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Sandra Bendor, Executive Director, Children's Theatre Center of NJ Sandra began her career performing as a folksinger with the National Humanities Series of Princeton University, which was presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She performed in prisons, libraries, schools, churches, community centers and theatres throughout the US with Dean William A. Owens of Columbia University and sang songs that Dean Owens had collected and recorded on tin pie plates throughout the South in the 1930’s and which are now in the Library of Congress. Sandra performed as an actress, singer and musician with the La Mama Experimental Theatre Company in festivals in Berlin, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Spoleto, Vienna and California. She performed and recorded the title role of “Carmilla” by J.S. LeFanu and Ben Johnston (Vanguard Records), in Yeats’ “The Only Jealousy of Emer” (NY OBIE winner) and Stravinsky’s “Renard the Fox”. For LaMama, Sandra was sent to perform in Tel Aviv for one month...and stayed for 15 years. During this time she taught in the Theatre Department of Tel Aviv University and performed leading roles in many hit shows including “Padam, Padam” on the life of Edith Piaf, and Brecht/Weill’s “Three Penny Opera” at the Habimah National Theatre. She hosted her own midnight radio program and gave solo concerts for visiting American dignitaries including President and Mrs. Gerald Ford. In Israel she performed with Marvin Hamlisch for the Israel Museum and with Leonard Bernstein in New York in honor of Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek. In 1985, Sandra was voted Israeli Singer of the Year and is the only American-born singer to hold this honor. As a writer/translator, Sandra translated the songs and vocal directed the BBC series “Journey Through Israel” with Topol in England. In 1995 she was awarded the US National Theatre Translation Award for her play translations (presented in the Public Theater, NY). Sandra is an alumna of the Lehman Engel BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. While living in Israel, Sandra was frequently sent to perform solo concerts for USIS in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Iran, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In 1987, Sandra returned to the United States with her husband (Ben Bendor) and their three children. The Bendors then began creating and performing theatre for schools and founded the Children’s Theatre Center of NJ.
Ben Bendor, Artistic Director, Director, Host Ben has been creating and producing new plays and works for school and family audiences for over 20 years. He has developed his own specific style of audience participation performances for students and parents that is both highly theatrical and curriculum based. Ben studied at the Actor’s Studio of Israel and has performed in both the Habimah National Theatre and the Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, two of Israeli’s most prestigious theatres. In Israel he produced and performed the wildly popular show “Flairy Tales” that was later presented in New York City at the Encore cabaret. Among his plays for family audiences are “The Dreydl Will Rock”, “Cruel Jewel” (based on the de Maupassant story “The Necklace”), “A Wish on a Golden Fish” and “Once Upon a Purim”, a play in rhyme, all produced and presented by the Children’s Theatre Center of NJ. In 1996, Ben created the “Arithmetickles” concept to fill a tremendous need for a funny math and numbers-related audience-participation assembly show in the US. He has continued to develop this concept and presented seminars on it to, among others, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Due to overwhelming requests from schools in which “Arithmetickles” has been presented, Ben is currently working on a DVD for math teachers that comprises games based on “Arithmetickles” that are highly suited to math classes. In addition to his producing and acting work, Ben created and serves as publisher for the Arts in Education Directory (AED) for the Northeast, published by CTC. The AED is a service for artists, many of whom Ben knows personally from arts in education showcases around the US. The directory is sent in mid-August of each year to more than 5250 schools in the entire Northeast US and is published on the web as well at www.artsinedshows.com. It has become a tremendous assistance for artists throughout the US and is a wonderful tool to help Cultural Arts Chairpersons and principals choose excellent shows for assembly programs.
Jared Miller, Host Jared has been a professional actor in New York and Philadelphia for over thirteen years. He studied pre-med at the University of Pennsylvania but found his true calling in the acting profession while at school. He decided to further his education at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England learning Shakespeare under the tutelage of John Barton and later learned improv and sketch comedy technique at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in NYC. An early mentor of his, John Gallagher, taught him truth in film and put him in his first feature, Cupidity, in which he won a Best Supporting Actor Award at the NY Independent International Film & Video Festival in 2003. TV credits include recurring roles on LAW & ORDER and ONE LIFE TO LIVE and the pilot ACTING CLASS also directed by John Gallagher. Other credits include: LIFE ON MARS and GUIDING LIGHT. His theater credits include stints Off-Broadway: Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding; Desert Sunrise Regional: I Hate Hamlet (Cortland Rep); The Balkan Women (Bristol Riverside); Dealer’s Choice (Vox/Walnut St. Theatre); Off-Off Broadway: Authenticating Eileen (TheaterLAB/Tin Lily) in which he co-wrote; Beyond Therapy (Friends-In-Theatre); Three Years from “Thirty” (Pantheon). His love for children’s theater and education began in Philadelphia working for the Philadelphia Theatre Caravan doing a touring production of Coyote Mischief Tales and the Passage Theatre’s original production The Butler Did It. He continued his love for educational theater touring with Catharsis Productions’ award-winning Sex Signals a show about date rape prevention on college campuses. He also co-founded and is the executive producer of STuFF FiLMS, an online web-based sketch comedy group that also performs live in NYC. Go to HYPERLINK "http://www.stufffilms.com" www.stufffilms.com for more information. You can also see him perform as Emeril Legasse at HYPERLINK "http://www.bestemeril.com" www.bestemeril.com and hear his voice in video games and commercials.
Mike McCarthy, Host Mike has been performing in the tri-state area for several years.  He has appeared in numerous children's shows, including his most recent performance as the Beast in the AFT national tour of Beauty and the Beast.  His other credits include Sebastian in Raised in Captivity, Creon in Antigone and Lysimachus in Pericles.  Mike performed two seasons of Arithmetickles in 2007 and 2008 to great acclaim and is thrilled to be back with the company.  Mike wishes to thank Sandra and Ben Bendor for the opportunity to work with them again, and for their commitment to the arts and to the artists with whom they work.
Qurell-Amani, Host A native New Yorker and member of the Screen Actors Guild, Qurell-Amani is a graduate of the Florida State University School of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts.  After graduation she relocated to Beaufort, South Carolina where she was employed as an on-air personality and commercial voice-over artist at WVGB radio. Since then, she has travelled the country with Theatre IV (The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati), as well as performed in several commercials including Sonic Restaurants, and Space A travel. Her motion picture projects include DreamWorks’ Ghostown, and Columbia Pictures’ Premium Rush. Recently, Qurell appeared in The Horseman’s Hollow, a unique Halloween experience, in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Qurell loves working with children and is excited about joining the Arithmetickles’ team.
KERRI FORD, Host Kerri is a seasoned NY actress-singer-dancer and is an alumnus of the Educational Theatre program at NYU . She most recently performed in the Wonder and High Voltage shows at Rye Playland. Before that, Kerri was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Award for her role of Chrysothemis in 'Are You There Zeus? It's Me, Electra' in the Planet Connections Festivity. She has performed in two Educational Theatre New York productions (The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Metamorphosis) and has toured southern Florida bringing doo-wop back to life! For the latest updates and performance notices, visit her website at www.kerriford.com.