Judy Kuhn, actor, singer and company member, and Emmanuelle Delpech, physical theatre artist, director, and teacher, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this spring for development workshops exploring acting through song and Neutral Mask.
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 Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David, the Charles Strouse/Stephen Schwartz musical Rags, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Recent credits include The Baker’s Wife and I Can Get It For You Wholesale with Classic Stage Company (OCC Award), Becoming Eve at New York Theatre Workshop, and Unknown Soldier at Arena Stage. She played Sara Jane Moore in John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at Classic Stage Company (OCC & Drama Desk Noms). Other Off-Broadway credits include Helen Bechdel in Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortel Award), Eli’s Comin’ at 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. Film & TV includes: 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.
Emmanuelle Delpech is a French physical theater artist and teacher living in the United States. She was classically trained in France at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de la Ville de Paris and then studied physical theater at l’Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where she now serves on the faculty.
Emmanuelle was a member of The Pig Iron Theatre Company for 8 years as an actor/creator and now teaches at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Training. She has an MFA in Directing from Temple University, where she currently serves on faculty as well.
As an independent artist, Emmanuelle directs new creations for other artists, she also creates and performs in her own pieces or directs for regional theaters. She created and performed Spinning Immigrant, and in Madame Douce-Amere produced by 1812 Productions. Her collaboration with Jen Child continued for her project The Woman and Comedy Project: It’s my party! Emmanuelle also directed Oedipus at FDR, FRONTIN’ with James Ijames on the tradition of Blackface performances and the identity of the black performers in America, Charlotte Ford’s BANG, her clown adaptation of Marivaux’s La Dispute, and for her thesis Moliere’s Tartuffe as an urban clown feast.
As a teacher, Emmanuelle has taught semester-long courses at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College and University of the Arts. She has also taught workshops for the Volcano Institute in Toronto and the Movement Theater Studio in NYC (where she is a regular on the Director’s track) and in higher education at Williams College, Denison University, and Davidson College. She travels often around the United States to teach workshops to artists seeking a devised practice.
