Welcome to "Where Are They Now?"
The Roadside Theater has always been blessed with talented, generous and
enthusiastic participants - you see them onstage, off stage, behind the bar,
selling cookies, stitching costumes, slinging paint, handing out programs,
and doing a million other things it takes to run a theater. Each and every
one of them is a "star" in our books. Many of these Roadside "stars" continue
working in theater after they leave - shooting into other community theaters,
theater training programs or, in some cases, professional careers. Some former
Roadsiders are on TV, in movies, touring with shows, working as professional
technicians or even running their own theater company.
If you were or know a former Roadsider we would love to hear where you are
and what you are doing in the performance world - or any world for that matter.
Just send us an email through the website - tell us where you are, what you
are doing, how and when you were involved with the Roadside. Feel free to
include a pic if you like.
We hope the following Roadside "Shooting Star" will be the first in a long
line of people we get to catch up with and say "We knew them when!" We always
ask people who are leaving the Roadside Theater to drop us an email to let
us know where they are and what they are up to. Life gets the better of all
us and we lose touch with people. We hope make up for that with this new section.
So, congratulations to Nina Arianda (Matijcio) - a Roadsider from 1999-2002. Nina was just nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway production of "Born Yesterday." Nina made a major splash last year off-Broadway in the latest David Ives play Classic Theater Company in New York. She received glowing reviews from the New York Times and many other reviewers. Nina first appeared at the Roadside in The Music Man in 1999 as "Zaneeta Shinn" and was involved till she left for college in 2002. She performed in The Elephant Man, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Ain't Misbehavin, The Woman in Black and The Author's Voice. Nina studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and in NYC at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, received her BA from the New School University and her MFA from New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts Graduate program. All of us at the Roadside want to congratulate Nina and wish her all the best in what we know will be a stellar career.
For the latest update on Nina, see Fast rise of Broadway's Nina Arianda turns heads!
Ellis Hamilton - a Roadsider from 2009-2010 - recently peformed at The Metropolitan Room in New York City. Ellis first appeared at the Roadside in Oliver in 2009 as "Oliver". All of us at the Roadside wish Ellis all the best with his budding musical career!
