2010 Master Class Teachers (partial list)
Please note: all teachers are subject to change, based on availability.

Joe DiPietro
Kate Grant
Kimberly Grigsby
Denis Jones
Lisa Leguillo
William Ivey Long
David Loud
Michael Mayer
Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Seth Rudetsky

Joe DiPietro wrote the book and lyrics to the Broadway show MEMPHIS. His other credits include: (Broadway) ALL SHOOK UP; (Off-Broadway) I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE, and THE THING ABOUT MEN (both with composer Jimmy Roberts), OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS and THE TOXIC AVENGER (with David Bryan, 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical).

Kate Grant has spent a life in the theatre as a teacher, writer and actress. After graduating from Juilliard, she appeared in over one hundred plays at such theaters as the Roundabout and Public in New York. Her first full-length play, THE WOUND OF LOVE received the Berilla Kerr Award in playwriting and went on to full productions at at the Actors Studio, Penguin Repertory Theater, the John Houseman Studio Theater and Provincetown Repertory. Her newest play received readings at the Barrow Group Theater and the Abingdon. Her screenplay THE PRACTICE ROOM is in development with Brooklyn Independent Studios. She recently acquired her Doctorate in Arts and Letters at Drew University. She teaches acting and writing for performance at St. Francis College in Brooklyn.

Kimberly Grigsby is the music director for Julie Taymor and U2's upcoming Broadway musical SPIDERMAN, which is scheduled to open in February 2010 at the Hilton Theatre. She was conductor and music director of Broadway's SPRING AWAKENING (music by Duncan Sheik) and supervised the London production. She was also music director of Broadway's recent revival of GREASE. Music directing/conducting credits include, on Broadway, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (lyrics & music by Adam Guettel); CAROLINE OR CHANGE (music by Jeanine Tesori); THE FULL MONTY (music by David Yazbek); YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN and TWELFTH NIGHT (music by Jeanine Tesori); and Off-Broadway, SPRING AWAKENING (music by Duncan Sheik), TWO GENTLEMAN OF VERNONA (Shakespeare In the Park) ; SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED (various composers, lyrics by Mark Campbell); JUNIE B. JONES (music by Zina Goldrich); THE IMMIGRANT (music by Steven Alper); RADIANT BABY (music by Debra Barsha); and TWELFTH NIGHT (music by Duncan Sheik). For her work on CAROLINE OR CHANGE in Los Angeles, she received the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award for Music Direction; and for The Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of ELEGIES (lyrics & music by William Finn) she received the 2005 Barrymore Award for Music Direction. Additional regional credits include FLOYD COLLINS (music by Adam Guettel) and THE FIRST PICTURE SHOW (music by Jeanine Tesori). Other collaborations include MY LIFE IS A FAIRY TALE and ORPHAN OF ZHAO, both with lyrics & music by Stephin Merritt for Lincoln Center Festival; LOVE'S FIRE (Adam Guettel); O PIONEERS! (Kim Sherman); FOOLS RUSH IN (Steve Marzullo); TELAIO: DESDEMONA (Susan Botti). Ms. Grigsby holds degrees from Southern Methodist University and Manhattan School of Music.

Denis Jones recently choreographed POP! (Yale Rep), Coraline (Lucille Lortel Theater), High School Musical, The Full Monty and Meet Me in St. Louis (Paper Mill Playhouse), Pirates! and She Loves Me (Huntington Theater/Williamstown Theater Festival),The Boy Friend (Maltz Jupiter Theater, Carbonell Award for Best Choreography), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Cape Playhouse) and Everyone Loves a Winner (Westport Country Playhouse). Denis was also the Associate Choreographer to Jerry Mitchell for Broadway’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Legally Blonde. Denis choreographed the Broadway concerts of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, On the Twentieth Century and A Wonderful Life as well as Charles Busch and Julie Halston Together on Broadway for the Actor’s Fund of America. Other credits include choreographing Sex And The City 2, The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS), Rosie Live (NBC) and national commercials for Staples and Glade. Denis was been proud to have served, from 2005-08, as the director of Broadway Bares, benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Lisa Leguillo is the Associate Director of WICKED on Broadway and has directed productions of WICKED in Australia, Germany and throughout the world. She provided the musical staging for LAUGH WHORE on Broadway and has worked with Joe Mantello on Broadway’s FRANKIE AND JOHNNY & TAKE ME OUT and all the productions of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES. As an actor, she appeared in eight Broadway shows; on TV in Sex and The City, NYPD Blue and NY Undercover; and in the films Changing Lanes, Center Stage, Everyone Says I Love You and HBO’s Angels in America.

William Ivey Long is a five time Tony Award winning costume designer who currently has CHICAGO running on Broadway in its fourteenth year.

Other credits include NINE TO FIVE; PAL JOEY; The New Mel Brooks Musical: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN; CURTAINS; GREY GARDENS (Tony Award); John Water’s HAIRSPRAY (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); THE PRODUCERS (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); THE BOY FROM OZ; TWENTIETH CENTURY; SWEET CHARITY; A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE; LA CAGE AUX FOLLES; THE FROGS; LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS; Susan Stroman’s DOUBLE FEATURE at the New York City Ballet; CABARET; NEVER GONNA DANCE; CONTACT (Hewes Award); THOU SHALT NOT; BIG; THE MUSIC MAN; ANNIE GET YOUR GUN; THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER; SWING; THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP; STEEL PIER; 1776; SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ; CRAZY FOR YOU (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards); GUYS AND DOLLS (Drama Desk Award); Madison Square Garden’s annual A CHRISTMAS CAROL; SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION; ASSASSINS (Obie Award); LEND ME A TENOR (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); NINE (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards); Robert Wilson’s HAMLETMACHINE; Leonard Bernstein’s A QUIET PLACE and TROUBLE IN TAHITI; Vienna State Opera, LaScala, Houston Grand Opera, and the Kennedy Center; THE LOST COLONY; Mick Jagger for the Rolling Stones’ STEEL WHEELS tour; SIEGFRIED AND ROY at the Mirage Hotel; The Pointer Sisters at Caesar’s Palace, Paul Taylor; Twyla Tharp; Peter Martins; David Parsons.

Mr. Long has also designed costumes for such films as THE PRODUCERS: The Movie Musical, CURTAIN CALL (Starring Maggie Smith and Michael Caine); THE CUTTING EDGE; and LIFE WITH MICKEY.

A North Carolina native, Mr. Long holds a BA from The College of William and Mary, studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Mr. Long has eleven Tony Award nominations for his work. He has also received The North Carolina Award for Fine Arts (November 2004), The Order of the Long Leaf Pine (2001), the Lifetime Achievement Award, Carolina Playmakers, U.N.C., Chapel Hill (1994), and the Morrison Award, Roanoke Island Historical Association.

David Loud is the music director of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM for the Roundabout Theatre Company, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS by Kander and Ebb, directed by Susan Stroman for the Vineyard, and BAND GEEKS for Goodspeed Musicals. He was the music director for CURTAINS AND RAGTIME on Broadway as well as STEEL PIER, A CLASS ACT, THE LOOK OF LOVE and the revivals of SHE LOVES ME, COMPANY, THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE and SWEENEY TODD. Off- Broadway, he created the vocal and dance arrangements for AND THE WORLD GOES ’ROUND. Regional work includes the world premieres of Kander and Ebb’s THE VISIT and HAROLD AND MAUDE. He originated the role of Manny in Terrence McNally’s MASTER CLASS, and he made his Broadway debut in Harold Prince’s original 1981 production of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. He is a graduate of Yale University.

Michael Mayer is the director of AMERICAN IDIOT, based on Green Day’s Album “American Idiot”. He studied acting at New York University, where he earned an MFA in Theater in 1983. He began performing onstage in New York City but by 1990 had turned his efforts to directing, working as a freelancer while also teaching at NYU, the Lincoln Center Theatre Institute, and Juilliard. In 2007, Mayer won his first Tony Award for his direction of the musical adaptation of SPRING AWAKENING (2006), which also took the award for Best Musical. He was nominated for the 2002 Tony for his direction of THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, which he then directed on London's West End. Mayer also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for both SPRING AWAKENING and THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. Other Broadway credits include THE LION IN WINTER (1999), the 1999 revival of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, SIDE MAN (1998; Drama Desk Award), the 1998 Tony Award-winning revival of Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE starring Anthony LaPaglia and Brittany Murphy, for which he was nominated for a Tony and won the Drama Desk Award, and TRIUMPH OF LOVE, the musical starring Betty Buckley, Susan Egan and F. Murray Abraham, with music by Jeffrey Stock and lyrics by Susan Bikenhead. Mayer's off-Broadway directing credits include THE CREDEAUX CANVAS, John C. Russell's STUPID KIDS, Peter Hedges' BABY ANGER, Theresa Rebeck's VIEW OF THE DOME, and the New York premiere of Janusz Glowacki's ANTIGONE in New York. After directing on- and off-Broadway for more than 15 years, Mayer made his feature film directorial debut with A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, starring Colin Farrell and Robin Wright Penn, in 2004. He went on to make the family film FLICKA (2006), an adaptation of the story My Friend Flicka, which became a hit in DVD market.

Marcia Milgrom Dodge directed and choreographed this year's critically acclaimed Broadway revival of RAGTIME, which first premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2009. Her work has been seen throughout the United States, in Canada, Great Britain and South Korea. Other projects include: Seussical for Theatreworks-USA (Off-Broadway & National Tour, Lucille Lortel Award Nominations for Outstanding Choreography & Revival); Off-Broadway’s Cookin', Radio Gals, Closer Than Ever, Romance In Hard Times (NYSF), The Loman Family Picnic (MTC) and The Music Man at New York City Opera. For The Kennedy Center she also directed Tell Me On A Sunday (starring Alice Ripley) and choreographed Ken Ludwig's Sullivan & Gilbert. At Arena Stage Marcia choreographed Of Thee I Sing (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography), Merrily We Roll Along and On the Town. Marcia has directed many shows at Bay Street Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Riverside Theatre, Lyric Stage, Maltz-Jupiter, Pittsburgh Public, Goodman Theatre, Goodspeed, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and The Cape Playhouse. She has collaborated on new musicals and plays with Julie Andrews (Simeon's Gift), Rupert Holmes (Thumbs!), Jeffrey Hatcher (One Foot On The Floor), Robert Falls (Book of The Night and Riverview), William Bolcom (Casino Paradise) and Des McAnuff (Elmer Gantry). Marcia and her husband Anthony Dodge have written the books for two musicals: Look Homeward Honky Tonk Angel (with songs by Larry Gatlin) and Hats!. Their first play was the Edgar Award nominated Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror. A proud board member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, Marcia dedicates Ragtime to her beloved Tony & Natasha, all of her collaborators, students, assistants, colleagues, PJH, her entire family and everyone she's ever worked with! For more, please visit www.marciamilgromdodge.com.

Seth Rudetsky plays piano not only at some of the top Broadway shows, but also is an Emmy nominated comedy writer, award winning stand-up comic, and host of his own show on SIRIUS Satellite radio and a weekly Broadway talk show, Seth's Broadway Chatterbox, at Don't Tell Mama which benefits Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.

He is creator, artistic producer and conductor for HAIR in concert for the Actors Fund, FUNNY GIRL in concert starring Whoopi Goldberg and Bebe Neuwirth, the 20th Anniversary DREAMGIRLS concert starring Lillias White, Heather Headley and Audra MacDonald. On Broadway he played piano for THE PRODUCERS, MY FAVORITE YEAR, LES MISERABLES, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS..., THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, AN INSPECTOR CALLS, GREASE, SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, RAGTIME, VICTOR/VICTORIA and MAMMA MIA.

He is a 3-time Emmy-nominated comedy writer for "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and wrote for the 1999 and 2000 Grammy Awards, as well as the opening number for the 1998 and 2000 Tony Awards. He is a very busy DeeJay on Sirius Satellite Radio and can be heard every weekday afternoon on "The Beat 66" and every night on "Broadway's Best 77." He was also seen on MADE on MTV.

Seth Rudetsky graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a degree in Piano Performance. He currently resides in New York City.