www.frenchwoods.com www.frenchwoods.com Festival of the Performing Arts Festival of the Performing Arts French Woods French Woods 2013 December Alumni Edition Alumni News • Camper & Staff News • Ron, Beth, Larry & Isaac Informing The French Community Woods In this Issue: • PERFORMER The Look HowGrown! We’ve SAVE THE DATE! French Woods Reunion & Alumni Weekend Memorial Day Weekend 2015 (at Camp - May 23-25, 2015) Come and relive the most wonderful time in your life. Bring your spouse, partner, children. Swap stories with friends old and new, revisit your favorite spots and once again experience the magic of French Woods. Activities will be held all weekend, so mark your calendar for May 23-25, 2015. Friday through Sunday includes camp activities: theater, circus, tennis, fitness, water- front, rock wall and ropes, evening activities and canteen and much, much more! There will be opening and closing videos, special VIP and sponsor reception, 4k Race for the arts on camp and golf availability. We’re giving you more than a year’s notice! Set the weekend aside and be with French Woods friends and family at Camp in the Western Catskills in Hancock, NY. We hope you’ll be with us. We will be there! Ron, Beth, Isaac, Larry, Scott, Karen and our families. All proceeds from the reunion will benefit the Hancock French Woods Arts Alliance (hfwaa.org) For more information or to get involved with the French Woods Reunion committee, please email Rose at rose@frenchwoods. 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 David Valentine built and refurbished muppets for the This summer 2,164 campers and counselors participated in the HFWAA third Dear Frenchwoodites, upcoming movie Muppets Most Wanted to be released in annual 4K Race for the Arts. Four races were held, one during each 3-week session It’s that time of year again. Time to wish all of you French March 2014. on the French Woods Festival of the Arts Campus. Dozens more children and staff Woods Alumni, from six to sixty, best wishes for the LisaMarie Ianuzzi is a New England Patriots Cheerleader! volunteered - giving out water, as timekeepers, photographers and cheerleaders! holiday season. She has been featured on the NFL Network, ESPN, Fox Network and The Rhode Show. HFWAA (Hancock-French Woods Arts Alliance) is a 501(c) 3 public not-for-profi t This summer will mark the forty-fifth season of the French organization. The funds raised from business sponsors and donations were Woods program. Many of you receiving this newsletter Kira Hattenbach and Justin Lewis are performing in the awarded as partial college scholarships to deserving, needy students committed were there in 1970 when it all started. I can’t tell you what opera Amahl and the Night Visitors at George Washington to a career in the arts. In addition, elementary, middle and high schools in indigent areas are able to apply for fun so many alumni have had touring the camp. So many University. grants to foster their performing arts programs. of our current campers have parents who attended French Merritt Baer and Brian Fenty recently launched theater Woods. Why not come up and visit? We’ll give you the app, TodayTix, offering theater-goers great seats and Every race participant and volunteer received a Race Wristband generously sponsored by AM Skier Insurance. royal treatment and introduce you and your family to discounted pricing for Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. There was no charge to run (or walk in the race), but we did design a commemorative t-shirt celebrating the everyone and everything. Most of you Ron Schaefer visited the La Mirada theater run by Brian Race for the Arts and many families supported and sponsored their children’s participation in the race/walk. would have trouble recognizing the Kite in California and saw a production of Broadway place; so much has changed. In this special Alumni Edition of The Perfomer, the Hancock-French Woods Arts Alliance gratefully Bound directed by Jeff Maynard. Brain Kite is taking a acknowledges the generosity of our 2013 Race for the Arts sponsors. We hope that many of you will consider If any of you are doctors or nurses tour of Miss Saigon to Asia next year. joining them for Summer 2014! and want to be kids again, give us a Eric Eglin & his wife Laura (who used to work with call at 1-800-634-1703. Give us a call Ron Headrick as a director at Miami Children’s Theater), anyway. We’d love to hear from you. moved to San Francisco where Eric has reunited with WRISTBAND SPONSOR All our best, Ron & Barbara Corey Rosen and Finn Kelly. Eric is Executive Producer of KRON4 News. On the Go... Peter Fogel has a new Internet Radio Show with Anna In the next few months, French Collins It’s BEYOND Complicated! The Boomer Humor Woods representatives will be at camp fairs in and around: Radio Show on TalkZone.com Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Caracas, Chicago, Columbus Steve Rosen joined the off broadway cast of Peter and the OH, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Greenwich CT, Houston, Starcatcher as Smee. Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Lauren Schorr is a musical theatre major at Wright Milan Italy, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York City, State University where she is cast as Anya in The Cherry Paris France, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Orchard. JOGGER SPONSORS Antonio, Seattle, South Florida, Tampa, Westchester NY, Jodi Wolfman (Rosenberg) is doing well. She is an Washington DC. Go to www.frenchwoods.com/blog/ to attorney and married with 3 children. see when and where we’ll be! Jeff Wolfman is employed by Chanel Incorporated as an Kaplan, Inc. Operations Specialist in New Jersey. Alumni News! Both Lindsey Gordon and Leah Brumer are engaged! Sarah (Tiger) Brown is the green silly girl/enchanted (not to each other, in case that wasn’t clear....) object in the national tour of Beauty And The Beast. Check Samara Schwartz is never an actress, but always on stage. the website for a city near you: beautyandthebeastontour. Her daughter Ava (3) will be a FWite as soon as she can The Feiner com. send her. Gabriel Schleifer is at the School of Visual Arts studying Rebecca Holmes is living in London and just got engaged Family animation. to an actor/director. She’s working at a nonprofit that uses Emilie McGann Schoenfeld is Production Manager on drama to talk to young people about healthy relationships WALKER SPONSORS Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train and Sid the Science Kid. and dating violence. Tristan Knauf can’t wait to see the shows! Jenna Lichtman has been accepted to Indiana University Michelle Madow got a three book publishing deal with where she will study business entrepreneurship. (As an Combined Energy Services • Elizabeth Dunn, CPA Harlequin Teen. homage to FW, she will hum selections from Beauty and Levene, Gouldin & Th ompson • Alan Goldman & Family Daniel McGraw just graduated from Miami International the Beast on the way to classes....) University of Art and Design, with a BFA in Film and Betsy Driben Lichtman will be playing Frummah Sarah Digital Production. in Toronto’s Chicken Coop Theater’s very first American Daniel Crisp has been working professionally for the last production, Fiddler on the Roof, at the Levis JCC, in April. For more information about becoming a Business or Parent sponsor for Race for the Arts 2014 4 years touring internationally with Circa and recently please contact Rose at either 800-634-1703 or [email protected] or [email protected] performed in NYC at the Skirball Centre. Matt Lepek has been subbing in the pit orchestra of Pippin Marcel Werder is in The Laramie Project, and is playing Kim Teitelbaum sang and performed as Belle in her orchestrations for Ron Hedrick and he is working on a show on Broadway. older George in Our Town. school’s production of Beauty & the Beast. with Air Supply. Brian Kite is the Producing Artistic Director at La Mirada Tsugumi Nakata has been cast as the Princess in the In a Brechtian take on 1776, Fergie Philippe-Auguste is Rebecca and Lee Kasper are offering a Rockstars! two- Theater for the Performing Arts for which he won the musical Snow White in the English Theater Group MLS’s playing a soldier. day Winter Camp, January 2-3, for kids in the NYC area Ovation award for best season. Brian also won as best production that will be staged in Tokyo in March. Adam Cotugno just finished playing Benny Southstreet in ages 7 to 12. Check out strikingly.com/rockstars for more Director of a Musical for Spring Awakening. Jarod Turman was cast as Yost in Sleepy Hollow the Guys and Dolls and is moving on to play Seymour in Little information. Jason Robert Brown’s latest Broadway show, The Bridges Musical which was produced by Camelot, the Community Shop of Horrors as well as working as a Lead Software Sarah Boyle is busy sailing the seven seas and hopes Beth, of Madison County will open on February 20th. Honeymoon Theater Organization. Engineer at Apple in the SF Bay Area. Michael and Tristan visit her soon. In Vegas, also by Jason, recently closed at the Papermill Ming-An Fasquelle made her professional theatrical debut French Woodites Sam & Andrew Miller, Matt & Bari Sydney Gough became a Bat Mitzvah in Los Angeles Playhouse in NJ after rave NY Times reviews.