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Danielle Azoulay, Program Director
Danielle has studied music and theatre her whole life which drove her to a career in the Entertainment Industry. After receiving a Bachelors of Music in Music Business and Entertainment Industries from the University of Miami, she moved to New York to work on the business side of the arts. Danielle spent 3 years working for Universal/Motown Records and also served as Business Manager for a local non-profit theatre company. Danielle is currently pursuing her MBA in New York City while serving as Program Director for BroadwayFest, and she hopes to pass on her love for the arts to all the participants. danielle@broadwayfest.com.
Amy Steinhaus, Program Director
Amy has been working in professional theatre for the twelve years she's lived in New York City, but has been involved in the arts since childhood, growing up in Los Angeles. Though trained as an actor, she has mainly worked on the business side of the theatre world in sales, marketing and management. As the former Managing Director of a local non-profit theatre company Amy also served as the Company Manager for the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of Fahrenheit 451. Amy graduated from The University of Kansas with a Theatre and Film degree and continued her acting training at New York's renowned Circle in the Square Theatre School. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to provide a glimpse of New York theatre life to all of the BroadwayFest participants from across the country. amy@broadwayfest.com.
Brian M. Golub, Musical Theatre Coach
Brian has appeared in the Broadway Benefit concerts of Hair (cast recording - Grammy Nom.), Chess, Charles Busch-on Broadway, Pippin, The Secret Garden, and Rags. Off-Broadway/other NY credits: Naked Boys Singing, Rock Of Ages (New World Stages), Fleet Week (NY Fringe), Caligula (NYMF), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Pre-Broadway), The Chanukah Pageant (Lion Theatre), Mr. Anonymous (York), and Floyd Collins. Favorite Regional: Philadelphia Theatre Company: Nerds:// A Musical Software Satire (Herbert), Actors' Playhouse: The Full Monty (Malcom; Carbonell Nomination-Best Supporting Actor), Floyd Collins (Jewell), Fiddler on the Roof (Motel; Carbonell Nomination-Best Supporting Actor), and Grease (Doody), Stages St Louis: Man of La Mancha (Barber), Barrington Stage: South Pacific (Professor) and six productions of Forever Plaid as Jinx. AEA. www.briangolub.com.
Lance Horne, Pianist/Composer
Musicals, scores for plays, dance and classical works seen at New York Theatre Workshop, Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center, Mark Taper Forum, NAMT, NYMF, Lucille Lortel, HERE, American Opera Projects, The Zipper, Spiegeltent, Juilliard, NYU, Bard, Interlochen. He has provided the opening numbers for Actors Fund, BC/EFA Gypsy of the Year '04 '05 '06. Vocal Arrangements for Little Women, Broadway & National Tour. Bachelors of Music and Masters in Music, The Juilliard School. Faculty: Juilliard, NYU, & EAMA, Paris. Recipient of the 2006 Jonathan Larson Award. Residencies: O'Neill Center NMTF, Franklin Furnace, HERE: HARP, TheatreWorks Palo Alto, Centennial University, Interlochen, The New School, CAP21. Recordings: Songs from an Unmade Bed (Ghostlight), One Life, Many Voices (One Life to Live), Little Women (Ghostlight), A Season's Promise (New World Records). TV: ABC's Lincoln Center Tree Lighting starring Sesame Street, NBC's 80th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: King Tutenstein Float for Diana DeGarmo & The Phoenix Boys Choir. His band Lance Horne & The One Night Stands has upcoming performances on both coasts, Vegas, London and South Korea, releasing their first album this Spring. Member of ASCAP. www.lancehorne.com.
Gregory Konow, Acting Coach
Gregory is a native New Yorker raised in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre and has been working in New York for the past ten years. Some of his film credits include "Shakespeare's Ghost" from Pendulum Productions, "Coming Soon" from The Sullivan Project and "Darkness" from Chiernan Pictures. Some of his Theatre credits include Orestes in Electra, Jove in Bereft, Senator Iselin in John Lahr's stage adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate, Rollo Martins in the world premiere stage production of The Third Man, based on the novel by Graham Greene, and the American premiere of Blindness at 59E59 Theaters, based on the Nobel prize winning novel by Jose Saramago. In August 2008 he is slated to perform in An Impending Rupture of the Belly, by Matt Pelfrey, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Antoinette LaVecchia, Acting Coach
Most recently, Antoinette entered the realm of storytelling, sharing her adventures over the past year and a half with NY audiences, which include co-creating and co-directing a theatre piece in Ethiopia with 40 HIV+ orphans through the Worldwide Orphans Foundation at Ethiopia's National Theatre. She will be at The Public Theatre this fall, working on Hunted, an new piece inspired by the short stories and poetry of Sam Shepard. NY credits: The Fire Dept.'s Speakeasy (Joe's Pub), Puccini: A Composer's Journey (Carnegie Hall), String of Pearls (Primary Stages), Magic Hands Freddy (Soho Playhouse), DUET (Greenwich St. Theatre), Kimberly Akimbo (MTC), Almost Blue (Hal Brooks, dir.), Lincoln Center's Director's Lab, NYTW's Usual Suspects, MCC, The Culture Project, Urban Stages, Lark Theatre, EST's Oktoberfest, The Salon and others. Regionally: TOUGH TITTY (Williamstown Theatre Festival), La Bella Familia (ACT's First Look Festival), Weston Playhouse, the "B" Street Theatre, Barrington Stage Co., Hartford Theatreworks, Wilma Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Hangar Theatre and others. Film/TV: "The Sopranos", "Jesus' Son", "Dirty Laundry" and multiple episodes of "Law & Order", "Law & Order SVU" and "One Life To Live". She received her MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program, has studied at the Moscow Art Theatre and is a recipient of a Fox Fellowship. She has taught improvisation, theatre games and various workshops at NYU's Graduate Acting Program and The Actor's Center. Antoinette is a Drama League Directing Fellow through which she assisted Jerry Zaks on The Man Who Came to Dinner. She's preparing for NY and LA productions of her one-woman show In Spite of Myself.
Jon Levenson, Acting Coach
Jon has spent the last ten years traveling the globe teaching, studying and performing. He received his MFA in Acting at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Jon has appeared Off-Broadway in The Hairy Ape and Gaslight at Irish Repertory Theatre and in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Theatre By the Blind. He recently completed The Shakespeare Lab at The Public Theatre where he taught Shakespeare to New York City high school students. Jon is thrilled to be a part of BroadwayFest 2008. AEA.
Kate Pazakis, Musical Theatre Coach
Kate has been appropriately called "A powerhouse belter with personality to spare" by Scott and Barbara Siegel of TheaterMania.com. She's been featured in several Broadway concerts, including The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Jennifer Hudson, "Gypsy of the Year" (2005 & 2006), "Easter Bonnet" (2006) and Pippin with Ben Vereen. Off-Broadway and touring credits include A Broadway Diva Christmas, Newsical (Off-Broadway and National tour) and The Sexless Years (nominated for Best Musical Comedy). Some of her regional credits include Terezin (Spoleto Festival), Side Show, Once Upon a Mattress, Sylvia (Cape Cod Rep), Sweeney Todd, Leader of the Pack, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (Tilden Arts Center), Secret Garden, Nunsense (Academy Playhouse), as well as other credits including performing on NBC at the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, The RosieO'Donnell Family Cruise, and many readings, recordings and workshops of new musicals. Currently Kate co-hosts "Mostly Sondheim", a weekly musical theater night with Marty Thomas and Brian Nash. For more information visit www.katepazakis.com.
Erin O'Leary, Acting Coach
Erin has loved theatre since she was a child and is honored to be a part of BroadwayFest. After earning a BFA from DePaul University in Chicago she moved to NYC. Some of her favorite roles include Savage in Limbo (Linda), Seven Lears (Goneril) and Twelfth Night (Maria). She also toured nationally in Le Bourgeios Gentilhomme (Lucille) and performed in Australia at The Magdalena Festival. Regionally, she has worked on As You Like It (Celia), Collected Stories (Lisa), Metamorphoses (Alcyone), and Trojan Women (Andromache). She has studied in Moscow, Berlin and Salzburg while earning an MFA and recently returned to New York after graduating from the Clarence Brown Theatre in Tennessee.
