Multi-Arts

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All of our faculty are professional working artists. Our head counselors are college students. All staff are C.O.R.I. & S.O.R.I. checked, and our head counselors are trained in first aid.

Faculty

Catalina Arrubla - Executive Director

Catalina is the Executive Director of Multi-Arts. She is a well-known chamber music director and oboe teacher. She has taught and directed several music programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at music schools in Springfield, Northampton and Brattleboro, VT. She is the co-founder of the Syrinx Ensemble, which performs chamber music throughout New England. Catalina is also a member of the Massachusetts Cultural Council's select list of Creative Teaching Partners.

Titus Neijens - Art

Titus Neijens was born in Breda, The Netherlands. He is a professional illustrator whose work has appeared in a number of European magazines as well as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker. He also works as art director and set designer in film and theater. A co-founder of Claroscuro Productions, Titus has extensive experience in artistic design for theater and film. He lives with his family in Shutesbury, MA.

Ines Arrubla - Flamenco Dance

Inés is a contemporary Flamenco dancer who has performed, taught, and choreographed extensively throughout Europe and the United States. She is the founder of the Flamenco Dance Theater and has created five major theater-dance productions to date. Her work as a performer and choreographer is highly acclaimed, earning her a reputation as one of the nation's premier Flamenco performers. Inés is a member of the Massachusetts Cultural Council's select list of creative teaching partners.

Josh Gold - Dance and Theater

Josh Gold (G~LoX) is a self-taught teacher, director, choreographer and performer who specializes in funk dance, mime, blacklight theater, and costume design. G~LoX has danced around the world, including Tokyo, New York, Czech Republic, and Amsterdam. Formerly an instructor at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School, he has been teaching dance in Western Massachusetts for over a decade. He teaches primarily children and teens, but occasionally adults join in on the fun too. "I'm a Multi-Artist, and U CAN TOO!"

Sonia Arrubla - Drama and Film

Sonia holds a bachelor’s and a masters degree in film and television from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, she wrote and directed several short films, including “Sobrevivir,” winner of the 1999 Warner Brothers’ Award. She has produced and directed twelve plays, and has worked with more than 600 children ages 6 through 14. In the summer of 2007, Arrubla directed the feature film Bubble Trubble, which features an all-child cast drawn largely from her students at Multi-Arts.

Gian Didonna - Writing and Theater

Gian DiDonna is a playwright and a college professor. Two of his plays have been presented by the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City at The Public Theater. He has received grants and won awards for his work, which features a range of subject matter, including historical themes, the Italian-American experience and ethnic social conflict. Gian was trained as classical actor in London and has appeared in several major motion pictures. He received his MFA from Goddard College. His newest plays are entitled Only So Far Punished and Columbus Day.

Becca Greene-Van Horn - Drama teacher

Becca is a drama therapist, teacher/coach and has worked as a professional actress/singer/dancer in NYC. She has taught drama/theater for 25 years in NYC and locally, and is cofounder of the New England Center for Drama Therapy. In the Valley, MA, she recently played 10 women’s roles in the Serious Play Company’s production of Jessica Litwak’s Snake and the Falcon, appeared as Hospital Superintendent, Alice Cleland in Enchanted Circle Theater’s performance at the Cooley Dickinson 125th Celebration, and played the Wicked Witch in the ALSC production of Wizard of Oz.

Corrine Byrne - Music teacher

Corrine is a coloratura soprano working towards her master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Mark Oswald. She has most recently performed the Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute) at the Manhattan School of Music and premiered Seven Songs after W.B. Yeats by Anne Goldberg. Corrine writes music, plays guitar and banjo, and manages/co-directs Upper West Sound, an a cappella group in Manhattan. Corrine is working on a concert series tour to benefit causes such as Habitat for Humanity.

Anna Sobel - Theater and puppeteer teacher

Anna Sobel is a puppeteer, actor, musician and artist and performs puppet shows locally as Talking Hands Theatre. She makes all her own puppets, writes the scripts, composes and records the music, and provides all the voices live. She has taught puppetry as an artist-in-residence at public schools all around Massachusetts and in New York City and was honored as the Laura Adasko Lenzer teaching artist of the year at Bank Street School for Children. She holds a master's degree in Educational Theatre from New York University and was a Fulbright Fellow in India, where she studied puppetry as a tool for social change and education.

Head Counselors

Alessandra Frank

Alessandra is a student at Brown University where she is studying Literary Arts. She enjoys writing poetry and creative non-fiction, as well as participating in collective improvisation, dancing, drumming and singing in all forms. She loves to make art individually and collectively and is thrilled to have the opportunity to create and share art with young people this summer!

Elena Rossen

Elena is a sophomore at Smith college studying anthropology and art. She recently transferred to Smith from Lawrence University and Conservatory where she was studying music. She has extensive training in music and visual arts, and has considerable experience working with children.

Grace Olmsted

Grace is a sophomore at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio where she is studying Vocal Performance. She has a background in musical theater and classical music, theater, and dance. She has performed free lance performer with her father since age 12. Grace is a former Multi Arts camper (2002-2004). She moved to Northampton last year.

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