Harris Center for the Performing Arts Program Guide March-June 2018

Amazing Grace
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WHO'S WHO
every regional theatre in the U.S. David is Professor and
Head of the MFA in Performance Pedagogy Program at
Virginia Commonwealth University.
GILLIAN LANE-PLESCIA (Dialect Coach) is pleased to continue
working with Amazing Grace. Recent New York shows include
The Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Indian Ink, and War
Horse. She has worked recently at Hartford Stage, Palm Beach
Dramaworks, McCarter, Shakespeare Theatre D.C., Seattle Rep,
Trinity Rep, Yale Rep. She teaches at Juilliard.
KENNY SEYMOUR (Orchestrator) Broadway/Off-Broadway credits:
Tony Award Winning Best Musical Memphis (Music Director/Conductor),
The Tallest Tree In The Forest (Music Director/
Arranger/Incidental Music), The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss
Percy Parker (Co-Composer & Lyricist, Orchestrations), Scary
Musical (Orchestrator), The Music Man (Music Director/Conductor),
Big Maybelle: Soul of the Blues (Music Supervisor/Orchestrator),
The Wiz (Dance Music Arranger), Hot Feet: The Music of Earth,
Wind & Fire (Synth Programmer). www.kennyseymour.com.
SUZAYN MACKENZIE-ROY (Production Stage Manager) is excited
to be joining Amazing Grace! Touring credits include Annie (national
and international), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (Star Liason to Mike
Tyson), and three years of Fiddler on the Roof, (two as Production
Stage Manager, one as Star Dresser to Chaim Topol, Harvey Fierstein,
and Theodore Bikel). Knathan – liily!
JOSEPH CHURCH (Arranger/Incidental Music) is best known for
music direction and supervision of two groundbreaking Broadway
musicals, The Lion King and The Who’s Tommy. Other credits
include In the Heights, Sister Act, Les Misérables, Little Shop of
Horrors, Randy Newman’s Faust and Radio City’s Christmas
Spectacular. Joseph has composed music for television, concert
stages, plays and musicals. He holds a doctorate from NYU,
where he is on the faculty. His book, Music Direction for the Stage:
A View From the Podium, is published by Oxford University Press.
www. churchmuse.com. viewfromthepodium.com
Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night starring Mark Rylance,
Elaine Stritch at Liberty, and Savion Glover’s productions of Classical
Savion, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk and Footnotes.
ALEXANDER RANKIN (Producer) From Chicago’s South Side to
the Army Corps of Engineers. He received a BS in mechanical
engineering at University of Illinois. Rankin designed radial
tires for Firestone, sold temperature control systems in Chicago
and sold Hunter springs in the Midwest. He transferred to the
Hunter factory in PA as a sales manager. After the Hunter buyout
he started Vulcan Springs in his basement, manufacturing
constant-torque springs to drive Hasbro’s G.I. Joe talking mechanism.
He is the founder and chairman of First National Penn
Bank, and a director of BITMICRO, a flash-memory company in
California. Supporting and encouraging Carolyn Rossi Copeland,
they began producing the musical Amazing Grace.
CRC PRODUCTIONS (Creative Consultant) is a full-service producing
and general management company. Founded by Carolyn Rossi
Copeland, who brings 30 years of experience producing plays and
musicals. She was the Founding Producer of the award-winning
Lambs Theatre Company in the heart of Times Square, and served
as vice president of Creative Affairs for Radio City Entertainment
and Madison Square Garden Productions. She has been a Creative
Consultant to Gaylord Entertainment-Ryman Auditorium and has
produced special events for New York State. She currently serves
as Executive Producer for Strouse IP, the company that manages
the business and career of the great American composer, Charles
Strouse. http://crcproductions.org/about.php
TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT (Management Consultant) has been an
innovator in touring musi cal theater productions for over two
decades, producing shows throughout North, Central, and South
America, Europe and Asia. Additionally, the company is experienced
in casino and leisure markets. Current productions
include An American in Paris, The Bodyguard, Love Never Dies, On
Your Feet!, School of Rock, The Color Purple, Kinky Boots, and the
Asian tour of Sister Act. With strong ties to the Broadway community,
TROIKA prides itself on delivering top quality productions
to audiences worldwide. Please visit us at www.troika.com
PAUL M. RAMBACHER (General Manager) has represented in
excess of 150 productions for over 35 years. Some of his credits
include: The Music Man in Concert starring Shirley Jones &
Patrick Cassidy, Smokey Joe’s Café with the Coasters, directed
by Chet Walker, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, Fela starring
Michelle Williams, A Chorus Line, directed by Baayork Lee, Merchant
of Venice starring F. Murray Abraham, Nobody Don’t Like
Yogi, starring Ben Gazzara, the original practice productions of
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