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Howard Meyer's Acting Program
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Howard Meyer |
Howard Meyer is a professional theatre director, teacher, playwright and actor whose work has appeared Off-Broadway and regionally at theatres including New York Theatre Workshop, Total Theatre Lab, Rattlestick Productions, The Playwright's Center, Coyote Theatre, The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Schoolhouse Theatre, Fleetwood Stage and Barnspace. He has taught acting for the past thirteen years in New York City and in Westchester County. Howard is founding Artistic Director of The Axial Theatre, an innovative professional Westchester-based Theatre Company. Mr. Meyer's plays include Persephone Rising, The Kiss, All That's Fair, Twenty, Cherrie & Jerry, AngelBeast and Lost In Paradise, which has been optioned for a motion picture.
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 Rachel Jones |
Rachel Jones is a member of Actors' Equity and Screen Actors' Guild. She toured the US and Canada with the first national tour of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and has acted in several films and commercials. Rachel was a founding member of New York's Avalon Repertory Theatre where she both acted and directed. She has studied the acting techniques of Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen. Ms. Jones currently acts with and directs for The Axial Theatre.
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 Melanie Noblit-Gambino |
Melanie Noblit-Gambino holds a B.F.A . in dance / Theatre / Creative Arts Therapy Education and Performance / Choreogaphy from SUNY Purchase. Melanie has a passion for exploring and integrating several multi-traditional and interdisciplinary arts including nature awareness, healing, dance, theater, movement, voice, meditation and spiritual work. Melanie is an Authorized Continuum Movement Teacher. She is also an Ordained Minister of Healing an holds a B.A. in Theology and Sacred Healing. Melanie has been teaching and performing professionally for over 25 years. She has healing practices in New York City and Westchester, NY. Melanie teaches and practices both privately and in art centers and area hospitals.
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Jacob Garrett
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Jacob Garrett White's New York Theatre Acting credits include: Theatre for a New Audience's Julius Caesar, NYSF's Cymbeline, The Barrow Group's Pentecost and The Faithful, The Barrow Group and Theatre at St. Mary's Lobby Hero. Regional Theatre: Old Globe and Goodman Theater's Floyd Collins, New Jersey Rep's Panama, Color of Flesh and Emil, Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati's Keeping the Faith, Howard Meyer's production of Suburbia, International Tour The King and I, Theaterwork's Tour Babes in Toyland. Company member of NJ Rep. Training: BFA '98 in Dramatic Performance from University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM), NYSF Shakespeare Lab, Howard Meyer's first acting student, The Barrow Group. Co-Artistic Director of Theatre at St. Mary's. Director of Barrow Group and Theatre at St. Mary's Medal of Honor Rag. Beginning October 2006, Jacob will conduct a monthly Audition Workshop series on Thurdsay nights.
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Tony Howarth |
Tony Howarth has received grants from the Death in America Foundation and the Drama League; he was playwright-in-residence for the Mint Theatre, in New York City, from 1991 to 1995. Professional productions include: Dream City Twosome, produced Off-Broadway in 1999; Thornwood, presented all over the U.S., in Europe and in Tanzania, later made into an award-winning independent movie, Slings and Arrows; Sundown, presented at the Sonora Playhouse, Sonora, California; Maiden Voyage, presented at the Westbeth Theater Center, New York City; his one-act play, Sally in the Middle, was presented in Amsterdam in 2001. As a director, he has worked on countless productions; his most recent gig was Carnival, for the College Light Opera Company, this summer, in Falmouth, Mass. As an actor, he has appeared in several productions as a member of Actors Equity. He conducted a workshop for young playwrights for five years at the Westbeth Theater Center in Greenwich Village until the Center closed a year ago.
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Heather Nicolson |
Heather Nicolson has been lucky to work with creative learners, ages 2-80, as both a teacher and director, and is in a state of constant admiration at the bravery put forth by each and every one of them. Heather has taught with the Denver Center Theatre Company, both as an on-sight teaching artist, and as an artist in the field, going into schools and being part of hands-on theatre programs including the reknown, Living History program (An engaging multi-day performance and workshop presented in high schools), and Educational programming for Elementary-aged students. Heather also helped co-design a program in Colorado for highly at-risk high school students, using theatre as an original mouthpiece to voice their social presence and concerns. Though she enjoys teaching all ages, she especially loves the energy and minds of middle-school and high school-aged students. Having earned her secondary teaching license 3 years ago, she is constantly amazed by the originality, creativity, honesty, and authenticity of these students, and sees theatre as an ideal vehicle to encourage them to understand the power and importance of finding and using their own voice.
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Ryan Shams
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Ryan is a working actor in theater, film, and television. In May he will be playing Ramin in MAHIDA'S EXTRA KEY TO HEAVEN, written by Russell Davis at the Playwrights' Theatre of New Jersey. On April 6th you can see Ryan in a scene opposite Vincent D'Onofrio in LAW & ORDER:CRIMINAL INTENT. Upcoming film credits include featured roles in SALT (starring Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber) and THE LAST AIRBENDER (directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Dev Patel). Other TV credits: LAW & ORDER (original series), AS THE WORLD TURNS, and CSI:NY. Regional Theater: Swiss Cheese in MOTHER COURAGE (La Jolla Playhouse, dir. Lisa Peterson), Aramis in THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Seattle Rep, dir. Kyle Donnelly), and Jesus Christ and Stephen Hawking in END DAYS (Vineyard Playhouse). Ryan has studied physical theater and clown with Pierre Byland at The Burlesk Center in Switzerland and with Christopher Bayes (Head of Movement, Yale School of Drama). Ryan has a BA from Columbia University and was a two-time Junior National Fencing Champion. He is currently the head Epee Fencing Coach at The Horace Mann School, teaches the Movement program at the New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts, and teaches Improv and Movement at Howard Meyer's Acting School, Pleasantville, New York. He also practices Ashtanga yoga and recently received his 200-RYT teaching certification from Yoga Sutra in New York City.
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