function changeTeacher(teacher)
{
myTeacher = teacher;
if (myTeacher == 'brody')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Noah Brody
Mr. Brody has performed around the country at theaters including the Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Madison Rep, the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, and Trinity Repertory Company. He has appeared on Law and Order and as recurring characters on both All My Children and As the World Turns He is a fight choreographer who has trained with Richard Ryan, Master at Arms at RADA and J. Allen Suddeth. Noah received an MFA in Acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium, and his Voice and Speech work is most strongly influenced by the technique of freeing the natural voice taught there as well as Alexander Technique and Yoga practice.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'burrus')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Ron Burrus
Adler Technique
Mr. Burrus is the greatest living exponent of the Stella Adler Technique. Mr. Burrus spent many years studying and teaching alongside Ms. Adler in New York City. He has extensive theatre directing credits including The Three Sisters and You Can't Take It With You at the Circle in the Square, The Brick and the Rose at New York University and The White Whore and the Bit Player for the Cubiculo Theatre. Los Angeles theatre credits: Award-winning Guest of the Nation at the Court Theatre, Seed of Darkness at the Tamarind Theatre, Opus One at the Los Feliz Playhouse. Film coaching credits include John Mellencamp's Falling From Grace. Mr. Burrus has also directed his own feature film, Getting Personal (European Release) aka The Mysterious Death of Kelly Lawman (HBO, Cinemax). His acting seminars are done internationally and nationally: Sydney, Australia; Lausanne, Switzerland; Tokyo, Japan; and Toulouse, France.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'caldart')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Carlos Caldart
Director of Outreach
As Director of Outreach, has built a vibrant and growing program at Stella Adler. Beginning in 2003 with programs at NYC public schools and the Parks Department, the Stella Adler Outreach Division, lead by Carlos, now serves students from numerous New York City high schools with professional level acting training in a year long program and a summer program. He holds an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College, and a BS in Business Administration from his native Brazil; Carlos brings his skills and passion for acting excellence to the program as an instructor and performer. Under Carlos' direction, the program continues to pursue new avenues of collaboration and artistic growth.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'calhoun')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Kholi Calhoun
Voice and Speech
Ms. Calhoun has dialect and vocal coached Off-Broadway and Regionally. Coaching credits include I Have…Rwanda, Harvest, Umbrella, Assassins, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Vinegar Tom, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Mad Forest, Museum, Paganini, Dancing At Lughnasa, The Persians, Laura Dennis, Necessary Targets and The Mai. She is currently an instructor for NYU's Drama department. In the past she has taught at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, and ACTeen. Acting credits include The Blue Room, Wanda's Visit, A Little Night Music, Getting Out, Pterodactyls, The Life of Galileo and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She has a BFA from NYU/Tisch and is a proud member of the Voice and Speech Trainers' Association (VASTA).";
}
if (myTeacher == 'cavatt')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Mary Cavatt
Movement
Mary holds a BFA in Drama from NYU/ Tisch School of the Arts and trained at the Stella Adler Studio and London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and performs on stage and screen in New York and regionally. Mary performed with Ballet Tucson and received her dance training from Ballet Arts (AZ), the Kirov Academy and the Boston Ballet School. She is the Program Coordinator and Co-Curator of the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre Artist in Residence Space Grant (MAD AIR).";
}
if (myTeacher == 'crawford')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Richard Crawford
Scene Study
Richard Crawford is a graduate of Ecole Jacques Lecoq, and Rose Bruford College, London. He is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed New York theater ensemble The Flying Machine, with whom he has created and performed in Sad Since Tuesday, The Escapist,Utopians, Archipelago, Signals of Distress, and Frankenstein. He also has played the lead in the off-broadway hit Slava's Snowshow from 2004-2005. Richard has directed clown work for Cirque du Soleil; a Commedia dell'Arte version of Petrushka at Carnegi Hall; The Bourgeois Gentlemen at the UMN/Guthrie Theatre Program and Taming of the Shrew and Comedy of Errors at TheatreWorks, Colorado Springs. He also performed in the 2002 OBIE Winning (Sic) at Soho Rep. Richard has been teaching for the past seven years in London, Paris, Santiago, Montreal, and New York. In the US, he has taught Neutral Mask, Commedia dell'Arte and Locoq Technique at NYU/Tisch, Yale School of Drama, Sarah Lawrence College, The Actor's Center, Marymount Manhattan and the University of Minnesota. He is currently on the faculty at SUNY Purchase. ";
}
if (myTeacher == 'cook')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Steve Cook
Ballet and Movement
Mr. Cook was a member of the Chicago Ballet and the Houston Ballet. He appeared on Broadway in Doonesbury. Mr. Cook has taught for National Shakespeare Conservatory, National Theatre of the Deaf, and Ballet Diverte Mento De Montreal. He has been on the Adler Faculty since 1995. ";
}
if (myTeacher == 'cummings')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Benard Cummings
Scene Study
Mr. Cummings performed with The Shakespeare Theatre in Pericles, The Tempest, & A Midsummer Night's Dream. Regional credits include Pill Hill, False Admissions and Clean, all at Hartford Stage; The Black Star at the Goodman Theatre; Fences at Arena Stage and Richard III at The Shakespeare Theatre. He has appeared in Two Rooms at the Signature Theatre Company, I Am a Man at The Working Theatre and an African-American adaptation of The Three Sisters at the Prospect Theatre. As a playwright, his work has been produced in L.A., Chicago, St. Louis, New York City, and London. Mr. Cummings is a graduate of SMU & Yale School of Drama.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'duarte')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Cristina Duarte
Adler Technique
Ms. Duarte is an actress, director, teacher and private coach. She is an alumnus of the Stella Adler Conservatory and a graduate of Hunter College from which she received her MA in Theatre and where she taught acting for the past three years. She has directed original works at Hunter's Loewe Theatre and several projects for the Michael Chekhov Theatre Co. She is a performing member of the 7th Street Small Stage Co. and she has recurring roles on One Life to Live, and Saturday Night Live. Cristina has also appeared on As The World Turns, All My Children as well as several independent and commercial films. ";
}
if (myTeacher == 'edelmann')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Joanne Edelmann
Movement
Ms. Edelmann studied Alexander Technique with June Ekman, and Ideo-Kinesis with Andre Bernard. She has danced and toured the United States in the companies of Charles Weidman and Mimi Garrard, and choreographed and performed for Mimi Stern Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'evans')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Joan Evans
Physical Acting
Joan Evans has been creating and performing original theatre work since 1975. She won a Fringe First Award at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for creating, directing, and choreographing the ensemble piece, Where Ravens Rule, a Theatrical response to the War in Bosnia. She has toured her solo work in Austria, Brazil, Italy, and Germany. She has performed her work at such theatres as the Performing Garage and Manhattan Class Company in NYC, and the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center In Connecticut. She has been the recipient of four national Endowment for the Arts Theatre grants. She was awarded a 1993, Citation of Excellence from the Union Internationale de la Marionnette (UNIMA) for her work combining dance, acting, and puppetry in Rico and Dolores. She was a 2002 Tennessee Williams Fellow at the University of the South. She has also directed the movement for more than 30 plays. She is Artistic Director of The Performance Salon in NYC, a workshop in which artists develop and perform solo work. She also teaches at the Michael Howard Studio and privately. ";
}
if (myTeacher == 'flynn')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Peter Flynn
Business of Acting
As a director - Broadway concerts: 'On the 20th Century', 'Chess' and 'Funny Girl'; off-Broadway plays 'Henry & Mudge', & 'Junie B. Jones' (Lortel nomination - best musical), 'The Broadway Musicals of 1953' (Town Hall), 'Rhapsody in Seth' (Actors' Playhouse) 'A Tale of Two Cities' (Harold Clurman Theatre Festival), etc.; Regional: 'Gypsy' (St. Louis MUNY), 'The Man of LaMancha' (Maltz Jupiter Theater, nominated Best Director: Carbonell Award), 'The Piano Lesson', 'The Crucible' (Tampa Arts Center),'The Santaland Diaries' (Pittsburgh City Theatre), etc. As a writer: 'The 2007 Drama Desk Awards', 'Lily' (music & lyrics by Brooks Ashmanskas) and a commission for a new musical from the Huntington Theatre with Mr. Ashmanskas. Artistic Director, Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival (2003-2006) Graduate: Northwestern University. ";
}
if (myTeacher == 'freeman')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Scott Freeman
Scene Study
Scott Freeman was a member of the founding faculty of The Actors Center in New York City and taught in its full time conservatory, summer conservatory and workshop programs, throughout the eleven years of their existence. He recently completed his 2nd year on the faculty at Rutgers University teaching MFA 3rd Year Acting. In addition, Mr. Freeman enjoyed a long association with The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco as a core faculty member of its MFA program and a member of its acting company. He has taught at SUNY Purchase, The Atlantic Theatre Company, and The Stella Adler Conservatory. He also served as the founding Head of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program. As an actor, theatres he has worked at include The American Conservatory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, New York Theatre Workshop, Mark Taper Forum, The Magic Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare, San Jose Repertory, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, and St. Louis Repertory. In addition, he has several film and television roles to his credit. For the past twenty years, Scott Freeman has taught at many of the nation's premiere actor training programs and is recognized as one of the leading acting teachers in the country. His studio in New York was created to provide a place for working professionals to continue their artistic growth, and promising actors to develop their talents.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'garcia')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Pilar Garcia
Movement
Ms. Garcia's acting credits include the Broadway cast of Mummenschanz and various productions with The CSC Repertory Company, The Richard Morse Mime Theatre, and The Paper Bag Players. As a mime and movement coach, she has been privileged to work with dancers such as prima ballerina Gelsey Kirkland on numerous roles, as well as coaching actors such as Philip Anglim, Jack Weatherall, and David Bowie in Broadway's The Elephant Man.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'gerber')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Adam Gerber
Voice and Speech
Adam Gerber is an actor, director and teacher. A New Yorker from birth, Adam graduated from The George Washington University with a BA in Theatre. Following graduation Adam furthered his training in the Stella Adler Studio's three-year day conservatory. Acting credits include: Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Midas and Others in Metamorphoses and Mendel the Chassid in Sex and the Holyland part of New York City's Fringe Festival. He's directed various plays, favorites include: Oleanna and 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress. Adam is honored to be part of such a wonderful and talented faculty at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'grenham')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Michael Grenham
Voice and Speech
Mr. Grenham is an actor, teacher and director. Stage credits include the world premiere of Len Jenkins Margo Veil (Ensemble) at the Flea Theater, Ross in Macbeth and Larry in Closer, both with the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company; Roderigo in Othello with Jambalaya Productions, Edward in Edward and Christine at the Miller Theater, Fumbleweeds (Ensemble) at the Where Eagles Dare Theater; originate the role of Father Guzman with the Harold Clurman Poets Theater (first produced play by National Book Award winner and Poet Laureate Gerald Stern), Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing directed by Stephen Hollis, Sandy in Hay Fever, Harry (Act 1) and Edward (Act 2) in Cloud Nine, Joseph Mengelee in Manifest, Michael in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Tarisis in The Bacchae, Ensemble in Under Milkwood. TV credits include The P.A. on the Fuse Network, several commercials for Comedy Central, Toyota, MTV, Crest, etc. Film credits include Daryl in Darren and Daryl Peel the Cosmic Onion, and an officer in Virgin. Directing credits include The Big Funk, The Dining Room, Independence, 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress, Self-Torture and Strenuous Exercise, and The Women";
}
if (myTeacher == 'hopkins')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Bill Hopkins
Acting for Film and TV
Mr. Hopkins is a producer and director of films, documentaries, and commercials for Palisade Films and a director of plays and musicals for the New York and regional stages. He has run the Film and TV department since 1997. In that capacity he has also become a teahcer and acting coach. He has produced, wrote, shot, and directed documentary films on Les Paul, Ellen Burstyn, Norman Mailer, Elia Kazan, Jason Robards JR., Stephen Sondheim, and Christopher Plummer. He has produced and/or directed American premieres of stage works by Tom Fontana (Grunts), Al Carminesm (The Evangelist), Bertholt Brecht (Schweyk in WW2), and Noel Coward (Relative Values). He has done two features for the Warner Studios, 'Painters' and 'Catchback' as well as several shorts. Bill runs a Directors Lab at the School of Visual Arts.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'kapstein')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Adrienne Kapstein
Mask
Ms. Kapstein has performed in NYC, regionally, throughout Canada and in Europe. Highlights include Frankenstein (nominated for 4 Drama Desk Awards), Signals of Distress, The Maid and the Marmalade, Hatched, and Fathom (winner of the Dublin Festival's Best Production, 2004). She is Artistic Director of critically acclaimed international ensemble SaBooge Theater, and she is the director of their current show, Every Day Above Ground. Adrienne has taught Commedia and Neutral Mask at NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing, the New School for Drama's MFA program, Marymount Manhattan College; she has given workshops in Ensemble Creation at Swarthmore College, The Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin), the University of Ireland (Galway), Queen's College (Ontario). Ms. Kapstein is a graduate of Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'kimlicko')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Christa Kimlicko Jones
Voice and Speech
Ms. Kimlicko Jones is an actor/teacher/producer, originally for Texas. Off-Broadway acting credits include: Harvest, directed by Benard Cummings; Umbrella directed by Padraic Lillis; Lipstick on a Pig. Other New York acting credits include: The Information She Carried, 365 Plays/365 Days; and numerous workshops and readings. Some of her regional acting credits include Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Abbie in Desire Under the Elms, May in Fool for Love, and Hedda in Hedda Gabler. Ms. Kimlicko Jones is a founder and co-producing Artistic Director of the dirigo group in Austin, TX., as well as an Associate Director with Off-Broadway company, Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan. She has served as a vocal coach for regional and Off-Broadway productions. She is a proud member of the acting company of 'First Look' (Artistic Director, Gary Garrison); Voice and Speech Trainers' Association ( V.A.S.T.A.) and Actors' Equity Association. Ms. Kimlicko Jones received her MFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also received her certification in voice work.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'korkes')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Jon Korkes
Advanced Scene Study
Jon Korkes has had the good fortune to work with an extraordinary collection of writers and directors, among them: Jules Feiffer, Alan Arkin, Mike Nichols, Austin Pendleton, Buck Henry, Billy Wilder, Herb Gardner, Mark Rydell, David Rabe, David Milch, and Tom Fontana. He began his career Off-Broadway in Feiffer’s Little Murders directed by Mr. Arkin, who directed him in the movie version a year later. In 1971, Walter Kerr cited him as one of the most promising actors of the Broadway season for his work in Philip Roth’s Unlikely Heroes. Other credits include: (Broadway) Conversations With My Father, The Penny Wars, (Off-Broadway) The Carpenters, A Family Man, Goose And Tomtom, Jazz Poets at the Grotto, (Yale Rep) Exact Change, Rum and Coke, (Longwharf) Not Quite Jerusalem,(East Carolina) Our Country’s Good. Film: Catch 22, Cinderella Liberty, The Front Page, Between the Lines, The Day Of The Dolphin, Riding in Cars With Boys.TV: ‘Oz,’ ‘The Jury,’ ‘Law and Order,’ ‘Big Apple,’ ‘The Beat,’ ‘Homicide,’ ‘Larry Sanders,’ ‘The Storyteller,’ ‘The Word.’ Training: Joan Darling, Peggy Feurie, AADA, Jack Poggi.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'korkes')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Jon Korkes
Advanced Scene Study
Jon Korkes has had the good fortune to work with an extraordinary collection of writers and directors, among them: Jules Feiffer, Alan Arkin, Mike Nichols, Austin Pendleton, Buck Henry, Billy Wilder, Herb Gardner, Mark Rydell, David Rabe, David Milch, and Tom Fontana. He began his career Off-Broadway in Feiffer’s 'Little Murders' directed by Mr. Arkin, who directed him in the movie version a year later. In 1971, Walter Kerr cited him as one of the most promising actors of the Broadway season for his work in Philip Roth’s 'Unlikely Heroes'. Other credits include: (Broadway) 'Conversations With My Father', 'The Penny Wars', (Off-Broadway) 'The Carpenters', 'A Family Man', 'Goose And Tomtom', 'Jazz Poets at the Grotto', (Yale Rep) 'Exact Change', 'Rum and Coke', (Longwharf) 'Not Quite Jerusalem',(East Carolina) 'Our Country’s Good'. Film: 'Catch 22', 'Cinderella Liberty', 'The Front Page', 'Between the Lines', 'The Day Of The Dolphin', 'Riding in Cars With Boys'.TV: ‘Oz,’ ‘The Jury,’ ‘Law and Order,’ ‘Big Apple,’ ‘The Beat,’ ‘Homicide,’ ‘Larry Sanders,’ ‘The Storyteller,’ ‘The Word.’ Training: Joan Darling, Peggy Feurie, AADA, Jack Poggi.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'lambert')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Gelan Lambert Jr.
Movement
Mr. Lambert attended the New World School of the Arts and earned his BFA at The Juilliard School where he was awarded the Martha Hill Prize. A former member of The Martha Graham Dance Company and Sean Curran Company, Gelan has danced in works created by Alvin Ailey, John Butler, Jiri Kylian, Jose Limon, Donald McKayle, Mia Michaels and Paul Taylor. His original work as a soloist and choreographer has been presented at universities and professional venues across the nation. His theatre credits include the original national Broadway Tour of Fosse, Ann Reinking’s Chicago, Susan Stroman's A Christmas Carol, Golden Boy, and New York City Opera's presentations of Alcina and Turandot. Most recently Gelan had the honor of choreographing the NYC debut of Pulitzer Prize winning author Rita Dove’s Darker Face of the Earth at The American Theater of Actors, for which he received an AUDELCO Award nomination for Best Choreography";
}
if (myTeacher == 'lee')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Robyn Lee
In the Moment
Australian born Robyn Lee (Robynclee.com) began her life in ballet, accepted by the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and Balanchine's Youth Company at age 18. Major ballets include CBC Canadian TV, Music of Gould, Holst, and Stravinsky. Lee's show credits include Broadway: Merlin, Dir/Prod. Ivan Reitman, 5,6,7,8, Dance, Dir/Choreo. Ron Field; Tours: LA: A Chorus Line; Toronto: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Lee has directed 10 Off and Off/Off Broadway shows including: HELP!!DESK (Producer's Club NYC), The Bear Went Over the Mountain, The Ruffian on the Stair, Buck Simple, Night Must Fall (Pulse Theater.) Produced original plays: Adore the Spirit, Gorged and Flying, From Here to Here. SAG, AEA, AFTRA, AGVA, SSDC. The culmination of Lee's career is the creation of In the Moment: Mastering the space between you and the rest of the world - Teaching this acting practice in NYC and LA Stella Adler, European Film College, Denmark, Austria, and Australia. Lee is co-founder and partner of Third Eye Media (third-eyemedia.com), a multimedia production company. Current clients: Global Shift University, McGraw Hill.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'little')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Jason S Little
Voice and Speech
Jason S. Little is a professional actor, director and teacher. He has been on the faculty at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City since 1995. He has also taught at The National Shakespeare Conservatory in NYC, and at The Chekov Acting Project in Buenos Aires, Argentina. New York acting credits include: HAIR (Original Cast album-Ghostlight Records), CHESS IN CONCERT (Starring Josh Groban), CYMBELINE, MACBETH, Charles Ludlam's CONQUEST OF THE UNIVERSE, THE MAN WITH THE FLOWER IN HIS MOUTH, BURNING HABITS, and VIVA LAS VEGAS! THE MUSICAL. Jason originated the role of Hedwig/Tommy in the original Minneapolis company of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, winning Lavender magazine's Best Twin Cities Male Actor of 2002 award. Hedwig also lead Jason to the honor of opening for, with the Angry Inch, Cyndi Lauper on her Minneapolis tour stop. And in summer 2004 Jason had the thrill of being chosen to perform on Rosie O'Donnell's inaugural Family vacations cruise again as Hedwig. Jason received his acting training at The National Shakespeare Conservatory in NYC, The British American Drama Academy in London, UK, and holds a BA in Literature from Bennington College.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'macintosh')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Joan Macintosh
Shakespeare
Joan MacIntosh recently finished playing Acaste in 'The Misanthrope' at the New York Theatre Workshop, directed by legendary Ivo van Hove with whom she has worked in past productions of 'Alice in Bed' and 'More Stately Mansions'. She has appeared in such plays as 'Orpheus Descending', and 'Our Town' on Broadway, 'Macbeth', 'All's Well that Ends Well', 'A Bright Room Called Day', 'Cymbeline', 'Julius Caesar', and 'Three Acts of Recognition' at the New York Shakespeare Festival, 'Endgame' at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois' at Lincoln Center. She has acted regionally with A.C.T., Yale Rep, the Guthrie Theatre, and the A.R.T. She has won an OBIE Award for 'Dionysus in '69'¸and 'Commune', and in 1998 for Sustained Excellence of Performance. She also won the Drama Desk Award for Distinguished Performance in 'Request Concert', A Drama League Award for Outstanding Performance in 'More Stately Mansions' for which she also was awarded the Herald Angel Award by the Ediburgh Festival, and the 2007 Elliot Norton Award for Britannicus at the A.R.T. Film & TV: 'The West Wing', 'Law & Order', 'As the World Turns', 'One Life to Live', 'All My Children'. She has directed Off-Broadway with Ivo van Hove, and regionally throughout the United States, and the World. She has taught at such places as the American Conservatory Theatre and California Institute for the Arts";
}
if (myTeacher == 'mcelligott')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Pete Mcelligott
Voice and Speech
Pete McElligott is an actor, writer and teacher. A Chicago native, he graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, studying at the Stella Adler Studio for four years. He is a member of The NOLA Project theater company in New Orleans, LA where his acting credits include Padraic in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Alceste in The Misanthrope. In New York, he most recently appeared as Richmond in The Orb Theatre Company's production of The Tragedy of King Richard 3. His writing has been performed in Chicago, New York, and New Orleans, and he is a founding member of www.braveauntbeth.com and www.bearandgum.com. He has taught Voice & Speech at Stella Adler, worked with the Actionplay Workshop at the Rebecca School, and helped to start the Harold Clurman Playwright's Reading Series.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'mckeelan')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Dusty Mckeelan
Voice and Speech
Dusty McKeelan is an actor, director, teacher, and perennial student of the theatre. He received his BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. Since then, he has performed in Dinner With Friends (Gabe), Lone Star (Ray), Our Town (Howie Newsome), and Antigone (Messenger), among others. He has directed several productions, including The Mai, Spinning Into Butter, and The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, also among others. He has been a full-time instructor at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting since 2007, teaching courses in Adler Technique and Voice & Speech, and serving as a vocal coach on a number of curricular productions. He and his wife Lindsay dream of one day starting an organization that brings the arts into healthcare environments in order to enhance quality of life for patients and therefore to facilitate the healing process.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'megibow')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Maureen Megibow
Scene Study
Ms. Megibow is the director of the Evening Conservatory Program in which she also teaches a class in script interpretation. A member of Living Voices, a nationally-acclaimed touring educational theatre company, she has performed two pieces: Through the Eyes of a Friend, and The New American for hundreds of audiences throughout the US and Canada since 1995. Other theatre includes: The Vows of Penelope Corelli, originating the role of Sheila Corelli at the Penguin Repertory Theatre, Miss Julie, Savage in Limbo, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, The Lover, In the Jungle of Cities, Featuring Loretta, and has created and performed an original one-woman show, Talmud for Everyone: Men Only at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. Television: Law & Order: BFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts and The Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'merenda')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Antonio Merenda
Adler Technique
Mr. Merenda is a director, writer, and performer. As a director, he received a Best Directing Award for Jim Gordon's Making Ends Meet from The American Globe Theater & Turnip Theater Company's 12th Annual Play Festival. Other recent credits include: The Long Ride Home by Robert Charles Gompers at the 5th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival (awarded Best Play & Best Ensemble, Kelly Kinsella, Live!), Under Broadway by Kelly Kinsella (New York International Fringe Festival), Women of Manhattan by John Patrick Shanley, The Jubilee, and In Moscow by Anton Chekhov (Philadelphia Fringe Festival). Mr. Merenda wrote and performed It's a Wonderful Lie, directed by Joan Evans. Acting credits with The Fourth Unity Theatre Company include: Mr. Ellis in the New York Premiere of Edwin Sanchez's Icarus (OOBR Award for Excellence), Nightingale in Vieux Carre, Pun in The Date, Scott in Refreshments, and Hughie in What I Missed in the 80s. Mr. Merenda received his BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied with Stella Adler. He is also a graduate of the National Shakespeare Conservatory.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'necrason')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Jena Necrason
Movement
Jena is a performer, choreographer/director and teaching artist. She has performed in NYC, regionally, and in Europe. Credits include Hamlet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Lucky Chance, Twelfth Night and her one woman movement theatre show Cherry. As a choreographer/director her work includes critically acclaimed NYC productions of Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar among others. She has worked for the past ten years with Fay Simpson's Impact Theatre, Moonwork, and Wenhelm Productions American Composer Series. Jena is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association and Screen Actor's Guild. BFA in Dance from the Performing Arts Conservatory at SUNY Purchase. At Adler, Jena also serves as Director of the Teen Program and Managing Director of The Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre (MAD). Jena is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Vermont Shakespeare Company, an outdoor summer theatre in northern Vermont. On the faculty at Adler since 1997. ";
}
if (myTeacher == 'nelson')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Rebecca Nelson
Scene Study
Rebecca Nelson performed leading roles in the Hal Hartley films TRUST and SURVIVING DESIRE as well as a cameo in his HENRY FOOL. Other lead roles in films are Amir Naderi's ABC MANHATTAN and MARATHON, as well as Donald Byrd's UNSETTLED DREAMS and the Canadian feature MOTHERS and DAUGHTERS. She has had a career in the theatre that spans three decades that includes Broadway, (SOME AMERICANS ABROAD at Lincoln Center) Off Broadway (Keith Reddin's BRUTALITY OF FACT, Ken Lonnergan's WAVERLY GALLERY) many Regional Theatres and two Broadway National Tours. Television includes roles in THE DOONESBURY SPECIAL, many LAW and ORDERs, FIRE AT THE COCONUT GROVE, AMERICA'S MOST WANTED, and the soaps GUIDING LIGHT and LOVING. She has been an Instructor of Acting at many Universities including Harvard, Yale, and NYU's Tisch program. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'parrish')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Elizabeth Parrish
Adler Technique/ Character
Ms. Parrish was featured on Broadway in Deathtrap and La Cage aux Folles, Off-Broadway in Little Mary Sunshine and Riverwind. Regional Theatre appearances include Long Wharf, Williamstown, American Shakespeare Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Films include 'Orphans,' 'See You in the Morning,' and 'Tootsie.' Recurring roles on television include 'Kate and Allie,' 'As the World Turns,' 'Edge of Night,' 'All My Children,' and 'Law and Order.' Most recently she has created and given cabaret performances. She has taught at Yale Drama School where she was an Adjunct Professor, and directed Anything Goes for the Yale Drama. Her teaching career also includes The High School or Performing Arts, The Metropolitan Opera Studio, and Circle in the Square. Ms. Parrish trained with Stella Adler and has been directed by, and been Associate Teacher with, Stella Adler.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'perez')
{
document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Te Perez
Movement
Te, a native New Yorker, holds a BA in Dance and certifications in Pilates, Gyrotonic, Yoga, Anatomy of movement, and Touch for Health. She teaches private/group Pilates & Yoga and is faculty at DNA, Hofstra University and Queens College. Te has guest taught throughout NYC, in Connecticut, Montana, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas and, since 2004, annually in Quebec, Canada. Frequently, Te has been commissioned to choreograph for small independent companies, student workshops and concerts. As the artistic director of her own company, PéreZéntación, she participates as both choreographer and dancer. For more information, details & photos check out www.perezte.com";
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if (myTeacher == 'phillips')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Alithea Phillips
Voice and Speech
Alithea Phillips holds a BFA with Honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her primary training was at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting where she studied voice with Robert Perillo and Angela Vitale. She has also studied voice with Patsy Rodenburg and Walton Wilson, and the Alexander Technique with Inbahl Zohar. Alithea has acted in New York City with the Judith Shakespeare Company, the American Globe, Bottom's Dream, Todo Con Nada, and, most recently, with Burning Boy Productions. She has acted regionally with the Texas Shakespeare Festival, Cold Comfort Theatre (ME) and the National Theatre (tour). Favorite roles include Juliet, Antigone, Hermia, Phebe, Dorine, Kidd Gottahave, and Babe. Directing credits include The Laramie Project, The Zoo Story, Laundry and Bourbon and the Shakespeare Benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. She has been the vocal coach on a wide variety of material, from Chekhov to Shakespeare to Kushner. She is also a founder and director of Shake Up Shakespeare, a company that creates in-the-classroom Shakespeare workshops for grade school children with a goal of establishing a student's first experience with Shakespeare as theatrical, thrilling, accessible and, ultimately, fun. Alithea has taught Voice, Speech, and Language since 1997 at the Stella Adler Studio.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'pierce')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Laura Pierce
Improvisation/Scene Study
Laura Pierce is an actor, director and teacher who has directed numerous productions at off and off-off Broadway theatres. Recent theatre work includes the role of Ma in Beggars in the House of Plenty directed by Tom Oppenheim and performances with The Resident Company, an improvisation troupe directed by Gerritt Graham. Recent film work includes roles in the independent films Dead Dog starring Jeremy Sisto and Minor Details starring Peter Sarsgaard. Laura has worked with Camp Broadway moderating question and answer sessions with Broadway actors and directors such as Kevin Spacey, James Naughton and David Suchet. Laura graduated summa cum laude from Stony Brook University where she received the John Gassner Dramaturgy Award. She holds an MFA in Directing and is a graduate of The New Actors Workshop where she had the great fortune to study improvisation for years with Paul Sills, one of the creators of The Second City and the son of Viola Spolin, author of the book Improvisation for the Theatre.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'quagliano')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Patrick Quagliano
Adler Technique
Patrick Quagliano is among the premier Adler technique teachers in the world today.He has spent many years studying Stella's work, both as an actor and teacher. As an actor, he began his training at The Stella Adler Studio in the late 1980's. After a short but intense acting career, performing in extensive theatrical productions both in New York and London, Patrick returned to the Stella Adler Studio in 1996 to begin teaching. It was during this time that he met and apprenticed under Master Teacher Ron Burrus, the greatest living exponent of the Adler Technique, with whom Patrick taught alongside for several years. Patrick also has a long standing relationship with The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, which developed while furthering his acting training there. He is currently the Academy's US representative and a founding member of The London Theatre Exchange.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'saltzman')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Alice Saltzman
Adler Technique/Scene Study
After going to the Worth-Tyrell high school of performing arts, and being awarded a presidential scholar in the Arts, Alice began studying with Stella Adler at the age of 17. She also studied acting at the National Shakespeare Conservatory, Yale/Oxford, and NYU. She studied dance ath Naropa Institute. Alice has been working as a professional actress for the last 15 years. Some theater credits include 'A Phoenix Too Frequent', and 'Clubhouse Rules' at Verse Theater Manhattan, 'The Last Seder' at New Dramatists, 'Voices Carry' and 'Horsefeathers' at New Jersey Rep., 'Drood' at the Forum Theater, and 'The House of Bernarda Alba' with the Adler Theater. She has also appeared in numerous new play workshops at the Lark Theater. As a company member of the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival over the last decade, Alice appeared in 'A Midsummer Nights Dream', 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and 'Blithe Spirit' (all directed by Dylan Baker), 'Twelfth Night' (with Elizabeth McGovern and Edward Herman), 'The Tempest, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Dard of the Moon', and 'Skin of our Teeth'.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'schacht')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Sam Schacht
Scene Study
Mr. Schacht is the former Dean of the Actors Studio Drama School. Acting credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona, Golda, Bosoms and Neglect, and The Magic Show, all on Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include True West, Rehearsal, and The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (at Lincoln Center). Television credits include Law & Order, The Equalizer, Ryan's Hope, One Life to Live, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Paradise Lost, and True West. Film credits include Another You, A Shock to the System, Heart of Midnight, The Manhattan Project, Tattoo, The Gambler, A New Leaf, and Puzzle of a Downfall Child. Mr. Schacht has directed Off-Broadway and Regionally.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'shepherd')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Elizabeth Shepherd
Shakespeare
Elizabeth Shepherd attended at Bristol University where she trained with Dr. Bertram Joseph, author of Acting Shakespeare and Elizabethan Acting. She also studied voice with the legendary Iris Warren, mentor to Kristin Linklater. Her London credits include Inherit the Wind, Period of Adjustment, and War and Peace. Once in North America, she appeared in a series of Electives programs for Channel 13, acting in scenes of Shakespeare plays; she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Hermione in A Winter's Tale. On Broadway she appeared in Conduct Becoming and Off-Broadway in The Jumping Fool. Regionally she as acted at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, the Shaw Festival, and regional theatres all over the US and Canada. Her most recent roles include Fonsia Dorsey in The Gin Game, Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Mrs. Higgins in Pygmalion, and MissTRESS Overdone in Measure for Measure. She has over 500 TV appearances, ranging from BBC Masterpiece Theatre to All My Children and has appeared in such movies as 'The Tomb of Ligeia,' 'Damien: Omen 2,' 'Criminal Law,' and 'Desire.' She has taught at LAMDA in London, York University in Toronto, Columbia University, and the Title 3 project for the Boston School System.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'stevens')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Paula Stevens
Adler Technique
In the early 90's, after earning her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Ms. Stevens assisted Master Technique teacher Alice Winston at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. It was during this time that Paula had the good fortune to participate in Ms. Adler’s renowned Script Interpretation, Scene Study, and Character classes that comprised the Evening Conservatory Program. In addition to her continued studies at Adler, Paula also participated in an intensive acting workshop during her final year at NYU with the late, great Bobby Lewis. Following this, she enrolled in a series of workshops at the Royal Court Theatre in London with Max Stafford-Clark and Caryl Churchill, among others. After her apprenticeship with Ms. Winston, Paula immediately began to teach basic technique at NYU and Stella Adler, where she has been teaching periodically ever since. Paula’s acting credits include many Off-Off Broadway plays, several independent films, and some television. She can be heard in numerous national TV and radio commercials.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'tripp')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="James Tripp
Classical Scene Study
Mr. Tripp is the Head of Acting as a Master Teacher. He has acted in Shakespearean and classic plays in leading roles for New York Shakespeare Festival, San Diego Festival, Great Lakes, Ashland, and over 20 productions at the McCarter Theatre at Princeton. On Broadway, he has been featured in Hamlet, The Cocktail Party, and Conduct Unbecomming, among others; on television in PBS's 'The Adam Chronicles,' and on the hit series 'Spin City.' He has directed many plays including You Can't Take it With You and Relatively Speaking at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in Los Angeles, and Camden Shakespeare's As You Like It. He has worked with Jean Renoir, Arvin Brown, John Houseman, and Ellis Rabb. In 1994, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Special Project Theatre Grant.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'vitale')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Angela Vitale
Shakespeare/Voice and Speech
Ms. Vitale has acted in classical and contemporary plays regionally and off-Broadway, playing leading roles in Twelfth Night, Othello, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Major Barbara, Mary Stuart,and Happy Days. As resident Actor with the Jean Cocteau Repertory she appeared in over 30 productions, and also served as Vocal Coach. She conceived and has directed the annual Stella Adler Shakespeare Benefit in support of Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS since 1994. Other directing credits include Measure for Measure, King Lear, As You Like It, Love's Labor Lost, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Heartbreak House, A Doll's House, A Delicate Balance, Balm in Gilead, The Good Woman of Setzuan, and the Stella Adler September 11th Benefit. Angela trained with Robert Francis Perillo and the National Shakespeare Conservatory.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'wade')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Andrew Wade
Shakespeare and the Voice
Andrew Wade was Head of Voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003; he originally joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987 as Assistant Voice Director to Cicely Berry. He co-directed and devised with Cicely Berry Journey’s, Words, Words, Words, More Words, and Lifespan – a poetry and prose collection collated into a theatrical program, commissioned by the BBC World Service, and winning the Bronze Medal at the International Radio Festival in New York in 2000. He has taught at such places as RSC Education Department, the Montview Theatre School, the Shakespeare Institute, the Shakespeare Centre, and has taught master classes throughout the world. Andrew was the Verse Consultant on the film Shakespeare in Love. Andrew worked on the new musical Lord of the Rings in Toronto and London, on TV for the Telly-Tubbies sequel Into the Night Garden. Last year in the West End, he worked on La Traviata, Donkeys’ Years, and this year on Boeing Boeing.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'white')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="J Steven White
Stage Combat
Mr. White has directed fight scenes for many actors ranging from Denzel Washington to Madonna. As a teacher for 24 years, he worked for such theatres as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the American Conservatory, Theatre, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. He has directed fights in more than 100 professional productions for ballet, film, and theatre. Currently, he also serves on the faculty of the Graduate Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Shakespeare Lab at the Public Theatre.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'williams')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Don Williams
Scene Study
As a director and actor, Mr. Williams has worked in New York and regionally on more than 70 plays at such theatres as The Denver Center Theatre Comapany, The Marin Theatre Company, The California Shakespeare Festival, the 78th Street Theatre Lab, Expanded Arts and the Greenwich Street Theatre to name a few. MFA, National Theatre Conservatory.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'wilson')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Noel Wilson
Improvisation
Mr. Wilson came to the Studio with the endoresement of Paul Sills, with whom he continues to train. Noel has also studied with Dick Schaal and Gary Goodrow, and performed for two years with What's Beyond, a Sills and Company production. He is a member of the Barrow Group Annex (1995 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Theatre Company), and received a 1996 Tisch Institute of Film and Television Award for Acting. ";
}
if (myTeacher == 'yankwitt')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Stephanie Yankwitt
Business of Acting
Ms. Yankwitt is a director, casting director, and teacher in New York. With the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, she directed a premiere of Letters to the End of the World by Anton Dudley. In addition, she has served as the industry liaison for the past year, directing each of the industry showcases produced by the Studio. Other Directing/Assistant Directing credits include the world premiere of November by David Mamet (Broadway, Joe Mantello, Dir.), The Receptionist by Adam Bock (Manhattan Theatre Club, Joe Mantello, dir.), This is a Cowboy Poem My Daddy Taught Me by Katie Bender, Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Guirgis, and Brutality of Fact by Keith Reddin. With Telsey + Company, Ms. Yankwitt has cast for hundreds of commercials, plays, tv, and film. Favorites include Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me (which she also appears in), the upcoming film Manny by Adrian Martinez, Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain (Broadway), and David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (Broadway). Ms. Yankwitt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre with a concentration in Directing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.";
}
if (myTeacher == 'zucker')
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document.getElementById('teacherBox').innerHTML="Elena Zucker
Movement
Ms. Zucker is a director, playwright and performer. She is also the Artistic Director of The Vertical Company, for which she has authored/directed two productions, My Funny Valentine and A Dybbuk in Crown Heights (the latter premiering Fall 2008). Other dual playwriting/directing credits include Concentric Circles in Chicago and Imaginary Prisons (Fringe First Nomination, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), which was the flagship collaborative creation of Angel Exit Theatre. She has directed for the Ontological/Hysteric’s “Play on Words” festival and also directed an early-music opera cabaret that toured to Venice and Zurich. She has acted in productions off-Broadway and abroad. Ms. Zucker has taught physical acting classes at NYU, Marymount Manhattan College, SUNY Purchase and Brooklyn College, as well as leading workshops at the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and around the city. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris.";
}
}