Theatre Faculty

Recipient of an OBIE Award, five New York State Council on the Arts fellowships for playwriting and directing, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, Creative Artist Public Service Award (CAPS), Best Actor Focus Press Award, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) member. Broadway: Pacific Overtures, Shimada, Loose Ends, The King and I, Zoya’s Apartment, director Boris Morozov, Maly Theatre. Regional/off-Broadway roles: King Lear, Macbeth, Oberon, King Arthur, Autolycus, Chebutykin, James Tyrone, Lysander, Mishima; Caucasian Chalk Circle, director Fritz Bennewitz, Berlin Ensemble. Author of Kwatz! The Tibetan Project, Leir Rex, The Dowager Empress of China, An American Story, Eat a Bowl of Tea, Night Stalker, and the opera Cambodia Agonistes, all produced off-Broadway; national tours to the Cairo Experimental Theatre and Johannesburg, South Africa. Performed Butoh with Shigeko Suga in Spleen, Accade Domani by Dario Fo, and Sotoba Komachi. Film/TV: 12 Monkeys (director Terry Gilliam), King of New York, Call Me, New York Undercover, Kung Fu. Director/ screenwriter: Mariana Bracetti, Arthur A. Schomburg, Asian American Railroad Strike, Iroquois Confederacy, Lilac Chen-Asian American Suffragette, and Osceola (PBS/CBS). Voice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the audiobook The Art of Happiness. SLC, 1995–

BA, Rutgers College. Certificate, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Graduate, The Conservatory at the Classic Stage Company (CSC), Playwrights Horizons Theatre School Directing Program. Actor, director, and producer of Off Broadway and regional productions; resident director, Forestburgh Playhouse; producer/producing artistic director, Sarah Lawrence Theatre program (1994-2008); executive producer, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York (1992-94); associate artistic director, Elysium Theatre Company, New York (1990-92); manager, development/marketing departments of Circle Repertory Company, New York. Recipient of two grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; OBIE Award, Outstanding Achievement Off and Off-Off Broadway (producer, E.S.T. Marathon of One-Act Plays); nomination, Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play (acting company); director, first (original) productions of 13 published plays. SLC, 1994–

BA, The New School. Designed sound on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally. Designs on Broadway include: Picnic, Other Desert Cities, Wit, Good People, The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory…, Three Days of Rain (assoc.), Inherit The Wind (assoc.), Wit (national tour). Off Broadway: Atlantic, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, NYTW, WP, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature, Clubbed Thumb, Culture Project, Actor’s Playhouse, New Group, Promenade, Urban Stages, Houseman, Fairbanks, Soho Rep, Adobe. Regionally: Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Bay Street, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Long Wharf, The Alley, Kennedy Center, NYS&F, South Coast Rep, Humana, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre, ATF. On television: Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen, NBC’s Late Fridays. On film: We Pedal Uphill. On radio: contributing producer for PRI’s Studio 360, producer of Naked Angel’s Naked Radio. Contributor to the book, Sound and Music For The Theatre. Two Drama Desk nominations; four Henry Hewes nominations. Awards: Ruth Morley Design Award, OBIE award for Sustained Excellence (2011), Lilly Award (2013). SLC, 2009–

BFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts. MFA, Yale University School of Drama. Extensive experience in Off Broadway and regional theatre, television, and commercials; artist-in-residence, Oberlin College. SLC, 1998–

BA, Goddard College, University of Illinois. ACAT-certified Alexander Technique Teacher, 1979. Inventor of an ergonomic chair, the Sit-a-Round. Taught the Alexander Technique in many venues: the Santa Fe Opera, Riverside Studios in London, Utrecht in the Netherlands; dancer, Judson Dance Theatre, Alwin Nikolais, Anna Halprin, and others; direction and choreography Off Broadway; appeared in Innovation (PBS); Off-Off Broadway Review Award, 1995-1996. SLC, 1987–

BA, Marquette University. MFA, Columbia University. One-year Study Abroad, Oxford, England. Actress, playwright, director. Appeared for nine seasons as Pam Shrier, the ballistics detective on Law and Order. Acting credits on TV include Saturday Night Live and One Life to Live; films, Ice Storm, Fatal Attraction; stage: Comedy of Errors, Uncle Vanya, Catholic School Girls, Division Street, The Dining Room. Two published plays: Mama Drama and The Once Attractive Woman. Directed in colleges, as well as Off Broadway, and was the artistic director and co-founder of the New York Team for TheatreSports. Performed in comedy improvisation throughout the world. SLC, 1991–

Sarah Lawrence College. Yale School of Drama. Film: Coach, All Saints’ Day (winner, best narrative short, Savannah Film Festival), Beloved. Off Broadway: Year Zero (Second Stage Uptown), Still Life (MCC), Rainbow Kiss (The Play Company), The Water's Edge (Second Stage), Pen (Playwrights Horizons), Terrorism (The New Group/The Play Company), Omnium Gatherum (Variety Arts), Where We’re Born and God Hates the Irish (both at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Get What You Need (Atlantic 453), and Kid-Simple (Summer Play Festival). Regional: Build at the Geffen Playhouse; Some Lovers at the Old Globe Theatre; Romeo & Juliet, Bus Stop, The Water's Edge, and A Servant of Two Masters at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Pillowman at George Street Playhouse; Hay Fever and The Price at Baltimore CenterStage; Sleuth at the Bay Street Theatre; Our Lady of 121st Street (Steppenwolf Theatre); Omnium Gatherum (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville). Artistic Director: Yale Cabaret (1999-2000). Recipient of Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller directing fellowships. Contributor to The Paris Review, New York Magazine, Harper’s, and The London Review of Books. SLC, 2010–

Founded City at Peace, Inc. in Washington, DC, in 1994, then founded and now leads City at Peace-National, a nonprofit that uses the performing arts to empower teenagers to transform their lives and communities across the United States. Directed the creation and performance of 10 original musicals written from the real-life stories of diverse groups of teens and has overseen the creation of 30 more. City at Peace now has programs in seven US cities, several communities in Israel, and in Cape Town, South Africa. Prreviously, he was co-director of the Theatre of Youth, a company member of the No-Neck Monster Theatre Co. in Washington, DC, a member of Impro-Etc. performing improvised Shakespeare classics in England and Scotland, and a student/performer with Ryszard Cieslak from Jerzy Grotowsky’s Polish Lab Theatre. Honored as one of Tomorrow's Leaders Today by Public Allies, he also received the Hamilton Fish Award for Service to Children and Families. He and City at Peace have appeared in numerous venues across the country, including the Arena Stage, The Public Theatre, Nightline with Ted Koppel, and HBO in a documentary on the City at Peace program. SLC 2008–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Performances in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, La MaMa E.T.C., Danspace, The Kitchen, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and at alternative presenters throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Recipient of a Village Voice OBIE Award in 1990 for solo adaptation of Nathanael West’s A Cool Million and the 2000 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for Everyday Uses for Sight, Nos. 3 & 7; recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and a 2002-2003 Guggenheim fellowship and of grants from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Cary Flagler Charitable Trust, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. Recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre, 2004. Former teacher at Bowdoin, Bennington, Barnard, and Princeton. SLC, 1997–

Diploma in Sculpture and Painting, Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris. Playwright, director, and designer, with productions throughout the United States and Europe; co-founder, OBIE Award-winning Paper Bag Players; founder, The Painters’ Theatre. Directing credits include Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, UBU Repertory, La MaMa E.T.C., Ensemble Studio Theatre, Music Theatre Group, New York Performance Works; guest director/playwright, St. Archangelo, Italy; directed new works by Richard Greenberg, David Ives, Leslie Lyles, Eduardo Machado, Denise Bonal, Keith Reddin, and Arthur Giron. Writer/lyricist, Rockabye. Designer, Ben Bagley’s Cole Porter Shows, US and European tours; created interactive theatre workshops for The Kitchen and New York City museums; developed original ensembles on major arts grants. Winner, Golden Camera Award, US Industrial Film and Video Festival; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, The Connecticut Cowboy; recipient of Westchester Arts Council Award in Education and Excellence Award, the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Founder and codirector, Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Outreach. SLC, 1975–

BA, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. MFA, SUNY-Empire State College. Published plays include Chimera, White Buffalo, and The Wading Pool. Recipient of the Lipkin Playwright Award and Drury College Playwright Award. Plays produced in New York City at Pan Asian Rep, Red Shirt Entertainment, La Mama, The Nuyorician Poets Cafe, and other venues. In New York, directed new plays by Richard Vetere, Adam Kraar, Diane Luby, and Michael Schwartz. Established The River Theatre Company in Central Wisconsin with a company of local players. Directed, toured with the work of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Slawomir Mrozek, David Lindsay Abaire, and John Patrick Shanley, among others. Performances presented on NPR, shopping malls, street festivals, bus stops, parking lots, and abandoned stores, as well as more traditional venues. Conducted theatre workshops for participants of all ages in New York City, Yonkers, Westchester County, and throughout the United States and abroad. Wrote, directed, and performed in original plays presented in schools, community centers, and museums in Yonkers, Westchester County, and beyond. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, The Wisconsin Council of the Arts. Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Outreach co-director; Artistic director of the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Program, 2007-2010. SLC, 1998–

Designer, director, performer, and puppet artist originally from Mililani, Hawai’i. He has designed scenery, puppetry, and projections for Ellen Stewart, Tom O’Horgan, Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre, Lone Wolf Tribe, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Christopher Williams, and Yoshiko Chuma at theatres in New York City and internationally. Puppetry performances include Disfarmer (St. Ann’s Warehouse and tour), Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera), Le Grand Macabre (New York Philharmonic), and WarHorse (Lincoln Center Theatre). Original puppet theatre work includes Hoplite Diary, Odysseus & Ajax, Ko’olau, and The Secret History of the Swedish Marionette Cottage (with Matt Acheson). His work has been supported by residencies in the United States and Bulgaria and by the Jim Henson Foundation, The Japan Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, TCG/ITI. Co-director, St. Ann’s Puppet Lab (2008-2010). SLC, 2005–

BA, New England College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Peace Corps, El Salvador. Writer of PSAs, commercials, industrials, and documentaries. Script writer and talent director at Gates Productions for 80 hours of local and regional live television in Los Angeles; one of two conceptual designers for Mitsubishi’s Waterfront Project, creating 32 amusement park attractions; creative producer of Red Monsoon, a feature film shot in Nepal. Film acting credits include Clean and Sober, Alien Nation, Come See the Paradise, and Weird Science; television acting credits include Guiding Light, Law and Order, Cheers, Quantum Leap, LA Law, and Night Court; stage credits include Holy Ghost, End Game, Zoo Story, Fishing, and Wat Tyler; directing credits include Platypus Rex, Mafia on Prozac, The 17th of June, North of Providence, Only You, To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Weir. Co-director and co-producer of SLC Web Series, “Socially Active,” Web feature film Elusive, and television pilot “Providers.” Recipient of two [Los Angeles] Drama-Logue Critics’ Awards for acting. SLC, 2000–

Designed lighting for hundreds of plays and musicals in New York and around the United States, as well as in Europe, Australia, Japan, and the Caribbean. Designs have included original plays by Edward Allan Baker, Cassandra Medley, Stewart Spencer, Richard Greenberg, Warren Leight, Lanford Wilson, Romulus Linney, Arthur Miller, and David Mamet. Continues to design the Las Vegas production of Penn & Teller and to work as resident designer for the 52nd Street Project. Received an American Theatre Wing Maharam Award nomination for his lighting design of E.S.T.’s Marathon of One-Act Plays. SLC, 1990–

BA, Jacksonville University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Co-founder and artistic director for Jacksonville’s A Company of Players, Inc.; productions with The Actor’s Outlet, Playwrights Horizons, Summerfest, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. SLC, 1981–

Producer of plays, including American Slavery Project (2012-13). Cell (2013), Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon (2011), is pending publication in the anthology Outstanding One-Act Plays—2012, Dramatists Play Service; Daughter, Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon (2009), published by Broadway Play Publishing (2012). Noon Day Sun (August, 2008), Diverse City Theatre Company, Theatre Row, New York City, was nominated for the August Wilson Playwriting Award (2008); Noon Day Sun was also published by Broadway Play Publishing. Relativity, a commission from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004), was produced by Kuntu Repertory of Pittsburgh, Southern Repertory of New Orleans (2007), the Ensemble Studio Theatre  (May 2006), St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre (February 2006), and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco (June 2004); Relativity, published by Broadway Play Publishing, also won the Audelco August Wilson Playwriting Award (2006) and was featured on Science Friday on National Public Radio and in an online broadcast of the Los Anegeles Repertory Theatre (February 2008). Marathon (2004-06) was also published by Broadway Play Publishing. Recipient of the “Going to the River Writers” Life Achievement Award (2004), Ensemble Studio Theatre 25th Anniversary Award for Theatre Excellence (2002), the Theatrefest Regional Playwriting Award for Best Play (2001), the New Professional Theatre Award (1995), and the Marilyn Simpson Award (1995); a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in Playwriting (1989) and winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Playwright Award (1990). Recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (1986) and a New York State Council on the Arts Grant (1987). Taught at New York University and served as guest artist at Columbia University, the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Seattle University. Staff writer for ABC Television, "One Life to Live" (1995-97), and a playwright member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and New River Dramatists. SLC, 1989–

BA, University of Kansas. MA, Sarah Lawrence College. Stage manager of original productions of works by Tom Stoppard, Neil Simon, Laurence Fishburne, Doug Wright, Charles Busch, Larry L. King, Ernest Abuba, and Lillian Garrett-Groag, among others. Broadway, Off Broadway, touring, dance, opera, and concert work includes productions with Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Rep, WPA, Pan Asian Rep, Vineyard Theatre, La MaMa E.T.C., The Women’s Project, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, and New York City Opera. Co-founder of Modern Times Theater. SLC, 1998–

Production manager for the Sarah Lawrence College theatre program. Other production management work includes seven seasons with the Westport Country Playhouse, as well as with Shakespeare and Company, Classic Stage Company, The Working Theatre, The Colorado Festival of World Theatre, East Coast Arts Theatre, Berkshire Public Theatre, and The Jerash Festival in Amman, Jordan. Production stage management credits include productions with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mabou Mines, New York Theatre of the Deaf, and Fast Folk Musical Magazine. Member of AEA. SLC, 1999–

As artistic director of the advanced beginner group, work presented in New York City at P.S. 122, Dance Theatre Workshop, Central Park SummerStage (collaboration with John Giorno), Celebrate Brooklyn, and Symphony Space (collaboration with Laurie Anderson). Featured dancer in the works of Susan Marshall, Jane Comfort, Sally Silvers, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar’s Big Dance Theatre, and club legend Willi Ninja; previously a member of Doug Varone and Dancers and an original member and collaborator for eight years with the Doug Elkins Dance Company. Over the past 20 years, choreographed or performed with directors Hal Hartley, Laurie Anderson, Robert Woodruff, Lee Breuer, Peter Sellars, JoAnn Akalaitis, Mark Wing-Davey, and Les Waters; recently appeared in Orestes at Classic Stage Company, choreographed The Bacchae at the Public Theatre, and performed in a duet choreographed with Mikhail Baryshnikov. SLC, 2007– 

BA, Brandeis University. Costume designer for Ping Chong & Company; resident designer for UBU Repertory Theatre; founding member of Yara Arts Group; extensive work in Off Broadway and experimental theatre; venues include La MaMa E.T.C., Theatre for the New City, UBU Rep, and Theatre Row, along with festivals in Kiev, Lviv, and Kharkiv, Ukraine. SLC, 1993–

BA, Adelphi University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Film, television, and theatre actress; member, Robert Lewis Acting Company and Green Gate Theatre; director and actress, regional and educational theatre; University of Virginia artist-in-residence program; founder, In Stages theatre company; recipient of two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; co-director of London Theatre Intersession ’88. SLC, 1985–

BA, Lawrence University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Author of numerous plays performed in New York and around the country, including Resident Alien (Broadway Play Publishing). Other plays include In the Western Garden (Broadway Play Publishing), Blue Stars (Best American Short Plays of 1993-94), and Sudden Devotion (Broadway Play Publishing). A playwriting textbook, The Playwright’s Guidebook, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2002. Recent plays are Alabaster City, commissioned by South Coast Rep, and Judy Garland Died for Your Sins. Former literary manager of Ensemble Studio Theatre; fellow, the Edward Albee Foundation; member, Dramatist Guild. SLC, 1991–

BA, Vassar College. Postgraduate training at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sonia Moore Studio, and with David Kaplan (author, Five Approaches to Acting). President and artistic director, Cygnet Productions, National Equity Theatre for Young Audiences Company; leading performer, Boston Shakespeare Company; guest faculty at Storm King School, Western Connecticut State University, and at Vassar College; certified instructor, Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD); winner of the Society of American Fight Directors’ 2006 Patrick Craen award; designated practitioner, Stough Institute of Breathing Coordination; certified teacher, Alexander Technique. SLC, 1991–