MEET THE Collective

Madeline Bender, FOUNDER, Director

Madeline has had a rich career as international opera singer, writer, director and producer. She has created numerous devised performances, including: Instrumental Storytellers at Symphony Space in Manhattan in collaboration with Concert Artists Guild; the annual Creative Stage Spectacular! performances, also at Symphony Space (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023); Creative Stage Uptown at the Alvin Ailey Room at the Harry Belafonte Branch of the NYPL; and Dancing Storytellers for Carnegie Hall Fall Family Day (2018). Most recently, she produced and directed Summer Shebang!, sponsored by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. Madeline specializes in devising original work with multi-generational, multidisciplinary groups.

As a performer, Madeline has worked with notable opera directors such Sir Peter Hall, Robert Wilson, David McVicar, Paul Curran, and Sir Jonathan Miller. Career highlights include performances as Euridice in Orphée et Euridice ( Le Theatre du Chatelet, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting); Helene in A Midsummer Night's Dream (La Monnaie, Brussels, Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Konstanza in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Baden Baden, Aix en Provence); Violetta in La Traviata (Santa Fe Opera); Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (New York Philharmonic), and Handel's Messiah (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with Sir Andrew Davis conducting).

Also a passionate performing arts educator, Madeline founded Creative Stage in 2012. Her innovative arts curricula in the fields of music, theater, dance, and filmmaking are taught across Manhattan in esteemed private and public schools, alike.

Madeline, along with partner Timothy Long, is the Founder and Director of Voices of Hope, an annual opera gala event that has raised over $250,000 to provide life-changing education to severely underprivileged children around the globe. This gala has hosted esteemed international artists such as: Anna Christy, Erin Morley, Meagan Miller, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Gordon Geitz, John Belemer, Bryan Register, Jonathan Boyd, Christopher Herbert, and Paul Whelan, to name just a few.

Madeline received her Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. She lives in NYC with her husband, operatic bass Paul Whelan, and their 14-year-old son.

MADELEINE WITMER, singer / actor

Madeleine Witmer is a singer, actor, dancer and songwriter from Broadway, Virginia. She graduated with a degree in Musical Theatre and Dance from Christopher Newport University, and then went on to tour multiple productions, including children’s theatre, with Virginia Repertory Theatre. She spent the last two summers at The Ferguson Center for the Arts as part of the company of the “New Musicals Lab,” workshopping multiple productions, as well as the world premiere of Drew Gasparini’s We Aren’t Kids Anymore. Since moving to the city, you may have caught her singing at The Green Room 42, Feinstein’s/54 Below, or as a featured songwriter in Gasparini’s “New Voices” series—which you can find on YouTube along with more of Mads’s original music. 

byron Singleton, SINGER

Byron Singleton is becoming widely known for his "powerful and compelling interpretations" of the romantic tenor repertoire. He has performed in opera and concerts throughout the United States in leading roles in La Boheme, Gianni Schicchi, and Madama Butterfly, among many others. Performance venues include Carnegie Hall, The Rose Theater, David Geffen Hall, and The Metropolitan Opera, and Byron was awarded a Grammy certificate for his work in the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera's Grammy award-winning recording of Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelung.

Byron is a Creative Stage Collective Board Member, and has performed with the collective in several Creative Stage Spectacular! productions.

seth weinstein, pianist & music director

Seth Weinstein graduated from Harvard College with honors in music and has been a classical and theatre pianist in New York for more than 20 years. He was the musical director and composer of the Off-Broadway musical How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes (New World Stages, 2006). He has toured internationally with Fosse and Ivan Jacobs’s The Phantom of the Opera and in the USA with Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. He has been the musical director of Black House (Zagreb, Croatia), Do I Hear a Waltz? (Arvada Center), and Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), among other shows, and he has played for Holland America Line and Hapag-Lloyd cruises. Seth wrote and recorded “The Chagall Suite” (eight piano movements inspired by Marc Chagall’s artworks) and “Conversations” (a musical meeting between Chagall and Elvis Presley) and has performed them in France, Germany, and the USA. He plays regularly in a burlesque opera show and is the pianist for the MAC and Bistro Award–winning Screen Gems: Songs of Old Hollywood (featuring Sarah Rice) and Operation Opera (baritone Adelmo Guidarelli’s amusing tribute to opera and a participant in the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe). For more information, visit sethweinstein.com.

sierra nelson, actor / singer

Sierra Nelson is an innovative singer, dancer and actress with an extensive range and repertoire. She enjoys singing all genres, telling as many stories as possible, and she is thrilled to be joining this season's Summer Shebang! Sierra also has a growing following on YouTube. She has released 150+ music videos since 2014. Learn more about her body of work at this link.

ty norris, actor

Ty Norris is originally from Yorktown, Virginia and is a graduate of Christopher Newport University with a BA in Musical Theater. He moved to New York to pursue Acting and is happy to say he just closed his first Off-Broadway show, All Because of Infidelity, with Hanging Cow Productions. His favorite roles include Man in Chair from The Drowsy Chaperone and Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors. Before moving to the city, he directed and taught acting classes to kids 10-15 for two years. 

TANYA BANNISTER, PIANIST

The director of the Concert Artists Guild, an award-winning solo pianist with a distinguished international career, and Founder and Director of the Alpen Kammer Musik Festival in the Austria Alps, Ms. Bannister’s career includes recitals at: the Salle Cortot in Paris; Teatro Communale in Bologna; Tokyo’s Nikkei Hall; London’s Wigmore Hall; The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.; and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Her extensive recordings include chamber versions of Chopin Concerto No. 2, Mozart Concerto K. 449 and Schubert Adagio and Rondo, as well as recordings with both Naxos, and Albany Records. Tanya is a Creative Stage Collective Board Member, and has partnered with the collective for Musical Madlibs! She is the co-creator of Instrumental Storytellers!

francisco alvidrez, ACTOR

Francisco holds a degree in Architecture from Columbia University. When he is not building his latest model, he can be found across various stages across NYC performing and directing works ranging from Shakespeare to Sketch Comedy. With a strong history in musical theatre, Francisco is beyond excited to join the Creative Stage team and work hand in hand with the incredibly talented children and professionals. His most notable credits include Alva in Wededkin’s Lulu, the 123rd Varsity Show, Ren in Footloose, and an upcoming role as Lewis Hale in Trifles by Glaspell. Francisco is a Creative Stage Collective Board Member and has performed in many Creative Stage Collective performances—including the upcoming Summer Shebang!

ISABELLA OLIVIA, Actor, Writer

Isabella Oliva is a writer, performer, and story-lover based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Barnard College, where she not only developed a taste for political theory, but also creative writing and the performing arts. She has appeared in theatre productions at Columbia and The Tank; her most notable credits include Connie | La Tierra in Luis Valdez’s Bernabé, and the E train in Emma Gometz’s The Delay, which premiered at the Tank's Darkfest in 2019. Additionally, Isabella was a frequent writer, director and performer in Latenite Theatre’s biannual anthologies. Isabella made her CSC debut over quarantine in our Zoomtacular and was both a writer for and performer in the 2021 Summer Shebang!

kathryn metzger, ACtOR AND FILMMAKER

Kathryn is a critically acclaimed actor, with performance credits from New York to London stages. An alumnus of the prestigious Chautauqua Theater Company Conservatory, British American Drama Academy, and The National High School Institute (Cherubs), Kathryn also holds a teaching certification in the Michael Chekhov technique from the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. MFA from Case Western Reserve University, in collaboration with the Tony-Award winning Cleveland Play House. Her credits include; LORDES (Columbia Stages) Pericles: Born In A Tempest (Guerrilla Shakespeare/Hunger and Thirst) London: King Lear, (BADA), Regional: The Amish Project, In the Next Room, The Taming of the Shrew (Chautauqua Theater Company), The Crucible, A Christmas Story, Comedy of Tenors (Cleveland Play House), Violins of Hope (CPH/Cleveland Orchestra), Taming of the Shrew (Island Stage Left), CWRU/CPH: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Philadelphia Story, Three Sisters, Too True to be Good. Kathryn has also recently appeared in New York Shakespeare Exchange’s ShakesBEER Pub Crawl. www.kathrynametzger.com

joel oramas, ACTOR

Joel Oramas is an actor/singer/dancer based in New York City with credits including the tour of the critically acclaimed show The Prisoner's Dilemma (London), Oliver Twist and The Princess and the Pea (Northeast and Canada). His NYC credit include: Twelfth Night (Duende Productions), The Rape of Lucrece (New York Shakespeare Exchange). Selected Regional Credits: Ashe in Johannesburg and Romeo and Juliet (Burning Coal Theatre), Pippin and Man of La Mancha (Jean's Playhouse), Taming of the Shrew (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre), Avenue Q (Hippodrome Theatre), and Striking 12 (Company of Fools). Joel has an MFA from the University of Florida. Joel has performed in numerous Creative Stage Collective performances—including the upcoming Summer Shebang!

Yi-Nuo Wang, pianist

Chinese pianist Yi-Nuo Wang was selected as first prize winner of the 2018 CAG Competition, which is just the latest in a series of impressive first-prize performances, along with the 2017 Wideman International Piano Competition in Louisiana.

INNA DUKATCH, OPERATIC SOPRANO

Inna Dukach (operatic lyric soprano) performs both regionally and internationally to critical acclaim. In 2018, Inna made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, traveled to Taiwan to sing Mimì in La Bohème with the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra, and created the role of Ina in the world premiere of Steal a Pencil for Me with Opera Colorado.

Fred Redd, operatic baritone

Fred Redd (operatic baritone) has an operatic career that has seen him grace the stages of both Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. He’s toured internationally as a vocal performer, as well as having been featured nationally on both radio and television commercials.

MARISa Ryan, Actor, writer, Producer

Marisa Ryan is a veteran performer of both stage and screen. Ryan made her screen debut in the 1983 film Without a Trace. From 1989 to 1993, she starred as Elizabeth Cooper-MacGillis in the NBC sitcom Major Dad opposite Gerald McRaney. She later went to star in the Independent films Love Always, Slaves to the Underground, Taylor's Return, and With or Without You. In 1998, Ryan joined the cast of Fox police drama series, New York Undercover as Det. Nell Delaney, during the show's fourth and final season. He guest-star credits include appearances on The Practice, Sex and the City, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order. Ryan co-starred as Abby Bernstein in the ensemble cast satirical comedy film Wet Hot American Summer. She reprised her role in the Netflix prequel series, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp in 2015. She has also appeared in films Don's Plum (2001), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), and Brooklyn Lobster (2005). Ryan made her directorial debut with the independent short film Three Women of Pain, which she also co-wrote.

todd faulkner, Actor

Todd Faulkner has impressive credits ranging from film and television to the New York Film Festival! You may have seen his work on shows such as The Americans, Nurse Jackie, Blue Bloods and Law & Order. His theater credits range from Quince in Midsummer Night’s Dream with Vital Theater to Nudists in Love with the New York Fringe Festival!

Caroline StrangE, Actor/Singer

Caroline Strange has graced the stage as singer, dancer and actor in roles such as Maureen in The Bluest Eye at the Guthrie Theater, as well as iconic fairy tale roles such as Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella in Into The Woods with Red House Arts, to name just a few. Caroline has both a MFA in Acting Performance from the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and a BA in Vocal Performance from the University of Connecticut. She made her CSC debut in the our 2021 Summer Shebang!

jordan bak, Violist

“A star in the making.” (Seattle Pi) Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak is considered one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation. Bak is a winner of the 2019 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, and a Sphinx Competition alum and Sphinx MPower Artist Grant recipient. Bak is a member of the celebrated New York Classical Players, and guest artist with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. Career highlights include a Young Artist Residency with Minnesota Public Radio’s Performance Today; showcase recitals in both New York and Tel Aviv; performances with A Far Cry and The Knights; and a 2020 concerto premiere by James Ra with the New York Classical Players.

Nicole Johnson, cellist

Nicole Johnson has performed with both the Cassatt String Quartet and the Avanti Ensemble, has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. and Germany. She has appeared in performances with the Vermeer Quartet on their series in Chicago, on the Composers’ Guild concerts in New York City and at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.

Katherine Mcclintic, Choreographer, DanceR

Katherine McClintic is a New York City based Choreographer and Dancer. She most recently choreographed Medea for Columbia University’s MFA Directors program (Dir. Miriam Grill). She also choreographed and developed Spy in the House of Love, a full-length play based on the novel of the same name written by Anais Nin. Katherine’s choreography has been featured in the short film Spies?, the music video Under the Sky of Your Tough Lov”, and a concept film adapted from her work in Medea. Katherine has trained in Ballet, Contemporary, Musical Theater, Tap, Swing and Hip Hop since age 5. Katherine dances back-up for the stunning drag queen Pattaya Hart (Plu Sayampol), most recently at The Vic Theater in Chicago, IL and The Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ. Favorite dance credits include ASL: Rocky Horror Picture Show (DeafTheaterofNY), Singin’ in the Rain (NCT) and Grease (TheLoveShow). She is thrilled to be a part of Dancing Designers with Creative Stage and to take the philosophies of devised theater into a young classroom. www.katherinemcclintic.com

Octavio Warnock-graham, Filmmaker

Octavio Warnock-Graham is an award-winning producer, director, and cinematographer. He works with a variety of clients including CUNY TV, Twelve Publishing, Simon and Schuster, and Grand Central Press. Most recently, he produced and directed a 2021 Emmy-nominated story about 13-year-old banjo virtuoso Nora Brown as she prepares for the release of her debut album, Cinnamon Tree.

His film, Silences, won Best Documentary in national film festivals, including the San Francisco Black Film Festival. The film has aired on Black Entertainment Television and Al Jazeera English, and is currently distributed by New Day Films. He served as lead cinematographer on Jezebel Productions’ (Before Stonewall) feature documentaries U.N. Fever and No Dinosaurs in Heaven.

Previous to producing and directing, he worked for over 10 years as a lighting technician and gaffer. His experience includes Yo! MTV Raps, The Howard Stern Show, The Apprentice, the 2004 Olympics, and The RuPaul Show, as well as many other major network and cable programs. In 2006, he received his MFA from the City College of New York's documentary film program.

Janey Choi, Violinist

Canadian violinist and teaching artist Janey Choi gave her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1997 as a winner of the Artists International Auditions, and continues an active career performing on recital and chamber series, on Broadway, and with such groups as the Ardelia Trio, the Teaching Artists Ensemble of the New York Philharmonic, and the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra. The recipient of numerous awards including the Chalmers Performing Arts Grant from the Ontario Arts Council (Canada) and National First Prize in the Canadian Music Competition, she has participated in such festivals as Mostly Mozart, Norfolk, Taos, Bar Harbor Music Festival, the Spoleto Festivals in the U.S. and Italy, Festival Musical de Santo Domingo, the Santa Fe Opera and the Sarasota Opera.

An avid inter-arts and cross-genre collaborator, she is the Music Director of Thomas/Ortiz Dance, and has performed numerous times with the Parsons Dance Co., most notably at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at the New Victory Theater in Times Square. She also initiated a collaboration with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Binghamton University Music Department. She has also worked developing and presenting an annual “Music + Art” show, commissioning artwork based on chamber works. She has recorded and appeared with such mainstream performers as Bono (U2), Quincy Jones, Adele, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Enya, Elton John, Jay-Z, Sarah McLachlan, Lenny Kravitz, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Frank Ocean and Stevie Wonder, on the Grammys, MTV, Saturday Night Live, the Today Show, at Live 8, Radio City Music Hall, and Royal Albert Hall in London, England.

CATE SMIT, ACTOR, WRITER

Cate Smit has an impressive resume that marks star turns in Regional Theaters and Off-Broadway. Along with extensive improv experience, and directing over 500 short films, Cate has numerous acting credits to her name, ranging from a recent role in the hit feature film Hustlers with Jennifer Lopez, as well as television appearances in Bull, Law and Order, and The Detour. She has also appeared on the David Letterman show five times…once as his wife! Cate has performed in numerous Creative Stage Collective performances.

TONNA MILLER, Soprano

Hailed by the New York Times as “fresh” and “sweet-toned,” and described in Opera News as having a “sugar-tipped soprano,” Tonna Miller is equally at home in the major opera houses of America and on Broadway, Ms. Miller has been heard at the Metropolitan Opera as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro and as the fiery Carlotta Giudicelli in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera for her Broadway debut. With New York City Opera, she has been heard as Johanna in Sweeney Todd, as Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Frasquita in Carmen, and Helen Niles in Mourning Becomes Electra.

Ms. Miller has been heard as Marilyn Monroe in Do Not Go Gentle with Phoenicia Festival of the Voice; Fortuna in L’incoronazione di Poppea with Los Angeles Opera; Jano in Jenufa and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with Houston Grand Opera; Nannetta in Falstaff with Glimmerglass Opera; Naïade in Ariadne auf Naxos with Santa Fe Opera; and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier with Michigan Opera Theatre. She made her debut at 54 Below, singing Music of the Marx Brothers. Ms. Miller was a finalist at the Birgit Nilsson Competition; winner of the Fred Mathias Award and finalist at the MacAllister Awards for Opera Singers; grant winner at the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation competition; and regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Gerry Vega, Actor, Singer, Writer

Gerry is a NYC-based Singer, Actor, Writer who has most recently self-produced two of his own solo-cabarets: Growing Up? and Pennies From Heaven -- performed at The Duplex Cabaret Theater and Feintstein’s/54 Below. He has also participated in several exciting workshops and readings: Steadfast Tin Soldier (dir: J. Quinton Johnson), ‘Twas The Night (dir: Ted O’Gorman), and, most recently, Actor Therapy sings Spring Awakening at Feintstein’s/54 Below (Moritz/Ensemble) -- to name a few. An Actors’ Equity Association members since 2014, Gerry is an active participant of Lindsay Mendez and Ryan Scott Oliver’s Actor Therapy community, where he has coached with Lindsay, Ryan, and other industry professionals like Kirsten Wyatt, Stephen Sposito, and Peter Duchan, and he proudly writes for the Actor Therapy community blog, we less #basic.

ELLA SMITH, Actor

Born and raised in the Twin Cities, Ella moved to NYC to study drama at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She studied at the Stella Adler Studio and, in her junior year, was selected to attend the Shakespeare program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In addition to her classical training, Ella studied improv and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade, where she fell in love with comedy.

Ella wrote, starred in, and produced a short comedic film titled Period. and wrote an 8-part mockumentary web series about non-union-regional-summer-stock-low-budget theater called “This is B.S.” which she also acted in and produced. The series is currently in post-production.

Her production company ‘Funny Girl Productions’ is currently in its second year and launching a children’s branch titled ‘Funny Kid Productions’. Ella is also an active member of the sketch comedy group Stupid Hot and, when not acting, finds great joy teaching acting classes at Rikers Island Correctional Facility.

Ella can be a local hire in NYC, Minneapolis, and Toronto and has dual American and Canadian citizenship.

Tim Long, Conductor, Pianist, Emcee

Timothy Long is a pianist and conductor of Muscogee Creek and Choctaw descent who is Music Director of Opera at Eastman School of Music. Tim has performed as a pianist and harpsichordist at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Mostly Modern Festival, to name just a few.

Tim conducted the world premiere of Missing, an important new opera by Marie Clements and Brian Current about the 3,000 missing Indigenous women in Canada, at City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria in 2017. Other recent performances include the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra with the great dramatic soprano Christine Goerke; Tulsa Opera’s 70th Anniversary Gala starring famed mezzo-soprano Susan Graham; Die Zauberflöte and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Prague Summer Nights Festival; Don Giovanni and Ricky Ian Gordon’s Tibetan Book of the Dead at the Eastman Opera Theatre; a rock concert with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic; and an experimental theatre piece, Dream Seminar, with the Trondheim Sinfonietta in Norway.

Tim lives in Brooklyn and Rochester with his husband, baritone Christopher Dylan Herbert, and their sweet basset hound mix, Pumpkin.

Andrew Dolan, Actor

Andrew Dolan’s acting credits include American Daughter (Broadway), Strictly Dishonorable (Vineyard), Pink, Ted Kaczynski (SPF), What Then (Clubbed Thumb), Tree House (NY Stage & Film), Measure for Measure (Target Margin) UK: Edmond (National Theatre). The Woods (National Studio), Boy from the Book (English Touring Theatre). Regional: Mamba’s Daughters (Spoleto Festival), Burn This, Marco Millions, Cyrano, 12th Night, Hapgood (ACT), Substance of Fire. Savage/Love (Magic Theatre), Loot, Amadeus (Arizona Theatre Co.), Road to Nirvana, Down the Road, Boy’s Life, Coming Attractions (Encore Theatre). TV/Film: “Chicago Med”, “Your Honor”, “Search Party”, “The Good Cop”, “The Americans”, “The Good Cop”, “Elementary”, “Blue Bloods”, “The Tick”, “Bull”, “Good Wife”,  “Black List”, “House of Cards”, “Person of Interest”, “Conviction”, all “Law & Orders”, “Madoff”, “Jezebel James”, Handsome Harry (Tribeca ’09) Unstoppable, Partners in Crime, 28 Days, Ash Tuesday. Deal Breakers (Sundance ’07), Training: Bowdoin College, American Conservatory Theatre. Andrew is a former SAG Board Member and former Artistic Director of Encore Theatre Company.  As a writer he has written and produced several award winning short films and optioned several film scripts. His play The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King won the Ovation Award for Best Play in Los Angeles. His play That Good Night won the David Calicchio Award at Marin Theatre Company. His work has been developed with Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, EST West, NY Stage & Film, Berkshire Playwrights’ Lab, Intar, Road Theatre, Mile Square Theatre, and Barrington Stage Company. In addition to the Stella Adler Studio, Andrew Dolan has taught at ACT, AMDA and the American Academy of Dramatic Art.

Kathryn Olander, Pianist

Kathryn Olander’s collaborations include New York City Opera, Juilliard Opera Center, Metropolitan Opera Educational Outreach, Dicapo Theater Opera for Kids, Reaching for the Arts, and Creative Stage. In addition, she is a vocal coach and has her own studio of enthusiastic and creative piano students.

Tiffany Iris, actor, singer

Tiffany Iris received training from Alan Langdon at Circle in the Square Theatre School, with theatrical projects ranging from straight plays to short films. Also a singer, Tiffany played the role of Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, for which she was nominated for an Irene Ryan acting scholarship. She recently performed in Riddles of the Trilobites at the New Victory Theater, as well as the Halloween The Wildlife Witches Super Scary Halloween Show at the Bronx Zoo.

As a proud Latina, proving to the world that you can create beautiful, meaningful and fun content without having to be stereotyped drives Tiffany to continue in this unpredictable, yet rewarding, career path. Read more about Tiffany HERE.

Robert Manning, Jr., Actor

Robert Manning Jr. has performed frequently on television, in film, both on and off Broadway, and at numerous Regional theaters across the country. He is the winner of numerous NAACP Theatre Award Nominations. You can see Robert in upcoming performances in The Enemy Within on NBC and the web series, Mars and Venus.

Katelyn Candiello, Singer, Actor

Katelyn Candiello is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She recently finished touring the with the international company of the Wizard of Oz as the dance captain and the understudy for Glinda and the Wicked Witch. She is now the associate choreographer for the production as it travels to China, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. She has performed in the Creative Stage Spectacular, the Zoom-tacular, and is a regular performer in the Summer Shebang!

Yoonah KiM, Clarinetist

The first solo clarinetist to win CAG in nearly 30 years, Yoonah Kim became the first woman to win first prize at the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition in 2016. She is also a member of Ensemble Connect, a highly selective two-year fellowship program under the joint auspices of Carnegie Hall, The Weill Institute, and The Juilliard School.

CSC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Frances Harrison, Interim President

Byron Singleton, Vice President

Francisco Alvidrez II, Secretary

Christina Burke, Treasurer

Neiza Davis, Member-at-Large

Tiffany Fung, Member-at-Large

Christine Hung, Member-at-Large

ADVISORY BOARD

Tanya Bannister

Heather Buck

Tim Long

Glenn Mills

Maryum Opa

Stephanie Peña

Fred Redd

Landon Westbrook

Helen Whitney