Cynthia (Shore) Robins (IAC 55-56) spent two years at the University of Michigan before transferring to Ohio State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1961. After Cynthia married and had two boys, she earned a Master of Arts in Theater from Ohio State University in 1969. She was hired at the Columbus Dispatch in 1972, and was a television columnist from 1973 to 1977. Cynthia was hired by the San Francisco Examiner in 1977 as a feature writer and eventually a fashion and beauty editor. When Hearst bought the morning San Francisco Chronicle, she worked there for a year and retired in 2001. Cynthia lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Joan Baron (IAC 62-66, UW 67) is a mixed media/environmental artist and special events curator. She was featured in Phoenix Home and Garden Magazine and the Institute of Sustainability newsletter, Arizona State University.
Dorothy Feibleman (IAC 65-66) is an American potter living and working in Japan. She uses a traditional Japanese technique called Nerikomi to create her pieces. Dorothy has two videos of her artwork available on YouTube.
Christina (Czukor) Britton Conroy (IAC 66-67, 69 IAA 67-70, IAA Staff 70) is a professional actress, musician, psychotherapist and author of the love story “One Man’s Music,” which is now in a second printing.
Dr. Robert D. Ross (IAC 68-70) is a professor of pediatrics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, and was elected president of the Society of Pediatric Cardiology Training Program Directors. Dr. Ross, who also serves as a pediatric cardiologist and director of fellowship programs and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Children's Hospital of Michigan, will serve as president of the society for a two-year period ending in 2013. He will chair the steering committee to revise the training guidelines for the subspecialty. He has led a heart mission to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic since 2003, treating children with congenital heart defects and training local teams to operate independently. He is the namesake of the "Ross Classification" of heart failure in infants and children based on his research in the field.
Katherine Akos (IAC 71-74) is the interim vice president of development at Pacific Symphony.
Mark Nadler (IAC 74-75, IAA 76-80) is turning 50. To celebrate, he is starring alongside Bill Cosby and Chita Rivera in “Laugh Sing Dance” on October 13 at New York City's Town Hall. Mark will be donating 100 percent of the ticket proceeds to his favorite charity, Art Start.
Melanie Drane (AS 76-77, IAA 79-81, IAC ST 81, IAA Fac 03-04) received a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award on September 22 in New York City. This award is given annually to six women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers. Melanie is working on a new manuscript of poems entitled "The Language Orchard," which explores the profound experience of her sister’s severe aphasia after a recent stroke and their efforts to recover her language. She has also completed a book-length manuscript entitled “The City of Blademakers,” reflecting her many years living in Japan.
Michele Feder's (IAC 77-81) artwork will be displayed in a new exhibit, “Vivid Expression in Art” in Delray Beach, Florida, this fall.
Elizabeth (Bellamy) Grabowski (IAC 77-78) was recently appointed full-time violin faculty in the Young People's String Program at the Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore, Maryland. She previously taught violin at the Lawrence University Academy of Music.
Brad DePlanche (IAA 79-81) just completed a three-city tour of Alfred Hitchcock's “The Thirty Nine Steps,” and a three-city run as both Dromio twins in “The Comedy of Errors.” This year he will be playing Ken in “Rumors,” Clarence in “It's a Wonderful Life” and many roles in “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” all with Florida Repertory Theatre in Fort Myers.
Charles “Chuck” Johnson (IAA St 80-84, IAC St 81-84) is a Los Angeles saxophonist. On July 19, 2011 he performed with Tulsa vocalist Devre Jackson for the Third Tuesday Jazz program at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The performance was recorded, and Chuck was interviewed by Jeremy Gossett for a jazz program airing on a future date.
Gregory Loselle (IAC 80, IAC St 81-92, 97, IAC Fac 06-07) won three prizes in the Poetry Society of Michigan's annual poetry contest, placing first, second and third with three poems in three different categories respectively. His chapbook, "The Whole of Him Collected," will be published by Finishing Line Press this November.
John Marshall (IAC 82, IAA 83-86, IAC St 85, IAC Fac 94-Present) and Lynne Feller-Marshall released their second album of music for cello and bassoon. Titled "MiX-5: Premiere Recordings for Bassoon and Cello," most of the CD was recorded at WIAA studios on the Interlochen campus. The album features an eclectic mix of five genres of music: classical, jazz, folk, sacred, and rock. The CD and downloads are available at online and iTunes, as well as at the Interlochen Scholarshop.
Amanda King (IAC 84) made her Los Angeles debut at the Gardenia in West Hollywood, California in “An Intimate Affair: A man, a woman, and the American Songbook.” She will also perform at the Metropolitan Room in New York on October 23.
Jennifer Ehle (IAA 85-87) is co-starring in the new CBS drama “A Gifted Man,” where she plays Anna Paul, the ghost of a free clinic doctor on a mission to improve the character of her arrogant ex-husband.
Teresa Volgenau (IAA 89-91) is a dance instructor/choreographer and has recently relocated to Warsaw, Poland to collaborate and perform with Argentine Tango professional, Piotr Wozniak. Teresa is also pursuing a number of creative projects, including the writing and staging of an original full-length dance production entitled, “Fool’s Journey.”
Bernadette Joy Bautista (IAC 90, IAA 90-92) is a faculty member at the Boston Arts Academy.
Anthony McGill (IAC 91,93, IAA 94-96, IAC St 96) recently joined the clarinet faculty at The Juilliard School. Anthony is also on the faculties of the Peabody Institute, Mannes College, New School for Music, and Bard College Conservatory. In addition to his teaching career, Anthony serves as the principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
Misty (Cumpton) Warren (IAA 91-93) is a member of the Gospel music group, Angel Road, which received first place in the vocal division at the 31st annual Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships.
James Ilgenfritz (IAC 92-96) is a composer, bassist, educator and arts administrator living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Julianne Carney (AS 94, IAC 95-96). He is artist in residence at Issue Project Room, where he will produce his first opera, based on texts by William S. Burroughs. In fall 2011, James is completing a solo double bass recording of compositions by Anthony Braxton and is on faculty at Brooklyn Conservatory and Brooklyn College Preparatory Center.
Julianne Carney (AS 94, IAC 95-96) is director of Suzuki at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in New York. She is an active freelancer on the violin, performing within jazz and classical genres. Julianne is married to camper James Ilgenfritz (IAC 92-96).
Norah Jones (IAC 94-95) and Josh Groban (IAC 97-98) joined Tony Bennett on his recently released CD “Duets II.”
Soyeon Lee (IAA 94-97, IAC St 97) will perform in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on October 13, 2011. Soyeon will join the roster of the 2012-2013 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two program.
Jen Semanco (IAC St 94-00, IAA St 98-01, ICCA 06) is a teacher at Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit, Michigan.
A. Phoenix Delgado (IAA 95-96) is the assistant dean for advancement at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, California. Since leaving Interlochen, Phoenix has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, served as principal flute of the El Paso Opera, and currently serves as the principal flutist and guest conductor for the Golden State Pops Orchestra.
Krista Williams (IAA 96-99, IAC Fac 04-06, 08-10) and her husband, Pete Koechley, announce the birth of their son, Lachlan Yost Koechley-Williams, on Friday, September 9, 2011.
Josh Groban (IAC 97-98) recently guest-starred on “The Office” as the brother to Ed Helms (IAC 91) who plays the character, Andy.
Kara Robinson (IAC 98, IAA 01-03, IAC St 03) graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in May 2011 with a Master of Arts in Communication Studies and accepted an instructor position at the University of South Dakota. She teaches public relations writing, advertising principles and fundamentals of desktop publishing, as well as serves as the faculty adviser for two student organizations: the Public Relations Student Society of America and the American Advertising Federation.
Garth Neustadter (IAC 99-03) won an Emmy in the Outstanding Music Composition category for his work on the American Masters documentary "John Muir in the New World," which aired on PBS in April.
Lyndra Tingley (IAC 99-03, IAA 04-08, IAC St 08) won a conducting position at the young age of 19. This will be her second year conducting the Mason Philharmonic Orchestra in Michigan. Lyndra has a string studio of approximately 40 students. She is a full-time music education student and will complete her degree in December 2012.
Leeds Hill (IAC 01) played the roll of Butch/Timothy at Stages St. Louis' production of “The Secret Garden” in July and August 2011.
M. Blair Taylor (IAC 01, IAA 01-03) will be performing in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of “Don Giovanni,” directed by Michael Grandage.
Lydia (Ankrom) Loveless (IAC 02) is a singer-songwriter who released her first record in 2009 and just released her new record, “Indestructible Machine,” in September. Last winter, she was signed to Bloodshot Records.
Amanda Hill (IAC 03) teaches band and choir at Lilburn Middle School in Gwinnett County, Georgia. She was the first runner-up in the 2011 Miss U.S. United Pageant.
Georgina Rossi (IAC 03-05, IAA 09-11) and Sergio Muñoz (IAC 09, IAA 09-10) performed in four benefit concerts of Bach’s “Cantata No. 18” in Santiago, Chile. They join an ensemble from Pontifical Catholic University’s Music Institute, where both studied with Georgina’s mother Penelope Knuth (IAC 65-70, IAA 70-72). Sergio is a sophomore at New England Conservatory, where his teacher is another Interlochen alumna, Kim Kashkashian (IAC 65, IAA 65-69). Georgina is a freshman at Manhattan School of Music, where her teacher is Karen Dreyfus.
Rachel Saltzman (IAC 05-06) performed with her a cappella group, The Backbeats, on season two of NBC's "The Sing-Off."
Mikki Sodergren (IAA 06-08) attends Luther College. She was the first runner-up of the 2011 Brudos Family Award in Opera Performance, the largest award given for excellence in music at Luther.
Andrea Varadi (IAA 07-08, IAC St 08) and B.J. Enright (IAC St 04-09, IAA St 07-09) were married in Portland, Oregon on July 31, 2011.