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| Theater Arts Faculty Directory
Acting - BFA
Tanya Gibson-Clark Movement Acclaimed choreographer Tanya Gibson-Clark's dynamic work has been featured on stage, American and Italian television, and in videos, commercials and fashion shows. She took the internationally renowned Bregenzer Festspiele in Bregenz, Austria, by storm while choreographing the festival's production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, directed by the late Götz Friedrich. The Vienna News hailed her work as "brilliant". Ms. Gibson-Clark is an associate professor in the Rutgers University theater department and artistic director for the Newark-based Education Law Center "Kids in Concert" yearly fund-raiser. For nine years, she served as artistic director of Jacques d'Amboise's National Dance Institutes Trenton residency. 
Deborah HedwallHead of M.F.A. Acting Program Deborah Hedwall began her theater training at the University of Washington in Seattle. In New York, she was graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse, where she worked under the direction of Sanford Meisner and William Esper. She trained with Uta Hägen for four years as an actor and a teacher at HB Studios and later taught there. She has taught private classes for professional actors for many years in New York City and Los Angeles. Hedwall has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Fordham University, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. As an actress, she received an Obie Award for outstanding performance and a Drama Desk nomination as best actress in Sight Unseen at the Manhattan Theatre Club. She has created roles in many new plays, including Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shanley, Extremities, and Why We Have a Body. On television, she played the mother for two seasons on the critically acclaimed series I’ll Fly Away, and her most recent films include Shadrach and Better Living with Olympia Dukakis. She has been involved in many new play workshops, including the Suntheater Playwrights Conference, the O’Neill Theater Conference, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Long Wharf Theatre. Recent television credits include guest starring appearances on Law and Order and West Wing.
Chantal Jean-PierreSpeech Chantal Jean-Pierre is an accomplished actress and collegiate instructor of Speech at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Most recently she performed several roles to acclaim in Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, as well as the role of Goneril in King Lear at the Folgers Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. She performed the lead roles in the Orlando Shakespeare Festival’s Antony And Cleopatra and Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation at the People’s Light Theater Company. She has graced the stages of several reputable regional theaters including Luna Stage (Voice of Good Hope and The Other Side of Newark); NY Theater Workshop (Jazz Wife); Ensemble Studio Theater (Vukani); NJ Shakespeare Festival (The Blue Bird); and Crossroads Theater (Mandela). A lover of classical theater, she has played Gertrude in (Hamlet) at the American GlobeTheater and Paulina in (Winter’s Tale). She has taught at SUNY/Purchase and Montclair State University and she has an MFA in Acting from Rutgers University and a BFA from Florida International University. She has taught at SUNY/Purchase and Montclair State University and she has an M.F.A. in Acting from Rutgers University and a BFA from Florida International University.
Kevin KittleActing has worked as Joseph Chaikin's assistant director and with Sam Shepard and Arthur Miller for the Signature Theater Company. He has directed numerous productions in such New York theaters as the Joseph Papp Public Theater, John Houseman, Harold Clurman, Sullivan Street Playhouse, the Meisner, Producer's Club, The Zipper, and Access Studio Theater, as well as regionally. His most recent productions include Some Voices at the Greenwich Street Theater; And Miraski Danced (starring Michael Warren Powell) for Circle East; Burnt, which he co-developed with Rhett Rhossi at the Present Company Theatorium; Life During Wartime (2001 OOBR Award-Best Production) and The House of Yes at the Currican; Watching and Waiting at the Judith Anderson (with Inertia Productions); The Woolgatherer (the first NYC production sanctioned by William Mastrosimone since it opened 20 years ago) at the Flatiron Playhouse; the NY premiere of Carter Lewis' Soft Click of a Switch; and David Dannenfelser's In Five Boroughs at Expanded Arts and When Words Fail.., at the NY International Fringe Festival and The Houseman, the script of which was published in Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium. Kevin's recent production of Peter Handy's East of the Sun and West of the Moon was selected as a finalist in the Samuel French One-Act Festival and is published by Samuel French. His Los Angeles production of Chett Well's Economic Subterfuge, starring Jason Huber, was nominated for an L.A. Weekly award. Kevin teaches Acting in the BFA program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and at Youth Theater of New Jersey, where he teaches in their Summer Institute in residence at Columbia University.
Danielle LiccardoMovement Graduate of the Gately/Poole Acting Studio in NYC where she studied the Meisner Technique under Kathryn Gately. She studied movement at Actors Movement Studio under Loyd Williamson, Deborah Roberts, and Jan Leys. Danielle currently teaches Technique and Period Style work at Actors Movement Studio, and teaches movement in the M.F.A. program at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She teaches Argentine Tango, Vals, and Milonga in NYC, and is currently working in both film and theater. Danielle is a co-founder of Inertia Productions, Inc., where she produces as well as acts in seasonal stage productions.
Barbara MarchantHead of BFA Acting Program Barbara Marchant (Head of BFA Acting and Director of the Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe) was awarded the teacher of the year award at Rutgers University and is the co-founder and director of the Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe in London England. Barbara was trained by William Esper and, for the past twenty-three years, has taught at the William Esper Studio in NYC. Her acting credits include numerous productions in New York both on Broadway and Off Broadway, US regional theatres and on network daytime television. She is a professional coach with experience in theater, film, and prime time television both in the U.S and the U.K. Her work with Black and Blue resulted in a Tony Award in New York and internationally, France’s prestigious Moliere Award as well as a nomination for England’s Oliver Award. Barbara is the author of A Young Actors Scenebook: A Training Tool, published by Rowan and Littlefield and is profiled in Who’s Who of American Women.
Patricia McCorkleM.F.A. on camera McCorkle Casting, Ltd. (Pat Mccorkle, C.S.A.) Broadway: The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Amadeus, A Doll’s House, An Ideal Husband, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, and A Few Good Men. Off-Broadway: Almost Maine, Address Unknown, Ears On A Beatle, Killer Joe, Visiting Mr. Green, and Mrs. Klein. Film: War Eagle, Bereft, Secret Window, Tony -N- Tina’s Wedding, Basic, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard With A Vengeance and School Ties. Television: 3 Lbs., Barbershop, Chappelle’s Show, Hack, The Education Of Max Bickford, Our Fathers
Lenard PetitPhysical Theater Lenard Petit is a professional actor/director who resides in New York City. He has been working in the theater for twenty years, collaborating with other artists to create original works for the stage, cinema and television. This work has always been based primarily in movement or physical pictures. In New York he has been seen in works by Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Julie Taymor, Ping Chong, Otrabanda Company, and Creation Company. Prior to his arrival in New York, Mr. Petit was the artistic director of his own theater company for four years in New Orleans. He has taught theater workshops and master classes on the acting techniques of Michael Chekhov in schools, colleges and theaters in the USA and throughout Europe. His training has been varied and ongoing, but his most important influences have been the great French master Etienne Decroux with whom he studied in Paris 18 years ago, and Michael Chekhov whose technique continues to be a great source of inspiration. Mr. Petit is the artistic director of The Michael Chekhov Acting Studio in New York City. He received his B.A. in 1974 from Franconia College and, more recently, studied with William Esper in New York.
Susan SchuldVoice Susan Schuld served on faculties with Circle and the Square, CAP 21 NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Wingspan’s Arts Program. 2003-2004 Director in residence at Shakespeare's Globe, London for Mason Gross School of the Arts. Currently enrolled in the Linklater teacher designation program with Kristin Linklater and Andrea Haring. NY acting credits: Wrecked and Waltz of Elementary Particles with Theatre Lila where she is a founding member. Henry V, NYO Theatre; Shakespeare’s Women Under the Corset, Wake up Artists. Regional Credits; Damn Yankees with Colonial Theater, Pittsfield MA; Brownstone and HMS Pinafore with the Berkshire Theatre Festival, MA; Bailiwick Theater Company, Women's Theater Alliance, Chicago; Western Illinois Theater Company, IL; Rocky Mountain Repertory, CO.; Childsplay Inc. and TheaterWorks, AZ. 1996 Arizoni for best actor in a musical for Mary in Merrily We Roll Along. M.F.A. Acting Rutgers University.
William Serow On Camera Billy Serow has had a long and varied career in show business. He started acting at the age of 6, and worked professionally from the age of 16, appearing on several National Tours of Broadway shows, as well as much stage work and television in New York. Training wise, Billy received a B.A. in Theatre at Ohio Wesleyan University, and had the great privilege and fortune to study with both Sanford Meisner and William Esper at The Neighborhood Playhouse, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors. Billy decided to put his acting career on the back burner indefinitely in his late 20’s, and went to work for an Off Broadway theater as a Director/Producer, helping mount such successful original cast productions as On Golden Pond and Da- then launched what would be a long career as a Casting Director. As an owner of Godlove, Serow & Sindlinger Casting, Billy cast hundreds of commercials, comedy specials, and some indie films. In 1997, he decided to switch gears yet again, and joined the William Morris Agency, to work in the commercial department. After spending four years there, he finally found Agent Nirvana, and landed at Abrams Artists Agency, where he has spent the last 6 years, spearheading the Voiceover department. Billy has also been teaching audition workshops at Rutgers for the past 6 years. Billy resides in Westchester to be near his greatest achievements, his two children.
Erik SingerSpeech and Dialects Erik Singer is an actor and teacher of acting, Shakespeare, voice, speech and dialects. He was recently certified an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. He is a graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, in London, and Yale University, and has studied extensively with many distinguished voice and acting teachers, Patsy Rodenburg, Catherine Fitzmaurice, Earle Gister, Ron van Lieu, Dudley Knight, Phil Thompson and Jed Diamond among them. As an actor, he has appeared in leading roles Off-Broadway, at many of the country’s top regional theatres, and in television and film. Erik has provided voices for numerous audiobooks, animated shows, and television and radio commercials. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son (who is eagerly awaiting the imminent arrival of his baby sister).
Beth WickeAuditioning Beth Wicke is certified by the Royal Academy of Dance. She trained at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, holds a B.A. in theater from the Catholic University of America, and is a certified yoga instructor. Her credits include Manager of Casting, East Coast for ABC Television; supervising the casting of Loving, All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital; and contributing to prime-time pilot projects. She also was the director of daytime programming for ABC, where she was responsible for creative supervision of East Coast serials. Wicke initiated the AFTRA/ABC Committee to address minority and disability hiring practices. She now casts independent projects, most recently SOAPLINE for Gottlieb Enterprises. She has taught extensively at universities and theaters throughout the United States.
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