MARCAs Virtual Workshops
We will be hosting virtual workshops to meet with select recruiters and discuss do's, don'ts, and common practices for auditions. What are recruiters looking for? How can you make your audition stand out against the rest? All this and more in free discipline-specific workshops online.
Click HERE to reserve a spot for any of our virtual sessions below. Emails with links to the workshops will be sent out within 48 hours after the form has been completed.
Design/Tech workshop: October 5th at 7pm
Acting/Musical Theatre workshop: October 12th at 7pm
Dance workshop: October 19th at 7pm
Email us with any questions at midatlanticauditions@gmail.com
Recruiters Attending:
Design/Tech
Dirk Durossette
ROWAN UNIVERSITY
Dirk Durossette has been designing and teaching in the greater Philadelphia area for the past fifteen years. Credits include: Off Broadway-Any Given Monday-59E59 Theatre. In Philadelphia he has designed for Amaryllis Theater Company, Azuka Theater, Act II Playhouse, Delaware Theater Co. Enchantment Theater Company, Theater Exile, 1812 Productions, Freedom Theater, Flashpoint Theater, Gas and Electric Arts, InterAct Theater Company, Luna Theater, Lantern Theater (Barrymore Nomination- Skylight), Rock School of Dance, Theater Horizon, The Wilma Theater, ,PlayPenn, Temple Theaters, Temple Opera Theater, University of the Arts, Burlington County College (NJ) Peabody Institute (Baltimore), West Chester University, Villanova University.
Nora Marlow Smith
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
Nora Marlow Smith (she/her) is a New York based, multi-disciplinary theatre artist and designer. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre Design Tech at Adelphi University. As an educator, she prioritizes accessible teaching methods, user-centered course design, and sustainable practices. As a designer, she's interested in building gestural and empathic spaces, supporting diverse storytelling and uplifting underrepresented voices. Nora holds her MFA in Stage and Costume Design from Northwestern University, with a BA in English Literature and Stage Design from Mount Holyoke College. Nora consistently works with New York based companies The Mill Theatre, MetaPhysed, and TÉA Artistry. Professional regional credits include: Annie at the Arrow Rock Lyceum, The Marriage of Figaro at The Central City Opera, Once and A Sherlock Carol at Capital Repertory Theatre, Rooted at WAM. Keep an eye out this fall for more work from Nora on Camp Siegfried with WAM in Lenox, MA and Everybody with the Adelphi University Department of Theatre. @noramarlow
Acting & Muscial Theater
Ross Beschler
ROWAN UNIVERISTY
Ross Beschler (he/him) has been a professional actor for nearly 20 years, and is a founding member of the Wilma Theatre’s Hothouse Company in Philadelphia. He is also a Hothouse Associate Trainer, and teaches the company techniques in summer sessions and international workshops. (https://wilmatheater.org/artists/hothouse-company/)
Ross is also a founding member of the site-specific performance collective Die-Cast. https://www.die-castphilly.org/
In addition to Rowan, he has taught acting and movement at Temple University, the University of the Arts, and Rider University.
BA: Columbia University. MFA: Temple University.
Melanie Julian
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Melanie Julian joined the Temple University Acting Faculty in 2008. Prior to her move to Philadelphia she had been a member of the Acting Faculty at the University of California at Davis, where she headed the voice and speech curriculum for the undergraduate and graduate acting programs. She has experience with, and trains students in Fitzmaurice Voicework, Centre Artistique International Roy Hart, Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association (VASTA), Actor/Combatant stage combat training, Theatrical Intimacy Education with the Educator Advocate Program, and works as a voice and dialect coach throughout Philadelphia. A member of Actors’ Equity, Melanie has performed as an actor in New York, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Sacramento, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh; and currently serves as the Head of Undergraduate Acting at Temple University
Kathryn Petersen
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
Kathryn Petersen is a professional playwright, actress and educator residing near Philadelphia. A graduate of Temple University’s MFA in playwriting, she has had thirteen plays produced internationally and three published. As an actress, she has been in over seventy productions and is a long-time company member of People’s Light. She is the Co-Director of Arcadia University’s Theater Program where she teaches acting and playwriting.
Lane Savadove
ROWAN UNIVERSITY
Prof. Lane Savadove, the Head of Directing at Rowan University, has been directing and teaching nationally and internationally for over 30 years. He is the founding Artistic Director of the award-winning EgoPo Classic Theater in Philadelphia, now in its 33rd year. Savadove has worked and trained closely with innovators Judith Malina at The Living Theater, Lee Breuer at Mabou Mines, Ping Chong, and Anne Bogart of SITI Company. He has directed over 50 productions internationally, regionally, Off-Broadway, and on National Public Radio. He holds his MFA in Directing from Columbia University and his BA from Haverford College. Lane has been a Professor of Acting and Directing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The National University of Indonesia, and Loyola University, New Orleans, where he was Head of Directing.
Dance
Leslie Bush
ROWAN UNIVERISTY
Leslie Bush is a Philadelphia based dance and visual artist. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a focus in contemporary dance from Indiana University, and a Master of Fine Arts in dance choreography and performance from Temple University. Leslie has presented her improvisational work throughout the Philadelphia and New York region, most notably in the Philadelphia Fringe, and Art in Odd Places Festivals. Leslie has worked with Drexel University as a movement expert and consultant for motion capture research; and led a production at Rowan University, collaborating between dance and theater students, and robotics engineering faculty and graduate students. She has been awarded grants such as the Illuminate the Arts Grant and Small But Mighty Arts professional development grant for her contributions to the field. Her ongoing creative research into dance and interactive technology is frequently included in colloquiums, publications, and workshops. Leslie’s writing can be found in The Dancer Citizen and on thINKingDANCE.net.
Noel Price-Bracey
MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
Noel Price-Bracey is a contemporary artist, advocate, and educator whose attention to social change has led her to create, collaborate, and perform across the U.S., including Kalamazoo, MI, Detroit, MI, Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA, Spokane, WA, Bellingham, WA, Missoula, MT, and Portland, OR as well as internationally, Canada and Italy. In 2014, she established PRICEarts LLC, a multidisciplinary arts organization with a mission to empower communities to find freedom through creative expression. In 2019, she received the SeattleDances, Dance Crush award for her work with PRICEarts and her commitment to advocating for mental wellness through dance. Noel earned her MFA in Dance from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2024. Noel Price-Bracey is currently an Assistant Professor of Jazz dance at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA.
Mondo Morales is the Associate Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Northeastern University New York City, formerly known as Marymount Manhattan College (MMC), where he specializes in supporting students pursuing degrees in the performing arts. As an MMC Dance alum, he brings personal experience and professional insight to his work, helping guide students and families through the college search, audition, and enrollment process. Mondo began his career as a dancer and later as a costume designer, working with leading artists and organizations in the greater New York dance community. In addition to his work in higher education, Mondo has collaborated as a freelance art director with dance artists and photographers such as Jaqi Medlock, Jubal Battisti, and Matthew Murphy. His creative projects include his solo exhibit Skinetic Moments, a series exploring color and paint as dancers’ apparel, presented in Harlem venues and through film collaborations. In Feb of 2018, Mondo released his first collection, named ONYX. This collection was presented at Brooklyn Fashion Week and is also featured in a short film by Angelo Soriano and choreographer Angelica Stiskin.
Mondo Morales
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (NYC)