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Bill Hirschman has been a professional journalist since interning during high school in 1966 in Westchester County, New York. He began reviewing theater beatles magical mystery tour for the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998 and has written about the arts and reviewed books for several decades. His arts coverage has appeared in Variety, American Theatre magazine, Playbill.com, a e magazine and The Miami Herald . His work as the founding critic for the South Florida Theater Review won him first place for arts criticism beatles magical mystery tour in the Society of Professional Journalists' Sunshine State Awards. He serves on the executive committee of the American Theatre Critics' Association, treasurer of its Foundation and the chairman of its new plays completion, which presents the Steinberg/ATCA Award.
He is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor who has worked for newspapers in Florida, New York, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas, covering local government, education, social services and crime. He is the past president of the South Florida and Kansas chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and winner of the national First Amendment Award.
beatles magical mystery tour Mary Damiano  has been covering arts and entertainment South Florida as an feature writer and theater critic for more than 10 years.  She is currently arts editor of South Florida Gay News and an administrator and voting member for the Carbonell Awards.  She is the co-founder of MiamiARTzine.com, for which she worked as editor for four years.  Mary has been published in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel , New Times , Miami SunPost , and more than a dozen other local and national publications. An award-winning writer, her essay Creature of the Night took first place in the National Writers Association South Florida Chapter's writing contest in 2000, and her play, Word Count , won first place in the 2007 South Florida Theatre Festival One-Act Play contest. In 2009, her short story, The Day Janis Joplin Died , was a finalist in the 11th annual Writer's Network of South Florida beatles magical mystery tour writing competition.  Mary's play Jane Fonda s Breast was featured in the 2004 Lavender Footlights Festival.  She has published nearly 2,000 articles since 2000, and is listed in the 2005 edition beatles magical mystery tour of Who's Who in America .  Mary is also a member of the American Theatre Critic's Association and the Theatre League beatles magical mystery tour of South Florida.  Mary believes her greatest accomplishment is figuring out how to make a living by being entertained.  She can be reached beatles magical mystery tour at starrwriter2000@aol.com
Michelle F. Solomon has been immersed in theater since she first played the role of  Millie in Picnic at the age of 12. A graduate of Emerson College, Boston, Mass., with a master beatles magical mystery tour s degree from the State University of New York, Michelle has been a theater critic beatles magical mystery tour at major and mid-sized newspapers, including executive arts editor of the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union and assistant features editor/entertainment at The Detroit Free Press . She was an on-air entertainment reporter for NBC affiliate, WDIV-TV, and an executive producer at ABC affiliate, Miami s WPLG-TV, Local 10. In addition to theater reviews for Florida Theater On Stage , Michelle is a syndicated movie reviewer for Internet Broadcasting/Local10.com, involved locally in improv comedy, beatles magical mystery tour and recently got up the nerve to begin performing stand-up comedy at venues in South Florida. She can be reached at msolomon23@att.net.
Brad Hathaway: Writing about theater is a second career for Brad. After 30 years working for the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government first as a staff member in the House of Representatives and then as an executive at the GAO, the non-partisan investigative arm of the Congress, he retired to delve into his life-long passion theater, especially musical theater. While writing for multiple newspapers in the Washington, D.C., area, he came early to the digital world of the Internet. He covered Washington theater beatles magical mystery tour for Theatre.Com and Broadway for Musical beatles magical mystery tour Stages Online . In 2001 he established Potomac Stages , the first comprehensive website for the Washington theater community. Now relocated to the west coast, he is undertaking beatles magical mystery tour writing beatles magical mystery tour projects beatles magical mystery tour on a wider range of topics. He writes the weekly syndicated column Theatre Shelf: CDs, DVDs and Books for the Theatre Lover, while still contributing to websites and magazines such as American Theatre, The Sondheim Review, Live Design and Stage Directions . He can be reached at Brad@BradHathaway.com
Oline H. Cogdill is a veteran features editor, copy editor, teen mentor and internationally-recognized mystery fiction reviewer and columnist. She currently reviews for South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Mystery Scene Magazine, Publishers beatles magical mystery tour Weekly, among others outlets. Her work is distributed through the McClatchy-Tribune News Service and has appears in more than 300 newspapers and websites around the world. She received the Ellen Nehr Award for Excellence in Reviewing from the American Crime Writers beatles magical mystery tour League and the Pettyjohn Award from the Sun-Sentinel. She currently serves as managing editor of Nova Southeastern University's beatles magical mystery tour Horizons magazine.
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