Rosiland M. Cauthen, Director of Community Programs and Education, gears her focus at CENTERSTAGE towards the student matinee program; the after-school teen ensemble,Encounter; and conducting workshops in local area schools. She is a graduate of the MFA in Theatre program at Towson University. In addition to her work at CENTERSTAGE, Rosiland also teaches theater courses as an adjunct professor at Towson University. Her classes include Cultural Diversity in American Theatre, African-American Theatre, and Women in American Theatre. Before coming to Baltimore, Rosiland was a corps member of Teach For America, a national corps of young innovative teachers working in the nation’s underserved schools. She is a mother of two beautiful daughters, Nzingha and Asantewaa. Rosiland loves to read, write poetry, dance, and spend time with her family.

Julianne Franz, Education Coordinator, is a theater-maker committed to creative community organizing. Julianne is most often engaged as a teaching artist or stage manager. Her credits span all performance forms and include Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 651 Arts Center, Mass MoCA, Glimmerglass Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, and Salzburg Music Festival. Julianne is an Open Society Institute Community Fellow and a graduate of UMBC’s Theatre Department and Towson University’s MFA in Theatre program.

Dustin Morris, Community Programs and Education Intern, is a native of Baltimore City and graduated with a BA in Theatre from Goucher College. He recently completed an internship with Actors Theatre of Louisville's Education Department, where he taught preshow workshops, playwriting residencies, and directed for the New Voices Young Playwrights festival. He has also worked with Squallis Puppeteers, Louisville's community puppet theatre. Dustin is ecstatic to return to Baltimore and to join CENTERSTAGE for the 2012-13 Season.

Kristina Szilagyi, Community Programs and Education Intern, is excited to join CENTERSTAGE this season. Originally from West Virginia, Kristina earned a BA in Theatre Studies and Comparative Literature from Wellesley College and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. At Wellesley, she was a member of the Shakespeare Society and a production assistant in the theater department. Locally, she has performed, taught, and written for The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory. She has worked on numerous Boston-based productions, including New Repertory Theater’s educational tour and GAN-e-meed Theatre Project’s inaugural production. While with GAN-e-meed, Kristina served as a member of the Board of Directors for the 2010-2011 Season, where she focused on providing opportunities for playwrights. Her work as a playwright and educator has continued as a guest artist at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Maria Broom is nationally known as an actress for her recurring roles in HBO’s The Wire and The Corner but is also a storyteller and dancer with more than forty years of performing and teaching in the US and across the globe. She is a Fulbright scholar and former news reporter for the ABC affiliates in Miami and Baltimore. Currently, she is on the theater faculty at the Baltimore School for the Arts. A native of Baltimore, Maria has received many awards and honors including the Eubie Blake Award, the Sarah’s Circle Award and the 2004 Governor’s Arts Award for Individual Artist. In 2007, she was named, Artist of the Year by Young Audiences of Maryland, Inc.

Rich Espey’s plays have been produced throughout the United States. Recent highlights include Rice Futures at the 2010 Source Festival and Three Andys produced by Single Carrot Theatre at the Baltimore Museum of Art. His award-winning play Hope’s Arbor was produced by Gallery Players in New York City in June, 2008.  Rich is a two time winner of the Carol Weinberg Award for best play at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, a member of DC’s Playwrights Gymnasium, has served as Chair of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival and is currently the President of the Board of Single Carrot Theatre. Rich proudly teaches science at The Park School of Baltimore. Check out samples of his work and a production history at www.richespey.net.

CJay Philip made her Broadway debut in Big: The Musical (based on the Tom Hanks film). She was in the Broadway productions of Street Corner Symphony and Hairspray, serving as Dance Captain for the Broadway and touring companies. CJay has toured as Lorrell in Dreamgirls and Paulette in Legally Blonde. She is also an accomplished songwriter and playwright with a sold out European run of her hip-hop adaptation of Carmen. Her one-woman show Bus Trippin’ is both a hilarious and touching tour de force that illuminates the range and depth of her acting abilities. CJay is currently the artistic director of Dance & Bmore, a Baltimore based contemporary dance company that serves children by engaging entire families through dance. www.danceandbmore.com

Courtney Proctor has worked as an actor and teacher in Los Angeles and Baltimore. Courtney studied acting at Emerson College in Boston and English at UCLA. She has continued her training with Shakespeare and Company and is pursuing her Masters degree at the Bread Loaf School of English. As Education Director for Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Courtney directed The Tempest for BSF’s Teen Performance Program, as well as summer camp productions of The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with middle school students. She has taught Shakespeare workshops at Sudbrook, Carver, and at Baltimore’s ACCE Academy. Courtney has performed for student audiences with Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theater Programs and Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. Local credits include performing and directing with the Maryland Renaissance Festival, Run of the Mill Theater and Single Carrot Theatre.

D. Wambui Richardson is a former CENTERSTAGE intern now professional artist, Wambui is proud to return to this theatre. Away from CENTERSTAGE he’s directed at every level from academic theater to works off-Broadway. Currently, Wambui is the artist-in-residence for Coppin State University where he has been commissioned to adapt and direct new works. Wambui is an alumnus of Dillard University, The New York Film Academy, Brooklyn College and the prestigious Drama League.

Oran Sandel has been a working theater artist in the Washington area since 1975.  He performed at New Playwright’s Theater, Back Alley Theater, The Harlequin Dinner Theater, Cedar Knoll Dinner Theater, Ford’s Theater and several others before landing at Arena’s Living Stage Theater Company, where he spent the next twenty-three years. Having left his position as Artistic Director there in 2001, he is now working as a freelance consultant, teacher, writer, director, and performer. At present his teaching venues include the Shakespeare Theater, The Smithsonian Associates, Center Stage, Sitar Arts Center, Theatre Lab, and Creative Cauldron.