Marc Durso Act True: news 2007

Billy Fajardo has over 30 years of dance performance experience. As a young man, he was the founder and lead performer of the Dance Dimensions, the internationally acclaimed dance company who appeared on NBC's Don Kirshner's Rock Concert for four seasons. He has appeared at Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall, Radio City and numerous top venues around the world. He has worked and choreographed for numerous headliners, including Gloria Gaynor, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Bob Hope...the list goes on... Film credits include "Carlito"s Way", "Cross Over Dreams", "Summer of Sam". Look for Billy on the new UPN Series "South Beach" dancing with the lovely Vanessa Williams.

Katie Marlow has been performing professionally since 1981. As a performer, she has assembled a wide range of credits stretching from cabaret revues, to theatre to television and feature films. She is a member of both Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity Association. Beginning her performance career as a showgirl aboard the Cunard NAC Cruise Line, she later branched out to do commercials and feature films. Just a few of her credits include "A Chorus Line: The Movie" the television show "The Equalizer" and "Miami Vice". She later moved into choreography, putting together, the "Hot Nights in the City night club revue in Japan. In 1995 she founded Dancesation! Entertainment - an upscale production company who provides entertainment services throughout the United States for major corporations.

ActTrue joins the prestigious faculty of the Maltz Jupiter Theater Conservatory of Performing Arts.	Construction is underway for the brand new *Conservatory of Performing Arts* facility. Renovations include new dance, acting and voice studios, as well as a student lounge, offices, bathrooms and storage. The new Conservatory is scheduld to open on September 17, 2007.
JUDY NOWE GELMAN Director of Education Musical Theatre	JUDY NOWE GELMAN, Director of Education Musical Theatre, Acting Founding Artistic Director of the Center for Theatre Arts and Kids Theatre Project, Pittsburgh, PA. Designed integrated arts curriculum for conservatory and community school of the arts; 25 years of teaching experience. Former students in Broadway productions of RENT, MISS SAIGON, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, GREASE, GYPSY, FOOTLOOSE, MINELLI ON MINELLI, SIDESHOW, MUSIC MAN, THE WEDDING SINGER, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, HAIRSPRAY; Students have performed with New York Public Theatre, Radio City Rockettes, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh City Theatre and dozens of National Equity Tours and international touring companies; the Pgh Ballet Theatre, the American Ballet Theatre, the Miami Ballet, the Netherlands Dance Company; they have been in film and industrials including STRIKING DISTANCE, CHICAGO, DIABOLIQUE, AMERICAN PIE; they have been accepted into theatre programs at Juillard, Boston Conservatory, Carnegie Mellon, Cincinnati Conservatory, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts, Point Park University, Northwestern University, Philadelphia School of the Arts, Yale. Ms. Gelman has staged the children’s performances with Bob McGrath and the Pgh. Symphony, the Pittsburgh Opera Theatre, The Pgh Chamber Opera, Three Rivers Arts Festival, The Children’s International Festival and the Westmoreland County Heritage Festival. She has appeared on local and national T.V., and has been a judge for the Civic Light Opera’s Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musicals. She has recently moved to West Palm Beach from Pittsburgh.
JACQUELINE BAYNE Dance	JACQUELINE BAYNE, Dance Just a few of Jacqueline's credits include: Broadway cast of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, National Equity Tour of RAGTIME (Evelyn Nesbit), National Equity Tour of SOME LIKE IT HOT (understudy for Marilyn Monroe), World premier cast of WHITE CHRISTMAS directed by Walter Bobbi; graduate of Northwestern University
CRAIG WICH Director of Vocal Studies	CRAIG WICH, Director of Vocal Studies Craig has been teaching voice and the performing arts since 1979. A faculty member of the Boston Conservatory of Music, he is also the founding director of the nationally renowned OPERA LABORATORY THEATER COMPANY. His wide range of experience is focused in a well-balanced approach to the development of the voice and performing arts’ skills. He works with a vast array of singing and performing styles. Many of his students have performed on Broadway, at the Metropolitan Opera and as recording artists. In addition to teaching, Mr. Wich has performed and directed with the Boston Lyric Opera, Boris Goldovsky Opera and the Library of Congress.

	ActTrue in LA!!! What an exciting, challenging, and promising trip to LA!!!! I coached LA ActTrue Actors, watched classes taught by top industry agents, scheduled an October/2007 LA ActTrue Workshop, and developed future workshops in Santa Barbara and Ojai. As soon as I arrived I headed straight for Hollywood where. I coached an LA ActTrue client for the CBS-TV show NUMB3RS at the Los Angeles Center Studios downtown LA, which is right around the corner from...
	...the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the renowned Music Center where I spent five years presenting the Joffrey, Kirov, Baryshnikov, ABT and ROCKETTES dance companies.
	I had a lunch meeting with LA ActTrue Actors Pat Battistini and *Danny Murphy* to develop a Teen Workshop in Santa Clarita, just north of Burbank. Pat just wrote and directed a short film with comedy star Ben Stiller. Dan can be seen in the films KINGPIN, SOMETHING ABOUT MARY and ME, MYSELF, AND IRENE *Article on Dan*
	And I also coached LA ActTrue Actor *Andrea Cont*e on the play BUS STOP. Andrea now studies at the prestigious Beverly Hills Playhouse. During the coaching on the scene Marilyn Monroe made famous, Andrea said, "How do you see all these things? Why aren't you teaching out here?"