Teaching

Current sessions

  • Meisner-based contemporary scene study
    By invitation only - Thursdays 7-9 pm from January 23 - February 27, 2025
    Lancaster, PA
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  • Meisner-based contemporary scene study
    Reading, PA - Spring 2025 (6 class meetings)
    $125
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  • Acting I
    Lancaster, PA - Spring 2025 (6 class meetings)
    $125
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  • SELECT PAST TEACHING

    • Princeton University 🔹Improv for Writers Workshop 🔹2022, 2023

    • Franklin & Marshall College 🔹Performance & The Embodied Self 🔹03.24.2022

    • New School Montessori (Lancaster, PA) 🔹7th & 8th Grade Sketch & Improv 🔹2021 - present

    • American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA) 🔹Kids Co. Music Director & Composer 🔹Sep 2019 - Aug 2020

    • Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) 🔹Meisner Technique for Improvisers 🔹Fall 2018

    • Playmakers Lab (Chicago, IL) 🔹Music Director, Composer & Teaching Artist 🔹Sep 2012- Dec 2018

    • Second City Training Center (Chicago, IL) 🔹 Music Director & Composer 🔹Jan 2014 - Aug 2016

    • Brain Arts Productions (Chicago, IL) 🔹Founder, Artistic Director 🔹Nov 2006 - Dec 2019

Performance

  • 1512 W Studebaker Place

    Photo Credit: Ryan Ward Thompson

  • That's Weird, Grandma

    Photo Credit: Evan Hanover

  • That's Weird, Grandma

    Photo Credit: Evan Hanover

  • That's Weird, Grandma

    Photo Credit: Evan Hanover

  • Handbook for the Recently Deceased

    Photo Credit: Evan Hanover

  • Janine: Character Study

    Photo Credit: August Tulin

  • DisCab: Villains

    Photo Credit: Evan Hanover

  • Pancakes and My Twitter Place

    Photo Credit: Nic King Ruley

  • Die Young

    Photo Credit: Evan Hanover

  • Shockheaded Peter

    Photo Credit: Cole Simon

  • 60 Songs In 60 Minutes

    Photo Credit: MJ Wrobel

  • Gwen Tulin - Headshot

    Photo Credit: Will Nunnally

  • The Who's Tommy

    Photo Credit: Brandeis University

Performance (Selected)

  • 60 Songs in 60 Minutes 🔹Featured Composer & Performer 🔹Neo-Futurist Theater

  • That’s Weird, Grandma 🔹Actor, Singer, Pianist 🔹Playmakers Lab

  • Shockheaded Peter 🔹Lead Singer, Musician 🔹Black Button Eyes Productions

  • Conservatory Showcases 🔹Composer, Accompanist 🔹Second City Training Center

  • Angry Fags (Chicago Premiere) 🔹Kimberly u/s (performed) 🔹Pride Films & Plays at Steppenwolf Garage

  • Frogs 🔹Cellist Frog 🔹Pegasus Players

  • Mr. Marmalade 🔹Sookie 🔹The Prop Thtr

  • The Secret Garden 🔹Martha 🔹Peterborough Players

  • The Who’s Tommy 🔹Cousin Kevin 🔹Brandeis University

  • The Suicide 🔹Raisa 🔹Brandeis University

Training

  • Meisner Technique 🔹Kathy Scambiatterra, John Mossman 🔹The Artistic Home, Chicago IL

  • Voice (Classical, Belt) 🔹Jessie Oliver, Gillian Kelly 🔹Chicago IL

  • Theater of the Oppressed 🔹Augusto Boal 🔹Harvard University, Cambridge MA

  • Grotowski/Viewpoints 🔹Steven Bogart 🔹Lexington MA

  • Drama-In-Education, Playwriting 🔹University of Kwa-Zulu Natal 🔹Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

  • BA Theater Arts 🔹Adrianne Krstansky, Dmitry Troyanovsky, Susan Dibble, Marya Lowry 🔹Brandeis University, Waltham MA

Special Skills

🔸Theater devising based on original student work 🔸Ensemble-building with actors and non-actors 🔸Meisner-based performance in plays and musicals 🔸Arts education and working with young performers 🔸Music Directing, including composition, coaching songwriting with non-musicians, and teaching music 🔸Multi-instrumentalist including piano, voice, cello, guitar and more 🔸Shakespeare scansion and language 🔸Lover of high camp and cultivator of surprise reprises 🔸Very high JPM (jokes per minute).