about the
instructors


Sheila Bloch is a former Crossroads parent and current Chair of the Life Skills Department. She has been teaching Council for fourteen years. While pursuing a degree in Psychology and Adolescent Development, she discovered the Council program at Crossroads school and found it to be one of the most rewarding and effective ways of working with adolescents. Every year at parent day, Upper School Life Skills teachers report that parents are so moved by having the opportunity to sit in Council, they wonder why there isn’t a Council program just for them. Now there is!Sheila Bloch is a former Crossroads parent and current Chair of the Life Skills Department. She has been teaching Council for fourteen years. While pursuing a degree in Psychology and Adolescent Development, she discovered the Council program at Crossroads school and found it to be one of the most rewarding and effective ways of working with adolescents. Every year at parent day, Upper School Life Skills teachers report that parents are so moved by having the opportunity to sit in Council, they wonder why there isn’t a Council program just for them. Now there is!

J. Kenneth Campbell studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and began his acting career, at the Stratford Festival in Connecticut working with Michael Kahn, now artistic director of The Folger Theater, and Diana Maddox of the Old Vic Company. He spent the next 5 seasons at The Stratford Festival, Canada where he studied under John Barton, and Kristin Linklater. Over the last 35 years, Mr. Campbell performed Shakespeare’s plays at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, New York’s Public Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Seattle Rep., The Old Globe, San Diego, The Huntington Theater and at the Center Theater Group’s Ahmanson and Mark Taper Forum. He has taught privately and at universities across the country.

Jim Hosney holds a BA in Anglo-American literature from Occidental College, and has created and taught courses in literature, American Studies, and film. Having retired from his position as the Director of the Film and Video Program, he teaches a two-year Honors English course, Great Books of the Western World, at Crossroads School. He created the Film Program at Crossroads, where he has been teaching for twenty-three years. He has published articles in Film Quarterly, the South Atlantic Quarterly, and the Los Angeles Times; and taught film classes for UCLA Extension, and has been teaching at AFI since 1980.

Jeff Johnson is in his second year at Crossroads as a Middle School Physical Education teacher and Upper School Athletic Trainer. He received his B.S. in Athletic Training from Georgia College and State University and M.S. in Physical Education/Athletic Training from Western Michigan University. Jeff enjoys golf, traveling, aviation, and any form of outdoor activity.

David Listenberger has performed as a singer, conductor, and recording artist throughout this country and abroad, including such venues as Carnegie Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and the Wayland Community High School Gymnasium in Wayland, Michigan. He currently teaches at Crossroads School, for California Pacific College of the Performing Arts in Corona, and for UNDIVIDED, a small gospel ensemble based in Santa Clarita. He is extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with this particularly gutsy little chorus.

Brian Mulligan has been a professional actor and improviser for 25 years. Acting credits include Armageddon, White Oleander, The Practice, Malcolm In the Middle and Charmed. He is the founder and director of NYC improv company, IMPRO! Brian studied improvisation with Second City and Keith Johnstone, and acting with Uta Hagen. For ten years he has been on the drama faculty at Crossroads, and has directed the Crossroads Conservatory shows Theatre Olympics, Suspect, The Hotel Play, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and As You Like It.

Madeleine Schwab, in association with the late Dr. David Viscott, who legitimized her belief that we each have a lifework, developed the Action Board Workshop twenty years ago. She has been teaching it ever since, now mainly through KPFK radio. She has also been the Junior Year Community Service Coordinator at Crossroads School-- also for twenty years--and holds a Doctorate Degree from Matthew Fox’s Wisdom University.

Sifu Jonathan Wang, in over twenty years of studying martial arts, has won many gold medals in US Kung Fu National Tournaments. He has been teaching Taichi at UCLA Theater Department for over nine years. Sifu Wang has two bachelor’s degrees—in Economics and International Relations from UCLA,—a Master’s Degree of Science in oriental medicine, a national acupuncture certificate, a California state acupuncture license, and is at the forefront of documenting Kung Fu forms and traditional Chinese medicine around the world before they are lost.

Zox has been working as an artist since the 1970’s, designing record covers, painting murals, having art exhibitions with his paintings and animating for the web and video games. Zox has been teaching in different capacities at Crossroads for the past nine years and is well-versed in passing on the techniques he has gathered through his experiences. To see examples of Zox’s work please see his web site at:
http://www.zoxart.com