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plans fundraising events for the Westport Country Playhouse (westportplayhouse .org). She studies voice and acts in local productions whenever possible. Derek Oberman married Adina Mindick on June 7, 2009. A fourth-generation em - ployee of a family-owned insurance bro- kerage in White Plains, NY, he took over the operation of the 35-employee firm after his father’s death last year. He and Adina live in White Plains with their dog Miles.
In Hayward, CA, Pia Shah teaches Eng - lish at Moreau Catholic High School, a Holy Cross prep school. She lives in Oak - land, CA, with two cats. This summer, she will oversee a cultural exchange program with Oakland’s sister city of Funabashi, Japan.
Last fall Barbara Sussman, UWW ’05,
exhibited paintings at the Artist Fellow - ship exhibition in NYC and the ASA Land scape for Landsake in Greenwich, NY. She authored an article for the Art Stu dents League journal Linea last spring. Barbara is serving a second term as presi- dent of the Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers.
KRISTEN COATES 12 NORTH BRANCH ROAD
NEWTOWN, CT 06470
KRISTENCOATES83@GMAIL.COM
and
JASON DEL POZZO 110 SHELDON STREET
PROVIDENCE, RI 02906
JDELPOZ@GMAIL.COM
In December Jamie Peterson
appeared in the play Power Burn 3, part of the Fight Fest at the Brick Theatre in Williamsburg, VA. He played the sole male role—“the kindly, delicate temp” who develops a crush on an office co- worker—in the “fun, campy, upbeat show that satisfies that craving for spunky women kicking each other’s behinds.”
Georganna Millman, UWW ’06, has
authored a second book of poetry, Set Theory, published in March by Finishing Line Press as part of its New Women’s Voices series. Her first book, Formulary, won the Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press 2008 Poetry Award. Both are available at
Amazon.com.
ALEXANDRA RAVENER 43 VALENTINE AVENUE
GLEN COVE, NY 11542
A.RAVENER@GMAIL.COM
’06
Peterson ’06, and Ilan Bachrach ’04 per-
’07
Last spring Adam Lerman worked
with Brian Smolin ’06, Jamie
forming in the Paper Industry’s Sine Wave Goodbye in NYC. He then spent his sec- ond summer at the Williamstown (MA) The atre Festival, in proximity to former faculty member Phil Soltanoff, and acted in She Stoops to Conquer at the McCarter in Prince ton, NJ, under Williamstown’s artis- tic director, Nicholas Martin. Adam, who lives in Brooklyn, can be followed at thi-
sisadamlerman.com. James Peter Moran is founder and CEO of
twosteptix.com, an online marketplace where customers can purchase tickets for everything from theater and concerts to sporting events throughout the United States and around the world. The compa- ny partners with a network of authorized ticket-sellers to offer access to diverse events at reasonable prices. He can be contacted at
twosteptix@gmail.com. In December, NYC playwright Mariah
MacCarthy’s play Ampersand: A Romeo &
Juliet Story premiered in workshop at the Looking Glass Theatre as part of its Win - ter Forum. Mariah describes the play as “a cynical look at star-crossed lesbians and small-town elections with music and cross-dressing.” In March the Rapscallion Theatre Collective presented another play
of hers, The All-American Genderf*ck Caba -
ret, which began as her senior project at Skidmore. She is a producing associate at PLUS Entertainment. Cora Weed lives in Connecticut and is an administrator for Paul Newman’s Hole
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in the Wall Gang Camp. She is about to graduate from the University of Connec - ticut with a master’s in social work. Casey Keeler is a sales associate for Net - work for Good in Bethesda, MD. After working with several nonprofit theater companies in NYC and Washington, DC, she is now advising them how best to achieve their fundraising goals. She also plans to perform and volunteer for several theater companies in the area. Rachel Schillhammer is in her second year of teaching French at Fuller Middle School in Framingham, MA. She lives in Chestnut Hill with stepsister Molly. In September Katharine Gould staged
To the Girl in the Yellow Dress at the Phila -
del phia Fringe Festival. She was the show’s creator, writer, producer, and sole per- former; her brother Alex wrote and per- formed some beautiful original tunes for it. The piece was about a girl who be - comes obsessed with “Missed Connec - tions” on
Craigslist.org. “It’s about being lonely and yet avoiding human connec- tion—and it took a lot of time, emotion, and hard work to complete,” says Katha - rine. She also performed as Sprat in Mister Mister at the Walnut Street Studio 5 and the Shubin Theatre.
I enjoyed the first, challenging semester of my master’s program in speech pathol- ogy at Southern Connecticut State Uni - versity.
MEREDITH FREED
15 DOGWOOD PARK N. DANBURY, CT 06811
FREED.MEREDITH@GMAIL.COM
’08
Julie Congress, Mitchell Con - way, Ryan Emmons, and Jen
Neads co-founded No. 11 Productions (
no11productions.com), a NYC-based company dedicated to creating “theater of the unexpected.” Its past projects in - clude Lysistrata (SaratogaArtsFest, Fringe - NYC), We Three (Capital Fringe, Fringe -
NYC), Claire and the Ornithological Shadow
(Bushwick Starr, @Seaport), Ar taud’s Jet of
Blood or the Ball of Glass (FRIGID Festival), Mythunderstood (Sara togaArtsFest), The Elephant Man, The Musi cal (Capital Fringe,
@Seaport). Many Skid more students and alums have worked with the ensemble,
including Jeremy Cone ’09, Erin Daley, Margaret Drake ’07, Haley Greenstein ’07, Chris tian Grunnah ’09, Samantha Hooper-Ham ersley, James Kiesel ’09, Sara Kliger ’09, Adam Lerman ’07, Eva Mastrangelo ’07, Ryan Morrison ’05, Sara Jane Mun ford ’11, Brandon Sulli - van ’11, Andrew Pape, Sam Parrott ’09, William Popp, Marie Roussel ’10, Tara
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