William Pace, MFA, NYU; screenwriter and film producer; has produced four independent feature films, including Charming Billy, which he also directed; wrote episodes for syndicated TV series Adventurers: Masters of Time and The School for Little Vampires and several Hollywood-optioned films; produced and directed the award-winning short film A Relaxing Day, based on a one-act play by Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebek.

Andrew Palmer, BA, Emerson College; actor with experience in off-Broadway, summer stock, and industrials; TV appearances on Another World and Ryan's Hope.

Pamela Pardi, BA, Hunter College; Romana's Pilates Certified Level 3 instructor; studied Pilates with Carole Trier and Romana Kryzanowska; has taught Pilates since 1988; founded DanceTracks NYC, a nonprofit arts organization; author of booklet Stretch-Eze.

Chris Pastore, MFA, The New School; has contributed to Offshore, Cruising World, Boat International, Newport Life, Real Simple, and Sailing World, where he is a contributing editor; formers assoc. editor at Sailing World, North America's leading sailboat racing publication, and editor of American Sailor and Junior Sailor.

Cristina Patterson, MA, NYU; adjunct professor and freshman counselor, John Jay College-CUNY; also teaches at Hunter College and LaGuardia Community College; former assistant supervisor of CCNY ESL Learning Center; has also taught at Katharine Gibbs School, NY Technical School, and Polytechnic U.

Gustav Peebles, PhD, University of Chicago; anthropologist; asst. professor and assoc. director, New School Bachelor's Program; recent published articles include “State-Building and the Mobilization of Labor vs. Leisure on a European Border,” “An Apologia for Filthy Lucre,” and “Conflations of National Currency and Global Capital in the Swedish Currency Crisis.”

Linda Pelc, PhD, CUNY; has taught EFL/ESL since 1977 in NYC and abroad; has presented conference papers on second-language acquisition and instruction, pidgins and creoles, and language attrition.

Marc Peloquin, DMA, Manhattan School of Music; concert pianist; performances in the U.S., Europe, Mexico, and South America; recording Chords at Night; artist faculty member, Bloomingdale School of Music.

Gilda Pervin, MLitt, U. of Pittsburgh; Certif., Pennsylvania Acad. of Fine Arts; visual artist; work exhibited in the U.S., Brazil, and Sweden; awards include Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NYFA Fellowship Grant, and NYSCA Project Grant.

Lauren Petty, MA, NYU; video and film artist; working with a collaborator creating single-channel videos, multiple-channel installations, and video design for theater and dance; exhibiting in New York and internationally; awards include two NYFA Fellowships in video and grants from the Jerome Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, NYSCA, and NEA.

Delis M. Pitt, MA, Auckland U. (New Zealand); RSA, Cambridge U.; teaches and develops instructional materials at Columbia U. American Language Program; has conducted observations and feedback for students at Columbia U. Teachers College.

Marie Ponsot, poet and translator; her books include Springing, The Green Dark, Admit Impediment, True Minds, and The Bird Catcher (Natl. Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize); awards include the PSA Frost Medal, an NEA grant, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the MLA's Shaughnessy Medal.

Doris Prince, MST, Baruch College CUNY; associate controller, Metropolitan Museum of Art.