The Department of Drama and Dance elsewhere, her home email address (for PWB updates or just to keep in touch) is ADNPWB@AOL.COM Harriet Peters retired in December, ’96 but still active in the affairs of the Department. Ilona Pierce (Voice & Speech) M.F.A. in Voice and Speech Coaching and Training from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, with internships at The Juilliard School and Yale School of Drama; her BFA in Musical Theatre is from Ithaca College; has taught on the theatre faculties of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford and Ithaca College, and as associate faculty for the Canadian National Voice Intensive; roles as an actress include: Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, Julie in Julie Johnson, Rosalind in As You Like It and Bette Davis et al in the one-woman version of Me and Jezebel; as a voice/dialect coach, has worked for Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, The Denver Center Theatre Company, Aspen Theatre in the Park and The Hangar Theatre; she and her husband, Erik, have two children: Maya and Dash. Susan Turner Radin (Adjunct Professor) is proud to be a part of the Dance Education Program of Hofstra University, teaching Teaching Dance at the Secondary Level and serving as a cooperating teacher to student teachers; received a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Political Science and International Studies from Boston College; after deciding to forego a career in law, Turner returned to N.Y. and received her MA in Dance and Dance Education from Columbia University, Teacher’s College; founded 56
Turner Dance in 1996 and has since performed Arts and Education programs featuring health and social issues throughout PA and NY schools and innovative dance concerts fusing modern dance, poetry, sculpture, and story in venues throughout the Northeast; in 1999, Turner Dance participated in an International Arts Festival European Cultural Arts Month; taught dance in the NYC schools for five years and currently is proud to teach dance in the Performing Arts Department of Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station; her program was recently featured on Channel 12; has also directed and choreographed musicals in a variety of venues throughout Long Island; this year Turner has been blessed to have had her first child, a son, Quinn Robert Radin; as teachers and parents, our greatest achievements are the happiness and success of our children. Cindy Rosenthal (Professor of Drama and Dance); holds a doctorate in Performance Studies from NYU;. Hofstra directing credits include Undeclared History by Hofstra alum Isaac Rathbone, Nickel and Dimed and Six Characters in Search of an Author (Drama Department) and The Waiting Room, Beckett Shorts and Top Girls (New College); acting credits include New Jersey Shakespeare and the Bread Loaf Theater, Vermont, where she performed in Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest (2010) and in A Streetcar Named Desire (2011); with James Harding, she coedited The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011) and Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theatres and their Legacies
(Michigan, 2006); she co-edited Living on Third Street: Plays of the Living Theatre 1989-1992 (Autonomedia, 2008) with Hanon Reznikov; current book projects include Ellen Stewart’s La Mama: An Illustrated and Oral History--The First Fifty Years, a monograph analyzing Ellen Stewart’s life and work (forthcoming, Michigan); in Spring 2011, as part of Hofstra’s 75th Anniversary Celebration, she was conference co-director (with Robin Becker and Robert Westley) of INTO SUNLIGHT, an interdisciplinary conference exploring the impact of war on the social body, which was inspired by David Maraniss’ book about the Vietnam War, They Marched Into Sunlight. Dyane Harvey-Salaam (African dance, Modern) has performed on Broadway, in film, on television and on the concert stage; she has danced for major modern dance choreographers Fred Benjamin, Eleo Pomare, Alvin Ailey, Ze’eva Cohen, and Dianne McIntyre; she has appeared in Your Arms Too Short to Box With God, Timbuktu and The Wiz and she is a founding member of Abdel Salaam’s Forces of Nature Dance Theatre; her choreographic and teaching experiences have placed her at Princeton University, Howard University, the University of Florida at Gainesville, The Acting Company, the New Federal Theatre, and New York University’s Graduate Acting Program; she has received two Audelco Awards, The Monarch Merit Award, and the Ira Aldridge Award. Peter Sander (Scene Study, Shakespeare acting, Play Analysis) spent a very busy fall term directing and acting; directed the