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	DIRECTORY Faculty Staff Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Dept. Contacts Penn State Directory INTERNAL Human Resources Promotion & Tenure				Faculty MARY SAUNDERS Voice for Musical Theatre Head of Voice Instruction for Penn State's BFA Musical Theatre Program The Pennsylvania State University Head of voice instruction for Penn State’s B.F.A. Musical Theatre program. M.A. degree from Middlebury College and the Sorbonne, Paris in French Language and Literature. Studied French art song with Pierre Bernac and received brevet from Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique. B.A. cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa in French/Music from Mount Holyoke College. An active performer with Broadway, off-Broadway, film, and television credits, Saunders has recently concentrated on the creation and performance of one-woman cabaret shows, the first of which, Stop, Time, played to sell-out houses in New York City. She maintains a studio in Manhattan for professional singers. In this and recent seasons her students could be seen on Broadway in Wicked; Little Shop of Horrors; Urinetown; The Producers; Kiss Me Kate; Seussical, The Musical; Cabaret; Follies; 42nd Street, Rent, Mamma Mia and Boys from Syracuse. She was a featured clinician at the NATS Winter Workshop 2001: “Music Theatre and the Belt Voice Part II” in New York City. Ms. Saunders is frequently invited to present her workshop/seminar “BEL CANTO/CAN BELTO: Training Musical Theater Singers for the New Millennium” for convocations of singers and teachers of singing in the United States and Europe.