Judy Kuhn, actor, singer, and teacher, and Peter Jay Fernandez, co-head of Acting at Columbia, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this spring for a series of artist development workshops focused on Acting the Song and scene work.
Judy Kuhn is a multiple Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award nominee best known for her work on Broadway in such shows as Fun Home, She Loves Me, Chess, and Les Misérables. Other Bway includes Fiddler on the Roof, Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David and the Charles Strouse/Stephen Schwartz musical Rags. Most recently she played Sara Jane Moore in John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at CSC (OCC & Drama Desk Noms).
Other Off-Bway includes Helen Bechdel in Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortell Award); Eli’s Comin’ (Vineyard Theatre/ Obie Award), Fosca in Passion (Drama League Award Nom.) In 2019 she starred in Trevor Nunn’s Olivier Award winning production of Fiddler on the Roof in London’s West End for which she received her 2nd Olivier Award Nomination. Her film & TV credits include Dear Edward, Tick Tick Boom, Disney’s Pocahontas; Enchanted; Law & Order. Judy has appeared on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall. She has recorded four solo albums.
Peter Jay Fernandez is co-head of Columbia University’s MFA acting program. He previously served as co-head of acting in the graduate theatre program at The New School and has also taught at Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, the Black Arts Institute, the Brown University/Trinity Repertory MFA Program, and the Berklee College of Music, among others.
Peter is a two time Audelco winner and has appeared on Broadway in productions of All The Way, Cyrano De Bergerac; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; Jelly’s Last Jam; and The Merchant Of Venice. Off-Broadway credits include Macbeth (Theatre for a New Audience), Othello, Father Comes Home From the Wars, As You Like It, Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, Spell #7 (Public Theatre), Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop), Zooman and the Sign (Signature), Too Much Memory (Fourth St. Theater), The Pain and The Itch (Playwrights Horizons), Thunder Knocking On The Door (Minetta Lane), RICHARD III: Born with Teeth and Widowers’ Houses (Epic Theatre), among many others. He has worked throughout the United States at regional theatres including Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Old Globe, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, Williamstown, Alliance Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva, The Wilma, among others. Peter’s film and television credits include Shades of Blue, Luke Cage, Royal Pains, Gotham, Elementary, House of Cards, Fringe, Deception, Damages, Law and Order(s), The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Body of Proof, The Adjustment Bureau, Preaching To The Choir, and Funny Valentines.
