Actor, teacher, and Juilliard faculty member Patrick Mulryan and actor and educator Peter Francis James will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in February for a series of artist development workshops focused on voice and Shakespeare.
Patrick Mulryan is a queer director, actor, teacher, and voice and dialect coach based in New York City. He has performed and directed in New York City and internationally. The focus of his work is on expanding one’s expressive palette and sense of self through freeing one’s authentic voice and through that process expanding our capacity for empathy. Patrick recently joined the Voice and Speech faculty at the Juilliard School. He also serves as Dialect Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. Patrick is a board member of Colored Criticism, an organization that highlights the voices of artists, audiences, and professionals historically sidelined from cultural criticism.
Peter Francis James recently appeared on Broadway as Flo Ziegfeld in Funny Girl. Other Broadway credits include Barack in Hillary and Clinton, Present Laughter, The Merchant of Venice, On Golden Pond, Drowning Crow, and Judgment at Nuremberg. His many Shakespeare credits include: the title role in Othello (Baltimore Center Stage), Oberon in Sir Peter Hall’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ahmanson), Coriolanus (McCarter), Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park) and Cymbeline (Royal Shakespeare Company and Theatre for a New Audience), among others.
His film and television credits include The Humbling, Song One, The Losers, The Rebound, The Messenger, Bull, Godfather of Harlem, The Code, Boardwalk Empire, The Mysteries of Laura, Oz, Royal Pains, Gossip Girl, Kings, The Rosa Parks Story, Simple Justice, The Ruby Bridges Story, and all three Law & Order series.
Peter taught Shakespeare at the Yale School of Drama for 20 years. He has also taught at BADA at Oxford, The Actors Center, The Public Shakespeare Lab, Fordham University, and Barnard. He has presented master classes at both Peking U, and Shanghai Theater Institute. He is a graduate, and an associate, of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.
