[NEohioPAL] OPEN HOUSE to unveil NEW THEATRE space for FAIRMOUNT CENTER / FREE CLASSES, 1/5

[FSternfeld at aol.com]

WHO: Fairmount Center for the  Arts 
Tom Fulton, Executive Artistic Director 
Fred Sternfeld, Director of Theatre & Fairmount  Performing Arts Camp 
WHAT:  AN OPEN HOUSE 
This  new theatre has been renovated with lighting and sound systems, new 
theatre  seats, an extendable stage and box office.  We’re very excited about it 
and want to share with you the vision for the  future in this new venue.  
There  will be performances by professional actors, FPAC students, writers, 
dancers and  others.  You will learn all about  our plans for the future, which 
include a robust teen theatre program with  productions; a professional theatrical 
season; writing programs; and dance  programs.! 
WHEN: Sunday, January 5, 2008 from 1:00pm –  4:00pm 
WHERE: Mayfield  Village Performing Arts Center, 6622 Wilson Mills Rd., 
Mayfield Village,  Ohio.  Near the corner of Wilson  Mills and Som Center Rd. just 
off of I-271. 
SCHEDULE:
1:00pm 
-          Tour our facillities and have refreshments. Hear Tom  Fulton, Fred 
Sternfeld and Carol Pribble speak about our upcoming plans for a  
professional theatre, youth and teen theatre, classes and Fairmount Performing  Arts Camp 
2:00 – 3:00pm AND 3:00 –  4:00pm 
choose between several options… 
-         Participate in 2 separate one  hour classes with Brian Zoldessy, 
Mitchell B. Fields, Carol Pribble, Marc  Moritz, Dana Hart and/or Tom Fulton. 
You can take a different class each  hour.  FREE. 
-         Q and A session about Fairmount  Performing Arts Camp with Fred 
Sternfeld 
-     Performances by by  professional actors, FPAC students, writers, 
dancers and  others.

classes and exact performance content are  subject to change... 
DISCOUNTS:
JANUARY 5 ONLY IN PERSON AT THE OPEN HOUSE!
Sign up for Fairmount Performing Arts Camp '08 today  and receive a 5% 
discount. 
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS  for OPEN HOUSE - F R E E
The Moment Before – Brian Zoldessy,  instructor
The participants will learn one of the  most important aspects of Audition 
Technique - The Moment  Before. 
When a performer begins a scene or a  monologue without the moment before, it 
usually take a while for  the piece to get going.  By the time the performer 
gets to the middle and  finally feels warmed up, its too late - they have lost 
the attention of  auditors. The Moment Before will propel the actor into a  
specific action and give the monologue the "kick-start" it needs to really  be 
effective and immediately grab the attention of the  auditors. 
Improv: Scared  Scriptless!  - Marc Moritz,  instructor


Come and play! A unique approach to Improv that will  get you thinking 
quickly on your feet and heighten your sense of play and  spontaneity. This Workshop 
will include Theatre Games as well as Long-Form and  techniques used by 
Second City. No experience necessary. Just a willingness  to explore your own 
unique sense of humor and  imagination. 
other descriptions of  the FREE classes will be announced in the near future! 
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STAFF  BIOGRAPHIES 
Thomas Q.  Fulton, Jr.
Executive Artistic Director, The Fairmount  Center 
Co-Artistic Director of Fairmount  Center’s new professional theatre
A producer,  director, actor, and teacher for the past 30 years, Tom has 
served as Producing  Director for three professional regional theatre companies: 
Center Repertory  Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and the Cleveland 
Theatre Company.   He spent five years as a company member of The Cleveland Play 
House and served  as Artistic Director for Cain Park Summer Theater.  
Elsewhere Mr. Fulton has performed and  directed at many regional theatres in 
the area including Playhouse Square, The  Cleveland Orchestra, Blossom Music 
Festival, the Cleveland Actor's Theatre  Company, The Halle Theatre, and 
Actor's Summit Theatre.  Tom grew up in  Geauga County and brings a special love of 
Northeast Ohio to his position at The  Fairmount Center.   To learn more 
about Mr. Fulton, see his website:  _www.tomfulton.com_ 
(http://www.tomfulton.com/)   

Fred Sternfeld
Director, School of  Theatre 
Co-Artistic Director of Fairmount  Center’s new professional theatre
Director, Fairmount  Performing Arts Camp
Fred recently directed Beck Center’s award-winning  productions of Stephen 
Sondheim’s Saturday Night and Disney’s Beauty  and the Beast.  He is producer  
of the Mandel Jewish Community Center’s theatre productions, most recently  
directing A Shayna Maidel, Jolson and Company, Modern Orthodox, From  Door to 
Door, South Pacific and Ragtime, the musical (Cleveland Theatre Collective ‘
Critic’s Choice Awards’ – Best Local Musical  & Best Director; Cleveland Scene ‘
Best of Cleveland 2005’ – Best  Musical).  He previously served as  Artistic 
Director at Lakewood Little Theatre - Beck Center for the Arts and the  
Seattle & Dallas Jewish Community Centers and is a free lance director in  the 
Cleveland area, garnering numerous honors and awards. Selected credits:  Oliver!, 
Fiddler on the Roof  & The Sound of Music at Cain Park; The Tale of the  
Allergist’s Wife & The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at Dobama  Theatre;  Man of La 
Mancha,  Rags, The Twilight of the Golds, The Immigrant, Crossing Delancey, Beau 
Jest & Conversations With My Father at the JCC Halle Theatre; Bad  Seed at 
Ensemble Theatre; Amadeus  at Willoughby Fine Arts; Table Settings, Isn’t It 
Romantic, The Diary of Anne  Frank & Broadway Bound at Center Stage in Seattle; Of 
 Mice and Men, On the Town, La Cage aux Folles, Brighton Beach Memoirs,  
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Foxfire, Noises Off, Peter Pan, 
Children of  a Lesser God & The Importance of Being Earnest at Beck Center, Proof at 
GLTG and All My Sons & Enter Laughing at the Dallas JCC. For more  
information about Fred you can visit his website at _www.fredsternfeld.com_ 
(http://www.fredsternfeld.com/) . 

Marc Moritz originated  the role of Talk Show Host in the original Broadway 
production of the  Sondheim/Prince musical Merrily We Roll Along. Theaters 
worked in  include: The Cleveland Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Long 
Wharf,  Goodman, New Harmony, Cain Park, Dobama and many more. Marc was the  
Founder/Director of the Cleveland based Giant Portions Improv Troupe. His improv  
training includes stints at ImprovOlympic and extensive workshops with Paul  
Sills, Del Close and Charna Halpern. He currently teaches Improv at The  
Cleveland Improv Institute housed in the landmark Cleveland Hermit  Club, as well 
as Improv at Beck Center and is on staff at Chicago's Second City  Training 
Center. Marc is also a Guest Artist with The University Circle Early  Educational 
Enrichment Program - bringing Improv and other Creative Dramatics  into area 
schools.  
Brian  Zoldessy is  Assistant Professor and Director of the Theatre Arts 
Department at Cuyahoga  Community College, Eastern Campus. In 1995 he was the 
first non-tenured faculty  member to receive CCC's prestigious Ralph M. Besse 
Award for Teaching Excellence  and was honored with The Outstanding Achievement 
Award for Teaching by the  International Conference for Teaching and Leadership, 
Austin,  Texas. 
As  a professional actor, Brian has worked in New York, L.A., Chicago, and 
Cleveland (Modern  Orthodox, ART, Crossing Delancey, Awake and Sing, Talley's 
Folly, Down The Road,  Forty Deuce, Seedfolks, To Know Him  and The  Boys Next 
Door) and  has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television and films, 
working with,  Kevin Bacon, Matthew Broderick, Fisher Stevens, John Travolta, 
Woody Allen, Eli  Wallach and the late, great, Jack Gilford. Additionally, Brian 
performed  stand-up comedy at many of New York's famous comedy clubs, 
including, The  Improvisation, Catch A Rising Star, and Dangerfield's  (Rodney 
Dangerfield's Nightclub), where he also served as comedy writer/manager  for 
Dangerfield's back-up comedian, Adam Keefe. 
A  winner of the Kennedy Center's Irene Ryan Acting and Directing Award, he 
has  directed and produced over 50 productions. Favorites include, Six  Degrees 
of Separation, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Glengarry Glen Ross,  Agnes 
of God, The Male and Female Odd Couple, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew,  
Jeffrey at Beck Center, The Sunshine Boys at the JCC Halle Theatre, Hamlet ESP  at 
the Cleveland Stage Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, 
 and Coriolanus, all  at The  Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. He  also 
directed the highly acclaimed Lord  of the Flies  at the Beck Center for the Arts. 
Other awards and honors include The  Exemplary Professor Award from  the 
National Conference of the American Association for Higher  Education,  Meritorious 
Performance and Professional Excellence Award  from California State 
University, The  Carleton and Winthrop Palmer Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in 
Theatre  Arts from  Long Island University, Best  Actor, Supporting Actor, and 
Best Character Actor from  Post Theatre Company, New York. Brian is also a 
theatre faculty member for the Special  Studies Program ,  at the Chautauqua 
Institution, the Beck  Center Conservatory program and  the Fairmount Performing 
Arts Camp. 
In  2005, Brian was nominated for a "Critic's Choice Award" and "Member's 
Choice  Award" for Best Actor for To Know  Him at the JCC Halle Theatre, for his 
work as actor, director and  theatre educator by the Cleveland Theatre  
Collective. He was also recently awarded The Cuyahoga Community College Dean's Award 
of  Excellence for his outstanding contributions to the college and the  
theatre arts department. Ohio Magazine and Crain's Cleveland Business recently 
selected Brian as one of Ohio's top educators. His  inclusion appears in the 
December '05 Excellence In Education issue (Ohio  Magazine) and the January '06 
Crain's Higher Education issue. In addition to his  classroom activities, Brian 
also privately coaches many Cleveland performers as  well as preparing many 
Senior High School students for their college theatre  arts auditions. 
Carol  Pribble’s  career as a teacher and director of young actors spans 
thirty years. Presently  she is the drama teacher/ arts chairman/ play director at 
University School  where she has worked for the past twenty-one years. Carol 
has directed over  eighty plays in the Cleveland area including Shaw High 
School, Twinsburg High  School, University School, and Chagrin Valley Little 
Theatre.  
Some of  the shows she has directed at Chagrin Valley Little Theater are Over 
the  Tavern, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Art, Biloxi Blues and Twilight of  
the Golds. Over the Tavern recently won numerous OCTA awards,  including best 
production, best direction and best  ensemble. 
Carol was  the supervisor of the Professional Training Intensive in the 
inaugural summer of  FPAC in 2004 and the Associate Director of FPAC in 2005. In 
addition, she has  spent numerous summers working in camp programs teaching 
tennis and drama. Her  skill and enthusiasm for theatre arts and summer camps 
combine to generate an  equal enthusiasm in her students.  
Camp  Director Fred Sternfeld is very enthusiastic about Carol Pribble's 
involvment as  Associate Director of the Camp: "When Carol first expressed 
interest in getting  involved with the camp before our first season, I was extremely 
excited. I have  seen her high school productions -- her students are 
well-trained and the  productions are high quality -- some of the best high school 
productions I have  ever seen. She has dedicated her career to the education of 
young people - just  the kind of person I was looking for to help me run the 
professional training at  FPAC. CP is an outstanding director and teacher and 
has mentored many of her  interested students to professional careers. Many of 
her students have gone on  to professional careers on Broadway (Wicked, 
Footloose, Jesus Christ  Superstar, Les Miz, Our Town, The Elephant Man, How I 
Learned to Drive and  The Complete Wks. of Shksp), national touring companies, 
television,  repertory theatre and film. We are extremely fortunate to have her 
outstanding  leadership."  
Mitchell Fields is an Adjunct Professor  at Baldwin-Wallace College where he 
teaches Improvisation, Film and Theatre. He  is also an acting coach in 
private practice. 

>From 1999 until it closed  in 2003, Mitchell was the Curriculum Director at 
Second City Cleveland.  

Other experiences in teaching include Acting Coach for Something DaDa  
Improvisational theatre Troupe, Acting Instructor for The Cleveland Playhouse ,  
Acting Instructor at Lakeland Community College, Associate Director of The  
Cleveland Theatre Company, Theatre Department Chairman and Artistic Director of  
the Fine Arts Association of Willoughby, Teacher of Dramatic Arts, Film and  
Speech, Beachwood High School. Certificated in English 7-12, Drama K-12, and  
Acting Coach For Giant Portions Improvisational Theatre Comedy Troupe.  

Mitchell has an MA from Columbia University. He is also a professional  actor 
whose credits include hundreds of roles in the theatre and several films.  He 
is a member of Actors Equity Association and the American Federation of Radio 
 and Television Artists.  
Dana Hart apprenticed to the Cleveland PlayHouse and has been a member of  
Actors Equity for over 25 years. He has performed from Alaska to Zimbabwe and in 
 48 of the 50 states including seasons with Alaska Repertory Theatre, Center  
Stage (Baltimore), Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre 
and  Theatre West Virginia. He has appeared Off- Broadway in New York and with 
many  Northeast Ohio theatres including The Beck Center, Ensemble, Actors' 
Summit,  Dobama, Clague Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival and the Cleveland 
 PlayHouse.  
Mr. Hart holds degrees in both Theatre Arts and English  (teaching) from the 
University of Alaska Fairbanks . He is currently the Upper  School Drama and 
Speech teacher at the Laurel School in Shaker Heights and also  a member of the 
faculty at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts. While in  Alaska Mr. Hart 
was the co-founder of Playmaking: a theatre company doing  theatre and 
storytelling workshops in towns and villages across Alaska . He was  both a teacher 
and the Artistic Director of the Sitka Summer Fine Arts Camp and  a teacher 
with both the Fairbanks Summer Fine Arts Camp and the Fairmount  Performing Arts 
Camp at Laurel School . He has been funded by four states to  conduct Artist 
in the Schools programs in Maryland , Washington , Alaska , and  Ohio and was 
awarded an Ohio Arts Council travel grant to present new works at  the Hararre 
International Festival of the Arts in 2000. 



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