Who We Are
Mission Statement
Wake Up and Live (WUAL) is a 501©3 non-profit performing arts, and education organization committed to using an integrative approach to enrich aesthetics in northeast Ohio through empowering artistic, educational, and media programs and services.
Board of Directors
Sue Johnson, Executive Director
Chris Fortunato - Chair
Judy Allen
John Clegg
Lester H. Bryant, Sr.
James McGilbray
Honorary Members
Reverend Heidi L. Barham
Glenn Hendrix
Chris Fortunato - Chair
Judy Allen
John Clegg
Lester H. Bryant, Sr.
James McGilbray
Honorary Members
Reverend Heidi L. Barham
Glenn Hendrix
ABOUT sue johnson
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Sue Johnson, Director of the Wake Up And Live’s Actors Studio (WUAL) is an actor, director, producer, coach and consultant. Sue Johnson is an actor whose professional stage credits include The Sunshine Boys, Simply Heavenly, Purlie, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She received the Karamu Actors Guild, 1999-2000 (Outer Circle) Award), “Best Supporting Actress in a Musical,” for her role as Idella in Beck Center’s production of Purlie.
Sue produces, directs and hosts “Wake Up And Live With the Arts” YouTube show which celebrates and showcases the diversity of performing and cultural artists. Under Sue’s leadership, established in 1997, WUAL has provided more than 800 aspiring and experienced performing artists and playwrights with an opportunity to learn, improve and practice their crafts and skills through artistic performance, which provides actors and other performing artists the opportunity to showcase their talents talents through plays, prose, poetry, performance pieces, dance and music. |
ABOUT JOHN CLEGG
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John grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio…and has worked as an actor, writer, filmmaker and producer in Ohio, New York, Los Angeles, Colorado, Seattle, and Texas, to name a few locations! He produced and directed a completely improvised feature film here in Northeast Ohio with over 50 local Cleveland-area actors and crew. He worked with a small group of New York actor-friends from The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire and Orange is the New Black to produce 2 feature films with writer-director Nick Sandow, Ponies and the Martin Scorsese-executive produced The Wannabe. And he has written or co-written 5 film scripts that were either optioned or considered for production; in addition to the 2021 comedy special, The CLE Covid Comedy Hour, with a dozen local actors and comedians from the CLE area. This will be John’s first year teaching film, writing and video with the Sue Johnson WUAL Actor’s Studio!
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ABOUT James McGilbray
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Bio not available.
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About Judith C. Allen
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Judith Allen has carved a professional niche in solving marketing, communications, training and management challenges, and she is continually discovering new ways to ensure project success.
Judy was employed by Campbell’s Soup, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Procter & Gamble, to market consumer and health care products. She applies the skills she honed in marketing, research, communications and training through her consulting firm ❖ Excellence Zone Marketing Strategies, Inc.❖. Judy provides instruction in the business as a professor at local colleges. In addition to being a consultant and instructor, Judy is a writer, public speaker, book reviewer and editor. Her reviews and op-eds have been featured in the Plain Dealer, Call and Post, and at aalbc.com. |
About Gwen Boleware
Bio coming soon.
