Ryan Abb

Faculty, Visual Arts Instruction

Ryan Abb is a graphic novelist and collagist who studied under book artist Warren Lehrer at SUNY Purchase (B.S. Visual Arts, 2005). He has also freelanced as an actor, musician, comedian, and puppeteer and has taught children in summer camp and after-school programs...

Holly Adams

Theatre Arts Instruction

Holly Adams has been a Performer and Teaching Artist for many years, and loves every second of it. As a performer and SAG-AFTRA member, she divides time between film, original pieces with her physical theatre company Kakeru, audiobook narration and other Voice...

Doreen Kelly Alsen

Music - Private Instruction, Theatre Arts Instruction, Voice

Doreen Kelly Alsen – is the proud owner of a varied and extremely checkered musical past. She graduated magna cum laude from Barrington College with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education, and followed that up with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance...

Susan Arnsten-Russell

Faculty, Visual Arts Instruction

Susan Arnsten-Russell moved to Ithaca in 1976 to attend Cornell University and received a BFA with a concentration in painting and printmaking. She subsequently returned to school and in order to become an occupational therapist. As an occupational therapist, Susan...

Kathleen O’Connor-Ballantyne

Music - Choral Faculty, Music - Course Faculty

Kathleen O’Connor-Ballantyne is a composer, conductor, and editor. She made her debut as a composer with Women’s Works of Ithaca in March 2014 with “Petition,” a choral work based on a 1874 petition to the US government in support of women’s suffrage....

Miranda Bianchi

Theatre Arts Instruction

Miranda Bianchi is an actor and teaching artist based in Ithaca, NY. She has worked with the Hangar Theatre company’s Next Generation School of Theatre, Redhouse Arts Center, Auburn Public Theatre, and CSMA focusing on Shakespeare, freeing the natural voice, and...