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| Acting Department |
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David Martin
The artistic director of AMDA, is a
producer, director, and teacher.
Producer credits include:
- "Freedom to Speak", a television
series hosted by William F. Buckley, Jr., with Elizabeth Ashley, John Houseman,
James Earl Jones, Edward Herrmann, Sam Waterson, Mason Adams, Ken Howard,
Darren McGavin, and Nancy Marchand;
- "Broadway Plays Washington," a three-hour
television special with Beatrice Arthur, Pearl Bailey, Barry Bostwick,
Ellen Burstyn, Melba Moore, Ann Reinking, and Debbie Reynolds.
- His Lincoln Center producing credits include
the following all-star AMDA benefits: "Sing Happy," a tribute
to John Kander and Fred Ebb with Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Gwen Verdon,
and Chita Rivera;
- "You're the Top," a tribute to Cole
Porter with Barry Bostwick, Kevin Kline, Dick Cavett , and Lucie Arnaz;
and "Hey, Look Me Over," a tribute to Cy Coleman with Neil Simon,
Imogene Coca, Mel Torme, and Juliet Prowse.
Member
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Training
B.A., Baylor University; Graduate studies at
Trinity University. Further studies with Charles Laughton, Alice Gachet,
Etienne Decroux, and Agna Enters.
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| Dan Daily Acting Department.
Actor. NY credits: Lincoln Center Theatre Company, Roundabout Theatre Company,
Playwright's Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pearl Theatre Company, Alice's Fourth Floor.
Regional credits: Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Empty Space, Florida Studio Theatre,
Tacoma Actors Guild. Film: Daylight and Blood and Wine with Jack Nicholson. Television:
"Law and Order," "The Prosecutors," "The Dana Carvey Show," and all N.Y. soaps.
Training: M.F.A., Professional Actor Training Program, University of Washington.
Additional training: Gene Feist and Marcia Jean Kurtz. |
 Jutka Devenyi Acting Department.
Historian, director. Published Metonymy and Drama: Essays On Language and
Dramatic Strategy. Articles include "Perspectives on the Hungarian Post
War Grotesque," "Structure and Consciousness in 'Danton's Death,"' and
"International Aesthetics on Skid Row." Directing credits: The Spectacle
of Failure and La Colonie at Cornell University and The Homosexual or the
Difficulty of Sexpressing Oneself and Escurial at UCSB. Training: Ph.D.,
Univerity of California, Santa Barbara; M.A.,University of Liberal Arts, Budapest,
Hungary. |
| Tito Enriquez Acting Department.
Actor, fight director. N.Y. credits include Off-Broadway, the Metropolitan
Opera, and the Public Theatre. Regional credits: Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey Opera, and
the Kennedy Center, as well as film and television work. Directed and choreographed
for the New York Renaissance Festival, numerous national tours, and a dozen international liveaction stunt shows including
Waterworld at Universal Studios. Teaching experience: New York University, the Actors Studio, and New York Performance Works. Member:
AEA, AFTRA, SAG, SSD& C, N.Y. Fight Ensemble. |
| Sandy Harper Acting Department.
Actress, director. NY and regional acting credits include: The Seagull,
Living Proof, Lost in Yonkers, Sylvia, and Moon Over Buffalo. Directing credits include: the N.Y. premiere
of The Last Baby Boomer, Summer and Smoke, Big River, Into the Woods, A
Man for All Seasons, and The Boys Next Door. Teaching experience: Asbury
College, the University of Kentucky, and Pioneer Playhouse, Training: M.F.A.,
College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; M.A., University
of Kentucky; B.A., Asbury College. |
| Lisa Jacobson Acting Department.
Actress, director, choreographer. An accomplished actress, director, choreographer,
and acting coach for the past 25 years. Appeared in and directed numerous companies,
national tours, and stock. Acting credits include: Jackie in the original
New York production of Hot L Baltimore and Joanne in Fredrich Zollo's production
of Vanities. NY credits: directed and choreographed for the Circle Repertory
Co, the Cubiculo, the Open Space, the Conservatory Theatre, and AMAS Theatre.
Appeared in several national television commercials. Training: Peabody
Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, and Ohio University. |
| Ernest Johns Acting Department.
Director, actor, acting coach. Associate Director (1987-1996) at the Open
Eye New Stagings, an Off-Broadway resident company founded by Joseph Campbell
and choreographer Jean Erdman. Directing credits include: A Woman Called
Truth, Bocon!, A Midsummer Nights Dream, As You Like It, and Killer. Served as the Artistic
Director for Pen to Stage Productions, a New York City company dedicated
to the development and production of new works. Other New York credits
include: Riverside Shakespeare, New Dramatists, Westbeth Theatre Center,
Polaris North, and George Street Playhouse. Training: M.F.A., Brooklyn
College; B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University. |
 Jean-Luc Journet
Acting Department. Dancer. Training: Certificate, Aileen Crow School of Alexander Technique.
Dance studies with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis. |
| Mark Lancaster Acting Department.
Actor, director, voice-over artist. Performed Off-Broadway in New England
at Manhattan Theatre Club. Regional credits: The Huntington Theatre in Boston and the Body Politic
in Chicago. Assistant director to Julie Taymor for Theatre for New Audiences' Titus Andronicus. Extensive Off-Off-Broadway credits as an improvisational
writer and performer. Directed the first modern American revival of Sophie Treadwell's Machinal as a member of the Artistic
Ensemble of Chicago's Lifeline Theatre. Teaches and lectures for Rutgers
University. Training: B.S., Speech/Theatre, Northwestern University. Additional
training: Frank Galati, David Downs, Paul Edwards, and Lilla Heston. |
 David Lee Acting Department.
Director. Directed NY premiere of Len Jenkins' Poor Folk's Pleasure (The
Workhouse Theatre) and Mr. Jenkins' Dark Ride (Fordharn University), the
U.S. premiere of Time and the Room by Botho Strauss (78th Street Theatre
Lab), and Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive. Writing credits: Nirvanov,
adapted from Chekhov's Ivanov, about Kurt Cobain and Frances Farmer. Founder
and Artistic Director of the Orlando-based company, The Per4m Ants. Training:
M.F.A., Directing, Yale University; B.F.A., Performance, The University
of Miami. |
| Jessica Litwak Acting Department.
Actor, playwright. Off-Broadway: Actress/Playwright for the one-woman show,
Emma Goldman, Love, Anarchy and Other Affairs. Regional acting credits: company member at The
Goodman Theatre (1987 Season) and The Bacchae (with Livee Ceuli);
Judith Bliss in Hay Fever, Vasilisa in Lower Depths, Louka in Arms
and the Man; has worked extensively with Ann Bogart. Her play A Pirate's
Lullaby in which she played the lead was produced both at the Goodman Theatre
in Chicago and in New York by Rattlestick Productions. Training: M.F.A.,
Columbia University; B.F.A., New York University. Additional
training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; William Esper Studio. |
| Tom Marion Acting Department.
Actor. Teaching experience: The Acting Studio, NYC. Training:
M.F.A., Rutgers University; B.F.A., Ithaca College. Additional training: National Theatre
Conservatory-certified in vocal coaching; interned under Cicely Berry and Andrew Wade at Royal
Shakespeare Company. Member: AEA. |
 Andrea Masters Acting Department.
Actor, writer. Played the Mother in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search
of an Author directed by Tim Childs on Theatre Row and Joanna in the Broadway revival of
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel with Al Pacino. Regional credits: Bella in Lost
in Yonkers (Pennsylvania Stage), Mrs. Linde in A Doll's House (Syracuse
Stage), Rita in Little Eyolf (Echo Stage), Magdelena in The House of Bernada
Alba (A.C.T. San Francisco), Sister Swanee in How it Hangs (Looking Glass
Theatre), Barbara Walters in Justice (Playwrights Horizon). Film and Television
credits: Somewhere in Between and Selena on "The Guiding Light." Writing credits: The
Dancer, won the Clackamas Literary Review's fiction prize and was published in the
1998 spring issue. Teaching experience: The Lincoln Center Institute. Training: B.A.,
M.A., Columbia University. Additional training: A.C.T., San Francisco,
one-yeartraining program; Etienne Decroux, Paris, France; Michael Howard, Wynn
Handman. |
| Toby MiIIer Acting Department.
Actor, voice and dialect coach. Performed extensively in productions in
the U.K. and taught at the Rose Bruford School of Speech and Drama and
Queen Mary Westfield College, also in the U.K. Voice trainer for the apprentice
program at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Training: P.G.V.S. Central
School of Speech and Drama. |
| David Mold Acting Department.
Actor, director. In Massachusetts: former Artistic Director of New Theatre
in Boston. Directed for the Open Door Theatre, the Alley Theatre, the New Ehrlich Theatre, Worcester
Children's Theatre, and cofounder and co-Artistic Director of The Theatre
Company, Inc. Co-directed Kafka's Report to an Academy in N.Y.C. Directed
at the Victory Gardens Theatre and DePaul University in Chicago
and in Indianapolis at the Edyvean Repertory Theatre and Butler University.
Dramaturge with the Bailiwick Repetory Theatre and assistant dramaturge
at the Goodman Theatre. Directing credits include: A Lie of the Mind, All
in the Timing, Bent, Desire Under the Elms, The House of Bernarda Alba,
Miss Julie, Uncle Vanya, Romeo and Juliet, As you Like It, Measure for
Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Gimme Shelter, Journey's End, Temptation,
The Dining Room, Standing on my Knees, The Crucible; the opera Dido and
Aeneas; the musicals Woman King and A Little Night Music; and the plays
Double Vision, Daylight in Exile, Hang Tough, and Seven Day Wonder. Training:
M.F.A., Directing, The Theatre School at DePaul University; B.F.A., Theatre
Performance, Boston University. |
| Dan Olk Acting Department.
Actor, fight choreographer. Performed at The Kennedy Center, Paper Mill
Playhouse, Shakespeare & Co., Olney Theatre, and Off-Off-Broadway.
Toured nationally for two seasons with the National Players. TV credits
include Great Performances, "One Life To Live," "All My Children," and
spokesperson for Nickelodeon's "TV Land." Training: M.F.A., Brandeis University.
Member: NYFE and SAFD. |
| Daniel Pardo Acting Department.
Actor. Performed in plays for the OBIE-award winning companies Target Margin
and Tiny Mythic. Regional credits include: Tom in The Glass Menagerie at the Meadow Brook
Theatre, Nissen in The Dybbuk at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Pip in Great
Expectations at The Fulton Opera House, Lucentio in Taming of the Shrew,
and Nym in The Merry Wives of Windsor at Hudson Valley Shakespeare
and others. On-camera credits: Stu in a short film adaptation of Terrence
McNally's Botticelli and "One Life to Live." Teaching experience: Marymount
Manhattan College, private coaching. Training: The Juilliard School, Drama
Division. |
 Randolf Pearson Acting Department.
Director, acting coach. Directed at the Dallas Theatre Center, Callier
Theatre of the Deaf, Theatre Onstage, Actors Outlet, Manhattan College,
and Fordbam University. Productions include Goethe's Faust, Amahl and the
Night Visitors, Joe Egg, Buried Child, The Apple Tree, and The Snow Queen.
Artistic Director of On Stage Productions in N.Y.C. Directed Boys'Life
with AMDA alumni company, The Lofty Theatre Company. Teaching experience:
Hockaday School, University of Texas, Kean College, and Seton Hall University.
Training: M.F.A., Trinity University; B.F.A., Southern Methodist University. |
| Ricki G. Ravitts Acting Department.
Actor, fight director. As a certified teacher and fight director, under
the auspices of the Society of
American Fight Directors, taught, fought, and choreographed in New
York, Las Vegas, and London. One of four stage combat experts invited to
perform in The Swords of Shakespeare at the newly reconstructed Globe
Theatre. Acting roles include: Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst
Amanda in Private Lives, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Desiree in
A Little Night Music, Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Beatrice in Much
Ado About Nothing, Elmire in Tartuffe, and Heidi in The Heidi Chronicles.
Training: B.A., Grinnell College; M.F.A New York University. Additional
training: J. Allen Suddeth, Lloyd Richards, and Kristen Linkletter. |
 Mark Riherd Acting Department.
Actor, singer. Resident actor with the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta; performed
regionally in Nashville and Atlanta. Played the title role in Smith, a musical at
New York Performance Alliance where last season he performed in a revival of Detective Story.
Performed in a one-man show in England, Robert Raikes: A Man and his Time.
Played Detective Weber, a recurring role on "As the World Turns"(CBS).
Teaching experience: New York Performance Works, New York University, California
State University, and Bretton Hall College, U.K. Publications include chapters for Learning
Through Theatre, a British text on Theatre-in-education, and Campus and Classroom Making
Schooling Multicultural, a university textbook. |
| William Schill Acting Department.
Heads a New York City talent agency. His clients have appeared on Broadway
in Cats, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, and Grease. Provides
talent for motion pictures; daytime television dramas including "Another
World," "All My Children," "As the World Turns," "Guiding Light," and "One
Life to Live"; and commercials for Budweiser Beer, Sucrets,
General Motors, Burger King, and McDonalds. In addition, his clients
appear in national tours, Off-Broadway, and on regional stages nationwide.
Broadway credits include Hair, Jesus Christ Super star, Equus, Zorba,
and Fiddler on the Roof. He has worked with Joseph Papp, Hat Prince, John
Dexter, Tom O'Horgan, Tim Rice, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Toured with singers
ranging from Frank Sinatra to Lena Horne. Training: American Theatre Wing. |
| Roxana Stuart Acting Department.
Actress, director. Professional actress for twenty years before pursuing
a career in academic theatre. Created roles in new plays by Tennessee Williams,
Rosalyn Drexler, and Donald Barthelme and acted in regional theatres throughout
the country. Studied with several of the country's outstanding voice and
speech specialists and taught at a number of professional training schools.
Authored two books and a number of articles in scholarly theatre journals.
Training: Ph.D., Theatre, The City University of New York. |
| Amy Weinstein Acting Department.
Director, writer, producer. Education consultant for the musical Rent.
Director of Education at Tony Randall's National Actor's Theatre. Co-wrote
and directed three Equity tours of the hit musical Second Chance in Los
Angeles. Script sold to WGBH/PBS for teleplay adaptation. International
guest speaker and lecturer on the use of improvisation techniques in international
competitive sports. Former Los Angeles-based commercial/theatrical agent
and casting director. Board advisory member for television special The House that Crack Built
and the theatrical organization Plays For Living in New York. Training:
B.F.A., New York University; additional conservatory and university
study at Emerson College, CircleIn-The-Square; scholarship recipient in
Shakespeare studies at Center Stage, Baltimore. Internships and graduate
studies at Williamstown Theatre Festival. |
 Camille Wiedorn Acting Department.
Actress. Former Executive Director of Arts Club Theatre. Has performed
extensively throughout New York City. Credits include the title role in
Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Teaching experience: Marymount Manhattan College,
the Shakespeare Studio, and private coaching. Training: B.A., Case Western
Reserve University. Additional study: Raphael Kelly, HB Studio, Williamstown
Theatre Festival. |
| Diane Zaremba Acting Department.
Actress. NY credits include: Olivia in Twelfth Night at Riverside Shakespeare
Festival, Rochele in the premiere, of Arthur Laurent's Scream at the Penguin Repertory Theatre,
and Sucess Story at the Jewish Repertory Theatre. Regional and stock credits: Williamstown
Theatre Festival, WILMA Theatre Project, and American Experience in Philadelphia and Main
Street Arts. Teaching experience: Montclair State University and the Haverford School.
Training: M.F.A., Temple University; Certificate of Merit, The Webber Douglas Academy in
London. Additional training: Boston University, Austin Pendelton, Warren
Robertson. |
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