The Board

Mark Blumberg
Vice President / Education & Outreach

Mark Blumberg is, alternately, an actor, musician, and neuroscience researcher. Regional acting credits include Othello (as "Iago") and The Laramie Project (multiple roles), though he most recently appeared in The Strollers' production of Urinetown as "Officer Barrel". He holds a B.A. in Neuroscience & Music from Hampshire College, where he performed in Patrick Marber's Closer(as "Dan"), the TV talk show "What R U Implying?", and Franz Schubert's Die schoene muellerin with Julia Tilles at piano. He also contributed his own music and served as musical director for Hampshire's productions of Cloud 9 and Venus. Mark's research focuses on how the brain learns musical forms and responds to music training. His recent study, "Music as a rehabilitative tool for cochlear implant users", has been presented at notable conferences across the country, including the Boston Music Research Association's Music & Mind Symposium at Harvard University. Mark is currently working with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to develop an outreach program for deaf and hard-of-hearing classrooms.

John Bronston
President / Production

John Bronston has worked across the country as a musical director, actor, and teaching artist. His work as a musical director has been featured in the east coast tours of Enough For All and Lady of Copper for Theatre Garden, in the new musical Liberty at the Workshop Theatre Company in Manhattan, for productions of Into the Woods, The Wiz, Carousel, and Little Shop of Horrors, through City Lights Youth Theatre, and he has worked regionally as musical director for the Media Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ), Earlham Theatre Company (Richmond, IN), and Dayton JCC Theatre (Dayton, OH).  He has served as a teaching artist for City Lights Youth Theatre and the Children's Aid Society in New York, as an adjunct faculty member at Earlham College, and on the staff of the Dayton Jewish Community Center. Some of his major performing credits include The Rocky Horror Show (multiple regional productions as Dr. Frank-N-Furter), Hair (multiple regional productions as Hud or Walter), Ain't Misbehavin (as Man 2), Into the Woods (as Cinderella's Prince/Wolf), and Cyclone (and the Pig-Faced Lady) at the York Theatre and the National Comedy Theatre in Manhattan. In addition he has worked as arranger and pianist for cabaret performances with Michael Cerveris, Judy McLane, and Trisha Jeffrey at the Copacabana and the Triad and for special performances with the members of the Broadway casts of All Shook Up, Wicked, and A Chorus Line.

Joseph Gatti
Treasurer / Finance

Joseph J. Gatti is a 22-year-old musician/composer, certified fitness trainer, and securities broker.  Hailing from central NJ, Gatti competed as a 3-sport varsity athlete for the Watchung Hills Warriors (class of 2002).  Gatti earned a B.A. in economics from Harvard College in June 2005 after completing a three-year Advanced Standing academic program.  During his tenure in Cambridge, he founded and led the rock musical outfit "The Goodfellas" and performed at various Harvard-sponsored student events (representing the university at the annual Harvard-Yale Battle of the Bands) as well as more prestigious Boston venues (Middle East, TT The Bear's).  He served as a recording engineer for Quad Sound Studios, producing tracks for clients working in a wide variety of musical genres.  Gatti dedicated his post-graduate year to the composition, production, and release of the autobiographical rock/pop symphony "Finest Hour".  An experienced multi-instrumentalist and prolific songwriter since his early teens, Gatti recorded an epic 3-hour pop symphony as a self-contained unit.  He released the first installment of "Finest Hour" independently through Gatti-Vision Productions (www.gattivision.com). In addition to his artistic pursuits, Gatti is an experienced financial analyst.  As an economic researcher, he has been employed with corporations such as Cantor Fitzgerald, Hudson Securities, and Michael Kownacki Partners.  Currenty employed with the BGC brokerage firm, Gatti plans to reside in New York City for the remainder of 2007.  He is composing a Gatti-Vision musical theater piece (slated for a fall 2007 debut) and developing the live performance unit "Gatti-Vision Orchestra" for a summer concert series.

Eric Larnick
Secretary / Nominating

Eric Larnick graduated from Boston's Emerson College with a degree in film. While in Boston, Eric also served as a writer and actor for both the "Emerson Comedy Workshop" and the "Atomic Powered Millionaires", a sketch comedy troupe based out of the ImprovBoston theater. In 2005, he began directing shows for both troupes. He also served as an editor of Lauph Magazine, a Boston humor publication, from 2003 to 2005.

Joshua Robinson
Development / Programming

Mr. Robinson comes from Richmond, IN where he served as artistic director of Junior Players of Richmond and as vice president of Summer Stock of Richmond. Now based in New Jersey, he has served as literary manager of Passage Theatre in Trenton and artistic director of Stageless Theatre Company in Princeton. He has provided book and lyrics for Ellis Island, The Musical, which received its world premiere at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy, from which Mr. Robinson is also an alum. He also provided book for the musical Fairy Tale and book and lyrics for the forthcoming Idol, with composer/lyricist John Bronston.
Favorite directing credits include Parade, The Laramie Project, Side Show, Othello, Fuchsia and The Rocky Horror Show.