Alexander, Glenn (SLC 1999 - ) [Young Artists Music Intensive] is widely recognized as a guitarist, composer and producer, having written for, performed and or recorded with such artists as Jan Hammer, Chico Hamilton, L Shankar and the Epidemics, Levon Helm, Max Weinberg & the Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Labamba & The Hubcaps, Labamba Big Band, Mark Pender Band, Constantine Maroulis (American Idol), Bob Dylan (The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan), Phoebe Snow, Michael Bolton, Darlene Love, Judy Collins, Lisa Loeb, Adrian Belew, Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint (with Levon @ The Midnight ramble sessions), Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Jane Ira Bloom, Randy Brecker, Mark Egan, Danny Gottlieb, Doug Wimbish, Billy Burnette, Jerry Hahn, T Lavitz and Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs), Gerald Veasley, Paul Newman, and many others. He has performed on and written countless TV commercials and movie scores including the sound track of the Spike Lee Movie, Four Little Girls... Has attained worldwide airplay and critical acclaim on recordings featuring his performances as well as his own compositions: Stretch, Glenn Alexander, Inside Out(The Connection), Rainbow’s Revenge(Glenn Alexander), Oria (Glenn Alexander), Naked Movies (The Coalition),We Remember Pastorius, Hub City Kid (Dave LaRue), Heros (Michael Davis), Street News(Bob Magnuson), Gotta Serve Somebody (Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan, featuring Dylan), Mark Pender Band, Guitar on the Edge, Vol. 4., Everything is Fine(Alice Ripley), Men I’ve Had (Sherie Rene), Model Prisoner (Adam Pascal), Belonging (Jane Barnett) & “The Other Side of Time” for Mary Fahl. He produced the CD, Time Changes, for legendary guitarist Jerry Hahn, featuring Dave Liebman, Steve Laspina and others. He recorded 13 songs by & for Paul Simon arranged by Howard Morgan for solo jazz guitar. Currently writing, recording and performing with the rock group L.A.X. featuring Dave LaRue of the Steve Morse Band and several other projects such as his group The Coalition with Scott Healy (keys with the Conan O’Brien Show), featuring Michael Merritt (bass with Conan O’Brien) and Shawn Pelton (Drums with Saturday Night Live) which has a new release (Naked Movies) out on Midlantic records and The OutPost featuring Bob Magnuson, Kermit Driscoll & Matt Wilson and his funky group Big Daddy Soul. Mr. Alexander studied with Jerry Hahn, Pat Martino and John Scofield, is Head of Jazz studies at Sarah Lawrence College, and serves on the faculty at the New School University.

Abuba, Ernest H. (SLC 1995 - ) [Create and Invent: Summer Theatre Intensive]. Recipient of an OBIE, five New York State Council on the Arts Fellowships for playwriting and directing, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, (CAPS) Creative Artist Public Service Award, Best Actor Focus Press Award. Broadway: Pacific Overtures, Shimada, Loose Ends, The King and I, Zoya’s Apartment, dir. Boris Morozov; Maly Theatre. Regional/Off-Broadway roles: King Lear, MacBeth, Oberon, King Arthur, Autolycus, Chebutykin, James Tyrone,Lysander, Mishima, The Singer in Caucasian Chalk Circle, dir. Fritz Bennewitz; Berlin Ensemble. Author of Kwatz! The Tibetan Project, Leir Rex, The Dowager Empress of China, An American Story, Eat A Bowl Of Tea, Night Stalker, opera Cambodia Agonistes all produced Off-Broadway; national tours to the Cairo Experimental Theatre, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Collaborated /performed Butoh with Shigeko Suga in Spleen, Acadami Domani, by Dario Fo, and Sotoba Komachi. Film/ TV: 12 Monkeys, dir. Terry Gilliam, King of New York, Call Me, New York Undercover, Bill Cosby Show, Kung Fu. Director/Screenwriter: Mariana Bracetti, Arthur A. Schomburg, Asian American Railroad Strike, Iroquois Confederacy, Lilac Chen-Asian American Suffragette, and Osceola produced by PBS/CBS. Voice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the audio book The Art of Happiness.

Altman, Hillary (SLC 2006 - ) [Concentrating on the Visual: Variations in Aqua Media] is a multi-media artist and poet born and raised in New York City. Currently based in Manhattan, her work focuses on the ephemeral nature of time and space, executed as large scale light installations with a concentration on the conversation between photography, video, text and painting. She holds both a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Fine Art Photography from Syracuse University and the San Francisco Art Institute. Having exhibited in New York City, Syracuse, San Francisco, and Florence, Italy, she now teaches Watercolor at Sarah Lawrence College and is presently working on her first book as well as a her own label of hand-made artists goods.

Anderson, William (SLC 1986 - ) [Young Artists Music Intensive] is a noted classical guitarist & composer who has performed all over the world at classical guitar festivals and contemporary music festivals.He founded the Cygnus Ensemble in 1986, which commissions and performs new chamber music with guitar by today’s most exciting composers. He has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Players, the NY Philharmonic, and the Theater Chamber Players of Washington, D.C., among others.

Christiano, Tess [Free Verse Poetry: Reining in & Letting Loose] was the 2004visiting poetof Thornwood Middle/High School where sheconducted poetry workshops. In the summer of 2005, Christiano was awarded the WalkerScholarship in creative writing from the ProvincetownFine Arts WorkCenter. Her work has appeared in several journals. Christiano has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at William Paterson University.

Dollinger, Roland (SLC 1989 - ) [Summer in the City, History/Literature]. B.A., University of Augsburg, Germany. M.A., University of Pittsburgh. Ph.D., Princeton University. Special interest in twentieth-century German and Austrian literature; author of Totalität und Totalitarismus: Das Exilwerk Alfred Döblins and several essays and book reviews on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature; co-editor of Unus Mundus: Kosmos and Sympathie, Naturphilosophie, and Philosophia Naturalis.

Downs, Patrick [Filmmaking Intensive, Directing] is an award winning filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, whose most recent film Broken has received many awards. As the Directing instructor Patrick works with our students one-on-one to make sure they complete their projects in time for the final screenings.

Farrell, Christine (SLC 1991 - ) [Summer in the City, Theatre]. B.A., Marquette University. M.F.A., Columbia University. One-year Study Abroad—Oxford, England. Actress, playwright, director. Has appeared for the last nine seasons as Pam Shrier, the ballistics detective on Law and Order. Acting credits include Saturday Night Live, One Life to Live; films: Ice Storm, Fatal Attraction; stage: Comedy of Errors, Uncle Vanya, Catholic School Girls, Division Street, The Dining Room. Two published plays: Mama Drama and The Once Attractive Woman. Has directed in colleges as well as off-Broadway and was the artistic director and co-founder of the New York Team for TheaterSports. She has performed in comedy improvisation throughout the world.

Fauer, Jon, ASC, [Filmmaking Intensive, Cinematography Seminar] has won many awards for his work, including Best Cinematography at The NY Festival, Gold Camera Award for Best Cinematography at The Us International Film Festival, Cine Gold Eagles, Cindy Golds, Tellies, Boli's, Chris's, and Worldmedals. He is the author of three best-selling books on cinematography: Arriflex 16Sr3: The Book, The 16Sr Book and The Arriflex 35 Book.

Canadian pianist Joan Forsyth [Young Artist Music Intensive] is a multi-faceted musician who has received critical acclaim as a soloist and chamber music artist. She has been heard throughout Europe, Japan, South and North America in a wide range of repertoire, embracing the standard piano literature as well as the most recent works. Her prize-winning performances in the 1990 Concerts Atlantique and La Gesse competitions set in motion tours of France and Switzerland, and since that time she has maintained a lively concert schedule, She has collaborated with such ensembles as the Cassatt Quartet, the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center and CYGNUS, and appeared as soloist with the New Westminster Symphony, the Westchester Philharmonic and the Westchester Chamber Orchestra. She toured the Netherlands and Scandinavia with CYGNUS and a program of new American music in 1997 and again to Russia in 1998.Her performances have been broadcast over WNYC, WFAS, Vermont and New York Public Radio, RAIItaly), Radio Denmark and Polish National Radio. Ms. Forsyth also makes recital appearances with duo-partner guitarist William Anderson, most recently an Italian tour. The two premiered and recorded Charles Wuorinen’s Sonata for Piano and Guitarfollowed by a 1998 recording of the works of composer Meyer Kupferman on the Soundspells’ label. Other recordings have been for CRI and Furious Artisans. In 1992 Ms. Forsyth’s interest in new American music led her to form the Stein Hall Players, an ensemble devoted to contemporary music. The group produced the American Mosaic series in Westchester throughout the 90s, featuring celebrated guest artists and the premieres of many new works. Members of that group went on to form Taliesin, a flute, cello and piano trio that has played to great acclaim in festivals and chamber music venues on the East Coast.Taliesin performs repertoire that spans a time period from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century, combining Ms. Forsyth’s many musical loves.

Katz, Peter [Filmmaking Intensive, Guest Speaker] has been producing theatrical films and television movies for the past 25 years. His credits as producer or executive producer include such feature films as “Don’t Look Now” (Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie), “The Wrath Of God” (Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth), “One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch” (Tom Courtenay), and for television, ten “Perry Mason” movies (Raymond Burr), “Kill Me If You Can” (Alan Alda, Talia Shire), “The Million Dollar Field” (Rob Reiner, Bonnie Bedelia) and “Sophia; My Life and Loves,” (Sophia Loren, Armand Assante). Mr. Katz began his film career with Director Robert Aldrich as a casting director and then dialogue director on “The Dirty Dozen.”

Lang, Allen (SLC 1998 - ) [Create & Invent: Summer Theatre Intensive] has received the Lipkin Playwright Award and Drury College Playwright Award. He has conducted theatre and creative writing workshops for participants of all ages in New York City, South America and throughout the United States.

Mark, Rona [Filmmaking Intensive, Screenwriting] is an award-winning filmmaker and graduate of Columbia University's Graduate Film program. Film awards include finalist at The Student Academy Awards, Filmmaker Magazine Audience Choice Award, Best Comedy at The Polo Ralph Lauren Film Festival, and Recipient of The Milos Forman Fund Award.

Olson, Leah (SLC 1987 - ) [Summer in the City, Science]. B.A., Evergreen State College. Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany. Special interest in the neurobiology of circadian rhythms and in the neurobiology of learning and memory; research and papers on circadian rhythms. SLC, 1987-

Randolph, Chris [Concentrating on the Visual: Experimental Painting] graduated from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied with painter Richard Pousette-Dart. She has a Masters in Art Therapy and Creativity Development from Pratt Institute and is currently a Clinical Art Therapist at 4 Winds Hospital, Katonah, NY. Her specialty is teaching adolescents and youth from the inner city and she runs studio art classes and therapeutic art workshops in the metropolitan area. She has been painting for the last 25 years and has shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Soho 20 Gallery. Currently, Chris curates shows at the Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY. She is also assistant art director of MetaForm Studio, a company that creates furniture and lighting from recycled and environmentally friendly materials.

Ruiz, José [Concentrating on the Visual: Drawing] was born in Lima, Peru in 1975. He received a BA from the University of Maryland with a major in Painting along with a minor in Latin American Studies. Ruiz received a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres Department in 2004. Recently, he has served as a visiting artist at Napa Valley College, Marcia Wood Gallery and Whittier College and was also nominated to be an Alumni Representative for the San Francisco Art Institute during the 2005-2006 academic year. He has won numerous awards such as the Workspace Program Residency in Queens, NY, the Trawick Prize’s Young Artist Award, a Visual Artist Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and a Merit Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work is represented by G Fine Art in Washington, DC and Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA. José Ruiz lives in NYC.

Siff, Michael (SLC 1999 - ) [Science Evening Course]. B.A., B.S.E., M.S.E., University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Special interests in programming languages, cryptology, and software engineering; author of research papers on interplay between type theory and software engineering.

Sizer, Lyde (SLC 1994 - ) [Precise Stories and Creative Essays: Writing Across Your Life]. B.A., Yale University. M.A., Ph.D., Brown University. Special interests include the political work of literature, especially around questions of gender and race, U.S. and European intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and particularly, the social and cultural history of the American Civil War. Her book, The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the American Civil War, 1850-1872, won the 2000 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. Currently co-editing, with Jim Cullen, the forthcoming The Civil War: A Textbook Anthology of Sources; book chapters included in Love, Sex, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, Divided Houses: Gender and the American Civil War, and A Search for Equity.

Smith, Edward [Filmmaking Intensive, Screenwriting] is a Screenwriter and Graduate of Columbia University’s Film Division. He currently works with The Film Program at Brooklyn Academy of Music In New York City.

Soiseth, Alexandra (SLC 2000 - ) [Precise Stories and Creative Essays: Writing Across Your Life] is the Assistant Director of the Graduate Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College where she also teaches. She is a recipient of a Canada Council grant and an Ontario Arts Council grant. She has a BA in journalism and an MFA in Writing (fiction) from Sarah Lawrence College. Her stories have appeared in Global City Review, Life Rattle, McGill Street Magazine and other journals.

Stayrook, Chad (SLC 2004 - ) [Concentrating on the Visual: Sculpture] is a living and breathing artist and graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres M.F.A. program. Chad has exhibited extensively in San Francisco as well as New York and London. He has taught installation, performance, ceramics, and photography classes at the San Francisco Art Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Outside his life as an artist/conceptualist, Chad works as the Administrator for the visual arts program at Sarah Lawrence.

Stein, Joan [Filmmaking Intensive, Directing] won the 2000 Student Academy Award and The Director's Guild of America Award for her short film One Day Crossing. She has taught the documentary film course at Columbia University where she received her MFA in Film.

Stringfellow, Rodney [Telling Stories For The Screen] B.A. in Visual Communications Design from Purdue University; M.S. in Communications Design from Pratt Institute. Stringfellow works as a children’s television writer on live-action and animated series for Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. and Playhouse Disney. In addition, he served as Associate Producer on Nickelodeon’s live-action series “Taina” and “Gullah Gullah Island.” He also served as Writer and Producer on the animated preschool series pilot, “Zwoosh Kidz” for Nick Jr. Additionally Stringfellow is an Instructor at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center in New York City where he designed the course curriculum. He wrote and directed the one-act play, “The Solid Milk Chocolate Man,” for the Urban Fairytale Festival in the spring of 2000 and subsequently directed “The Solid Milk Chocolate Man” as an independent short film and is completing post-production on the project. His personal honors include winning Best Video of the Year (1990) for writing and producing the Virgin Records’ music video “Black my Story” by Ziggy Marley from CEBA, Communication Excellence for Black Audiences.

Strype, Fred (SLC 2003 - ) [Filmmaking Intensive, Works in Progress] is a writer/producer and president of Raindance Pictures, which currently has several projects in development, including a dramatic one-hour television series for the FX Channel.

Swann, Sterling (SLC 1991 - ) [Create and Invent: Summer Theatre Intensive]. B.A., Vassar College. Postgraduate training at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sonia Moore Studio, and with David Kaplan (author, Five Approaches to Acting); president and artistic director, Cygnet Productions, national Equity Theatre for Young Audiences company; leading performer, Boston Shakespeare Company; guest faculty at Storm King School, Western Connecticut State University, Vassar College; advanced actor/combatant, Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD); winner of the Society of American Fight Directors’ 2006 Patrick Craen Award; designated practitioner, Stough Institute of Breathing Coordination; certified teacher, Alexander Technique.