STEPHANIE WOZNIAK — Ms. Wozniak graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in New York with a degree in Acting before working at Meredith College in Raleigh North Carolina for three years as the Assistance Technical Director of the Dance and Theatre Department. She received her Masters in Classical Acting from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and studied briefly at the Moscow Art Theatre School before returning to the states. Ms. Wozniak spent several years working as an actress and casting director in San Francisco where she eventually signed with an agency and found moderate success as a commercial actress. Highlights of these years include playing various roles in Tony and Tina’s Wedding for a year, working with Boxcar Theatre, SF Shakespeare, California Shakespeare, and starring opposite a real bear in a national commercial.
Ms. Wozniak began shifting away from onstage work to dedicate her time to youth theatre. From 2009 to 2013 she ran the audition-based youth theatre program The Dream Team for Starting Arts in the South Bay. She was the Youth Theatre Conservatory Director for Broadway By the Bay as well as the director of Hillbarn Theatre’s Teen Company.

Ms. Wozniak is incredibly honored to be working to train future theatre professionals or theatre fans here at San Mateo High School.

Musical Conductor

RICK REYNOLDS — Rick Reynolds (Music and Vocal Director) teacher the Musical Theater class at San Mateo High School.

Musical Conductor

ATTILIO TRIBUZI — Attilio Tribuzi (Musical Director) has been teaching music since 1986. Since 1992 he has been at San Mateo High School and has conducted Jazz Band, Marching Band, Symphonic Band, Orchestra and Chorus classes in addition to directing over 30 musical theatre productions. His groups have won numerous awards through the years and have toured from Florida to Hawaii. He is currently the SMUHSD Coordinator for the Visual and Performing Arts, as well as Master of Ceremonies for the SMUHSD’s In Concert series. Mr. Tribuzi studied music at San Francisco State University as an undergraduate and earned his Master’s degree at CSU Hayward, graduating summa cum laude at both institutions. He studied trumpet performance with Joe Alessi, Jay Rizzetto, Don Reinberg and Glen Fishtal, and conducting with Edwin Kruth, LeRoy Roach and Timothy Smith.Mr. Tribuzi has composed numerous pieces for his amateur and professional performing groups, and has written a children’s musical entitled To the Moon and Back. In addition, Mr. Tribuzi has also worked as Musical Director for Broadway by the Bay’s theatre productions (where he has won a Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Award), and has been an adjudicator and conductor for honor bands. He wishes to thank Robyn, Heather, and Antonia for their love and support.

Drama Director

BRAD FRIEDMAN — Brad is celebrating his 26th year as the Drama director at San Mateo High School and his 29th year teaching. He has produced and/or directed 77 productions here, including Evita, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Urinetown, Hairspray, The Wedding Singer (the 2011 winner for Best Musical at the SJSC Honors Program), Guys and Dolls, Rent, West Side Story, Peter Pan, Hello, Dolly! (winner of Best Musical in the 2006 AMTSJ Honors Program), 42nd Street (which received 14 nominations at the 2010 SJSC Honors Program), The Laramie Project, Seussical (nominated for Best Musical in the 2005 AMTSJ Honors Program), Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Secret Garden, The Will Rogers Follies, Oklahoma, The Mousetrap, Fiddler on the Roof, Sweeney Todd, Lucky Stiff, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Gypsy, The Miracle Worker, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Into the Woods. Brad was the recipient of the 2005 Art Share award as theatre educator, and in 2007 received the Bravo Award from Hillbarn Theatre for excellence in theatre education. He is a graduate of Lowell High School and UC Berkeley and has acted and/or directed for a number of theatre companies, including Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, The Eureka Theatre, Peninsula Center Stage and Broadway by the Bay. He is especially proud to have acted with many of his present and former students in such BBBay productions as Beauty and the Beast (Cogsworth), Peter Pan (Smee) The Boyfriend (Percy Brown) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Jacob/Potiphar). His favorite production at SMHS was The Drowsy Chaperone, directed by his good friend Virginia Musante, and featuring Brad as The Man in the Chair. In addition, Brad has directed City of Angels, Beauty and the Beast, Jr. and Peter Pan, Jr. for Hillbarn Theatre and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Pinocchio, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown for BBBay’s YTC program. For sixteen years Brad hosted a weekly television game show, Bay Area Quiz Kids, seen on KRON-TV (Channel 4) every Saturday at 2:00pm. He currently writes a blog about murder mysteries and musicals, which he hopes you will check out at: https://ahsweetmysteryblog.wordpress.com.