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Janine Antoni, The Quiet in the Land, Luang Prabang, Laos
Janine Antoni was born in 1964 in Freeport, The Bahamas. She received her B.A. in 1986 from Sarah Lawrence and M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Antoni is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. Among them are the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, 1999, and the Irish Museum of Art/Dimplex Artist Award, 1996. Ms. Antoni has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, including in Open Ends at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000; and in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s landmark survey of 20th century. American art, American Century. Among many exhibitions, she has participated in SITE Santa Fe; the 1997 Istanbul Biennale; the Johannesburg Biennale; and the Gwangju Biennale. Her work is in numerous museum collections in the United States and abroad.

Esther M. Baker-Tarpaga, Botswana and Guinea
Esther M. Baker-Tarpaga is a choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker. She has a B.A. from Bowdoin College in French and Anthropology and an M.A. in Dance from UCLA. She has performed and taught throughout the U.S., Australia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Senegal and South Korea. Her recent work includes the premiere of three new choreographies at Glorya Kaufman Theater in Los Angeles; ongoing collaborations with Senegal-based artists; a performance of her solo at Dialogue De Corps International Dance Festival in Burkina Faso; and several dance films screened at festivals throughout the U.S. She is also a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and is currently pursing her M.F.A. in Choreography at UCLA. Esther Baker-Tarpaga will conduct workshops and classes that blend the natural elegance of traditional Guinean dance and culture with modern, ballet and jazz techniques for local professional dancers. The workshops will culminate in the production of a dance performance at the end of the program.

Daniel Banks, South Africa
Dr. Banks is an internationally respected theater director, choreographer, and educator. He has created the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative in Undergraduate Drama at NYU, and is a member of Theatre Without Borders, for which he was Co- Planner with Roberta Levitow of the 2005 Symposium, “The Future of International Theatre Exchange.”

Bonnie Baskin, Laos
Bonnie Baskin, an arts conservator, was the founder and Head Conservator of the Ceramics Conservation Lab, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Dec. 2002-Dec. 2005. Her work included the training of Cambodia’s first three ceramics conservators. She was also a guest conservator at the Nanhai Marine Archaeology, Endau, Malaysia, and at the Lao National Museum in Vientiane on October 2002. She has previous experience in her work as an Associate Conservator at the Oakland Museum in California and a contract conservator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Linda Bastian, Oman
Linda Bastian, artist and art educator who designed and implemented the Art Tent, has worked with Oman’s Ministry of Education to identify ways that will expand the impact of the Art Tent by conducting teacher training alongside the children’s art workshops that have become an extremely popular part of the annual Muscat Festival.

Isaac Barron and Rosie Bichon, Denmark
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Isaac Barron has been dancing since the age of fourteen. He is well versed in the art of Breakin' as well as Hip hop, House Dancing, Popping, Locking, and has also trained in Capoeira. Through hard work and dedication to his craft, Isaac has shared the stage with such artists as The Black Eyed Peas, Talib Kweli, The Roots, N.E.R.D. and T.I. to name a few. Spending seven years with Fly, a successful touring dance company, also helped him to hone his skills as a performer on stage. His achievements range from performing in several countries abroad and dancing during the 2006 NBA All-star game to conducting a week-long residency at the prestigious Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Isaac has served as a mentor to youth nationwide and currently works for and performs with Urgeworks, ArtReach, Young Audiences, The Houston Rockets and Havikoro. As Cultural Envoys, Mr. Barron and his wife, Rosie Bichon, conducted a series of break dancing workshops for at-risk youth in immigrant communities in three of Denmark's largest cities.

Emily Freeman Brown, Kazakhstan
Emily Freeman Brown is Music Director and Conductor of the Bowling Green Philharmonia and Opera Theater at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. The first woman to receive a doctorate in orchestral conducting at the Eastman School of Music, she was the Music Director of the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 2000. She has appeared as conductor with orchestras in the United States, Europe and South America. She has studied conducting and cello at the Royal College of Music in London, England where she was twice the winner of the Sir Adrian Boult Conducting Prize.

Nathan Brujis, Ecuador
Nathan Brujis is an art's professional with more than 11 years experience in the New York, Washington DC, Peruvian, and Italian art industry. A graduate of Brandeis University with a B.A. in Fine Arts and a M.F.A. in Painting from American University, he has worked as an art professor, exhibit coordinator, and consultant in addition to producing his own art works. He has received the New York Studio School Faculty Award for Overall Excellence and Distinction in Drawing and the Deborah Josepha Cohen Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting. As a Cultural Envoy, Nathan Brujis will travel to Cuenca and Guayaquil from March 1 to April 14, 2007 to provide technical assistance and to train and supervise the Cuenca Bienal installation team for the set up of the exhibitions. During the visit, he will also present lectures to art students and art professors at the University of Azuay on the process of mounting and installing art. The training and lectures will not only support the Cuenca Bienal but will also contribute to the City of Cuenca's celebration of its 450th Anniversary.

Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Egypt
Dana Tai Soon Burgess is the director of Washington DC's premiere Modern Dance Company and is currently a professor of dance at the George Washington University in the Columbian School of Arts and Sciences. Burgess has received critical acclaim for his unique synthesis of Eastern and Western aesthetics. His choreography has been presented and commissioned by the Smithsonian Institute, Asia Society, NY, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Library of Alexandria, Egypt, La MaMa, NY and the United Nations. His many awards include the District of Columbia Mayor's Arts Award in 1994 for Emerging Artist, the Mayor's Award for Outstanding Excellence in the Arts in 2004, and the Metro DC Dance Awards for Best Overall Production in 2001, 2002, and 2003. He also received a Senior Fulbright Grant in 2006 to teach at the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Burgess holds a Master's of Fine Arts from the George Washington University and received arts management training through the Kennedy Center's Capacity Building Program. Burgess has been an American Cultural Specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Panama as well as a Cultural Envoy to Peru and Egypt.

Charles Burnett, Namibia
Charles Burnett, a filmmaker, is a multi-talented writer, director, cinematographer, and producer. He is one of a group of innovative African-American graduates of UCLA’s masters film program in the 1970’s who went on to create a new form of independent film. Mr. Burnett’s debut film Killer of Sheep was among the first 50 films selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry, established to preserve significant films. His film To Sleep with Anger was honored by both the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics. Mr. Burnett’s other films include The Glass Shield, The Annihilation of Fish and Warming By the Devil's Fire - one of the seven feature-length films in Martin Scorsese's PBS series The Blues – A Musical Journey. In 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival honored Mr. Burnett with a retrospective of his work.

Frederick Curry, Uganda
Frederick Curry is Coordinator of the Dance Education Program Office at NYU where he also teaches Beginning Ballet and Intermediate Modern Technique and Pedagogy. Frederick has been on the faculty at Regional Center for the Arts, Trollwood Performing Arts School, Swiss Youth Dance Festival, Laban Youth Dance Platform, and the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s Creating Original Opera In-School Residency Program. He has danced professionally with New York-based choreographers Rod Rodgers, Rose-Marie Guiraud, Cathy Ward, Renata Celichowska, Phyllis Rose and Elinor Coleman. His New York theatrical credits include leading roles in The Vengeance of Mami Wata and Owl in Love. His choreography has been presented at Merkin Concert Hall, The Bridge, La Mama etc., Dance Space in New York, and at the Bonnie Bird Theatre in London. Frederick holds a Master of Arts in Dance Education from NYU, a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Alabama, and a Professional Diploma in Community Dance from the Laban Centre in London.

Dr. Nina Drath, Lebanon
Dr. Nina Drath is a concert pianist and President of the Fryderyck Chopin Society of Texas. Dr.Nina Drath was a prize winner in the Paloma O’Shea International Piano Competition in Spain, and the International Piano Competition in Sengallia, Italy, and won a Polish piano competition in Slupsk. During 1994-2000, she performed and gave Master Classes in Italy, Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Mexico, Spain and the USA. She has given concerts in the United States, Mexico and Europe.

James Early, Mozambique
James Early, a senior Smithsonian official, has worked on the Martin Luther King Documentation Project, and has spent time at the Canal Zone College in Panama. At the Smithsonian Institution he has been a folklore consultant, researcher, the acting administrator of the African Diaspora Folklife Festival Program, and in his most recent position as the Director of Cultural Studies and Communication at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Anne Ennes, Turkmenistan
Anne Ennes, has been a textile conservator at the Textile Museum in Washington since 1988. Her work has included textile conservator and mounting with The National Museum of African Art, The World Bank Art Program, and The American Red Cross, and among others. She has conducted presentations on the subjects of storage methodology, textile conservation, the stabilization of edges and ends, and pest control.

Leslie Feliciano, Peru
Leslie Feliciano has been teaching dance and fitness for ten years in New York City and Europe. A respected choreographer, he has worked with major music labels including Sony, Universal, and Warner Music.

Patricia Finneran, South Africa
Patricia Finneran is Director of the American Film Institute/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival SILVERDOCS, a six-day international documentary festival held each June outside Washington, D.C. The festival includes an International Documentary Conference where film and television professionals gather for workshops and networking meetings. Ms. Finneran previously was Artistic Director of the Independent Feature Project Market in New York, the largest U.S. market for independent documentary and narrative filmmakers. As a producer and writer, she created multi-media coverage of independent film for the internet start-up iCAST.com. She also produced internationally distributed programs for the United States Information Agency and the International Monetary Fund. Ms. Finneran attended the AFI Conservatory Producers Program in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University.

Michael Fitzgerald, Kazakhstan
Michael Fitzgerald, a film producer began his film career as a screenwriter in Rome after graduating from Harvard University. He produced several films with celebrated director John Huston, including Wise Blood, which he also co-wrote, and Under the Volcano, which was nominated for two Academy Awards. Fitzgerald’s other film productions include The Penitent, Mister Johnson, and Blue Danube Waltz. A producing partnership with actor/director Sean Penn culminated in the critically acclaimed film The Pledge, starring Jack Nicholson. In 2005, Fitzgerald produced Colour Me Kubrick, starring John Malkovich, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. The film received the top acting prize for Mr. Jones and the Screenplay prize for Guillermo Arriaga at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Gregory Frazier, Vietnam
Greg Frazier is responsible for advocating trade policies that will contribute to the ability of the members of the Motion Picture Association of America to compete fairly in open markets around the world, and policies that will protect the content of the MPAA members from losses from piracy. In that role, Frazier works with the member studios and with officials of the U.S. government, allied industries, officials of other governments, and the world-wide staff of the MPAA, whose members in Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; Paramount Pictures; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios LLLP; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Frazier is also a member of the U.S. government’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Services and Financial Industries and of the National Film Preservation Board.

Ed Greenberg, Rwanda
Ed is an improvisational theater and television comedy director, voice over actor and teacher. As an improvisational theater director Ed won the prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award for directing "The Second City" in Chicago. He has created many improv groups and directed such comedians as Robin Williams, Jonathan Winters, Dan Castellaneda (Homer Simpson), John Lovitz, Shelley Long and Betty Thomas, among many others. He currently teaches classes in improvisational acting and voice acting at UCLA Extension, and for seven years taught acting as an adjunct professor at USC School of Cinema - Television. He began his acting career as an actor in San Francisco's famed improvisational comedy troupe "The Committee. Mr. Greenberg will provide improvisational comedy training session to a new generation of television and film artists in Rwanda in order to give them the tools to create television and film comedies. Through comedy, these artists plan to help heal their country and continue the process of moving Rwanda into a bright future.

Nasreen Adaya Haroon, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Nasreen Adaya Haroon is a painter. She has a B.A. in Psychology, Philosophy and History from St. Joseph's College in Karachi, Pakistan. She has exhibited her paintings at the Schomburg Gallery, the Brentwood Art Center, the Carol Behrman Galley and other art events sponsored by the Pacific Asia Museum. Her paintings have also been displayed in the U.S. Embassies in Senegal, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates as part of the Art in Embassies program. She is a Board member for the Santa Monica Interfaith Council, the Islamic Center of Southern California, and the Cornerstone Theater as well as a Co-Chair of the Muslim-Jewish Dialogue, a senior member of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and Vice-President of the Pakistan Art Council, which is affiliated with the Pacific Asia Museum. Haroon is also a founding member of the DIL Literacy Program, which educates young Pakistani girls in rural areas of Pakistan. As a Cultural Envoy in the UAE, Haroon will exhibit her paintings and conduct landscape painting technique workshops with students and teachers at government cultural institutions. She will also meet with institutional professionals and officials from the Ministries of Education and Cultural Affairs.

Janice Harrington, Romania
Janice Harrington is a gospel, blues and jazz singer in addition to being a producer and actress. During the course of her career, she has worked with Billy Daniels, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Sammy Davis Jr. and Lionel Hampton. She sang for Bishop Desmond Tutu when he received his Nobel Prize in Oslo. The highlights of Ms. Harrington's career was being the guest soloist by special request of the American Ambassador to Poland, Mr. Hill, to sing the "First Anniversary in Memory of the Victims of 9/11." In 2003, as the final event for Black History Month, Ms. Harrington was invited to perform in the Republic of Georgia at the request of American Ambassador Miles. In Romania, in honor of Jazz Month, Ms. Harrington will conduct a series of jazz workshops, lectures and performances with music universities and jazz clubs in three to four cities over the course of two weeks.

Bradley Helm, Azerbaijan
Bradley Helm is a Philadelphia based Scenic Designer. He recently was awarded the Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theater for his set design for the world premiere of "Daughters of Genius" with 1812 Productions. Recent credits include: "From Tha Hip" with the Prince Music Theater, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" with the Center City Opera in conjunction with the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, "Suburban Love Songs" for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, "Living News" with the National Constitution Center, and many more. He is the recipient of an Independence Foundation Grant to study scenic art with renowned Cobalt Studios. He received an MFA in scenic design from Temple University in 2001. In 2003 his wife and he opened the scenic studio The Industrial Bohemian Workshop which is dedicated to providing quality design and fabrication to the non-profit theater community of Philadelphia. In Azerbaijan, Mr. Helm will conduct workshops and seminars for local artists and students in conjunction with the Azerbaijan National Drama Theater's planned spring 2007 performance of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge".

Karen Konnerth, Costa Rica
Karen Konnerth has been a State Roster Artist since 1985, and is a recipient of a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship. Educated at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design, she has worked as a full time, professional puppeteer for over fifteen years. Ms. Konnerth designs and builds all her puppets and staging, drawing inspiration for presentations from folklore and mythology from around the world. Presenting over 200 shows annually, she tours and has worked in Costa Rica, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, and Spain.

Michael Leja, China
Michael Leja is Professor in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp won the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize in 2005. An earlier book, Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s, won the Charles Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1988, and his work has been supported by fellowships from the Getty Grant Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Clark Research Institute, and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He is currently at work on a book exploring the new pictorial forms that emerge in mass visual culture in the mid-nineteenth century as well as the involvement of that art in social processes of differentiation and homogenization. As a Cultural Envoy in China, Professor Leja will present lectures that address the influence of American culture and society on American art. Mr. Leja will also participate in roundtable discussions, workshops, web chats and interviews.

David Lubin, China
David Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, is the author of several books on American art, society, and popular culture. These include Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James; Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America; Titanic; and Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images, which won the 2004 Charles C. Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian Institution for "distinguished scholarship in American art." Lubin has received numerous fellowship awards, including a Guggenheim. Most recently, he has been a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, where he began work on a book investigating the effects of the First World War on American art and visual culture. Dr. Lubin is a popular public speaker who has lectured at universities, art museums, and libraries throughout the US, Europe, and, most recently, China. As a Cultural Envoy in China, Professor Lubin will present lectures that address the influence of American culture and society on American art. Mr. Lubin will also participate in roundtable discussions, workshops, web chats and interviews.

Ed Johnetta Miller, Cote D’Ivoire
Ed Johnetta Miller, a fabric artist, arts educator, curator, and lecturer is the co-director and co-founder of the Hartford Artisans Center. He is the 2003 recipient of the Polaris Award that recognizes leadership in the arts in Connecticut. She is a Master Teaching Artist for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the Greater Hartford Arts Council, as well as a design consultant for weavers in Kumasi, Ghana.

Allen Nause, Jerusalem and West Bank
Currently co-starring with William Hurt in Artist Repertory Theatre's production of Vanya, Allen Nause, A.R.T.'s Artistic Director, was a recipient of the 2003 Governor's Arts Award. He first came to Oregon in 1975 to act with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He joined A.R.T. as the company's first Artistic Director in 1989 and has directed many of its most popular productions. He has traveled extensively through Asia, Africa and the Middle East, representing American regional theater in three USIA Arts America Tours. In 2000, Allen traveled to Vietnam and co-directed a bilingual, bicultural production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a Vietnamese production of A Glass Menagerie, as part of the Vietnam/America Theater Exchange. Under his artistic leadership, A.R.T. was selected in 2004 by the National Endowment of the Arts as one of only six theater companies nationally to participate in their "Shakespeare in American Communities" program, the largest-ever tour of Shakespeare's plays in the U.S. Mr. Nause will work with work with the Palestinian National Theater's "Al-Hakawati" Company on an Arabic-language production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" for Palestinian audiences. The program will culminate in a series of performances in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and other cities.

Tony O’Brien, Syria
Tony O’Brien, a photographer began his photography career by working for various New Mexican publications. His works have been featured in several international and national publications such as Life Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek, and the New York Times. He has worked with the Ford Foundation on a land use project on Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico as well as a water works project in the ‘colonias’ along the Texas border for the Pew Foundation. His work has been published in Peter Jenning’s book “In Search of America” and National Geographic’s “The Old Santa Fe Trail.”

Robert W. Olinger, Moscow
Robert Olinger is a theatre director and graduate of the University of Evansville. In 2001 Robert Ollinger was a Fulbright intern at the directing faculty of the MKHAT school and worked closely with the famous Russian director Kama Ginkas. In 2004 Olinger directed a diploma production, “True West,” which was a hit with Moscow student audiences. In 2005, he directed “Poe on 84th St.” in New York and “Noble Glasses” in Moscow.

Richard Peña, Oman
Richard Peña is Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Director of the New York Film Festival. A film curator and scholar with special expertise and interest in Latin American, Asian, and Arab cinemas, Mr. Peña also is a professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts, where he specializes in film theory and international cinema. Before joining Lincoln Center, Mr. Peña was director of the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also has taught film history and theory at Harvard University, MIT, University of California (Berkeley), and City University of New York. Mr. Peña hosted "Conversations in World Cinema" on the Sundance Channel from 2001-2002. In January 2001, he was named Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters.

Dennis Rathnaw, Cameroon
Dennis M. Rathnaw holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an M.M, from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at Texas, focusing on Central African popular music. His research includes the interaction between media and politics in the production of bikutsi in Cameroon.He is specifically interested in people’s creative response to, and use of, global media. Rathnaw is founder and director of Easy Motion Tourist, an Afro-pop band.

Godfrey Reggio, Armenia
Godfrey Reggio is a documentary director, writer and producer who has pioneered a visual style of filmmaking that creates poetic images of extraordinary emotional impact. He is noted for his “Qatsi” film trilogy - Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi - non-narrative, impressionistic documentaries with original Philip Glass scores that chronicle mankind’s relationship with nature and the impact of modern technology. An environmentalist and socially conscious filmmaker, Mr. Reggio spent fourteen years in a Roman Catholic religious order before becoming a director. Born in New Orleans and educated at the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mr. Reggio in 1972 co-founded the Institute for Regional Education in Santa Fe, a non-profit foundation focused on media development, the arts, community organization and research.

John Ruppert, Estonia
John Ruppert is a sculptor and chairman of the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been commissioned for installations of his works at the New International Terminal at the Baltimore/ Washington Airport and at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. His work has been featured in exhibitions in Finland, Poland, and Taiwan.

Brian Russo, India
Brian Russo is a Theatre Arts professor and director. He was a Fulbright Lecturer in the Performing Arts at Rabindra Bharate University, in Calcutta, India. Russo has vast experience in teaching drama to professional and amateur actors as well as youth. During his brief Fulbright tenure in Calcutta, Russo directed “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that received rave reviews in major newspapers. Russo is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and Actors Equity Association.

Allan Sekula, The Quiet in the Land, Luang Prabang Laos
Allan Sekula is a photographer, writer and critic. His published books are Photography Against the Grain, Fish Story, Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes and Dismal Science. His photographic work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, the University Art Museum at Berkeley, Witte de With in Rotterdam, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Tramway in Glasgow, Le Channel and the Museé des Beaux Arts in Calais, Camerawork in London, Munich Kunstverein in Munich, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the Getty Research Institute, the Deutsche Akademischer Austausdienst and the Atelier Calder.

Rafael Velez, Honduras
Rafael Velez, a New-York based artist and art educator, is the Program Director for the Art For Kids program at the New York School of the visual arts. He has presented exhibitions of his own work in solo and group exhibitions across New York City. He has also has been an art teacher for the MARC Program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at a public school in Brooklyn.

Chet Walker, Belgrade
Chet Walker is the director, choreographer, and artistic director of 8&ah1, Productions Inc., a musical theatre dance company. His stage credits include performances in the United States, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, and London’s West End. In addition, he has performed on Broadway since the age of 16, and has appeared in Broadway shows such as Lorelei and The Ambassadors.

 

 
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