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Rodger Guerrero
Director of the Choral Music Program
Mr. Guerrero has conducted choirs at all levels for twenty years. He earned his B.A. in Choral Conducting from Loyola Marymount University, his M.M. in Choral Conducting from the University of Miami, and has completed some course work for a D.M.A. in Choral Conducting from USC. Choirs under his direction have performed at state, regional, and national music conventions and have won many prestigious regional and national choral competitions. In addition to directing high school choirs for seventeen years and children's choirs for five years, Mr. Guerrero has conducted collegiate vocal ensembles at Fresno State University, the University of Miami and USC. In addition to his responsibilities at HW, he also serves as Director of Pastoral Music at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Hollywood, where he is responsible for four choirs and five services every weekend.
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Sara Shakliyan
Accompanist
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Mark Hilt
Conductor
In 1997, Mark Hilt was appointed to the Performing Arts faculty at Harvard-Westlake. Mr. Hilt teaches sight-singing, accompanies five choral ensembles and is Musical Director for the annual music theatre production. He also serves as Organist at First Presbyterian in Santa Monica in March of 2000, as well as accompanying singers and instrumentalists and playing solo recitals throughout the Los Angeles area.
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![[Alex Kolmanovsky]](/portals/8/FacultyPictures/akolmanovsky.jpg "Alex Kolmanovsky - Set Design")
![[letter icon]](/portals/8/FacultyPictures/department_email.png) akolmanovsky@hw.com
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Alex Kolmanovsky
Set Design
Alex has designed scenery and lighting for nearly a hundred theatrical productions in educational and professional theatre. He has been involved in Theme Park Design all over the world since 1988. The work included scenery for rides at Disneyland USA, Discovery Theatre in Tama, Japan as well as Wakayma Park, Japan and Expo '93 in Seoul, Korea. Mr. Kolmanovsky worked on designing rides and themed architecture in Las Vegas, NV. Some of the projects included New York, New York Casino, Buffalo Bill Casino, Whiskey Pete Casino. His design work for Performing Arts includes scenery for Neil Diamond World Tour as well countless music videos for MTV. His design for commercials and industrial shows include a water park for US. High Diving team, AT&T phone company, Miller Brewing Corporation, Lexus, and LA Gear Industrial Show in Munchen, Germany. Mr. Kolmanovsky was an Art Director for a number of films. “Murder by Numbers” L&M Productions. “Sexy LexI” Zany Film Productions as well as others. He has MFA degree in Performing Arts Design and Technology from CalArts.
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Shawn Costantino
Jazz Studies
Mr. Costantino is in his second year at Harvard-Westlake. He will be teaching the Jazz Explorers, Jazz Band, Studio Jazz Band, Jazz Rhythm Section Class and in the Fall of 2007, a new synthesizer class. He holds degrees from The University of Miami, DePaul University, and has started a Doctoral degree at the University of Northern Colorado. During his college years he performed with many jazz luminaries including Jim McNeeley, Wynton Marsalis, Phil Woods, and Kenny Werner. He was also a fixture with Royal Caribbean Cruises, where he was hired as a full-time Musical Director at only 22 years old. As a jazz educator, Mr. Costantino revitalized the jazz program at Naperville Central High School in Naperville Illinois. It was there that he honed his teaching and jazz directing skills, sending numerous students to all state, honor bands, and numerous top music schools. In addition to his teaching career at HW, Costantino also enjoys a very active career as a saxophonist/woodwind expert, writer, studio player, and is a yamaha sponsered clinician.
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Christopher Michael Moore
Director of the Theater Program
Christopher Michael Moore holds bachelor degrees in Theater and Radio, Television, Film Production from Northwestern University. Mr. Moore has been a working actor for over thirty years with copious professional credits in film, theater, and television. He has acted, directed, written and produced theatrical productions in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York City. Mr. Moore is the producer of Harvard-Westlake’s annual Playwright’s Festival; a festival which features original student written one-act plays. He is the program director of the Summer Intensive Acting Workshop employing professional actors, directors, casting directors, choreographers, and instructors for a three-week intensive workshop for the serious young actor. He is the faculty mentor of The Live Theater Club.
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Melissa Ouellet
Box Office Manager
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Lisa Peters
Costume Designer
Lisa Peters has worked as a professional costumer for over sixteen years and has designed and built costumes for Universal Studios Japan, the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and Center Theater Group. She also works with individual and corporate clients on a freelance basis and has completed projects for Rocket City Cosmetics, Jamba Juice, and Jazzercise, Inc.. Lisa earned her degree in costume design from the California Institute of the Arts.
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![[Rees Pugh]](/portals/8/FacultyPictures/rpugh.jpg "Rees Pugh - Master Carpenter; Theater")
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Rees Pugh
US Performing Arts Department Chair
Master Carpenter; Theater
Rees Pugh comes to us from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts by way of Vassar College, (BA Drama) New York City, San Francisco and most recently, South Pasadena, where he currently lives with his son, Ezra. A classically trained actor (A.C.T., Stella Adler Institute) and founding member of A Noise Within, (Glendale's classical theater company) he has also worked extensively behind the scenes on TV, Film and theater productions. Most recently, before arriving at Harvard Westlake in the spring of 2001, he built and installed expansion projects for Disneyland Theme Parks in Florida, Tokyo and Anaheim, for Walt Disney Imagineering.
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Andrew Villaverda
Technical Director
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klowry@hw.com
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Katherine Lowry
Part-time Dance
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Michele Spears
Choreographer/Scene Monkeys Co-Director
Michele Spears is an award winning musical theatre director and choreographer. She has worked for such organizations as The Pasadena Playhouse, Academy of New Musical Theatre, Contemporary Musical Theatre Co. of Santa Barbara, Cornerstone Theatre, Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera and L.A. Gay Men's Chorus. She has performed in numerous musicals including national and European tours. Michele co-created and directed the improvised musical CATTLE CALL for LATS/Impro Theatre, where she is a long time company member and teacher. She has also taught improv and acting for USC, UCLA, LA Acting Corps, and LA Unified Artists in Residency Program. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
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Ted Walch
Film Studies; Theater
Ted Walch was Director of Theater at St. Albans School in Washington, DC, and then at The Branson School in Ross, CA, before coming to Harvard-Westlake in 1991. Walch founded and served as Artistic Director of two professional theaters, SART in Washington, DC, and Kenyon Festival Theater in Gambier, OH, where as Artistic Director he worked with Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Chris Cooper, and Allison Janney, among others. A native of Sedalia, MO, and principal teacher in the Walch Acting Workshop in Los Angeles for professional actors, Walch considers himself first and foremost a secondary-school instructor.
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Cynthia Winter
Director of the Dance Program
Cynthia Winter has been dancing professionally since she was seventeen in both theater and television, and has worked as a choreographer throughout her career. She has been a member of several dance companies, and danced and toured internationally with Margalit Dance Theater as lead dancer for fifteen years. She received her MA in Dance from UCLA, and she has been teaching dance for over twenty years. Ms. Winter is the head of the Upper School Dance Program, and teaches dance and choreography as well as produces the annual dance concerts.
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