Faculty

Mark Cohen, Artistic Director, teaches acting for the TheatreBridge Company. He received his BA from Yale and trained in London at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama. Mark has an MA from Brown and an MFA from the The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University. He was a professional actor, director and dance conultant in New York City. Mark currently directs and teaches acting at Boston University in Boston and has taught at Brown since 1993.

Constance Crawford teaches acting in the TheatreBridge Company. She received her BA from Vassar College and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. Connie trained with Uta Hagen at the HB Studios in New York City. She currently teaches first year acting and directing in Brown's Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance.

Stephen Buescher is Director of Movement for the Apprentice Workshop and TheatreBridge Companies. He holds a BFA in Acting from CalArts and Certificate in Advanced Training from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre where he worked as a core faculty member and as Associate School Director. Currently, Stephen teaches movement at the Brown/Trinity Consortium and is the Artistic Director of Workhorse, a Physical Theatre Troupe in residence at Brown this summer.

Carol Abizaid is Movement Instructor for TheatreBridge and has studied with contemporary dance masters Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Fred Benjamin, and Milton Myers. A 1984 graduate of Brown University, she was the founder and CEO of World Arts, a performing arts studio in Soho, and has served on the faculty of NYU’s Tisch School of the Performing Arts. Carol’s choreography has been performed at Carnegie Hall and the Manhattan Center, and throughout Europe. She currently teaches dance at Brown’s Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance.

Guest Artists, 2005 and 2006:

Lowry Marshall, playwriting
Paul Grellong, playwriting
Stephen Karam, playwriting
Alice Tuan, playwriting
Logan Marshall-Green, acting
Crystal Finn, acting
Robin Galloway, acting
Christopher Bayes, clowning
Ted Hewlett, stage combat
Amelia Buescher, mask