GEOFFREY CANTOR (Program Director/Acting) graduated Magna Cum Laude from Amherst College with a degree in theater. He attended the National Theater Institute (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), where he worked with Morris Carnofsky, Martha Schlamme, Fred Vopel, and Michael Posnick. He then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama under George Hall.

He has appeared in television, film, on Broadway, and has been featured in over 200 television and radio commercials since 1996. He was Artistic Director of Readings at One in London, adapted and directed Shakespeare for Video. He has taught at the O’Neill, and has coached privately in New York for eight years. More ...

BETH FALCONE (voice) is in the advanced class of the BMI program and won the 2006 Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement as a composer/lyricist. She was selected as a Jonathan Larson Musical Theater Fellow in 2004 and is coordinator of the Larson Alumni group. Beth is the musical director for the BMI showcase at Manhattan Theater Club, and vocal consultant for the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Conference. She is on faculty at the National Theater Institute and teaches privately in Manhattan.

Beth holds a double masters degree from Northwestern in piano performance/conducting where she coached for the musical theater certificate program. Beth is excited to join the´YJCC faculty this summer.

CHRISTOPHER CARTMILL received a B.A from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Virginia. He also did graduate work in Chinese at Fu Ren University in Taipei, R.O.C., and was accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy for Dramatic Arts in Glasgow. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association, and the Screen Actor’s Guild.

An award winning playwright, director, and actor Christopher has created a series of integrated-arts programs for the New York Public Schools, in association with ‘Learning through an Expanded Arts Program’ and continues to write and perform special programs for The Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale Center for British Art. He is also a literary critic for the national magazine, ‘BOOK.’ He has appeared on stage in New York and throughout the country, and can has extensive credits as a director of theater and Opera as well.

Christopher’s adaptations of Tennyson’s idylls of the King, Lancelot and Elaine and Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow continue to air on New York’s WNYC. He continues an ongoing relationship with Lincoln Southeast High School and director Carol Svoboda, for which he has written four plays.

BARBARA BRANDT (Movement and Stage Combat) is on the faculty at Wagner College, teaching dance, acting and stage combat. Professionally, she is a director, choreographer, fight director and actor. She has worked for many off-off Broadway, showcase, and regional theatres, and has staged works for Western Illinois University, Wagner College, Alice Lloyd College and Marshall University.

Ms. Brandt has twice been honored as a semi-finalist in The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers DanceBreak program. She is also an instructor with Swordplay Stage Combat, the longest continually running school of stage combat in NYC.

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