Graduated from Univ of Missouri in 1994 with BA in Communications with minor in Russian Area Studies. Moved to Phoenix, Arizona, moved back to Columbia for awhile. Currently working at the University of Missouri as an Information Technology specialist.

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Joanna Cummins January 5, 2007

Long has worked as a voice, speech and text consultant, an instructor of acting with a special interest in classical drama and a professional actor.  She has conducted numerous training sessions for the Interpreting Division of the Office of Language Services, U.S. Department of State. She recently worked as a Dialect Consultant for Everyman Theatre’s production of School for Scandal and Round House Theatre’s production of Retreat from Moscow.  In February of 2006, she provided private coaching on the production of Hamlet at Rep Stage. In 2005, Ms. Long served as a Voice Consultant for Mr. Roberts (Kennedy Center) and as Voice, Speech and Text Consultant for The Taming of the Shrew (University of Maryland). In addition, she was the Voice, Speech, Text and Dialect Consultant for Our Town (directed by John Vreeke – University of Maryland), Fen (The Catholic University of America) and Voice, Speech and Text Consultant for Romeo and Juliet (The Catholic University of America).

She has taught Voice and Speech at the Catholic University of America and the Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University and the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She is an Affiliated Teaching Artist with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, teaching such Master Acting Classes as Shakespeare in Production, Shakespeare Dream Roles, Classical Theatre Scene Study, Voice and Text, Dialects. Voice and Speech as well as leading workshops for TextAlive! She currently teaches acting at the University of Maryland.

As a member of the faculty of The Shakespeare Theatre’s Camp Shakespeare Ms. Long has directed Richard III, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. In the fall of 2005 she directed Again For Cydnus, her adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra at the University of Maryland.

Long was a member of the acting company at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC from 1998 to 2002, appearing in The Trojan Women (JoAnne Akalaitis, director), The Duchess of Malfi (starring Kelly McGillis), Coriolanus and Don Carlos (all directed by Michael Kahn), The Country Wife (directed by Keith Baxter) and Romeo and Juliet (directed by Rachel Kavanaugh) . Other acting credits include: Hartshorn Theatre Company, New York (Celemine in The Misanthrope); over 20 productions at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival including Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well (with Michael Emerson, directed by Kent Thompson), Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest; and Arkadina in The Seagull; the Cleveland Play House (Leonide in The Triumph of Love); The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Dionyza in Pericles); Round House Theatre (Speaking in Tongues), the Studio Theatre (Far East and The Invention of Love) and two seasons at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

Ms. Long is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Mid America Theatre Conference. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Performance from the Professional Actor Training Program at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival/University of Alabama and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Performance from Illinois State University (cum laude). In June of 2007 she will begin work towards a certificate in Fitzmaurice Voicework developed by Catherine Fitzmaurice.

As a young man I was brutally shy so I didn't really have much luck with the ladies.  I played football and ran track and under-achieved academically.  24 years later I have almost 18 years in the Air Force and I'm stationed at Scott AFB, Illinois near St Louis.  My family still lives in Columbia so I come home most weekends.  When I retire from the military in a couple of years, I will probably move to Columbia and begin a second career.  I am divorced and I have 2 boys ages 12 and 10 who live with their mother in Washington.  So yes I am out there again exploring the dating scene. 

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Mark Whitmarsh July 24, 2007

In order to help my wife pursue her dreams, we moved to Wilmington, North Carolina so she could further her career in Nuclear Medicine, taking a job at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Wanting to involve myself in the community, I joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary shortly after settling here.

Looking for a change in careers I chose to look at Real Estate. Along with the pursuit of my career in helping others purchase their American dream, I enjoy wood working, kayaking, reading, am an active member in my church, and a member of C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Team.)

We love living within 10 min of the beach.  We also have a son named Matthew.

As we all get older I find myself thinking about my friends from high school and wonder what everyone is doing.  Please drop me an email and let me know "what's up."