Institute Faculty and Students

Director Scott Zigler
Administrative Director Julia Smeliansky
Associate Director Marcus Stern
Head of Voice & Speech Nancy Houfek
Head of Movement Andrei Droznin
Co-Head of Dramaturgy Anatoly Smeliansky
Co-Head of Dramaturgy Ryan McKittrick  
Institute Associate Chelsea Keating
Production Manager Christopher Viklund
Technical Director Skip Curtiss
Financial Aid Janie Rangel

Faculty

Donna Ames, Singing
Robert Brustein, Criticism and Dramaturgy
Thomas Derrah, Acting
Andrei Droznin, Movement
Jane Guyer Fujita, Voice
Tatyana Gassel, Russian Language and Culture
Jeremy Geidt, Acting
David Hammond, Acting, Shakespeare
Adrienne Hawkins, Social Dance
Arthur Holmberg, Theater History, Dramaturgy
Nancy Houfek, Voice and Speech
Robert Lada, Alexander Technique
Jodi Leigh Allen, Coordinator of Movement Training
Will Lebow, Voice-over
Ryan McKittrick, Dramaturgy, Dramatic Literature
Robert Najarian, Combat
Marin Orlosky, Movement
Diane Paulus, Theater Practice
Brendan Shea, Adaptation
Anatoly Smeliansky, Theater History, Dramaturgy
Julia Smeliansky, History of Set Design, Translation
Marcus Stern, Acting
Tommy Thompson, Alexander Technique
Robert Walsh, Combat
Sam Weisman, Director of Professional Development
Marina Van Winkle, Ballet
Scott Zigler, Acting, Dramaturgy 

Students

ACTING DRAMATURGY VOICE
David Abrams
Elizabeth Bates
Martha Boles
Kristen Alyson Browne
Billy Calder
Erin Callahan
Benjamin Crockett
Lauren Doucette

Samantha Eggers
Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann
Marisa Fratto
Ashruf Ghanimah
Elijah Guo
Mario Haynes
Megan Hopp
Amen Igbinosun
Samara Kelly
Rushi Kota
Laura Kruegel

Pedram Naseri
Justin Packard
Jamie Perkins

Sarah Beth Roberts
Adeola Role
Henry Austin Shikongo

Marissa Stewart
Rebecca Strimaitis

Robert Torres
Katherine Vos
Alec Wilson
William Yuekun Wu
Jing Xu
Dara Yazdani

Marissa L. Friedman
Leslie Gehring 
Morgan Goldstein
Fiona Kyle
Alexandra Juckno

Kenneth Molloy
Liana Stillman
 

Ron Carlos
Ashleigh Reade

 

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