Spotlight On Alumni

Current Positions Held by Selected Program Alumni
(M.F.A. in Dramaturgy graduates unless otherwise noted)

1988
Rowan Galicka Wymark was Stony Brook’s first M.F.A. graduate and received the first M.F.A. to be awarded in America outside of Yale University. “Geography, marriage, and fate,” as she puts it, caused a career change, and she is now a Special Education teacher in Albuquerque. However, her M.F.A. in Dramaturgy “continues to enrich the work” she does.

1991
Fiona Bayly (M.A. Theatre) works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also recently returned to the audition scene.

1993
Nichole Grantshar is a copy editor for a sports department and a freelance sports-writer in Syracuse. She also works in the literary office of Syracuse Stage.

1994
Alyson Steel acts, does voice-overs, and reads plays and screenplays for various agencies in Los Angeles. She has recently worked on animated features, television commercials, and radio narration.

1996
Deanna Totten Beard is a doctoral candidate in theatre history literature and criticism at Indiana University. She is writing her dissertation on Modernism in American Theatre.

Steve Bolia recently received an M.F.A. in playwriting from USC and is living and writing in Los Angeles.

Olga Maslova graduated with an M.F.A. in design from NYU and is working in New York City.

Steven Scott Mazzola is assistant to the artistic director at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. He recently directed Philip Barry’s Hotel Universe.

1997
Robert Savina co-founded the Arcadia Annex Theatre Company in Eastport, Maine, and directed Eastport’s millennium celebration.

Jason Quinlan has returned from two years of teaching in Japan and will enter the doctoral program at the University of Georgia.

Amy Waguespack co-founded the Arcadia Annez Theatre Company in 1998 and teaches dance at the University of Maine.

1999
Steve Marsh is Graduate Program Director for the Stony Brook University Department of Theatre Arts

Nance Daniels is living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she’s a copywriter for an ad agency and newscaster on public radio station WUAL.

Elana Kornblit is living in New York City where she is Desktop Publishing Coordinator for Transperfect Translations.

Ryan Tvedt, a graduate of the M.A. program, has been accepted into the University of Wisconsin Ph.D. Theatre program.

2000
Aaron Leichter: He is working as a literary associate for the Manhattan Theatre Club in NY.

2001
Glen Beck is the director of education repertory for Broadhollow Theatre on Long Island. He directs and acts in productions geared toward middle and elementary school children.

Ellada Evangelou was the first resident dramaturg of the National Theatre of Cyprus.

Adrienne Lamb is a freelance dramaturg and “Independent Artist” at the InterAct Theatre Company. Atomic Gal productions premiered her “dance theatre play” Bind Them Continually at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Jason Searles is a Fullbright Fellow in South Africa.

Canadace Thacker works as a dramaturg for a theatre in Natal.

2002
Rhonda Robbins received the Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Dramaturgy at Center Stage in Baltimore.

Jasmina Sinanovic teaches and is a doctoral student at CUNY.

2003
Petra Lammers is a freelance dramaturg-director in Western Europe. Her work has been presented at the Volksbuhne and other theatres in Germany, Austria, and Poland.

Pabela Mmila teaches theatre at the University of Botswana.

2004
Elizabeth Bojsza teaches Performing and Performance at Stony Brook University

Joan Hawley served as assistant literary manager for the La Jolla Playhouse in Southern California.

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