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The Career Center invites you to engage with our featured guests: five industry veterans who have had their works published and will share their process from concept to publication.

Amy Jordan
Dance Because You Can, 5 steps to Transform Trauma into Triumph
Amy Jordan is a New York City based choreographer, director, producer, speaker, coach, consultant and author. Jordan’s dance career spans three decades and includes work in Florida, Los Angeles and New York City. She created an award-winning, dance-based diabetes and obesity prevention program for kids: The SWEET ENUFF Movement.  SWEET ENUFF was a top five national finalist for First Lady Michelle Obama’s ‘End Childhood Obesity Challenge.’ In 2014, Amy Jordan launched her professional dance company, The Victory Dance Project.  The company is Amy’s response to a life altering accident. In 2009, Amy Jordan was hit and run over by a New York City bus.  Moments after impact she vowed that if she survived there would be a ‘Victory Dance.’ The mission of the Victory Dance Project is to ‘Make the Impossible Possible with the Power of Movement.’  She encourages everyone to ‘Dance Because You Can’.

Christina Britton Conroy
I Want To Go To Lithuania, or How To Have Fun With Your Aging Parents (Amazon)
Novelist/ screenwriter/ singer/ actor/ Irish harpist/ Certified Music Therapist/ and Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Conroy has lead a rich performing career. At 27 when her 60-year-old mother died of cancer, she cared for her 80-year-old father, an intense experience that motivated her to develop her music therapy career and to found MUSIC GIVES LIFE, a program that brings musical performing into the lives of senior citizens. Over the years, Conroy started writing fiction “for fun and therapy.” His Majesty's Theatre, her award winning, four-book series was published in 2017.

Warren Benbow
A Drummer’s Story
Warren Benbow is a drummer, songwriter, music producer and educator in New York City. He has worked and/or recorded with major singers and players on television, in the studio, and in clubs or concert halls around the world. A Drummer's Story chronicles his adventures as a kid drummer just out of the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. His stories describe the changing world of jazz in the 1970s, from acoustic music to electric jazz fusion. Warren narrates his experiences with the legendary musicians he knew and played with. Names such as Whitney Houston, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Betty Carter, and James 'Blood' Ulmer. His memoir reflects not only the shifts within the sounds of Jazz, but the changing racial and political climate in America during the 60's and 70's.

Cathy Haase
Acting for Film, Second Edition
Cathy Haase is an experienced film and TV actor and educator who has taught acting in college and conservatory settings in the US and Europe. She published the first edition of Acting for Film in 2003.  The second edition, released this past September, offers guidance on topics such as dealing with new technology including CGI and motion capture; concentration and relaxation exercises to enhance facial expressiveness; exploration of sense memory techniques for on-camera work, and tips for maintaining proper eye focus in front of the camera and conveying the “beats” of a scene.

Charles Waters
Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Charles Waters is a Children's Poet, Actor and Educator.  His poems have appeared in various anthologies including: THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOK OF ANIMAL POETRY, AMAZING PLACES and ONE MINUTE TILL BEDTIME. Charles performs his one person show, as well as conducts poetry performance and writing workshops for elementary and middle school audiences.