Kathryn Alexander
Favorite theater roles include: Point Last Seen (Atlantic Stage 2), Three Women in Indecision (The Kraine Theater), God of 16 Acres (Atlantic 453), Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden (Atlantic Conservatory), The John Wayne Principle (The Ohio Theater), and Antigone (Nashville Shakespeare Festival) among many others. Ms. Alexander can be seen in the film Choke (Sundance Grand Jury Prize, 2008). Television roles include Law & Order and Dickens in America (BBC Scotland). She received her BA from Brown University and completed the Conservatory Program at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School.
Alison Beatty
As a proud alumna of the Atlantic, Alison Beatty has been the School Artistic Director for the past 3 years, where she is responsible for programming and producing 15 shows a year with students from both the NYU and Conservatory programs, as well as 2 Atlantic for Kids productions. Additionally, she has had the pleasure of directing and/or choreographing several ATC for Kids shows, including: The Hundred Dresses, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Miss Nelson is Missing, No Dogs Allowed, Really Rosie, Strega Nona, The Big Stew, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. Choreography: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, Pericles, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, and Caucasian Chalk Circle. Directing: Modern Dance for Beginners by Sarah Phelps.
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 Felicity Huffman, Jonathan Cake, James Spader, and Kerry Washington. Katie is also a critically acclaimed Jazz Singer & Composer; she received Grammy Nomination consideration in 2011 for Freak Miracle. Katie has been vocal coaching Jones Vocal Production, (a warm up and exploration of text for the speaking voice), for over 20 years in various New York City professional studios, universities, and in her own Whole Body Voice classes. She is currently a candidate for 2012 Fitzmaurice Certification, and has been integrating Fitzmaurice work since 2004.
Philip Carlson
Philip Carlson was an agent and a manger for over thirty years. He was the first agent to sign Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Liev Schreiber, Claire Danes, Kyra Sedgwick, Adrian Grenier, Idris Elba and Paul Giamatti. For this course, he has distilled what worked for those actors and what did not and how even they might have been able to shorten the time between training and working consistently in the profession.
Nathan Crocker
An actor and singer, Nathan holds an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied with Fitzmaurice Master teachers Phil Thompson and Cynthia Bassham. He most recently served as Artistic Associate and voice/dialect coach for Santa Rosa Summer Rep Theatre. He has also taught voice/speech/accents, acting, and musical theatre singing at UC Irvine. He served as Assistant Voice/Text Coach for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s production of Othello. Recent acting credits include Angels In America, The Piano Lesson, Company, and Othello. Nathan is a Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice® Voicework, and has studied extensively with Phil Thompson of Knight-Thompson Speechwork.
Susan Finch
Susan Finch has been a voice, speech and dialect coach for over 25 years. Alumna of John Houseman’s The Acting Company, graduate of the Juilliard School where she regularly returns to teach and coach productions. Other teaching credits: Head of the Speech The Atlantic Theater School NYU 1987-2010, Playwright Horizons (1987-1997), Marymount College, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Alongside coaching theater productions she teaches private voice and speech courses in NYC. Recipient of the Drama League Award, The Edith Skinner Prize, Voice Fellow at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab Summer 2011.
Hilary Hinckle
Hilary Hinckle is a long-time Atlantic Theater company member. She has directed and produced off-Broadway throughout her years in New York. For the ATC, and the acting school, she has directed works by David Mamet, Craig Lucas, Warren Leight, Hilary Bell, Lucy Thurber and numerous one-acts. She was the managing director of the company for many years, prior to that position she served as executive director of the school, and she has been a master teacher at the school for over 20 years. She is currently is teaching Performance Technique in the first year program.
Katie Honaker
Katie Honaker graduated from the two year conservatory at Atlantic Acting School followed by a year working with Columbia University directing M.F.A. candidates in their weekly class work and a collaboration class with Anne Bogart. Theater: “The New York Idea”, “The Collection”, “A Kind of Alaska” (understudies) all at Atlantic Theater Company, “The Invitation” by Brian Parks (dir: John Clancy), “Hotel Oracle” by Bixby Elliot (dir: Stephen Brackett), “Food for Fish” by Adam Szymkowicz (dir: Alexis Poledouris) Katie teaches Speech at Atlantic Acting School. She also does commercial and voice over work. Member AEA, SAG and AFTRA.
Kristin Johnston
Kristin Johnston is a long-time member of the Atlantic Theater Company and faculty member. Productions with Atlantic include “The Lights” at Lincoln Center (Drama Desk Nom) and “Scarcity”. Other stage credits include “The Women,” “Aunt Dan & Lemon,” “Love Song,” and “So Help Me God!” (Drama Desk Nom.) In the Park:“Much Ado”, “12th Night” & “Skin of our Teeth” Film: “Vamps,” “Lovesick,” “Bride Wars,” “Music & Lyrics,” “Strangers with Candy” & “Austin Powers 2″ Television: “3rd Rock From the Sun” (winner 2 Emmy awards), “Ugly Betty,” “ER,” “Bored to Death,” and “Sex in the City.” She can currently be seen on TV Land’s hit show “the Exes.” Johnston recently wrote a New York Times bestseller, “GUTS: the Endless Follies & Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster.”
Karen Kohlhaas
Karen Kohlhaas is an Atlantic founding member and senior teacher. Theater director: Atlantic, Public, St. Luke’s Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Naked Angels, Alley Theatre, Houston, Practical Theatre Co, Sydney, Menagerie Theatre, Cambridge, UK and more. Her short films have played in US and international festivals. She has taught at Atlantic since 1987, teaches her own classes in directing, scene study, monologues, and auditioning, and has guest taught at the undergraduate and graduate acting programs at USC, and Metodi Festival, Tuscany. Author/creator: three books & DVD on performing, finding and teaching monologues. Her website for actors and teachers: www.monologueaudition.com.
Judy Kuhn
Judy Kuhn was nominated for three Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her performances in She Loves Me, Chess, Les Miserables, and Rags. Also on Bway: Two Shakespearean Actors, King David, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Other theater: Fosca in Passion (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration), Sunset Boulevard, Three Sisters, Eli’s Comin’ (Obie Award), The Ballad of Little Jo (Steppenwolf /Jeff Award Nomination), The Glass Menagerie. Film/TV: Disney’s Pocahontas, Enchanted, Hope & Faith, Law & Order, My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, The Kennedy Center Honors, In Performance At The White House. Solo CD’s: Serious Playground:The Songs of Laura Nyro and Just In Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne. Upcoming: Passion at CSC Feb. 2013
Jordan Lage
Jordan Lage has been a member of the Atlantic school faculty since 1990. He teaches introductory & advanced script analysis, has taught Meisner-based repetition and on-camera acting classes, and devised & conducts the Writing Performance Workshop for NYU Undergraduate Drama students. 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 the one-act plays, Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning and Alums.
Jacquelyn Landgraf
Jacquelyn Landgraf is an actress, director, writer, and theater educator. She has taught Script Analysis at the Atlantic since 2006. From 2005-2011 Jacquelyn was an ensemble member and co-artistic director of The New York Neo-Futurists (New York Innovative Theater Awards, Caffe Cino Award, Drama Desk Nomination). She has been a Resident Theater Artist at the Invisible Dog Art Space, a curator of the hotINK International Festival of Playreadings, and performs and teaches workshops across the country and internationally. She holds a B.F.A. in Drama from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, and is an alumna of the Atlantic Acting School.
Charley Layton
Charley Layton graduated from NYU Tisch (BFA Drama), studied at Atlantic and has been teaching Speech/Dialects in NYC for over 10 years. He coaches theatrical productions all over the city and abroad (recent credits include: Sweeney Todd, Bryn Mar College; The Dumb Waiter, Duo Theatre; Lemon Sky, Clurman Theatre; etc.). He is a faculty member of the Atlantic Acting School teaching Speech. He also teaches private lessons to actors, singers, public speakers and businesspeople alike specializing in accent reduction/elimination. He was a two-time semi-finalist in the National Shakespeare Competition (ESU) at Lincoln Center.
Josh Lewis
Josh Lewis is an actor, writer, and director. With his comedy group, The Bert Fershners, he worked frequently with Comedy Central, creating and performing original comedy for the channel, including the group’s own half-hour special. He was a cast member and Co-writer of “Crepuscule,” which evolved into ” The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” He is author of the Disney-Hyperion kids’ book series, Super Chicken Nugget Boy. Other acting credits include: “Law & Order,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” and commercials for burgers, beer, and gas.
Mary McCann
Mary McCann is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, Executive Director of the Atlantic Acting School and current faculty. Select recent credits: Film: Untitled Phil Spector biopic, Timber, Light Years, Flood, Little Children starring Kate Winslet, Choke starring Angelica Huston and Sam Rockwell, Sordid Things. TV: A Gifted Man (dir. Jonathan Demme), The Unit, The Naked Brothers Band, all “Law & Order.” ATC: Bluebird, 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: The Old Neighborhood, Our Town with Spaulding Grey and Search and Destroy. Producing Credits include the films: Edmond starring William H. Mary and Colin Fitz.
Lorielle Mallue
Lorielle is school associate director and a faculty member. Credits include: SELF: BY ALISON CARSEN (writer/director/actor, Student Emmy, UCLA Directors Spotlight Award), THE WONDER PETS! (writer), I Never Saw Another Butterfly… (producer/director), Lovers (VTA Best Actress Award). Current projects: THIS AMERICAN DEATH (producer), WHAT IF, RIGHT NOW…? Based on the short story “Victory Lap” by George Saunders (writer/director). In LA she worked for six years for Jodie Foster and her Paramount Pictures financed company, Egg Pictures (Meg LeFauve, president) on multiple features and as story editor for projects Egg was developing. BFA (NYU-Atlantic), MFA (UCLA), Ed.M. (Harvard), FIND Producing Lab Fellow.
Michael Mastro
Broadway: West Side Story; Twelve Angry Men; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Judgement at Nuremberg; Side Man; Barrymore. Off Broadway and Regional work at Naked Angels, George Street Playhouse (also directed), New York Stage and Film, Paper Mill, Old Globe, Williamstown, and Penguin Rep. Films: Kissing Jessica Stein, The Night We Never Met, and Jungle 2 Jungle. TV: Currently recurring on “Law and Order: SVU” as Judge Solani. Coaching/teaching privately and in workshops for over ten years. Has lectured and taught at several other training programs, including the Actors Center, Naked Angels Theatre School, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Rutgers.
Donnie Mather
Donnie Mather has over 17 years experience with Viewpoints and Suzuki Method, training with Mary Overlie, Tina Landau, Anne Bogart, and SITI Company (Associate Artist 2001-2007). He has been an instructor at NYU, Columbia, Bard, Fordham, New School, NYCDA, Marymount, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, O’Neill Theatre Center, and throughout Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Brazil. He has performed with WeildWorks, SITI, NYC Opera, LA Opera, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, International Wow Company, En Garde Arts, Toronto Fringe & Manizales International Theatre Festival. His original work includes “A Show of Force”. Donnie is the founding artist of The Adaptations Project.
Kelly Maurer
Kelly Maurer is a founding member of the SITI Company (artistic director, Anne Bogart). With the company she has performed in many productions including, bobraushenberamerica and Radio Macbeth. Regionally, Kelly has been seen as Rainbow in Maria Irene Fornes’ And What of the Night and as Hamlet at Stagewest. Internationally, she has toured with director Tadashi Suzuki in the Suzuki Company of Toga’s production of Dionysus. She performed the role of Jolly (as stand-by for Patti Lupone) in The Old Neighborhood (Broadway) and Hermia in Dead Man Cell Phone (Playwrights Horizons). Kelly teaches the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and the Viewpoints Training with SITI, the Atlantic Acting School and NYU.
Heather Oakley
Selected theater: 24 Hour Plays, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Atlantic Theater Company). Connect Five: The Room and a Richard and the 2011 FringeNYC production of What the Sparrow Said (The Common Tongue). The 29 Questions Project (Bull Family Orchestra). She has appeared in television, independent films and was Nicole Kidman’s stand-in for Sydney Pollack’s last feature film, The Interpreter. Heather is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University and is an alumna of the Atlantic Acting School, where she now a faculty member.
Josh Pais
Josh is the founder of Committed Impulse. http://committedimpulse.com/ He has trained thousands of actors, speakers, artists and entrepreneurs around the globe to create from their truth. He leads CI intensives and workshops in NYC, Los Angeles, a yearly retreat in Tulum Mexico, as well as offering an online course. As an actor, Josh has appeared in over 90 movies and TV shows. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656929/ Upcoming Josh will be in Ray Donovan on Showtime, and in Lynn Shelton’s next feature, Touchy Feely.
Michael Piazza
Michael is an actor, director, and a proud theater educator. He has been a teaching artist in New York City since 2004, working with several organizations in the public schools in all five boroughs. As well as teaching at the Atlantic, he has taught as an adjunct professor of Acting at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx. Michael holds a BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied with the Atlantic and the Experimental Theater Wing. Recent acting credits: Romeo and Juliet (American Theater of Actors), The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Atlantic for Kids), The Tenant (Woodshed Collective), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Pipeline Theatre Co.), Igor’s Monster (Idiom Theatre of Washington), The Confidence Man (The Woodshed Collective).
Renee Redding-Jones
Renee Redding-Jones has been on the faculty of The Atlantic since 1998. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Morgan State University as a Physical Education major minoring in Dance. Renee continued her studies in dance at Sarah Lawrence College where she received the degree of Master of Fine Arts. In 1998 Renee completed her studies at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies to become a Certified Movement Analyst. 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 “Bessie” Award.
Jennifer Rau
Jennifer trained at Atlantic Acting School and teaches Repetition and Performance Technique. Her Off-Broadway and Regional Theater credits include: Once In A Lifetime (Atlantic Theater Company), The Hologram Theory (Blue Light), Sex Parasite (Mark Taper Forum), M Butterfly (East West Players), Miracles and The Baby Dance (Barter Theatre). Film and Television credits: Finding Amanda, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Without A Trace, yes,dear, Inconceivable, and the award-winning short film Some Boys Don’t Leave, directed by Atlantic company member Maggie Kiley.
Anya Saffir
Anya teaches advanced script analysis classes in Chekhov, Post-war British drama and Throughline technique. Directing credits include an all-male Romeo and Juliet, Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle (ITBA Award, Outstanding Show), new works for the Atlantic Theater 10×25 Play Festival, the development of a new translation of The Seagull, Corneille’s The Illusion, Hamlet (Innovative Theater Award nomination, Best Direction), and Three Sisters. Upcoming projects include directing at The Moscow Art Theater for American Repertory Theater Institute. Anya has served as Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company and Adjunct Professor in the Tisch Drama department. She is an alumna of Atlantic-Tisch-NYU.
Diann Sichel
Diann Sichel, certified Alexander Technique teacher, movement artist, performance advisor and director; choreographs for visual and performance artists with venues in media, main-stage and non-traditional spaces. On the faculty of the Atlantic Acting School and Montclair State University, with a private Alexander Technique practice in NYC/NJ, Diann teaches Alexander Technique, breathing coordination and movement. Artistic and educational work include Princeton University, Wake Forest, Connecticut College, CSU/Long Beach, University of Colorado, Dansens Hus, Musique de Norte Temps en Thouet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Smokebrush Foundation, Colorado Springs Symphony, Harbinger Dance Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, George Street Playhouse. MFA/dance.
Cynthia Silver
Cynthia Silver has been on faculty at Atlantic since 1998, teaching Performance Technique, Repetition, and the Business of Acting. Her one woman show, BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK!, has earned her much critical acclaim and NY Int’l Fringe Festival’s Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Solo Show. She is an ensemble member of Partial Comfort Productions (www.partialcomfort.org) and has been seen in their productions of KIDSTUFF and Open House, which won Outstanding Ensemble at FringeNYC. Cynthia has a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is an alumna of Atlantic. Her full credits, press & reviews may be found at www.cynsilver.com.
Andy Schneeflock
Andy Schneeflock, studied at the Atlantic and has taught there for the past five years. Theater: Harry The Hunk On His Way Out (The Cherry Lane Theatre) Mush (NY Fringe at La Mama) Really Rosie & Miss Nelson is Missing (Atlantic Theater For Kids) A Winter’s Tale (Atlantic Stage 2) The Steel Tower (Theater Arts Japan) OMFG Sketch Comedy & Too Many Zombies TV (UCB). TV: “History Channels Epic History of Everyday Things” “Señor Nugget”. Film: Staring At the Sun, GUYnecology, Marketing Minorities, OMFG Instructional Videos. You can often catch him perform with the nationally recognized comedy group, The Story Pirates.
Todd Thaler
Todd Thaler’s credits as a Casting Director include: Luc Besson’s The Professional, Todd Field’s Little Children, Sidney Lumet’s Running on Empty, Ed Harris’ directorial debut Pollock, Barbra Streisand’s The Mirror Has Two Faces, James Foley’s Perfect Stranger, Stacy Cochran’s My New Gun, Irwin Winkler’s Night and the City, John McNaughton’s Mad Dog & Glory, Gavin O’Connor’s Tumbleweeds, John Turturro’s Mac, Illuminata, and Romance & Cigarettes, James Mangold’s Heavy and Cop Land, and Wayne Wang’s Because of Winn-Dixie and Maid in Manhattan. Television projects include: TBS’ Are We There Yet?, Peter Berg’s Wonderland, and NBC’s, Ed, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.
Charles Tuthill
Charles Tuthill was an actor for 15 years before joining the Atlantic Faculty, where he teaches Shakespeare. He also serves on the faculties of SUNY Purchase where he is a first year and fourth year teacher, as well as the Tepper Semester offered by Syracuse University. He maintains a private practice where he coaches actors for graduate school, as well as individuals who are working on feature films or television. For more information see www.charlestuthill.com.
Paul Urcioli
Actor, Producer, Director and ATC Faculty since 1991. Film & TV: Morning Glory, 3 Backyards, Thanks for Sharing, The Good Wife, Royal Pains, Unforgettable, The Unusuals, Fringe, Cashmere Mafia, Six Degrees, all the Law and Orders, Sex & the City; Theater: Americana Absurdum (Lucille Lortel, P.S. 122); Eat the Taste (Barrow Street); Goner, Over the River and Through the Woods. Directing: Reckless, Our Town, The Rimers of Eldritch, Suspicious Package, The Women, Revenge of the Space Pandas, Twelfth Night, The Devil & Billy Markham; Producing: Phoenix, Grace of God.
John VanWyden
BFA Point Park College, Pittsburgh Pa.; MFA Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. John was a recipient of the Case Western Reserve-Cleveland Play House MFA Fellowship. John has served as the dialect coach for many of NYU’s main stage productions including Dancing at Lughnasa, Pentecost, Cabaret and The Madras House. John’s coaching credits at the Atlantic studio include Mad Forest, Our Country’s Good, Golden Boy, Top Girls, Factory Girls. Hay Fever and In the Next Room. Professional coaching credits include Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana at Radio City Music Hall.
Scott Zigler
Founding member and past Artistic Director of Atlantic Theater and Atlantic Theater Acting School, where he has taught since 1987. Co-author of A Practical Handbook for the Actor. Currently Director of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Mr. Zigler has taught acting at universities around the country as well as in Canada, Italy, and Australia. As a director Mr. Zigler has worked on and off Broadway and at major regional theaters around the country including the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the American Repertory Theater, the McCarter Theatre and many others.