Circle in the Square Theatre School Faculty and Administration

PAUL LIBIN (President) Producer of more than 200 Broadway, off-Broadway, and touring productions during the past forty-five years. Producing Director of Circle in the Square Theatre from 1963 to 1990. Officer and governor of the League of American Theatres and Producers. Currently, President of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Producing Director of Jujamcyn Theatres.

THEODORE MANN (Artistic Director) co-founded Circle in the Square Theatre with Jose Quintero in 1951. He has presented over 200 productions, including Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke that is recognized as having given birth to the Off-Broadway theatre movement. Mr. mann produced Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night which resulted in O'Neill being heralded as America's greatest playwright. He directed and/or produced Mourning Becomes Electra, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Ah, Wilderness!, The Glass Menagerie, The Night of the Iguana (as well as for Moscow's Maly Theater), The Boys in Autumn, Where's Charley?, and Awake and Sing with such actors as: Al Pacino, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening, Christopher Walken, Dustin Hoffman, James Earl Jones, Kevin Kline, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, George C. Scott, Jason Robards, Maureen Stapleton, Nancy Marchand, Geraldine Page, Raul Julia, and Coleen Dewhurst. He directed for the New York City Opera and Juilliard.

E. COLIN O'LEARY (Executive Director) has worked extensively as a performer in theatre and dance both in New York and regionally. He has likewise directed and choreographed. Since 1983, he has served on the Commission on Accreditation for the National Association of Schools of Theatre for which he is also a member of the Board of Directors.

GREGORY ABELS (Acting Workshop) An artist of vast experience, Mr. Abels has directed or acted in nearly 800 plays, films and television dramas. In 1980 he founded St. Malachy's Theatre-space. Among the numerous plays he directed there was a highly acclaimed production of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral starring Lee Richardson and the World Premiere of Sally Dixon Wiener's Show Me A Hero. Regionally, he has directed at the Cleveland Playhouse, Asolo State Theatre, Westerly Theatre) and Stage West. He is perhaps best known as an actor for his performance as the relentless prosecuting attorney in the Broadway production of Nuts. Mr. Abels is the leading American director in the Czech Republic and in spring of 2006 will direct the world premiere of a new play in Prague. At an early age, he was a star pupil of Stella Adler. A Master Teacher himself, he guided his own classical based Manhattan acting conservatory, GATE - Gregory Abels Training Ensemble, 1996-2004. He has served as Master Teacher on the faculties of New York University, National Theatre Institute at The O'Neill Center, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, National Shakespeare Conservatory, Warsaw State Academy, and The National Academy of Prague.

KRYSTE ANDREWS (Singing Technique) holds a Master of Music Vocal Performance degree from the University of Colorado. She has performed roles such as Kate in Kiss Me, Kate, Susanna in Marriage of Figarom Despina in Cosi fan Tutti, Woman #1 in Closer Than Ever, and Phyllis in Follies and created one-woman shows featuring some of her original songs. Ms. Andrews specializes in the Broadway Belt and Mixed Voice with an emphasis on the training of young voices. Many of her very young students have appeared on Broadway: Les Mis, Big, The Lion King, and The Who's Tommy. In addition to her NYC private studio, she teaches in Bergan County, NJ and Rockland County, NY. She is certified as a hypnotherapist and for 20 years has specialized in helping actors/singers with performance jitters.

B.H. BARRY (Stage Combat) works as Stage Fight Choreographer for Broadway, the Metropolitan Opera, London's Royal Shakespeare Company, Covent Garden and BBC, as well as for films and regional theatres. Broadway: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Julius Caesar; Sly Fox; Kiss Me, Kate!; Crazy for You; City of Angels; Moon Over Buffalo; I’m Not Rappaport; A View From the Bridge; The Life; My Favorite Career; Into the Woods; Big River; An Inspector Calls; Noises Off. Off-Broadway: The Controversy, Svejk, The Late Henry Moss, Avenue Boys, Extremities. Film: The Impostors, Oleanna, Glory, The Addams Family, Mulan, Crossed Swords. Mr. Barry's work can also be seen as a longtime director on television's All My Children. He has been awarded both a Drama Desk and an Obie Award for Sustained and Consistent Excellence in Stage Combat. More about BH and his work is viewable at http://www.bhbarry.com/. His inspiration is his daughter, Olivia.

EDWARD BERKELEY (Shakespearean Scene Study, Classical Text) is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the Willow Cabin Theatre Company for which he directed the Tony Award and Drama Desk–nominated Wilder, Wilder, Wilder (transferred to Circle in the Square Theatre) and productions for which he has received numerous awards. He is director of undergraduate opera studies at the Juilliard School and director of the Aspen Opera Theater Center. His many New York drama premieres and New York Shakespeare Festival productions include Pericles and Best Revival winner The Tempest. He directed Beatrice and Benedict at the New York Philharmonic and John Adams’s El Niño with the Atlanta Symphony and at Ravinia. He has also directed at the Library of Congress, Williamstown Theater Festival, and Old Globe Theater. He has directed classics and new operas by Bright Sheng, Augusta Read Thomas, Michael Torke, Mark-Anthony Turnage, HK Gruber, and Bernard Rands. Houston Grand Opera productions include Two Faces of Romeo and Juliet, a combining of Bernstein and Gounod. In New York he directed the premiere of Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Kaiser from Atlantis (also in Spoleto, Italy). He has been a guest acting consultant for Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Program, a guest faculty member at Princeton University and Williams College, and a Benedict Distinguished Professor at Carleton College. Recently, he directed his own adaptation of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the New York Philharmonic, Madame Butterfly for Houston Grand Opera, and The Marriage of Figaro at Juilliard.

JACQUELINE BROOKES (Acting Technique), a former Fulbright scholar at RADA, has been a working professional actress for the past forty years, on and off Broadway, in films and television. Some of her memorable performances include roles in Buried Child, Oedipus Rex, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Abelard and Heloise, The House of Blue Leaves, as well as the films Ghost Story, Without a Trace, The Gambler and Losing Isaiah. She is a member of The Actors Studio.

LARRY CRABTREE (Dance for Actors) trained at the Center of Ballet & Dance Arts in Syracuse, NY with additional training at the Joffrey Ballet School. Larry has appeared in Regional and Stock Musical Productions, Industrials and National Television, and has toured throughout the U.S. and in Europe. He has performed with the Anglo-American Ballet (AAB), Peter Pucci Plus Dancers, New York City Jazz Company, New York Theatre Ballet, Humphrey Jazz Ensemble, and the New Jersey Ballet, among others. Some of his teaching credits include the Anglo-American Ballet School - NYC, STEPS - NYC and Center Stage for Dance & Theatre - NJ. As a member of the AAB he has performed such roles as the Prince in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, and originated the roles of the Husband in Pathedy of Manners, Professor Duck in The Ugly Duckling and the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. Mr. Crabtree is also a dancer in AAB's subsidiary company, The International Dance Festival of New York and created the role of Mr. World in IDFNY's production of Around the World with Jack and Jill.

CHRISTINE DE FRECE (Music Theory) has a Bachelor of Music Degree in vocal performance from the University of Lethbridge. She has performed such roles as Marian in The Music Man, Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore, Ruth in Pirates of Penzance, Nita in Tenderloin, and Young Sally in Follies. Christine has also spent years as a choral singer including a year with the professional Canadian ensemble the Elmer Iserler Singers (Toronto, Canada). During her time in Toronto, Ms de Frece also had the opportunity to sing back-up for international recording artist Andrea Bocelli. Christine is an actress, singer, and recent graduate of Circle in the Square.

BETH FALCONE (Singing Technique) was recently an associate conductor for "Fame Becomes Me" starring Martin Short on Broadway and has also served as rehearsal accompanist for Broadway's "Lion King." Beth is the resident musical director for the BMI showcase at Manhattan Theater Club, the Dramatist's Guild Fellowship Showcase and the Eugene O'Neill Summer Cabaret Conference where she also serves as vocal consultant. She has been on the voice faculty at the National Theater Institute (CT), Cedar Crest College (PA) and coached for Northwestern University's Musical Theater Certificate program. Beth is a member of the Voice Care Network, New York Singing Teachers Society, and she founded "Broadway Bound Voice Studios" in 1998 which specializes in musical theater voice training for children. Beth is also a composer/lyricist and has written "Wanda's World" (a musical for the tween in all of us!) which is being produced off-Broadway by Amas Musical Theater at the 45th Street Theater in January of 2008. She is a contributing composer to "Hats!" the musical, currently touring the US and "SpongeBob the Musical Live!" produced by Broadway Asia. She is currently a member of the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theater Workshop (Advanced) and the recipient of the 2006 Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement. Beth was selected as a Dramatist's Guild Musical Theater Fellow in 2004. She is thrilled to be joining the faculty at Circle in the Square!

LARRY GLEASON (Text Analysis) joined the permanent faculty in 2003 after six years as an alternate teacher for Shakespearean Text and Contemporary Scene Study. As an actor, he has been seen on and off Broadway, as well as regionally. Privately, he coaches actors in classical and contemporary monologue and audition preparation. Larry is a graduate of Circle's Theater School. He was taught by and has worked professionally with many of Circle's current faculty and is now proud to be a colleague. For more on Larry and his work, visit his website at http://www.larrygleason.com/home.html

ANDREA HARING (Voice) An director, actress and teacher, Andrea has worked professionally in the theatre for over twenty years. She is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company (in Lenox, Mass.) and has acted, directed, vocal coached the equity productions, and taught in the company workshops. She is the vocal coach for the Labyrinth Theater and a member of the Holderness Group. As a voice teacher trained by Kristin Linklater, Andrea is also currently on the faculty at Yale School of Drama, Columbia University School of the Arts, and Circle in the Square Theater School. She has also been on faculty at The New Actor's Workshop, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Dartmouth College. Andrea's clients have included Bernadette Peters, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Angela Bassett, Garry Marshall, Calista Flockhart, Kristen Johnston, and Christian Mehta. Some Broadway and Off-Broadway vocal coaching credits include: Our Lady of 121st Street (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, LAByrinth Theater), Dirty Story (written and directed by John Patrick Shanley), Jesus Hopped the A Train (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman), Where's My Money? (John Patrick Shanley) The Shadow Box (Mercedes Ruehl, Marlo Thomas, Jamie Sheridan, Rafael Sbarge), The Rose Tattoo (Mercedes Ruehl), Wrong Turn At Lungfish (Jamie Gertz, Tony Danza, George C. Scott), Uncle Vanya (James Fox), Search and Destroy (Griffin Dunne, Paul Guilfoyle), Endangered Species (directed by Martha Clarke, with Paul Guilfoyle, Judy Kuhn). Andrea is the Associate Director of The Linklater Center (www.linklatercenter.com). As Coordinator of Teacher Training for the Linklater Community, she has been responsible for the training of over seventy voice teachers in the Linklater Technique. For information on Andrea's Monday night Linklater Voice Technique class here at Circle, please check out our Evening Classes page. Andrea graduated with a BA from Smith College.

TERESE HAYDEN (Acting Technique) appeared on Broadway in Joan of Lorraine, Wedding Breakfast and Bicycle Ride to Nevada, and in the National Tour of A Streetcar Named Desire with Uta Hagen. She appeared at Equity Library Theatre (which she helped found and organize) in The Millionairess, Measure for Measure and Candida; has directed and produced Off-Broadway and worked extensively in television. A member of the Actors Studio and the original editor of Player's Guide, which she also founded.

MARY ANN IVAN (Music Theory) has over twenty years experience as a musical director, composer and pianist in musical theatre. With a degree in Music Therapy from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, Mary Ann moved to NYC in 1993 where she received her MA in Music Composition from NYU. Studying privately with Joseph Church, musical director of Disney's The Lion King and The Who's Tommy, she began her Broadway career as a keyboardist and rehearsal pianist. She has played such shows as The Who's Tommy, The King and I, Jekyll and Hyde and toured with Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as well as My Fair Lady. Becoming interested in composing at age fifteen, she now has over six hundred songs, orchestral pieces, ensemble works, three film credits and eleven musicals. In addition to being a composer and theatre musical diretor, Mary Ann is the founder of Capivan Studios, located in Westchester County, New York.

ALAN LANGDON (Scene Study, European Scene Study, Musical Scene Study) appeared Off-Broadway in The Fantasticks and Intimate Relations, was Artistic Director of the Actors Space, and headed the Professional Acting Program at the University of Oklahoma. He has directed at the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, the British American Restoration Arts Theatre in England and was Director of Apprentice Workshops for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. For information on Alan's Monday night Scene Study class here at Circle, please check out our Evening Classes page.

SARA LOUISE LAZARUS (Singing Interpretation) owns and operates Sara Lazarus Studios, which has been training actors and actor-singers since 1985. A member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, SSDS, AEA and SAG, Ms. Lazarus has directed off-Broadway and regionally, staged concerts at Avery Fisher Hall and overseen a series of touring Pops concerts featuring noted Broadway actors performing with symphonies around the country. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Playwrights’ Horizons.

K.C. LIGON (Speech) has designed dialects for Broadway productions that include 1776, Electra, and She Loves Me, for Circle in the Square (The Rose Tattoo, Holiday, Bus Stop, Suddenly Last Summer, Something Unspoken, The Miser, Zoya's Apartment, Tartuffe: Born Again) and Roundabout (1776, Grace & Glorie). Off-Broadway: How I Learned to Drive, Song of Singapore. New York: Manhattan Theatre Club (Valley Song, The Captain's Tiger), Classic Stage Company (Entertaining Mr. Sloane), Naked Angels (Meshugah), The Women's Project (Inky), Transport Group (Our Town, Requiem for William), Blue Light (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), New York Stage & Film (My Mother Said I Never Should), New York City Opera (110 in the Shade). Regional: Seattle Rep (Valley Song), LaJolla Playhouse (The Captain's Tiger), Hartford Stage (The Philadelphia Story), Williamstown Theatre Festival (The Rainmaker), Portland Stage (Valley Song), and over thirty productions at McCarter Theatre including The Film Society, Rough Crossing, Between East and West, Wonderful Tennessee, Portia Coughlan, The Matchmaker, The Royal Family, Betrayal, The Old Settler, A Park in My House, The Nanjing Race, Greensboro: A Requiem. First National Tours: Jekyll & Hyde, An Inspector Calls. Film and TV: After the Storm, The Salton Sea, The Annihilation of Fish, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story. Performing credits include The Visit with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Subject To Fits at the NY Public Theater, and the TV series The Paper Chase. Ligon has taught at City University of New York, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and the New Actors Workshop. She is an alumna of the Graduate Acting Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she trained in voice with Kristin Linklater and with Nora Dunfee in dialects and speech, subsequently serving as Dunfee's associate dialect consultant for many plays and films. Ligon is a Trustee of the Shakespeare Fellowship (www.shakespearefellowship.org) and a contributing editor to its quarterly publication Shakespeare Matters. She has been married to actor Tom Ligon since 1976.

ELIZABETH LOUGHRAN (Speech) earned her B.F.A in Drama at Carnegie Mellon University, and an M.A. in Speech at Montclair State. While at Carnegie, she studied with both Edith Warman Skinner and Timothy Monich, the original author and current editor of Speak With Distinction, respectively. In addition to teaching at Circle in the Square, she has taught at Carnegie-Mellon, SUNY Purchase, Marymount and Mercy Colleges, and at Montclair State. A performer since a toddler, Loughran continues to work in commercials, industrials, and voiceovers, and has directed her students at Carnegie, SUNY Purchase and at Hudson Talent Workshop in Nyack, where she lives. Her former students can be seen on both the big and small screens, as well as international stages.

ELENA McGHEE (Speech) is an actor, vocal coach, and Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. Recent teaching appointments include Fordham University, Stella Adler Academy (Hollywood), The Laura Henry Studio in LA, NYU Cap 21, American Conservatory Theatre, Cal/Arts, Harlem School of the Arts, and Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. Some of her acting credits in New York City include: (Off-Broadway) Classic Stage Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Ontological Hysteric Theatre; (Los Angeles) LA Women’s Shakespeare Company and The Odyssey Theatre; (Boston) The New Rep, the Nora Theatre, and the Worcester Foothills .

KEVIN McGUIRE (Singing Interpretation) has played lead roles on Broadway, National and International tours of Les Miserable, The Phantom of the Opera, Jane Eyre and starred as Uncle Archie in The National Company of The Secret Garden. Other New York credits include the original cast of Forbidden Broadway, John B. Keane’s Big Maggie, Horatio in Hamlet at the Classic Stage Company, The Seagull, Paul Selig’s Body Parts, Gerald Gutierrez’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mark Lamos The Gilded Age, and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet on tour for The New York Shakespeare Festival. Regional credits include, Hartford Stage Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Theatre Factory St. Louis as George in Sunday in the Park with George (Drama Critics Award), three summers at The Williamstown Theatre Festival appearing in over thirty productions, and on tour for two seasons with the highly acclaimed John Houseman’s The Acting Company. Kevin has sung for Three United States Presidents and at several major sporting events in New York, Oakland, San Francisco, L.A, Boston and Washington D.C. He is currently the Artistic Director of The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall.

BILL REED (Singing Technique & Tutorials) has dedicated his professional life to guiding singers in their quest to realize their potential as performing artists. Born into a show business family, Bill began his vocal music education at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree. (Bill is proud to be in the Badger Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.) He completed his studies at Columbia University, where he earned a doctorate. After a busy and rewarding career as a college professor and concert singer, Bill established a private voice studio in New York where for the past 25 years he has been privileged to work with amazing singers from all over the world whose specialities have ranged from opera to pop and rock, and Broadway to country. He has consulted on a number of Hollywood movies and commercial recordings, and his students have performed at the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera and many European opera houses, and in hundreds of Broadway shows. Bill's students have won the Oscar Hammerstein, MAC, Emmy and Tony awards.

LARS ROSAGER (Tap) has choreographed for Dance Theatre Workshop, Bay Street Theatre, American Ballroom Theatre, The New York Drama League, regional theatre, industrials, and benefits. Directed and/or choreographed productions of Sweet Charity, Anything Goes, and 42nd Street, among others. Appeared on Broadway in the original cast of 42nd Street, directed by Gower Champion; the revival of Cabaret, directed by Harold Prince; and with the American Dance Machine. Television specials include In Performance at the White House, The Best of Broadway, and Showstoppers. Teaching experience: New York University, Circle in the Square, Steps on Broadway, and master classes throughout the tri-state area. Training: Los Angeles with Roland Dupree and Stanley Holden; San Francisco with Richard Gibson; New York with David Howard, Lee Theodore, and Michael Owens.

LUCILLE S. RUBIN, Ph.D. (Voice) coaches Broadway and film actors, television and radio reporters, and media voice over artists. She is Director of Professionally Speaking, a founder of VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association), and editor of Movement for the Actor. Also, she has taught at SUNY Purchase, presented at the First World Voice Congress and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of The Voice Foundation.

KEN SCHATZ (Physical Acting) has taught and directed for many schools and companies. He owns and operates actortec (www.kenschatz.com), "the complete technique resource for actors." His coaching credits include Copland with Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro, Shadrach with Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell, There's Something About Mary with Matt Dillon and Cameron Diaz, ABC's Spin City and numerous other films, commercials, and theatre productions.

DANIEL SINGER (Alexander Technique) is a senior trainer on the staff of the American Center for the Alexander Technique Certification Program in New York City. A certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique since 1981, he is a founding member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique. As well as at Circle, he teaches Alexander Technique to actors at the Michael Howard Studio, Stella Adler Acting Studio and privately in New York City. Co-author of the book The Sacred Portable Now, he has co-written and produced the audio program The Back Alive Advantage based on principles of Alexander Technique lying-down work.

JEANNE SLATER (Dance for Actors) A graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School, Jeanne made her Broadway debut in Tartuffe: Born Again. Choreography includes theater, workshops, vocal ensembles, concerts, and competition dance teams. Teaching includes all levels from elementary and high school to college and private instruction. New York choreography credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, L'Étoile, Die Zauberflöte, Vinegar Tom, The Tempest, Dido and Aeneas, The Tender Land, and Susannah. She has taught dance and movement at Juilliard since 1998 and dance for singers at the 2000 Aspen Music Festival.

ALBERT STEPHENSON (Dance for Actors) has appeared on Broadway in The Act, Irene, Applause, A Broadway Musical, and A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, as well as numerous television shows. Choreographed many production, including the Tony Awards broadcast and Night of 100 Stars, Part II, for which he received Emmy nominations.

MARIA TUCCI (Acting Workshop) began her career in the original production of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Later she won a Tony nomination for her portrayal of Rosa in the revival of The Rose Tattoo, played in Suddenly Last Summer and The Rose Tattoo (this time as Serafina) in the Williamstown Williams Celebration, and then Hannah Jekles in The Night of the Iguana, again at Williamstown. She has worked extensively on and off Broadway, including A Man For All Seasons, Requiem For A Heavyweight (Tony Award nomination), Athol Fugard's A Lesson From Aloes, Spokesong, Kingdoms and The Shadow Box; Mike Nichols' productions of The Little Foxes, Drinks Before Dinner, The Stendhal Syndrome and Marking. At Stratford, she was Juliet twice, Ophelia, Hermione/Perdita in The Winter's Tale, and Irina in The Three Sisters. At the Long Wharf and elsewhere she has played in Major Barbara, The Crucible, The Heiress, The Guardsmen, The Royal Family, Seascape and Master Class. She starred in The Substance of Fire at Playwrights Horizon and at Lincoln Center Theatre Club. Maria has performed in Collected Stories at Manhattan Theatre Club, Between East and West and Fugard's Hello and Goodbye at the McCarter Theatre. On television she has been Ruth in Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon and Mrs. Alger Hiss in Concealed Enemies. She has also appeared in the television series Tattingers and Law and Order, and the film Daniel. Her feature film credits include Sweet Nothing and To Die For, directed by Gus Van Sant.

KIMBERLY VAUGHN (Singing Interpretation) teacher, producer, director, dramaturge, performer, is passionately committed to the creative art of storytelling through the in-depth exploration of the actor's relationship to text, both dramatic and musical. At Kimberly Vaughn Performance Studio she teaches ongoing classes in musical performance audition technique, monologue and scene script interpretation, and conducts master classes with industry leaders. She also coaches privately for stage, film and cabaret. Her clients are working on and off Broadway, regionally, and in television and film. She has taught at the legendary Warren Robertson Acting Studio in New York. Kimberly served as an Associate Producer of the Tony Award nominated Broadway musical play Marlene. Prior to that she developed and introduced the Broadway musical Swinging on a Star, nominated for Tony's coveted Best Musical Award. Among other projects she has introduced to audiences are Hauptman starring Denis O'Hare at the Cherry Lane Theatre and The Cover of Life at The American Place Theatre. She has directed Edward J. Moore's Drama Desk award winning play The Sea Horse and Ronald G. Paolillo's play The Lost Boy, (also dramaturge) which she has optioned for production and directed in the fall of 2005. She acts as dramaturge to several other playwrights. Kimberly has performed leading roles on Broadway, Dear Oscar, and in star packages including Harvey with Shirley Booth and Tom Poston, Applause with Dorothy Collins and The Member of the Wedding with Ethel Waters. Miss Vaughn is a member of The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. and The League of Professional Theatre Women (former Board member).

MINA YAKIM (Neutral & Character Mask) is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Performance Theater Center, (P.T.C.) Training Center. She began her mime career as a principal in the companies of both Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau. Mina has conceived and directed the pieces: The Gull, Out of Our Mind, Journeys, Sex and Violence, as well as a Circle in the Square show based on Ogden Nash's works; and The Power, originating at the Village Gate Theater. She developed the new musical, Custody, the original Amanda McBroom revue, The Rose, and also collaborated with Theodore Mann on Tennessee William's The Night of the Iguana (staged at Moscow's Maly Theatre.) Other directing credits include Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood, Arthur Giroux's Becoming Memories and Boris Vasiliv's Tomorrow Was War. Broadway credits include work on Mikhail Bulgakov's acclaimed Zoya's Apartment. In addition to her teaching at Circle in the Square, Mina has also served on the faculty of the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, the Metropolitan Opera Studio, the Juilliard Drama Division and the Juilliard Opera Center. Other projects include collaborating with Moni Yakim on the book, Acting Through Movement.

MONI YAKIM (Physical Acting) is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Performance Theater Center, (P.T.C.) Training Center. Moni was a principal performer with the mime companies of Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, studied at Le Théâtre National Populaire, Paris; and performed with Le Théâtre Franco-Allemande. In addition to directing in Israel and Europe, Moni has directed contemporary and classical plays in the U.S. for Yale Rep., American Shakespeare Festival, Juilliard Drama Theater, as well as Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. Most notably, he directed the original production of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, at the Village Gate, NYC; this production was also produced on Broadway, in Europe, Israel, and throughout the United States. Moni has also directed operas for American Opera Center, Metropolitan Opera Studio, Boston Concert Opera, Stonybrook Festival, Lake George Opera Festival. Awards include: best director, Jacques Brel ..., L'Histoire du Soldat. For film, he created movement for Robocop, Robocop 2, and Robocop 3. Moni is author of the best selling text, Creating a Character, and the former head of the movement department for Yale Drama School, Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as the Juilliard Drama Division.

GUEST INSTRUCTORS have included John Bolger, Olympia Dukakis, Barbara Garrick, Joanna Gleason, Mari Lyn Henry, Stephen Hollis, Linda Hunt, Dana Ivey, Finbar Lynch, Joanna Merlin, Alan Miller, Alfred Molina, Michael Moriarty, Barry Moss, Mercedes Ruehl, Carole Shelley and Alan Willig.