New Members 2019
NTC is proud to introduce its newest members!
ROBERT rAMIREZ
(click here for bio) Robert Ramirez has served as Voice and Text Director at the Guthrie Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, and will soon collaborate on a tri-production with Hartford Stage, the Huntington Theatre Company, and the Alley Theater. He has performed with the New York, Notre Dame, Utah, Illinois, Alabama, Great River, Baltimore, and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has directed productions and staged readings for Austin Shakespeare, American Players Theatre and Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre and has been an acclaimed narrator of audiobooks for over 20 years, receiving numerous Golden Earphones Awards from Audiophile magazine. Robert is currently Interim Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin where he also serves as the head of the acting program. He is a graduate of the Los Angeles Theatre Academy and received his MFA from the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware. Robert is a proud member of Actors Equity, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and is the current Vice President of the University Resident Theater Association. 
MARYA SEA KAMINSKI
(click here for bio) Marya Sea Kaminski is a director, writer, and producer based in Pittsburgh, where she serves as Artistic Director of Pittsburgh Public Theater. She centers her artistic and leadership practices in the values of integrity, imagination, and joy in order to create powerful creative experiences that both delight and challenge us to see ourselves and one another in new ways. Marya has been honored with the Genius Award in Theater from the Seattle newsweekly, The Stranger, and has been recognized as an Artist of the Year by Seattle Magazine. She has taught and lectured at Point Park University, Hollins University, the University of Washington, and at Cornish College of the Arts, where she was awarded the Drama Department’s Award for Teaching. 
john ammerman
(click here for bio) JOHN AMMERMAN is a professional actor, director, playwright, and academic professor. He has been a professional performer for over forty years, and has performed more than 150 professional roles and directed over 50 plays. His solo career includes five One-Man plays written and performed, the most recent being Booth, Brother Booth which appeared at the Globe Theatre in London, England and is featured in an anthology of his plays entitled Booth, Brother Booth and Other Plays. His most recent plays produced include The Tatischeff Café (full length mimodrama in tribute to the great Jacques Tati and narrated in French gibberish), Life Goes On (a mimodrama in the style of a Black and White silent film), Slapping Bernard (a play in the style of Black and White film noir), and a stage adaptation of Janes Austen’s Persuasion. In January 2020, his new play Barton Field will receive its premiere in Atlanta, Georgia. His directing credits include Woman and Scarecrow, Ah Wilderness, Oklahoma, The Enigma Variations, Romeo and Juliet, Measure For Measure, Hamlet, You Can’t Take It With You, Uncle Vanya, Sumidagawa, The Playboy of the Western World, A Lie Of The Mind. He has extended histories in performance and direction with both the Virginia Shakespeare Festival and the Georgia Shakespeare Festival including roles as Shylock, Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III, Cyrano de Bergerac, Prospero, Jaques (AYLI), Sir Toby Belch, and Salieri in Amadeus. He is the founder and artistic director of The Refuge Theatre whose inaugural production of Durrenmatt’s Conversation At Night With A Despised Character appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival in 2014. He is a member of Actors Equity Association and is a recipient of the Suzi Bass Award (ATL) in acting for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Theater Studies at Emory University for which he teaches movement, styles, scene study, and acting; he also serves as a resident Actor/Director with Theater Emory, a resident professional company where he also served as its artistic director. He holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Georgia, and a B.S. in Drama Education from Central Michigan University. He is also a former student of the great French Mime, Marcel Marceau, as well as the legendary American mime Richmond Shepard. 
CHERYL FARAONE
(click here for bio) Cheryl Faraone is Mettler Professor of Theatre at Middlebury College, where she has taught since 1986. She is also Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Faraone is also a Founder and Coartistic Director for PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project), a New York based Off Broadway company affiliated with the College. 2019 marked PTP/NYC’s 13th season in NY, after 20 years in the Washington, D.C. area. As a director, professional work with PTP includes Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, Arcadia, Vinegar Tom, The After-Dinner Joke, Pentecost (with Richard Romagnoli), Serious Money, Territories, Lovesong of the Electric Bear, Crave,, An Experiment with an Air Pump, Stanley and Mad Forest, among many others. For the Olney Theatre Center in Maryland she directed King of the Jews, The Real Thing and Anna Karenina. Her work at Middlebury College, where she is Mettler Professor of Theatre, includes 30+ productions, among them Men on Boats, Enron, American Sunrise/Sunset, Stupid Fucking Bird, Vampire, Vinegar Tom, As You Like It, Mad Forest, Good Woman of Setzuan, The 5 Hysterical Girls Theorem, Top Girls, Perfect Pie. She holds graduate and under graduate degrees from Catholic University’s Drama Department and Florida State University’s School of Theatre, and has been a member of SDC, ART/NY and the League of Washington Theatres. |
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