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| Eric Beatty is the first Director of Homewood Arts Programs and has been at JHU since the summer of 2000. Eric received his MFA in Theatre Arts from Towson University where he was an adjunct professor in the Theatre Department for 4 years, teaching acting, mime and ensemble theatre. He has also taught classes and directed at Lehigh University and led workshops at numerous colleges and theatres on the East Coast. He was a member of Touchstone Theatre, in Bethlehem, PA for six years, where he was an actor, writer, director and administrator. For three years he performed with Mummenschanz, the Swiss Mime-Mask Theatre Company, both on Broadway and on US and International tours. He has worked in theatres and film and on television in Boston, NYC and Baltimore. His undergraduate degree is in Comparative Literature, from Dartmouth College. He has written three solo shows for children and family audiences and continues to perform them at elementary schools, festivals, and libraries throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Eric lives in the Baltimore area, with his wife and three children. back to the top |
| Craig Hankin has taught drawing and painting at Johns Hopkins since 1980. He has also taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art (1979-86) and the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (1980). His paintings, drawings and photographs have been exhibited at various local venues, including Artscape, the Contemporary Museum, Galerie Françoise et ses Frères, Columbia Art Center, Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Institute, Park School, and Maryland Art Place (MAP). In addition to his work as a painter and instructor, Hankin has collaborated for over 25 years with Tom Chalkley on projects ranging from Normal, a comic strip which ran daily in the Baltimore Evening Sun from 1990-91, to Bruce Springstone: Live at Bedrock, a musical parody dubbed “the novelty record of the year” in 1982 by Musician magazine. Earlier that year, Hankin and Chalkley published their first collaborative comic strip in R. Crumb’s Weirdo comix. As guest curator at School 33 Art Center, Hankin has mounted numerous exhibitions including RAW: Images From The Graphix Magazine That Overestimates The Taste Of The American Public (which traveled to the Kansas City Art Institute and the New York Institute of Technology in 1987), and The Art of City Paper, a 20th anniversary celebration of photography and illustration from Baltimore’s weekly alternative newspaper (1997). In 2002, he was the curator of Works by Eugene Leake, a retrospective exhibition at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Hankin was a co-founder of City Paper and served as art critic for that publication (1977-78) and the Baltimore News American (1979-80). His book, Maryland Landscapes of Eugene Leake, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 1986. He is currently working on a series of drawings based on antique Popeye toys and a screenplay, Degas in the Evening. Hankin earned a B.A. in the history of art from Johns Hopkins University (’76) and an M.F.A. in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (’79). back to the top |
| Bill, originally from Provincetown, is happy to have returned to Baltimore after an eighteen year hiatus. Having earned his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama, Bill has worked at many theatres and venues, in various capacities. Bill has worked at Playwright's Horizons on 42nd St., The Santa Fe Opera, The American Stage Festival, Lakewood summer Theatre, Merrimack Regional Theatre, Mystic Scenic Studios, The Baltimore School for the Arts, and several colleges including Brown University where he was a member of the faculty for twelve years, serving as Technical Director, Scenic and Lighting Designer, Production Manager,and Director for a Brown Summer Theatre production of 'CLAPTRAP'.
Bill has also worked at several major casinos as a stage hand, carpenter, stage manager, light board operator, and decorator of theme parties and Miss America floats. Among Bill's interests are teaching, fishing, playing music, and creating theatre. back to the top |
| In the U.S. and Europe, Jed Gaylin is praised for performances characterized by insight, powerful sound, clear baton work, expansive phrasing, and conviction. As Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Music Director, he has forged a strong bond between the HSO and Baltimore life since 1993. Now in his 13th season, Mr. Gaylin has given the HSO a reputation for possessing the precision, artistry, and zeal to bring musically and intellectually stimulating concerts to life. The orchestra has been chosen for repeat engagements with violinist Hilary Hahn, and has been commissioning new works since 1992, many from Maryland-based composers. Mr. Gaylin’s special ability to excite young listeners about music makes HSO’s annual kids’ concert a hit. Since 1997, Mr. Gaylin has also been Music Director of the acclaimed Bay-Atlantic Symphony in New Jersey, where he is credited with forging a formidable ensemble. In 2004, National Public Radio’s "Weekend Edition" featured an in-depth profile of the Bay-Atlantic Symphony. NPR aired selections of the orchestra’s live performance of Petrouchka and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 to four million listeners. Mr. Gaylin also holds the post of Principal Conductor of the prestigious Cape May Music Festival, where the Bay-Atlantic Symphony has been orchestra in residence since 2003. He also works regularly with the Sibiu State Philharmonic (Romania), where he is Principal Guest Conductor. A much sought-after guest conductor abroad, Mr. Gaylin has appeared with orchestras including the Academia del Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain), the Bucharest Radio Orchestra and Sibiu State Philharmonic (Romania), the Lodz Philharmonic and Pomorska Philharmonic (Poland), and the Gnessin Institute Orchestra and Moscow Chamber Symphony (Russia), as well as the Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato (Mexico). Other radio broadcasts include the Voice of America airing the Bay-Atlantic Symphony throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union, a 2003 Bay-Atlantic Symphony performance aired repeatedly on NPR, and an all-Schubert concert with the Bucharest Radio Orchestra, played nationally in Romania. Mr. Gaylin has received numerous awards as a conductor. He was chosen to work with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony in the first National Conducting Institute. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Conducting Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival, the Presser Music Award, and membership in the National Musical Honors Society. Mr. Gaylin earned both a Bachelor of Music in piano and a Master of Music in conducting at the Oberlin Conservatory, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in conducting at the Peabody Conservatory. His conducting teachers have included Frederik Prausnitz, Jahja Ling, Murry Sidlin, Paul Vermel, and Michel Singher, and, for piano, Lydia Frumkin. Mr. Gaylin lives in Baltimore with his wife and their son. back to the top |
| A native New Yorker, Edie Stern got her start in arts management hauling around sweaty tutus for the Maryland Ballet. She is grateful that the Hopkins Symphony requires hauling around only music stands. Edie has been leading a double life. By night she has sung and played viola and violin for, among many worthy organizations, the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble, Baltimore Folk Music Society, Amherst Early Music Festival, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Baltimore Symphony Chorus, Young Victorian Theatre Company, Collegiate Chorale, UMBC Symphony, and, best of all, the Hopkins Symphony. She has done volunteer work for most of these groups, as well as for Center Stage and the Baltimore Consort.
Because she was told not to give up her day job, she spent 25 years at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions as an award-winning medical writer and editor. She edited a slide-tape continuing education series for physicians; the “Osler” textbook, The Principles and Practice of Medicine, 23rd edition; and a series in the Journal of the American Medical Association. She teaches scientific writing skills for Hopkins and the American Medical Writers Association.
A child of the ‘60s, Edie served as a VISTA Volunteer and managed to attend 4 colleges in 3½ years, eventually earning a BA in music history and theory from NYU. back to the top |
| Dr. Mark Hardy is a native of the Boston area, where he received musical training in piano theory and composition. Dr. Hardy holds a BM degree in Composition from the University of Massachusetts and MM and DM degrees in Choral Conducting from Indiana University. In addition to the JHUCS, Dr. Hardy currently conducts the Annapolis opera Chorus and is the director of Choral activities at the Baltimore School for the Arts. He is also active as a composer of choral, chamber and orchestral works published by Cantate Press. Dr. Hardy has had works premiered by the Indianapolis Symphony Choir, The Lehigh festival singers, and the Indiana University Oratorio Chorus.
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