ASDS Got Talent

Harold J. Brody, MD, co-founded the ASDS Players* who perform at the President’s Dinner and has served as a director-musician-vocalist-producer since its incipience over two decades ago. He received training in music and drama at Duke University and now serves on the National Advisory Board in the Department of Theater Studies at Duke, dedicating the Brody Theater in 2006. After graduation, he studied producing with the late Arthur Cantor in New York City. Regionally and in stock, he has performed principal roles in “Applause,” “Sweet Charity,” “An Evening with Rodgers and Hammerstein,” “The Fantasticks,” “How to Succeed,” “Kiss Me Kate,” “Bells are Ringing,” “Guys and Dolls,” “1776," and “Red, Hot and Cole,” among others.  He has performed in Industrials and on television, and his production company has produced six Atlanta professional productions. He has served on the Board of Directors of two Atlanta theaters, is currently is on the Board of the Atlanta Opera, and was the first dermatologist for the Actors Equity Association network in Atlanta that provides special health benefits to needy AEA members. He has served as a judge at the Gypsy Awards for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at the New Amsterdam Theater in NYC. He casted, co-directed and performed in the AAD Talent show at Academy 94, has performed at the AAD President’s dinner and has been the duo-entertainment with John Yarborough for “An Evening with Cole Porter” and with Naomi Lawrence in “You and the Night and the Music” at two American Dermatology Association annual meetings.

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William P. Coleman III, MD, grew up playing keyboards and guitars in bands in New Orleans and Virginia. He has composed and recorded hundreds of songs, some of which enjoyed regional airplay. He has done commercial jingle work, written background music for a number of public television specials, and composed theme songs for local television programs.

In 1994, along with Hal Brody, he founded the ASDS Players who perform at the President’s Dinner, and has served as a director-musician-vocalist-producer since its inception. He co-casted, co-directed and performed in the AAD Talent show at Academy 94, and has performed at the AAD President’s Dinner and Sturge-Weber Foundation Tribute Dinner.

Lisa Donofrio, MD, has a long history of musical theatre experience as a performer, choreographer and director. While in medical school at Tulane she co-founded the drama troupe "The Hippocratic Players" earning an award for best amateur show in the city of New Orleans. She also sang for two seasons as part of the New Orleans Opera chorale and appeared as a principal in the Off Broadway premier of The Lucky Ones.

Timothy C. Flynn, MD, is thrilled to be a part of the ASDS players, first performing with the troupe in 2002. He has delighted audiences at major venues around the country including, but not limited to, the Columbia Missouri Holiday Inn West. A lifelong music lover and musician, he purchased his first drum at age 10. Scoring the lead in his middle school drama, he received rave reviews from at least one parent. Playing in his high school string orchestra, concert band, and pit orchestra, he believes education in the arts is essential! Tim has played in numerous Rock and Roll bands throughout his career, mostly in seedy dive bars.

Tim loves humor and believes that audiences love to laugh in both a scholarly medical lecture and at the coveted ASDS productions.  His best material is occasionally censored for being “just slightly inappropriate.”

Tim would like you to know that he has never let his lack of talent get in his way, but the other ASDS Players think that if he were on the Tonight Show, he would give Jimmy Fallon a run for his money!

Naomi Lawrence, MD, soprano, has studied the bel canto singing technique for over 20 years. She began under the tutelage of Patricia Hollihan, (formally of the Metropolitan Opera), professor of music at Tulane University, and is currently studying with Karen Hagerman, adjunct professor of music at Rutgers University. Naomi’s opera repertoire includes Gretel, (Hansel & Gretel , Humperdinck); Leonora, (Il Trovatore , Verdi); The Countess, (Le Nozze di Figaro , Mozart);Mable, (Pirates of Penzance); and Monica, (The Medium, Menotti) Mimi, (LaBoheme); Manon, (Manon Lescat). Her theatre repertoire has included Mary (Little Mary Sunshine, Rick Besoyan); Dulcinea (Man of LaMancha, Mitch Lee,); and Guinevere (Camelot, Alan Jay Lerner and Fredrick Lowe). She is a versatile vocalist, having performed in a wide range of music genres and venues, from the national anthem in sports arenas to popular music and jazz. She currently performs in Rutgers recitals, as a cantor for church, and with a group of physician musicians at various Cooper Hospital events.

Gary Monheit, MD, “Dr. Sunshine,” has put a happy and smiling face on all around from high school and college skits as both clown and comedic straight role in slapstick. He has played and performed in a “rock group” and loves music, especially 70’s and 80’s rock and roll.He has been a part of the ASDS players for over a decade and enjoyed writing, rehearsing, and performing skits with this group.

Rhoda S. Narins, MD, excels in comedy and song writing for friends, family, at camp, in community shows, NYU Dermatology Resident shows and as Chief resident entertaining Dr. Rudolph Baer at his retirement as Chief of Dermatology at NYU at the Plaza Hotel. She practices medicine on the side and has annoyed her children with constant singing and dancing even in the early morning. She has been part of the ASDS Players since 2001 and enjoys interacting with the other players, roasting incoming ASDS Presidents in comedy and song and in general making a fool of herself while looking beautiful.

Thomas Rohrer, MD played keyboards and in rock bands in high school, college, and medical school. Peace out!