Beginnings
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Staff Professional Résumé

Andrea A. McCullough 

Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild, AFTRA
Instructor/Guest Artist    
College/University
Middlesex College, NJ. The Mystery of Edwin Drood Choreographer
The Business of Show Business Workshop for Theater Majors
University of Alaska Grease Director/Choreographer
Associate Professor of Acting I - IV Musical Theater
Directors' Showcase
Wesleyan College, NC Godspell Choreographer
South Pacific Choreographer
Dunn Center for the Performing Arts Theater Dance Workshop
Glassboro State College, NJ Adj. Professor Improvisation Adj. Prof. Theater History
Adelphi College Adj. Professor Acting, Dance (theater dance, tap, jazz) Career Workshops; Adjudicator Theater Competitions/Festivals
Catholic University Adj. Professor Acting, Dance (theater dance, tap, jazz) Career Workshops; Adjudicator Theater Competitions/Festivals
SUNY Stonybrook Adj. Professor Acting, Dance (theater dance, tap, jazz) Career Workshops; Adjudicator Theater Competitions/Festivals
Boston Conservatory Adj. Professor Acting, Dance (theater dance, tap, jazz)  Career Workshops; Adjudicator Theater Competitions/Festivals
Boston University Senior Showcase/Workshops
NYC Arts Intensives (ages 11-17) Lincoln Center Greater NY YM/YWCA's
NYC Public Schools   Meet the Artist
University of Alaska (since 1992)SFAC director/choreographer: full scale musical, Triple Threat ©performance and summerdance annually, instructor Acting, Musical Theater, Tap, Jazz, and Ballroom; Boston University - Alumni Schools Committee (interview prospective candidates for CFA), The Drama Project, instructor Acting. 

 

Broadway
Sophisticated Ladies 42nd Street Black and Blue
Singin' the Rain On the Twentieth Century Jelly's Last Jam
Me and My Girl Oklahoma
Oklahoma put-ins, brush-ups, (swings, understudies, replacements), auditions American Dance Machine assistant to Lee Theodore, tap reconstruction w/Jack Perez, Paul Draper.

 

New York (classes, previous and current) TapCatalst, Fancy Dancer, The Dance Loft, Studio Maestro, Thalia Cinema, Symphany Space acting, film choreography seminars, tap,jazz,modern; joy of movement, Boston Childrens' Theater, Theater Sports improv; acting.

 

Director

Off-B'way             *also Choreographed
Hooray For What* Chamber Music Lovers
Born Yesterday Why Hannah's Skirt
Regional
Inherit the Wind The Effect of Gamma Rays Rogers and Hart Songbook*
Private Lives Rhapsody in Gershwin* Oliver*
Nunsense* Steel Magnolias Meet Me in St. Louis*
Music Man* Bye Bye Birdie*  Auntie Mame
 

Choreographer

Off B'way
Tap Masters  Orpheus in the Underworld Hot and Cold Porter
Regional
42nd Street La Cage Aux Folles A Day in Hollywood
Company  Berlin Puttin' On The Ritz
South Pacific
Stock
Bye Bye Birdie Dames at Sea The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Pajama Game Downriver Wizard of Oz
Cabaret/Industrial
Broadways Best Who's Who! Macy's Tapomania
Television/Film/Music Video
Winnie the Pooh That's Entertainment III promo PBS's Great Preformances:Tap Dance in America
The Boogie Woogie
 

Performer (representative listing)

National Tours
Grease The Long Christmas Dinner Babes in Toyland
Off -B'Way
George M! (chor. Mercedes Ellington) Jeffery (Chor. Chris Gatelli) The Winter's Tale
Thommie Walsh:One Mans Opinion Vanities Nunsense
Regional
Much Ado .... It's a Wonderful Life Mr. Skeffington (dir./Chor. Susan Stroman)
Arsenic and Old Lace Tartuffe Anything Goes
Dames at Sea Marat Sade The Pajama Game
Trial By Jury Fiddler on the Roof Babes In Toyland
Stock
You Can't Take it With You Damn Yankees
Film/Television/Commercials
A Mighty Wind Sabrina Bright Lights Big City
Law and Order Bullets Over Broadway Quick Change
Tap Regarding Henry PBS American Playhouse
CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame NBC Today Show Dunkin Donuts
Breakstone Toys 'R Us Looney Tunes on Parade (WB)
 

Employers (in addition to network film, radio/tv affiliates)

NJ Shakespeare Festival Papermill Playhouse South jersey Regional Theater
Caldwell Playhouse Boston Stage Troupe South Shore Music Circus
Harvard Summer Repertory Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble American Repertory Theater
Charles Playhouse Playhouse on teh Green Milford Performing Arts Center
Lyric Theater of New York  Waterville Opera House Two River Theater Company
New London Barn Sack Theaters Young and Rubicam
Veterans Hospital Network Little Theater on the Square Brooklyn Academy of Music
NYC Coliseum NY Toy fair National Tap Dance Week
World Trade Center Fund
 

Training

Boston University BFA in Acting Richard Edelman, Zelda Fichandler, Word Baker, William Young, Rosemarie Tischler, John wilson, William Lacey, Elliot Norton
Actors Studio Program Masters Degree in Directing Arthur Penn, Lee Grant, Jules Fisher, Tony Walton, William Greaves, Ellen Burstyn, Vivian Nathan
Boston Conservatory: Voice above and Maitland Peters,  Emilia Pruyn (NYC Opera)
Dance Alvin Ailey, Steps, B'way Dance Center; at Dance Machine Gwen Verdon, Danny Daniels, Agnes de Mille, Karin Baker, Karen Prunczik, Nenette Charisse, Derek Wolonshak; 
Horton Technique Jimmy Kichler
American Ballroom Theater Yvonne Marceau
Film Choreography/Archives: Film Society of Lincoln Center Leslie Caron, Michael Kidd, Stanely Donen
The Copacetics Masters of Tap
Musical Theater Tommy Tune, Thommie Walsh, Bayoork Lee, Pricilla Lopez, Wally Harper
Reconstruction Stanley Brown, Harold Cromer, Jack Perez, Ron Maier
 

Artistic Director and Choreographer

TapCatalyst - dedicated to the preservation, research, and performance of tap, show, and film choreography

 

Awards/Organizations
Massachusetts Drams Guild Award Directing
Community Service Awards for the Arts Boston -  seven seasons
Outstanding Artist Visit 1992 Middle School Gifted and Talented Program
Dance Educators of America
Veterans Hospital Network Performance Series
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Last Updated: 01/24/2006 06:49 PM