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Past SpringboardNYC Mentors

We provide SpringboardNYC students with access to the finest working artists, professionals and mentors throughout the program. Each year, based on the specific interests and needs of the admitted class, mentors are invited to join the program. SpringboardNYC mentors are a group of generous, talented, and award-winning artists drawn from our global artistic community - including Broadway, Off-Broadway and around the country.

Sebastian Arcelus - Actor (Elf, Wicked)

Michael Arden - Actor (Big River, The Times They Are A-Changin')

Stafford Arima - Director (Tin Pan Alley Rag, Altar Boyz)

Brooks Ashmanskas - Actor (Promises, Promises, The Producers, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me)

Damien Bassman - Percussionist (The Color Purple, High Fidelity)

Rob Berman - Musical Director (White Christmas, The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town)

Jonathan Bernstein - Director (Associate Director: The Iceman Cometh, The King & I)

Heidi Blickenstaff - Actress (The Little Mermaid, [title of show])

Jeff Blumenkrantz - Tony Award-nominated Composer (Urban Cowboy) and Actor (H2$)

Beowulf Boritt - Set and Costume Designer (The Two and Only, 25th Annual...Spelling Bee)

Christian Borle - Actor (Mary Poppins, Legally Blonde, Spamalot, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

Judy Bowman - Casting Director

Christian Borle - Actor (Shrek, Passing Strange, Cymbeline)

Jason Robert Brown - Composer/Lyricist (13, Parade, The Last Five Years)

Andrea Burns - Actress (In The Heights, Songs for a New World, Parade)

Mary Mitchell Campbell - Musical Director (The Addams Family, Company)

Will Cantler - Telsey and Company, Associate Artistic Director of MCC Theater

David Caparelliotis - Casting Director, MelCap Casting and Manhattan Theatre Club

Donna Lynne Champlin - Actor (Billy Elliot, Sweeney Todd, Hollywood in Arms)

Howie Cherpakov - Casting Director (Chicago, Wonderful Town)

Jodi Collins - Casting Director, Jodi Collins Casting and Production

Thomas Cott - Director of Marketing, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

Billy Crudup - Actor (The Pillowman, Coast of Utopia, Big Fish)

Ken Davenport - Producer (Altar Boyz, Awesome 80s Prom)

Brian Davidson - Agent, Innovative Artists

Marcia DeBonis - Casting Director, Actress (Letters to Juliet, Whatever Works)

Jason DeBord - Musical Director (Legally Blonde)

Jeremy Desmon - Kleban Award-Winning Bookwriter (The Girl in the Frame)

Lisa Despain - Musical Director, Jazz Composer

Kurt Deutsch - Sh-K-Boom Records

Marcia Milgrom Dodge - Director/Choreographer (Ragtime, Seussical)

Michael Emerson - Actor (Hedda Gabler, Gross Indecency)

Raúl Esparza - Tony Award-nominated Actor (Company, Taboo)

Katie Finneran - Actress (Promises, Promises, Noises Off)

Danielle Ferland - Commercial Casting Director, Broadcasters

Peter Flynn - Director/Actor/Writer

Carl Forsman - Director, Artistic Director Keen Company

Sue Frost - Producer (Memphis, Vanities: A New Musical, Goodspeed Musicals)

David Gaines - Musical Director

Leah Gardiner - Director

Gary Gersh - Partner, Innovative Artists Talent Agency

Bernard Gersten - Executive Producer, Lincoln Center Theater

Stuart Gelles - Founder, President and CEO of Source Management

Asmeret Ghebremichael - Actor (Legally Blonde, In The Heights)

Neil Ginsberg - Musical Director

Sam Gold - Director, Juilliard School (Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens)

Lauren Graham - Actress (Guys and Dolls, Gilmore Girls)

Cara Greene - Teaching Artist

Russell Gregory - Manager, Regarding Entertainment

Kimberly Grigsby - Musical Director (Spring Awakening, The Light in the Piazza)

Jonathan Groff - Actor (Spring Awakening, The Light in the Piazza)

Joseph Harding - Forrest Solutions

Neil Patrick Harris - Actor (How I Met Your Mother, Assassins, Proof)

Michael Hartman - Press Agent, The Hartman Group

Jack Hayes - Actor/Dancer (Chicago, H2$)

Stephen McKinley Henderson - Actor (August Wilson's Fences, Jitney ensemble

Richie Jackson - Partner, Innovative Artists Talent Agency

Craig Jacobs - Production Stage Manager (The Phantom of the Opera, Gypsy)

Peter Francis James - Actor (The Lady From Dubuque, Stuff Happens)

Allison Janney - Actorr (9 to 5: The Musical, Away We Go)

Valerie Lau-Kee - Equity Stage Manager (Mary Poppins, Wonderful Town, Aida)

Celia Keenan-Bolger - Actor (25th Annual...Spelling Bee, Saved)

Clea Lewis - Actress (Absurd Person Singular, Ellen)

Allison Leyton-Brown - Music Director/Composer/Accompanist

Margo Lion - Producer (The Wedding Singer, Caroline, or Change)

Hal Luftig - Producer (West Side Story, All My Sons, Legally Blonde)

Randy Ellen Lutterman - Director of SpringboardNYC, Former Executive Director, Musical Theatre Works

Dwayne Mann - House Manager (Lincoln Center Theatre, The Gershwin Theatre)

Jeff Markowitz - Stage Manager (Urban Cowboy, A Class Act)

Kathleen Marshall - Director/Choreographer (Anything Goes, Grease, The Pajama Game)

Jeff Marx & Robert Lopez - Authors (Avenue Q)

Audra McDonald - Actress (A Raisin in the Sun, Ragtime)

Michael McKean - Actor (Our Town, The Homecoming, Hairspray)

Rick Miramontez - Press Agent, O&M Co.

Susan Misner - Actress/Dancer (Chicago, Sex and the City, As Good As It Gets)

Jerry Mitchell - Director/Choreographer (Legally Blonde, Hairspray)

Jessica Molaskey - Actor (Parade, Songs for a New World)

Meg Mortimer - Talent Manager, Principal Entertainment

Rusty Mowery - Actor/Dancer (Hairspray, Ragtime)

Ross Myerson - Casting Director, Julie Tucker Casting

Cynthia Nixon - Actress (Sex and the City, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)

Anika Noni Rose - Actor (Dreamgirls, Caroline, or Change)

Martha Plimpton - Actor (Pal Joey, The Coast of Utopia)

Eva Price - Producer (The Addams Family, Joy, How The Grinch Stole Christmas)

Lonny Price - Director (Urban Cowboy, Master Harold... and the Boys, A Class Act)

Daisy Prince - Director (The Last Five Years, Songs for A New World))

Harold Prince - Director/Producer (Follies, Sweeney Todd, Company, Cabaret, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, A Little Night Music)

John Rando - Director (The Toxic Avenger, Urinetown, The Wedding Singer)

Phylicia Rashad - Actor (August Osage County, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof)

Ben Rimalower - Director (Joy)

Jordan Roth - Producer (Jujamcyn, The Rocky Horror Show)

Paul Rudd - Actor (Clueless, Three Days of Rain)

Seth Rudetsky - Musical Director/Writer/Performer

John Ruocco - Director (Smoking Bloomberg, NYMF 2006)

Cindi Rush - Casting Director, Cindi Rush Casting

Ben Sands - Agent, The Mine

Sara Schatz - Casting Associate, Jay Binder Casting

Mark Schlegel - Agent, Cornerstone Talent

Liev Schreiber - Actor (Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross)

Pablo Schreiber - Actor (Desire Under The Elms, Awake and Sing!)

Pablo Schreiber - Actor (Desire Under The Elms, Awake and Sing!)

Sherie Rene Scott - Actor (Everyday Rapture, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Aida)

Stacy Seidel - Casting Director (film, television, radio)

Marian Seldes - Actor (Equus, A Delicate Balance)

Joanna Sheehan - Management Associate, American Theatre Wing

Leigh Silverman - Director (Coraline, Yellow Face, Well)

Mark Simon - Casting Director (Ragtime, The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Michael Stuhlbarg - Actor (The Pillowman, Measure for Pleasure)

Dani Super - Casting Director

Daniel Swee - Casting Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Clarke Thorell - Actor (Titanic, Hairspray)

Susanne Tighe - Press Agent, Boneau Bryan-Brown

Jennifer Van Dyck - Actor (Orson's Shadow, Hedda Gabler)

Elliot Villar - Actor (Coraline, The Brothers Size)

Jonathan Walker - Actor (On the Twentieth Century, Far From Heaven)

Noah Weisberg - Actor (South Pacific, Legally Blonde)

Charlotte Wilcox - Manager, Charlotte Wilcox Company

Allan Williams - General Manager (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables)

Jeff Wilson - General Manager (The Woman in White, Spamalot)

Orin Wolf - Off-Broadway Booking (A View From The Bridge)

Stephanie Yankwitt - Casting Director (Across The Universe)

John Lloyd Young - Tony Award-winning Actor (Jersey Boys)

Jerry Zaks - (La Cage aux Folles, Guys and Dolls, Lend Me A Tenor)

Jana Zielonka - Music Director

The casts and creative teams of the following productions:

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Adding Machine

American Idiot

August: Osage County

Avenue Q

Awake and Sing!

Billy Elliot

Bug

Burnt Part Boys

Company

Cry Baby

Everyday Rapture

The History Boys

I Am My Own Wife

In The Heights

Inherit the Wind

Legally Blonde

Little Shop of Horrors

Master Harold...and the boys

Memphis

Our Town

The Phantom of the Opera

Promises, Promises

Radio Golf

reasons to be pretty

Spring Awakening

Stuff Happens

Sweeney Todd

Top Girls

The Toxic Avenger

Urban Cowboy

Waiting for Godot

The Wedding Singer

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?