional theatre (2018)

Arranged virtual Forum “Musical Theatre Artists of Color” with Broadway actors,

Nasia Thomas: Beautiful, Ain’t too Proud, Caroline or Change; 

Nick Sanchez: Mary Poppins, Escape to Margaritaville, Hamilton National Tour; 

Nicholas Edwards: Frozen (Christoff), National tour Jesus Christ Superstar (Jesus). 

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Search Committee Vice President for Institutional Advancement (twice) 

Search Committee Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement 

Search Committee Vice President for Academic Affairs 

Long Range Planning Committee 

College Curriculum Review Committee (3yrs) 

Arts and Sciences sub-school Humanities Personnel Committee (as member and as Chair) 

College Teaching Excellence Committee 

Speaker at Opening Honors Convocation Fall 2013 

Director and MC for entertainment as part of Annual fundraising dinner events, including Capital Campaign related events. These events are cast with SUNY Cortland Musical Theatre students. 

Performances have ranged from trios and quartets performing solos and group numbers to fully staged musical revues as part of Capital Campaign events. For all events I cast, chose/approve material/rehearse and direct In the case of the larger revues, also stage/choreograph. 

Established (in partnership with Cynthia Halpin) in 2005 a community outreach education program in dance and theatre. The program was established to bring a stronger connection between the community and the college by offering high quality performing arts classes, taught by professionals and college instructors. The program also provided the opportunity for students to work as teaching assistance and learn dance and theatre pedagogy as well as have a scholarship opportunity to further develop their technique. An outgrowth of this program was a Full Production of the Nutcracker Ballet, combining young community dancers and college students from the dance classes in the performing Arts Department. THE program was very successful and grew very quickly. PAI, as it was and is known, was providing a strong connection to the community, opportunities for the college students, and was also providing revenue to the Performing Arts Department from the tuition collected. The funds enabled the Department to provide support for needed equipment and Performing Arts programs. By 2009, the Institute had grown so extensively that it was too big to remain on campus. The program moved downtown and became the Cortland Performing Arts Institute. There is still a strong connection to SUNY Cortland. We continue to produce a production of the Nutcracker every other year that offers performance opportunities do our students in the Department, as well as continuing the Student assistant and scholarship programs for the college students. Th biannual Nutcracker production is now staged with casts of over 150 dancers and sells out a full weekend of performances. 

Worked as part of committee to create a partnership between the College and the McNeil foundation to bring college musical ensembles to perform and rehearse at ROSE HALL in downtown Cortland.