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Staff Bios![]() Marc Robin (Artistic Director) Fulton Director/ Choreographer credits: Les Misérables; Hello, Dolly!; 42nd Street; Brigadoon; Evita; Rags; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; My Fair Lady; The Music Man; Crazy for You; The Irish and How They Got That Way; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Carousel and Treasure Island. As a freelance director/choreographer he has staged over 250 productions at theatres across the country. Marc is the recipient of 16 Joseph Jefferson Awards (46 nominations); 12 After Dark Awards; 3 Ari "Zoni" Awards, Light Opera Works Lifetime Achievement Award and 3 Barrymore Award nominations for his work at Walnut Street Theatre. He is a resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. ![]() Aaron A. Young (Managing Director) Aaron is in his Eighth season at the Fulton. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Brigham Young University and holds a degree in theatre arts. For six seasons, he directed the marketing and management of the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Theatre, both programs of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute. Aaron has also served as general manager for the Missouri Repertory Theatre and marketing and corporate development manager for Kansas City's historic Folly Theatre. Once a professional performer, he now enjoys singing with his daughters to the accompaniment of his wife's clawhammer banjo. Barry Kornhauser (Playwright-In-Residence/Associate Director) was the recipient, in 2009, of America's preeminent TYA playwriting award, the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Cup, honoring "a nationally known writer of outstanding plays for children [in recognition of] a body of distinguished work." Other honors include the Helen Hayes Outstanding Play Award, the Ivey Award for Playwriting, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Bonderman Playwriting Prize, an ASSITEJ "Best Plays of the Decade" commendation, and fellowships/grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, TYA/USA, and National Endowment for the Arts. Barry's plays have been performed around the world and at such Tony-Award winning stages as The Shakespeare Theatre and Children's Theatre Company. His work as a playwright and/or director has taken him to the San Diego Theatre of the World Festival, the Provincetown Playhouse New Play Festival, the Smithsonian, and the Kennedy Center's "New Visions/New Voices" and "One Theatre World" Events. 2009 saw the world premiere of Barry's Bert & Ernie, Goodnight, which opened the 09-10 season of The Children's Theatre Company under the direction of Peter Brosius, and for the first time ever presenting the two iconic characters as real-life figures. Barry was also one of three playwrights (along with David Ives and former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky) commissioned by The Shakespeare Theatre to create new "American" adaptations of classic plays, his project being Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. The Fulton's nationally renowned Youtheatre project for at-risk and disabled teens, founded by Barry, was recently honored at a White House ceremony with the 2008 "Coming Up Taller" Award of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, recognizing the program as one of the top arts-education initiatives in the country. Barry was the first recipient of Pennsylvania's Educational Theatre award for "outstanding service by an individual to the Commonwealth." He also created an HIV/AIDS project that won the state's "Best Practices" Honor, and teaches theatre arts from the pre-school to the university level. In 2008 he became the United States nominee for the ASSITEJ International Award for Artistic Excellence. Barry has served as a dramaturg for the Denver Theatre Center and as a panelist for three state arts councils, the Heinz Endowments, and the NEA. He writes the "Epilogue" column for Incite/Insight magazine, sits on the board of TYA/USA, on the Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards-Aligned System Model Curriculum committee, and on the PA Cultural Access Project. He is also the AATE Pennsylvania state representative, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of F&M, Barry shares an enthusiasm for the college with his wife Carol, who works there, and kids Max, Sam, and Ariel - Fummers all. Artie Van Why (Box Office Associate/Group Sales Manager) Originally from Maryland, Artie Van Why lived in New York City for 26 years before moving to Lancaster in 2003. A former actor, Artie wrote the play "That Day in September", which chronicles his eyewitness account of 9/11. Artie worked across from the World Trade Center. Since moving to Lancaster he has published the book version of "That Day in September." For further information about his memoir please visit Amazon.com. Kelly Sylvester (Human Resources Administrator) This Michigan native started theatre at Penn State as a BFA in Production. While living in NYC, she did carpentry and welding at Manhattan Theatre Club, research at The White House Project, co-produced with Kristy Puchko "Alice and the Devil", which premiered at the Johnstown Film Festival, and earned a BA in Linguistics, minor in Poetry from Brooklyn College. She came to Fulton Theatre in May 2006 as a welder and carpenter. Currently this HR Administrator welds part-time and writes poetry. Her poems have been published in Beginnings, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Compass Rose, Forge, Portland Review, and Words of Wisdom, and she has been recognized with The Bernard Grebanier Best Sonnet Award and received Honorable Mention for The Beatrice Dubin Rose Award. Jennifer Ridgway (Director of Education & Outreach) Jennifer's credits include the Smithsonian Institution, the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage (DC); Imagination Stage (MD); the Bonderman Playwriting for Youth Symposium (IN), and Alliance Theatre (GA), among others. Ridgway received her MFA in directing/theatre for youth at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro where she was a nominee for the prestigious Winifred Ward Scholarship. She holds a BA in performance from the University of Maryland, College Park. She participated in the 2010 QuestFest Conference as a Doris Duke Delegate. Ellie Aurand (House Manager) After a career in journalism and communications, and seven years as secretary of the Fulton Board of Trustees, Ellie accepted a "two- or three-week" opportunity to fill-in as house manager at the beginning of the 2005-06 season. A retired bank vice president at that time, she saw a golden opportunity to release her inner actress and try a new career. Since then, working with the wonderful volunteers and staff at the Fulton has provided daily opportunities to learn, to meet fascinating people, and to feel comfortable dancing or singing whenever she feels like it (except on stage). Carole N. Muise (Corporate Campaign Manager and Assistant to the Director of Development) Carole is in her 28th season at the Fulton. She is primarily responsible for coordinating the broad base portion of the Corporate Campaign working with 80+ volunteers on the Corporate Team. She also assists with grants, proposals and other details related to raising corporate dollars from the community. Carole is a native of Connecticut and graduated with honors from Becker College in Worcester, MA. She and her husband have four grown children and are the proud grandparents of ten grandchildren. |