Juan Francisco Villa ’99
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Juan Francisco Villa ’99 uan Francisco Villa ’99 is an actor, playwright and teaching artist currently residing in Los Angeles. Juan has worked nationally with both his acting and writing being performed in New York City, JLos Angeles, Syracuse and Chicago. His credits include numerous theaters, from the Goodman to Rattlestick, television and film. He has been nominated for two Joseph Jefferson Awards, three New York Theatre Innovation Awards, won the Independent Theater Bloggers Association Patrick Lee Award, and performed in the Jefferson-winning production of Luis Alfraro’s Mojada. Juan’s play, Empanada for a Dream, which he brought to the Le Moyne campus several years ago, was named best show in Chicago and Los Angeles. More recently, he appeared in Oedipus El Rey at New York City’s famed Public Theater. Juan grew up in New York City, part of a Colombian family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He wanted to deepen his craft and trained under Maggie Flanigan at The Maggie Flanigan Meisner Studio. The Le Moyne alumnus is represented by Grant Talent Group and is an ensemble member of 16th St. Theatre (Chicago) and InViolet (New York City). He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Le Moyne. Vincent Randazzo ’15 incent Randazzo ’15 is a New York City based actor and singer. Originally from Syracuse, N.Y., Randazzo is a 2018 graduate of the American Conservatory VTheatre’s Master of Fine Arts program in acting, one of the top ranked programs in the country. Since graduating, he has appeared in Vanity Fair (actor five) with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Other recent credits include ACT’s productions of Hamlet (Guildenstern), the world premiere musical A Walk on the Moon (Irv), A Christmas Carol (Thomas/Bob Crachit), and King Lear (France.) For three years, Vincent toured with Le Moyne’s Director of Theatre Matt Chiorini and the Shylock Project in Orson Welles/Shylock – A Docu-Fantasy Radio Play (Orson Welles/Roger Hill) in Italy and various fringe festivals in Canada. In addition to working in theater, Vincent has performed with local musicians in the San Francisco Bay area and performed a Bob Dylan suite with the Texture Ballet Company in Pittsburgh, Pa. He earned a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts from Le Moyne. Le Moyne’s Stars of Stage and Screen Timothy R. DeKay ’85 has traveled with George Peppard as part of the Broadway National Tour of The Lion in Winter, taken on the challenging role of an Irish journalist captured in Beirut in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and even portrayed Elaine’s boyfriend on the NBC hit Seinfeld. More recently, Tim appeared as Steven Benjamin on HBO’s comedy-drama Here and Now. Of course, fans will forever remember him as the man who brought life to no-nonsense federal agent Peter Burke for six seasons on the USA network’s White Collar. Tim’s career as an actor began at Le Moyne, where he appeared in productions of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Le Moyne and a master’s degree in fine arts from Rutgers University. In 2010 he returned to Le Moyne to deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree. For more than 30 years Siobhan Fallon Hogan ’83 has been a familiar presence on the large and small screens, appearing in blockbusters such as Forrest Gump and Men in Black and in continued on back beloved television shows like 30 Rock, Seinfeld and Saturday Night Live. More recently Siobhan portrayed Arlene Moran in FX’s Wayward Pines. A member of the prestigious off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Company, Siobhan has embraced her role as a character actress. Her Catholic faith has guided her throughout her career, particularly in the roles she has chosen to pursue, and in her personal life. Siobhan earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Le Moyne and master’s degree in fine arts from Catholic University of America. In 1994 she returned to Le Moyne to deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree. John Douglas Thompson ’85 is widely regarded as one of the most compelling stage actors of his generation – and with good reason. John’s Broadway credits include Carousel, Jitney, A Time to Kill and Cyrano de Bergerac. His off-Broadway credits include The Iceman Cometh, A Doll’s House, The Father, Macbeth, Othello, Tamburlaine the Great, Satchmo at the Waldorf and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, while his film and television credits includeThe Bourne Legacy, Law and Order: SVU, Madam Secretary and Person of Interest. John has won Obie, Drama Desk, NAACP Theatre and Lucille Lortel awards and been nominated for a Tony Award. He was named one of the “Top 20 Reasons to Love New York” by New York Magazine and featured in a story in The New Yorker. John earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Le Moyne. In 2014 he returned to Le Moyne to deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree. Donald J. Kirby’63, S.J. onald J. Kirby, S.J., is a professor of moral theology and the religious Superior of the Jesuit community at Le Moyne College. D Father Kirby’s legacy at Le Moyne stretches back to 1959, when he enrolled in the College as a freshman before entering the Society of Jesus a year later. He returned to campus in 1976 as a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies. His focus became working with his faculty colleagues to discover how educators could awaken career-oriented students to the full potential of a liberal arts education and thus revitalize their commitment to faith, justice and social responsibility. Father Kirby co-founded the Center for the Advancement of Values Education. His most recent book, Compass for Uncharted Lives: A Model for Values Education, reflects the fruit of years of experience in leading faculty workshops on values education both nationally and internationally. A gifted and inspiring educator, Father Kirby has taught courses such as Corporate Responsibility, Catholic Social Teaching, Christian Ethics and the Study of Religion. He inspires hope, ignites continued on back imagination, and instills a love of learning in each of his students. His goal is to assist his students in recognizing and understanding the importance of the moral and faith dimension in their personal and professional lives and to assist them to become compassionate agents of social change. From 2014 until 2017, Father Kirby held the Robert A. Mitchell, S.J. Chair in Christian Wisdom at Le Moyne. His own research explores forgiveness and reconciliation and, as the Mitchell Chair, he sponsored public lectures on “Divorce and Re-Marriage: The Role of Faith” and “Forgiveness in Relationships.” Beyond the Le Moyne campus, Father Kirby serves on the boards of the Spiritual Renewal Center and Syracuse Area Middle East Dialogue Group. He regularly assists local parishes and students and alumni by celebrating weddings, baptisms and funerals, providing comfort in times of hope and joy, sadness and sorrow. Father Kirby’s 43 years of dedication to the Jesuit and Ignatian mission at Le Moyne and throughout higher education is indeed a rare commodity. He is like the merchant who has found the pearl of great value and has risked his life to give it to others. He has tried to live the words of Pope Francis: “To educate is an act of love, it is to give life. Also love is demanding, and it calls for using the best resources for awakening passion and to begin with patience together with young people.”.