Legacy Theatre is thrilled to share the talents of these amazing people with you!
Thank you for supporting our Silent Auction!
Amy Graver, Principal
Elements: Phone: 203-776-1323 Email: amy@elementsdesign.com Website: https://elementsdesign.com
Business Hours: 9am-5pm
Elements is an award-winning graphic design, digital and marketing communications agency in Branford. Elements started in 1999 and has developed into a nationally recognized and respected agency working with such brands as PEZ, Swiss Army, Alzheimer's Association, Michel Design Works among others. Elements mission is to help their clients move their brands and their business' forward. Elements is a 100% woman-owned business and is certified with the Connecticut SBA/MBE Program.
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Keely Baisden Knudsen, Legacy Theatre Artistic Director and Co-Founder
Email: Keely@LegacyTheatreCT.org
An award-winning director and member of Actors' Equity Association, Keely has performed, directed, and choreographed internationally in plays, musicals, operas, and dance companies in hundreds of theatrical productions and has performed in 48 of the United States and in the UK. Keely has directed, choreographed, and taught a myriad of performing arts courses at such institutions as Quinnipiac University, Yale University, Fairfield University, Hartt School of Drama, Southern Connecticut State University, Westminster College, and was the Director of Education of New Haven's acclaimed Elm Shakespeare Company for several years. Additionally a composer/lyricist and playwright, she is currently collaborating on two musicals and is a member of ASCAP. Her directing has been heralded by the Arts Paper as "?visually striking, emotionally moving" and "captivating" and of her direction of Hamlet it was said, "Knudsen has made the notoriously difficult Shakespearean language accessible." Her BFA is from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, at which she graduated first in the class, and she received her Masters Degree in Drama on full scholarship from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.
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Lisa Hesselgrave, Hesselgrave Fine Art
Phone: 203-804-5767 Email: lisahesselgrave@gmail.com Website: www.lisahesselgrave.com
Business Hours: By appointment
Lisa Hess Hesselgrave's paintings focus on figures, landscapes and the intersection of those two subjects.
Hesselgrave earned an MFA degree from the Yale University School of Art and a BFA degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been shown throughout Connecticut and New York in many venues including the National Academy of Design, Tatistcheff Gallery, and The Painting Center. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center (2014), the Millay Colony for the Arts (2002, 1992), and the Seaside Institute, Florida (1996). She recently completed a three week residency in Tétouan, Morocco. In addition to her studio practice Hesselgrave has taught drawing, painting, color theory, and 2D design at several colleges and universities in Connecticut and New York. She currently teaches at Gateway Community College.
Hesselgrave lives with her family near the edge of the woods, where she continues to do work that experiments and evolves, while maintaining a disciplined adherence to craft and a pursuit of personal content.
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Guilford Art Center
411 Church Street
Guilford, CT 06437
Phone: 203-453-5947 Website: https://guilfordartcenter.org
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North Light Gallery & Framing
1171 Main Street
Branford, CT 06405
Phone: 203-481-2103
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Anne Runolfsson
Anne has spent the past 32 years singing globally in every conceivable format: world renown concert halls, iconic arenas and amphitheaters, Broadway stages, small club venues, as well as a wide range of recording studios. Broadway credits include: Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Cyrano: The Musical, Victor/Victoria (standby for Julie Andrews), Aspects of Love, and James Joyce's The Dead (standby for Blair Brown). She understands the unique challenges facing singers as she has worked in just about every performance environment imaginable. Her unique past allows her to coach, train and mentor students as they embark on launching their careers. Her access to industry leaders from years of experience creates a viable platform for her students to excel with a distinct advantage.
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Greg Nobile
Greg Nobile, Executive Producer of Seaview Productions, holds the distinction of the being the youngest Tony Award winning producer on Broadway for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Other Broadway credits include Escape to Margaritaville, Side Show and Hughie. On London's West End, Greg produced Show Boat and the revival of Gypsy starring Imelda Staunton, for which he won the Olivier Award. Greg's Off-Broadway productions include the record breaking Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre, winner of the Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, Hundred Days, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Invisible Thread, and the award winning Slave Play at New York Theatre Workshop.
In the food and beverage space, Greg is the co-founder and managing partner of Flying Horse Hospitality, a company that develops, builds, and operates experiential hospitality concepts on the shoreline of Connecticut with partner Eamon Roche. Greg also owns the digital start up Did He Like It?, a critical review aggregator for cultural experiences with partner Mike Karns.
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Daron Hagen
Operatic polymath, composer, author, and filmmaker Daron Hagen's debut as a filmmaker came with "Orson Rehearsed," a sixty-minute "filmopera" that combines live singers, live performance, three films-within-films projected onstage, and electro-acoustic sounds to build a dreamscape inside the great Orson Welles' mind during the instant between life and death. This manuscript page (donated by the composer) is an extremely rare and valuable document in the composer's own hand that represents his first ideas for the musical score of the work."
You can learn more about "Orson Rehearsed" here: www.orsonrehearsed.art
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Christine Chiocchio CPP
Phone: 203-481-1177 Email: christinechiocchio@gmail.com Website: christinechiocchio.com
Business Hours: By appointment
Christine Chiocchio is a photographer and painter who lives on the Connecticut shoreline. When she is not traveling or in the studio, she spends much of her time photographing and painting outside in the marshes and on the nearby Thimble Islands. A love of nature and all things marine influences her work.
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Lisa Franco, Over The Moon Vintage
Website: www.otmvintage.etsy.com
Lisa Franco has owned and operated Over The Moon Vintage since 2009 after leaving her communications career. She still freelances, and is currently writing a book based on World War II love letters she found while thrifting on Cape Cod. Visit www.otmvintage.etsy.com
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Jay Babina, Jason Design Associates
Website: outer-island.com Email: jbabina@snet.net
Jay Babina has been painting for over 50 years and teaches at several places in the area. He is also a Graphic Designer. He attended Silvermine Art School as well as the University of Bridgeport. He has his own business in advertising/graphic design and participates in the fine arts as well.
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Alan Horwitz, Well Suited LLC
Website: www.wellsuitedct.com Email: alan@wellsuitedct.com
Men's Clothier. Appointments at your home or office.
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Maryann Beatty Cook, Maryann Beatty Cook Art
Phone: 203-646-7174 Email: maryann@maryannbeattycookart.com Website: https://www.maryannbeattycookart.com
Business Hours: By appointment and November-January at The Hilltop Gallery, Branford, CT
Maryann is an artist and art educator who works in watercolor, acrylic, oil and pastels. Nature and her photography propel her work. Maryann shows and sells her work in CT where she has been awarded. She supports the arts & culture through Branford Arts & Cultural Alliance (Board), Shoreline Arts Trail member, Lyme Art Association, and Shoreline Arts Alliance.
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Martha Link Walsh, Martha Link Walsh Gallery
Phone: 203-481-3505 Email: marthalinkwalsh@comcast.net Website: marthalinkwalsh.net
Business Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 9-5
Stony Creek has been a magical place from way back - all point to the special aspects of this gem on the shoreline. Finding my life's work serendipitously, i have been creating art from cut paper for over 40 years - custom originals, book illustration, logo design and Christmas heirlooms.
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Kristin Hottin
Phone: 203-605-6108 Email: khottin@sbcglabal.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/khottin
Kristin is a freelance artist and set designer who has worked locally for companies like Tabor Arts and Shoreline Theatre Company. For her artistic work she specializes in commissioned b/w portraits (pets or family) and landscape oil paintings.