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Ralph Colombino 
has been a performer and educator for the past twenty-two years. He recieved a BFA defree from Mason Gross School of the Arts Professional Acting Training Program at Rutgers University. He has studied acting with some of the theatre's most renowned teachers, including: Pierre LeFevre, William Esper, Maggie Flanigan, Victoria Hart, Edward Stern, Harold Scott, Lloyd Williamson, Mai Loughran, Peter Nels, and Joseph Hart. Mr. Colombino has performe din over thirty professional productions. most notaby Ralph was in the award-winning Shoestring Players 1989 company which began its American tour at The State Theater in New Brunswick, NJ and ended it five months later at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Ralph's main contribution to theater has been teaching the craft to young people. His classes are designed to continuously challenge the young artist and to instill confidence as a performer and as a person. Some of his teaching credits include: Actor's Heritage in NYC, The Children's Cultural Center in Red Bank NJ, Hoboken Hight School in NJ, Dance Theater Project in Spring Lake NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson University and presently, Monmouth University where, as an adjunct professor. Ralph teaches acting, theater appreciation, and directs mainstage shows. Mr. Colombino is also the lead singer and guitarist in the Remnans, an alternative rock outfit that was established in 1990. They have played to sold out crowds at nearly every major rock venue in NYC and NJ. The Remnants have also received airpolay on Q104.3 in NYC, WHTG 106.3 in NJ and countless college radio stations.
Many of Ralph's students hae been accepted to the most prestigious and elite universities for theatre that exist, some of which include: The TISCH School at New York Universtiy, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Harvard, Northwestern, and USC.
Ralph's students professional credits include feature films: Donnie Brasco and School of Rock, television shows: The Late Show with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, The Sopranos, Law & Order, As The World Turns, MTV dspecials, Noggin programming and countless national commercials.  recieved her BA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She has been training with Ralph for the past 5 years and doing countless theatrical and film productions in NYC and NJ for just as long. Megan is Managing Director, as well as an actor, of the New Mystics Theatre Company, a non-profit company focusing on education in schools and building a greater arts community. She has been teaching with Ralph for the past year and an educator at the Count Basie Cool School. Megan also has her own web and graphic design company, Blue Wave Consulting. She builds websites for small businesses as well grpahic design and print work for various groups.
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