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The instructors work as a team to help you integrate the various disciplines into a cohesive process.
John Abramson, M.F.A., Professional Actor Training Program, University of Washington. He has taught at Seattle Children's Theatre, the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts and Willamette College. Abramson has performed with Seattle Children's Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, The Empty Space Theatre, Printer's Devil Theatre, Northwest Shakespeare Ensemble and across the country. Abramson has worked with artists such as Peter Brook, Lynn Redgrave and Spalding Gray. He was seen in a new film version of "Hedda Gabler" (summer 2004); and he directed Bertolt Brecht's "Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" at the CHAC.
Geof Alm is a certified fight director and teacher for the Society of American Fight Directors. He has worked at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Opera, Seattle Shakespeare Company, The Group Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, The Huntington Theatre Company and Missoula Children's Theatre. Alm teaches all over the Northwest, in Boston, Montana, Louisiana and in the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program.
George Lewis (associate director and founding partner) has been working in the field of movement theatre for more than 30 years. His background includes extensive study in corporeal mime with Etienne Decroux in Paris, in the Biomechanics of Meyerhold with Russian master teacher Gennadi Bogdanov and circus skills at the National Circus School in Paris. His work is deeply steeped in the tradition of ensemble theatre and original creation: he has worked with Mirage and Studebaker in Boston, Omnibus in Montreal and the Sykes Group in Seattle. He has been teaching acting and movement across the U.S. and Canada since 1978 and currently teaches for the Dalcroye Society at Cornish College for the Arts and as core faculty at Freehold.
Brennan Murphy received his M.F.A. in acting from the Yale School of Drama and a postgraduate degree in voice studies and text interpretation from London's Central School of Speech and Drama, where he was awarded the mark of distinction in teaching. Murphy has been head of acting studies at California State University Sacramento since 2001. Murphy has had a 20-year career as a professional actor in New York City and at regional theatres around the U.S. As a professional actor, Murphy has performed in more than 100 professional productions. As an educator, he taught acting, voice and movement at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in NYC, American Music and Dramatic Academy, Illinois State University, University of Illinois and SUNY at Buffalo State College. In London, he taught at Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College and Middlesex University.
Robin Lynn Smith (founding partner and artistic director) has worked for the past 27 years acting, directing and teaching in Chicago, Boston, Seattle and New York, where she directed "Curse Of The Starving Class" Off-Broadway at the Promenade Theatre. As Artist-in-Residence at Seattle Repertory Theatre, she directed several productions, most recently the workshop of New Patagonia by Seattle playwright Elizabeth Heffron. She has also directed at The Empty Space Theatre, New City Theatre, ACT, Seattle Children's Theatre and Intiman Theatre (where she is an affiliate artist). At Freehold, she directed the award-winning investigation of "The Seagull," "An Altered Life," "The Three Sisters," "The Tempest," and for the Engaged Theatre Tour, "Veronika Falling." She directed "Common Threads: A Journey Home," which was created and performed by inmates at the Washington Correction Center for Women. She has taught at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Washington and is presently on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts.
Amy Thone has been grappling professionally with Shakespeare's plays for more than 20 years, as an actor, director, dramaturg and teacher. She is an artistic associate of Seattle Shakespeare Company and a faculty member of Cornish College of the Arts.
Kate Wisniewski is an actor, instructor and private coach. She has appeared locally on several Seattle stages, and at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., where she appeared in "How I Learned to Drive" with Debra Winger and in the world premiere of Mac Wellman's "Hypatia." Kate is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She is a certified associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and also teaches at Seattle University.
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