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Who’s Who at Act Two Performing Arts

 

Artistic Director

Kevin William Kuchar studied musical theatre at Viterbo University, during which time he studied privately under Dean Witz (Chicago Lyric Opera), and Susan Rush (Broadway revival cast of Guys and Dolls, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).  In preparation for working with youth in the performing arts, Kevin has worked in program development for youth with the national organization YWCA, and children's leadership programs for the Hugh O' Brain Youth Leadership Foundation on both state, and national levels. For the past three years Kevin has been directing theatre in the D.C. metropolitan area working with Adventure Theatre, The Holton Arms School and others.  Recent directing credits include Cinderella, Parade, Seussical, and the Scarlet Pimpernel.  While working as the Artistic Director of Act Two Performing Arts, Kevin has been honored to direct such projects as: Disney's Beauty and the Beast, The Laramie Project, Songs for a New World, Cats, Urinetown, Les Miserables, Buried Child, Blood Brothers, Joseph..., and more! Beyond Theatrical direction Kevin is proud to act as Act Two's principal choreographer with the performing ensembles Vertigo, Overture, and Entr'acte. Recently, Kevin was awarded two commendations for his work with youth education by (former) Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson.
 
Executive Director
Keith Tittermary has spent the last 10 years working professionally in arts organizations throughout the region in many capacities, most recently as Associate Coordinating Producer at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD. Some of his other education credits in the area include teacher, director, actor, musician, accompanist and vocal coach. He received a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre Performance from Catholic University. Some of his major credits include: Actor: Forever Plaid, Junie B Jones (Imagination Stage), Musical Parade (Kennedy Center), and has performed as a keyboardist / conductor for many professional productions. Director: Leader of The Pack, Children of Eden, 100 Years of Broadway, Into The Woods, My Favorite Year. Musical Director: Little Shop of Horrors, Chicago, Little Me, Grease, How To Succeed, Honk, Anything Goes, World Goes Round, Joseph..., Ragtime, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Pippin, Carousel, Seussical (TYA Premier, Imagination Stage) At American University he was the conductor / music director for Kiss Me Kate and the associate conductor for Cabaret, Evita, A Chorus Line. Also for American University, he composed the score to Perf 101 and provided all of the arrangements and orchestrations for the Inauguration of the Harold & Sylvia Greenberg Theater. He recently served as associate conductor / music director for the Helen Hayes Awards – nominated, Jesus Christ Superstar, with Open Circle Theater. He also served as musical supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator for the new musical, Streets of America, composed by Tony Award Winning Actor, Michael Rupert. He is also a conductor at Toby’s Dinner Theater in Columbia, MD.
 
Executive Producer
Scott Selman has spent most of his life either behind the curtain, or in front of it. Scott holds his BFA in Design/Technical Theatre from Syracuse University. While at Syracuse he managed Up & Running Productions, and produced some of their most successful work, including Smokey Joe's Cafe, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and tick, tick...BOOM!. After graduating college, Scott joined Big League Theatrical's national tour of 42nd Street, where he traveled the east coast as a union electrician. Scott has an extensive design background, with his most recent designs being: Les Miserables; West Side Story; Beauty and the Beast; The Diary of Anne Frank; Parade; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Chicago; tick, tick...BOOM!; Wizard of Oz. As a technician, he has worked with such acts as Liz Phair, Blue Man Group, Brooks & Dunn, Fuel, Dane Cook, OAR, Guster, and Barenaked Ladies. While most of his time is spent doing theatrical design and production, Scott finds time to enjoy photography and working in his recording studio. In his studio Scott has produced and recorded two albums, and an R&B demo for Sony Europe. He produces demo albums for students, as well as headshots. Scott works full time as the Media Services Technician at Churchill High School in Potomac, he manages their theatre, and is the Production Designer for their yearly Blast from the Past. Scott was written about in Live Design and PLSN for "Pushing [the] Technological Envelope" in High School Productions.
 
Director of Dance
Nancy Newell has been teaching dance for more than 40 years and has a background in theater from Northwestern University. She has taught internationally as well as throughout the United States. During her career, she has choreographed more than 30 musicals. Newell is a driving force in the D.C. metropolitan dance community. Most recently she spearheaded the Metro-DC Tribute to Gregory Hines. In 1998, Newell was curator of the Smithsonian series, The Women of Tap with special guest Ann Miller. In 1999 she coordinated the Smithsonian series, The Legends of Tap with Rusty Frank, Fred Kelly, and special guest Baakari Wilder. She co-sponsored the 1999 DC MetroTap Festival and has sponsored the Washington, D.C.- area TAP FEST program for the past nine years. In 2002 and 2003, Newell performed and taught Master Classes in the Czech Republic where she represented DC in the The Prague, DC, Philadelphia Tap Festival. In 2006 she returned to Prague to help celebrate National Tap Dance Day with tap dancers from around the world. In 2004, Newell traveled to Bergerac, France to teach workshops at Ecole de Danse Desha/Simone Moulin and then to Kiev, Ukraine, to teach master classes at Volodomyr Shpudeiko's Jazz Tap Dance Studio. Newell opened DC Dance Collective in June of 1999 as a center for creativity and collaboration. She was honored to be nominated for the 2007 Metro DC Dance Award (MDCDA) in the category: "Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education".
Nancy Newell
 
Theatre Apprentice Program Coordinator
Robin Meisner Cameron graduated with a drama degree from the University of Virginia with an emphasis in technical theatre. After spending a brief period of time as an assistant to acclaimed theatrical designer, C.H. Vaughan, III, Ms Cameron spent a number of very busy years as a professional stage manager and assistant director. Although Ms Cameron's career took her to regional theatres and opera houses throughout the country, she worked most often with the Baltimore Opera Company at The Lyric Theatre. Ms Cameron worked most frequently, though not exclusively, with renowned opera director and costume designer, John Lehmeyer, and when Ms Cameron "retired" from the theatre to raise a family, she frequently took "summer vacations" working as Mr. Lehmeyer's assistant at Summer Opera Theatre in Washington DC. When Ms Cameron’s children started pursuing their own theatrical interests, Ms Cameron gave up the professional theatre and began a consuming volunteer quest in educational and youth theatre, where for the past many years she has led teachers and students alike in a pursuit of theatrical excellence that has involved her delving at various times into all production, artistic, and administrative elements of the plays she has worked on.

2007/2008 Board of Directors

Scott Kaufmann, President

Jeffrey H. Berman

Mara Brick

Andrew S. Bridge

David C. Hahn, Esq.

Victor Katz, DVM

Mimi Brodsky Kress

Kevin Kuchar

Carolee Walker

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