Meet our Team
Liz Piccoli
Artistic Director
Liz Piccoli- SDC Director/Choreographer/Teaching Artist Select previous credits include: Director/Choreographer/Dramaturg for Spandex the Musical- The Audio Musical mixed by Tony Award winning Kai Harada , starring Broadway's Lisa Howard and Catherine Ashmore Bradley, written by Daniel Levin, live productions Off-Broadway at 777 Theater and at the Minnsky Theater in Minneapolis, Director/Choreographer for Billy Elliot starring Braden King and Mary Ellen Ashley at the Axelrod Theater in NJ, Director/Choreographer for Cinderella and Footloose at the Okoboji Summer Theater in IA, Director for a zoom developmental reading of Noble Family, starring Telly Leung. Liz was also an SDC Observer for Lysistrata Jones at the Judson Memorial which transferred to Broadway. Other credits include: TVLand Awards Opening featuring Liza Minnelli, the opera Goyescas for Bare Opera in Brooklyn and The Little Prince Prince in Milan, Italy. Just before the pandemic, she choreographed Miss Saigon at the University of HI, in Oahu for Ohana Arts. Recent Directing work includes: Into the Woods for the Proctors Broadway Camp and The Secret Garden at the Virginia Children's Theater. Over the summer she choreographed her first feature film, Dirty Rhetoric, starring Tovah Feldshuh (Funny Girl on Broadway.) Past performance highlights: NBA commercial starring P!NK, Club La Bomba with Sofia Vergara, The First Emperor with Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera and West Side Story at the Lyric. She currently resides in Woodstock, NY with her husband Michael and her 3 pups. Zaide, Trixie and Chester. www.lizpiccoli.com
Dorothea Marcus
Gallery Coordinator
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Dan Gallant
Marketing Consultant and Event Host
Daniel Gallant is a writer, producer and arts management consultant. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, New York Post, Time Out and other publications, as well as in anthologies from Vintage Books, Applause Books, and TCG. His plays and monologues have been staged at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, SummerStage, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the 92nd Street Y, Town Hall, the Actors Studio, and New Dramatists. He recently returned from a Fulbright Specialist fellowship in Portugal and has also received an Eisenhower Fellowship, as well as fellowships from National Arts Strategies and the Devos Institute.
Emerson McKindles
Dance Instructor
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Emerson McKindles, Emerson has spent 15+ years training in dance, theater, and music all across the country. Training includes: The Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, Ballet School of Kingston (formerly the Anne Hebard School of Ballet) and the Hopkins Dance Company. She is the co-founder of Onward & Upward Pictures and serves as executive producer on the majority of their films. She loves working with kids in the arts and is thrilled to have the opportunity to do so at Queen of Rogues!
Dorothea Marcus Bio- Dorothea Marcus is a lifelong art collector who in the last decade turned her eye to creating her own work. Her “eye” now has a “hand” too. Dorothea is known for her collages, photographs and monoprints. She is a founding member of the Women Photographers Collective of the Hudson Valley.
Her work has been shown at the Lockwood Gallery, the Lace Mill, Wired Gallery, WAAM and Byrdcliffe, among others. She
had a solo show at the Old Glenford Church Studio in
2019. Her photography, collages and prints are often combined,
playing with depth, texture, geometry and color. Dorothea’s travels to Morocco, Cuba and Japan have been fertile ground for inspiration.
Dorothea lives in Woodstock, New York where she has
served on the board of the Woodstock Library and works
as an Associate Broker at Halter Associates Realty.