Patricia Rickard-Lauri received both her BS and MS from SUNY at Cortland majoring in Physical Education with Dance as a minor. She taught at The New York State School for the Deaf in Rome, NY as a dance and theater/language arts instructor for nineteen years. Concurrently she was responsible for starting a theater arts program bringing together hearing and Deaf children performing musical plays in both voice and sign language. She has written several children’s stories and all of KHOROS’ repertoire musical plays. Her book, ‘Snow White A Guide to Child-Centered Musical Theater’, was published by Barcelona Publishers in 1997. She collaborated on most of her plays with composer, the late Dr. Carol Robbins, and lyricist, Dr. Clive Robbins. She was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from SUNY Cortland; an award for the Martin Luther King Arts and Sciences competition in Albany along with her NYSSD Deaf Dancers; taught at Gallaudet University in the music department; and has been an arts consultant bringing an arts-in-education approach to many schools. During the fall and winter seasons, she is the Skaneateles Middle School Drama advisor and the artistic director for ‘Curtain Call’, collaborating with the Skaneateles Community Center.

Randy Church grew up in Old Forge, NY with the Khoros Performing Arts Company, first as a student then later as a set designer and assistant teacher. He graduated from the Town of Webb High School in 2005 and is current completing his BFA in New Media Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He has been working as a staff member at RIT for the past year as a web designer and developer, creating websites, animations and other assets for clients at the university. He is proficient in both Spanish and American Sign Language (ASL), first learning English Sign Language as a child in Khoros then later in high school through a distance learning course in ASL. He now enjoys being able to communicate with several deaf friends at RIT. In his free time he loves going to the movies or reading a book to become inspired and enjoy the escaping into good story. He also likes to experiment with new technologies to create beautiful images for the web or for print.

Anthony did not learn sign language until he was 14 years old and attending the St. Mary’s School for the Deaf (SMSD). He graduated from here with a Regent Diploma. He then attended the Rochester Institute of technology and graduated with a B.S. Degree in Psychology. After a short break from school, he enrolled in Canisius College earning a M.S. Degree in counseling. He has been a part-time instructor with KHOROS for the past four years. Anthony works for Deaf Adult Services (DAS) as the Job Development Coordinator in Buffalo, NY. Anthony often volunteers at Camp Mark Seven in the Adirondack Mountains situated on Fourth Lake, a few miles north of Old Forge while he is teaching at KHOROS. Anthony is also a regular contributor to EcoDeaf at www.ecodeaf.blogspot.com to raise awareness about the need to reduce our negative impacts on our environments and the planet.