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Jiyoun Chang
Former Faculty

Jiyoun Chang is a scenic and lighting designer who has worked on many new plays and classics. She cares deeply how characters live in a space and evolve with lights and sound and other visual elements as a story moves on. 

Sean-Patrick O'Brien
Alumni

Theatre instructor at Providence College in Providence, RI. As a playwright, has workshopped at Horizon Theatre Company and The Playwrights' Center. His play ZAMBONI received an Honorable Mention in the American Playwright Foundation鈥檚 2017 Relentless Awards.

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Faculty

A dramaturg, theater historian, and author of Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Maya Cantu specializes in twentieth-century American theater.

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Alumni

Leading 铿乬ure in American theatre, former artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and winner of a Tony award for outstanding regional theatre

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Faculty

Tilly Grimes is an Irish/Greek theater, opera, and film designer based in New York.

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Faculty

Dina Janis is the Artistic Director of the Vermont Public Theater and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

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Former Faculty

Avery Glymph is a New York-based Actor, Teacher, and Director with extensive experience on Broadway, with Regional Tony Award-winning theatre companies, and in numerous Film and Television roles.

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Alumni

Emmy Award-winning actress known for playing strong characters in shows such as Two and a Half Men and in her one-woman play, Ann, based on Texas governor Ann Richards

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Alumni

Award-winning actor who has appeared in some of Hollywood鈥檚 most iconic films, including Catch-22, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grosse Pointe Blank, Argo, and Little Miss Sunshine (for which he won a Golden Globe and an Oscar)

Mercedes Herrero
Former Faculty

Mercedes Herrero is an award-winning actress with over 30 years of professional experience in Theatre, Film and Television. She is an ensemble member of Mois茅s Kaufman鈥檚 Tectonic Theatre Project, and is currently in her third season as Vanessa Morrison on House of Cards.

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Alumni

Actor, writer, drag king, & nonprofit professional passionate about rock鈥檔鈥檙oll, cultural grievances, & comedy. By day, they manage institutional funding to provide arts & athletics mentorship to kids impacted by chronic illness; by evening & weekend brunch, they are drag king Vik Floyd, East Los鈥 prince of sorrow & madness.

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Instructor/Technician

Kumi Ishizawa is a sound engineer/designer. 

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Instructor/Technician

Richard MacPike brings his experience working on Broadway shows such as The Lion King and companies like the Santa Fe Opera and Glimmerglass to his work as costume shop manager at Bennington.

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Alumni

Film director, producer, actor, acting teacher, and founder of New York鈥檚 Water Theatre Company who has overseen more than 20 stage and film productions

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Emerita/Emeritus Faculty

Sherry Kramer鈥檚 work includes David鈥檚 RedHaired Death, When Something Wonderful Ends, The Wall of Water, and Three-Quarter Inches of Sky. Her plays have premiered at The Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Soho Rep, Second Stage, Humana Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Her book Writing for the Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience is published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Alumni

Ubiquitous stage and screen star who has appeared in everything from the cult classic Diner to the critically acclaimed Sopranos and now stars in the popular CBS drama Madam Secretary

Former Faculty

Brian Lambert is the Technical Instructor in Lighting & Dance Production whose work in sound, lighting, and audio has taken him from the Big Apple Circus to the Dorset Theatre Festival, among many other places.

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Former Faculty

Who can turn the world on with their smile? Who can a take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? It's not James Smith III and you should know it.

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Alumni

Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures who produced The Matrix trilogy and other blockbusters

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Jackie Sibblies Drury
Former Faculty
Lily Houghton
Alumni

Playwright and member of award-winning Youngblood writers group. Resident writer at the Flea Theater. Recipient of Seattle Repertory Theatre鈥檚 emerging playwright commission.

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Former Faculty

A graduate of The North Carolina School of the Arts, Mary-Louise Parker has performed in over thirty professional theater productions regionally and both off and on Broadway. She originated roles in plays by Paula Vogel, Adam Rapp, Craig Lucas, Sarah Ruhl, Simon Stephens, John Patrick Stanley, Sharr White, Terrence McNally, and others.

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Faculty

Michael Giannitti has extensive professional experience as a lighting designer and educator. He has designed lighting at many of the most prestigious venues around the country and has taught abroad as a two-time Fulbright Specialist Grant recipient.

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Former Faculty

Janis Young is an award winning actress and Fulbright Scholar who has performed in television, film and theatre. She has worked with several noted theatre companies, such as Circle in the Square, Lincoln Center and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She likes to mix and match sensible choices with serious play.

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Former Faculty

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig is a dramatist who writes for audio, stage and screen. Her play Snow in Midsummer was recently produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Royal Shakespeare Company and will be staged in New York by Classic Stage Company in the summer of 2022.

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Alumni

Founder and director of the Theatre of Witness, whose performance projects have given voice to prisoners and their families, survivors and perpetrators of abuse and violence, refugees, immigrants, elders, and those who have lived through war

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Faculty

Shawtane Bowen is a writer, actor, and producer. He is a founding member of Astronomy Club, the first all-Black house team at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in New York. Their series, Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show, debuted in Fall 2019 on Netflix to much critical acclaim. 

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Faculty

Jean Randich is an award-winning director, writer, and librettist specializing in new works, musical theatre, opera, and re-envisioned classics. She is cofounder and co-artistic director of Collider Theater in New York City.

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Former Faculty

Mariana Aun is a multi-faceted arts professional, specializing in recording and facilities management within higher education, with accompanying interests in percussion performance, creative entrepreneurship, and community arts initiatives.