ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION PROUDLY PRESENTS
2 018 – 2 019
DAVID BURNHAM ERIC MARIENTHAL MEGAN HILTY DAN KOHLER Broadway actor and recording artist Grammy Award-winning contemporary Tony Award-nominated Broadway Emmy Award-nominated Senior (Wicked, The Light in the Piazza, saxophonist best known for his work actress and singer (Wicked and Culinary Producer of Hallmark Channel's Joseph and the Amazing in the jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz, 9 to 5); television personality Home & Family; regular host on Cooking Technicolor Dreamcoat) and pop genres (“Ivy Lynn” on NBC’s Smash) Channel’s Food: Fact or Fiction
IDO TADMOR DEBBIE ALLEN DAVID NEWMAN JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET Internationally acclaimed dancer Three-time Emmy Award-winning Academy Award-nominated Grammy Award-nominated recording and choreographer; has represented choreographer; Tony Award-nominated American conductor and composer artist; acclaimed concert pianist Israel around the world as the actress and dancer; television director of nearly 100 feature films appearing as soloist with the world’s country’s “Ambassador of Dance” and producer (Anastasia, Matilda, Ice Age) finest orchestras for more than three decades
PILOBOLUS DEAN PARISOT JOHN MICHAEL HIGGINS CARRIE ANN INABA American modern dance Television and film director; Classically trained actor and voice Highly acclaimed choreographer, dancer, company; described by The New 1988 Academy Award winner actor; known for his roles in actress, and singer; famously known for York Times as “athlete-illusionists” for Best Live Action Short Film Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, her work as a judge on ABC's Pitch Perfect, and other comedies Dancing with the Stars
PACIFIC SYMPHONY JARED GERTNER KIEL JOHNSON ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN Internationally recognized Laurence Olivier Award-nominated American artist, sculptor, and DANCE THEATER orchestra led by Music Director actor (The Book of Mormon); television artistic “explorer”; best known for Nationally recognized modern dance Carl St.Clair; recently made their personality (Modern Family, The Good his meticulous cardboard replicas company; artists have performed for Carnegie Hall debut Wife, American Dad); Broadway star of obsolete technology 25 million people in 71 countries
GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
KENT AND BRANDI BARKOURAS FASHION ISLAND Artistic Partners: CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE | PACIFIC SYMPHONY | PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY | THE MUSIC CENTER MASTER ARTIST SERIES 2018 – 2019
WAYNE BERGERON JAKE HEGGIE SALEEMAH KNIGHT JOSH FREESE Yamaha Performing Artist, jazz American composer of opera, Internationally recognized American drummer, songwriter, and trumpeter, and prolific recording artist; vocal, orchestral, and chamber interdisciplinary artist in the concert composer; member of The Vandals featured on more than 400 television music; composed the operas and commercial dance realms; and Devo; former drummer for and movie soundtracks Dead Man Walking, Moby-Dick, professor of dance at University of Guns N’ Roses and Sting It’s A Wonderful Life, etc. Southern California
RICK EDINGER MARGUERITE DERRICKS TONY BELLISSIMO ALTIUS QUARTET Music director, vocal coach, pianist, and Three-time Emmy Award- Top 20 on season five of So You Internationally acclaimed chamber Broadway actor; Associate Professor of winning choreographer; one of the Think You Can Dance; film and ensemble; grand prize winners in the Music Theater and Music Director for most highly recognized working television featured dancer (Glee, Classics Alive Young Artists Competition Carnegie Mellon University icons in the dance world Step Up 3D, Step Up 4, 82nd Annual Academy Awards)
VINCENT CARDINAL JACOB BRENT MARTIN CHALIFOUR MARK MEISMER Award-winning playwright, Starred on Broadway as “Mr. Mistoffelees” Principal concertmaster of the Renowned choreographer and director/producer, and esteemed professor; in CATS; choreographer and teacher Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1995; dancer; has worked with Celine Chair of the Department of Musical at Shenandoah Conservatory and recipient of the Certificate of Honor Dion, Britney Spears, Madonna, Theatre at University of Michigan Broadway Dance Center at Moscow’s International Ricky Martin, and more Tchaikovsky Competition
TONY SELZNICK BROOKS WACKERMAN DAISY GARDNER Esteemed choreographer and dance American musician and songwriter; American television writer and teacher; Founder and Senior Agent at current drummer for Avenged Sevenfold comedienne best known for her work as McDonald Selznick Associates and Mass Mental; former drummer for a writer on the NBC series 30 Rock, Bad Religion and Tenacious D Californication, and South Park