Armagh Faculty

Ned Balbo received the 2010 Donald Justice Prize, selected by A.E. Stallings, for his third book, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press/WCU Poetry Center). His previous books are Lives of the Sleepers (U. of Notre Dame Press, Ernest Sandeen Prize and ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medal) and Galileo’s Banquet. He has also published a chapbook, Something Must Happen (Finishing Line Press). His poems have appeared in Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review, River Styx, Shenandoah, Unsplendid, and many others, his nonfiction has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Die Cast Garden, and JMWW, and his reviews in Antioch Review, Parabola, Pleiades, and Verse. He has received three Maryland Arts Council poetry grants, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize for “Walt Whitman’s Finches: on autobiography and adoption.” “My Father’s Music,” a short memoir on adoptive identity, popular culture, and ethnicity, appears in Creative Nonfiction’s anthology of Italian-American prose, Our Roots Are Deep with Passion (Other Press). Balbo teaches at Loyola University Maryland.

Terri Ciofalo is an Assistant Professor of Stage Management at the University of Illinois and the Assistant Production Manager at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. An expert logistical manager, Terri has toured nationally and regionally with a variety of theatre artists and dance companies as a Production and Stage Manager. Prior to earning her MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 2000, Terri worked as a Communications Operations Manager for T. Rowe Price as well as a freelance Communications Professional writing, editing and designing publications for various non-profit organizations in the Maryland/D.C. area. Terri is happy to blend both her publications background and her logistical management experience and join the faculty as Program Director for the Armagh Project.

Kimberley Lynne is a playwright, novelist, teacher, and theatrical producer. Over thirty of her plays have been produced in Baltimore, Washington, Minneapolis and New York, including five professional productions at Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and Rep Stage. Apprentice House published her ghost folklore novel, Dredging the Choptank, in 2010 and her one-man Christmas Carol, A Dickens of a Carol, in 2009. Lynne teaches screenwriting and is the theater events coordinator at the University of Baltimore. A graduate of Loyola University, Lynne is enrolled in UB’s M.F.A. Creative Writing and Publications Design program. She is a member of Actors Equity and the Dramatist Guild. For more information, visit her website at www.kimberleylynne.com.

Joan Weber is an independent teaching artist, writer, college professor, dramaturg, actor and director in the Baltimore-Washington area. She has taught every age from pre-school through post-graduate. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at Towson University where she teaches public school teachers at the Arts Integration Institute. She also trains undergraduate theatre majors on becoming teaching artists. She was on the faculty of Howard Community College for many years where she taught Arts Appreciation, Public Speaking and taught summers at the Rep Stage Summer Shakespeare Intensive. Joan was Education Director at Baltimore Shakespeare Festival where she created a Teen Performance Program as part of the theatre’s subscription season. She then became the first executive director for a Baltimore arts education partnership that was funded by the Ford Foundation as part of its Arts Integration and School Reform Initiative with 12 cities across the country. Currently, Joan directs the education division at Creativity & Associates (www.creativityandassociates.com) where she designs education programs for students and teachers that integrate theater into the school day through improvisation, acting, playwriting and speech. She is developing a Kids & Theater component to the Truancy Court Program at The University of Baltimore’s Center for Families, Children and the Courts. She is also working with CENTERSTAGE and Baltimore City Public Schools to develop an online playwriting curriculum for City Schools teachers and CENTERSTAGE’s Young Playwright’s Festival. She is a regular contributor to the Teaching Artist Journal ALT/Space, Edutopia and Americans for the Arts.