NINA HAND ~ Performer ~ Executive Director

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS ____________ LINDA TOBOROWSKY ~ Host ~ Writer ____________ ROY M. STEINBERG~ Artist/ Gallery _____________ KATHRYN JOHNSON GLASER~ Educator ~ Docent ~ Co-Host _____________ KENNETH HARI ~ International Portraitist _____________ DR. HADASSAH GUTTMANN Pianist ~ Educator ___________ Photos Page 1 - 2006 -2007 (1) ___________________ Photos Page 2 - 2006 -2007 (2)_____________ Andy Rothstein Guitarist ~ Songwriter ~ Composer ____________ EAST BRUNSWICK LIBRARY - A 21st Century Community Center ____________ LARRY GROCE - Singer ~ Composer ~ Executive Director of FESTIVALL~ 'When A City Becomes A Work of Art' ____________ ROBERT CUCCIOLI Actor ` Singer ` Director Stage & Television ___________ PHIL PEPE Sports Writer ~ Author _____________ Gary Cohen Producing Director MIDDLESEX COUNTY'S Plays-In-The-Park ______________ MARVIN CHEITEN, Ph.D Playwright ~ Director _____________ Katelyn Dawn - Composer - Singer - Musician ___________ GRANT COOPER ~ Conductor - WVa Symphony ___________ HEALING THROUGH CREATIVITY _____________ THE REDDING BROTHERS ~ Musicians ~ Composers _____________ GARY JAMES Poet - Author - Speaker ___________ POETS WEDNESDAY Edie Eustice ~ Deborah LaVeglia ____________ BARRON ARTS CENTER --CYNTHIA KNIGHT Director ______________ RUTH KIRK - Author Childrens' Books ____________ BLENKO GLASS COMPANY ___________ Dr. MARTIN HALPERN Playwright ~ Poet ~ Composer ~ Educator ___________ LEO KRAFT Composer ~ Theorist ~ Pedagogue ____________ Bobby Gonzalez Storyteller ____________ Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission ___________ ANGELO ORLANDO, Jr. Edison Art Society ______________ MARK TRAUTMAN ~ Conductor ~ New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra _____________ Dr. JOHN SEMMLOW ~ President - NBCO ___________ THORNEY LIEBERMAN~ Photographer ___________ BARBARA GOOD - Pianist~ Soloist MyLifeTime Book ____________ ZITA GEOFFROY HEINZ ~ Actor _____________ AILA ACCAD Speaker ~ Author _____________ BRUCE K. HALEY, Jr --Photographer _______________ CINDY BOGGS- Author - Instructor - Speaker ____________ JULIA SADD Journalist - Lyricist - Author ____________ DEBBIE HILL - Photojournalist ____________ NOELLE COMPINSKY TINTURIN~ Pianist ____________ REBECCA SCOTT - Conductor- Cantabile Chamber Chorale ______________ STEPHEN H. FOREMAN - Screenwriter- Author ___________ DR. BERNARD ROSE ` Musician - Educator _____________ DR. ANITA O. SOLOMON Clinical Psychologist ~ Musician _____________ LARRY McCULLOUGH, Ph.D. Playwright ` Musician ~ Educator ______________ EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY, Ph.D. Biblical Novelist _____________ LIKE-MINDED ENTERTAINMENT~ Film Makers ______________ A Tribute to MARCEL MARCEAU _____________ ROIA RAFIEYAN~ Singer ~ Musician ~ Composer ~ Music Therapist ______________ DR. THEODORE K. SCHLOSBERG ~ NJ Workshop on the Arts ______________ The VILLAGER'S THEATRE _____________ RUSS McCUBBIN ACTOR - STUNTMAN ______________ BOB YUROCHKO~ Musician ~ Author ~ Artist ______________ NINA HAND - Performer - Executive Director _____________ LINDA VONDERSCHMIDT-LaSTELLA _____________ A TRIBUTE to the BEATLES _____________

~ PERFORMER ~

Nina Hand grew up in State College, Pa. and had a love of the Arts at an early age. At the age of seven, she began learning to play the piano and continued her music education with nine years of clarinet. Her opera training was at Pennsylvania State University and she received her BFA in Communication Arts/Broadcasting at Long Island University.
After the birth of her first child, Jennifer, Ms. Hand began singing professionally as a lead vocalist with various bands throughout the tri-state area. As a vocalist, she appeared at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, on the Intrepid in NYC for the Naval Academy and she opened for the Shirelles and Chiffons at the Newark Radisson.
Over the past ten years, Nina owned and directed the Theatre Players, which is a non-profit children’s theater based in Edison. She has produced numerous full-length Broadway musicals with hundreds of area youth.

~ EDISON ARTS SOCIETY --EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ~

NINA HAND

EMAIL ADDRESS: edisonarts@aol.com

WEBSITE: www.EdisonArts.org

The Edison Arts Society is a growing group of individuals who view their involvement in the Arts as a means of enhancing the quality of life.
We take responsibility for enabling the Arts to be an alive and vibrant part of New Jersey.
We are personally excited about the Arts and the desire to infuse the surrounding community with that enthusiasm
thereby giving professional, non-professional and student artists’ public venues to expand their horizons in this area.