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It was exciting to go to the theatre and see two of my former students, Mayaa Boateng and Hannah Cabell, in the acclaimed production of Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury and directed by Rachel Chavkin. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2019. This production started at Soho Rep and after a successful run it was moved to …
It’s not often that I go to see a play at the Public Theater, or any theater and four of my former students are in it! That’s right four – Marchant Davis, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Fedna Jacquet, and Simone Recasner. Their characters were fascinating and the actors used all of the techniques of voice and text that they learned in my …
Opening Night of “The Young Man from Atlanta” by Horton Foote at the Signature Theatre with Aidan Quinn (who played the lead Will Kidder). Aidan is with Ronald Castellano, Kezia Bernard-Nau and Kyriacos Michael, students in my Voice and Speech class. Signature Theatre kindly gave me comps to thank me for my work as the dialect coach for this production. …
Backstage with my students Nnamdi Asomugha (Private Melvin Peterson) and Lee Aaron Rosen (Captain Wilcox) who are in A Soldier’s Play on Broadway. The production is directed by Kenny Leon. The play, by Charles Fuller, was first performed in 1981 by the Negro Ensemble Company and in 1982 it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play was inspired by Fuller’s …
I’ve seen many productions on the West End in London but this is the first time I saw one of my students perform. Dominik Tiefenthaler stars in The Lehman Trilogy. He took over the role of Emanuel Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy and I jumped on a plane so I could see him. He was extraordinary. In the program notes …
Well that was a fun evening in the theatre! Watching Bernhardt Hamlet on Broadway with three of former students from NYU Grad Acting – Jason Butler Harner, Matt Saldivar, and Aaron Costas Ganis. The star of the show is one of my all time favorite actors – Janet McTeer. I have seen her in many shows at the Royal Shakespeare …
Sathya Sridharan and Angel Desai, both former students of mine in NYU’s Grad Acting program, are performing together at the Manhattan Theatre Club in India Pale Ale, a new play by Jaclyn Backhaus. They are terrific! It’s rewarding to hear the voice work that they did in class be connected to their acting in such an emotional and unique play. …
I’ve been to the Globe Theatre in London before but this time my former student from NYU Graduate Acting, André Holland, was playing Othello! It is difficult to describe the feelings of seeing someone you taught perform on such a prestigious stage. From the first moment André entered, he commanded our attention. He had the audience in the palm of …
I went to see my former student Margy Love in The Black Book by Phil Blechman, playing at The Sargent Theater. She was terrific, and the voice/speech/text work was excellent! “The Black Book” is a new play about an afflicted college student, Collin Archer, who secretly leaves a veiled suicide note in the form of a poem on the desk of …
First day of the Newsies second national tour!