KATHRYN ALEXANDER. Kathryn teaches Script Analysis and 2nd Year Performance Technique in the NYU and Conservatory programs.  NY Theater includes: Can I Help You?, Combustion, The John Wayne Principle, Three Women in Indecision, God of 16 Acres, The Women, The Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden, What I Like About Breasts. Regional Theater:  Antigone (Nashville Shakespeare Festival) and various productions at Brown University.  Film: Choke (dir. Clark Gregg, 2007) and the independent shorts The Lucky Race (2007) and The Perfect Human (2006). Television: “Law & Order” (NBC, 2007) and “Dickens in America” (BBC Scotland, 2005). Commercial work includes: “GlaxoKlineSmith”, “Dermasilk”, “ABCNews.com”, “Cumberland Heights Clinic”, “Magneblocks”, “Clinique” (in-house), “HGTV” and “MTV2”.

HEATHER BAIRD.  Heather is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Atlantic Alumna.  Upon graduation, Heather worked as a Film and Television casting director for 10 years.  Noted projects include films The Hours, Brown Sugar, Center Stage and Magnolia, HBO’s dramatic series “Oz” and “The Wire” and ABC daytime series “Loving and The City”. Her most recent casting project was the search for the lead boy in “Billy Elliot the Musical” for Broadway.  Heather began her career in the performing arts as a member of American Ballet Theater’s corps de ballet under the directorship of Mikhail Baryshnikov.

CHRIS BAUER.  Chris is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and recently performed the role of Ned in Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth. Chris appeared on Broadway in the revival of A Street Car Named Desire (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination). Recent stage credits include The Night Heron, Hothouse and Mojo (Atlantic); Defiance (MTC); and Refuge (Playwrights Horizons). Regional theatre credits include Steppenwolf, the Goodman and Yale Repertory. Recent films include Neal Cassady, Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers, Brad Anderson’s Sounds Like, Showtime's “Our Fathers,” The Notorious Bettie Paige and Broken Flowers. Other film credits include Face/Off, The Devil’s Advocate, Flawless, 8MM and Animal Factory. Television:  He is currently recurring on the CBS series "Numb3ers," and is a regular on Alan Ball's HBO series “True Blood.” Other television:  "The Black Donnellys," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Smith," "The Lost Room," “61*,” “Third Watch,” “The Wire,” “Tilt,” “Jonny Zero.”

GEOFF BERMAN.  Geoff is a theater director, audition coach and teacher.  He is currently the Artistic Director of Acting School productions at the Atlantic Theater Company (2005-present).  The Atlantic’s Acting School presents 11 shows each year, including Shakespeare productions, modern full-length productions, and several evenings of one-act plays.  Recent directing work includes The Vise by Luigi Pirandello, Mom and the Razor Blades by Wendy Hammond, 365 Plays / 365 Days (Constant #1) by Suzan-Lori Parks (all for the Williamstown Theatre Festival); Mutterliebe by Keith Reddin, Entertaining Mr. Helms by Christopher Durang, The Transmogrification by Wendy Hammond, Motor Oil by Brian Dykstra, Stars by Romulus Linney, Love and How to Cure It by Thornton Wilder (for the Atlantic Acting School); Regrets by Julie Finefrock (Sounding Theater Co.).  He has served as assistant director to, among others, Roger Rees, David Jones and Neil Pepe.  He is a graduate of UCLA, the University of Virginia and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School.

KATIE BULL.  Katie is Atlantic's Head of Vocal Production; she has coached numerous award winning professional clients on broadway, and in film & television, most notably including Felicity Huffman (TransAmerica, Golden Globe Award, Oscar Nomination; Phoebe in Wonderland, Sundance Premiere Selection independent feature films), Jonathan Cake (Coriolanus, mainstage, Old Globe, London); Justin Blanchard (Journey's End, broadway, Tony Award winning production); David Shiner (Seussical, as the Cat In The Hat, Frank Gallati director, Boston previews & NYC premiere opening on Broadway); Prudence Holmes (Bexley OH!, New York Theater Workshop);  Max McClean (Screwtape Letters, Theater of St. Clements); and Eden Regal ("All My Children," Emmy Award).   Katie is  the Artistic Director of the Bull Family Orchestra, an inter-arts theater company; a co-director of the Improvisational Arts Ensembles Inc. an inter-arts presenting organization with a 30 year legacy; and a published Playwright/Director. Her companion plays in The 29 Questions Project were published in the 2005 New York Theater Experience Anthology (Martin Denton publisher), and most recently in The Best Women's Monologues of the New Millenium (Applause Books). In addition to her work in theater, Katie is a critically acclaimed Jazz Singer & Composer (New York Times Jazz Pick, Nate Chinen; chosen on "The Best of 2007" in Jazz Improv Magazine and All About Jazz, NY).   Katie has been vocal coaching Jones Vocal Production, (a warm up and exploration of text for the speaking voice), for over 15 years in various New York City professional studios and in her own classes.  University teaching experience includes: the Acting Masters Program at Brooklyn College, New York University’s Playwrights Horizons Studio and New York University’s Atlantic Theater Company Acting School Studio where she is the Head of Vocal Production.  With her vocal production mentor Chuck Jones (deceased, 2006) Katie was initiated through years of training, and then initiated into co-teaching. She soon taught for Chuck at various New York City professional studios, including the Michael Howard Studio, and the Cay Michael Patten Studio. Katie dedicates her work at Atlantic in loving memory of Chuck Jones.

LEE COHN.  Lee was one of 25 writers chosen annually out of 700 applicants for the prestigious Warner Bros. Comedy Writers Workshop.  He co-authored A Practical Handbook For The Actor (over 180,000 copies sold).  Lee was profiled as one of New York’s top acting teachers in Qualified Acting Coaches: NY.  He has taught at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies (Associate Professor), The Atlantic Theater Company (Master Teacher) and Miami’s New World School of the Arts (Visiting Professor).  Lee originated roles in plays by David Mamet, Roger Hedden, Jason Milligan and many others.  Film/TV work includes “Red Lipstick”, “Harlem Aria” and “Law & Order.”  Lee is a third degree Black Belt in Ninjutsu, the Warrior Art of the Ninja.

BRIDGETTE DUNLAP.  Bridgette is a theater director and the Artistic Director of the Ateh Theater Group. For the Ateh, she directed her adaptations of Kelly Link's The Girl Detective, Aimee Bender's The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Judy Budnitz's Long Distance and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Other productions include The Odyssey (The Loft Theater); The Frog Prince, The Little Prince and her adaptations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Grimms' Tales (Atlantic for Kids); This is the Rill Speaking, A Dopey Fairy Tale, Sure Thing and Shut Up (Atlantic Conservatory); her adaptation of Milorad Pavic's The Dictionary of the Khazars and Now Here by Rachel Hoeffel (Williamstown Theater Festival Workshop); The Vagina Monologues (NYU); Bobby Gould in Hell (Shuvi Productions); A Slant of Sun and her adaptation of Sylvia Plath's Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (FringeNYC). Bridgette is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at the Atlantic Theater Company and at Bulgaria's Spfumato Theater, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab.  Bridgette teaches Script Analysis, levels I and II. 

MARGARET EGINTON.  Margaret has created Movement and Dance for Actors programs at Practical Aesthetics Workshop/Atlantic Theater NYU studio, the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theater, and The Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Graduate Actor Training, and was resident Movement Coach for the American Repertory Theater for 5 years. She has also taught movement, and/or acting at Yale, Harvard Extension School, The University of Iowa, Principia College, and The New College of Florida.  She began her professional career as a dancer and concert dance choreographer, switching to acting, movement coaching/choreographing, and director after retirement from dancing. She has danced or acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theater, and in Russia. She has directed, choreographed, movement coached, and choreographed in professional and educational theater, and opera, toured both dance and theater productions extensively in the United States, Europe, and Russia. She teaches her method of alignment training, Eginton Deep Flow Alignment in workshops in the United States, France and Russia (Moscow Art Theater, Vaghtangov Theater Institute, Roy Hart Theater, International Institute for Performing Arts-Paris, Atlantic Theater Advanced Vermont Program). This method had genesis in 1990, in work with Practical Aesthetics Workshop students and Atlantic Theater members. She has co-taught scene study (her focus on physical tactics and actions) since 1990. Awards: Bessie, 3 New York Foundation Fellowships, American Dance Festival Fellowship,  3 Iowa Theater Artists Fellowships,  2 Best Direction of New Plays Iram Awards from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop (Kesselman, Eginton), Sarasota Herald Best Production and Direction (The Shape of Things), Crystal Bell (Russia). Equity, SAG, Aftra, Agma, International Somatic Movement and Education Association, ATHE. She holds a BA in Dance, Philosophy, and an MFA in Theater Arts (directing, acting).

SUSAN FINCH.  Susan is a Speech Teacher at Atlantic and has appeared in numerous New York Productions, including:  Lincoln Center, La Mama, Naked Angels (HBO Comedy Festival), Emerging Artists Theater Co., Neurorician Poets Café, and Atlantic 453.  Original Radio plays include:  W.N.Y.C., New Dramatists and Stage Shadows.  She is an alumna of John Houseman’s The Acting Company with whom she toured in rep. for two seasons.  She is a graduate of Juilliard School’s Drama Division where she received the Drama League, Richard Rodgers and Edith Skinner awards.  She studied speech under Timothy Monich.  She has taught speech at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Marymount School, and Playwrights Horizons Theater School.  She teaches private classes in NYC.

CLARK GREGG.  A founding member and former artistic director of Atlantic, Clark has directed and acted in numerous productions with the company.  Company acting credits include Boys' Life at Lincoln Center, Mojo, The Night Heron, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Women and Water, The Girl in Pink, The Cherry Orchard, As You Like It, Reckless and many others.   Other NY stage credits include Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men on Broadway, Unidentified Human Remains (Orphuem), A. R. Gurney's The Old Boy (Playwrights' Horizons), Fun and Nobody (Samuel Beckett) and others.  He has directed several plays for the company including Kevin Heelan’s Distant Fires, which was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards.  The Los Angeles production, starring Samuel L. Jackson, won three L.A. Weekly awards including Best Direction, Best Ensemble and Best Play and was nominated for four Ovation Awards including Best Director. He also directed the acclaimed 1998 Atlantic revival of Edmond, and created, co-wrote and directed the Los Angeles serialized play, The Big Empty.  Gregg's screenwriting debut, What Lies Beneath (Dreamworks) starred Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer and was directed by Robert Zemeckis.  His feature film directing debut, Choke, which he adapted from the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, stars Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston and Kelly Macdonald.  Choke premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded a Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble.  The film was acquired at Sundance by Fox Searchlight Pictures and opens in August of 2008.  Clark has written or re-written scripts for Universal, Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers and Fox 2000.  Film acting work includes Choke, Iron Man, In the Land of Women, In Good Company, Spartan, State and Main, Lovely and Amazing, When a Stranger Calls, The Human Stain, 11:14, Hoot, We Were Soldiers, One Hour Photo, and Magnolia.  He played the role of Hank/Henrietta in Tod Williams' debut feature The Adventures of Sebastian Cole for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination.  Clark co-stars with Julia Louis Dreyfus in the hit CBS comedy “The New Adventures of Old Christine."  Past television work includes recurring roles on “The West Wing,” "Sports Night, "Will and Grace," "Sex and the City" and "The Shield," among others, and the television movies, "My Sister's Keeper" and “Tyson” and “Live From Baghdad” for HBO.

CARL FORSMAN.  Carl is new Artistic Director of the Dorset Theatre Festival, where he initiated THE KAUFMAN COLLECTION, DTF’s endeavor to produce the entire dramatic output of George S. Kaufman, which began last summer with his production of Kaufman’s first comedy, Dulcy.  He is the Artistic Director and Founder of Keen Company, a New York theater devoted to the production of sincere plays. His directions for Keen include the world premieres of John Belluso’s Pyretown, Keith Reddin's Can’t Let Go and David Auburn’s adaptation The Journals of Mihail Sebastian, the American premiere of Conor McPherson's The Good Thief (Obie Award for Brian d’Arcy James), the New York premiere of Matthew Burnett’s Theophilus North based on Thornton Wilder’s novel, and revivals of Heinar Kipphardt’s In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Somerset Maugham’s The Breadwinner, Thornton Wilder’s The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Revival), John van Druten's Voice of the Turtle (Drama Desk nomination, Best Director), PG Wodehouse's Good Morning Bill, Gertrude Tonkonogy's Three-Cornered Moon, Tina Howe's Museum, and SN Behrman's The Second Man. Keen Company received the 2005 Drama Desk Special Award, “for moving and enlightening audiences with plays that build upon our theatrical heritage.” Other directing credits include Michael Murphy’s Sin (A Cardinal Deposed) (OBIE Award, Production, Drama Desk nominations, Best Play & Best Actor) and Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s Everythings Turning into Beautiful for the New Group, and Tina Howe’s new translations of Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano and the Lesson for the Atlantic Theater Company.  Upcoming productions include the world premieres of David Hay’s The Maddening Truth and Michael Murphy’s The Conscientious Objector. BA: Middlebury College.

STEVEN HAWLEY.  Steven is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Associate Director of the Atlantic Acting School. He graduated from Atlantic’s Professional Actor Training Program in 1995.  In 2005, Steven was in the world premiere of David Mamet’s Romance at the Atlantic Theater and traveled with that show to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Additionally, he has appeared in Richard Cory at the ATC, as well as numerous Atlantic 453 productions with fellow faculty members and alumni including High Above it All, Cheek to Cheek and The Three Sisters. In addition to serving as an Associate Director of the School, he teaches Repetition and Performance Technique classes. 

KATIE HONAKER.  Katie is a graduate of Atlantic Acting School's two year conservatory after which she spent a year working with Columbia University graduate school directors (Class of 2005) on weekly projects and in a collaboration class with Anne Bogart. Favorite roles include Katie Katieson in Greg Kotis’s Give the People What They Want (dir: John Clancy) as part of the Soho Think Tank’s 6th Floor Series, Angie in Hotel Oracle by Bixby Elliot (dir: Stephen Brackett), Dexter in Adam Szymkowicz's Food for Fish (dir: Alexis Poledouris), Kate in Pinter's Old Times at Columbia University (dir: Alexis Poledouris), Tink in Bixby Elliot's I'm Not Peter Pan at the Cherry Lane Studio Theater and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ["Best of Fest" Award] (dir: Cary McClelland), and Clara in Amerika  (dir: Alex Poe) which won an Outstanding Ensemble Award in the Fringe NYC ’05. Katie teaches speech at Atlantic Acting School and works as a private dialect and speech coach. Member of Actor's Equity Association and Screen Actor's Guild.  

FELICITY HUFFMAN.  Felicity Huffman, a 1987 graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts, has proven herself as an exceptional actress in both dramatic and comedic roles.  The last year has been a prolific one, with an Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe Award and Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Transamerica.  Huffman has also been honored with an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role on “Desperate Housewives.”  On the big screen, she was most recently seen starring in the critically acclaimed Weinstein Company film Transamerica.  The film, which is written and directed by Duncan Tucker, was the first ever acquisition for the company and stars Huffman as “Bree” a transgender woman who embarks on a journey across country with her newly discovered son.  In addition to the Oscar nomination, Huffman won a Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for the role.  She was also was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and was awarded Best Actress by the National Board of Review and received a nomination for Best Actress from the Broadcast Film Critics Awards.  Multiple film festivals have screened the film including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival.  Huffman received Best Actress awards from the Tribeca Film Festival, the San Diego Film Festival, the Aspen Film Festival, the Florida International Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Film Festival.  She was also honored by Movieline’s Hollywood Life with their “Breakthrough Performance” award.  On the small screen, Huffman was seen in 2004 in the television movie “Reversible Errors” with William H. Macy, Tom Selleck and Monica Potter.  Among her television movie credits are “Out of Order,” the critically acclaimed “Door to Door,” starring William H. Macy, “Path to War” starring Alec Baldwin and Donald Sutherland, “The Heart Department,” “Harrison, Cry of the City,” “Quicksand,” “Heart of Justice,” “The Water Engine,” and “Underworld.”  Huffman recently completed production on the feature film Georgia Rule with Jane Fonda and Linsday Lohan.  Directed by Gary Marshall, the story centers on a rebellious young woman (Lohan) who is sent by her dysfunctional mother (Huffman) to spend a summer with her grandmother (Fonda). Penned by Mark Andrus ("As Good as It Gets"), the film is a Morgan Creek production and will be distributed by Universal.  Huffman is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, an off Broadway theater company where she has been featured in numerous plays including Dangerous Corner, Shaker Heights, and The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite.  Among her other stage credits are Speed the Plow, Oh Hell, directed by Greg Mosher, and Boy’s Life, directed by William H. Macy.”  She received an OBIE Award for her portrayal of Donnie in Mamet’s Cryptogram.  She has worked regionally at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater, Williamstown, and the Kennedy Center.  Huffman resides in Los Angeles with her husband, actor/director William H. Macy. 

KRISTEN JOHNSTON.  Kristen is an Atlantic company member and has appeared in numerous productions including Scarcity at the Atlantic, Overruled, As You Like It, Portrait of a Woman, Rosemary for Remembrance, Five Very Live and Atlantic’s production of Howard Korder’s The Lights at Lincoln Center, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She has appeared on the Broadway stage in The Women (Roundabout) and in Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Skin of Our Teeth for the Public Theater’s New York Shakespeare Festival. Off-Broadway credits include The Baltimore Waltz (Signature), Hot Keys and The Stand In (Naked Angels), Kim’s Sister (New York Stage and Film), Baby Anger (Playwrights Horizons) and the Obie Award winning play Aunt Dan and Lemon (New Group).She is best known to television audiences for playing ‘Sally Soloman’ on the hit NBC series, “3^rd Rock from the Sun,” for which she won two Emmy Awards, as well as Golden Globe, Screen Actor’s Guild, TV Guide and American Comedy Award nominations. She most recently co-starred opposite Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore in the Warner Brother’s feature film Music and Lyrics; guest starred as ‘Dr. Eve Peyton’ on NBC’s award-winning medical drama “ER,” and made her West End stage debut in Love Song directed by John Crowley.  Other film roles include starring opposite Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, ‘Wilma Flintstone’ in Universal’s The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas and The Debt (Cannes Film Festival Best Short Award winner).

MAGGIE KILEY.   Maggie is the youngest ensemble member of Atlantic Theater Company and graduated from the NYU program with a BFA in Acting.  Productions at Atlantic include Scarcity, Birth and After Birth, The Lesson, Frame 312 and The Water Engine among others. Select Film and Television credits include We Own the Night, “Shoplifting Chanel”, “Sex and the City”, “The Buried Secret of M Night Shyalamhan” and “Law and Order: SVU”.  Maggie teaches Performance Technique, Film Technique and helped create Atlantic for Kids.  She has also taught at Friends Seminary and works privately as a coach for both children and young adults.

KAREN KOHLHAAS.  Karen is a director and a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company. She has been teaching Practical Aesthetics since 1987. As a director she has worked at Atlantic, the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, New Dramatists, the Alley Theatre in Houston, the Practical Theater Company in Sydney, and many others. Her short films have been seen at the Silverlake Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Galway Film Festival in Ireland, and the Crossroads Film Festival in Mississippi. She is the author of The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors; The Monologue Audition Teacher's Manual, and director/writer/producer of The Monologue Audition Video (DVD). She maintains a website for actors, www.monologueaudition.com.

JORDAN LAGE.  Jordan has been on the Atlantic faculty since 1990. He has taught scene analysis, Meisner-based repetition, on-camera acting classes, and currently conducts a writing lab for student actors. A founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, he has worked extensively as an actor in films and television, on stage, and on the radio. As a playwright, he has written two full-length plays, Matriarchate and Mona Wants, and a one-act play, Oh, How Do I Get Up in the Morning.

JACQUELYN LANDGRAF.  Jacquelyn teaches first-year Script Analysis in the Atlantic's NYU and Conservatory Programs. She holds a B.F.A. in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. An alumna of the Atlantic Acting School, she has also trained at the Experimental Theater Wing, Playwrights Horizons, and the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. She is an actor, director, writer, and member of the New York Neo-Futurists, whose ongoing show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, won a 2006 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Performance Art. 

CHARLEY LAYTON.  Charley teaches first-year Speech to the NYU and Conservatory students at the Atlantic Theater Company. He studied acting there through NYU and graduated in 2001 with a BFA in Drama and officially joined the Atlantic Faculty in 2003. He has also worked as a speech coach to various student productions (Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Children's Hour, etc.) as well as teaching accents and dialects to other theater companies and productions in New York City (The Commission, Dealer's Choice, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, etc.). He has been hired at Credit-Suisse First Boston Bank as a special consultant, teaching accent reduction to foreign nationals, bank clerks and technical supporters. He also teaches accent elimination privately to actors, singers and public speakers. As a working actor, Charley has performed in shows all over the city (The Connelly Theater, The Linda Gross Theater, Chashama, HERE Arts Center, Walkerspace, Soho Playhouse, Dixon Place, Sage Theater, St. Mark's Theater, Atlantic 453 etc.). He was also a two-time semi-finalist in the National Shakespeare Competition with the English-Speaking Union at Lincoln Center.

JOSH LEWIS.  Josh is an actor, writer, and director. As a member of the comedy group The Bert Fershners he worked frequently with Comedy Central where the group enjoyed a long association creating and performing original comedy for the channel. Shows included: The Bert Fershners TV Special, Kickin' Aspen with Drew Carey, The HiFi Party with Isaac Hayes and the award-winning music video “Tube Tops.” The Fershners also wrote for and appeared on MTV, on stage in New York at shows such as “Stella,” throughout the country, and at festivals around the world including HBO’s Aspen Comedy Festival, Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Josh has worked with numerous New York theater companies including Naked Angels, The Adobe Theater, and The 52nd Street Project. He was an original cast member and Co-writer of "Crepuscule," which evolved into the Tony Award winning "25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." TV acting work includes: "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” and commercials for burgers, beer, and gas. He wrote, Co-directed and appears in the film, "DUMPED!" and is the author of The Dumped Fun & Games Activity Book (Adams Media) and the Super Chicken Nugget Boy series (Hyperion Books for Children). He has taught at the Yale School of Drama, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Film Academy, Lee Strasberg Institute, and in NYC Public Schools.

TAMARA LOVATT-SMITH.  Tamara currently teaches Repetition with Atlantic and graduated from the Atlantic’s Conservatory Program in 1999.   Originally from Australia, Tamara works as a theater producer, actor and teacher in New York. She was the Co-Director of Hair of the Dog; a New York based Australian theater and film company. Recent acting and producing credits with Hair of the Dog include: Freak Winds, He Died with a Falafel in His Hand, Secret Bridesmaids Business, The John Wayne Principle and MEN.  Favorite theater and film credits include, Henry V, A Man for All Seasons, Get Rich Quick, Baby with the Bathwater and An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein. Tamara is currently part of the core producing team of the Broadway bound musical Angel’.

WILLIAM H. MACY.  Macy is fresh from debuting his newest film at the Sundance Film Festival.  The Deal, a film he not only starred in and produced, but also adapted from the novel by Peter Lefcourt with long time writing partner Steven Schachter.  Recent movie credits inclued Wild Hogs, The Cooler, Bobby, Edmond, an adaptation of the David Mamet play and Thank you for Smoking.  On television, Macy received an Emmy nomination for his role in “Umney’s Last Case” which aired on TNT in July of 2006 and was seen in TNT's "The Wool Cap" which he co-wrote with Steven Schachter.  Macy was nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award for his performance.  He and Schachter were also nominated for a Writers Guild Award.  In addition, the movie was nominated for an Emmy and a Critics' Choice Award.  In 2002, Macy appeared in TNT's "Door to Door" which received a SAG Award, Peabody Award, an AFI Award, a Critic's Choice Award, a Golden Satellite Award, a Writer's Guild nomination, an American Cinema Editors nomination and a Golden Globe nomination.  The movie was nominated for 12 Emmys and won 6 including Outstanding Made for Television Movie as well as winning Macy the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie statue and Outstanding Writing for a Television Movie with Steven Schachter.  In 2003, Macy starred in the Showtime Original Picture "Stealing Sinatra" which garnered him an Emmy nomination in the category of "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie."  Macy was also seen in the critically-acclaimed feature, Seabiscuit, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and the movie was nominated for Best Picture.  Macy is best known for his portrayal of Jerry Lundergaard in Fargo, for which he garnered an Oscar Nomination and won an Independent Spirit Award as Best Supporting Actor.  He also received nominations for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (American Comedy Awards), Best Actor (Chicago Film Critics), Best Supporting Actor (Dallas/ Fort Worth Film Critics), and Best Actor in a Drama (International Press Academy).  Additional film credits include Sahara, Cellular, Spartan, In Enemy Hands, Magnolia, Pleasantville, Happy Texas, State and Main, Jurassic Park 3, Focus, Welcome to Collinwood, Psycho, A Civil Action, Boogie Nights, Wag The Dog, Air Force One, Ghosts of Mississippi, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Client, Shadows and Fog, Murder in the First, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Radio Days and Panic.  Macy has been no less prolific on the small screen.  He has appeared in recurring roles on "ER" (Emmy nomination) and "Sports Night" (Emmy nomination).  His movie of the week credits include "Reversible Errors," "A Murderous Affair," "Heart of Justice," "Standoff at Marion," and the miniseries' "Andersonville," "The Murder of Mary Phagan" and "The Awakening Land."  In addition to the politically charged BBC telefilm "The Writing on the Wall," Macy also appeared in two Mamet vehicles, "The Water Engine" and Showtime's "Texan."  In 1999, he starred opposite his wife Felicity Huffman, on the TNT television film "A Slight Case of Murder" and received another Emmy nomination.  Macy and his writing partner Steven Schachter wrote the film and Schachter directed.  Also with Schachter, Macy has written several television scripts, including an episode of "Thirtysomething," the HBO movie "Above Suspicion" and the USA Networks movie "The Con."  He also was seen on the small screen in a regular guest role in the Showtime original series "Out of Order."  Born in Miami, Macy lived in Georgia until age ten before moving to Cumberland, Maryland, where his love for acting spawned as ‘Mordred’ in Camelot.  Elected junior and senior high school class president, he set out to become a veterinarian at Bethany College in West Virginia, but after performing in "play after play" Macy transferred to Goddard College in Vermont, where he came under the tutelage of theater Professor David Mamet.  In 1972, Mamet, Macy and his writing partner Steven Schachter moved to Chicago, where they collectively created the St. Nicholas Theater.  Macy originated roles for several of Mamet's classic original productions, among them, ‘Bobby’ in American Buffalo, and ‘Lang’ in The Water Engine, soon establishing his feature film presence with writer/director Mamet. His performances in Oleanna and "Homicide"earned Macy kudos and he continued with Mamet as a Mafioso driver in Things Change, a Marine in House of Games and an FBI agent in Wag the Dog.  Moving to New York in 1980, he continued to build his reputation in the theater as an originator of new roles, in such off-Broadway productions as Baby With the Bathwater, The Dining Room (later filmed for PBS - "Great Performances") Life During Wartime, Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen, Bodies, Rest and Motion, and Mamet's Prarie du Chen, Oh Hell, and Oleanna.  His stage credits, approaching fifty during his ten years in New York, also include the Broadway production of Our Town (Tony Award winner for Best Ensemble).  Macy was also seen on the London stage in Atlantic Theater Company's revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo, at the Donmar Warehouse.  Following the run in London, the play moved to New York for a record breaking run.  Along with his acting career, Macy has also earned respect as a teacher and director. Having led theater classes in Chicago and at New York University, today he serves as director in the residence at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York.  His extensive directing resume includes Boy's Life at Lincoln Center, the LA production of Oleanna at the Tiffany Theater, as well as Lip Service, an HBO film which won an ACE Award for best Theatrical Production.  Macy also directed the play The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York.  In 1998, Macy was honored by Showest when he was named Best Supporting Actor of the Year for his body of work.  Macy is married to Oscar nominee and Golden Globe, Emmy and SAG award winner, actress Felicity Huffman, who stars on "Desperate Housewives."  They live in Los Angeles with their two daughters.   

DAVID MAMET.  David Mamet is the author of the plays November, Romance, Boston Marriage, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include Red River by Pierre Laville and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Checkov. His films include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/director), Hoffa, The Edge, Wag the Dog, The Winslow Boy (writer/director), Hannibal, State and Main (writer/director), Heist (writer/director), and Redbelt (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat; Writing in Restaurants; Some Freaks; Make Believe Town; three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The Chinaman, books of poems; Three Children’s Plays; On Directing Film; The Cabin; and Wilson. His most recent books include the acting books, True and False,Three Uses of the Knife and Bambi vs. Godzilla, On the Nature Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business.

DONNIE MATHER.  Donnie is an instructor of the Viewpoints and the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.  He has taught at NYU/Experimental Theatre Wing, Columbia University, Bard College, Fordham University, the New School, Louisiana State University, University of Puerto Rico, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and the Iberoamericano Theatre Festival of Bogota, Colombia.  Since 1999, Mather has been a frequent guest instructor at the Atlantic Theater School as well as at their Summer Intensive in Burlington, Vermont.  Currently, he is on faculty at the Atlantic as the Movement instructor for the first year Conservatory students.  He has over a dozen years experience in the Suzuki and Viewpoints training with Anne Bogart and members of SITI Company where he was an Associate Artist (2000-2007).  Mather holds a BFA in Theatre and a minor in Dance from Western Kentucky University.  As a professional actor, he has performed Off-Broadway in Trojan Women A Love Story directed by Tina Landau; he was spent three seasons at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, & Two Gentlemen of Verona.  Other roles include Banquo in Macbeth and the title role in Uncle Vanya.  With SITI COMPANY, Mather performed in Seven Deadly Sins and the world premiere of Lilith (both at NYC Opera) and the world premiere of Nicholas and Alexandra with Placido Domingo at Los Angeles Opera (all directed by Anne Bogart).  He has also created movement for the New York premiere of Fete de la Nuit by Charles L. Mee directed by Kim Weild.  In 2006, Mather created and performed an original one man play about war, A Show of Force that premiered in New York and toured to the Manizales International Theatre Festival in Colombia. 

KELLY MAURER.  Kelly has been a member of the SITI Company since its inception.  With the company she has performed in many productions including Radio Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Dispute, Hayfever, bobrauschenbergamerica, The Medium, Small Lives/Big Dreams, Culture of Desire, Seven Deadly Sins, and Cabin Pressure, and at such theaters as The Public Theater, Lincoln Center’s New York State Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Walker Arts Center, Wexner Arts Center, The Irish Life Theater Festival, Theatre at Bobigny (Paris), the Toga International Theatre Festival (Japan), and the Edinburgh Festival (Scotland).  Regionally, Kelly has been seen as Rainbow in Maria Irene Fornes’ And What Became of the Night at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Hamlet at StageWest and Christine in Miss Julie at Actors Theatre of Louisville.  Internationally, she has toured with Tadashi Suzuki in the Suzuki Company of Toga’s Dionysus and with director Robert Wilson in his production of Persephone.  She performed the role of Jolly (as standby for Patti LuPone) in David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood on Broadway.  She also performed in an Adult Evening of She Silverstein and The Water Engine at the Atlantic Theater Company, Off Broadway.  Kelly teaches the Suzuki method of actor training and the viewpoints training with SITI, at the Atlantic Theater Acting School and NYU.  She has also taught workshops at many other colleges throughout the US including: Columbia University, Fordham University, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, The University of Minnesota, The Ohio State University, Ohio University and Skidmore College.  Kelly received an MFA from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 

MARY McCANN.  Mary is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company and the Executive Director of the Atlantic Acting School.   Recent credits include the role of MaryAnn in Little Children starring Kate Winslet and the upcoming films Choke starring Angelica Huston and Sam Rockwell, Sordid Things and in role of Ruthie Cheals in “The Unit” on CBS and David’s Mom in “The Naked Brothers Band” on Nickelodeon.  Mary has appeared in many Atlantic Theater Company productions, including the hit musical Spring Awakening, The Cherry Orchard, The Night Heron, The Hiding Place, This Thing of Darkness, The Beginning of August, Wolf Lullaby, The Water Engine, Edmond, Dangerous Corner and Shaker Heights.  Broadway Credits:  The Old Neighborhood, Our Town with Spaulding Grey and Search and Destroy.  Other Off-Broadway Credits include:  Oleanna (OrpheumTheater); Uncommon Women and Others (Second Stage); Boys’ Life (Lincoln Center); and Hot Keys (Naked Angels). American Repertory Theater:  Oleanna and Boston Marriage.  Film & TV Credits include:  “The Unit”, “Law & Order”, “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit”, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent”, “Sex and the City”, “Sports Night”, “ER”, “Spin City”, It Must Be Love, Door to Door, The Con, The Spanish Prisoner and Things Change. Producing Credits include the films: Edmond starring William H. Mary and Colin Fitz.

HEATHER OAKLEY.  Heather is an alumna of the Atlantic Acting School.  She teaches Repetition and Film Technique and is an instructor in the Atlantic for Kids program.  Heather has appeared on the Atlantic stage in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  In addition to several television programs, she appeared in the film The Stepford Wives and was Nicole Kidman’s stand-in for The Interpreter.  Heather is a proud graduate of Bryn Mawr College and she received her Master’s degree from Columbia University.

JOSH PAIS.  Josh has been featured in many movies including: A Beautiful Mind, Music of the Heart, Year of the Dog, Scream 3, A Civil Action, Rounders, Safe Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (as Raphael), The Station Agent, Phone Booth, Jacknife, Swimming, Scotland, PA., Little Manhattan, Find Me Guilty and Teeth. Upcoming films include Paul Soter's Watching the Detectives, Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche New York, Rob Margolies’ Wherever You Are, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland, Jared Hess’ Gentlemen Broncos, and the 2008 Sundance favorite Assasination of High School President.  Josh played Phil Pepe in the ESPN series The Bronx is Burning. He has had featured roles in many TV shows including Damages, Rescue Me, all the “Law and Order” s , “Sex and the City”, and “The Sopranos”. He wrote, directed and produced the award winning documentary, 7^th Street and is in preproduction to direct his first feature: Chewy Time about a 12 year old boy who becomes a revolutionary in 1967. Principal photography starts in summer 2009. Josh is the creator and sole master teacher of the Committed Impulse Actor Training.

NEIL PEPE.  Neil has been the Artistic Director of Atlantic Theater Company since 1992.  At Atlantic he most recently directed the world premiere of Jez Butterworth’s Paurlor Song and Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening (transferred to 45 Bleecker). Other credits include a double-bill of Harold Pinter’s first and most recent plays, The Room and Celebration at Atlantic; the world premiere of David Mamet’s comedy Romance at Atlantic as well as the Mark Taper Forum, Jez Butterworth’s The Night Heron and Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange.  Additional directing credits include David Mamet’s American Buffalo at The Donmar Warehouse, London and Atlantic Theater Company; Zinnie Harris’ Further Than the Furthest Thing at Manhattan Theatre Club; Eric Bogosian’s Red Angel at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Jessica Goldberg’s Refuge at Playwrights Horizons; Tom Donaghy’s The Beginning of August at South Coast Rep and Atlantic Theater Company; Jez Butterworth’s Mojo, Hilary Bell’s Wolf Lullaby, Edwin Sanchez’ Clean, Quincy Long’s Shaker Heights, Patrick Breen’s Call of the Wile E. and David Van Matre’s Five Very Live all at the Atlantic.  As an actor he has appeared in many productions at the Atlantic and other New York theaters.  Film acting credits include Magnolia, Analyze This, The Spanish Prisoner, Homicide, Assassination and Last Days of May.  TV: “Law & Order”, “Sex and the City”, “New York Undercover” and “Our Town” (PBS).

ILSE PFEIFER.  Ilse is a dancer, choreographer, vocal coach and bodyworker.  She teaches Voice at Atlantic Acting School in the Chuck Jones Voice Method.  Ilse coaches professional actors, dancers and singers of Film,TV, Stage and Opera. Her collaborations include the work with filmmaker Glenn Holsten, Robert Polumbo, choreographer Kevin O’Day, Dancers with the Pennsylvania Ballet, Rennie Harris Pure Movement Company, DJ King Britt, and radio artist Gregory Whitehead. She conceptualized and produced “I gaze at the prairie and see things” and “Mix”, both where aired in part by PBS in Philadelphia. Ilse was honored as a Pew Fellowships in the Arts Discipline Winner in Choreography & Dance-based Performance Art. Other teaching credits include a trainer in the two year Fitzmaurice® Voicework certificate program in NYC and LA. Actors Center, HB Studio, and guest teacher at NYU Playwright Horizon among others. She was born in Germany and holds Graduate Diplomas from the Royal Academy of Dancing, Graduate Diplomas Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, London.

MICHAEL PIAZZA.  Michael holds a B.F.A. in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.  He is an actor, director and proud teaching artist who has been teaching theater related curricula in New York City since 2004. As a teacher he has worked with Atlantic Acting School, Ars Nova, Art Is and I.D.E.A.S., among others. Recent acting credits include Revenge of the Space Pandas, "In Bed", Pericles, Hamlet, and Our Country's Good.

RENEE REDDING-JONES.  Renee began choreographing and teaching movement for actors more than fifteen years ago.  In 1998 Renee expanded her work with actors and joined the faculty at The Atlantic.  As a dancer, Renee was a featured performer in the companies of Ronald K. Brown and David Rousseve.  In 1995 she received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for her performance in Brown's Dirt Road.  Renee served as Associate Artistic Director for Brown's company from 1997-2007.  She has also performed in the company of Bebe Miller, in addition to dancing with independent choreographers, Sue Bernhard, Alan Danielson, Andrew Jannetti and Sondra Loring.  At present, Renee performs with Cynthia Oliver, which she has done since 1995.Renee is an Assistant Arts Professor, at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts in the Dance Department.   Prior to Tisch Dance, Renee spent six years as a faculty member in the dance department at Sarah Lawrence College under the direction of Sara Rudner.  She has toured the country teaching, as well as setting and creating work at various colleges, universities, and dance festivals.  Her work has been presented at Middlebury College, Colorado College, Dance Theater Workshop and Bergen Community College.  As part of the American College Dance Festival, Renee’s On the Pulse of the Morning, was selected to be performed as part of the gala concert. Renee is a Certified Movement Analyst with an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a B.S. from Morgan State University.  From 1997-2001, she was designated Master Teaching Artist/Artistic Advisor for New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) Arts Education Department for dance residences.   In addition to The Atlantic, Renee has enjoyed a long tenure with NYU/Undergraduate Drama in The Classical Studio.  Renee has choreographed numerous plays, including The Winter’s Tale, directed by Louie Scheeder and performed at The Jack A. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.  Today, she continues her affiliation with the studio as guest teacher and choreographer.

MASON ROSENTHAL.  Mason holds a BFA in Drama from NYU where he studied at The Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. Theater: Shakuntala (Authentic Theatre), Lily's Purple Plastic Purse (Manhattan Children's Theatre), Hamlet (Orpheus Productions), Randy Newman's Faust (The Goodman Theatre). Film: "Get a Girlfriend" Axe Body Spray Commercial (2007 Cannes Film Festival Finalist), The Story So Far Album DVD (Corn Hill Indie), The Line (Broadway Video Entertainment). Mason is a member of The Bull Family Orchestra and is also on faculty at the West Side YMCA's youth arts program. He has trained and taught improvisational dance with Dr. George Russell since 2006, and is a practicing martial artist (Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Capoeira).

GEORGE RUSSELL.  In George Russell’s first professional appearance at age twelve, he was stabbed seventeen times in fourteen days as the son to MacDuff.   Dr. Russell is a dancer, teacher, bodyworker, chiropractor and movement specialist.  As a dancer and teacher, he specializes in improvisation.  Teaching credits include Wesleyan University, Vassar College, Rutgers University, and professional classes in New York City since 1990.  Dr. Russell has a private practice in New York combining bodywork, chiropractic, movement education and counseling and drawing on his eclectic background in dance, theater, chiropractic, Trager, Pilates, Iyengar Yoga and Alexander techniques.  He has written dance criticism for the journals juice and Gay City News.  His academic writing focuses on kinesiology and on the role of the dancer in choreography.  www.georgerusselldc.com

ANYA SAFFIR.  Anya is a director and educator and has been on the Atlantic faculty since 1998. She teaches Advanced Script Analysis classes in the NYU and Conservatory programs, including scene study in Chekhov, Post-War British Drama and Throughline technique. Directing credits include Hamlet with Orpheus Productions (Innovative Theater Award Nomination, Outstanding Direction),Three Sisters with Muse Theater Company, original plays by Jerome Hairston, Scott Organ, Heather MacDonald and Kevin Heelan at Atlantic Theater Company’s New Works Series, the Daryl Roth 2 and the hotINK international play festival, and various productions at Atlantic Acting School, among them Shakespeare’s Pericles, As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale, Chekhov’s The Bear, Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good.  Anya served as Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company in NYC and is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts drama department.  Anya holds a BFA in drama from Tisch/NYU and is an alumnus of The Atlantic Acting School.

DANIEL SERGIO.  Daniel teaches NYU Level I and Conservatory Level I at Atlantic.  He co-teaches professionals with Katie Bull and Patrick James Taylor outside of studio - Level I, Level II, and in the new Production Project, Cruise Control.  He also teaches children through Ars Nova and the United Assembly as well as through volunteer work with MCC’s Inner-City Youth Co.  He is an alumna of Atlantic where he trained in the Jones based vocal work for two years.  He then began a vocal coaching internship with Katie Bull. He has assisted Katie on several Broadway and off-Broadway vocal coaching projects this year: Journey's End; Screwtape. Born in Argentina, he returned there after graduation from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and worked as an actor in voice overs (Disney-Argentina), theater (British Arts Centre) and film (Independents).  Daniel is a working actor, most recently a featured principal player in Katie Bull’s jazz music video for her new vocal CD/DVD release The Story, So Far. He is a core member of the inter-arts theater company, The Bull Family Orchestra.

CYNTHIA SILVER.  Cynthia has been on faculty at the Atlantic since 1998, teaching performance technique, repetition, and the business of acting. She is a member of Partial Comfort Productions (www.partialcomfort.org) and was seen in their production of Ross Maxwell’s Open House, which was awarded the Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Ensemble at the 2006 NY Int’l Fringe Festival. Cynthia also received much critical acclaim for her performance in her one-woman show, Bridezilla Strikes Back! (co-written with Kenny Finkle & directed by Paul Urcioli), which won Outstanding Solo Show at the 2005 NY Int’l Fringe Festival.  She is a founding member of Mobius Group Productions and has appeared in its productions of The Adding Machine (Winner, Best Overall Production, 2001 NY Int'l Fringe Festival), Richard Nelson's Jitterbugging: Scenes of Sex in a New Society, Eric Bogosian's Scenes From the New World, Warren Leight's The Loop and The House of Yes.  Other stage credits: Carnival Round the Central Figure, directed by Karen Kohlhaas; David Pittu’s All Things Considered (Atlantic Theater Co.); David Mamet’s Revenge of the Space Pandas, and the world premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Arthur MacGilliguty  (Atlantic for Kids); Hard Times and Witness for the Prosecution (Dorset Theatre Festival). Film: Charlie Wilson’s War; Sweet Flame; Colin Fitz Lives!, directed by Robert Bella; The Last Days of Leni Riefenstahl.  Cynthia has a BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is an alumnus of the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School.

PATRICK TAYLOR.  Patrick is an actor and vocal coach.  An alumnus of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School, he earned his BFA in drama.  Film and television credits include; Assassination of a High School President as Senior Class President Paul Moore (Sundance 2008), and “Law and Order: SVU”.  Theatre credits include 10x20 (Atlantic) and Dionysus in 69: a Revival (Performing Garage), as Dionysus.  Patrick is a member of the Bull Family Orchestra.  He has trained and taught with Katie Bull for four years, both at Atlantic and privately in New York. 

TODD THALER.  Todd started as a production assistant for Rollins & Joffe, Woody Allen’s personal managers and producers.  He was soon given the job of casting ‘extras,’ which he did on many of Mr. Allen’s films. As a casting director, some of his recent credits: Perfect Stranger, Arthur and the Invisibles, and Little Children.  Among his earlier credits: Running on Empty, Night and the City, Mad Dog and Glory, The Professional, Tumbleweeds, Copland, Maid in Manhattan, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and Ed Harris' directorial debut, Pollock. He has also cast movies and series for television, including the NBC comedy, Ed, for which he was nominated for the Emmy Award.  When not working as a casting director, Todd coaches actors privately.  Over the years, he has guest lectured and taught at various studios in New York.  He received a B.A. in Acting/Directing from SUNY at New Paltz.

CHARLES TUTHILL.  Charles made his living as an actor for fifteen years playing leading roles in plays by Coward, Friel, Greenberg, Kaufman, Rudnick, Shakespeare, Stoppard, and Euripides at theaters across the country including Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center, Circle Rep, Theater for a New Audience and the WPA. For the last ten years he has served on the faculties of the Actors Center, The Atlantic Theater Company Acting School, SUNY Purchase, Syracuse University, Princeton and the Caymichael Patten Studios. Additionally, he has taught acting workshops in Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Moscow, London and New Delhi. Recently named New York’s Best Acting Coach by Backstage Newspaper, he has coached many actors for Broadway, Off Broadway, film and television. For further information please visit www.charlestuthill.com.

PAUL URCIOLI.  Paul is an actor, director and teacher living in Brooklyn.  Film:  The Killing Floor, Off the Black, Wait Here, Colin Fitz Lives, Shoplifting Chanel. TV: “Cashmere Mafia,” “Six Degrees,” “Conviction,” many appearances on all the “Law and Order” s, “Third Watch,” “Sex and the City,” “All My Children,” “The Guiding Light” and a recurring role on the CBS drama “Queens Supreme.”  Commercial:  National spots for “Verizon,” “FedEx Kinko’s,” “Las Vegas,” “Tuscan,” “Delta,” “Canon,” “Volkswagen,” “IBM,” “CNN,” “Brown Co.”  Theater:  Fly, Americana Absurdum, Eat the Taste, Over the River and Through the Woods, MOJO, Harvest, Goner, Bobbie Lei’s Hawaiian Halloween, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Rosemary for Remembrance, Laguna Beach, Saved, Bob’s Self Improvement Seminar, Troilus & Cressida; as well as performing in and directing plays with Atlantic 453 – New Works.  Paul also appeared in Americana Absurdum in the NY and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals (Fringe First Winner) and in Brian Parks’ Goner in Clonmel and Letterkenny, Ireland.  Directing credits include:  America Perseveres, Revenge of the Space Pandas, Our Town, The Devil & Billy Markham, Twelfth Night…, Bridezilla Strikes Back (NY Fringe Festival Award Winner), Suspicious Package (HERE), The Rimers of Eldritch, The Women, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Mom and the Razor Blades, Harm’s Way, Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet.  Paul is on the faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was an Artist in Residence at Oberlin College from 1986-89 teaching acting, movement, improvisation and performing with members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

FRANCINE ZERFAS.  Francine is a teacher, actress and writer.  She is currently an instructor of voice for the Professional Program and Summer Vermont Program at Atlantic Theater Conservatory.  Ms. Zerfas, also heads the Voice and Speech Department at New York University’s, Playwrights Horizons Theater School and is an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn College, where she teaches both Speech and Dialects, and Fitzmaurice Voicework.  She has taught voice at the Caymichael Patten Studio and Classic Stage Company and Circle in the Square in New York City, The Hangar Summer Theater in Ithaca, New York and at Harvard Summer School in Cambridge, MA. . She has held vocal workshops over two summers at the Centro em Movimento in Lisbon, Portugal, and this fall taught in Melbourne, Australia at the International Film and Television Studio. She is a co-founder of The Tiny Mythic Theater Company in New York City, where she has been both an actor and writer for the company.  Ms. Zerfas has also worked as an actor in various regional and Off-Off Broadway theaters, Independent film and Public TV.  As a writer, she has collaborated with both The Private Theater, The Tiny Mythic Theater and at New York University creating original works. She is currently writing a nonfiction personal narrative titled, The Cardboard Guy, Ms. Zerfas has also trained extensively in ballet and modern dance and performed in Minneapolis for various independent choreographers and dance companies, and was a cofounder of The Hoover Uprights Dance Company in Minneapolis, MN.  She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the New School University. Ms. Zerfas is also a certified Associate Teacher of Catherine Fitzmaurice Voicework, and a Master Teacher of Jones Vocal Production.

SCOTT ZIGLER.  A.R.T.: Copenhagen, Absolution, Animals and Plants, The Cripple of Inishmaan, the world premiere of David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood; was Assistant Director of The Cryptogram at the A.R.T.  He directed The Old Neighborhood on Broadway, the national tour of Mamet’s Oleanna, as well as the theatrical trailer for the film version of that play.  He also directed Mr. Mamet’s plays The Woods and Sexual Perversity in Chicago, as well as numerous shorter pieces.  Mr. Zigler served as Artistic Director of the Atlantic Theater Company in New York and as Executive Director of that company’s professional training program, the Practical Aesthetics Workshop.  He was also Director of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice/Intern Company from 1992-94.  At Actors Theatre, Mr. Zigler directed Oleanna and Jose Rivera’s Tape for the 1993 Humana Festival.  Mr. Zigler is Associate Director of the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and Artistic Coordinator of A.R.T. New Stages.