Musical Theatre Intensive

Christine Riley is a Music Director, Vocal Coach and Arranger in NYC. National Tour and NYC Credits include: My Vaudeville Man (The York Theatre), Thoroughly Modern Millie (National tour), A Moment in Time, a new musical  with Stewart F. Lane, Gemini the Musical  (The Acorn), The Quiet Clock (Stage 7 2), Seesaw (The Connelly Theatre), Count to Ten (Theatre at St. Clements), Flight of the Lawnchair Man (37 Arts), and Mud Donahue and Son (45th Street Theatre). Riley was the MD for Shout! The Mod Musical, Edges, Sweet Charity, Rags, Triumph of Love, Wonderland, Realabilities, and The Boys From Syracuse at Marymount Manhattan College. She was also the MD for many regional and university theatre productions, including: Romance, Romance (The Glove Theatre); Frankenstein (Casino Rama); Nunsense (Fallsview Casino); Cats; Miss Saigon; Gypsy; Guys and Dolls; Fiddler on the Roof; Honk!; Annie Get Your Gun; The Sound of Music; South Pacific (all for the Prather Entertainment Group); The Who’s Tommy; The Full Monty; The Pajama Game; Urinetown; The Musical, Cabaret; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Cocoanuts; A Chorus Line; Once Upon a Mattress; and A New Brain. Riley also arranged and conducted a new musical, Caterina’s Son, in Florence, Italy. She received her BM from Ithaca College and an MM from Arizona State University. She is the proud mom to Scarlett and Natalie. Read more.

Emily Clark is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College. She teaches courses in Musical Theatre History, Musical Theatre Techniques, Scene Into Song, Advanced Theatre Studies, and the Daily Dance Program. She recently directed and choreographed an all-female production of Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys From Syracuse and served as director and choreographer for a new production of Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland. She has performed and choreographed at institutions across the country, working with fantastic theatrical mentors, including Bill Russell, Patricia Birch, Larry Fuller, and Georgji Paro. She also serves as the advisor for the Musical Theatre Association at MMC, which sponsors training and production in musical theatre throughout the year. Clark received a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She received a BA from Marymount Manhattan College, an M.Ed. from the University of LaVerne, and an M. Phil from CUNY Graduate Center. 

Stephane Duret was last seen in the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots on Broadway and is also the Founding Director of KAISER’S ROOM, a non-profit that offers arts programming to individuals with cognitive and developmental delays in NYC. Duret started his Musical Theatre training at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida, and now holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. He is thrilled to call NYC home. Previous credits include Off-Broadway: The Fortress of Solitude (The Public Theatre); The Biscuit Club and Hard Times (the cell theatre). International: Parade (Jerusalem, Israel); Zorro (Shanghai, China); Regional: Violet (Waitsfield, Vermont); Aida, Hot Mikado, Ragtime, Cabaret, Curtains, Sweet Charity, and The Producers (Chicago, Illinois). He is a proud member of A.E.A.