ey’ve gotta have Class of ’96
Angela Harris
Angela Harris is the founder and executive director of Dance Canvas, an Atlanta-based company dedicated to presenting the works of emerging choreographers. She was recognized with the 2011 American Express Emerging Leader Award at the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in San Diego. Dance Canvas was featured in the 2010 issue of Dance Magazine and also on Fox 5’s Good Day Atlanta. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’00
Cece Disharoon
Cece Disharoon received a BFA in theater sound design from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2004. Upon graduation, she joined Maryland Sound in Baltimore and worked on shows including the New York City Times Square New Years Extravaganza, the Presidential Inauguration and Gravity Games. She moved to Nashville in 2006 and while working for CTS Audio she toured with Point of Grace and Women of Faith. Presently, Cece is a freelance sound engineer working mainly as a touring sound system engineer and stage manager and has stage managed large festivals including the The Creation Festival and the Awake Tonight Tour. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’92
Emily Giza Socolinsky
Dancer and fitness coach Emily Giza Socolinsky recently opened a new fitness studio, Fivex3 Training, in Harbor East. Emily has been active as a professional dancer and teacher, including teaching in the BSA Twigs program, for over 16 years. During that time, she has focused on strength training and a variety of cross-training methods that helped her grow and develop as a dancer and athlete. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’84
Dorian Fuchs Karlette Fuchs
Dorion Fuchs, is a proud member of Local One-IATSE. He is a stage hand and a shop steward for Local One and he has worked on the Broadway productions of Cabaret, Assassins, Three Penny Opera, 110 in the Shade, Sunday in the Park with George, Bye Bye Birdie and PeeWee Herman. He is currently working in the electrics department of the Broadway show Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Karlette (Lesane) Fuchs, received her MSEd from Alfred University and is currently the College Office Coordinator at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’03
Nathan W. Bailey
Nathan lives in Los Angeles, CA and works as a freelance production designer. He has designed commercials for clients including MTV, Trojan, Arbor Mist, Alcatel, and Movies OnDemand. Nathan has also production designed three feature films, due out this year, and art directed Arcadia, which recently played to a packed house at the 2012 Berlin film festival and won the Crystal Bear Award. His graduate-masters thesis film, The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, played at film festivals nation wide in 2011 and continues to stir up controversy over it’s artistically brave subject matter. Nathan has a BA in Film from Emerson College and a Master of Fine Arts in Production Design from the American Film Institute. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’12
Samantha Pollino
Samantha Pollino, class of 2012, performed on Broadway in Hot Feet at age 11; she also appeared in Nickelodeon’s Lazytown Live Jamarama Tour at age 12, and the “Above the Influence” commercial at age 14. Last fall, Samantha participated in the much anticipated staged reading of Tuck The Musical directed and choreographed by Tony award-winner Casey Nicholaw. She has been a featured performer and intern at Broadway Dreams Foundation and is a Young Arts Merit winner for Classical Voice. ey’ve gotta have
BSA and The Good Wife Josh Charles ’89
The hit CBS series The Good Wife snagged nine Emmy nominations in 2011, including one for Josh Charles’ role as Will Gardner. Current student, Rachel Hilson has a recurring role as Nisa and Rachel Hilson ’13 rumor has it that her role will continue to grow as the series continues to thrive. 2011 Julliard graduate Shalita Grant appeared on the show in late 2011 in a guest starring role. Shalita Grant ’06 ey’ve gotta have Class of ’93
Suli Holum
Suli is a theatre maker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her current work, Chimera, is an innovative, one-woman project featured in the HERE Artist Residency Program in New York City. She received a Drama Desk Award for her performance in Israel Horowitz’s Lebensraum off-Broadway, was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday at Arena Stage, and is a founding member and artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’00
Tim and Anoa Green
Composer, arranger and performer Tim Green is a rising star on the international music scene. He has performed with Christian McBride, Queen Latifia and Wynton Marsalis and was one of three finalists in the 2008 Theolonius Monk Jazz Competition. His prolific touring schedule takes him to some of the world’s most prestigious performance halls, including Carnegie and Zankle Halls in NYC. Anoa is a dedicated faculty member at BSA, heading the wind department. She also works with the TWIGS Side By Side program. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’04
Christian Siriano
Christian Siriano was recently featured in the lead front page article in the Thursday Style section of the New York Times. Christian has been on the move since his triumph on the reality show “Project Runway” in 2008 at twenty years old. What’s he doing now? For starters, his clothes are carried at Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue and he has developed a popular line for Payless ShoeSource. He has written a book, Fierce Style: How to Be your Most Fabulous Self, has been the subject of a Bravo one hour special, Christian Siriano: Having A Moment, and has developed a line for Spiegel Catalog Signature Styles. Stay tuned!
ey’ve gotta have Class of ’09
Olivia Brann
Olivia Brann was invited, all expenses paid, to become the first foreigner to ever learn Huangmei Opera. In September 2011, Brann traveled to Anqing, Anhui China and in four months learned four songs from four plays, and in December 2011 performed in Hefei ’s Grand Theater in two roles. Captivated by Brann’s story, reporters from all parts of China including Shanghai and Hefei have interviewed her. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’97
Jack Neill and Zach Schoettler
Life-long friends Jack Neill Visual Art and Zach Schoettler Visual Art put their money where their mouths are. They opened Jack and Zach Food in 2010 at the Women’s Industrial Exchange in Baltimore. Their passion for sustainabilty and knowledge of food is at the core of their delicious and beautiful creations. These two make their sausages from scratch and, whenever possible, ingredients are sourced from small farms around Maryland. Three local eateries, The Daily Grind, Milk and Honey Market, and Whimz Cafe, also market their delicious veggie patties. The art is in the food! ey’ve gotta have Class of ’97
Warren Wolf
The release of Warren Wolf’s debut album last year showcases the 31-year old jazz vibraphonist and his prodigious talent. He has been heralded by more than a few jazz critics as one of the great talents now performing in the jazz world. Warren is currently the drummer of choice for alto saxophonist Tia Fuller, who tours with internationally renowned pop star Beyonce Knowles. Warren is also a member of the Donal Fox Group which includes bassist John Lockwood and drummers Dafnis Preito and Terri Lyne Carrington. Also, Warren tours and performs with Bobby Watson’s “Live and Learn” Sextet, Karriem Riggins “Virtuoso Experience” and Christian McBride & “Inside Straight”. With these three groups Warren has traveled the world. He has performed or recorded with Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Jeremy Pelt, Nicholas Payton, Tim Warfield, Adonis Rose and many others.
ey’ve gotta have Class of ’93
Jason Ferrante
In 2012, Jason Ferrante, tenor, debuts with the Florida Grand Opera and returns to the Bard Summerscape in a joint production with Ireland’s renowned Wexford Festival of Chabrier’s Le Roi Malgré Lui. In recent seasons, the Juilliard graduate has been heard in leading roles at New York City Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Opera Boston, the Wexford Festival, China’s Guangzhou Opera House, and with many companies around the U.S. In addition to maintaining an active performing career, he is quickly gaining a reputation as a sought-after teacher of voice. ey’ve gotta have
Fighting for Freedom
Fighting for Freedom!, a new work commemorating the War of 1812 Bicentennial is a project conceptualized and realized by the faculty and students at BSA in partnership with the Maryland Historical Society. Theatre students delved into the historical society’s archives, collecting government documents, personal letters, and political propaganda from the era to create the script. Spearheading this partnership is resident costumer Norah Worthington, who also led the students in the creation of period costumes. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’91
Oliver Boyd
We often feel the earth move under our feet here at the School for the Arts, but it’s usually from talent, not seismic activity! But visual art graduate Dr. Oliver Boyd can really relate. Boyd received his Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Colorado in 2004 and currently studies earthquakes in the central and eastern United States for the U.S. Geological Survey. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis, giving lectures and advising students on seismic hazards. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’88
Nathan Thomas attended University Saturday at the church in Paterson of California, Santa Barbara on a full teaching his former students and Nathan music scholarship. While there, he even recruiting new ones. With studied flute, violin, and conducting. full parental support, he arrived Nathan’s career in urban education many times at the school from Thomas began in Paterson, New Jersey which he was laid off, with buses to where he founded the “The Paterson take his students out of school for Strings,” a group of young, urban performances! This led to a front violin students, and created a touring page story of his work in the Star ensemble. In the 2009-2010 school Ledger newspaper (Sunday January year, after winning Teacher of the 30, 2011) and the subsequent honor Year in Paterson (the second time of being featured on NBC Nightly receiving it) as well as The Governor’s News as, “Someone Who Makes a Teacher recognition award, Nathan Difference” (June 21, 2011.) After was laid off along with the district’s 14 months of unemployment and entire arts faculty. To save money, the continuing the Saturday classes, district deemed all of the arts “non- Nathan was contacted by another essential” in all 53 schools. Refusing urban district and accepted to turn his back on his students, employment there in September of Nathan contacted St. Bonaventure 2011. Despite two years removed Church in the neighborhood of the from the Paterson school district, school where he had taught for so and current employment in a new many years, and asked if he might district, Nathan continues to spend continue working there. every Saturday in Paterson, and still performs regularly with “The Thus began the current phase of “The Paterson Strings.” Paterson Strings.” Since September of 2010, Nathan travels 58 miles each way from his home to spend all day ey’ve gotta have Class of ’02
Kelli Venter
After receiving her B.F.A.in Ballet Performance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Kellie Venter performed through-out the tri-state area and Atlantic City with artists like Flo Rider, Rihanna and Beyonce. She now portrays the character Lady Madonna in The Beatles Love by Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’06
Colin Stokes
Life has been busy for cellist Colin Stokes, a graduate student at the Juilliard School. He formed his own trio and with a Juilliard actor, recently performed Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon to a sold out crowd at Lincoln Center’s Paul Hall. The next day he was on a flight to Zagreb, the capitol city of Croatia to compete in the Janigro Int’l Cello Competition. As soon as it was over, he hurried back to Manhattan for two more performances at Lincoln Center before the end of the month. His developing career has already taken him across Europe—from Kronberg im Taunus to Madrid and Oban, Scotland—and the US. It’s always been his dream to travel the world with his cello, and in the following months and years, that’s what he’ll be doing! ey’ve gotta have Class of ’95
Eric Greene
Eric Greene is making his debut with the Birmingham Opera Company (UK) in the starring role of Segismund in “Life is a Dream” Premiering March 21, 2012. Baritone Greene, when he is not traveling the world performing, is a voice teacher here with TWIGS. ey’ve gotta have Class of ’03
Joseph Watson
Joseph Watson started his formal dance training at the BSA after-school program T.W.I.G.S. (To Work In Gaining Skills). His training at T.W.I.G.S. led to his acceptance into the Baltimore School for the Arts. He attended The Juilliard School where he received his BFA in dance. In 2007, Joseph joined North Carolina Dance Theatre where he performed both contemporary and classical roles such as Dwight Rhoden’s Othello. Joseph believes “dance is a way for me to do a lot of self discovery and realize that there is no limit to what a person can do artistically.” He presently is in his third season with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.