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U-M Theatre is thrilled and honored to welcome a variety of guest artists and master teachers each year. Guest artists enliven your educational experance as they present workshops, conduct open forums and teach master classes with our students.
Richard Fisher
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Our junior-year actors participate in an intensive audition workshop led by agents Richard Fisher of the Abrams Artists Agency and Arnold Mungioli of Mungioli Casting. Richard and Arnold work with the students, in groups and then individually, providing valuable feedback to the actors as they progress through prepared audition pieces and one-on-one interviews. The agents present the specific challenges of the profession for today’s actor. Students are enthusiastic about the experience, finding the sessions to be enormously helpful in the development of their audition preparation. |
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 Donn Finn, casting partner in the office of Mali Finn Casting, conducts audition workshops for Acting majors. Donn is also a retired professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at California State University in Fullerton. His professional stage direction credits include Roger Cornish’s A Class “C” Trial in Yokohama for Paramount Pictures/Apollo Chicago, starring William Peterson (CSI), Dennis Farina, Ted Levine and D. W. Moffatt. For the National Theatre of Yugoslavia he directed House of Blue Leaves, Waiting for Godot, and Vlast (Power). Recent film casting credits include: Undertow, Eight Mile, Phonebooth, Titanic, LA Confidential, Wonder Boys and THE MATRIX I, II and III. In addition, he has served as an acting coach on several films and television series.
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Our guests have included such distinguished actors as:
| Maureen Anderman - film actress (The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Out of Our Father's House), stage actress (Macbeth at Lincoln Center, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln at ANTA Playhouse, Hamlet at the New York Shakespeare Festival) and television actress (Law and Order, St. Elsewhere, Days and Nights of Molly Dodd); Michigan alumna |
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John Cullum - two-time Tony Award winner (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Shenandoah), a regular on TV's Northern Exposure and E.R., and film actor (All the Way Home, Hawaii, 1776, The Day After, Sweet Country, and Ricochet River with Kate Hudson) |
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| Jeff Daniels - stage actor with New York's renowned Circle Repertory Theatre (Fifth of July, Johnny Got His Gun) and film actor (The Squid and the Whale, Goodnight and Good Luck, The Hours, Pleasantville, Dumb and Dumber) |
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Ruby Dee - stage and film actress (A Raisin in the Sun, Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, A Simple Wish) and Emmy Award-winning actress (East Side West Side) |
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Holly Hughes -
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| James Earl Jones - stage and film actor (The Great White Hope, Field of Dreams, Cry, the Beloved Country, Patriot Games, The Hunt for Red October), and Michigan alumnus |
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Christine Lahti - stage, film actress (Housekeeping, Running on Empty, Leaving Normal), winner of the New York Film Critics Award (Swing Shift), and television actress (Chicago Hope); and Michigan alumna |
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| Robert Ulrich - stage, film and television actor |
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Guest directors have included:
| Maureen Anderman - film actress (The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Out of Our Father's House), stage actress (Macbeth at Lincoln Center, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln at ANTA Playhouse, Hamlet at the New York Shakespeare Festival) and television actress (Law and Order, St. Elsewhere, Days and Nights of Molly Dodd); Michigan alumna |
| Hal Cooper - Hollywood television producer; Michigan alumnus |
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| Pamela Hunt - professional theatre director |
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Vladimir Mirzoev - Russian-born director of Toronto's Horizontal Eight theatre Company |
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| Lewis Palter - professional theatre director |
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| Travis Preston - professional theatre director |
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| Kim Rubinstein - professional theatre director |
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Michele Shay - professional director and actress |
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| Lynn Thompson - Circle Rep Theatre in New York City |
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| Robert Ulrich - stage, film and television actor |
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Other distinguished guests have included:
| Robert Altman - film director |
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Libby Appel - artistic director of the Ashland Shakespeare Festival; Michigan alumna |
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| Ann Bogart - award-winning director and Artistic Director of the Saratoga International Theatre Institute |
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| Jim Clark - Managing Director of the Syracuse Stage |
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| Richard Gilman - theatre critic, Yale University |
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| Stanley Kauffmann - New York Times theatre critic |
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Arthur Miller - award-winning playwright; Michigan alumnus |
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| Jack O'Brien - artistic director of the San Diego Old Globe Theatre; Michigan alumnus |
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| Frank Rich - theatre critic for the New York Times |
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John Rich - television and film director; Michigan alumnus |
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| Lloyd Richards - former Dean/Artistic Director of Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre and New York theatre director |
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| Ed Stern - Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Playhous |
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| Derek Walcott - Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright |
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Lanford Wilson - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and founder of New York's Circle Rep |
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| Robert Woodruff - acclaimed New York and regional theatre director |
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A number of guest designers have taught master classes:
| Stuart Duke - lighting designer (The Studio Theatre New York, the Folger, Portland Stage, Indiana Rep; three-time nominee for the Helen Hayes Award) |
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| Susan Benson - set and costume designer for the Stratford Festival |
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Linda Buchanan - multiple award-winning scenic, costume and lighting designer and Head of Scene Design at DePaul University |
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Dawn Chiang - lighting designer for the New York Opera Company, Syracuse Stage, on and off-Broadway, and a number of regional theatres.
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| Jeff Davis - lighting designer for New York and regional theatre |
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| Olga Dimitrov - costume designer for theatre, film (Johnnie Mnemonic) and television in the U.S., Canada and Czechoslovakia |
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| Antonin Dimitrov - scenic and graphic designer for theatre, film and television in the U.S., Canada and Czechoslovakia |
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| Russell Metheny - scenic designer (Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., Circle in the Square in New York City, Chicago's Goodman Theatre; three Helen Hayes Awards) |
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| Shirley Prendergast - Obie-Award-winning lighting designer (Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design, !996-97) for Broadway and regional theatre |
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| Vladimir Schpitalnik - professional scenographer |
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The Royal Shakespeare Company— in a unqiue residency with the University of Michigan— visited Ann Arbor last year to perform four of Shakespeare’s history plays–Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3; and Richard III. During its residency, the company worked with U-M Theatre students in various workshops and master classes on voice, text and acting, audition coaching and set design. The company returned in March 2003 to present The Merry Wives of Windsor, Coriolanus and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and to work again with U-M Theatre majors in a variety of one-on-one workshops and master classes. |
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| Other companies, such as the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival and the Pan-Asian Repertory have visited the U-M campus and held master classes for Theatre majors. |
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