The SF Arts Ed Players
The San Francisco Arts Education Project (SF ArtsEd) enters the eighth year of our children's musical theater company called the SF Arts Ed Players. The Players began in 2001 and was the natural outgrowth from Artsed's annual EVENT. Formed on the premise that creativity is the key to personal achievement and individual well being, the Players offers young participants a safe and nurturing place to discover the creative process. This group of young performers ages 9-14 train and perform throughout the school year.
Young people in the company are given a chance to work on the skills needed to be "triple threats" in the theater; performers who can sing, dance and act. Workshops and rehearsals are held twice weekly and are open to aspiring performers by invitation and audition. The company performs both original musical theater and musicals from the Broadway theater canon.
For more information and photos of past performances please see our Musical Theater page.
San Francisco Arts Education Project
SFArtsEd Players
Final rehersal and performance schedule for the year 2008
The San Francisco Arts Education Project (SF ArtsEd) enters the eighth year of our children's musical theater company called the SF Arts Ed Players. The Players began in 2001 and was the natural outgrowth from Artsed's annual EVENT. Formed on the premise that creativity is the key to personal achievement and individual well being, the Players offers young participants a safe and nurturing place to discover the creative process. This group of young performers ages 9-14 train and perform throughout the school year.
Young people in the company are given a chance to work on the skills needed to be "triple threats" in the theater; performers who can sing, dance and act. Workshops and rehearsals are held twice weekly and are open to aspiring performers by invitation and audition. The company performs both original musical theater and musicals from the Broadway theater canon.
For more information and photos of past performances please see our Musical Theater page.
San Francisco Arts Education Project
SFArtsEd Players
Final rehersal and performance schedule for the year 2008
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September 2008 |
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| Date | Time | Location | What |
| Saturday, 13 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Orientation |
| Saturday, 20 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Audition for roles |
| Friday, 26 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 27 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
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October 2008 |
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| Date | Time | Location | What |
| Friday, 3 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 4 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 10 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 11 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 17 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 18 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 24 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 25 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 31 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
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November 2008 |
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| Date | Time | Location | What |
| Saturday, 1 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 7 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 8 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 14 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 15 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 19 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 20 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
There are no rehersals for Thanksgiving week!
SF Arts Ed Players Staff Biographies
Emily Keeler - Producer/Artistic Director/Choreographer
Ms. Keeler has worked as a professional dancer and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area for over thirty years. She served as dancer and resident choreographer for the San Francisco Moving Company and was a principal dancer for Cliff Keuter New Dance Company and the Joe Goode Performance Group. Ms. Keeler has choreographed dances for many companies including Joffrey Dancers, DanceArt and Oakland Ballet. She also has choreographed for George Coates Performance Works, Magic Theater, The Pickle Family Circus, Make*A*Circus, American Conservatory Theater and several Z Space productions. She is a recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Choreographers' Fellowships. Ms. Keeler has been Artistic Director of the San Francisco Arts Education Project since 1985 and serves as Artistic Director and choreographer for the SF Arts Ed Players. She has worked as a guest artist at School of the Arts for five years and served on the San Francisco Arts Commission from 1994 to 1997.
Camille Olivier-Salmon - Program Liaison/Choreographer
Ms. Olivier-Salmon is the founder and acting Artistic Director of Brisbane Dance Workshop. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Choreographic Design and was an American Dance Festival and National Dance Guild scholarship recipient. She has studied and performed professionally in New York City, Louisiana, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. A mother of three, she has been teaching children's dance for over fifteen years. She has been working with Artsed since 1985. Ms. Olivier-Salmon is one of the choreographers for the SF Arts Ed Players.
Danny Duncan - Theatrical Director/Dramaturge
Danny Duncan is a native San Franciscan who has worked in the Bay Area most of his life. As founder and Artistic Director of Duncan & Company, he toured the West Coast for seven years. Duncan's writing career began in 1969 with Uhuruh, which appeared Off Broadway in New York at the City Center Theatre. Since then, he has authored and produced eight original musicals including Billie’s Song -- winner of six Bay Area Critic Awards, including Best Musical of 1982. He is also the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his choreography for Theatreworks production of RAISIN the musical in 1998 as well as the Dean Goodman Choice Award for outstanding achievement in theatre. For five years Duncan served as Artistic Director for the Mayor's Summer Youth Program (Bayview Hunter's Point) and for ten years with United Projects, an arts organization that trained young people in the performing arts. Duncan has written the librettos and song lyrics for eight of the San Francisco Arts Education Project's Events. Mr. Duncan has a long association with the School of the Arts and has taught at the American Conservatory Theater. He has been associated with Artsed since 1991.
Barry Koron- - Musical and Vocal Director
Barry Koron has served as the Conductor/Music Director for A Man of No Importance at the New Conservatory Theater, Assassins and On the Town for the American Musical Theatre of San Jose and Ken Hill’s The Phantom of the Opera for Theatre on the Square. Work for the Shorenstein Nederlander Hays organization includes rehearsal pianist or auditions pianist for Rent, Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast as well as synthesizer for Les Miserables, Ms. Saigon, The King & I, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Titanic, La Cage aux Folles, Blood Brothers, Grease, State Fair and many others. Mr. Koron can be heard on the Film Soundtracks for Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Jurassic Park III. Mr. Koron has also worked for the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, the Silicon Valley Symphony, Oakland East-Bay Symphony and Santa Rosa Symphony. Mr. Koron has been part of the creation process for the original shows Irving Berlin in Revue, An Evening at Widow Begbick’s and A Marvelous Party. Mr. Koron has been associated with Artsed since 2003.
Nicola Bosco-Alvarez - Choreographer
Ms. Bosco’s training includes intensive study of Classical Ballet at Scuola di Danza in Florence, Italy. She holds an Associate Credential from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance in the Ballet Method of Maestro Enrico Cecchetti. She has performed with Peninsula Ballet Theatre, Palesch Pacific Ballet and Redwood Empire Ballet. Ms. Bosco has been a guest artist and choreographer for Skyline Community College and Ballet Conservatory of Sonoma. She has performed under the direction of Carlos Carvajal, Gina Ness and Deborah Palesch. Recent work includes numerous performances and choreography for the Coastal Repertory Theatre. Ms. Bosco has taught for Brisbane Dance Workshop and Artsed’s ARTSummer Camp. She is the on-site Program Coordinator of the Glen Park After School Program. This is her fifth year with Artsed.
Natalie Greene - Choreographer
Natalie Greene is a performer, choreographer and arts educator who received her BFA from Arizona State University. Her choreography has appeared in Italy’s Montescudaio Amphitheatre, Club Principe in Granada, Spain, and for three funny years in Phoenix’s weekly “Farce Side Comedy Hour. ” Natalie’s work has been seen locally at ODC Theatre, John Sims Center and the College of San Mateo. She has performed with Kelly Kemp/raw footage, Leyya Tawil/Dance Elixir, Kim Epifano/Epiphany Productions and is currently working with Mary Armentrout. This is her third season with the Event Players and she has truly enjoyed bringing this story to life.
Dan Kryston – Set Designer
Is the head of the Technical Theatre Dept. at SOTA. Mr. Kryston received his degrees in Theatre Directing and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and Regis University. He has worked as artistic director for the Berlitz Gallery Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona and has been an active force in San Francisco’s cabaret scene. He has directed and designed over 120 productions nation wide for such companies as the Ravens Conservatory Theatre in Chicago; The Black Friars, in Washington D.C. and the New Conservatory Theatre and Lamplighters, here in San Francisco. He is currently directing Follies for School of the Arts.
Kathleen Moore – Wardrobe Mistress
Ms. Moore has been designing and coordinating costumes for the San Francisco Arts Education Project since 1994. She was Wardrobe Mistress for three years for Lenwood Sloan’s Jubilee Minstrels. She has also done costuming for Oblong Rhonda Dance Theater, TRANSIT Dance Company, Brisbane Dance Workshop and Emily Keeler for Summerfest. During the daytime hours, Ms. Moore is the Administrative Coordinator for the San Francisco Arts Education Project. She also performs with TRANSIT Dance Company and teaches creative movement and dance to senior citizens in the Tenderloin community.
Luba Kravchenko
Ms. Kravchenko is thrilled to be working on The Yellow Wood, her fourth production with the ArtsEd Players. She was as previously involved as vocal coach/accompanist for "How to Succeed in Business," "Wonderful Town" and "Sitting on a Rainbow." Ms. Kravchenko holds a BM in Piano Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is currently on the piano faculty in the Preparatory Division.
Lilli Wosk
A graduate of San Francisco State University, this is Ms. Wosk's third year with the Event Players and Arts Ed. She trained previously at University of Miami's musical theater performance conservatory, and has been living in San Francisco, providing musical direction for local school productions. She has collaborated on productions with Claire Lilienthal and West Portal schools for the last two years, and she is thrilled to be a part of The Yellow Wood musical team.
| December 2008 |
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| Date | Time | Location | What |
| Friday, 5 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 6 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 12 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 13 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 19 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 20 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| January 2009 |
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| Date | Time | Location | What |
| Friday, 9 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 10 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 16 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 17 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 23 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Saturday, 24 | 12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| Friday, 30 | 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
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Saturday, 31 |
12 noon - 4:00 pm | SOTA - Dance Studio | Rehearsal |
| February 2009 at the Eureka Theater |
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| Date | Time | Location | What |
| Tuesday, 3 | 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Eureka Theater | Tech Rehearsal |
| Wednesday, 4 | 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Eureka Theater | Tech Rehearsal |
| Thursday, 5 | 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Eureka Theater | Dress Rehearsal |
| Friday, 6 | 6:00 pm Call | Eureka Theater | Show (7:30 pm) |
| Saturday, 7 | 6:00 pm Call | Eureka Theater | Show (7:30 pm) |
| Sunday, 8 | 12:30 pm Call | Eureka Theater | Show (2:00 pm) |
| Friday, 13 | 6:00 pm Call | Eureka Theater | Show (7:30 pm) |
| Saturday, 14 | 6:00 pm Call | Eureka Theater | Show (7:30 pm) |
| Sunday, 15 | 12:30 pm Call | Eureka Theater | Show (2:00 pm) |
| March 2009 Break |
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| April 2009 | |||
| Date | Time | Location | What |
| Monday, 13 | 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm | SOTA Theater | Tech Rehearsal |
| Tuesday, 14 | 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm | SOTA Theater | Tech Rehearsal |
| Wednesday, 15 | 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm | SOTA Theater | Dress Rehearsal |
| Thursday, 16 | 9:00 pm Call | SOTA Theater | Show (10:00 am) |
| Friday, 17 | 9:00 pm Call | SOTA Theater | Show (10:00 am) |
SF Arts Ed Players Staff Biographies
Emily Keeler - Producer/Artistic Director/Choreographer
Ms. Keeler has worked as a professional dancer and choreographer in the San Francisco Bay Area for over thirty years. She served as dancer and resident choreographer for the San Francisco Moving Company and was a principal dancer for Cliff Keuter New Dance Company and the Joe Goode Performance Group. Ms. Keeler has choreographed dances for many companies including Joffrey Dancers, DanceArt and Oakland Ballet. She also has choreographed for George Coates Performance Works, Magic Theater, The Pickle Family Circus, Make*A*Circus, American Conservatory Theater and several Z Space productions. She is a recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Choreographers' Fellowships. Ms. Keeler has been Artistic Director of the San Francisco Arts Education Project since 1985 and serves as Artistic Director and choreographer for the SF Arts Ed Players. She has worked as a guest artist at School of the Arts for five years and served on the San Francisco Arts Commission from 1994 to 1997.
Camille Olivier-Salmon - Program Liaison/Choreographer
Ms. Olivier-Salmon is the founder and acting Artistic Director of Brisbane Dance Workshop. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Choreographic Design and was an American Dance Festival and National Dance Guild scholarship recipient. She has studied and performed professionally in New York City, Louisiana, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. A mother of three, she has been teaching children's dance for over fifteen years. She has been working with Artsed since 1985. Ms. Olivier-Salmon is one of the choreographers for the SF Arts Ed Players.
Danny Duncan - Theatrical Director/Dramaturge
Danny Duncan is a native San Franciscan who has worked in the Bay Area most of his life. As founder and Artistic Director of Duncan & Company, he toured the West Coast for seven years. Duncan's writing career began in 1969 with Uhuruh, which appeared Off Broadway in New York at the City Center Theatre. Since then, he has authored and produced eight original musicals including Billie’s Song -- winner of six Bay Area Critic Awards, including Best Musical of 1982. He is also the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his choreography for Theatreworks production of RAISIN the musical in 1998 as well as the Dean Goodman Choice Award for outstanding achievement in theatre. For five years Duncan served as Artistic Director for the Mayor's Summer Youth Program (Bayview Hunter's Point) and for ten years with United Projects, an arts organization that trained young people in the performing arts. Duncan has written the librettos and song lyrics for eight of the San Francisco Arts Education Project's Events. Mr. Duncan has a long association with the School of the Arts and has taught at the American Conservatory Theater. He has been associated with Artsed since 1991.
Barry Koron- - Musical and Vocal Director
Barry Koron has served as the Conductor/Music Director for A Man of No Importance at the New Conservatory Theater, Assassins and On the Town for the American Musical Theatre of San Jose and Ken Hill’s The Phantom of the Opera for Theatre on the Square. Work for the Shorenstein Nederlander Hays organization includes rehearsal pianist or auditions pianist for Rent, Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast as well as synthesizer for Les Miserables, Ms. Saigon, The King & I, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Titanic, La Cage aux Folles, Blood Brothers, Grease, State Fair and many others. Mr. Koron can be heard on the Film Soundtracks for Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Jurassic Park III. Mr. Koron has also worked for the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, the Silicon Valley Symphony, Oakland East-Bay Symphony and Santa Rosa Symphony. Mr. Koron has been part of the creation process for the original shows Irving Berlin in Revue, An Evening at Widow Begbick’s and A Marvelous Party. Mr. Koron has been associated with Artsed since 2003.
Nicola Bosco-Alvarez - Choreographer
Ms. Bosco’s training includes intensive study of Classical Ballet at Scuola di Danza in Florence, Italy. She holds an Associate Credential from the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance in the Ballet Method of Maestro Enrico Cecchetti. She has performed with Peninsula Ballet Theatre, Palesch Pacific Ballet and Redwood Empire Ballet. Ms. Bosco has been a guest artist and choreographer for Skyline Community College and Ballet Conservatory of Sonoma. She has performed under the direction of Carlos Carvajal, Gina Ness and Deborah Palesch. Recent work includes numerous performances and choreography for the Coastal Repertory Theatre. Ms. Bosco has taught for Brisbane Dance Workshop and Artsed’s ARTSummer Camp. She is the on-site Program Coordinator of the Glen Park After School Program. This is her fifth year with Artsed.
Natalie Greene - Choreographer
Natalie Greene is a performer, choreographer and arts educator who received her BFA from Arizona State University. Her choreography has appeared in Italy’s Montescudaio Amphitheatre, Club Principe in Granada, Spain, and for three funny years in Phoenix’s weekly “Farce Side Comedy Hour. ” Natalie’s work has been seen locally at ODC Theatre, John Sims Center and the College of San Mateo. She has performed with Kelly Kemp/raw footage, Leyya Tawil/Dance Elixir, Kim Epifano/Epiphany Productions and is currently working with Mary Armentrout. This is her third season with the Event Players and she has truly enjoyed bringing this story to life.
Dan Kryston – Set Designer
Is the head of the Technical Theatre Dept. at SOTA. Mr. Kryston received his degrees in Theatre Directing and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and Regis University. He has worked as artistic director for the Berlitz Gallery Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona and has been an active force in San Francisco’s cabaret scene. He has directed and designed over 120 productions nation wide for such companies as the Ravens Conservatory Theatre in Chicago; The Black Friars, in Washington D.C. and the New Conservatory Theatre and Lamplighters, here in San Francisco. He is currently directing Follies for School of the Arts.
Kathleen Moore – Wardrobe Mistress
Ms. Moore has been designing and coordinating costumes for the San Francisco Arts Education Project since 1994. She was Wardrobe Mistress for three years for Lenwood Sloan’s Jubilee Minstrels. She has also done costuming for Oblong Rhonda Dance Theater, TRANSIT Dance Company, Brisbane Dance Workshop and Emily Keeler for Summerfest. During the daytime hours, Ms. Moore is the Administrative Coordinator for the San Francisco Arts Education Project. She also performs with TRANSIT Dance Company and teaches creative movement and dance to senior citizens in the Tenderloin community.
Luba Kravchenko
Ms. Kravchenko is thrilled to be working on The Yellow Wood, her fourth production with the ArtsEd Players. She was as previously involved as vocal coach/accompanist for "How to Succeed in Business," "Wonderful Town" and "Sitting on a Rainbow." Ms. Kravchenko holds a BM in Piano Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is currently on the piano faculty in the Preparatory Division.
Lilli Wosk
A graduate of San Francisco State University, this is Ms. Wosk's third year with the Event Players and Arts Ed. She trained previously at University of Miami's musical theater performance conservatory, and has been living in San Francisco, providing musical direction for local school productions. She has collaborated on productions with Claire Lilienthal and West Portal schools for the last two years, and she is thrilled to be a part of The Yellow Wood musical team.