GREG LEAMING DIRECTOR, FSU/ASOLO CONSERVATORY FOR ACTOR TRAINING; ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE. Directing Hearts, The Mystery Plays
Directed Pericles, Blue Window, and Murder by Poe for the FSU/Asolo Conservatory and The Play’s the Thing, the world premiere of Men of Tortuga and his translation/adaptation of Anything to Declare? for Asolo Rep. Other credits include associate director and producing director, Hartford Stage Company; artistic director, Portland Stage Company; director of artistic programming and acting artistic director, Long Wharf Theatre; associate professor of theatre and head of directing, Southern Methodist University. Off Broadway he directed the world premiere of Constance Congdon’s Lips for Primary Stages. Other productions include: Arms and the Man, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Intimate Exchanges, Anna Christie, The Illusion, Private Lives, Baltimore Waltz, On the Verge and the world premieres of Constance Congdon’s Losing Father’s Body, Jeffrey Hatcher’s Turn of the Screw, Keith Curran’s Church of the Sole Survivor, Steven Druckman’s Going Native, Theresa Rebeck’s Abstract Expression, Joe Sutton’s The Third Army, Alan Knee’s Syncopation and David Schulner’s An Infinite Ache for theatres including Stage West, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Cincinnatti Playhouse in the Park, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Southwest Shakespeare, Dorset Theatre Festival, Hangar Theatre, and Florida Stage. He has developed new works with the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Gathering at Bigfork and Theatre of the First Amendment.

ANDREI MALAEV-BABEL FIRST YEAR ACTING
Andrei Malaev-Babel holds an M.F.A. from the renowned Vakhtangov Theater Institute in Moscow, Russia. He trained and worked under Alexandra Remizova, the actress-director and co-founder of the Vakhtangov Theater, Stanislavsky's student and Vakhtangov's protege. In 1985 Mr. Malaev-Babel co-founded the Moscow Chamber Forms Theater, one of the first private professional theater companies in Russia. He taught on the faculty of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and he currently serves on the board and as a member of the international faculty for MICHA, Michael Chekhov Association in New York City.

Since 1997, Mr. Malaev-Babel served as the Producing Artistic Director for the Stanislavsky Theater Studio (STS), an award winning, internationally acclaimed company and conservatory in Washington, DC. For STS, he co-adapted, directed and/or played leading roles in productions based on such works as Goethe's Faust, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Chekhov's The Seagull, Neil Simon's The Good Doctor, Brian Friel's Fathers and Sons, Moliere's Le Malade Imaginaire, Gogol's Dead Souls and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. In 2000 he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award as an Outstanding Director for the STS production of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot.

Mr. Malaev-Babel's reputation as one of the leading experts on the Stanislavsky/Vakhtangov/Chekhov theater techniques brought him special engagements and commissions from such prestigious national institutions as The Kennan Institute of The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Smithsonian Institution and The World Bank. He is in demand nationally and internationally, conducting workshops, presenting and performing for conferences, festivals and theater programs. Mr. Malaev-Babel's one-man show Babel: How it was Done in Odessa was named among ten best productions in Baltimore in 2004. His Guide to the Psychological Gesture Technique was published in the 2003 Routledge edition of Michael Chekhov's seminal book, To the Actor. Mr. Malaev-Babel is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

PATRICIA DELOREY VOICE SPEECH & DIALECTS
Patricia Delorey is a Certified Associate Fitzmaurice Voicework Teacher, with her M.F.A. in Voice and Speech from the Moscow Art Theatre/American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She also holds an M.L.A. in Dramatic Art from Harvard. She has taught voice at the Moscow Art Theatre School, the University of Bologna at Forli, and at Texas State University. She was an instructor of Voice and Teaching Skills at Harvard's Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and an instructor in Voice and Speech at the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.

In addition to her Fitzmaurice training, she trained in Speech at the University of California, in singing at California State, in movement at American Repertory Theatre, and in acting at American Repertory Theatre. She also trained with Shakespeare and Company, and with Carol Mendelsohn and Robert Harvey of the Roy Hart Theatre.

She has worked extensively as a voice and speech coach both in the U.S. and internationally, including Phaedra 4.48 directed by Robert Woodruff, Enrico IV, directed by Karen Coonrod, Rhinoceros directed by Roman Kosak, Two Days at Home Three Days in Prison directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky, the premiere of Nocturne, The Ohio State Murders, and Stone Cold Dead Serious directed by Marcus Stern. Patricia is currently Resident Voice, Speech, and Dialect Coach for the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

MARGARET EGINTON HEAD OF MOVEMENT AND DANCE
She was resident movement coach for the American Repertory Theater from 1998-2002. She has headed programs in Movement and Dance for Actors at Harvard University/American Repertory Theater (1998-2002) and New York University/Atlantic Theater Practical Aesthetics Workshop (1987-1994). She has taught Movement and Dance for Actors at New York University/Experimental Theater Wing, The University of Iowa, and Yale University Undergraduate Theater Program. She has taught Acting at Harvard Extension School, the New College of Florida, and The University of Iowa, and co-teaches Practical Aesthetics Scene Study with Scott Zigler in summer workshops for Atlantic Theater. She is an Associate Director of the International Institute of Performing Arts in Paris, an organization producing cross-cultural theater and training in France, Britain, and the U.S.

Margaret is the creator of Eginton Deep Flow Alignment, a movement training method for actors and others. She has been invited to teach workshops in this method at Moscow Art Theater School, Shepkin (Vakhtangov) School, Harvard Extension College, Principia College, New College of Florida, in Paris for the International Institute of the Performing Arts, The University of Bologna-Forli, Cesenatico, Rome, Vevey, and the Roy Hart Pedagogy Group in Melaragues, France.

Ms. Eginton began her career as a leading dancer with the companies of Merce Cunningham, Stephen Petronio, Mary Overlie's original Viewpointing group, and Meg Eginton and Dancers. Her concert dance choreography was produced in New York by Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, Dance Chance, Dance Space, and P.S. 122, and in France and Italy. As a dancer/actor she starred on Broadway with Bill Irwin in Largely/New York. She acted in off-Broadway plays, including performances with Mabou Mines, Naked Angels, Manhattan Class Company, and the American Place Theater, and worked in film, commercials, and voiceovers. She has been a member of Equity, Sag, Aftra, and Agma. She has directed productions of Moliere, Goldoni, Duras, Mueller, Andreyev, Mamet, LaBute, Wilde, Fornes, Brenton, and Beckett.

She has received many awards, grants, and honors including a Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award), two New York State Council for the Arts Choreography Grants, three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, two Iowa Arts Fellowships, two IRAM best director awards from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, as well as Handy and Weekly Planet nominations for her FSU/Asolo productions. She holds an MFA in Theater, a BA in Dance, and is an RSMT and RSME (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Registered Movement Therapist/ Educator). She is an Associate Professor at FSU and served as Interim Director for the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in 2004-2005.

BARBARA REDMOND HEAD OF ACTING, ASSOCIATE COMPANY DIRECTOR
Barbara Redmond enjoys a diverse career as actress, director, playwright and teacher. She is a member of Actors' Equity Association, The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, The American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, The Screen Actors Guild, The Dramatists Guild of America, and The University/Resident Theatre Association, for which she serves as an officer on the Board of Directors.

As an actress, she has appeared in regional theatre, including a ten-season tenure at the Asolo Theatre Company, where she played some 40 roles, ranging from Celimene in The Misanthrope to Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible. She has appeared on NBC-TV's Search for Tomorrow, and has acted as judge for the Emmy Awards and as In-House Reviewer for ABC Daytime Programming. Her directing assignments in regional theatre include The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part I & II; Black Coffee; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Christmas Carol; Ring Round the Moon; and The Count of Monte Cristo.

With her husband, Eberle Thomas, she authored nine plays which have been produced at such venues as The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geva Theatre, the Asolo Theatre Festival, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Theatre West Virginia, and The Cleveland Play House. During the 2004-2005 season, Ms. Redmond served as co-translator, with Mr. Thomas, and director of Marivaux's The Island of Slaves for the Conservatory. She is a Professor at FSU and the Director of the Associate Company at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory, which she joined in 1998 after a three-year stint as Head of the Professional Actor Training Program at Ohio University.

MARK WHEATLEY COORDINATOR OF LONDON THEATRE STUDIES
Mr. Wheatley is an English writer who was brought up in and around London. He took his first degree and M.A. from Cambridge University and began his professional career making documentaries for the BBC. There followed a two-year spell writing for series and serials at the BBC (EastEnders) and some short plays for BBC Education before he began writing for the theatre. From 1990 to 1997, he was the principal writer/adaptor for Complicite and their Literary Manager. He has divided his time between playwriting and screenwriting ever since. He is also a teacher and has taught for many universities in both the UK and the US. He is currently working on a drama for BBC Films and a new play for the theatre.

JIMMY HOSKINS UNDERSTUDY COORDINATOR AND BALLROOM DANCE
Mr. Hoskins started studying tap dance at the age of six, and modern dance and ballet were to follow. He majored in Fine Arts at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri. His multi-faceted career has taken him from Ciro's in Hollywood with Mae West; to La Nouvelle Eve in Paris as a dancer; to the Upstairs at the Downstairs in New York City as a director. He began his professional career in a Latin ballroom dance with partner, Reina, Queen of the Mambo, and has since performed, directed, and choreographed in educational theatre, television, film, the corporate theatre, opera, nightclubs, and legitimate theatre. He has stage over 400 productions in this country and abroad. Over the past thirty years, he has taught period movement and dance. He was the movement specialist for the graduate and undergraduate programs at Penn State University, and the graduate program at FSU. He resides in Sarasota where he is a Professor of Theatre for the FSU/Asolo Conservatory, and staff choreographer for the Asolo Theatre Company. His book, The Dances of Shakespeare, is published by Routledge, NYC, Richard P. Carlin, editor.

GUEST FACULTY FOR 2009–2010
Singing Randy Spaulding
Musical Theatre Styles David Brunetti
Voice, Speech & Dialects Roy Hart Theatre: Carol Mendelsohn and Saule Ryan
Stage Combat Robert Westley, Dale Girard
On Camera Work Leslie Franz Patterson
Ballroom Dancing Jim Hoskins

Guest Director 2010 Dmitry Troyanovskyi