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Andrea
Clair
Freelance
voiceover artist and vocalist, Andrea has
performed and been featured in and around
Philly for several years after moving to
the area from Manhattan. Andrea has performed
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Art
after Five, Chris's Jazz Cafe, among other
Philadelphia venues.
Andrea
is a graduate of NYU with a degree in vocal
performance and concentration in musical
theater. Andrea says she "really just
sings for the love of it whenever she gets
the chance."
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Diana
Finegold
Diana
Finegold, a passionate playwright, producer,
director and actor, is thrilled to be returning
to the Salon! Founder/Artistic Director
of The Wild Thyme Players for 26 years,
she has led them to great popularity and
acclaim in NY, CT, MA, and now PA. She is
the author of 14 Guess Whodunit Murder Mysteries,
hailed "a hilarious combination of
Sherlock Holmes and Monty Python."
Look for her onstage in June at Old Academy's
production of the comedy "Mornings
at Seven."
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Kathleen
Mulhearn
Kathleen
has performed in several productions in
the Philadelphia area for over 15 years.
Some of her favorite roles include Laura
in The Glass Menagerie, Sarah in Stop Kiss,
Amanda in The Food Chain, Chorus in Medea,
Mabel in The MostFabulous Story Ever Told,
Emma in Pterodactyls and Dorine in Tartuffe.
She shifted her focus to solo performance
while in the Master of Theatre program at
Villanova University. Her one-woman shows,
Through the Ring of Fire and Uncharted Waters,
are motivated by creating a universal human
experience through the telling of personal
stories that focus on the blundering, deeply
personal and often humorous moments in life.
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Rich
Rudin
Founder & Director of Maplewood Music
Studio, Rich Rudin received his Bachelor
and Master of Music degrees in theory and
composition from Temple University. His
other major area of study was piano - focusing
on classical music. Rich has performed regularly
throughout the Delaware Valley, playing
in a wide variety of styles: classical,
jazz, pop, folk, rock, etc. and has composed
hundreds of works in many different musical
styles including music for orchestra, chamber
ensembles, solo piano and scores for several
local films. His CD "Compositions"
features 13 original jazz compositions showing
his many musical influences. Karl Stark
of the Philadelphia Inquirer, in his 3 and
a half star review, calls "Compositions"
a "luminous recording", "full
of bravura moments", showing "a
masterly use of color". Rich has been
teaching piano, music theory & composition
privately since 1970 and founded Maplewood
Music Studio in 1980. http://maplewoodmusicstudio.com/meet-our-teachers.html
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Marilyn
Yoblick
Marilyn
Yoblick's directing credits at the Stagecrafters
Theater in Chestnut Hill include: Mauritius,
Don't Dress for Dinner, Laughter on the
23rd Floor, A Raisin in the Sun, A A Soldier's
Play, Jitney, Bus Stop, A Shayna Maidel,
Born Yesterday, Sherlock's Last Case.
Her acting credits at this theater include
roles in: The Tale of the Allergist's
Wife, Superior Donuts, Quartet, A View From
The Bridge, The Cemetery Club, Rumors, The
Odd Couple, Crossing Delancey. Marilyn
was President of Stagecrafters from 2005
through 2010. Marilyn has performed at other
theaters in the area. Her film credits include:
Shadowboxer, Rocket Science, Happy Tears,
The Greek American, The Tolltaker, Fallen,
Unbreakable.
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Selected
Authors - November 10th 2017
Catherine
Bancroft (October Admission)
writes poetry and makes art and sometimes
combines them. She has read her poetry
at Green Line Café, Philadelphia
Poetry Festival, Fergie’s Pub, and
other local spots. Her visual art has
appeared, among other places, at Muse
Gallery and 3rd Street Gallery. Earlier
in her life she taught English, and wrote
book reviews for the Philadelphia Inquirer,
New York Times, and Ms. Magazine. She
is the co-author of two children's books,
including Felix’s Hat.
Steve
Delia (Falling into Autumn)
has been writing poetry for 40 years.
He has read in many libraries, coffee
houses, book stores and theaters. He has
read at Cafe Improv with Mike Cohen as
half of the Dueling Poets that can be
viewed on Youtube. He got to read on WXPN,
his favorite radio station. He won first
prize in 2015 at the Phila Writers Conference.
His idea of a perfect evening is to share
a plate of scrapple with Nicole Kidman
by candle light, without Keith Urban.
Joseph
Dorazio (Autumnal) is a prize-winning
poet whose poems have appeared nationally
and internationally in print and online,
including The Worcester Review, Spoon
River Review, The Southampton Review,
The Fourth River, The New Plains Review,
Yellow Chair Review, and elsewhere. The
author of four volumes of verse, his latest
collection, No Small Effort (Aldrich Press)
was published in 2015. www.josephdorazio.com
David
Kertis (All Soul’s Day)
was born in 1955 and grew up in northern
New Jersey. He has lived in Philadelphia
since 1978, where he works as a claims
adjuster. His book, Word of the Day, has
recently been published.
Olga
Livshin (Again) is a poet,
playwright, and translator. Her work has
appeared in the Kenyon Review, International
Poetry Review, Blue Lyra, and other journals,
and is recognized by CALYX Journal’s
Lois Cranston Memorial Prize and the Cambridge
Sidewalk Poetry Project. Livshin has collaborated
with the pianist Inna Faliks for the “Music
/ Words” program on WFMT (Chicago)
and with the musician Taylor Caldwell
for the Spenard Jazz Festival (Anchorage,
Alaska).
Christine
Caruso McKee (Evolution) loved
poetry since early childhood. Put on hold
while she earned a BA, MEd, and EdD, she
started to write seriously in 2002. She
has been published in Bucks County Writer
(PA), Her Mark (Chicago, IL), U.S. Worksheets
(Princeton, NJ), Schuylkill Valley Journal
(Philadelphia, PA), Presence (Bellevue,
WA), and in other print and online journals.
Her first book, On Shady Lane, was published
in August, 2015 and is available on amazon.com.
Faith
Paulsen (We lived in wardrobes
and seashells . . ) Over the years
Faith has held day jobs as a technical
writer, travel writer, freelance writer
and in the insurance industry to support
her family and her expensive and selfish
writing habit. Her work has appeared in
a variety of venues ranging in alphabetical
order from Apiary to Wild River Review.
One poem was nominated for a Pushcart.
Her first chapbook “A Color Called
Harvest” (Finishing Line Press) was
published in 2016.
Hayden
Saunier (Shape Shifting) is
the author of four poetry books, most
recently, How to Wear This Body from Terrapin
Books. Her work has been awarded the Pablo
Neruda Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize,
Gell Poetry Award and the Robert Fraser
Award. She is also an actress whose credits
include The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia
Diary, House of Cards, the voice of a
broken-down stove for Ikea, and dozens
of roles in the theatre.
Deborah
Sedik (Chloro-phylled) likes
to write and dabbles in all mediums –
from poetry to fiction to non-fiction.
She is particularly passionate about nature,
art, sunny days, education and authentic
connections. Deb resides in the Philadelphia
suburbs; she is in the twilight of an
exciting career as a college professor.
Wendy
Fulton Steginsky (On the Topic
of Transformation) is the author of
The Tide of Bermuda’s Light (Aldrich
Press, 2014) and Let This Be Enough (Aldrich
Press, 2016). She attributes her love
for poetry to growing up on the shores
of Bermuda where the sea’s rhythms
seeped into her bones and stayed. A sense
of place is a lasting thread in her life
and art. Her poems have been published
widely in American and Caribbean journals
and anthologies.
Cleveland
Wall (Carolyn) is a poet, editor,
and mail artist from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Her work has appeared recently in The
Oakland Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal,
and Full of Crow. She is currently working
on a devised music/poetry/theater piece
with her husband, Michael Wall, exploring
in an audience-led group poetry experience
known as No River Twice, and blogging
at https://clevelandwall.wordpress.com/.
Follow her on Twitter @clevelandwall.
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May
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Phyllis
Chapell
Phyllis
Chapell (vocalist/guitarist) performs
a unique mix of originals, folk, jazz
and international music, including songs
in up to 13 languages from the U.S., Brazil,
Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the
Middle East. Her American repertoire covers
a wide range of music from jazz and folk,
to pop standards, as well as originals.
Phyllis Chapell has performed in concert
throughout the U.S., in Brazil, Latin
America, and Europe. She has released
2 solo CDs, and 4 CDs with her internationally
known world jazz ensemble Phyllis Chapell
& SIORA.
Phyllis
Chapell has been named as one of the top
500 jazz vocalists of all time by Scott
Yanow (writer for Down Beat, Jazz Times
and AllMusicGuide). She has also won song
competitions for her original music; and
was chosen to be one of Indie- Music’s
Top 25.
You
can check out her website: www.siorajazz.com.
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Diana
Finegold
Diana
Finegold, a passionate playwright, producer,
director and actor, is thrilled to be
making her debut with the Salon! Founder/Artistic
Director of The Wild Thyme Players for
26 years, she has led them to great popularity
and acclaim in NY, CT, MA, and now PA.
She is the author of 14 Guess Whodunit
Murder Mysteries, hailed “a hilarious
combination of Sherlock Holmes and Monty
Python.” Look for her onstage in
June at Old Academy’s production
of the comedy “Mornings at Seven.”
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Kathleen
Mulhearn
Kathleen
has performed in several productions in
the Philadelphia area for over 15 years.
Some of her favorite roles include Laura
in The Glass Menagerie, Sarah in Stop
Kiss, Amanda in The Food Chain, Chorus
in Medea, Mabel in The MostFabulous Story
Ever Told, Emma in Pterodactyls and Dorine
in Tartuffe. She shifted her focus to
solo performance while in the Master of
Theatre program at Villanova University.
Her one-woman shows, Through the Ring
of Fire and Uncharted Waters, aremotivated
by creating a universal human experience
through the telling of personal stories
that focus on the blundering, deeply personal
and often humorous moments in life.
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Selected
Authors - May 5th 2017
Elizabeth
Austin (Mine Alone)
Elizabeth
Austin is a Pushcart-nominated poet, photographer,
and visual artist. She is currently a
graduate student in Creative Writing at
the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her
work has appeared in the Schuylkill Valley
Journal, See Spot Run, Foliate Oak, and
Driftwood Press, and has been featured
in a collaborative exhibit with photographer
Sarah Jane Sanders at the Norton Center
for the Arts. She was first runner up
for Bucks County Poet Laureate 2014 and
a finalist in 2016. She currently lives
in Newtown, Pennsylvania with her two
children. Follow her on Instagram: @elizabethbeingqueen,
or visit her website (http://elizabethaustinpoet.weebly.com)
for more of her work.
Mike
Cohen (Every Right to Ask)
Mike
Cohen hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at
Philadelphia's Big Blue Marble Book Store.
His articles on sculpture appear in the
Schuylkill Valley Journal. His wry writing
has appeared in Mad Poets Review, Apiary
Magazine, Fox Chase Review, and other
journals. Mike has performed in venues
including Princeton’s Café
Improv, the Pen and Pen Club, the Hedgerow
Theatre, Fergie’s Pub, Harlem’s
Apollo Theater, and neither least nor
last, Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill
Cemetery.
Steve
Delia (Unspoken Kiss Off)
Steve
Delia was been writing poetry for (GASP!)
40 years. He has read at various coffeehouses,
bookstores, libraries, Cafe Improv and
WXPN. He won first prize at the Phila
Writers Conference in 2015. He has five
chapbooks: Revisiting Revised And Retyped
Vols 1 and 2, Haiku And Other Imaginings,
Zoo Poetry and 1622 Church Street. He
has a finished manuscript of his latest,
The Alphabet Poems, that he hopes to have
out soon.
Janina
Brajtburg (Courtyard) Alina
Macneal - Translated her mother’s
memoir from Polish
Set
in Warsaw in 1928, Courtyard is an excerpt
from a memoir written by Alina’s
mother, Janina Brajtburg. who grew up
in an assimilated Jewish family in Warsaw
in the 1920’s. The scene, Courtyard,
describes her mother’s discovery,
when she is five or six, that she’s
Jewish. Her memoir, in the original Polish,
has recently been published, posthumously,
by the Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation
of Canada. Alina Macneal is an architect
and writer. She was born in Warsaw, grew
up in St. Louis, and has lived in Philadelphia
since the early 80’s. Her poems have
appeared in Apiary Magazine and Poems
for the Writing. In 2015 she was a finalist
in the Raynes Poetry Comptition.
Jennifer Hubbard
(Am I Safe in This Place?)
Jennifer R. Hubbard is the author of three
novels, including Try Not to Breathe,
and the nonfiction Loner in the Garret:
A Writer’s Companion. She lives and
works in the Philadelphia area.
Lavinia
Kumar (Ministration, Pune, India)
Lavinia
Kumar’s poetry book is The Skin and
Under (Word Tech, 2015). Her two chapbooks
are Let There be Color (2016) and Rivers
of Saris (2013). Her poetry has appeared
in US and UK publications such as Atlanta
Review, Colere, Edison Literary Review,
Exit 13, Flaneur, Kelsey Review, New Verse
News, Orbis, Pedestal, Pemmican, Symmetry
Pebbles, Lives You Touch, & US1 Worksheets.
She is a member of poetry groups in Princeton
and Pennsylvania.
Bernadette
McBride (Angie)
Bernadette
McBride is author of three poetry collections.
Her poems have appeared in the UK, in
numerous U.S. journals, and on PRIs The
Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.
A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she
was second-place winner of the International
Ray Bradbury Writing Award and runner-up
for the Robert Fraser Poetry Prize. A
former Poet Laureate for Bucks County,
PA, she is poetry co-editor for the Schuylkill
Valley Journal.
Christine
McKee (Shame)
Christine
Caruso McKee loved poetry since early
childhood. Put on hold while she earned
a BA, MEd, and EdD, she started to write
seriously in 2002. She has been published
in Bucks County Writer (PA), Her Mark
(Chicago, IL), U.S. Worksheets (Princeton,
NJ), Schuylkill Valley Journal (Philadelphia,
PA), Presence (Bellevue, WA), and in other
print and online journals. Her first book,
On Shady Lane, was published in August,
2015 and is available on Amazon.com.
Abbe
Mogell (Harvest)
Abbe
Mogell resides in Montgomery County, PA
and owns a healing arts studio where she
works with clients who have chronic pain
conditions. She has an interest in writing
children’s picture books. This week
she is an avid granola baker—- Next
week? Perhaps pursuing the perfect gluten
free pizza crust….
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