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| Theater Arts Faculty Directory
Directors, Guest Artists and Master Teachers Earle Gister Master Teacher An acting teacher of international stature, Gister has been a leading figure in professional theatre training since the mid 1960s. Co-founder of the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs, advisor to the National Endowment for the Arts, and co-chair of the training panel of the Theatre Communications Group, Gister has played a significant role in the nurturing and development of most of the major theatre training programs in this country.
Lawrence Kornfeld Directing 
 John Mabry BFA on camera
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
Eric RuffinDirecting M.F.A. in Directing from Rutgers University and a BFA in Theatre Arts from Howard University. Recent directing credits include: S.M. Sheppard-Massat’s Waiting to be Invited for The Black Theatre Troupe (Phoenix, AZ); Eduardo Andino's Cloven Hoof for New York Theatre Workshop's J.A.W. Festival; David Ives' All in the Timing for Holmdel Summer Theater; Lynne Alvarez's Eddie Mundo Edmundo for Working Classroom Inc. (Albuquerque, NM); Anton Checkov's The Bear at HERE (NYC); Anna Deveare Smith's Fires in the Mirror; and Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman for Rutgers Theatre Company; Kimberly Dixon's In Absentia... for Crossroad Theatre's Genesis Festival; Joe Pintauro's Raft of the Medusa, Athol Fugard's Master Harold .. and the boys at Rugters' The Jameson Project. He has assisted Harold Scott with Mandela and Andre De Shields with PLAY ON! for Crossroads Theatre and Jo Bonney with Classical Stage Company's Look Back in Anger. Ruffin is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and a 1999 recipient o York Drama League Directing Fellowship. He's also been honored with a Shakespeare Theatre Acting Fellowship and the Princess Grace Grant for Dance.
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.
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