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Patrick ChristianoPatrick Christiano... Publisher
Mr.Christiano has been a theater critic for over a decade as the sole NYC theater critic for Dan’s Papers, the bible of the Hamptons for that entire period. His reviews are also published online at DansHamptons.com, and have appeared in Hampton’s.com as well. Patrick launched TheaterLife.com in May, 2006. He is a voting member of the Drama Desk and was one of seven on their Nominating Committee for 2008/2009 season. He is repeating those duties for the current 2009/2010 season. His numerous interviews and features about the theater have been published in Dan’s Papers, Hamptons.com., and TheaterLife.com. In the past few years he has interviewed Vanessa Redgrave for the Hampton’s International Film Festival as well as other notables including theater icon Charles Busch, soprano Kathleen Battle, Diane Paulus, the Director of Hair, the international film star Jacqueline Bissett, and Broadway producers Steward F. Lane and Bonnie Comley. He is a graduate of Montclair State University with a BA in Speech/Theater, where he appeared in numerous plays there and later Off Broadway. He studied acting, playwriting & directing at HB Studio with Uta Hagen, Herbert Bergoff, Alice Spivack and others. He also studied script interpretation with the legendary Stella Adler, which profoundly affected his views about the theater. Around 1999 he began working with Zina Jasper, a Harold Clurman protégé and a recipient of an Outer Critics Circle Award, who directed him in three plays. Their friendship has crystallized his theater wisdom. In addition Mr. Christiano is the artistic director of SilvaRoad Productions, which has presented several Off-Broadway productions in NYC.
Theaterlife.com@gmail.com

Barry GordinBarry Gordin... Editor In Chief
Barry Gordin is an internationally renowned photographer, whose celebrity photos have appeared in publications world wide including People and InTouch. His weekly photo column in Dans Papers has been a staple of the social scene for the past decade and his photos appear regularly in virtually every publication in the Hamptons. His work has appeared in numerous group shows at galleries in SoHo and on the Eastend. Barry is also a Theatre Critic and a voting member of the Drama Desk.
Theaterlife.com@gmail.com

Contributing Writers

Ellis NassourEllis Nassour
Author: Best-selling Patsy Cline biography "Honky Tonk Angel". Musical revue "Always Patsy Cline"
www.patsyclinehta.com

Linda BurnsLinda Amiel Burns
Founder and Director of The Singing Experience, popular cabaret and musical theater performance workshops since 1977, has been featured on “CBS Sunday Morning” with Charles Osgood and, recently, the subject of a article in the New York Times. Linda is a sought after vocal coach & director - has written, booked and directed hundreds of cabaret acts, received the 2008 MAC BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD presented by Danny Aiello at BB Kings for her 30-year contribution to cabaret. Linda produces and stars in The Singing Experience Cable TV Show on MNN and RCN and is President Of The New York Sheet Music Society. www.SingingExperience.com

Jason Clark
Jason Clark has been writing about theater since 1999, when he cofounded an entertainment webzine called Matinee Magazine in an effort to expand theater reviewing to the web. Since then, he has written for a number of publications, including Entertainment Weekly (where he began a biweekly column called “The Footlights”), TheaterOnline, Premiere Magazine, HX and currently continues to write for Slant Magazine, where has written since 2005. In 2008-2009, he was proud to be a nominator for the Drama Desk. He lives in Astoria, NY.

Isa GoldbergIsa Goldberg
Isa Goldberg is one of the most compelling, thought-provoking and colorful theater experts in the country. Her interviews with playwrights have aired on PBS’ “In The Life” and her conversations with entertainers and performers have been carried around the world by Reuters International Television. As a theater critic, her reviews and segments have aired on Cablevision 12 and the “Joey Reynolds Show” (WOR) and have been published in The Daily News, Newsday, am New York, The Advocate and The New York Press. Her syndicated theater column appears in the Greater Philadelphia Newspapers and in the Middletown (NY) Times Record, and her reviews air on several radio stations in the New York market.
http://www.womensradio.com