About Us

Mr. Parise began his theatrical career as a performer. He appeared in the national tour of A Chorus Line, and on Broadway in 42nd Street, Me and My Girl and City Of Angels. Now on the other side of the footlights, Mr. Parise has directed and/or choreographed Hello Dolly! starring Madeline Kahn, Where’s Charley? starring Jo Sullivan and Emily Loesser, Oliver starring Ellen Greene, Mame, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Cinderella, La Cage Aux Folles, The Music Man, Funny Girl, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, On The 20th Century, You Can’t Take It With You, Dames at Sea, Meshuggah-nuns, and the U.S. premieres of Discovering Elvis and Moby Dick…A Whale of A Tale. National tours include Grease! starring Cindy Williams and Eddie Mekka, Anything Goes, 42nd Street and Me And My Girl starring Tim Curry.

Mr. Parise was awarded the Bay Area Critics' Best Director award for Me And My Girl, and received the Goodman Drama Logue Award for his direction of Crazy for You. Tony also co-authored Sophie...the Red Hot Mama Revusical and created TAP! and TAP 2! for Fleet Boston's Family Music Series.

New York credits include choreography for Bernadette Peters’ Carnegie Hall and Radio City debuts, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, The Bravo Channel’s Bravo on Broadway, and The Inner Circle. His work Off-Broadway includes Pirates of Penzance (Lucille Lortel Nomination), Pageant, Raft of the Medusa, Balancing Act and The A-Train Musicals. Mr. Parise has been the director of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University since 1996.

Internationally, Tony has mounted companies of 42nd Street in London, Australia, New Zealand, and Korea, Me And My Girl in Mexico City, Anything Goes in Berlin, and has choreographed for Italian TV in Milan. Teaching credits include master classes throughout this country and abroad with such organizations as: AMDA, Boston Ballet, New Zealand School of Dance, Philadelphia College of Performing arts, NYU, and the Boston Conservatory.

Philip joined Camp Broadway following a 6-year run as the Associate Producer for the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania – one of America’s most famous summer theatres. Some of his favorite shows that he produced include: Mame starring Linda Dano, Gypsy starring Joyce DeWitt, Hello, Dolly starring Colleen Zenk Pinter & Mark Pinter, Love Letters starring Loretta Swit, My Way starring Adrian Zmed, Fiddler On The Roof starring Eddie Mekka and My Fair Lady starring Peter Scolari – just to name a few! Prior to that Philip was a marketing and development consultant for Broadway and worked with numerous musical productions including Grease!, Victor / Victoria, Smokey Joe’s Café, Chicago, Big The Musical and Busker Alley. Philip is also the writer, producer and director of The Love Boat star Jill Whelan’s one-woman show Jill Whelan: An Evening in Dry Dock.

Justin Greer is an opera singer by training, a Broadway dancer and actor by trade, and an arts educator whenever he has the time. He is currently the dance captain of the Broadway company of THE PRODUCERS, also covering Leo Bloom and Carmen Ghia. He made his Broadway debut in the Tony award winning revival of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN starring Bernadette Peters, and originated the Broadway companies of URBAN COWBOY and SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL.

Other NYC credits include BABES IN ARMS with City Center Encores! , the off-Broadway play JUST US BOYS, and the HERCULES SUMMER SPECTACULAR at the New Amsterdam Theatre, where he played Aladdin. He has toured the country as Gideon in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, worked with the Radio City Rockettes, and has performed in numerous regional and stock productions. Some of his favorite roles include the title role in BAT BOY, Matt in THE FANTASTICKS, Will Parker in OKLAHOMA, and Jinx in FOREVER PLAID.

Before becoming Programs Director at Camp Broadway, Tiffany served as Company Manager on the 2006 Summer Tour.

A native of California, she earned her B.A. in Theatre Arts from California State University Long Beach in 2002.

Tiffany is proud to be a part of the Camp Broadway family where she can combine her love of theatre and working with children.

Adam Aguirre is a recent graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in Government and Theatre.

In college, he was primarily an actor in Georgetown Theatre Program productions such as Our Country’s Good, The Winter’s Tale, The Balcony, Dream Boy and many more.

At Georgetown, he served as the Associate and Executive Producer of a student-run theatre company and was a member of the College Academic Council. He is the recipient of the Misty Daily Award for Achievement in Theatre as well as awards for Outstanding Male Performance in 2005 and 2006 and Outstanding Contribution to the Theatre Community in 2006. He is happy to join the Camp Broadway team in promoting the performing arts as a vehicle for lifelong learning.

Previously, Christina served as the Client Services Associate at Pirate Capital LLC, an activist hedge fund in Norwalk, CT. She has also served as a staff writer and editor for several literary publications in Washington, DC.

Christina earned a B.A. in English and Studio Arts from Georgetown University in 2006, where she developed her love of theatre through her work as the Associate Producer of the Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society. Christina will pursue her MFA in Creative Writing at Brooklyn College beginning in the fall of 2007. She joined Camp Broadway in 2006.

Nellie has been a teaching artist with Camp Broadway since 2003. National Tours: Broadway Junior, On Tour! (Danyel) and Discover Theater: featuring Disney’s Cinderella and The Jungle Book (Bagheera). NY Theatre Premiers: Sheldon Harnick’s Dragons (Mrs. Weber), Harry Connick Jr.’s The Happy Elf (The Happy Elf). Other Credits: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Sally), Ragtime (Emma Goldman), Into the Woods (Little Red), The Music Man, & Dear Edwina. Nellie has also been involved backstage with the Broadway productions of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Boy from Oz, and All Shook Up.

Tim comes to New York City from Rochester New York, where he worked with Geva Theatre Center's Education Department. There he was also Administrator of Geva Comedy Improv from 2004-2007, and has appeared in Geva's productions of Shear Madness and Our Town. He taught narrative improv at SUNY Brockport for five semesters, and has performed with such companies as Dad's Garage Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and Toronto, Canada's Iron Cobra. Community theatre credits include Arsenic and Old Lace (Mortimer), Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Lucas), and Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio). He most recently appeared as Mikey Thomas in The Lake George Dinner Theatre's Production of Shear Madness in 2007.

Jonathan Hadley most recently appeared as Bob Crewe in the Broadway company of Jersey Boys and is currently playing the role on the First National Tour. He was previously seen on Broadway channeling Marvin Hamlisch and Michael Bennet in A Class Act and Off-Broadway in Finian's Rainbow at New York's acclaimed Irish Rep. Tours include Into The Woods (with Cleo Laine), Joseph... (with Donny Osmond), Fiddler on the Roof (with Theo Bikel) and Forbidden Broadway. Favorite regional credits include leading roles in Dirty Blonde, Born Yesterday, Yiddle With A Fiddle (Boston Herald Award), Amadeus, Loves Labors Lost, Call Me Madam (starring Leslie Uggams), The Secret Garden and Captains Courageous. TV: "Another World", "Kidsworld" & "Sex and the City". Jonathan is a director and teaching artist with Camp Broadway, TADA!, the Yip Harburg Foundation's "Rainbow Troupe" and BRAVO's "On With the Show" and directed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and TARTUFFE for New York's Sonnet Repertory Theatre. Jonathan recently graduated from Brooklyn College with an MFA in Directing.

NY Theatre Credits: Fallen Angel (NYFringe Festival Outstanding Musical Winner 2006), Pearl (NYU Grad Musical Theatre Writing), Forty (Theatre for the New City), Fallen Angel (Bay Street Theatre), The Wild Party (Rose-CAP21). Other credits: The Pajama Game (Babe), Cinderella (Portia), Love According to Luc. TV/Film: "ED" (NBC), "The Awkward Stage", and a cabaret in affiliation with BRAVO TV. BFA in Drama from NYU/Tisch. Sari is dedicated to bringing expression through the arts to kids and young adults where she teaches through different organizations such as Camp Broadway, The Johnny Mercer Foundation, and All the Arts for All the Kids.

Cynthia Thole, a veteran of the Broadway stage, currently works as a director/choreographer and teacher in New York City for Theatreworks/USA, Two Beans Productions, TADA!, AMDA, Encores, and Camp Broadway. She is a faculty member of the dance program at Montclair State University and AMDA. Her Broadway performance credits include: A Christmas Carol, My Fair Lady, Nick and Nora, Me and My Girl, Meet Me in St Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and 42nd Street. National Tours include: Agnes DeMille's Oklahoma!, Sugar Babies and 42nd Street. Her regional choreography credits include: Carousel and Leave Him to Heaven for Farleigh Dickenson University, 42nd Street, Allenberry Playhouse, Me and My Girl, Mill Mountain Playhouse, and Quilters, Penn State University. Cynthia works as a teaching artist in the NYC public schools with grades K-12. She is also a graduate of Butler University and the proud mother of a teen-age daughter.