John Dillon

Director, Theatre Program

B.A., M.A., Northwestern University. M.F.A., Columbia University (Danforth and Woodrow Wilson Fellow). Associate director of Tokyo’s Institute of Dramatic Arts (where his productions have twice won Japan’s highest theatre award), member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and serves on the editorial board of the 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, 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, and Egypt, and has directed new works by such noted playwrights as David Mamet, Romulus Linney, Larry Shue, Y York, Anthony Clarvoe, Joanna Glass, Ariel Dorfman, David Rambo, and Amlin Gray. Staged productions at over two dozen of the country’s leading regional theatres, including Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, D.C.’s Arena Stage, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New Haven’s Long Wharf, the Missouri Rep, Seattle’s ACT Theatre, Chapel Hill’s PlayMakers Rep, Syracuse Stage, the Georgia Shakespeare Festival, the Seattle Children’s Theatre, the Berkeley Rep, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (where his staging of “Wit” won him a BackstageWest Garland Award). SLC, 2004-

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

Ernest H. Abuba

Recipient of an OBIE, five New York State Council on the Arts fellowships for playwriting and directing, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, Creative Artist Public Service (CAPS) Award, Best Actor Focus Press Award. Broadway: “Pacific Overtures,” “Shimada,” “Loose Ends,” “The King and I,” and “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,” and the 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-

Courses: Creating a Role

Edward Allan Baker

University of Rhode Island. A published and frequently produced New York City playwright/screenwriter whose plays are presented all over the U.S. and Europe. Has written for HBO and Showtime and received a Theatrical Excellence Award from the Ensemble Studio Theatre of New York. SLC, 1995-

Courses: Stage(play) to Screen(play); The Art of Characterization; Playwrights at Play; Baker Workshop

Kevin Confoy

B.A., Rutgers College. Certificate, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Graduate, the Conservatory at the Classic Stage Company, the Playwrights Horizons Directing Program. Director/producer of Off Broadway and regional productions. Former executive producer, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York. OBIE Award for Outstanding Achievement Off Broadway, 1994 (producer); Sloan Foundation Award for “Proof!” (director). Director of seven first (original) productions of published texts. SLC, 1994-

Courses: DownStage; Breaking the Code; THE PLAY’S THE THING: Workshop for Directors

Michael Early

B.F.A., New York University Tisch School of the Arts. M.F.A., Yale University School of Drama. Extensive experience Off Broadway and in regional theatre, television, and commercials; artist-in-residence, Oberlin College. SLC, 1998-

Courses: Acting the Poetic Text

June Ekman

B.A., 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-

Courses: Alexander Technique; Breath and Speech

Christine Farrell

Associate Administrator

B.A., Marquette University. M.F.A., Columbia University. One-year study abroad – Oxford, England. Actress, playwright, director. Has appeared for the last nine seasons as Arlene 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.” Has directed in colleges as well as Off Broadway and was the artistic director and co-founder of the New York Team for TheaterSports. Has performed comedy improvisation throughout the world. SLC, 1991-

Courses: Comedy Styles and Performance; Comedy Workshop

Peter Jay Fernandez

B.F.A., Boston University, School for the Arts. Acting work on Broadway: “The Merchant of Venice,” “Jelly’s Last Jam,” “Henry IV,” “Julius Caesar”; Off Broadway: more than twenty productions; Public Theatre, Second Stage, Playwright’s Horizons, Classic Stage Co., New Federal, La Mama E.T.C., 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-

Courses: Contemporary Scene Study

Amlin Gray

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 dramaturg 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 dramaturg, worked with the Midland Playwrights Conference on new plays and productions with the Huntington Theatre (Boston) and Atlanta’s Georgia Shakespeare Festival. SLC, 2005-

Courses: The Profession of Dramaturg; Playwrights at Play

Dan Hurlin

Dance/Theater – B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Performances in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, La MaMa E.T.C., Danspace, The Kitchen, 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 (“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 to 2003 Guggenheim fellowship. Former teacher at Bowdoin, Bennington, Barnard, and Princeton. SLC, 1997-

Courses: Invention; Projects; Puppet Central

Shirley Kaplan

Director, Theatre Outreach

(on leave second semester)

A.A., Briarcliff College. Diploma in Sculpture and Painting, Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris. Playwright, director, and designer with productions throughout the U.S. and Europe; co-founder, OBIE Award-winning Paper Bag Players; founder, The Painters’ Theatre; directing credits include Ensemble Studio Theatre One-Act Marathons, Playwrights Horizons, UBU Repertory, La MaMa E.T.C., Ensemble Studio Theatre, Music Theatre Group, New York Performance Works, Zipper Theatre; guest director/playwright, Festival St. Archangelo, Italy; writer/lyricist, Rockabye (documentary for the March of Dimes); winner, Golden Camera Award, U.S. Industrial Film and Video Festival, 1990; directed new works by Richard Greenberg, Jane Willis, Stuart Spencer, Cassandra Medley, Leslie Lyles, Eduardo Machado, Denise Bonal, Keith Reddin, and Arthur Giron; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for “The Connecticut Cowboy”; playwright, “The Dream Box,” “Neon,” “Floating Cathedral,” and many others; designer for all of Ben Bagley’s Cole Porter shows, U.S. and European tours; created interactive theatre workshops for The Kitchen and New York City museums; arts educator with Connecticut Commission on the Arts Project Create; past faculty at Barnard College and guest artist at colleges throughout the U.S.; developed original ensembles on major arts grants; recipient of the Westchester Arts Council Award in Education 2003 and Excellence Award, the Ensemble Studio Theatre (2003); developed Theatre Outreach Programs within the Yonkers schools (1975); worked with senior center teaching groups; was one of the designers of the Fairfield, Conn., Children’s Museum in 1986 and the Bronx Heritage Museum in 1988; has conducted workshops with teachers in media and curriculum throughout the U.S. and Europe training theatre artists for in-school residencies. SLC, 1975-

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

Woodie King, Jr.

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-

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

Allen Lang

Associate Director, Theatre Outreach
Artistic Director, Theatre Program

University of Wisconsin; B.A., Empire State College, SUNY; M.F.A., 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 E.T.C. 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. SLC, 1998-

Courses: Methods of Theatre Outreach

Tom Lee

B.F.A., 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,” 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-

Courses: Design Techniques in Media and Puppetry; Scenic Design I; Scenic Design II; The Director/Designer Dialogue: From the Page to the Stage

Doug MacHugh

B.A., New England College. M.F.A., 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, Weird Science; television: Guiding Light, Law and Order, Cheers, Quantum Leap, LA Law, Night Court; stage: “Holy Ghost,” “End Game,” “Falling Man,” “Platypus Rex.” SLC, 2000-

Courses: Acting for the Camera

Greg MacPherson

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-

Courses: Lighting Design I; Lighting Design II; The Director/Designer Dialogue: From the Page to the Stage

Thomas Mandel

Musical Director

B.A., Bowdoin College, Philosophy, Electronic Music, Theory and Composition, under Elliot Schwartz and Robert Beckwith. Paul Simon Songwriting Class, ’69, NYU. Taught Singing Workshop with John Braswell at Sarah Lawrence, ’71-’77. Scored his musicals at SLC, Astor Place Theater, and Cafe LaMama, NYC. Composed, orchestrated, and musically directed three “rock operas” off Off Broadway and at Sarah Lawrence. The first, Joe’s Opera was twice optioned for Broadway production. The Sea of Simile was released on a full length DVD. Toured and recorded ’77-’98, from Vietnam to Vienna, from New York City to Sun City, with Dire Straits, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, Bon Jovi, Nils Lofgren, Little Steven, Peter Wolf, Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson, 2 former NY Dolls, Live at CBGB’s, The Spinners, Shannon, John Waite, and Luciano Pavarotti. Fields of expertise: Hammond organ, rock and roll piano, synthesizer programming and sequencing, piano accompaniment, popular and progressive music of the 50’s-90’s. CD’s of songs and instrumentals available at iTunes Store and cdBaby.com. SLC, 2000-

Courses: Singing Workshop

Elena McGhee

B.A., 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-

Courses: Linklater Voice Training; Linklater Voice Training Into Text

William D. McRee

Administrator

B.A., Jacksonville University. M.F.A., 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-
http://pages.slc.edu/~dmcree

Courses: Singing Workshop; London Theatre Tour

Cassandra Medley

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 Endowment 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. SLC, 1989-
http://pages.slc.edu/~cmedley

Courses: Experiments in Language and Form; Playwrights at Play; Medley Workshop; Writer’s Gym

Greta Minsky

Associate Producer

B.A., 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-

Courses: Stage Management

Ruth Moe

Producer

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-

Courses: Conference for Internships

David Neumann

B.F.A., SUNY Purchase. David Neumann is artistic director of the advanced beginner group, believing in making dances from scratch utilizing an experimental approach and a humorous embrace of our contradictory lives. He has been a featured dancer in the works of Susan Marshall, Jane Comfort, Sally Silvers, Irene Hultman, Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar’s Big Dance Theater, and club legend, Willi Ninja. He was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers, and an eight-year original member and collaborator with the Doug Elkins Dance Co., with whom he toured nationally and internationally. In the theatre, he has worked with such directors as: Liviu Ciulei, Robert Woodruff, Lee Breuer, Peter Sellars, JoAnn Akalaitis, Chris Bayes, and Anne Bogart, in such venues as: Mabou Mines, The Joseph Papp Public Theater, La MaMa E.T.C., Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, HERE Theater, and the Kennedy Center. He was a featured actor in Hal Hartley’s play, “Soon,” at the Salzburg Festival in Austria and Orange Co., CA. As a choreographer, his work has been presented at P.S. 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park Summerstage (where he collaborated with John Giorno), Symphony Space, Celebrate Brooklyn, Context Theater, La MaMa E.T.C., the Downtown Art Co., and Toro Nada Theater. He has also choreographed for the theatre for many years with such groups as: GAle GAtes et al, Mabou Mines, En Garde Arts, The Builders Association, Soho Rep, and the Archa Theater in Prague, Czech Republic. He was the choreographer for the Brazilian tour of the musical, “Grease,” as well as the Rossini Opera Il Signor Bruschino for the Juilliard graduate voice program. He has also assisted the choreographers on the Broadway musicals “Passion” and “Triumph of Love.” He was choreographer and featured actor in Hal Hartley’s short, The New Math(s), for BBC TV, and appears in his new feature, No Such Thing. He choreographed sections of Laurie Anderson’s “Songs and Stories from Moby Dick,” and collaborated with her on “So That You Could See Us Coming” at Symphony Space, February, 2001. He was recently commissioned by the Whitney Museum. He has choreographed two operas and several Off Broadway plays. His teaching background includes workshops at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival (where he’s been the movement teacher-in-residence for the past two years), the New School for Dance Development in Amsterdam, the Glenwood Springs Dance Festival, Summerdance Santa Barbara, Harvard Summerdance, and Le Festival du Dance in Montpellier, France. He has also led workshops at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU, Bucknell University, the University of Montana at Missoula, the University of Texas at Austin, Bard College, and Duke University. Adjunct professor at NYU’s ETW and Barnard College. Movement background includes ballet (7 yrs), modern (12 yrs), martial arts, traditional West African dance (8 yrs), tap, jazz, contact improvisation, and workshops with members of the Trisha Brown Co. In addition, he has spent over 15 years exploring various club styles from old school hip-hop to free-style house. He is the recipient of two New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” awards; as a performer in 1991, and for his choreography in 1998. He was awarded a 1993 Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship in the theatre, a Joyce Theater Foundation Residency in 1999, and a Colbert Foundation Award for Excellence in Choreography, 2001. He has also received several grants from New York Foundation for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. SLC, 2007-

Courses: Principles of Organizing Movement for Contemporary Theatre

Carol Ann Pelletier

B.A., 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-

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

Shanti Pillai

B.A., Stanford University. M.A., University of California-Berkeley. Ph.D., New York University. Special interests include the performance practices of Asia and Latin America, globalization and culture, Western perceptions of India and practice of Indian “spirituality,” and performance theory; visiting professor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in Ecuador, 1997-1999; director of the South India Term Abroad (SITA) Program, 2003; recipient of American Institute of Indian Studies fellowship for dissertation research; Bhara-tanatyam performer and teacher; resident director of SLC in Cuba, 2006. SLC, 2003-

Courses: Global Theatre

Fanchon Miller Scheier

B.A., Adelphi University. M.F.A., 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-

Courses: Improvisation Laboratory; Improvisation Techniques

Edwin Sherin

Brown University. Began his professional career as an actor in five Broadway plays, a dozen roles for the American and New York Shakespeare Festivals, in regional theatres across the country, and in many filmed and live television dramas. He began 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 directed many Off Broadway productions, as well as the award-winning London production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and the N.Y. City Opera’s Cosi Fan Tutti. Among his numerous regional theatre credits is his mostrecent, an adaptation of Ibsen’s “Ghosts” at The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.. He was 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 directed feature films, television movies and hour-long episodic dramas including Law and Order, where for nearly a decade he was Executive Producer. He currently serves as Vice-President, Directors Guild of America and is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. He is a fellow of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He has received an Emmy Award, a Tony nomination, New England Theatre Award, N.Y. Drama Critics Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Circle Award, L.A. Drama Circle Award, London Evening Standard Citation, Theatre World Award, The Producers Guild of America Award, The Robert Aldridge 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-

Courses: An Intuitive and Impulsive Exploration of Text: A Useful Tool for Actors and Directors

Stuart Spencer

B.A., 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-

Courses: Spencer Workshop; Playwriting Techniques; Playwrights at Play

Sterling Swann

B.A., 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' Patrick Craen Award; designated practitioner, Stough Institute of Breathing Coordination; certified teacher, Alexander Technique. SLC, 1991-

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

John A. Yannelli

B.Ph., Music, Thomas Jefferson College, University of Michigan. M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Composer; innovator in the fields of electronic music and music for theatre and dance; composer of traditional and experimental works for all media; specialist in improvisational techniques; director of the Sarah Lawrence Improvisational Ensemble; toured nationally with the United Stage theatre company and conceived of and introduced the use of electronic music for the productions; freelance record producer and engineer; music published by Soundspell Productions. SLC, 1984-

Courses: Sound and Music for the Theatre I and II