French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts 2 0 0 9 D e c e m b e r The Final Burn Alumni Edition Alumni News • Camper & Staff News • Ron, Beth, Larry & Isaac Informing The French Woods Community In this Issue: • • Issue: this In PERFORMER The THE PERFORMER IS YOUR NEWSLETTER!!! The Performer is only as good as the contributions we receive from the French Woods community. Let us know what is going on in your life. Your camp friends love to hear what you are doing. Do you have a performance or concert coming up? Have you seen or spoken to French Woods friends? How did your sports team do this season? We also welcome your pho- tos and any creative writing you may want to see in print. It’s your big chance! Write us at P.O. Box 770100, Coral Springs, FL 33077-0100 or give us a call at 1-800-634-1703. You can also send us E-mail at [email protected]. Visit our web site at www. frenchwoods.com. We all love hearing from you! All the news that’s fit to print. See yourself in the French Woods Performer. 1-800-634-1703 in FL 954-346-7455 FL in 1-800-634-1703 Coral Springs, Florida 33077 33077 Florida Springs, Coral PO Box 770100 Box PO WINTER OFFICE WINTER Of the Performing Arts Performing the Of French Woods Festival Festival Woods French Dear Frenchwoodites, Alumni News! Kiwi Stewart spent the summer touring with AC/DC, Bruce Just Registered! It’s that time of year again. Time to Springsteen, and Coldplay in Europe and is continuing to Sarah Aftalion Steven Estes Josh Kahn Sonya Okon Jessica Silverman wish all of you French Woods Alumni, from tour with AC/DC in New Zealand and Australia as a touring Sophie Avidane Eleanor Fellerhoff Katie Kane Sonia Pearson Layne Silverman stage builder. Lauren Banner Eamon Foley Josh Kaufman Eve Plank Katelyn Slaight six to sixty, best wishes for the holiday sea- Phoebe Bergeron Alexandra Frazier Lauren Kaufman Lauren Plumley Ayala Slavis son. Doug Shapiro can be seen in recent episodes of 30 Rock. Zivia Berkowitz Julia Friedman Natasha Kisiluk Dale Pontone Amy Sokolow Additionally, Doug teaches workshops on the business of Melanie Berman Blaine Fuller Gabriel Larkin Ryan Pontone Marjorie Solo This summer will mark the forty-first season acting and has been involved in workshops for the musicals Samantha Besca Kelly Fuller Sarah Lazarus Graham Pough Derek Stanley of the French Woods program. Many of you That’s Andy, Iron Curtain, Greenbrier Ghost and Plagued! Sayer Brian Jacqueline Gershman Gillian Leeds Danielle Pransky Emma Steiger receiving this news letter were there in 1970 Avery Brook Kayla Gorelick Charlie Lennon Uma Raja Marlo Stein when it all started. I can’t tell you what fun so Evan Cabinet is working as a theater director and living in Olivia Capella Daniel Greenstone Simone Liberty Shoshana Rath Ashley Suan many alumni have had touring the camp. So New York City. Caroline Casey Molly Greenstone Caroline Loeb Kelsey Rogers Amy Sullivan many of our current campers have parents Barrett Foa (‘91) will appear as the recurring role of tech Madeline Cohen Chase Gutman Michayla Lupien Ryan Ross Rebecca Suskauer Victor Cohen Eva Gutt Sofia Maggi Rose Rutkovsky Talia Suskauer who attended French Woods. Why not come operator Eric Beal on the new CBS television show, NCIS: Claire Collins Hayden Gutt Beatrice Martin Jacob Sagar Camilla Tubella up and visit? We’ll give you the royal treat- Los Angeles. The procedural crime drama, which also stars Sonia Copple Jordan Haberer Patricia Martin Jamie Sall Alia Velazquez ment and introduce you and your family to Chris O’Donnell and LL Cool J, will air Tuesday nights at Scott Crepea Foster Hirsch Jenny Meigs Mara Savarese Marissa Vitale everyone and everything. Most of you would 9pm this fall on CBS. Since moving to LA in January, Barrett Chloe Cuggino-Zensky Parker Hirsch Adelaide Meny Carly Schreiber Alex Vorlicky have trouble recognizing the place; so much has guest starred on NCIS, Numb3rs, and opposite Kyra Ethan Cuggino-Zensky Ariel Leigh Hoffmaier Ava Merker Jordan Schonberger Cheyenne Voss-Scott has changed. Sedgwick on The Closer. In September, Barrett appeared Eric Dana Katie Huffman Ashleigh Merlino Christina Schwartz Lindsey Wales on the hit HBO show, Entourage, opposite Jeremy Piven. Sam Dana Sydney Huffman Hanah Nardone Claire Scott Remi Waxman If any of you are doctors Elizabeth Dickson Jenna Inganamort Hope Newman Allison Seibold Emily Weider or nurses and want to be a Josh Rosenblum graduated from Muhlenberg College Evan Dollar John Inganamort Andy O’brien Olivia Seltzer Kira Weiss this past May and has since assistant directed 4.48 Leslie Duke Julian Isikoff Nick O’brien Erin Shannon Lily Rose Weiss kids again, give us a call at Psychosis in the Capital Fringe Festival, which won best Adam Estes Chloe Joseph Jillian O’leary Fiona Sherman 1-800-634-1703. Give us a Overall Performance and Best Drama. He has also been Josh Estes Kate Joseph Kevin O’leary Chelsea Siegal call anyway. We’d love to in an AD for Taxi Magic, a new app. for smart phones. He hear from you. continues to pursue acting and directing in Washington, D.C. Thanks to Facebook, Harvey Harris has reconnected with December Birthdays! All our best, Pam Reiseman Amikam and Bruce Saks. Things have been going well - 23 years of marriage and getting stronger. 1 Janina Benchimol Dylan Nelkin Allison Hecht Sam Dana Lillie Eiger Eleanor Fellerhoff He is still a sports nut and a Broadway geek - he actually Cole Childers Courtney Peck Camila Rivero Lake Shreya Dutta Ava Esquier Elissa Frank Ron & Barbara Lauren Kaufman Elizabeth Wax Alexandra Scolari Kelly Freedman Dylan Glasser Isabella Mattei has a segment on the radio in Philadelphia on Fantasy Isabella Mastrogiacomo 7 Chloe Metz Victoria Sica Jonathan Kay Jenna Lichtman Leor Shefer Football every Friday afternoon. Brett Morachnick Corinna Pico Lex Z (Zee) Brian Maroti 23 Amanda Britz Adrian Simon Devon Pincus Julian Rincon 13 Clara Brones Kellen Penner Coxon Matthew Dimona Gisella Snailer Jason Wise finished the off-Broadway show Irma La Claire Ryder Erica Rothman Sebastian Childers Dale Pontone Leslie Duke Jacob Snow French Woods is on Cari Sertner 8 Hadley Biederman Kellie Fisher Wei Wei Perry Kerner Samantha Tilson facebook, search for Douce in New York City, and performed in La Cage Aux 2 Camille Azoulai Juliette Delafontaine Joshua Metzman 18 Sarah Fox Javier Lobo Jacqueline Weitz our page and become Folles at the Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, Florida. Mark Bylancik Jordan Jackson Georgia Rich Victoria Portale Sofia Manzi 29 Eli Berman Currently, he is touring in Fiddler on the Roof and breaking Alexandra Henderson Aiden O’neal 14 Molly Ackerman Heather Tepe Naomi Natko Samson Bien a fan... while you’re new ground as the first male actor to professionally play the Caroline Lasersohn Jazzy Sinkoff Melanie Freedman 19 Melanie Blitz Paul Nirenberg Daniel Chavarriaga at it, check out the Aleena Zara Malik 9 Alissa Anselmo Francisco Juaristi Joshua Cohen Sydney Patrick Sophia Crames role of Fruma Sarah. Rachael Persky Evan Greenberg Portia Krichman Isabelle Homberg Benjamin Schrager Melissa (Missy) Dreier French Woods groups 2 Alexandra Roman Joshua Nash Danielle Lieberman Priscilla Hopper Elysa Zebersky Benjamin Edelman from the decade you Georgette Blau Guttmann got married this past year to Peters Chloe Smith Madeline Mcdaniel Molly O’brien 24 Arial Bloshinsky Tori Milbrod Yoav Guttmann...She owns On Location Tours, a company Stephanie Solano Justin Sullivan 15 Niv Avneri Daniel Pratt Matthew Byas Kaitlyn Rahaim went to camp, the Amanda Stern Marissa Vitale Nicolas Briner Evan Silverman Jean Floradin Julio Sanchez 90’s, 80’s, even the started in 1999, now the largest TV/movie tour company 3 Michelle Antonova 10 Cesidio Garcia Del Rio Elena Juliano Fernando Valles Gillian Leeds Juliette Schwimann in the world. Tours include the New York TV and Movie Phoebe Piloco Sydney Gough Aaron Klipin 20 David Attali Emma Mccormack Ben Wasserburg 70’s. 4 Elizabeth Binder Victor Legra Taylor Polito Shea Glasheen Erin Palumbo 30 Rachel Damin tour, the Sex and the City tour, the Sopranos tour, and the Faith Burman Brandon Salzman Caitlin Rodstein Owen Gould Caitlin Slatcher Hayden Gutt Washington, DC TV and Movie tour. Sheridan Devito 11 William Adwar Morgan Tromberg Jillian Mizraji Harli Starr Russell Miller Amanda Green Dahrian Blockmon Robbie Tromberg Andrew Raskin 25 Joseph Champey 31 Christian Brion On the Go... Jason Robert Brown just finished a run of Parade at the Matthew Lupovich Eli Elman Brooke Weiss Sami Seiden Scott Davis Dylan Chenfeld Mark Taper Forum Los Angeles. He has been performing Liam Mcswigin Jordan Elman 16 Allegra Brandon 21 Olivia Benjamin Corey Steinfast Michael Comp Rose Reses Madeline Kaye Alex Brown Sophie De Bruijn 26 William Desvalles Emily Goldblatt French Woods representatives will be and teaching master classes in Canada and the United Kathryn Van Blarcom Danielle Lichter Elizabeth Brown Adam Deangelo Antonia Greenberg Olivia Henderson States. Additionally, he will have a one night only, solo 5 Jessica Ives Sarah Mayo Manuel Del Rio Alexis Federico Matthew Schorr Iair Kaplan at camp fairs all over the country, go to perfromance at the Laurie Beechman Theater in NYC on Colby Patroni Michela Mcdonagh Maxwell Feuerstein Meline Fulda Elana Simon Chieko Kato Jenna Rachman Sara Petiton James Fox Erica Mann Jordan Teman Marc Papandreadis www.frenchwoods.com/blog/ to see when December 15th. Cheyenne Voss-Scott Pauline Rodhain Nina Hamelin Mckenzie Miller 27 Ari Azbel Milena Pross Haleigh Youtie 12 Alix Cross Ana Hito-Shapiro Laura Schwartz Sarah Hemstock and where we’ll be! Melissa Errico is playing the role of Betty Haynes in 6 David Eisman Peter Dinella Emily Kazdin Marley Sternberg Jessica Stevens Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at the Marquis Theater on Natalie Johnson Mallory Flynn Charlotte Taylor Zoe Tchapraste Charlotte Wolf Sophia Kricheff Veronica Frank 17 Adam Bassiouni 22 Mckynzie Clark 28 Zoe Depreta Broadway.