Hello, Thank you for your interest in CampusNYC, New York’s only immersive summer arts program that uses New York City as our campus. We offer classes in culinary arts, musical theater, creative writing, and traditional theater. In each of these courses, students meet and study with working professionals and also create their own shows, dishes, and writings. Students in both Camp Off-Broadway and SingNYC will create and develop their own shows and perform them for an audience at New York Theatre Workshop in the East Village. This is an exceptional opportunity to experience a memorable and educational creative process and leave CampusNYC with a New York theatre credit on your resume from a world famous theater. Additionally, they’ll see the Broadway shows Anything Goes and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and speak with the shows’ performers during the program. They’ll also go to Off-Broadway plays (those for the summer have generally not been announced yet) and will visit the East of Edinburgh Festival at 59E59 Theaters. SingNYC students will meet with Raymond J. Lee, who’s performed on Broadway in Anything Goes, Mamma Mia, and more and has been seen as a finalist on NBC’s Fame. Ellen Harvey, who we’ll see in How to Succeed . . . , will also visit with our students. Her Broadway credits include Thou Shalt Not, The Music Man, and The Most Happy Fella. Her film credits include Music & Lyrics, The Producers, and The Hard Truth. In CulinaryNYC, not only will you create and test your own dishes in our home kitchen, but you’ll also meet some of the city’s best chefs and restaurateurs including Top Chef alumnae Nikki Cascone, James Beard Award-winner Susan Simon, and owner of JoeDoe, Joe Dobias. Marlowe & Daughters, New York’s most famous butcher shop, will open its doors to our students and give us a live demonstration, and Dalia Jurgensen, head pastry chef at Dressler, will speak to our students bout the challenges and rewards of working with pastries! Our lead teacher for CulinaryNYC is Melissa Greeley. Melissa is a private chef & instructor who studied at French Culinary Institute and graduated first class with honors and received the Best Final Project Award from Jacques Pepin. Since then, she’s worked at Blue Hill at

Stone Barns with Dan Barber, Relish, which received three stars from the New York Times, and was the executive chef at Matt Miller Culinary Productions. She often volunteers with the Rockland Child Parent Association and has worked with White House chef, Walter Scheib. WriteNYC, which will be taught by Lily Brown. Lily’s first book, Rust or Go Missing, was recently published by Cleveland State University Press. She’s received degrees from Harvard and St. Mary’s, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at University of Georgia. Lily has taught in the Georgia Public Schools, Girls Moving Forward, The Nueva School, and University of Georgia. Not only will you have the chance to work closely with Lily, but you’ll also speak with award-winning writers like Paul Lisicky, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and Carey Wallace, and visit literary landmarks like Ugly Duckling Presse and Poets House, and travel the city for readings, literary tours, and more. We’re adding new speakers and workshops every week, so be sure to sign up before registration closes! In fact, just this morning Kevin Allison, creator of the Risk! podcast and former member of the comedy group The State, will speak with our WriteNYC students. If you have any questions about CampusNYC in general or any of our programs in particular, I’d love to talk to you. Thanks for your time, and I’m looking forward to seeing you at CampusNYC this July! All best, Douglas Murphy Academic Coordinator

CampusNYC Staff

Woody Loverude (Director) earned degrees from Augustana College (Secondary Education and English) and New York University (Creative Writing). He’s run summer programs at Gettysburg, Union, and Centenary Colleges, Shenandoah University, and Madeira School. While living in New York, Woody has worked at a variety of educational institutions including John Jay College, On Location Education, Greenwich Village High School, and Harlem Children’s Zone. His chapbook, Flood, was published by Shadowbox Press, and you can find his work in Columbia Poetry Review, Backwards City Review, Court Green, Clementine, and elsewhere.

Luke Krueger (Director) is an accomplished playwright, actor, and professor. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Arizona State University, was named the first playwright as the emerging writer-in-residence at Pennsylvania State Univeristy-Altoona, and in 2007 was the resident playwright at Northern Stage. He’s taught at Arizona State, Lake Forest College, Penn State, and Loyola University. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater at Northern Illinois University. Aside from his theater and teaching background, Luke has also worked at several highly successful academic summer programs at both a teacher and camp director.

Douglas Murphy (Director) earned a liberal arts degree from Middlebury College (VT). He has directed summer academic camps for many years, and is the co-founder of one of the largest private academic camps in the United States. He has directed or managed summer academic programs at over 100 colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., including large summer-long programs at Stanford, MIT, SMU, George Washington University and many more. As a father of two young daughters, he is especially concerned with the physical safety and wellbeing of each and every student.

Adriana Baer’s (Lead Teacher, Camp Off-Broadway) New York directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Seagull, The Hairy Ape (Columbia Stages), Between Mouthfuls (Atlantic Theater Conservatory), and a number of new play premiers including Fly Season by John McKinney (WorkShop Theatre), Tender Was the Night by Jeffrey James Keyes and The Suicide of the Glutton by Jason Platt. Other directing credits include Woyzeck (Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Direction), The Maids, and No Exit at The Cutting Ball Theater (San Francisco) where she was the Associate Artistic Director during the 2004-2007 seasons. During her tenure at The Cutting Ball, the company received four “Best of San Francisco” awards, including one for No Exit. Adriana recently directed the remount of Opera Boston’s world premier production of Madame White Snake at the 2010 Beijing Music Festival (Century Theater, Beijing). She was the staging director for the nationally televised Boston Children’s Chorus Martin Luther King, Jr. Day concert (ABC network). She is the President and Director of Programs at Central Coaching that provides coaching for actors pursuing admission into BFA, MFA, and Professional Training Programs.

Adriana has worked with The Public Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, SF Circus Center/Pickle Circus, Opera Boston, California Shakespeare Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Adriana has been a teaching artist and acting coach since 2002. BA: Sarah Lawrence College; MFA: Columbia University.

Lily Brown (Lead Teacher, WriteNYC) holds degrees from Harvard and St. Mary’s College of California. Originally from Massachusetts, she currently lives in Athens, GA, where she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. She’s taught in the Georgia Public Schools, The Nueva School, Girls Moving Forward, and University of Georgia.

Her first book, Rust or Go Missing, was published in 2011 by Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and poems have appeared recently in Colorado Review, American Letters and Commentary, Fence, Denver Quarterly, 6X6, and Lo-Ball. She lives with her 13-pound Boston Terrier named Ruby and likes to hike and cook in her spare time.

Melissa Greeley (Lead Teacher, CulinaryNYC) is a private chef & instructor who studied at French Culinary Institute and graduated first class with honors and received the Best Final Project Award from Jacques Pepin. Since then, she’s worked at Blue Hill at Stone Barns with Dan Barber, Relish, which received three stars from the New York Times, and was the executive chef at Matt Miller Culinary Productions. She often volunteers with the Rockland Child Parent Association and has worked with White House chef, Walter Scheib.

Ashley Martinez (Lead Teacher, SingNYC) has worked with professional theatre companies across the country for over ten years and is a graudate of Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. She has directed productions for INTIMAN Theater (Rough Eagles, ’08), Norris Center (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Theater Dynamics, Musical Theater Boot Camp, 13 The Musical), Cornerstone Theater (LA Storytellers, Co-Director).

Ashley has choreographed for Flux Theater Co. (Pretty Theft), Norris Center (You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Joseph…), and assistant choreographed shows at PCPA Theatrefest (Crazy for You, Annie, Guys & Dolls), and Utah Shakespearean Festival (Little Shop of Horrors). She is currently directing a production of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party–set to perform at the House of Yes in Brooklyn in August 2011.

Ashley has developed educational theater and/or taught with: Centrum (Port Townsend, WA), INTIMAN (Seattle, WA), Norris Center (Palos Verdes, CA), Peace 4 Kids (Compton, CA), Inside Out Community Arts (Venice, CA), Theatre In The Woods (Staten Island, NY). She’s acted with PCPA Theaterfest, Glendale Centre Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and others.