DIRECTORS
 Beth Baur (Director) has been a professional actor for over 25 years and has worked with such luminaries as Tommy Tune, George Burns and Lanford Wilson. She has performed in national tours, Off-Broadway, regional theatre and has done over 200 network commercials and corporate industrial films, as well as voice-overs and print. Beth has also been a theatre educator for over 20 years. She founded a Theatre for Young Audience's company called "The Make-Believables"
and created the children's touring company "The Great Pretenders". In
addition to this, she is an adjunct professor in acting for the film
department at Montclair State University. Beth has also been a theater critic and instructor at the annual Morris County Teen Arts Festival. She directed the independent film, REEL WOMEN. Beth received her BFA at the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University and was selected to be included in that year's "Who's Who of American Colleges".
 Robert Sapoff (Director) has been profiled on ABC News, CNN, NY 1 News and in the Star Ledger, Herald News, and Daily Record. A professional actor for over 25 years, his theatre credits include the role of Harpo in the Off-Broadway revival of "The Cocoanuts", which was named one of the 10 best Off-Broadway productions of the year. Bob has appeared on Nickelodeon and in countless television commercials (including a Clio Award winner) and print work nationwide. During his 10 years as Associate Director of Action Theater, he created and directed "On The Spot", a professional improvisational comedy troupe
and is the founder and executive director of NJSDA's own professional improv troupe, "Nutty By Nature", which tours the NY/NJ metropolitan area. Bob
has also been a theater critic and instructor at the annual Morris County Teen Arts Festival. In his
20+ years as a teacher, Bob has taught over 1,000 students. He is also an adjunct professor in acting for the film department at Montclair State University.
ACTING STAFF
Gary Lynch is
a two time National Broadway Award nominee for his performance in Mamma
Mia! He originated the role of Sam Carmichael for the North American
Premiere of Mamma Mia! in Toronto, the U.S. Premiere in San Francisco and
the 1st National Company. On Broadway, Gary performed the role of Inspector Javert in
Les Miserables. His Off Broadway credits include; Destry Rides
Again- York Theatre, Goose- Musical Theatre Works, Lux In Tenebris -Lincoln
Center, Let It Ride - Lambs Theatre, Lola - Lark Theatre Co. Numerous
Regional credits include; The Thing About Men (Tom),1776 (Adams), Olympus On
My Mind (Jupiter), The Threepenny Opera (MacHeath), A Little Night Music
(Carl Magnus), Rags (Saul), Guys and Dolls (Sky), Nine (Guido), 3 Guys
Naked...(Ted), and (Orin and everyone else) in Little Shop of Horrors.
Gary was also in the National Tour of
Dirty Dancing
and recently appeared as Joe in the Westchester Broadway Theatre's
production of Some
Like It Hot.
Sam Kitchin has been teaching
improv, acting and acting for the camera for three years now and just
recently appeared in the 2011 NYC Fringe Festival. His other credits
include Broadway:
Frozen, Jerry Springer the Opera (a special event
at Carnegie Hall). Off-Broadway: Frozen
(MCC), The Trip To Bountiful
(Signature). Regional:
The Night of the Iguana (Berkshire Theatre
Festival), Oscar and Felix
(Seven Angels Theatre), Don’t Dress for Dinner
and The Garden of Frau Hess
(Caldwell Theatre), Brigadoon,
Man of La Mancha and
Evita (Actors
Playhouse/Coral Gables), Happy Hour
and The Rainmaker
(12 Miles West), Evita
(Arkansas Repertory), Lend Me
a Tenor and Captains
Courageous (Cumberland County Playhouse),
Greater Tuna (Florida Playwrights
Theater) and many others! Film: Arbitrage
(soon to be released),
Splinterheads, The Messenger, Across The Universe,
No Reservations, The Hoax, The
Truman Show, Holy Man. TV: The Onion Sports
Dome, Law and Order SVU, Mildred Pierce, Law and Order: Criminal
Intent, The Late Show, The Sopranos, 30 Rock, Whoopi, Third
Watch, Law & Order, One Life To Live, All My Children, Guiding Light
and over 75 commercials.
Corinna Sowers-Adler has over ten years experience as a performer, director, vocal coach, and acting teacher in the professional theater world. From its inception, she has served as the Director of Theatre for the Wilkes University Conservatory. Her Conservatory Theatre program, which she created, currently has 180 students in 7 classes and culminates with full scale productions each semester. Corinna has also instructed theatrical collegiate students at Wilkes University. While Children's Theatre Director for the historic Pocono and Bucks County Playhouses, Corinna cast well over 2000 roles for children and teens and directed fifty productions on a summer stock schedule. Her extensive performance career has taken her from New York City, to Florida, to Nevada with several stops in between.
Ted Wrigley is an Equity actor who teaches improvisation and acting.
He currently directs On the Spot and the teen improv troupe Sparks of
Insanity, and performs with Nutty by Nature. Ted is a graduate of the
NJ School of Dramatic Arts acting program.
MUSICAL THEATER STAFF
Toni DiBuono has appeared on Broadway in The Boys From Syracuse and
Wonderful Town. Her Off Broadway credits include Forbidden Broadway
(Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Awards), Bad Habits with Nathan Lane and
Up Against It at the Public Theatre. On television, Toni starred as Pat Tuesday in the award winning PBS series
Mathnet, co-hosted Lifetime's Our Home, guest starred on
Law and Order, Law & Order SVU and has done numerous commercials.
Deborah Martin spent 11 seasons as Musical Director at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (now the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ). She is the Founding Artistic Director of the 4th Wall Musical Theatre (Working, Pippin, Company, and Nine) and has served as Musical Director with the Fire Island Pines Arts Project (Little Mary Sunshine and Dames at Sea with Charles Busch). Off Broadway credits include Inside Out as Musical Director. Her work with the Montclair Operetta Company includes
Evita, Pirates of Penzance, Kismet, and Cabaret. She is also a composer:
The Princess, The Poet and the Little Grey Man (book by Joseph Robinette) was published by Dramatic Publishing Company.
BJ Solomon assistant directed Angels in America: Perestoika under Broadway Director Leah Gardiner for the Connecticut Repertory Theater. As a choreographer he choreographed the NJ premier of
Cats at The Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ as well as productions of
Mame, 1776, and The Full Monty. BJ studied acting at the University of Connecticut and Musical Theatre at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He has studied under such notable performers as Judy Blazer, Joe Deer, Jean Ballantine, Tina Landau and Theresa McWillaims. BJ has performed throughout the country in productions of
Big River (Paper Mill), Annie, Cats, Fiddler, Miss Saigon, Dreamgirls, Merrily We Roll Along, and
Show Boat.
Corinna Sowers-Adler has over ten years experience as a performer, director, vocal coach, and acting teacher in the professional theater world. From its inception, she has served as the Director of Theatre for the Wilkes University Conservatory. Her Conservatory Theatre program, which she created, currently has 180 students in 7 classes and culminates with full scale productions each semester. Corinna has also instructed theatrical collegiate students at Wilkes University. While Children's Theatre Director for the historic Pocono and Bucks County Playhouses, Corinna cast well over 2000 roles for children and teens and directed fifty productions on a summer stock schedule. Her extensive performance career has taken her from New York City, to Florida, to Nevada with several stops in between.
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