TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Face to Face Communications: Teacher (2009 – Present)
Teach acting, auditioning, presentation, and interview skills to people of all ages.
Curtain Call, Stamford, CT, (203) 329-8207 - Director / Teacher (September, 2016 – 202)
Teach / direct Shakespeare, directing, acting, voice, movement, improvisation, on camera, and voice over. Created and implemented remote Covid curriculum.
California State University, Los Angeles, College of Professional Education: Instructor (2019)
Taught acting, improvisation, and communication skills to business professionals.
California State University, Los Angeles, Theatre and Dance: Teaching Assistant (2018-2019)
Taught Acting I and II, improvisation, scene study, and monologue to college students.
New Hope Lutheran Day School, Valley Stream, NY (516) 285-0815: Teacher (Summer 2018)
Taught acting, improvisation, Shakespeare, voice and movement.
Merokee Day Camp, Merrick, NY (516) 378-6332: Teacher (Summer 2018)
Taught acting, improvisation, voice and movement.
North Street School / Curtain Call (January, 2017 – June, 2017)
Taught acting, improvisation, monologues, Shakespeare, voice and movement.
Atria, Benchmark, Maplewood, Nathaniel Witherell, River House, Hill House: Teacher/Facilitator (2012 –2017) - Taught acting and improvisation to the elderly.
Dolan Middle School / Curtain Call: Teacher (September, 2016 – December, 2016)
Taught acting, improvisation, monologues, Shakespeare, voice and movement.
Greenwich Education Group: Teacher (September, 2009 - 2015)
Taught voice to high school students: Stanwich School, New Canaan Country School.
Camp Playland: Theater Department Head (Summer, 2016)
Taught acting, improvisation, monologues, Shakespeare, voice and movement.
The Grace Organization, The GO Project: Comedy Theater Teacher (Summer, 2013)
Taught underprivileged New York City public school students movement, physical theater, Laban, and, comedy, and scene study.
The Brunswick School: Teaching Artist in Residence (Spring, 2013)
Taught upper school students in Greenwich, CT Stanislavski, Meisner, Hagen, Practical Aesthetics, monologues, improvisation, movement, physical theater, Laban and voice.
Greenwich Performing Arts Studio: Teacher (September, 2011 - 2012)
Taught scene study, monologues, improvisation, physical theater, and voice.
Witherbee Theater, Camp Dudley: Department Head / Artistic Director (1994 - 2004)
Taught acting, speech, improvisation, Shakespeare, movement, Laban, stage combat, juggling, and technical theater to college students. Budgeted, directed, cast, designed, lit, technical-directed, produced, and wrote plays, scenes, songs, musicals, multi-media spectacles, and improv shows. Supervised staff of seven.
DIRECTING EXPERIENCE
Summerstock, Curtain Call, Stamford, CT
• Romeo and Juliet
• Macbeth
• Shakespeare in Hollywood
• Twelfth Night
• Shakespeare in Love
• Smokey Joe's Cafe
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Witherbee Theater, Westport, NY – Artistic Director, Five Years
• The Duck Variations
• Baby
• Reckless
• Lord of the Flies
• Bury the Dead
• The Adventures of Captain Neato-Man
• Smokey Joe's Cafe
• Terra Nova (wrote original songs)
• Many Improv Comedy Shows
EDUCATION
California State University Los Angeles – MFA, Television, Film, & Theatre/ Acting, GPA 3.9
Cal State LA Theatre Teacher Training Program (Assisted Teaching College Acting I and II)
Drama Studio London – PGD, Post Graduate Diploma – Acting
Cambridge University, BESG – Certificate – Shakespeare, Voice, Movement, Drama, Film
Kenyon College – BA – Drama
The Society of American Fight Directors – Basic Certificate – Knife
The Society of British Fight Directors – Intermediate Certificate – Sword and Dagger
TEACHER TRAINING
Tanya Kane-Parry
Sophie Goldstein
Collin Bressie
ACTING
William H. Macy (workshop)
Uta Hagen (audit)
Karen Kohlhaas
Armando Molina
Tanya Kane-Parry
Barry Gordon
Charles Tuthill
Illona Linthwaite
Alexander Perrin
Peter Craze
Chris Pickles
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
Dee Evans
AUDITIONING
Mary Jo Berman
BARRANTES
Sam Breen
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Joseph Gallegos
COMEDY
Sheila Steafel
Randee Trabitz
COMMEDIA/MASK
Joshua Carlebach
Sophie Goldstein
Peter Bailie
Randee Trabitz
COMMERCIAL ACTING
Amy Gossels
COUNTERTECHNIQUE
Rosanna Tavarez
DANCE
Sue Weston
DIRECTING
Steve Rothman
Harlene Marley
ENTERTAINMENT FINANCE / LAW
Daniel Spitz
FILM HISTORY
Maureen Thomas
Chris Brookhouse
Dominic Le Poer Power
Barry Gordon
Allen Bloom
FILM/TV ACTING
Barry Gordon
Patrick Tucker
FILM/TV DIRECTING
Steve Rothman
Justin Wolske
Nidhin Patel
FITZMAURICE
Anna Estrada
Michael Yurchak
GROTOWSKI
Matthew Floyd Miller
IMPROVISATION
David Miner
(Nat'l Improv Fest)
Fools On The Hill
KNIGHT-THOMPSON
Roberto Alcaraz
LABAN
Peter Bailie
LECOQ
Joshua Carlebach
LINKLATER
Marissa Pitts
PRODUCTION
Matt Gatlin
MOTION CAPTURE
Jody Mahler
MOVEMENT
Hugh O'Gorman
Matthew Floyd Miller
Stacy Dawson Stearns Beatrice Allegranti
Wendy Allnutt
Sue Weston
PHYSICAL THEATRE
Richard Spaul
PLAYWRITING
Wendy MacLeod
PRODUCTION
Nidhin Patel
Matt Gatlin
Justin Wolske
SCREENWRITING
Enrique Berumen
SELF-MARKETING
Yelyna De Leon
SHAKESPEARE
Rob Clare
Barbra Houseman
Patrick Tucker
Chris Bristow (Cambridge Fellow)
SINGING
Sam Breen
Roberto Alcaraz
Tessa Van Sertima
STAGE COMBAT
John Waller
Collin Bressie
Keith Ducklin
THEATRE HISTORY
Steve Rothman
TV WRITING
Ligiah Villalobos
VIEWPOINTS
Tanya Kane-Parry
VOICE
Yvonne Morley
Anna Estrada
Michael Yurchak
Sam Breen
Roberto Alcaraz
VOICE-OVER
Jilly Bond
HONORS AND AWARDS
Hollywood Foreign Press Award - 2020
Hollywood Foreign Press Award - 2018
Drama Studio London – Commencement Speaker
Paul Newman Award – Best Actor, Kenyon College
GRANTS
Graduate Equity Fellowship – Acting - 2020
State University Grant - 2020
Graduate Equity Fellowship – Acting - 2019
State University Grant - 2019
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Actors' Equity Association
ACTING EXPERIENCE
FILM
Antonio In Wonderland - Officer Milton - 20th Century Fox - Dir. Sven Unterwaldt
TELEVISION
A Good Cop - Police Commissioner Kinney - NTD TV Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt - Solomon Wisenberg - BBC / Dir. Armando Iannucci
A Crime to Remember - Co-Star - Off. Ratledge (Chicago Cop) - Discovery ID / Xcon / Nicholas McCarthy
My Crazy Love - Co-Star - Samuel Owen, Esq - Oxygen Network / Charlie Mysak
Grave Secrets - Co-Star - Adam, Suspect, NYC Construction Worker - Discovery ID / Tom Pogue, RMM
I, Witness - Co-Star - Deputy Wood - ABC / ID / Dir. Ido Fluk
Scorned: Love Kills - Co-Star - Det. Keith (Alabama) - Discovery ID / Dir. Sterling Milan
Mysteries at the Castle - Guest Star - Duke of York - Travel Channel/ Dir. Lee Doyle
UK THEATRE
Reckless - Roy Morgrebi / Tim Timko - Drayton Court, London
Contradance - The Spanish Ambassador - C Venues, Edinburgh
US THEATRE
American Buffalo - Donny (Voice) - Deaf West / CAPA / CATCO
Happy Family - Dennis - Theatre Row
A Soldier's Jazz Tale, by Kurt Vonnegut - Pvt. Eddie Slovik (Lead Role) - New York Philomusica
