TEACHER BIOGRAPHIES
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Caymichael Patten has been teaching and directing in New York for more than 25 years. She was a founding member of The Women’s Project and the Casting Director for The American Place Theatre. She studied with Wynn Handman and established The Caymichael Patten Studio in 1988. Ms. Patten has directed extensively in New York City at Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Repertory Company, Second Stage, The WPA, Playwright's Horizons, American Place Theatre, and The Women's Project. She has also adapted numerous plays for the stage. Some of the original New York productions she has directed include Rapmaster Ronnie by Elizabeth Swados and Garry Trudeau, Hold Me! and A Think Piece by Jules Feiffer, A Foot in the Door by Bruce Jay Friedman, Lady With A Braid by Dory Previn, Jacob's Ladder, Conversations with Don B. and George F. Walker’s Beautiful City. Ms. Patten has also directed many revivals in the city and productions outside New York. Among her favorites are: Sam Shepard’s La Turista, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and Corinne Jacker’s Bits and Pieces. Most recently, she has been adapting and directing Side Dishes, which has been performed in half a dozen regional theatres and in New York at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
Elyse Knight is Artistic Director of Off World Theatre, for whom she directed her adaptation of Robinson Jeffers poetry Earth, God, America and Men: a memorial; and The Travelling Jekyll and Hyde Show by Russell Davis, and most recently, Count Down, by Dominique Cieri, at Bank St. Theatre.
She is former Artistic Director of the Unlimited Potential Theatre Company in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where she produced and directed All in the Timing, by David Ives, In Your Dreams, and Out of Body at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Elyse received her BFA in Drama from USC, and has studied with Wynn Handman, Michael Howard, and Caymichael Patten. Some favorite credits include: Film: The Egoists (2002 Independent Feature Film with Tom Noonan) Television: Central Park West; One Life to Live; Too Close For Comfort; Caroline's Comedy Hour; Law and Order; 3600 Comedy (with Debra Wilson, which received a Golden Hugo Award for new talent at the 1996 Chicago Film Festival); AWOL (sketch comedy pilot with Daphne-Rubin Vega), Life With Chippy (Zilo Networks) and numerous industrials and commercials. Radio: The August Coup, by Mikhail Gorbachev (with Theodore Bikel), The Warning Voice, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on WBAI.
Elyse has taught performance workshops for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, and directs plays for the Youth Players at the Depot Theatre in Garrison, New York. Past productions include Daisy Pulls it Off, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Actor's Nightmare, Revenge of the Space Pandas, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Bungalow Mystery, from the Nancy Drew mystery series, and The Compleat Works of Shakespeare: abridged.
Carol Reynolds An actress and dancer, Carol Reynolds is affiliated with the American Dance Therapy Association, The Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis and the T. Schreiber Studio. Previously with the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she has tailored a specialized program for actors and has been teaching it for over 25 years. She has taught dance at several colleges across the county and at the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Charles Tuthill has taught acting for film at the International Film & Television Workshops for the last six years working alongside many of this country’s leading creators. Some of the actors he has worked with can be seen in The Terminal, Pirates of the Carribean, Center Stage, Life of David Gale, Miracle, Mothman Prophecies, many episodes of Law and Order, and the upcoming films The Village, and MR 2000. As an actor, Charles has appeared in many short films, most notably the Academy Award nominated Speed for Thespians, as well as several episodes of Law and Order and all the NY Daytime Dramas. www.charlestuthill.com
Frederick C. Waggoner studied acting for a number of years with Cay. He has also studied with with Susan Batson, and explored much about the physical instrument through Alexander work, Feldenkrais work, the sensory exercises and Chekhov's 'Psychological Gesture'. He went through the acting program at The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, currently teaches a exer/actor scene study at Black Nexus for Susan. Frederick has worked frequently in New York with the Common Basis Theatre Company, the daytime drama 'One Life to Live' and also played Dr. Randall Adams on 'As the World Turns' (a coroner from Canada!). In addition, he assistant directed "Glengarry/Glen Ross" at Steppenwolf for Amy Morton, who was nominated for a Tony for best actress for August/Osage County.