LYNN KREMER
Ms. Kremer received her academic training at the University of Minnesota (B.A. German and B.F.A. Theatre) and Brandeis University (M.F.A. Theatre). As a director, she is well known for developing new works. Her productions have been performed at prestigious venues throughout the US and Ireland. She is well known for developing new works. As a director-librettist, she has collaborated with composer Shirish Korde on five large-scale music/theatre works which received widespread critical acclaim.
Her work has been influenced by the theatre and dance traditions of India and Indonesia where she has lived and traveled extensively. Her training as a mask dancer with I Gusti Ngurah Windia in Bali prompted her maximalist, non-linear, and ritualistic style, drawing from puppet, dance and music traditions.
While living in Micronesia, she produced and directed a video program on chant/dance traditions of Palau. Ms. Kremer has been a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts/Dance, National Endowment for the Arts/Opera, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Commission, the Worcester Arts Lottery, the LEF Foundation, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Henry Luce Foundation, and College of the Holy Cross. In 1997 she was the recipient of the NETC Special Award for Outstanding Achievement on a National Level. She is presently Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at the College of the Holy Cross.
DAN LAMORTE
As a director he has worked at prestigious venues throughout Chicago and New York. Founded The Artistic Home in Chicago before moving to NYC to establish The Artistic Home New York where he now teaches and conducts playwright workshops. He founded and for over 15 years was the Artistic Director of Center Theater Ensemble (CTE), an ensemble theater and professional training program
for actors, directors and playwrights.
While with CTE, he directed over 35 productions, was awarded an After Dark Award for Direction; was nominated twice for Joseph Jefferson Citations and received two Artisan Citations for outstanding seasons in 1987 and 1991. As a playwright, he conceived and wrote the book for CTE's successful musical Two Many Bosses, which received five Artisan Awards including Best Production. He
was also awarded the Ronald Williams Award for his play Such Is Life.
In New York City, he has held the positions as Executive Director for the Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre and Managing Director of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. In the summer of 2002, he conceived and conducted a Directing Symposium, Mentoring the New Director in Heidelberg, and taught acting workshops in Mons, Belgium, Hanau, Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Weisbaden, Germany. Most recently he returned to Germany to direct The Glass Menagerie in Stuttgart Theatre Center and produced and directed a stage reading presentation of a new play COME TO GOOD in the USAREUR One Act Festival in Heidelberg.
JOAN FUESS
Joan Fuess has been highly active in TANYS (Theatre Association New York State) for many years and is presently serving as a Roving Adjudicator (adjudicating companies on their home turf) and the Immediate Past President of TANYS Board. She has adjudicated various state Festivals throughout the country for AACT competition. For the past 24 years she has been the Resident Director and Chief Administrator for Circle Theatre Players, Averill Park, NY. Joan was also the founder of Sand Lake Center for the Arts, home of Circle Theatre Players. In addition to directing and acting in community theater, she has taught at New York State Theatre Institute, Arts Center of the Capital Region, and the local drug drama prevention program at the middle school. Since retiring from her 30 year career
in Human Services, theater and the renovation of a church built in 1835 into an arts center have taken up her "free" hours.