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Faculty

A dramaturg, theater historian, and author of Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Maya Cantu specializes in twentieth-century American theater.

Image of Sharon Ott
Alumni

Leading figure in American theatre, former artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and winner of a Tony award for outstanding regional theatre

Image of Tilly Grimes
Faculty

Tilly Grimes is an Irish/Greek theater, opera, and film designer based in New York.

Image of Dina Janis
Faculty

Dina Janis is the Artistic Director of the Vermont Public Theater and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

Image of Avery Glymph
Former Faculty

Avery Glymph is a New York-based Actor, Teacher, and Director with extensive experience on Broadway, with Regional Tony Award-winning theatre companies, and in numerous Film and Television roles.

Image of Holland Taylor
Alumni

Emmy Award-winning actress known for playing strong characters in shows such as Two and a Half Men and in her one-woman play, Ann, based on Texas governor Ann Richards

Image of Alan Arkin
Alumni

Award-winning actor who has appeared in some of Hollywood’s most iconic films, including Catch-22, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grosse Pointe Blank, Argo, and Little Miss Sunshine (for which he won a Golden Globe and an Oscar)

Mercedes Herrero
Former Faculty

Mercedes Herrero is an award-winning actress with over 30 years of professional experience in Theatre, Film and Television. She is an ensemble member of Moisés Kaufman’s Tectonic Theatre Project, and is currently in her third season as Vanessa Morrison on House of Cards.

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Alumni

Actor, writer, drag king, & nonprofit professional passionate about rock’n’roll, cultural grievances, & comedy. By day, they manage institutional funding to provide arts & athletics mentorship to kids impacted by chronic illness; by evening & weekend brunch, they are drag king Vik Floyd, East Los’ prince of sorrow & madness.

Image of Kumi Ishizawa
Instructor/Technician

Kumi Ishizawa is a sound engineer/designer. 

Image of Richard MacPike
Instructor/Technician

Richard MacPike brings his experience working on Broadway shows such as The Lion King and companies like the Santa Fe Opera and Glimmerglass to his work as costume shop manager at Bennington.

Image of Shira Piven
Alumni

Film director, producer, actor, acting teacher, and founder of New York’s Water Theatre Company who has overseen more than 20 stage and film productions

Image of Sherry Kramer
Emerita/Emeritus Faculty

Sherry Kramer’s work includes David’s RedHaired Death, When Something Wonderful Ends, The Wall of Water, and Three-Quarter Inches of Sky. Her plays have premiered at The Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Soho Rep, Second Stage, Humana Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Her book Writing for the Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience is published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Image of Tim Daly
Alumni

Ubiquitous stage and screen star who has appeared in everything from the cult classic Diner to the critically acclaimed Sopranos and now stars in the popular CBS drama Madam Secretary

Former Faculty

Brian Lambert is the Technical Instructor in Lighting & Dance Production whose work in sound, lighting, and audio has taken him from the Big Apple Circus to the Dorset Theatre Festival, among many other places.

Image of James Smith
Former Faculty

Who can turn the world on with their smile? Who can a take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? It's not James Smith III and you should know it.

Image of Bruce Berman
Alumni

Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures who produced The Matrix trilogy and other blockbusters

Photograph © Michael Lewis

Jackie Sibblies Drury
Former Faculty
Lily Houghton
Alumni

Playwright and member of award-winning Youngblood writers group. Resident writer at the Flea Theater. Recipient of Seattle Repertory Theatre’s emerging playwright commission.

Image of Mary-Louise Parker
Former Faculty

A graduate of The North Carolina School of the Arts, Mary-Louise Parker has performed in over thirty professional theater productions regionally and both off and on Broadway. She originated roles in plays by Paula Vogel, Adam Rapp, Craig Lucas, Sarah Ruhl, Simon Stephens, John Patrick Stanley, Sharr White, Terrence McNally, and others.