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| Birkner, Jennifer | Theatre |
| Hernandez, Anthony | Visual |
| Johnson, Robert Henry | Dance |
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Robert Henry Johnson is a dancer and playwright who mixes movement style and literary influences with equal fluidity. The son of jazz singer Lady Mem'fis and guitarist Robert Gonzales, he was one of the first students to graduate from San Francisco's School of the Performing Arts. He attended the San Francisco Ballet School on full scholarship. His performances are an arresting mix of muscular virtuosity, manic energy and naked emotion. In addition to founding the Robert Henry Johnson Dance Company in 1993, Johnson has created works for Oakland Ballet, Bavarian State Opera Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theater and others. He has since disbanded his company to focus on solo work mixing dance and text, and is working on several new plays: "The Othello Papers," commissioned by the African American Shakespeare Company, and two plays commissioned by the Buriel Clay Play Reading Series. | |
| Mark, Tony | Theatre |
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Tony currently works as a director and editor for Benchmark Productions in Studio City, CA. He was in SFSOTA's first graduating class, and went on to attend the Tisch School of the Arts Film School at NYU, graduating in 1990. In 2006, he won an Emmy as Editor for the animated TV series Tutenstein and has worked in both television and film as a Director, Producer, Editor, and Photographer. http://www.tonymark.com; | |
| Smith, Jennifer | Dance |
| Stein, Naomi | Theatre |
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Naomi has been working for the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley for the past fourteen years. She uses theater as an interpretive tool for science, teaching back-country skills to teens and providing assemblies & hands-on science activities to schools throughout California and Nevada. During her career she has "edu-tained" over half a million people. She is the author of Teens Theatre: Recipes for Success, a handbook for youth leaders used around the world. http://lawrencehallofscience.org/teams/staff.html | |
| Tyler, Aisha | Theatre |
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Aisha Tyler graduated in Theater from SOTA in 1986, when the school was on the McAteer campus. She attended Dartmouth and first pursued a career as an advertising executive. She quickly changed course to pursue a solo standup comedy act in the 1990s in Los Angeles. She got a break hosting the comedic talk show "Talk Soup", eventually appearing regularly on the television series, Friends, and also Ghost Whisperer, 24 and various CSI's. Recently she has been doing film work and also wrote a bestselling book in 2004 Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl. | |