John Dillon

Director, Theatre Program

Courses: Acting Shakespeare, Directing Shakespeare, Graduate Seminar, Theatre Forum

BA, MA, Northwestern University. MFA, Columbia University (Danforth and Woodrow Wilson Fellow). Associate director, Tokyo’s Institute of Dramatic Arts, where his productions twice won Japan’s highest theatre award. Chair, College and University Committee, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC); member, editorial board, Kennedy Center’s Opening Stages magazine. Former artistic director of the Milwaukee Rep; during his sixteen-year tenure, launched innovative exchanges with theatre companies in Mexico, Russia, Ireland, Chile, Japan, and England. Former board member of the Theatre Communications Group and the Executive Committee of SSDC; former panelist for the NEA and the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture; former senior contributor to American Theatre magazine; and, for seven years, artist-in-residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Staged productions at leading theatres in England, Russia, Japan, Egypt and at more than two-dozen of this country’s leading regional theatres. SLC, 2004-

Ernest H. Abuba

Courses: Creating a Role

Recipient of an OBIE Award, five New York State Council on the Arts fellowships for playwriting and directing, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, Creative Artist Public Service Award (CAPS), Best Actor Focus Press Award. Broadway: Pacific Overtures, Shimada, Loose Ends, The King and I, Zoya’s Apartment, director Boris Morozov; Maly Theatre. Regional/ off-Broadway roles: King Lear, Macbeth, Oberon, King Arthur, Autolycus, Chebutykin, James Tyrone, Lysander, Mishima, The Singer in Caucasian Chalk Circle, director Fritz Bennewitz; Berlin Ensemble. Author of Kwatz! The Tibetan Project, Leir Rex, The Dowager Empress of China, An American Story, Eat a Bowl of Tea, Night Stalker, opera Cambodia Agonistes, all produced off-Broadway; national tours to the Cairo Experimental Theatre and Johannesburg, South Africa. Collaborated/performed Butoh with Shigeko Suga in Spleen, Accade Domani by Dario Fo, and Sotoba Komachi. Film/TV: 12 Monkeys (director Terry Gilliam), King of New York, Call Me, New York Undercover, Bill Cosby Show, Kung Fu. Director/ screenwriter: Mariana Bracetti, Arthur A. Schomburg, Asian American Railroad Strike, Iroquois Confederacy, Lilac Chen-Asian American Suffragette, and Osceola produced by PBS/CBS. Voice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the audiobook The Art of Happiness. SLC, 1995-

Laura Maria Censabella

Courses: The Playwright's Voice

Yale University. Plays include Carla Cooks the War (formerly known as Three Italian Women), Abandoned in Queens, Posing, Jazz Wives Jazz Lives, Every Girl Should Know, The Actual Footage, and Some Girls. Three-time participant in the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Geri Ashur Award in Screenwriting, two NYFA grants in playwriting, the Tennessee Chapbook Prize for Drama, and two Emmy Awards. Half-hour film Last Call has screened in festivals throughout the world and is available on Netflix as part of Cinequest’s Best-of DVD: Second Sight, Vol. 2. Teaching experience includes the New School for Drama, the Actors Studio Drama School, Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Columbia College’s Undergraduate Writing Program, City University’s MFA Writing Program, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. Currently directs the Playwrights Unit at Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a member. SLC, 2008-

Kevin Confoy

Courses: Breaking the Code, Collective Conscious: Actor, Director Ensemble, Collective Conscious: Actor, Director Ensemble, DownStage, The Play’s The Thing…Sarah Lawrence College Playwriting Summer Intensive

BA, Rutgers College. Certificate, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Graduate, Conservatory Training Program, Classic Stage Company (CSC), Playwrights Horizons Theater School Directing Program. Director and producer of off-Broadway and regional productions. Producer/producing artistic director, SLC Theatre Program (1994-2008). Executive producer, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York (1992-1994); associate artistic director, Elysium Theatre Company, New York (1990-1992); director, Development Program, Circle Repertory Company (Circle Rep). OBIE Award, Outstanding Achievement Off and off-off Broadway (producer, E.S.T. Marathon of New Plays); Sloan Foundation Award (director, Proof!); 2006 Drama Desk Nomination Best Revival of a Play (company, The Traveling Lady). Director, first (original) productions of eight published plays. SLC, 1984-

Jill Du Boff

Courses: Sound Design for the Theatre, Sound Design for the Theatre II

BA, The New School. Has designed sound on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally. Designs on Broadway include: The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory…, Three Days of Rain (assoc), Inherit The Wind (assoc). Wit (National Tour). Designed for the following off-Broadway: Atlantic, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, NYTW, WP, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature, Clubbed Thumb, Culture Project, Actor’s Playhouse, New Group, Promenade, Urban Stages, Houseman, Fairbanks, Soho Rep, Adobe . Regionally: Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Bay Street, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Longwarf, The Alley, Kennedy Center, NYS&F, South Coast Rep, Humana, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre, ATF. Television; Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen, NBC's Late Fridays. Film: We Pedal Uphill. Radio: Contributing Producer for PRI’s Studio 360; Contributor to the book Sound and Music For The Theatre. Two Drama Desk nominations, two Henry Hewes nominations. Awards: Ruth Morley Design Award. SLC, 2009-

Michael Early

Courses: Acting the Poetic Text

BFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts. MFA, Yale University School of Drama. Extensive experience off-Broadway and in regional theatre, television, and commercials; artist-in-residence, Oberlin College. SLC, 1998-

June Ekman

Courses: Alexander Technique

BA, Goddard College, University of Illinois. A.C.A.T.-certified Alexander Technique Teacher, 1979. Inventor of an ergonomic chair, the Sit-a-Round; taught the Alexander Technique in many venues: the Santa Fe Opera, Riverside Studios in London, Utrecht, the Netherlands; dancer, Judson Dance Theater, Alwin Nikolais, Anna Halprin, and others; direction and choreography off-Broadway; appeared in Innovation (PBS), the Off-Off Broadway Review Award, 1995-1996. SLC, 1987-

Christine Farrell

On leave spring semester

Courses: Acting Practicum, Comedy Workshop

BA, Marquette University. MFA, Columbia University. One-year Study Abroad—Oxford, England. Actress, playwright, director. Appeared for the last nine seasons as Pam Shrier, the ballistics detective on Law and Order. Acting credits include Saturday Night Live, One Life to Live; films: Ice Storm, Fatal Attraction; stage: Comedy of Errors, Uncle Vanya, Catholic School Girls, Division Street, The Dining Room. Two published plays: Mama Drama and The Once Attractive Woman. Directed in colleges as well as off-Broadway and was the artistic director and co-founder of the New York Team for TheaterSports. Performed in comedy improvisation throughout the world. SLC, 1991-

Peter Jay Fernandez

Courses: Contemporary Scene Study

BFA, Boston University, School for the Arts. Acting work: (Broadway),The Merchant of Venice, Jelly's Last Jam, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Cyrano de Bergerac. (Off Broadway), more than twenty productions; Public Theatre, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Co., New Federal, La Mama, B.A.M, Delacorte etc. (Regional), Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, Old Globe, Milwaukee Rep, Alliance, Williamstown, Goodman, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, ACT,Seattle, Hartford Stage and more. Numerous Independent, Feature and Episodic appearances. SLC, 2006-

Will Frears

Courses: Acting and Directing for the New American Theatre, Acting and Directing for the New American Theatre

BA, Sarah Lawrence, MFA, Yale School of Drama. Film Direction: Coach, All Saints Day (Winner, Best Narrative Short, Savannah Film Festival) Beloved. Stage Direction: Off Broadway: Still Life (MCC); Rainbow Kiss (The Play Company); The Water’s Edge (Second Stage); Pen (Playwrights Horizons); Terrorism (The New Group/The Play Company); Omnium Gatherum (Variety Arts); Where We’re Born and God Hates the Irish (both at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); Get What You Need (Atlantic 453) and Kid-Simple (Summer Play Festival). Regional: Romeo & Juliet, Bus Stop, The Water’s Edge and A Servant of Two Masters at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Pillowman at George Street Playhouse; Hay Fever and The Price at Baltimore CenterStage; Sleuth at the Bay Street Theatre; Our Lady of 121st Street (Steppenwolf Theatre); Omnium Gatherum (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville). Artistic Director, Yale Cabaret, 1999-2000 season. Recipient of Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller directing fellowships. 2010-

Amlin Gray

Courses: History and Histrionics: The Theatre Through Time

Graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York (Richard Burton Scholarship, ADAM Award). Professional course, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. His plays, which include How I Got That Story, The Fantod, Wormwood, Kingdom Come, and Mickey’s Teeth, have been produced throughout the United States and in Canada, England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, India, and Japan; won an OBIE Award and fellowships with the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts; translated plays and other writings from Spanish, German, French, and Greek and wrote texts, in company collaboration or independently, for performance by the London Mime Theatre, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the Eureka Theatre (San Francisco), Steptanz Theater Basel, and Noche Flamenca (Madrid and New York); playwright in residence at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater for seven years and dramaturge of Berkeley Repertory Theatre for two; currently a member of the Dramatists Guild, an alumnus of New Dramatists, and former board member for Theatre Communications Group and the Dramatists Play Service; as a freelance dramaturge, worked with the Midland Playwrights Conference on new plays and productions with the Huntington Theatre (Boston) and Atlanta’s Georgia Shakespeare Festival. SLC, 2005-

Paul Griffin

Courses: The Performing Arts for Social Change

Founded City at Peace, Inc. in Washington, D.C. in 1994. Then founded and now leads City at Peace-National, a non-profit that uses the performing arts to empower teenagers to transform their lives and communities across the U.S. Paul has directed the creation and performance of ten original musicals written from the real-life stories of diverse groups of teens and overseen the creation of thirty more. City at Peace now has programs in seven U.S. cities, several communities in Israel and Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to his work with City at Peace, Paul was Co-director of the Theater of Youth, a company member of the No-Neck Monster Theater Co. in Washington, DC, a member of Impro-Etc., performing improvised Shakespeare classics in England and Scotland, and a student/performer with Ryszard Cieslak from Jerzy Grotowsky¹s Polish Lab Theater. Paul was awarded as one of Tomorrow's Leaders Today by Public Allies, and received the Hamilton Fish Award for Service to Children and Families. Paul and City at Peace have appeared in numerous venues across the country, including the Arena Stage, The Public Theater, "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, and HBO in a documentary on the City at Peace program. SLC 2008-

Dan Hurlin

Courses: Projects, Puppetry, Puppetry for Directors, Designers, and Fabricators, Strategies for Being Alone on Stage

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Performances in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, La MaMa E.T.C., Danspace, The Kitchen, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and at alternative presenters throughout the U.S. and the U.K.; recipient of a Village Voice OBIE Award in 1990 for solo adaptation of Nathanael West’s A Cool Million and the 2000 New York Dance and Performance (a.k.a. “Bessie”) Award for Everyday Uses for Sight, Nos. 3 & 7; recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and of grants from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Cary Flagler Charitable Trust, and the New England Foundation for the Arts; 2002-2003 Guggenheim fellowship. Recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts for Theater, 2004. Former teacher at Bowdoin, Bennington, Barnard, and Princeton. SLC, 1997-

Shirley Kaplan

Director, Theatre Outreach; Shirley Kaplan Faculty Scholar in Theatre

Courses: Acting Conference, Making New Work, Methods of Theatre Outreach, New Musical Theatre Lab

AA, Briarcliff College. Diploma in Sculpture and Painting, Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France. Playwright, director, and designer, with productions throughout the United States and Europe; co-founder, OBIE Award-winning Paper Bag Players; founder, The Painters’ Theatre. Directing credits include Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, UBU Repertory, La MaMa E.T.C., Ensemble Studio Theatre, Music Theatre Group, New York Performance Works; guest director/playwright, St.Archangelo,Italy; directed new works by Richard Greenberg, David Ives, Leslie Lyles, Eduardo Machado, Denise Bonal, Keith Reddin, and Arthur Giron. Writer/lyricist, Rockabye. Designer, Ben Bagley’s Cole Porter Shows, U.S. and European tours; created interactive theatre workshops for The Kitchen and New York City museums; developed original ensembles on major arts grants. Winner, Golden Camera Award, U.S. Industrial Film and Video Festival; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, The Connecticut Cowboy; recipient of Westchester Arts Council Award in Education and Excellence Award, the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Founder and co-director, Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Outreach. SLC, 1975-

Woodie King, Jr.

Courses: Global Theatre: Africa and the Black Diaspora in the Caribbean and America

Will-0-Way School of Theatre, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Lehman College, New York; MFA in directing, Brooklyn College. He is the Founder and Producing Director of New Federal Theatre in New York City. New Federal Theatre (NFT) has presented over 225 productions in its 37-year history.

Mr. King has produced and directed Off-Broadway, on Broadway in regional Theatres, and in universities across the United States. He co-produced For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, What the Wine Sellers Buy, Reggae and The Taking of Miss Janie (Drama Critic Circle Award). His directional credits are extensive and include work in film as well as theater. He directed productions at the Cleveland Playhouse, Stage West, Virginia Museum Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, North light Theatre, New Federal Theatre, The Ensemble Studio, Arena Stage, GeVa Theatre, American Place Theatre, Jomandi Theatre, Center Stage of Baltimore, Indiana Repertory Company, Studio Arena In Buffalo, New York Shakespeare Festival, and Crossroads Theatre Company.

He has received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement and the Theatre Communications Group Peter Zeisler Memorial Award among other honors. He has taught at Oberlin College, Florida State University, Ohio State University, Yale, Penn State, North Carolina AT&T, Columbia, NYU, Hunter, and Brooklyn College School of Contemporary Studies. 2007-

Allen Lang

Courses: Methods of Theatre Outreach

University of Wisconsin; BA Empire State College, SUNY; MFA Sarah Lawrence College. Published plays include Chimera and White Buffalo in the French Performance Journal Collages and Bricollages; Recipient of the Lipkin Playwright Award and Drury College Playwright Award; Plays produced in New York City at La Mama and other venues; Directed plays in New York and regionally; acted in New York City and regional theatre, on television and in the cult films by Michael DiPaolo: Artistic Director of the Water Street Theatre Company in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Conducted theatre and creative writing workshops for participants of all ages in New York City, South America and throughout the United States.

Tom Lee

Courses: Design Techniques in Media and Puppetry, Puppetry for Directors, Designers, and Fabricators, Scenic Design I, Scenic Design II

BFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Designed sets, puppets, and video animation for dance, theatre, and new opera in New York and Europe; resident artist of La MaMa E.T.C.; worked with companies in Siberia, Ukraine, Poland, Italy, and Japan; received a Jim Henson Foundation grant for his puppet epic Hoplite Diary and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer (with Yara Arts Group), and the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers. SLC, 2005-

Doug MacHugh

BA, New England College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Actor, writer, director. Taught for two years at the Universidad Nacional in El Salvador. Staff writer for Jones Entertainment and Gates Productions. Has written PSAs, commercials, industrials, documentaries, and sixty hours of local and regional live television in Los Angeles. Film acting credits include Clean and Sober, Alien Nation, Come See the Paradise, and Weird Science; television acting credits include Guiding Light, Law and Order, Cheers, Quantum Leap, LA Law, and Night Court; stage credits include Holy Ghost, End Game, Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty and Truth (director), Platypus Rex, Mafia on Prozac, North of Providence, Only You, To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Weir. SLC, 2000-

Greg MacPherson

Courses: Lighting Design I, Lighting Design II

Designed lighting for hundreds of plays and musicals in New York and around the United States, as well as in Europe, Australia, Japan, and the Caribbean. Designs have included original plays by Edward Allan Baker, Cassandra Medley, Stewart Spencer, Richard Greenberg, Warren Leight, Lanford Wilson, Romulus Linney, Arthur Miller, and David Mamet. Continues to design the Las Vegas production of Penn & Teller and to work as resident designer for the 52nd Street Project. Received an American Theatre Wing Maharam Award nomination for his lighting design of EST’s Marathon of One-Act Plays and has taught lighting design at Sarah Lawrence College since 1990. SLC, 1990-

Elena McGhee

Courses: Freeing The Natural Voice, Linklater Voice Training Into Text

BA, University of Massachusetts. Actor, vocal coach, and Designated Linklater Voice Instructor. Recent teaching appointments include Fordham, Tepper Semester/ Syracuse, Shakespeare & Company, ACT, NYU, and CAL/ARTS. Her private clients appear on Broadway, film and television. Her acting credits include Classic Stage Company, Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Ontological Hysterical, Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA Women’s Shakespeare, The Odyssey/LA, Worcester Foothills, The Nora, and The New Rep/ Boston. SLC, 2007-

William D. McRee

Courses: Auditioning, Directing Workshop, Far-Off, Off-Off, Off-, and On-Broadway – Experiencing the 2009-2010 Theatre Season, London Theatre Tour, Singing Workshop, The Director/Playwright Dialogue

Faculty Web site

BA, Jacksonville University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Co-founder and artistic director for Jacksonville’s A Company of Players, Inc.; productions with The Actor’s Outlet, Playwrights Horizons, Summerfest, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. SLC, 1981-

Cassandra Medley

Courses: Experiments in Language and Form, Medley Workshop: Developing the Dramatic Idea, Writer's Gym

Faculty Web site

University of Michigan. Playwright; co-author, A-My Name is Alice; author, terrain (nominated for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Womenswork/Ma Rose, Antaeus Plays in One Act, Mildred/13th Moon, Voices of Color/Rosalie; plays performed throughout the U.S. and Europe; recipient of an Outer Critics Drama Circle Desk Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, a National Endow-ment for the Arts grant in playwriting, and a Walt Disney Screenwriting fellowship; staff writer for ABC Television daytime series; member, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Writer’s Guild of America, East. Most recently produced plays include Relativity, Kuntu Rep of Pittsburgh, Southern Rep of New Orleans, 2007; the Ensemble Studio Theatre, May 2006; the St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre, February 2006; and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, June 2004. Relativity won the 2006 Audelco August Wilson Playwriting Award and was featured on Science Friday, National Public Radio. Published by Broadway Play Publishing. SLC, 1989-

Greta Minsky

Courses: Stage Management

BA, University of Kansas. Stage manager of original productions of works by Tom Stoppard, Neil Simon, Laurence Fishburne, Doug Wright, Charles Busch, Larry L. King, Ernest Abuba, and Lillian Garrett-Groag, among others. Broadway, Off Broadway, touring, dance, opera, and concert work includes productions with Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Rep, WPA, Pan Asian Rep, Vineyard Theatre, La MaMa E.T.C., The Women’s Project, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, and New York City Opera. Co-founder of Modern Times Theater. SLC, 1998-

Ruth Moe

Courses: Conference for Internships

Production manager for the Sarah Lawrence College theatre program for the past seven years. Other production management work includes seven seasons with the Westport Country Playhouse, also Shakespeare and Company, Classic Stage Company, The Working Theater, The Colorado Festival of World Theater, East Coast Arts Theater, the Berkshire Public Theater, and The Jerash Festival in Amman, Jordan. Production stage management credits include productions with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mabou Mines, New York Theater of the Deaf, and Fast Folk Musical Magazine. Member of AEA. SLC, 1999-

David Neumann

As artistic director of advanced beginner group, work presented in New York at P.S. 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park SummerStage (collaboration with John Giorno), Celebrate Brooklyn, and Symphony Space (collaboration with Laurie Anderson). Featured dancer in the works of Susan Marshall, Jane Comfort, Sally Silvers, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar's Big Dance Theater, and club legend Willi Ninja; previously a member of Doug Varone and Dancers and an original member and collaborator for eight years with the Doug Elkins Dance Company. Over the past 20 years, choreographed or performed with directors Hal Hartley, Laurie Anderson, Robert Woodruff, Lee Breuer, Peter Sellars, JoAnn Akalaitis, Mark Wing-Davey, and Les Waters; recently appeared in Orestes at Classic Stage Company, choreographed The Bacchae at the Public Theater, and performed in a duet choreographed with Mikhail Baryshnikov. SLC, 2007-

Dael Orlandersmith

Courses: Playwriting for Solo Performance

OBIE Award for Beauty’s Daughter, which she wrote and starred in at American Place Theatre. Toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Real Live Poetry) throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Play, Monster, premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in November 1996. Attended Sundance Theatre Festival Lab for four summers developing new plays. The Gimmick, commissioned by the McCarter Theatre, premiered on its Second Stage on Stage and went on to the Long Wharf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop. Yellowman was commissioned by and premiered at the McCarter in a co-production with the Wilma Theater and the Long Wharf Theatre. Vintage Books and Dramatists Play Service published Yellowman and a collection of earlier work. Pulitzer Prize Award finalist and Drama Desk Award nominee as an actress in Yellowman, which premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2002. Susan Smith Blackburn Award finalist with The Gimmick in 1999 and won for Yellowman. Recipient of an NYFA grant, the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, a Guggenheim, and the 2005 Pen/ Laura Pels Foundation Award for a playwright in mid-career. Won a Lucille Lortel Playwrights Fellowship in 2006. In 2007, completed a new commission for the Mark Taper Forum called Bones and premiered a new work in collaboration with David Cale at Long Wharf, The Blue Album. Currently working on a play called Horsedreams and Dancefloors as well as a memoir, Character. SLC, 2008-

Carol Ann Pelletier

Courses: Costume Design I, Costume Design II, The Director/Designer Dialogue: From the Page to the Stage

BA, Brandeis University. Costume designer for Ping Chong & Company; resident designer for UBU Repertory Theatre; founding member of Yara Arts Group; extensive work in off-Broadway and experimental theatre; venues include La MaMa E.T.C., Theatre for the New City, UBU Rep, and Theatre Row, along with festivals in Kiev, Lviv, and Kharkiv, Ukraine. SLC, 1993-

Fanchon Miller Scheier

Courses: Improvisation Laboratory, Improvisation Techniques

BA, Adelphi University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Film, television, and theatre actress; member, Robert Lewis Acting Company and Green Gate Theatre; director and actress, regional and educational theatre; University of Virginia Artist-in-Residence program; founder, In Stages theatre company; recipient of two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; co-director of London Theatre Intersession ’88. SLC, 1985-

Edwin Sherin

Courses: Creativity Workshop, Creativity Workshop

Brown University. Began his professional career as an actor in 1956, appearing in five Broadway plays, a dozen roles for the American and New York Shakespeare Festivals, in regional theatres across the country, and in more than 75 filmed and live television dramas. He began his directing on Broadway with “The Great White Hope,” which won the Pulitzer, the Tony, and the Drama Critics Award. Among his other Broadway credits are “Rex,” “Sweet Bird of Youth,” “The Visit,” “Of Mice And Men,” “An Evening With Richard Nixon and friends...,” “First Monday In October,” “6 Rms Riv Vu,” “Find Your Way Home,” “Eccentricities of a Nightingale,” “Do You Turn Somersaults,” and “Prymate.” He has directed several plays Off Broadway, including “Dierdre of the Sorrows,” “Baba Goya (Nourish the Beast,” “Look at Any Man,” “Joan of Lorraine,” and the New York State Council of the Arts-sponsored “Mister Roberts.” He directed the award-winning London production of “Streetcar Named Desire” and “Cosi Fan Tutti” for the New York City Opera Company. Among his 67 credits in regional repertory theater, his most memorable were “The Great White Hope” at the Arena Stage (the first play to ever transfer to Broadway from a regional theatre), “Glory Hallelujah” at the American Conservatory Theatre, “Semmelweiss” at Brigham Young University, and his adaptation of Ibsen’s “Ghosts” at The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C. He served as artistic director for the Hartman Theater, Stamford, Connecticut; Associate Producing Director, Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.; director, Theater School, Boston University; and artist-in-residence, Florida State University. He has given master classes in theatre and/or film at Columbia University, Bennington College, Southern Methodist University, School of Film at Florida State University, Brown University, University of the Atlantic, and the Oklahoma Arts Institute. He continues as an affiliate artist in the Department of Drama of Sarah Lawrence College. He has directed feature films, television movies, and hour-long episodic dramas. He left the long running series “Law and Order,” where he was executive producer for nearly a decade, primarily to return to theater and teaching. His most recent television episodes were the NBC series, “Medium” and the short-lived “The Black Donnelleys.” In fall 2009, he is directing T. Thomas’ play “A Moon To Dance By” at the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a Broadway opening planned for Spring 2010. His most diverse role to date is as creative director for the Great Apes and Bonobos exhibit at the world-renowned Indianapolis Zoo, which is due to open on Memorial Day 2013. He currently serves on the board of the Directors Guild of America, where he is also a trustee of the pension and health plans, and is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, where he served as vice president for many years. His other affiliations include Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He serves on the executive committee of ART21, the premier arts programming for PBS. He is a fellow of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. His career has been recognized by an Emmy Award, a Tony nomination, New England Theatre Award, New York Drama Critics Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Circle Award, Los Angeles Drama Circle Award, London Evening Standard Award, Theatre World Award, The Producers Guild of America Award, The Golden Reel Award, The Robert Aldridge Award, the CIBA Award, The Image Award, and The Crystal Apple for distinguished service to The City of New York. He is married to the actress and activist, Jane Alexander. SLC, 2007-

Stuart Spencer

On sabbatical spring semester

Courses: History and Histrionics: The Theatre Through Time, Playwriting Techniques, Spencer Workshop

BA, Lawrence University. Author of numerous plays performed in New York and around the country, including Resident Alien (Broadway Play Publishing). Other plays include In the Western Garden (Broadway Play Publishing), Blue Stars (Best American Short Plays of 1993-1994), and Sudden Devotion (Broadway Play Publishing). A playwriting textbook, The Playwright’s Guidebook, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2002. Recent plays are Alabaster City, commissioned by South Coast Rep, and Judy Garland Died for Your Sins. Former literary manager of Ensemble Studio Theatre; fellow, the Edward Albee Foundation; member, Dramatist Guild. SLC, 1991-

Sterling Swann

Courses: Breathing Coordination for the Performer, Building a Vocal Technique, Introduction to Stage Combat

BA, Vassar College. Postgraduate training at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sonia Moore Studio, and with David Kaplan (author, Five Approaches to Acting); president and artistic director, Cygnet Productions, national Equity Theatre for Young Audiences company; leading performer, Boston Shakespeare Company; guest faculty at Storm King School, Western Connecticut State University, Vassar College; advanced actor/combatant, Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD); winner of the Society of American Fight Directors’ 2006 Patrick Craen Award; designated practitioner, Stough Institute of Breathing Coordination; certified teacher, Alexander Technique. SLC, 1991-

Lucy Thurber

Courses: Face the Blank Page

Author of seven plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Scarcity, Killers and Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World, and Monstrosity. The Atlantic Theater Company opened its 2007-08 season with Scarcity. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater produced Where We’re Born, Killers and Other Family, and Stay. Bottom of The World was commissioned by Women’s Expressive Theater, Inc. Monstrosity was workshopped by Encore Theatre Company (San Francisco) and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Recipient of the 2000-2001 Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship and was a guest artist at the Perseverance Theatre. Reading and workshops held at Manhattan Theatre Club, the New Group, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, PlayPenn, New River Dramatists, Tribeca Theater Festival, Eugene O’Neill, the Public Theater, and Soho Rep. Playwright in residence at the Orchard Project, summer 2007. Play Dinner is published in Not So Sweet, a collection of plays from Soho Rep’s Summer Camp. Scarcity was published in the December 2007 issue of American Theatre. A member of New Dramatists, 13P, MCC Playwrights Coalition, and Writers Group at Primary Stages. Published by Dramatists Play Service. Currently commissioned by Playwrights Horizons. SLC, 2008-