Erica Fae, director, performer, and faculty at Yale School of Drama, and Justine Wolf Williams, performer, filmmaker, and Yale Drama faculty member, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this fall for workshops devoted to emotional and physical integration, as well as play and clown.
Writer, director, performer, and teacher Erica Fae brings radical stories from history to stage and screen. Her first feature film To Keep the Light won the Fipresci Prize, among other festival awards, and is currently on Amazon Prime. Her original plays include A Girl Joan, Saved Again and by Him, and Take What Is Yours with Jill A. Samuels.
Erica currently teaches Physical Acting at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama. She first trained in Grotowski-based work at age 15 and studied at NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing where she later taught. She has also taught at The New School for Drama, Columbia’s M.F.A. Film Program, The Actors Center, and in private workshops and retreats.
As actor, she’s been on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Netflix’s Partner Track, Random Acts of Flyness and Doll & Em, and in feature films First Reformed, Synecdoche New York, The Savages, Little Children, Please Give. She’s also worked with, among others, Martha Clarke, Rachel Dickstein/Ripe Time, and Ping Chong; and has performed at The New Victory, The Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theater, American Conservatory Theater, the Walker Arts Center, Performing Arts Chicago, the McCarter Theatre and the Power Center in Michigan.
She was interviewed for Advanced Consciousness Training for Actors (by Kevin Page, published by Routledge), was on a panel at Sundance Film Festival on Experimental Filmmaking and Social Justice, and is currently in development on her second feature film.
Justine Wolf Williams is a performer and filmmaker, creative convener, teacher, and coach whose work centers on recovery and re-discovery of authentic voice and presence, the value of play and pleasure as creative and social tools, and the power of individual/collective creativity to imagine and bring about other possible selves, stories, and worlds.
Justine’s work is informed by 15+ years as a faculty member and advisor at the Yale School of Drama, guiding learning, collaboration, and storytelling across creative disciplines; and, from over 25+ years of experience collaborating with arts and culture and social impact organizations around the globe.
As a filmmaker, Justine’s work has screened at Maryland Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors | New Films, and Rotterdam Film Festival, and original work has been supported/presented by The Public Theater, Ars Nova, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Women in Film & Television, Queer|Art, Orchard Project, UNM’s Arts and Media Lab, Lighthouse Film Festival, Abrons Arts, and Dixon Place. She has acted on stages at The Public Theater, NYTW, LaMama, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and many others, and is an Affiliated Artist and former fellow with New Georges.
Justine holds an MFA from CUNY’s Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, an MA from The New School in Media and Culture, a BA from Brown University in Theater Studies, and she trained with Augusto Boal’s Center for Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro and at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris.
