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Class of 2000: 91 Alumni    [Click to Return]

Abadie, MeganDance
Aherns, AlexaInstr
Ahrens, AlexaInstr
Anderson, ElizabethTheatre

Liz Anderson is a San Francisco native. She has been seriously pursuing a career in theater since high school (at San Francisco's SOTA), during which she was honored as a California State Arts Scholar.

She received a scholarship to New York University where she earned her BFA. She also attended The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where she studied and performed Shakespeare.

After graduation she moved to Los Angeles where she designed and implemented a Shakespeare program in the area's "Title I" schools.

Liz is currently a professional working actor in theater, film and television. Her theater company, Dr. Emile's Theater Tremendo, recently won Best of Fringe, at the San Francisco International Fringe Festival, and she has just finished production on the film, The Village Barbershop, acting opposite John Ratzenberger. Liz feels very fortunate to have found a home at BRAVA and is proud to be a bilingual teaching artist at Paul Revere K-8, and Alvarado Elementary school.

Baltzer, RobynDance
Baugh-Sasaki, MarkVisual
Graduated with honors in 2004 from Carnegie Mellon in Fine Arts, with a focus on sculpture, installation, site specific works, and electronic time-based media. His work has been exhibited at various galleries in San Francisco, including the Swarm, Apature, the Hang Art Gallery and recently he created a site specific work for the Hayes Valley Arts Coalition. www.mark-baugh-sasaki.com
Beckerman, AaronInstr
Blacke, LindaVocal
Bleiberg, JothamInstr
Brand, Karen Instr
Bresee, Jen & KatieVisual
Bryan, DianeMedia
Cash, AyaTheatre

Aya Cash graduated from the Guthrie BFA Acting Program at the University of Minnesota. She appeared in the Great River Shakespeare Festival in 2004. She has most recently been getting rave reviews for her New York theater work, most recently Bruce Norris' The Itch and the Pain (2006) and Philistines by Maxim Gorky (2004).

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/theater/reviews/22itch.html

 

"But if the show has one standout performance, it's from Aya Cash, a relative newcomer to the New York stage. She takes the theoretically stereotypical role of Kalina and makes her not just hysterical (in both senses of the word) but smart -- even wise -- in a way that none of the more educated characters on stage can hope to match. It's the kind of performance that could -- and should -- be remembered during awards season.

It remains to be seen if New York audiences are ultimately willing to laugh at Norris' less-than flattering version of themselves. If so, The Pain and the Itch is not only a satire that won't close on Saturday night; it could become Playwrights Horizons' next commercial hit."


http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/9053

Castro, GabrielaTheatre
Chester, RachelTech
Chu, ElaineVisual
Cooney, SeanVisual
Crawford-Marks, SeanTheatre
Curry, MarinaDance
Davis, AngelMedia
Devine, JessicaInstr
Dragon, DanielleMedia
Graduated in 2007 from San Francisco State, in Mechanical Engineering. Taught a workshop on engineering for girls at Skyline College in March 2009.
Ellenwood, NizhoniTheatre
Evans, JenniferDance
Fallihee, ShaunaVocal
Recently made debuts as Frasquita (Carmen) with West Bay Opera and Barbarina (Marriage of Figaro) with Goat Hall Productions.  Soprano soloist in Mozart's 'Requiem' in April 2009.  New music performances with Volti and Nothing Set Ensemble in May and June 2009.
Feng, BelindaVisual
Friedman, AmyVisual
Gamino, PedroDance
Currently dancing with the American Repertory Ballet in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and also teaching since 2008 at the Icon Dance Complex. He grew up in the Mission District, trained at the Academy of Ballet and later with the School of American Ballet. He made his professional debut with the Smuin Ballet.  He has also performed with Choreographers and Friends, a showcase of several San Francisco-based choreographers.
Garcia, RebeccaInstr
Halloran, DennisTech
Harris, JulieVocal
Hartman, NaomiInstr
Helton, CassellVocal
Henriquez, Jamie & RocioTech
Holsclaw, CyndyInstr

She received her B.S. in 2005 in Cell and Molecular Biology at San Francisco State University and is currently in the graduate program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UC Davis. 

Houston, Jen'naVocal
Hutchens, MatthewDance
Iwamasa, ValeriePiano
Now singing and playing guitar with the “delicate and frightening rock band” the Pidgeons, based in San Francisco.  Their second album came out in 2008, Might As Well Go Eat Worms.
James, KhafreVisual
Ji, JasPiano
Johnson, LealahTheatre
Kennedy, RavenTheatre
Korniyenko, VeronicaVisual
Kunitomi, MarkVocal
Laupheimer, CraigTheatre
Liang, AlanaInstr
Liang, JulieInstr
Lipton, RichardTech
Richie graduated in Theatre Tech (Class of 2000).  He's part of the Santa Cruz hip hop, rap K-Pop music scene associated with Rec-League Records. He performs frequently in the Bay Area, and   opened for the Wu Tang Clan this past year.  He has a record coming out soon.(posted  May 2008)  http://www.myspace.com/richiecunning
Lletget, ValeriaDance
McCarthy-Foecke, OliverVisual
Morrison, DanicaInstr
Mostert, KatieVisual
B.A. in Art from UC Santa Cruz in 2004. Now teaching art to elementary school students in Mill Valley.
Mui, PrestonDance
Muravitskaya, AnnaVocal
Nim, NancyTheatre
O'Brien, Conor Visual
Osborne, JeanetteVisual
Peak, LaurenTheatre
Pembridge, SarahVisual
Phuong, MaryTheatre
Graduated from San Jose State University in 2004 with a BS in Marketing. Working at Patriot Memory in Fremont, CA, as a Marketing Specialist, including coordinating trade shows.
Picar, AlexandraVisual
Ramos, GabrielVisual
Rico, LisaTheatre
Robinson, NatachaVisual
Rodgers, SkyDance
Rudnick, NinaDance
Rudzinski, MarthaVisual
Rutherford, MoniqueDance
Seelig, CarlieInstr
Seeman, MaxVisual
Segal, ZacharyMedia

Zach studied computer animation at Humboldt State University. After graduating in 2005 he returned to San Francisco and started a digital production company, Illusion Productions, which designs web sites, among other things. He now lives in Boston.

Sorensen, KatieInstr
Surkis, DianaDance
Torres, AnnaVisual
Totah, SamInstr
Sammy Totah has been rapping on stage with Grammy Award winning performer Carlos Santana, and his son Salvador, since he was still in high school?Born and raised in San Francisco, Totah's Palestinian father and Mexican-American mother gave him a culturally diverse introduction to music and the arts. When he was just seven Totah began writing poetry to fill a creative urge and to articulate his feelings.

Totah's father encouraged his creative development and introduced him to different genres of music and musical instruments. Totah opened the door to a musical career by going to San Francisco's School of the Arts High School to play the classical French horn and baritone tuba. Totah met Carlos Santana's son, Salvador, at school.

In 1999, Totah performed for the first time on stage with Carlos and Salvador Santana at a benefit concert for his high school.
Trevor, Colin Tech
Trono, ThomasInstr
Tso, JuveniaInstr

A cellist while at SOTA, Juvenia merged her love of music, people and photography by photographing bands throughout the Bay Area. She is currently enrolled in the Brooks Institute of Photography, in Santa Barbara,  and per her web page,  "constructs the quality of light to capture people that intrigue her curiosity."   www.juveniaphoto.com

Umphress, AlyshaVocal
Von Bozzay, ZinaInstr
Vuksinich, LauraInstr
Wechasethanon, VanidapronVisual
Wei, YingVisual
Weinberger, JamesVisual
Wheeler, NatalieInstr
Won, DeniseInstr
Wong, BenInstr
Wong, FlorenceInstr
Wong, JeanetteInstr
Wong, LaurenVisual
Yu, KathyInstr