Recent Faculty & Guest Artists
Jaclyn Backhaus
Writing
Playwright, Co-Founder of Fresh Ground Pepper
Ken Barnett
Dreamwork for Actors
Actor, Director, and Teacher
Christopher Bayes
Clown
Head of Physical Theatre at Yale School of Drama
Finn Caldwell
Puppetry
Olivier Award-winning Puppet Designer
Bethany Caputo
Michael Chekhov
Acting Coach and Teacher
Rob Clare
Shakespeare
Director, Teacher, and Shakespeare Specialist
Carl Cofield
Scene Work
Director and Chair of NYU Graduate Acting Program
Migdalia Cruz
Writing
Playwright and Princeton Faculty Member
Ron Daniels
Shakespeare
Director, Honorary Associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Will Davis
Play Laboratory
Director and Educator
Bryan Doerries
Guest Artist
Artistic Director, Theater of War Prodouctions
Kyle Donnelly
Scene Work
Director, Former Head of Acting, UCSD
Micha Espinosa
Voice
Artistic Director of the Fitzmaurice Institute, Activist, Educator
Erica Fae
Movement
Educator and Filmmaker, Yale Faculty
Peter Jay Fernandez
Scene Work
Co-Head of Acting at Columbia Graduate Acting Program
Maribeth Fox
Audition Lab
Casting Director
Dawn-Elin Fraser
Voice & Speech
Voice Coach and NYU and Yale Faculty Member
Rashaad Ernesto Green
Filmmaking
Writer and Film Director
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Scene Work
Tony nominated actor, educator, and mentor
David Henry Hwang
Guest Artist
Tony Award-winning Playwright, Librettist, Screenwriter, and Educator
Bill Irwin
Guest Artist
Award-winning Actor, Director, Writer, and Clown
Kevin Isola
Clown
NYU Grad Acting Faculty Member, Actor
Peter Francis James
Shakespeare
Actor, Teacher, and Shakespeare Specialist
Erica Jensen
Audition Lab
Casting Director, Calleri Jensen Davis
Rajiv Joseph
Guest Artist
Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Obie Award-Winning Playwright
Leigh Kilton-Smith
Scene Work
Teacher and On Set Acting Coach
Raja Feather Kelly
Movement
Choreographer, Movement Director, and Founder of The Feath3r Theory
Judy Kuhn
Acting the Song
Award-winning Actor and Singer
Antoinette LaVecchia
Games
Actress and Former NYU Grad Acting Faculty
Haruna Lee
Writing / Analysis
Screenwriter, Theater Maker, and Educator
Sita Mani
Movement
Head of Movement at Columbia Graduate Acting Program
Heidi Miami Marshall
On-Camera Technique
Director and Acting Coach
Beth McGuire
Speech, Dialects, and Voice
Dialect Coach, Former Yale and Juilliard Faculty
Robin Miles
Audiobook Narration
Actress, Educator, and Audiobook Narrator/Director
Arian Moayed
Guest Artist
Actor, Writer, Director, and Educator, Co-Founder of Waterwell
Larry Moss
Guest Artist
Acclaimed acting coach, director, and author
Patrick Mulryan
Voice
Juilliard Faculty and Vocal Coach
Midori Nakamura
Voice
Actor and Teacher, Yale Faculty
Jane Nichols
Clown & Games
Physical Theater and Games Teacher
Charlie Oates
Movement
Movement Coach, Faculty Member, UCSD
Orlando Pabotoy
Clown
Obie Award-winning Actor, Director and Teacher
Shanga Parker
Movement
NYU Faculty Member
Tonya Pinkins
Acting Technique
Award-Winning Actor and Educator
Dawn Akemi Saito
Movement
Movement Artist, Director, and Juilliard Faculty Member
Jon Shear
Film Work
Film Director, Screenwriter, and NYU Faculty Member
Danielle Skraastad
Games
NYU Grad Acting Faculty Member, Actor
Fay Simpson
Movement & Physical Theater
Founder of The Lucid Body and NYU Faculty Member
Diana Son
Guest Artist
Emmy-Nominated Writer/Producer and Playwright
Lee Su-Feh
Movement & Voice
Interdisciplinary Artist, Choreographer, and Community Organizer
Fabio Tavares
Alexander
Alexander Technique Teacher
John Douglas Thompson
Shakespeare
Award-Winning Actor and Educator
Ron Van Lieu
Scene Work
Former Yale, NYU, and Columbia Faculty Member
Paula Vogel
Writing
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Chris Wells
Writing
Obie Award-winning Writer and Founder of The Secret City
Caryn West
On-Camera & Audition Technique
Actor, Director, and Acting Coach
Welker White
Film Scenework
Actor, Co-Founder of the Moving Frame
Justine Wolf Williams
Games
NYU and Yale Faculty Member
Jessica Wolf
Alexander & Breathing
Founder of The Art of Breathing and Yale Faculty Member
Damian Young
Film Scenework
Actor, Co-Founder of The Moving Frame
Grace Zandarski
Voice
Voice Teacher and Yale Faculty Member
Over the past 27 years, our faculty and guest artists have included:
Maria Aitken
Ida Bagus Anom
Jennifer Archibald
Ken Barnett
Christopher Bayes
Andrei Belgrader
Lisa Benavides
Adam Bernstein
Anne Bogart
Per Brahe
David Bridel
Jacqueline Brogan
Harry Burton
Charles Busch
Jim Calder
Finn Caldwell
Philip Carlson
Amy Christopher
Rob Clare
Carl Cofield
Robert Cohen
Paola Coletto
Dan Cordle
David Costabile
Richard Crawford
Migdalia Cruz
Will Davis
Frank Deal
Marcia DeBonis
Jed Diamond
Bryan Doerries
Slava Dolgachev
Kyle Donnelly
Olympia Dukakis
Rinde Eckert
Barry Edelstein
Alvin Epstein
William Esper
Micha Espinosa
Alessandro Fabrizi
Erica Fae
Richard Feldman
Peter Jay Fernandez
Catherine Fitzmaurice
Charlotte Fleck
Maribeth Fox
Dawn-Elin Fraser
Scott Freeman
Earle Gister
Fanni Green
Andy Grotelueschen
John Guare
Rebecca Guy
David Hammond
Deborah Hecht
Deborah Hedwall
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Israel Hicks
Nancy Houfek
David Henry Hwang
Bill Irwin
Kevin Isola
Felix Ivanov
Dana Ivey
Peter Francis James
Richard Jenkins
Michael Kahn
Bruce Katzman
Raja Feather Kelly
Karl Kenzler
Leigh Kilton-Smith
Oleg Kissilev
Dudley Knight
Bob Krakower
Jason Kravits
Elena Kuzina
Michael Langham
Darrell Larson
Deborah Zoe Laufer
Antoinette LaVecchia
Kristin Linklater
Simon MacBurney
Philip Charles MacKenzie
Bruce MacVittie
Sita Mani
Heidi Miami Marshall
Rogelio Martinez
Dakin Matthews
Michael Mayer
Clarke McCarthy
Jean McClelland
Beth McGuire
Kathleen McNenny
Clive Mendus
Joanna Merlin
Jim Mezon
J. Michael Miller
Robin Morse
Brian Murray
Jane Nichols
Marsha Norman
Hugh O’Gorman
Orlando Pabotoy
Gregor Paslawsky
Caymichael Patten
Lenard Petit
Ilse Pfeifer
Nancy Piccone
Ted Pugh
Lloyd Richards
Jose Rivera
Lucas Caleb Rooney
Mary Lou Rosato
Dale Rose
Steve Rosen
Lisa Rothe
Jacqueline Rowan
John Gould Rubin
Larry Sacharow
Dawn Akemi Saito
Norman Schwartz
Gregory Seel
Carolyn Serota
Vicki Shaghoian
Michele Shay
Jon Shear
Fay Simpson
Danielle Skraastad
Elizabeth Smith
Lee Su-Feh
Daniel Swee
John Douglas Thompson
Todd Thaler
Rosemarie Tichler
Anne Torsiglieri
John Tucker
Charles Tuthill
Ron Van Lieu
Chris Wells
Caryn West
Welker White
Dianne Wiest
Rosalyn Coleman Williams
Rainn Wilson
Walton Wilson
Jessica Wolf
Ian Wooldridge
Evan Yionoulis
Damian Young
Harris Yulin
Grace Zandarski
Janet Zarish
Andy Zerman