Rob Welsh (Spring 2006) was in a Commedia dell’arte version of Two Gentlemen of Verona at La Ma Ma theatre in New York City. He’s also been keeping busy doing a lot of Shakespeare, a bit of TV and commercials. He was in the Guiding Light and an LG commercial and has also started modeling.

Alex Brooks (Spring 2005) is in the middle of a ten month contract with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, a resident ensemble company in its fourteenth season. He is a young company member, which means he tours with six other people with productions of Taming of the Shrew and Julius Caesar in addition to teaching educational workshops. As a young company member, he is also in most of the main-stage productions. He has played Sampson/Friar John in Romeo and Juliet, Philario in Cymbeline, and most recently Demetrius in Midsummer Night's Dream. He has a break from the CSC main-stage for a little while, so tonight he begins rehearsals for Take Me Out as Shane Mungitt at New Stage Collective, another Cincinnati theater.

Jocelyn Ranne (Summer 2005) graduated from Yale last May. She’s doing theater/comedy in New York City and studying improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Her improv comedy group, MADAM (www.myspace.com/madamcomedy), headlines a show every Saturday night at 11 pm at the PIT (The People’s Improv Theater). She has a sketch show called Jocelyn & Eric that she wrote/performed at the UCB. It’s a lounge-act spoof, where she plays the diva and Eric plays the piano. It uses short films, songs and repartee to show the audience a great time. Jocelyn is also acting in a play called The Interrogation Room that is a part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival on February 14. Most recently Jocelyn and her friends have created a web-sitcom called Inconvenient Molly (www.inconvenientmolly.com) that follows the life of a former childstar trying to get “back in it.” The character of her best friend/”director” of the show is Michael Moore’s nephew and Jocelyn plays the girl that understudied all her parts when we were kids but are now more famous. It gives her a chance to make use of her US Weekly subscriptions.

Emily Glinick (Spring 2005) went on to perform as Arlecchino in a Commedia performance at Bowdoin College. Inspired by her work at the Accademia, she graduated with a student-designed major in Italian Theatre Studies. Her final project was translating and then directing a play entitled Il Giorno del Cantico by Accademia dell'Arte instructor Giuseppe Emiliani. Since having graduated in 2006, Emily has been stage managing professionally, working at such notable theatres as The Trinity Repertory Company, the Chautauqua Theater Company, the Stamford Theatre Works and the Public Theater.

Brianna Sloane (Fall 2004) is in Chicago and working on a reading of an original play, currently entitled Dragon's Tale, with hopes of mounting a full production in arly summer.

Susan Eaccarino (Summer 2007) is interning at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. She will be working in the education department organizing the annual College Theater Festival.

Rachel Dubrow (Spring 2006) is a member of two circus companies in Chicago, Acrofabulous and Circo Rome, and is working as a clown, trapeze artist and acrobat.

Sonja Sweeney (Spring 2006) is living in New York City and is one of the founding actors of the company The Anthropologists (www.theanthropologists.org), a company of artists dedicated to the creation of investigative, socially relevant and engaging theatrical work. They train together on a regular basis using Viewpoints and other physical theater techniques to devise organic, ensemble-based work. They are committed to researching topics from an anthropological perspective in order to break down and unleash cultural discoveries.

Daniel Kelley (Spring 2005) is a playwright whose plays have been produced in New York City by The Mirror Repertory Company, The Gallery Players, The American Globe Theatre and The New York Theatre Experiment, in addition to several self produced ventures. He has also had several plays performed in Dublin, Ireland by the Painted Filly Theatre, as well as productions in Italy, Australia, and far away Pennsylvania.

His current projects are a dark comedy about a man who leaves his wife for a dryer entitled Judgment Has No Shoes and a musical with composer Nick Moore about the bubonic plague, entitled Plagued or How to Escape Persecution at the Hands of an Angry Mob.

As a sketch comedian, Daniel is a founding member and active writer/performer for the Impending Moustache comedy troupe (www.impendingmoustache.com). The Moustache has performed at Ars Nova, Caroline’s on Broadway, the Laugh Factory NYC, and performs regularly at The People's Improv Theater.

Daniel is also a critic for nytheatre.com and a contributing writer for Private Ear Audio Theatre.

Laura Sessoms (Fall 2004) is now livinig in New York and is working in The Real Theatre Comapany (www.realtheatrecompany.com). The Real Theatre Company’s mission is to provide entertaining, engaging material to cultivate a new generation of theatergoers. Founded in 2006 by four young female theatre artists, the RTC puts creative people from a myriad of artistic backgrounds together for every show. In addition to their live stage productions, they also offer classroom workshops, professional mentorships and new works development.

Liz Kelley (Spring 2005) is a performance artist and actress from California. Some of her favorite roles include Taffy from the new musical Tomorrowland, Carly from The Most Massive Woman Wins, and various characters in a show she wrote about Norman Rockwell entitled Norman '43. She has written for her university monologue festival (pieces entitled There's Something I'm Forgetting and The Box) and currently is writing a show called The History of the World According to Google, which is being workshopped at Dixon Place in New York City on April 30. Liz is currently living in East Harlem.

Danny Bischoff (Summer 2007) is currently working on the run crew for Fedra the Queen of Haiti at the Lookingglass Theatre Company, as has founded a theater company called Abraham Werewolf. Danny is co-directing the company's third original production of Paper Thin Walls scheduled for spring 2010.

Kevin Murphy (Fall 2006) graduated Cum Laude from the University of Memphis. After graduation he went to work at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis as an intern for a year, then as a resident company member for a year. There he performed in everything from Jerry Springer the Opera to Rent. Recently, Kevin has been contracted to work at Prather Entertainment in Ft. Myers, FL, doing Married Alive, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Christmas Carol and Are we there yet.

Melissa Summer (Music Fall 2007) is currently teaching 3rd grade in Spartanburg, SC, at a school that implements an arts infusion curriculum, using drama, art and music. Melissa is also pursuing her masters in early childhood education at Furman University, which will be done in August 2010.

Barret Newman (Music Fall 2006) is currently a masters student at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. He graduated from Furman University in 2008 with a degree in Trumpet Performance, where he was a student of Gary Malvern. Barret was selected to participate in Furman’s inaugural Music in Italy study abroad program and lived in Arezzo, Italy, where he studied at Accademia dell'Arte with Italian trumpeter Vito Mitoli. He has performed for two seasons with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra as co-principal trumpet, and can be heard on their two most recent recordings. Barret has also performed with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Quadraphonic Brass, and the Ohio River Brass.

Darren Criss (Spring 2008) has gone on to star as Harry Potter in A Very Potter Musical and now you can see him as Josh Burton on Eastwick every Wednesday at 10/9 central on ABC.

Liam Mulshine (Spring 2006) graduated from Boston University's School of Theatre in 2007 and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting on whatever screen would have him. Liam has acted in several short films including ones that screened at the SoCal Independent Film Festival and the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. His personal highlights so far on the West Coast include a moment on Entourage and learning science from Bill Nye the Science Guy himself on the set of a commercial.

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