{"id":175085,"date":"2025-08-25T19:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175085\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:25:19","slug":"l-morgan-lee-shonica-gooden-matthew-stern-join-pace-university-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175085\/","title":{"rendered":"L Morgan Lee, Shonica Gooden, Matthew Stern Join Pace University Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tL Morgan Lee, Shonica Gooden, Matthew Stern Join Pace University Faculty<\/p>\n

The Broadway vets will work in the school’s Sands College of Performing Arts.<\/p>\n

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L Morgan Lee, Shonica Gooden, and Matthew Stern<\/p>\n

Pace Univiersity’s Sands College of Performing Arts has added some Broadway caliber to its faculty roster: Tony nominee L\u00a0Morgan Lee, performer Shonica Gooden<\/a>, and stage manager Matthew Stern. All have been hired as clinical assistant professors, with Lee in musical theatre, Gooden in commercial dance, and Stern in stage management. Stern will also become the stage management program’s head.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese extraordinary educators bring unparalleled professional experience and a passion for nurturing emerging talent,\u201d says Sands College Dean\u00a0Jennifer Holmes in a statement. \u201cTheir artistry, leadership, and commitment to students will further elevate the exceptional training we offer here at Sands.”<\/p>\n

The appointments come as Sands is readying to open a new performing arts center at One Pace Plaza East, a space that is expected to open next fall.<\/p>\n

Lee was Tony nominated for her performance in\u00a0A Strange Loop, and has also acted in\u00a0The Danish Girl,\u00a0A Complicated Woman,\u00a0Fiorello!, and\u00a0All Shook Up. As a director, Lee is at the helm of the upcoming Beyond the Binary benefit concert of\u00a0The Drowsy Chaperone, set for October 20 at Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n

Gooden’s Broadway credits include\u00a0Bring It On:\u00a0The Musical,\u00a0Cinderella,\u00a0Cats, and\u00a0Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Stern’s prolific Broadway stage management career (credited as Matthew Aaron Stern<\/a>)\u00a0dates back to the 1994 revival of\u00a0Grease, later including work on Broadway’s\u00a0Play On!,\u00a0The Full Monty,\u00a0Enchanted April,\u00a0Wicked,\u00a0Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All,\u00a0Fiddler on the Roof,\u00a0The Little Mermaid,\u00a0Baby It’s You,\u00a0An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin,\u00a0Death of a Salesman,\u00a0Hands on a Hardbody,\u00a0On the Town,\u00a0Side Show,\u00a0Doctor Zhivago, and\u00a0Finding Neverland.<\/p>\n

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