Faculty
Constance Crawford teaches "Basic Acting" (TA-23) for the Apprentice Company and is a core faculty member in the TheatreBridge Company. Connie received her BA from Vassar College and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. She
trained with Uta Hagen at the HB Studios in New York City. During the
2006-2007 academic year in Brown's Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, Connie taught both TA-23 and Brown's freshman course TA-03 (Intro to Acting and Directing).
Mark Cohen, is Artistic Director of the pre-college TheatreBridge Company and offers a Meisner acting workshop for the Apprentice 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 Theatre¹s Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University. He was a professional actor, director and dance consultant in New York City. Mark currently directs and teaches acting at Boston University. He's taught at Brown since 1993.
Carol Abizaid is a Movement Instructor for both the Apprentice and TheatreBridge Companies. She studied with contemporary dance masters Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Fred Benjamin, and Milton Myers. A 1984 graduate of Brown, Carol was the founder and CEO of World Arts, a performing arts studio in Soho, and has served on the faculty of NYU¹s Tisch School of the Performing Arts. Carol¹s choreography has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Manhattan Center, and throughout Europe. She currently teaches dance in Brown¹s Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance and offers movement workshops at the Brown/Trinity Graduate Consortium.
During the academic year, Stephen Buescher is Director of Movement at the Brown/Trinity Graduate Consortium. He heads the summer movement programs for both the Apprentice and TheatreBridge Companies. Stephen holds a BFA in Acting from CalArts and the Certificate in Advanced Training from the Dell¹Arte International School of Physical Theatre, where he worked as a core faculty member and as Associate School Director. Stephen is the Artistic Director of Workhorse, a Physical Theatre Troupe which joined our summer community in 2006.
Ken Prestininzi (Artistic Director) teaches the Apprentice Workshop and “The Creative Ensemble”. He has employed, produced, workshopped and collaborated with such seminal artists as Joseph Chaikin, Maria Irene Fornes, Deb Margolin, the Pickle Family Circus, and Mary Zimmerman. Ken directed the playwriting program for Literary Arts International in Prague and Mexico City and served as Artistic Director of West Coast Playwrights in San Francisco. He taught playwriting at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre and at Cornell University. Ken has directed new works by MFA candidate playwrights at Brown University and at Boston's American Repertory Theatre's conservatory program. His plays have been performed in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco and abroad and his most recent play As American As was seen at the 2006 Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival. This year at Brown he’s directing Paula Vogel’s Hot ‘n’ Throbbing.
Guest Artists 2005/2006
Peter Nachtrieb, playwriting
Jennifer Hayley, playwriting
Steven Levenson, musical theatre
Andy Hertz, musical theatre
Logan Marshall-Green, auditioning for film and television
T.J. Paolino, acting for camera
Rhea Perlman, television performance
Mark Cohen, acting
The Workhorse Company
Members of the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Company
Paul Grellong, playwriting
Stephen Karam, playwriting
Brighde Mullins, playwriting
Alice Tuan, playwriting
Eva Nagorski, documentary
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