Experience Summary * Teaching & Leadership * Theatrical Experience * Education * Other Experience * References
| 2002-2005 | Christian Youth Theater, Denver - Teacher, Music director, Co-founder of this new expansion of CYT San Diego. Taught a variety of classes encompassing the first seven sessions and designed a voice-related specialty class. Musically directed four productions, helped organize four weeks of summer camp, taught voice & musically directed one week of summer camp, and, for the first 18 months, personally handled the vast majority of general office work, newsletters, mailings, mailing lists, advertising copy, web site, and other clerical & business duties as needed. Also assisted in procuring our original facilities, providing necessary materials for grant submissions and non-profit standings, and to support the Business Manager in whatever manner necessary. |
| 1999-2000 | Solid Rock, Denver, a home-school extension program - Teacher. Taught voice and musical theater to home-school students, including the teaching, direction, musical direction, choreography, and production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, performed by the students for their parents and friends. |
| 1995-1996 | Christian Youth Theater, San Diego - Musical director (North County Inland campus) for productions of Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Prince and the Pauper, and Annie. Wrote four pieces of music for the new production of Prince and the Pauper. Music direction included teaching music to the children, including harmonies, arranging for instrumentalists to play during the performance, as well as arranging and distributing the music to the instrumentalists, conducting and sometimes playing at performances. |
| 1987-1996 | Christian Youth Theater, San Diego - Taught voice, audition workshop, and musical theater classes for Christian Youth Theater in multiple campuses in the San Diego area. Classes included making lesson plans, selecting music and theatrical pieces, teaching proper vocal and performance techniques in weekly two-hour classes, and presenting the class in a showcase at the of the 10-week session. |
| 2009 | Crazy for You - Lottie - Performance Now Theater |
| 2008 | Jekyll & Hyde - Lady Beaconsfield - Performance Now Theater
Fiddler on the Roof - Fruma Sarah - Town Hall Arts Center Beauty & the Beast - Pit Singer - Performance Now Theater | 2007 | Miss Nelson Has a Field Day - Miss Nelson/Viola Swamp - Town Hall Arts Center Cultural Classroom | 2006 | Bye-Bye Birdie! - Mrs. Merkel - Town Hall Arts Center | 2005 | Little Women: The Musical - Hannah - Town Hall Arts Center | 2003 | Contestoga Tales - multiple roles - Town Hall Arts Center Cultural Classroom | 2002 | Phantom - multiple roles - Town Hall Arts Center
The Reluctant Dragon - Darby - Town Hall Arts Center Cultural Classroom Camelot - Morgan LeFey - Town Hall Arts Center Sound of Music - Mother Abbess - Performance Now Theater Joan of Arc (World premiere) - Cauchon - Destiny Productions |
2001 | Arise, My Love - Angel Gabriel - Destiny Productions | 2000 | Secret Garden - Claire Holmes - Town Hall Arts Center | 1999 | Little Women: The Musical - Hannah - Town Hall Arts Center
A Little Night Music - Mrs. Nordstrom - Main Street Players Something's Afoot - Lady Manley-Prowe - South Suburban |
1998 | Little Women: The Musical (World Premiere) - Hannah - Town Hall Arts Center
The Mikado - Women's ensemble - Town Hall Arts Center Cole - Ensemble piece - South Suburban |
1996 | Annie Warbucks - Mrs. Pugh - Town Hall Arts Center
Into the Woods - Stepmother - Denver Civic |
San Diego productions (1982-1996) include A Little Night Music, A Christmas Carol, the Gospel According to Dickens, You're Gonna Love Tomorrow, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Camelot, Singin' in the Rain, La Cage aux Folles, The Sound of Music, and a staged reading of Kiss Me Quick before the Lava Reaches the Village with San Diego Civic Light Opera (Starlight) and San Diego Repertory Theater. The King & I (Anna), Hello Dolly! (Dolly Levi), Carousel (Nettie Fowler), and Camelot (Nimue) with Christian Community Theater.
Operatic experience (1977-1985) includes Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Susannah in The Marriage of Figaro, The Gondoliers, Patience, Gretel in Hansel & Gretel, Falstaff, Carmen, and Cinderella.with San Diego Gilbert & Sullivan Company, Pacific Chamber Opera and San Diego Opera.
| 1982 | University of Texas at Arlington (cum laude) Bachelor of Music, Vocal Performance |
| 1978-1979 | Schiller College/Europe University One year of study in Europe. Course work included music, voice training, French literature, theater, and general education classes. Time away from class was spent traveling throughout Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, and throughout France. |
| 10 years | Private vocal instruction for children & young adults (intermittently from 1985-present) | 3 years | California Contemporary Chorale, a small professional choir in San Diego (1993-1996) | 8 years | Here We Come A-Caroling, a seasonal professional performance organization (1989-1996) | 3 years | Manager & performer of the San Diego Gilbert & Sullivan Touring Company (1986-1989) | 14 years | Paid church soloist/cantor/section leader positions with All Hallows Catholic Church, La Jolla, St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church, La Jolla, Mission Hills Congregation Church, San Diego, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Arlington, TX (1981-1995) |
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Diana Rutherford
Former Office Manager, Prudential Portrait Phone Number: 303-810-4278 Reference Type: Professional & Personal Lura Smith Former Owner, Secretarial Systems Phone Number: 817-447-2178 Reference Type: Professional & Personal |
Sydney Rossberg
Phone Number: 303-470-7851 Reference Type: Personal Jim Tompkins-MacLaine Phone Number: 619-795-6577 Reference Type: Personal & Professional |