Laura Belsey is an award-winning director, whose commercials and short films have won numerous international honors, including a Cannes Gold Lion.
Her "New York, New York" spot for the Coalition for the Homeless, hailed by ...
Robert Lamoreaux
Lamoreaux, has written, developed, and produced some of the most popular animation series for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and ABC Family including ‘Totally Spies,’ ‘Hey Arnold!,’ the Annie Award-nominated ‘Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi’ and ‘Catdog.’ ...
Rosalind Jarrett, BA ’69
Rosalind Jarrett is Executive in Charge of Publicity for the Screen Actors Guild Awards® and has contributed to expanding the audiences for the SAG Awards telecasts on TNT and TBS since 1999.
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Alan Zweibel ’72
Multi-Emmy Award-winning writer/producer/director, Alan Zweibel began his career as part of the original ‘Saturday Night Live’ writing team. His TV credits also include ‘It’s Garry Shandling Show,’ ‘Monk’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’
Zweibel’s ...
Peter Riegert ’68
Veteran actor/writer/director Riegert has appeared in more than 30 films such as ‘The Mask’ and ‘Coldblooded.’
He was nominated for an Emmy for his role in ‘Barbarians at the Gate,’ (CBS), played Richard ...
Linda Gelman ’72
Gelman started her career as a dancer, having taken classes at UB in spite of being a Russian history major. She earned an MA in dance education at Columbian University Teachers College, ...
Harris Ferris ’78
Executive director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Ferris previously headed the Nevada Ballet in Las Vegas and New Jersey's American Repertory Ballet, where he was managing director to the affiliated Princeton Ballet School.
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Richard Lawrence ’67
Richard Lawrence started his career at Abrams-Rubaloff & Associates (AR&A) an agent for voice over performers and celebrities.
In 1976 he founded Richard Lawrence Enterprises, a personnel management company representing actors, comedians, and ...
Ray Leslee ’76, ’77
Leslee is considered one of the leading composers of music for Shakespeare in the world. His musicals have been produced by the Shubert Organization, Playwrights Horizons, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Alabama ...
Saul Elkin
Saul Elkin, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the UB Department of Theatre and Dance, is founder and artistic director of Shakespeare in Delaware Park, now in its 35th season, and co-founder and artistic ...
Jeanne Palmer-Fornarola ’00
(UB Faculty)
Clinical assistant professor in dance at the University at Buffalo, Palmer-Fornarola is the director of the Dance Program in the Department of Theater and Dance. She instructs courses in ballet, dance ...
Paul Zuckerman ’72
Zuckerman trained with Del Close at the Second City in Chicago and helped bring Chicago City Limits to New York in 1980.
He performed with the company for 15 years and is ...
Ken Tabachnick ’77
Tabachnick has worked in all areas of entertainment for some 30 years.
After a long career as a lighting designer for opera, dance, theater, and television, he earned his JD from Fordham Law School. ...
Robert S. Fingerman ’80
(BS Accounting, UB School of Management)
Managing partner of Fingerman & Macke, CPA, PC, a Long Island-based CPA firm, Fingerman has more than 28 years’ experience providing accounting and tax services to ...
Don Zakarin '72
He is chairman of the litigation department at New York’s Pryor Cashman “having attained the position mostly by clean living and inertia.”
He considers himself a general litigator, having represented clients in a ...
Bobby Collins ’73
American Comedy Award winner for Best Male Stand-up, Collins has hosted VH-1’s Stand Up Spotlight, A&E’s An Evening at the Improv, and Showtime’s A Pair of Jokers.
He has opened for Frank Sinatra, ...
Jody Kleinberg Biehl
Jody Kleinberg Biehl became the director of UB’s Journalism Certificate Program in January 2009.
Before coming to UB, she worked as an editor at Der Spiegel Online, Europe’s largest news magazine and Germany’s ...
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE & RECEPTION- SATURDAY JUNE 27 ONLY!
“The Two Alans Talk About The Ups and Downs of Their Careers in the So-Called Arts”
Starring… AWARD-WINNING COMEDY WRITER ALAN ZWEIBEL, BA ‘72 & BEST-SELLING AUTHOR ALAN STEINBERG, BA ‘68
As part of the conference, the June 27th special performance by ALAN ZWEIBEL and ALAN STEINBERG – a motivational and inspirational comedic show – will feature casual Q&As, anecdotes, lessons learned, video clips and
Rosalind Jarrett ’69 is Executive in Charge of Publicity for the Screen Actors Guild Awards® and has contributed to expanding the audiences for the SAG Awards telecasts on TNT and TBS since 1999. She has lectured on entertainment public relations at UCLA, USC, NYU and Loyola Marymount University. She was formerly director of program publicity, west coast for the ABC Television Network Group. She is the current Aquathlon World Champion in her Age Group
Christine La Monte, BA ‘69, a former film studio marketing executive, is a producer of theatre, television and film. Under the La Monte Productions banner, she has several films in various stages of development, including, “Red Hot Mamas” written by Gary Goldstein; a documentary, “The Other Side of 90,” a film about women in their 90′s which she is also directing; and a film based on the critically acclaimed legal thriller, “Justice Deferred”
Linda Phillips Palo, MA ‘75, BA ‘72 is a casting director who won the Artios, the highest casting honor, for Sophia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides.” She has worked with Francis Ford Coppola on John Grisham’s “The Rainmaker,” Jack,” “The Secret Garden,” “Wind,” “Jeepers Creepers II,” and “The Young Black Stallion” for IMAX/Disney. She has worked with George Lucas (Radioland Murders), Phil Joanou (Heaven’s Prisoners), Dwight Yoakam (South
At Disney, Ted Kryczko has produced over 500 products for children and families, including works based on Roger Rabbit, Beauty & the Beast and The Little Mermaid. His work has received 14 Parent’s Choice Awards, more gold and platinum records than Elvis or the Beatles, and he has been nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, winning once for The Lion King Read-Along in the Best Children’s Spoken Word category in 1994. In 2008, “A Green
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