VAN VLECK HOUSE & GARDENS
Love Letters: On Love and Relationships
Two childhood friends' lifelong correspondence begins with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards. Romantically attached, they continue to exchange letters throughout the years, involving relationships, war, careers, politics, escapades, love, death and more.
DIRECTOR
DANNY VACCARO is thrilled to be part of the ACAPNJ Performance Series for the 5th year as Producer, Director, and sometimes actor. Bringing plays to this community has been a pleasure as well as a learning experience. With ACAP: Time Stands Still, Every Brilliant Thing, Three Days of Rain, Jericho. As a performer: Broadway and TourLa Cage aux Folles, Wizard of Oz, Diary of Anne Frank, Nunsense Amen, Streakin’. RegionalForeigner, Sweeney Todd, Lost in Yonkers, Next to Normal, Slow Food, Screwball Comedy. TV- Law & Order SVU, Younger. Danny is a graduate of Northwestern University and a member of Actor’s
CAST
MICHAEL SATOW (Andy) Off-Broadway/NY Stage includes: A Better Place (The Duke) Final Analysis (The Griffin), Hot Season (Sheen Center), Raft of the Medusa (Secret Theatre), Look Upon Our Lowliness (HSA Theatre), Merchant of Venice (Westbeth). Regional Stage includes: Time Stands Still, On Golden Pond (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Rumors, Betrayal (Theatre Workshop of Nantucket), Red (Riverside Theatre), Lend Me A Tenor, Arsenic & Old Lace, Hound of the Baskervilles (Florida Rep), Hannah (Premiere Stages), Shipwrecked! (Capital Rep), Proof (Seacoast Rep), Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.), Jericho (Florida Studio Theatre). TV/Film includes: Elementary, Instinct (CBS), Recurring as Stark Schiff in The Good Fight (CBS), Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver (HBO), Manhattan Love Story, All My Children (ABC) Under Jakob’s Ladder, How To Break Up With Your Mother. Numerous commercials and voiceovers. Graduate of Northeastern University and Maggie Flanigan Studio. – AEA, SAGAFTRA.
ELEANOR HANDLEY (Melissa) Eleanor is thrilled to be part of this special program for another year, after directing 'Every Brilliant Thing' and then appearing in the online streaming productions of both 'Three Days of Rain' and 'Jericho'. Her professional credits includeNYC: The Hard Problem (Lincoln Center) Jericho (59E59), Limonade Tous les Jours (Cell Theatre) and A Christmas Carol (Morgan Library). Regional includes Midsummer Night's Dream, Private Lives, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Blithe Spirit, Lend Me a Tenor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Time Stands Still, Witness for the Prosecution, Lost in Yonkers, Rumors (Bristol Riverside Theatre); and King Lear, The Three Musketeers, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). TV:
PRESENTERS
PRESENTERS
Dr. Annette Vaccaro is our Producer, Conference Chair, as well as a Presenter for this theater conference. She is a director and faculty member at ACAP and the program coordinator in the graduate mental health counseling program with art therapy specialization at Caldwell University. She is in general private practice in Livingston, NJ where she specializes in clinical supervision in four professions: counseling, art therapy, social work, and psychoanalysis.
Dr. Patricia Bratt is a psychoanalyst/psychotherapist practicing in Livingston, NJ and NYC. She is President of NAAP (National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis), a Director of the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis (ACAP) in Livingston and ICPS (Institute of Counseling and Psychoanalytic Studies - NJ branch of BGSP) regionally accredited MA programs in Mental Health Counseling.
Dr. Connie Bareford is a counselor in Livingston, NJ. She currently practices at Breakthrough Psychotherapy LLC and is a Psychoanalyst in training at ACAP.
Dr. Rosemary S. McGee is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and practices in Livingston, NJ. She also is a poet, publisher, student, and teacher, having shifted her focus after a successful 25-year career as a Wall Street executive. She has earned her doctorate in Medical Humanities at Drew University in Madison, NJ, and a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis – New Jersey Campus.
Kim Traina Nolan is a highly creative Art Therapist experienced working with culturally diverse populations in a multitude of therapeutic settings. She also has a strong clinical background reinforced by supportive interdisciplinary teamwork and expanded knowledge in psychosocial counseling.
Susan Saunders is an experienced Psychotherapist with a demonstrated history of working in the mental health care industry. Skilled in Individual, Group Therapy, Clinical Supervision, Children and Adolescent Therapy, and Couples Counseling. Strong clinical services professional with a M.S.W. focused in Clinical Social Work from Hunter College School of
Social Work and post- graduate psychotherapy training at ACAP.
LOVE LETTERS: ON LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS
Story by A.R. Gurney
With Michael Satow and Eleanor Handley
Presented by ACAP and ICPS Cosponsoring with NAAP
Sunday July 31, 2022
2:00-6:00 PM At Van Vleck House & Gardens
Directed by: Danny Vaccaro
Produced by: Annette Vaccaro Conference Chair: Annette Vaccaro
Playbill designed by: Idalis Arcangel
Special thank you to: Katie Fraser, Kaila Hawriluk. Chantel Fletcher, Lori Feigenbaum, and all volunteers __
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ACAP serves as a community resource by offering courses, clinical programs and experiences, and Continuing Education (CE) opportunities to help build skills for those working with individuals and groups in the areas of interpersonal relationships, crisis resolution, education and mental health issues, and parenting. ACAP with its partner ICPS, a branch of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP), are educational and mental health resources, offering degrees, empowering individuals, and organizations with practical, successful life strategies.
The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) since 1972 has successfully pursued its mission to unite the various schools of psychoanalytic
thought and to ensure the independence, advancement, recognition, and sustainability of the profession of psychoanalysis.