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Jennifer Little
Director
Jennifer spent over 15 years as a professional actress, performing on Broadway with such luminaries as Harold Prince and in film and television. More recently, she turned to working with at-risk students, created a critically acclaimed program that focuses on theatre's role in society. Her directing credits include "Macbeth," "Women of Lockerbie," "Financial Slavery," "Man of La Mancha," "Carousel," "Urinetown" and many others. She is the co-founder of SOS, a social justice theatre company and adjunct professor here at TCNJ and at Naugatuck Valley Community College in Connecticut. She is a published author and has spoken at conferences around the world. She is very excited co-directing her second show with TCNJ's Lyric Theatre after last year's "Company"!
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Madelyn Curtain
Director/Choreographer
Madelyn choreographed TCNJ's "Company" last spring for Lyric Theatre and is excited to be co-directing and choreographing "1776." She would like to thank Jen for giving her this opportunity and for all her guidance along the way. Break legs to cast and pit!
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Stefanie Watson
Music Director
Stefanie has worked with the Lyric Theater program at TCNJ in a variety of capacities for nearly ten years: music director, "Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing" (an outreach children's opera); harpsichordist, "Cosí fan tutte"; rehearsal pianist, "Man of La Mancha"; and music director/chorus master, "Company". She has performed in and organized vocal and chamber recitals locally as well as in Leibnitz, Austria, where she served as staff pianist for Lied Austria International, a summer program focusing on intense study of German art song and poetry. Stefanie is a staff pianist at The College of New Jersey and Adjunct Professor of Music at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She is also Music Director at Emanuel Lutheran Church in New Brunswick, NJ. Stefanie holds degrees in Collaborative Piano from Rutgers University and in Piano Performance from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with a minor in Spanish.
