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Meet the Brooklyn Players Staff
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 Corinne Goodman, Founder and Director of Brooklyn
Players, is a
professional singer and has been a professional dancer. She has been a
life-long educator, having taught children and adults from Pre-K through college
for over 35 years. Corinne taught music in the NYC public schools for ten
years, taught voice to adults at The Guitar Study Center at The New
School for Social Research, and has directed countless productions and concerts with young people.
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 Kalle Macrides, after-school Theater Co-Teacher,
and Assistant Show and Program Director of Brooklyn Player's summer program, has been with
Brooklyn Players since 2002. She has her B.A. in Theater Arts from Sarah
Lawrence and a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU. She currently
is a student in the Masters of Arts in Creative Writing with a focus in
Playwriting at Brooklyn College. In addition to her work at Brooklyn Players, Kalle has been working
as a drama arts and playwriting teacher for many years in the NYC public schools, is a professional
performing actor in New York City, and is Executive Director of the Adhesive Theater Project .
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 Silvan Carlson-Goodman, summer program Sports
and Playground
Teacher, has been a participant at Brooklyn Summer Players since 2002,
was a C.I.T. in 2005, a Junior Counselor in 2006, and joined the staff as the
Sports Teacher in 2007. Silvan graduated from The Brooklyn Free School in June of 2008 and will
be attending Ithaca College's school of Communication in Television and Radio in the Fall of 2009.
After a younger childhood of difficulty with team sports, he prides himself on figuring out how to
get even the most reluctant Brooklyn Summer Player playing in his group games out on the
playground.
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 Jennifer Kirschman, summer program Costume
Designer since 2006,
did her training at Parsons School of Design, and has been costume designing since 2002 in independent film and theater in Los Angeles and
New York with both adults and young people.
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 Aya Kato, summer program Piano Accompanist, joined
Brooklyn Summer Players in 2007. Aya is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and a
gifted pianist, composer and arranger of everything from jazz to children's music to
rock 'n roll. Aya performs with many New York City based bands, as well as her own group 'Merry and
Tomato' (named after her two cats). Check out her "Sushi Song" on myspace.com/ayakato .
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 Erica Camarano. Erica joined Brooklyn
Summer Players in 2008 as our dance teacher and choreographer, and we are delighted to have her back for
summer 2009. Erica has her BA in theater and dance from Hunter College and has also trained with
Shakespeare and Company. She was a member of the Rosetta Lenoire Musical Theater Academy for two years.
Erica is a currently working New York City actor and dancer.
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