BabsonARTS Staff

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Samantha Gambaccini is an eclectic artist with over twenty years of experience as a performer, educator, and producing artistic director. She has a long history with nonprofit organizations, both small and large, and demonstrated success in senior leadership roles around community centered work. 

Before joining Babson in January 2025, Samantha served as the Associate Executive Director of YMCA of the North Shore, working for the communities of Marblehead and Swampscott, overseeing thousands of members and hundreds of staff. Other previous credits include serving as the Senior Director of the Community Music Center of Boston and as the Producing Artistic Director of Arts After Hours in Lynn, MA.

Samantha continues to embrace her musical and vocal roots through private studio teaching, specializing in musical theatre technique and song interpretation. She received her B.M. in Vocal Performance and Theater from Millikin University, M.M. in Vocal Performance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her M.A in Theatre Education in the Community from Emerson College.

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Prior to joining BabsonARTS in August of 2022, Natalie worked as a professional stage manager. Most notably, Natalie spent 5 seasons as the Production Stage Manager at North Shore Music Theatre where she worked with theatre greats such as Shoshanna Bean, Alice Ripley and Robert Cuccioli.

Prior to that, Natalie traveled the country working on tour and at regional theatres such as Stages St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company, Riverside Theatre and Capital Repertory Theatre, just to name a few. She has also worked at many theatres around Boston including Lyric Stage Company of Boston, New Repertory Theatre, Reagle Players and Huntington Theatre Company.

Natalie is a Boston native and a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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Elizabeth has a wide range of experience in live event and theatre production. She began her career as a sound designer, with her work heard at companies including Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Lyric Stage Company, SpeakEasy Stage, Shakespeare & Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Gloucester Stage, Central Square Theater, Dance The Yard, Fresh Ink Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, and many others.  Elizabeth has worked as a technician for The American Repertory Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, ArtsEmerson, and more.  She has served as A/V Supervisor for various operas with Boston Early Music Festival, New England Conservatory, and Boston University.

From 2020 to 2024, Elizabeth served as head of the Sound Design program at Emerson College, where she taught courses in sound design and fundamentals of theatrical design, and advised students on more than 50 productions.  Most recently, Elizabeth worked as the Live Event Production Coordinator for High Output, specializing in labor coordination and crew management for hundreds of events each year. Having freelanced in live event production throughout her career, working in hundreds of venues, she brings a broad range of production expertise to BabsonARTS.

Elizabeth is also a visual artist, specializing in textile work.  She earned a BFA in Theatre Design/Technology with specializations in Scenic Design and Sound Design from Emerson College.  

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Tamblyn Griffiths is an artist and educator who joined BabsonArts as Visual Arts Manager in 2021. She taught visual arts classes at colleges in Seattle and Boston for ten years and has worked on curation, installation, and exhibition for numerous galleries.

Tamblyn holds a BFA in painting and literature from Daemen College in Buffalo, NY, and an MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Following her graduate studies, she received a Fulbright grant to study printmaking in New Zealand.

Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in New Zealand, Italy, and China.

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Alex Brand is a born and raised New Englander who has been performing as long as they can remember. They have a passion for dance and vocal performance, and graduated from Suffolk University in 2022 where they studied Management and Arts Administration.

Alex joined BabsonARTS in February of 2023.

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Emily has over 20 years experience as an Art Director and Designer working at some of Boston’s top advertising agencies. She has a diverse and expansive creative background with extensive experience across a variety of mediums including Art Direction, Graphic Design, Brand Identity, Marketing and Social Media. 

Emily also has a Fine Arts background having graduated from The Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. She is an award-winning Author and Illustrator with four picture books to date published by Candlewick Press. She has also licensed her artwork and designs for greeting cards and craft kits. 

Most recently, Emily founded her own clothing line where she designed and sold sweaters online as well as on Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Scituate, Wellesley and Boston. She managed all aspects of the company including all branding, product design, manufacturing, retail and e-commerce sales, distribution and all elements of marketing.

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Trombonist Clayton DeWalt directs the Babson Music Collective student music ensemble. He began touring and recording professionally at age 15.

He has made a career of a wide range of musical styles including South African pop, blues, R&B, classical chamber music, salsa, Balkan brass, jazz, reggae and folk. Performing in venues ranging from Lincoln Center to the Monaco Opera House, he has worked with a variety of talented artists, such as Toshiko Akiyoshi, Nancy Wilson, John Brown’s Body, Robin McKelle, The New York Voices, the Gene Krupa Orchestra, The Temptations, and Regis Philbin.

As an educator, Clayton teaches music in the Lincoln, Wayland and Canton public schools and maintains a private studio. Clayton holds a BS in Music Education from Slippery Rock University, a MM in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music, and is currently pursuing his DMA in Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory.