Tara Marie Good (past Program Director) received her B.A. from Fordham University at Lincoln Center ('04) where she studied Theater Performance and International/inter-cultural Studies. While at Fordham she studied in Orvieto and Pontaderra, Italy with The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, and at the historic Moscow Art Theatre in Moscow, Russia. She worked in various positions in NYC theater: Golda's Balcony at the Helen Hayes Theater (Broadway), the Cherry Lane Theater (off-Bway), and Push Productions (off-off-Bway). Ms. Good went on to receive her M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU ('07), during which she had the opportunity to study with Yuyachkani Theater in Lima, Peru. She subsequently twice received the United States State Department Critical Language Scholarship for Arabic, where she studied in Amman, Jordan in 2007, and Salalah, Oman in 2008. Before joining LCC in the fall of 2009 she had briefly worked for the Middle East Policy Council in Washington D.C. She has been a contributing writer to Bustedhalo.com and Levantine Review. She has presented her thesis on religion and secularism at numerous conferences in the US and abroad, and was recently published in the NeoAmericanist Journal.