Adjunct Faculty Biographies

	ANDREA HARING Teacher of Voice A director, actress and teacher, Andrea has worked professionally in the theatre for over twenty years. She is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company (in Lenox, Mass.) and has acted, directed, vocal coached the equity productions, and taught in the company workshops. She is the vocal coach for the Labyrinth Theater and a member of the Holderness Group. As a voice teacher trained by Kristin Linklater, Andrea is also currently on the faculty at Yale School of Drama, Columbia University School of the Arts, and Circle in the Square Theater School. She has also been on faculty at The New Actor’s Workshop, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Dartmouth College. Andrea’s clients have included Bernadette Peters, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Angela Bassett, Garry Marshall, Calista Flockhart, Kristen Johnston, and Christian Mehta. Some Broadway and Off-Broadway vocal coaching credits include: Our Lady of 121st Street (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Labyrinth Theater) Dirty Story (written and directed by John Patrick Shanley), Jesus Hopped the A Train (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman), Where’s My Money? (John Patrick Shanley) The Shadow Box (Mercedes Ruehl, Marlo Thomas, Jamie Sheridan, Rafael Sbarge), The Rose Tattoo (Mercedes Ruehl), Wrong Turn At Lungfish (Jamie Gertz, Tony Danza, George C. Scott), Uncle Vanya (James Fox), Search and Destroy (Griffin Dunne, Paul Guilfoyle), Endangered Species (directed by Martha Clarke, with Paul Guilfoyle, Judy Kuhn). Other credits: As You Like It (at The Long Wharf Theater, directed by John Tillinger), The Hope Zone (Olympia Dukakis) and The Tempest (Andre Gregory, Keanu Reeves, Rocco Sisto). Directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Museum, The Crucible, Well, Here We Are! (An Evening of Dorothy Parker) and Westward Journeys – Stories of the Pioneers. As an actress, Andrea’s roles have included: Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, Mary in Vanities, Guenivere in Camelot, Henriette in The Learned Ladies, Delia in The Old Maid, Sabina, in The Skin of Our Teeth, Margaret in The Lady’s Not For Burning, The Queen in Cymbeline and Moretta in The Rover. Andrea is the Coordinator of Teacher Training for the Linklater Community and has been responsible for the training of over seventy voice teachers in the Linklater Technique. She graduated with a BA from Smith College.

	ELENA MCGHEE Teacher of Voice Ms. McGhee is an Actor, Vocal Coach and a Designated Linklater Instructor. Recent teaching appointments include Stella Adler Academy (Hollywood), The Laura Henry Studio in LA, NYU Cap 21, American Conservatory Theatre, Cal/Arts, Harlem School of the Arts, and she is also currently on the faculty at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Some of her acting credits in NYC include: [ Off-Broadway ] Classic Stage Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Ontological Hysteric Theatre; Los Angeles: LA Women's Shakespeare Company and The Odyssey Theatre; Boston: The New Rep, the Nora Theatre, and the Worcester Foothills.

	GRACE ZANDARSKI Teacher of Voice Grace Zandarski is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and trained with Catherine Fitzmaurice, Nancy Houfek, and Deborah Sussel.She has taught Voice, Speech, Dialects, and Text at the A.R.T., Harvard's Advanced Actor Training Program, The Moscow Art Theatre School, N.Y.U.'s CAP 21 program, and serves on the faculties at The Actors Center and Queens College. Grace received her M.F.A. from A.C.T. under Bill Ball and Larry Hecht and has worked as a professional actor for the past 15 years including three seasons at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, and the McCarter Theatre Company. Her credits also include voiceovers, commercials, film, and television. Ms. Zandarski received a B.A. in English from Princeton University. In addition to acting and teaching, she also works as a consultant and speech coach for business professionals.

	Adjunct Faculty

	JOHN M. BAKER Teacher of Invitation to Theatre John M. Baker is the Literary Associate at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT) and the Literary Manager at Naked Angels (NYC). Previously, he served as the Literary Associate at The Riverside Theatre Company (Iowa City, IA) and spent time in the Guthrie Theater and Williamstown Theatre Festival's literary departments. In addition to his work on classic plays, John has dramaturged new work at The Hatchery Festival (DC), Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, Juggernaut Theatre (NYC), The Juilliard School, Studio 42 (NYC), The O'Neill's National Playwrights’ Conference, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference (McCall, ID) and Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has taught at Boston Latin School, Marymount Manhattan College and the University of Iowa. John holds a BA in English from Boston University, an MFA in Dramaturgy from the University of Iowa and is a graduate of Boston Latin School.

	TINA BENKO *Teacher of Acting* Ms. Benko worked on the Broadway productions of Not About Nightingales, The Real Thing, Hedda Gabler, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and Design for Living. Off-Broadway credits include the world premiere of AR Gurney’s Post Mortem at The Flea Theatre, Julia Jordan’s Dark Yellow at Studio Dante, The False Servant at Classic Stage Company, Disconnect with Working Theatre, Chuck Mee’s Wintertime at Second Stage, Picasso at The Lapin Agile, Texarkana Waltz, Camille, and the New York run of Lifegame, a completely improvised show every night with London’s Improbable Theatre Company. She has worked at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, The O’Neill Playwrights’ Center, New York Stage and Film, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The McCarter Theatre, The Lark, The New York Fringe Festival, and as part of the Ars Nova Out Loud Series which supports new plays and up-and-coming playwrights. Ms. Benko co-wrote and starred in the play Crush the Infamous Thing which was produced at The Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. She has worked in the Improv world with the legendary Keith Johnstone, Gotham City Improv, and Theatresports Competitive Improv. Film credits include Puccini for Beginners, The Bookies Lament, The Killing Floor, Waterland, The Nanny Diaries, Company K, The Box, Final, Perfect You, and Lucky Days. Television credits include New Amsterdam, Law and Order (CI, SVU), Third Watch, New York Undercover, The Dave Chappelle’s Show, and two seasons on Showtime’s Brotherhood. Ms. Benko trained at Carnegie Mellon University.

	JULIE BLEHA Teacher of Theatre History & Invitation to Theatre Julie Bleha has worked as a director, dramaturg, literary manager, producer and educator in New York City and London. She holds an M.A. in Text and Performance Studies from King's College, London/The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is finishing her dissertation in Theatre & English at Columbia University. Ms. Bleha has worked with London's Gate and Shared Experience Theatres and with New York's Cocteau Repertory, Workhouse Theatre, New Georges, Adobe Theatre Company, Elevator Repair Service and the Poetry Project among others. She has taught theatre and literature at Fordham, Columbia, and the New School Universities.

	JULIE BOYD Teacher of Acting Julie Boyd is a freelance actress, director, and teacher. Her directing credits include the world premiere of Bill Mastrosimone’s Blinding Light at Passage Theatre in New Jersey, The Hunger Education by Jessica Goldberg at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, How I Became an Interesting Person by Will Dunn at the International Theater Festival in Pula, Croatia, A Backward Glance by Julie McKee at Ensemble Studio Theater’s 1997 Marathon, Loose Ends by Michael Weller for the Guthrie Experience at the Guthrie Theater, and Voice of the Prairie by John Olive for Creede Repertory Theater in Colorado. She has guest directed in various acting training programs: Bus Stop for NYU graduate training program, Mad Forest and Grapes of Wrath, both at Yale Drama School, Thyestes for ACT’s training school, Angels in America Part I for Fordham, and SubUrbia at University of Utah. Acting credits include: Law and Order, The Beat, Incident at Crestridge, All My Children, Loving, Another World; [ Broadway ] The Man who Came to Dinner for RoundAbout and PBS directed by Jerry Zaks and Noises Off directed by Michael Blakemore; [ Off-Broadway ] Gemini at Second Stage directed by Mark Brokaw, Hyde and Hollywood at Playwrights Horizons directed by Gerry Guitterez and Only You at Circle Repertory directed by Ron Lagomarsino. Regional favorites include: She Stoops to Conquer at the Long Wharf directed by Doug Hughes, Light UpThe Sky at the Goodman directed by David Petrarca, The Misanthrope, The Piggy Bank, andThe Imaginary Invalid directed by Garland Wright at the Guthrie, Gaslight at ACT directed by Albert Takasouskus, Lloyd’s Prayer at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville directed by Ken Washington, and Keely and Du atActor’s Theatre and Hartford Stage directed by Jon Jory. Julie has taught acting at the University of Utah and the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill in New London, CT. She holds a BFA from the University of Utah and an MFA from Yale Drama School. Julie is a frequent participant in the O’Neill and Sundance playwright conferences and works with the 52nd Street Project.

	KATE BURTON Teacher of The Actor and the Text [ Broadway ] Elephant Man (Tony Award Nomination), Hedda Gabler (Tony Award Nomination), The Beauty Queen of Leenane, An American Daughter, Company, Jake’s Women, Some Americans Abroad (Drama Desk Nomination), Wild Honey, Doonesbury, Alice in Wonderland, Present Laughter (Theatre World Award); [ Off-Broadway ] Give Me Your Answer, Do!, Lake Hollywood, London Suite, Measure for Measure; [ London/West End ] The Three Sisters; [ Williamstown Theatre Festival ] The Winter’s Tale, Hedda Gabler, The Matchmaker, The Rivals, Broken Sleep; [ Film ] Stay, The Paper Mache Chase, Swimfan, Unfaithful, Celebrity, Ice Storm, First Wives Club, August; [ Television ] Empire Falls, The Practice, Law & Order, Notes for My Daughter (Emmy Award), Evergreen, Ellis Island; Training: MFA Acting Program, Yale School of Drama.

	RACHEL DICKSTEIN Teacher of Directing Rachel Dickstein is the founding Artistic Director of Ripe Time, a company devoted to developing and presenting new performance works that explore the meeting ground between dance and theatre through an amalgam of rich language, visual inventionand physical rigor. For Ripe Time, Rachel devised, choreographed and directed the world premieres of the critically acclaimed productions Betrothed (based on texts by Jhumpa Lahiri, Chekhov and Ansky) and Innocents (based on Wharton's The House of Mirth and adapted with Emily Morse) at the Ohio Theatre. Other Ripe Time projects include The Secret of Steep Ravines at P.S. 122, The Holy Mother of Hadley New York by Barbara Wiechmann and co-produced with New Georges at the Ohio Theatre, and The Palace at 4 A.M. (based on works by Edgar Allan Poe and Sophie Calle) at HERE Arts Center. Other recent directing projects include Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd's In What Language? at the Asia Society, REDCAT and the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; and Ellen McLaughlin's version of The Trojan Women at Fordham. Rachel has created and directed other new works for New York Theatre Workshop, New Georges, SUNY-Purchase, New York Shakespeare Festival/Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab, Drama League Director's Project and Seattle's Annex Theatre. She has served as a resident director at New Dramatists and Assistant Director to Martha Clarke nationally and internationally. She has received commissions and fellowships from NYSCA, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, P.S. 122 (with funds from the Jerome Foundation), NEA/TCG, the Drama League, Ko Festival of Performance and Yale University where she received her B.A. Rachel is currently developing a Virginia Woolf adaptation project with playwright Ellen McLaughlin and Fire Throws, a new multi-media work inspired by Sophocles' Antigone that will premiere in 2009 at 3-Legged Dog in Lower Manhattan. She has taught at Lincoln Center Institute, and serves as an education consultant at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

	KATE FORBES Teacher of Acting Shakespeare & Creating a Character Kate Forbes has taught Acting Shakespeare for the Public Theater’s Summer Shakespeare Lab, a thirteen-week intensive, for four years. Kate has also led master classes at the Yale School of Drama, the Atlantic Theater School, the Shakespeare Society and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She has taught scene study in past years for Playwrights’ Horizons Theater School. She received her MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and has continued her training in Shakespeare with Cecily Berry (Royal Shakespeare Company), Rob Clare, and John Barton. As an actress, Kate has appeared on Broadway, winning an award for her debut as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal. Other Broadway credits: Inherit the Wind w/ George C. Scott and Charles Durning, Macbeth, and Sight Unseen. Her most recent Shakespeare credit was Portia in The Merchant of Venice with F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, in sold-out runs in New York and in England at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other favorite roles: Desdemona in Othello at The Public; Janis Joplin in Love, Janis at the Village Theater; A Woman of No Importance at Yale Rep; The Price at Longwharf Theater; Night of the Iguana at the Guthrie and Candida at the McCarter, among many others.

	JANET FOSTER Teacher of Senior Audition Casting Director Janet Foster casts for Theatre, Film, and Television. Credits include: [Broadway] The Light in the Piazza (Artios nomination), Lennon, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Taking Sides (Co-Cast). [Off-Broadway] Dust, Lucy, Close Ties, Brundibar, True Love, Endpapers, The Dying Gaul, The Maiden’s Prayer, Dream True, Trojan Women, A Love Story. Playwrights Horizons: Floyd Collins, The Monogamist, A Cheever Evening, Later Life and many more. [Regional] The Intiman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theater, A Contemporary Theater, The California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, The Dallas Theater Center, The Pittsburgh Public Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, The Goodman Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, The Prince Music Theater, The Old Globe, Baltimore Center Stage and ART. [Film/TV] Cosby (CBS), Tracy Takes on New York (HBO), The Deal by Lewis Black, and Advice From A Caterpillar (winner of Aspen Comedy Festival). Ms. Foster holds an MFA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she taught acting. She has conducted classes in auditioning and has been a guest speaker at nationally distinguished training programs around the country.

	MICHAEL JOHN GARCÉS Teacher of Playwriting Michael John Garcés is a playwright, actor, and director. Directing credits include When the Sea Drowns in Sand by Eduardo Machado (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival); Force Continuum by Kia Corthron (Atlantic Theatre Co.); As Five Years Pass by Federico Garcia Lorca, and Forever In My Heart by Oscar Colón (INTAR); The Passion of Frida Kahlo by Dolores Sendler (The Directors Company/ArcLight); A Bicycle Country by Nilo Cruz, and Praying with the Enemy by Luis Santeiro at The Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, Florida; Danza para la vida in collaboration with Teatro Lo’il Maxil for Sna Jtz’ibajom (“The House of the Writer”) in Chiapas, Mexico; Santos & Santos by Octavio Solis (Imua! Theatre Company); King Without a Castle (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre) and Hands Of Stone (La MaMa) by Cándido Tirado; Book of Splendors, Part 1 by Richard Foreman (NADA-Foremanfest); and his plays Other Intrusions (INTAR NewWorks Lab) and Between Visits (HERE-American Living Room) and most recently, a staged workshop of Smashing by Brooke Berman at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. Plays Mr. Garcés has written include Suits, directed by Sturgis Warner (Twilight Theatre Company), Now and Then (La MaMa), Harm's Way (INTAR NewWorks Lab), Land and Audiovideo (Juggerknot Theatre Company--Miami, FL), Jitters, directed by Tom O'Horgan (La MaMa), Up for Air, Punto Baldí, and Deeper (HERE-American Living Room), Just the Thought of Someone, and Dirt (LAByrinth Theatre Company), and In Our Empty Rooms (WBAI-Arts in the Evening Broadcast). His solo performance pieces include Agua Ardiente, which, as part of Dreaming in Cuban and Other Works, received an Off-Broadway run at The American Place Theatre under the direction of Wynn Handman. He has had and directed readings and workshops at several theatres, including Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theatre/NYSF, The Cherry Lane, LAByrinth, New Dramatists, The Working Theatre, Immigrants, Theatre Project, The Miami Light Project, Dixon Place, Urban Stages, The Blue Heron Arts Center and Theatre at St. Clement’s "Women on the Move" series. Michael is the recipient of a TCG New Generations Program Grant through which he will work as Producing Artistic Director at INTAR. Other grants include the 1999-2001 NEA/TCG Career Development Program Grant, a playwriting fellowship from the Mark Taper Forum (Latino Theatre Initiative), a Princess Grace Fellowship, a NYFA Artists’ Fellowship for Playwriting, a Van Lier Fellowship from Repertorio Español, and a Drama League Director's Project Special Interest Residency. Currently, he is a Resident Director at New Dramatists.

	PETER GIL-SHERIDAN Teacher of Theatre History & Invitation to Theatre Peter Gil-Sheridan graduated from Fordham in 1998. A playwright and director, his play Topsy Turvy Mouse was selected for development as part of the Cherry Lane Theatre’s Mentor Project and was the winner of the Timothy Smith Prize from the National New Play Network. Peter was recently the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship at the Playwright's Center and has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre to write a new play to premiere in April 2009. This year he had residencies at the Ucross Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. His work has been seen/developed at New York Theater Workshop, The Lark Theatre, The Sundance Institute, The Kennedy Center, the New York International Fringe Festival, The University of Colorado at Boulder, A Theatre Group of Silverton, Colorado, The Toy Box Theatre, the figments, Working for Tips Productions, Riverside Theatre of Iowa City, and Prospect Theatre Company. Peter is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Playwright’s Workshop. In addition to teaching at Fordham, he often guest directs and mentors young directors.

	MARK GREENFIELD Teacher of Invitation to Theatre Mark Greenfield is the founding Artistic Director of The Faux-Real Theatre Company (FRTC) with whom he has created such shows as Funbox, William Shakespeare’s Haunted House, Igloo Tales and Htebcam (Macbeth in Reverse). Other work with FRTC includes co-directing Carrie DuBois’ adaptation of The Tinderbox with Constance Tarbox. Most recently, Mark’s original play IE – In Other Words was produced at the Flea Theater. In addition to his work with FRTC, Mark has directed and acted for Gorilla Rep. Other acting credits include playing Arlecchino for four years with the Italian commedia dell’ arte troupe, I Giullari Di Piazza, with whom he performed at Lincoln Center, and St. John the Divine. He was also an artist in residence at the Caramoor Classical Music Center. Mark played the role of Yankl in Caraid O’Brien’s translation of God of Vengeance (directedby Aaron Beale) and appeared in O’Brien and Beale’s production of Motke Thief. Mark has toured with IMAGO, The Shoestring Players, and Ralph Lee and the Mettawee River Theatre Company, and The Theater for a New City. He trained in Poland with Theatre Gardzienice. He can be seen in an upcoming film from renowned Iranian film director, Amir Naderi.

	ELIZABETH HESS Teacher of Acting Elizabeth Hess starred Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally in her solo trilogy Living Openly & Notoriously. Part 1, Birth Rite, was performed in New York (Harold Clurman), Hartford (RealArtWays), Edinburgh (Festival Fringe), Barcelona (Project Vaca), Kiel (Thespis Festival), Berlin (The Friends) and Toronto (Hysteria Festival). Part 2, Descent, was performed in Edinburgh (Festival Fringe) and Yerevan (Armmono). Part 3, At/One, was performed in New York (McGinn/Cazale). Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: M Butterfly (Eugene O’Neill);Critical Darling (The New Group); Notes (McGinn/Cazale); Our Place in Time (Women's Project and Prods.); Liverpool Fantasy (Irish Arts Center); Beggars in the House of Plenty (Manhattan Theatre Club); Nothing But Bukowski (Samuel Beckett); A Modest Proposal (UBU Rep); Jack (New York Theatre Workshop); and The Frances Farmer Story (Chareeva Playhouse). Regional credits include: Ah, Wilderness ( Center Stage); Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage); Romeo & Juliet (ART); The Seagull (Cleveland Playhouse); Wintertime; Perfect Pie (Wilma Theater); Dinner with Friends (Capitol Rep); Molly Sweeney (TheaterWorks); Other People’s Money (Royal George); Sweet Bird of Youth (Royal Alexandra); Splitting Infinity; Italian-American Reconciliation (GeVa); A Wedding; The Mandrake (Seattle Rep); A Streetcar Named Desire (StageWest); The Dark Sonnets (McCarter); Peter Pan (Denver Center) and Dare Not Speak Its’ Name (Seven Angels). TV credits include: Law & Order; Guiding Light; All My Children; Another World; and five seasons starring on Clarissa Explains it All. Film credits include: Soldier’s Heart; A Bedtime Story; Italian Lessons and Buddy & Grace. Ms. Hess has written several full-length plays including: CT; Living Openly & Notoriously: A Solo Trilogy (Birth Rite; Descent; At/One); Divine Rapture; The Return and Sacred Fire. Ms. Hess is a graduate of The London Academy of Dramatic Art (LAMDA). In addition to teaching at Fordham, she teaches Undergraduate Acting at NYU.

	SAM HUNTER Teacher of Invitation to Theatre Originally from Moscow, Idaho, Samuel D. Hunter received his BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, his MFA in Playwriting from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and is currently a playwright-in-residence at The Juilliard School of Drama. His plays include: I am Montana (2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2007 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), Norman Rockwell Killed My Father (2005 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference), Abraham (A Shot in the Head) (Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater), Abraham (I am an Island) (Studio 42's Scattered Festival at Collective: Unconscious), Pigheart (2006 Iowa Playwrights Workshop New Play Festival), Radioplay and American Triptych (HomoGenius Festival at Manhattan Theater Source). He has taught playwriting courses at the University of Iowa and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories at Ayyam al-Musrah in Hebron and Ashtar Theater in Ramallah. At Ashtar, he co-wrote The Era of Whales, which was produced in the West Bank and at the International Istanbul Theater Festival.

	MORGAN JENNESS Teacher of Theatre History Morgan Jenness spent over a decade at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, with both Joseph Papp and George C. Wolfe, in various capacities ranging from literary manager to Director of Play Development to Associate Producer. She was also Associate Artistic Director at the New York Theater Workshop, and an Associate Director at the Los Angeles Theater Center in charge of new projects. She has worked as a dramaturg, workshop director, and/or artistic consultant at theaters and new play programs across the country, including the Young Playwrights Festival, the Mark Taper Forum, MidWest Playlabs, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Double Image/New York Stage and Film, CSC, Hartford Stage, and Center Stage. She has participated as a visiting artist in playwriting programs at the University of Iowa, Brown University, Breadloaf, Columbia, and NYU. She has served on peer panels for various funding institutions, including NYSCA and the NEA, with whom she has served as a site evaluator for almost a decade. Ms. Jenness is currently Creative Director at Helen Merrill Ltd., an agency representing writers, directors, composers and designers.

	TOM DALE KEEVER Teacher of Theatre History & Invitation to Theatre Tom Dale Keever trained as an actor at HB Studio where he studied with Katerina Sergava, Michael Beckett, Loyd Williamson, and others. He later studied Shakespearean acting with Ada Brown Mather. He has acted in numerous productions in New York and on national tour; theatres include Jean Cocteau Repertory, The Virginia Shakespeare Festival, The Florida Shakespeare Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New York Shakespeare Festival, and The National Shakespeare Company (tour). He has directed, designed, stage-managed and supervised numerous other productions all over the world. He managed international tours for Philip Glass, Elizabeth Streb and La Gran Scena Opera Company. In addition to teaching at Fordham, he has taught Humanities at Manhattan School of Music; Shakespeare and British Drama at Marymount Manhattan College; and Logic and Rhetoric, College Composition, and British Literature at Columbia University. He is completing a PhD at Columbia on seventeenth-century London theatre. His resume as an actor can be viewed online. His other interests include baseball, eastern religion, country blues guitar and harmonica.

	MICHAEL KIMMEL *Teacher of Acting and Performance and Art* Most recently, Michael oversaw the premiere of Shaun Gunning's Writer's Block as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival as well as Ian Mcwethy’s Actor’s are F@#ing Stupid* at The Wild Project. As Creative Director for Push Productions, Michael has overseen numerous productions, including last year’s NYC premieres of both Len Jenkin’s Kraken at walkerspace and Timothy Mansfield’s January 1986 as part of The New York Fringe Festival. Other shows for Push include Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade at the Access Theater, Jason Pizzarello’s Saving the Greeks: One Tragedy at a Time, Coln Mckenna’s bunkerbaby, and the 60th anniversary production of Ferdinand Bruckner’s The Criminals. His work has been seen at venues all over the city, including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Soho Rep., The Flea, The Arclight, Rattlestick, and many others. Michael is a graduate of the Fordham Theatre Program.

ABOVE: The Play Company’s production of The Attic, by Yoji Sakate, directed by Ari Edelson at 59E59 Theaters. Pictured from left to right: Caesar Samayoa, Ed Vassallo, Brandon Miller, Michi Barall, Emily Donahoe, David Wilson Barnes. Photo by Carol Rosseg.	KATE LOEWALD Teacher of Invitation to Theatre Kate Loewald co-founded The Play Company with Mike Ockrent and Jack Temchin in 1998. Play Co has produced thirteen world, American and New York premieres of plays from Japan, Romania, India, Germany, Russia, France, the British Isles and the United States. In addition, the New Work/New World Series has included plays and literature from Iran, the Ivory Coast, China and Sweden, among other countries. From 1990-99 Kate was head of the literary department at the Manhattan Theatre Club, overseeing programming and creative development. She collaborated with many playwrights and directors on new plays, including Terrence McNally, Jon Robin Baitz, Richard Greenberg, Donald Margulies, Elizabeth Swados, Cheryl West, Kia Corthron, Joe Mantello, Mark Brokaw and Nicholas Martin, among many others. She created the MTC Playwriting Fellowships for emerging writers. She was also Director of MTC’s acclaimed Writers in Performance series in 1998 and '99, producing an innovative program of literary events featuring such writers and performers as Walter Mosley, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Gish Jen, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, Buck Henry, Anita Desai, Robert Pinsky, Sydney Schanberg, and Arnold Wesker. Prior to MTC she was producing associate on George C. Wolfe’s Jelly’s Last Jam, Martha Clarke’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and other plays on and off Broadway. In addition to teaching at Fordham, she has also taught in the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University. She was a dramaturg at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference from 2000-2003. She serves on the board of Backbone Media, a San Francisco-based documentary film company. She is a graduate of Yale College. In addition to her work with The Play Company, Ms. Loewald was the Guest Artistic Director for the Signature Theatre Company in the 2004/2005 season.

	ALEXIS MCGUINNESS Teacher of Acting and Director of the Fordham Summer Actors Workshop Recent credits include Waxing West (La MaMa, Bucharest and Sibiu), The Lacy Project (Ohio Theatre), Half ofPlenty (SPF, NYC), Twelfth Night (Milwaukee Shakespeare), Abandon (La MaMa), Safe in Hell (Yale Rep). She is an adjunct faculty member at the National Theatre Workshop for the Handicapped. She has studied at NTI/Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and the Guthrie Theater, and has a BA in Theater from Dartmouth College and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

	COLIN MCKENNA Teacher of Invitation to Theatre A playwright, screenwriter, and director, Colin’s plays have been presented by The Cherry Lane, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, La MaMa, Soho Rep, Montana Rep, Boomerang Theatre, Tisch (NYU), and, his resident company, Push Productions. He has directed at The Wild Project, Tisch School of the Arts NYU, Fordham, The Strasberg Institute, La MaMa, Soho Rep, The Tribeca Playhouse, NY Performance Works, and The Dramatists’ Guild. Colin is a graduate of the Fordham Theatre Program and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts NYU, where he was awarded the Goldberg Playwriting Fellowship and a full Scholarship. Since he completed his MFA in 2006, his play, The Secret Agenda of Trees, debuted Off-Broadway at the historic CherryLane Theatre as part of their Mentor project, and another play, anybody, premiered at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Colin hasreceived numerous playwriting awards: The National Theatre Conference’s Stavis Award for Outstanding Emerging Playwright, The Goldberg Fellowship & Scholarship, The Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellow, finalist for the Yale Drama Series, and The John Golden Playwriting Prize. Next season, his plays The Secret Agenda of Trees (produced by Push Prod. and directed by Michael Kimmel)and parking lot lonely heart are slated for New York productions as well. He wrote the short film, Anybody, which was seen this year atthe Tribeca Screening Room, Big Muddy Film Festival 2008,Methodfest 2008, and WorldFest Houston 2008. He is currently in LA pursuing film projects with Anonymous Content.

	FRAMJI MINWALLA Teacher of Text Analysis Framji Minwalla, a vagrant academic, has taught at Yale University, Vassar College, Dartmouth College, the George Washington University, New York University, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. His research interests include Performance History; Queer, Visual, and Cultural Studies; Theater and Politics; Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Bisexual Studies; and all forms of theory (queer, linguistic, political, dramatic, visual, literary or otherwise). Recent publications include "Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Gay Theater: A History," in George Haggerty, ed., Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 2000), "Buying and Selling in A Man's a Man," in Arena Stage's Performance Journal Vol. 5.4, Winter 2004, and "Homebody/Kabul: Staging History in a Post-Colonial World," in Theater Vol. 32.3, Winter 2003. He co-edited (with Alisa Solomon) an anthology on lesbian and gay drama and performance, The Queerest Art: Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theater (New York: New York University Press, 2002). His essays and reviews have appeared in Theater Three, Theater, American Theater, Manhattan File, and numerous anthologies. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Histories, Performances, Politics: Queer Essays on Making and Teaching Theater. Dr. Minwalla was awarded a B.A. (1987) by the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, and an M.F.A. (1991) and a D.F.A. (1999) both by the Yale School of Drama.

	KATE MULGREW Teacher of The Actor and the Text [New York] The American Dream and The Sandbox (Cherry Lane); Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature Theatre, OBIE Award); Our Leading Lady (MTC); Tea At Five (Promenade Theatre; Outer Critics Circle & Lucille Lortel Nominations); Black Comedy (Roundabout Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Delacorte Theatre). [London] The Exonerated. [Regional] The Royal Family (Ahmanson Theatre); Hedda Gabler, Measure For Measure, Aristocrats (Mark Taper Forum); What The Butler Saw (La Jolla Playhouse); The Film Society (LATC); Another Part of the Forest, Major Barbara, The Misanthrope (Seattle Rep). [Film] Star Trek Nemesis, Throw Momma From The Train, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Lovespell, A Stranger Is Watching. [Television] Ryan’s Hope; Mrs. Columbo (Golden Globe nomination); Cheers; The Black Donnelly’s, seven seasons as Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager (Golden Satellite Award, Saturn Award).

	ANNIE PARISSE Teacher of Acting for the Camera Annie Parisse joined the esteemed cast of NBC’s Emmy Award-winning Law & Order in January 2005 as new Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia. Her other television credits include Friends, Third Watch, Big Apple and Julia Lindsey Snyder on As The World Turns (Daytime Emmy nomination). Her film credits include Tickling Leo, First Person Singular, Definitely, Maybe, Woman in Burka, Blackbird, National Treasure, Monster-in-Law, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and Prime. Theatre credits include [Broadway] Prelude to a Kiss at the Roundabout Theatre; [Off-Broadway] The Internationalist at the Vineyard Theatre; The Credeaux Canvas at Playwrights Horizons. [Regional] Coastal Disturbances at Berkshire Theatre Festival. Annie is graduate of the Fordham Theatre Program.

	LAILA ROBINS Teacher of The Actor and the Text Laila Robins' extensive theatre credits include starring in the Broadway productions of The Herbal Bed and The Real Thing, directed by Mike Nichols. She also starred opposite Richard Thomas as "Miss Alice" in the Second Stage Theatre's acclaimed revival of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice. Other appearances Off-Broadway include Mrs. Klein opposite Uta Hagen and Amy Wright (for the national tour of Mrs. Klein she received a Joseph Jefferson Award and Helen Hayes Nomination), The Merchant of Venice at The Public Theatre (Calloway Award), The Extra Man and Blood Poetry at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Film Society for Second Stage Theatre. Regionally she has been seen in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Steppenwolf Theatre (1997 Jefferson Award), Antony and Cleopatra, Hedda Gabler and Summer and Smoke, all at the Guthrie Theatre; Fool for Love at the McCarter Theatre, Skylight at The Mark Taper Forum (Drama Logue Award), The Women at Hartford Stage and Lady From the Sea at Baltimore Center Stage. She has spent five seasons with the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and four seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her film credits include Planes, Trains and Automobiles, An Innocent Man, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, True Crime, Female Perversions, Searching for Paradise and Live Nude Girls. Television audiences will remember her from her work in The Sopranos, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order, Third Watch and the series lead in Gabriel's Fire opposite James Earl Jones. Ms. Robins trained at the Yale School of Drama.

	MARIAN SELDES Teacher of Actor and the Text and Creating a Character [ Broadway ] 45 Seconds From Broadway, Medea, Ondine, A Gift of Time, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance (Tony Award), Father’s Day (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Equus, Deathtrap, Ivanov, Ring Round the Moon, Tower Beyond Tragedy, That Lady, Crime and Punishment, The Chalk Garden, The Merchant; [ Off-Broadway ] The Ginger Man (OBIE Award), Isadora Duncan (OBIE Award), Painting Churches (Outer Critics Circle Award), Richard II, Richard III, Mercy Street, Dear Liar, A Bright Room Called Day, Three Tall Women, The Torch-Bearers, The Butterfly Collection, The Play About the Baby, Helen, Play Yourself. Ms. Seldes was on the faculty at Juilliard from 1967-1991 and was inducted in to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1996.

ABOVE: Steven Skybell as Dr. Dillamond in the Broadway musical Wicked. Photo: Joan Marcus	STEVEN SKYBELL Teacher of Acting Shakespeare Steven Skybell is currently appearing on Broadway as Dr. Dillamond, in the musical Wicked. Other Broadway credits include: Harold Nichols in The Full Monty; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Café Crown; and Ah, Wilderness. Numerous Off-Broadway appearances include Antigone in New York (Vineyard Theatre) for which he received an Obie award, The Professor in Tina Howe's translation of Ionesco's The Lesson (Atlantic Theatre), the US premiere of Jean-Claude Carriere's The Controversy (Public Theatre) and the world premiere of Chris Shin's What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons). His regional credits include King Arthur in Camelot (Helen Hayes nomination), the title roles in Uncle Vanya (McCarter/La Jolla) and Hamlet (California Shakespeare Festival). Other Shakespearean roles include Vanessa Redgrave's Antony and Cleopatra, Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida, Much Ado About Nothing, Two Gentlemen of Verona (all at Public Theatre), title role in Richard II, Buckingham in Richard III, As You Like It and Julie Taymor's Titus Andronicus (all for Theatre for a New Audience.) Mr. Skybell was one of two Americans chosen for the inaugural season of Shakespeare's Globe/London, where he appeared in Henry V, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, which included a command performance for Elizabeth 2 (as seen on PBS' Great Performances). His film and TV credits include: Law and Order, Sex And the City, All My Children, Simply Irresistible, Cradle Will Rock, and Tom and Francie. Mr. Skybell holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama, a BA from Yale College, and a certificate from the British-American Drama Academy, Bailliol College, Oxford. In addition to teaching at Fordham, he has taught acting at Harvard College and the Shakespeare Lab at the Public Theater.

	STEPHEN SOSNOWSKI Teacher of Theatre Management Steve is a Senior Account Executive at Spotco, one of today’s leading entertainment advertising agencies. At Spotco, his Broadway credits have includedThe New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, The Color Purple, Chicago, August Wilson’s Radio Golf, Frost/Nixon, The Vertical Hour, Dirty Dancing and Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5. He is now supervising account services for The New York Botanical Garden. Formerly the Director of Events for The Antoinette Perry “TONY” Awards, where he worked for three consecutive telecasts, Steve currently serves as a producing advisor for Matthew Maguire and Susan Mosakowski’s Creation Production Company. As a producer, he spearheaded the 20th anniversary production of Martin Sherman’s acclaimed Tony-nominated play, BENT at the Schapiro Theatre. Other producing projects include A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the 45th Street Theatre which later toured the Harry Chapin Outdoor Amphitheatre at Eisenhower Park in Hempstead, NY, and a workshop production of Mr. Anonymous, a rock musical at the York Theatre Company. He holds a BA in Theatre from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University.

	THOM WIDMANN Teacher of Stage Management Thom Widmann has been stage managing in New York for fifteen years and is currently the Production Stage Manager for the Susan Stroman / Stephen Sondheim / Nathan Lane production of The Frogs at Lincoln Center Theater. Other productions for LCT include A Bad Friend, Nothing But the Truth, Racing Demon, God’s Heart, Twelve Dreams and The Lights. In 2000, Mr. Widmann stage managed LCT’s Contact (2000 Tony Award for Best Musical) and served as Associate Director for the National Tour and Production Supervisor for Contact in London. Other Broadway credits include Amy’s View, The Sound of Music, Skylight, The King and I, The Shadow Box and the National Tour of An Inspector Calls. Off Broadway, Mr. Widmann has stage managed the plays of Caryl Churchill: Mad Forest (US premier), Owners, and Traps and Craig Lucas’ Small Tragedy and God’s Heart - as well as productions for Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theater Workshop, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Regional credits include Music-Theater Group and New York Stage and Film. He is a graduate of SUNY at Purchase.

	Other adjunct faculty members, guest directors and guest teachers from the professional community (past & present): Guest Directors: Suzanne Agins, Tea Alagic, Christopher Bayes, Julie Boyd, Mary Catherine Burke, Karin Coonrod, Clinton Turner Davis, Frank Deal, Rachel Dickstein, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Annie Dorsen, Jackson Gay, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Michael Goldfried, Erica Gould, Jessi Hill, Laura Josepher, Yolanda King, Sonoko Kawahara, Michael Mayer, Colin McKenna, Charles Newell, Lisa Peterson, Jean Randich, Steven Rattazzi, Jonathan Rosenberg, Jerry Ruiz, Erica Schmidt, Niegel Smith, Gaye Taylor Upchurch, Ratan Thiyam, Moritz von Stuelpnagel, Randy White, Paul Willis, Michael Wilson, Evan Yionoulis Adjunct Faculty: Richard Armstrong, Harriet Bass, Tina Benko, Julie Bleha, Beowulf Boritt, Julie Boyd, Per Brahe, Mark Brokaw, Laura Grace Brown, Betty Buckley, Kate Burton, Kirsten Childs, Michael Chybowski, Darrah Cloud, Frank Deal, Jed Diamond, Liz Diamond, Rachel Dickstein, Sarah Felder, Kate Forbes, Janet Foster, Michael John Garcés, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Leigh Smiley Grace, Elana Greenfield, Mark Greenfield, Andrea Haring, John Harris, Roy Harris, Deborah Hedwall, Elizabeth Hess, Sam Hunter, Arlene Hutton, Judith Jablonka, Peter Francis James, Morgan Jenness, Tom Keever, Michael Kimmel, Yolanda King, Susan Knight, Olek Krupa, Ellen Lauren, Kristen Linklater, Kate Loewald, Joan MacIntosh, Ruth Margraff, Kelly Maurer, Elena McGhee, Alexis McGuinness, Colin McKenna, Framji Minwalla, Kate Mulgrew, Annie Parisse, Estelle Parsons, Will Patton, Roger Rees, Lloyd Richards, Michael Ritchie, Laila Robins, Michael Ryan, Marian Seldes, Rocco Sisto, Steven Skybell, Elizabeth Smith, Stephen Sosnowski, Doug Stein, Richard Topol, Mattie Ullrich, Thom Widmann, Dianne Wiest, Kate Wilson, Walton Wilson, Grace Zandarski, Paul Zimet Special Workshop Leaders and Distinguished Guest Speakers: David Lindsay-Abaire, Edward Albee, Alan Alda, Christopher Bayes, Mark Bly, Anne Bogart, Beau Bridges, Patricia Clarkson, Merry Conway, Kia Corthron, Nilo Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Olympia Dukakis, Scott Elliott, Eve Ensler, David Esbjornson, Richard Foreman, Alexander Galin, Mary Gallagher, Bernard Gersten, Spalding Gray, André Gregory, David Greenspan, Jerzy Grotowski, John Guare, Marcia Gay Harden, Susan Hilferty, Len Jenkin, Jeffrey Jones, Harvey Keitel, Tony Kushner, Tina Landau, Jean-Guy Lecat, Elizabeth LeCompte, Ming Cho Lee, Don Laventhall, Warren Leight, Donny Levit, Robert Lewis, Craig Lucas, Judith Malina, Liz McCann, Ellen McLaughlin, Charles L. Mee, Jr., Joanna Merlin, Marlane Meyer, Chiori Miyagawa, Susan Mosakowski, Suzan-Lori Parks, Neil Patel, Wendy Perron, Yvonne Rainer, Jackie Reingold, Lloyd Richards, Mark Schlegel, Fiona Shaw, Anatoly Smeliansky, Anna Deavere Smith, Kevin Spacey, Ellen Stewart, Tadashi Suzuki, Julie Taymor, Rosemarie Tichler, Candido Tirado, Julie Tucker, Denzel Washington