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LENARD PETIT
is a director /actor who resides in New York City. He has
been working in the the theater for thirty years collaborating
with other artists to create original works for the stage
, cinema, and television. He has directed plays and performance
pieces on and off Broadway and in as well as out of the
United States. As an actor he has performed in some works
of such notable directors as Julie Taymor, Meredith Monk,
Richard Foreman, Ping Chong, and many others. Mr. Petit
is the Artistic Director of The Michael Chekhov Acting Studio.
As one of a handful of teacher students trained by the original
members of Michael Chekhov's Theater School his knowledge
of the technique coupled with his gifts have brought him
to be recognized as one of the foremost teachers of this
technique in the world.
As a member of the international Michael
Chekhov Association, he has been invited to teach Master
classes at the Moscow Art Theater, The International School
for Film and Television in Munich, Helsinki University,
as well as acting workshops in Denmark, Amsterdam, Madrid,
Berlin, Zurich, London , Riga, and Irkutsk Siberia. For
the past 14 years he has been teaching Chekhov Technique
in the MFA Acting program at Rutgers University.
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Bethany Caputo
Managing Director
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Bethany Caputo’s regional credits include Jessica in The Merchant of Venice at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Almost Done, Reunion, and Dark Pony in “The Mamet Festival” at the Goodman Theatre, Louise in The Underpants at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Thomasina in Arcadia at the Court Theatre, Echo in Eleemosynary at Victory Gardens, and Annie O’Reilly in the premiere of Transference at the Mercury Theatre, directed by Jeff Lee. Other regional credits include the premiere of Shakespeare in Hollywood at Arena Stage, directed by Kyle Donnelly, Miss Y in The Stronger at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost at Summer Shakespeare Notre Dame, Corine in The Triumph of Love at the Clarence Brown Theatre in Tennessee, and Suzette in Don’t Dress for Dinner, directed by John Tillenger and performed at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. Ms. Caputo also appeared in a documentary about the teachings of Michael Chekhov produced by the Michael Chekhov Association and partially funded by the National Endowment of the Arts.
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TED PUGH
began his career at the Arena Theater in Washington DC in
the early 1960s. Soon after he became a founding member
of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut under
the direction of Jon Jory. He has appeared on Broadway,
Off-Broadway, and in regional theatres in the US. Ted is
co-founder and co-artistic director of The
Actors' Ensemble of New York. He was trained at the
Michael Chekhov Studio in New York City, certified as a
teacher by Beatrice Straight and Dierdre du Prey in 1983
and taught at the Studio for the last seven years of its
existence. He has also taught workshops throughout the US,
Europe and Russia.
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FERN
SLOAN, an actress for over 30 years, is co-founder
and co-artistic director of The
Actors' Ensemble and has performed and taught the Michael
Chekhov technique in the US, Canada and Europe. She was certified
by the Michael Chekhov Studio in New York City to teach the
Michael Chekhov technique and was on its faculty for the last
three years of its existence. She was co-director and on the
faculty of the Speech and Drama Program of Sunbridge College.
Prior to founding The Actors' Ensemble, she played leading
roles in numerous regional theaters in the US and Off-Broadway.
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MEL
SHRAWDER has performed
with the New York Shakespeare Festival under the direction
of Joseph Papp, and appeared at Arena Stage in Washington
DC, as well as being a regular performer for many years at
the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Most recently on
the regional circuit Mel played the role of Victor Franz for
Portland Stage in Arthur Miller's The Price. He has
appeared in Film and TV in roles on Law and Order,
Miami Vice, The Mississippi, and Critical Condition with the
late Richard Pryor. Mel initially received his training at
the North Carolina School of the Arts. He then went on to
head the performance program at the University of Miami for
a number of years where he received a faculty grant to study
at the National Theatre of Great Britain. His early teaching
centered around American method approaches such as Meisner,
Strasberg and Hagen and improvisational training, until encountering
the Michael Chekhov work. Mel is also a certified Reiki Master,
and as well as teaching the Michael Chekhov approach today,
Mel includes in his present teaching Energize components based
on RYSE work, and character/personality transformation approaches
based on holistic means.
Mel
appeared in the new Michael
Chekhov instructional DVDs, and he has developed a one
person show, Homefront, which was presented at the
International Michael Chekhov Festival at Amherst under the
direction of Lenard Petit. He is a storyteller as well performing
his pieces at Tellabration, and has worked with famed storyteller
Jay O'Callahan.
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KATE
UDALL is an actor and
a teacher. As an actor she has performed off-
broadway in New York City, at such regional theaters as Williamstown,
George Street Playhouse and the Cincinnati Playhouse. Internationally
she has played at the Edinburgh Fringe, in Germany and Italy.
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is a founding member of Vox, an international
ensemble that was featured in the documentary Vox Erotica:
The Actor's Journey. In 2006 Vox was invited to present Metamorphoses
at the International Theatre Festival in Lisbon. Ms Udall
trained for voice at the Central School of Speech and Drama
in London and was then designated as a teacher of Linklater
Voice Technique in 2003. She spent six years as an Associate
Professor of Voice/Acting at West Virginia University. She
is currently on the theatre faculty of Sarah Lawrence College.
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