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Faculty
 Lisa Dalton, President of the Chekhov Connection, Los Angeles; a founder of the Michael Chekhov Studio, USA West and was awarded "Woman of the Year 2002" by the American Biographical Institute. As a professional acting coach, she applies Chekhov's techniques to stage as well as contemporary television/film acting, cold reading, and commercial auditioning. Lisa is a noted on-camera producer and director; winning awards at the Houston Worldfest, the American Film Institute's National Video Festival and multiple Hometown USA Awards. Lisa has been a workshop leader for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the International Thespian Society, the Donna Reed Festival and taught in Moscow, London, Berlin, Paris, and New York. She also served as artistic director at the 1998 and 1999 Michael Chekhov Conferences at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. She is the co-producer and co-creator of the documentary From Russia to Hollywood. A DramaLogue Award winning actress, recent commercials include Pizza Hut, Procrit and Cranberry Almond Crunch Cereal. For more details, visit www.chekhov.net.
 Wil Kilroy is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern Maine. Previously, he taught at Santa Monica College in California and was a member of the Michael Chekhov Drama Group, appearing in the premier of Enroute, directed by Lisa Dalton. Wil's extensive acting credits range from musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof, to Hamlet, to TV's All My Children. Recent commercials include "Release HD" and Vivarex, the TV spokesman for "Maine Tax Amnesty." Wil's training includes study at the Michael Chekhov Studio in New York, the American Academy of Dramatic Art, the National Shakespeare Conservatory and theatre degrees from the University of Illinois and the University of Rhode Island. He is a Kennedy Center Scholarship recipient, having studied acting there with Uta Hagen. As a director, Wil's credits range from Nunsense at Maine's Strawflower Theatre, Everything Sprite at New York's Village Gate, to numerous university productions-three of which were chosen for competition in the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival.
 Special Guest- Mark Paladini
has been casting in New York and Los Angeles since 1987. His casting credits include the feature film “Closing the Ring” for director Richard Attenborough (Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Pete Postlethwaite, Brenda Fricker, Mischa Barton, Neve Campbell) which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Additional feature film credits: New Line Cinema’s “The Mask,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Mr. Nanny,” and Disney's “Spy Hard.” Representative television credits: “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Babylon 5” and “The New WKRP in Cincinnati” Off-Broadway: “The Property Known as Garland.”
Mark is co-executive producer of two romantic comedies: "My First Wedding" (Rachael Leigh Cook) most recently seen on Lifetime Television and "A Previous Engagement" (Juliet Stevenson, Tcheky Karyo, Daniel Stern) which opens in New York and Los Angeles in 2008. Mark's directing credits include the New York premieres of "Everyone Will Be a Talk Show Host for Fifteen Minutes" and "Shake, Rattle and Kill." Mark developed and directed “Our Stories” which premiered in Jerusalem in 2006. Los Angeles credits include the Hudson Backstage production of "The Rental.” Recent directing credits include “The Foreigner” and “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Mark’s professional memberships include Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild , the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Casting Society of American, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Southeastern Theatre Conference. Mark was keynote speaker for the SETC convention in Arlington, 2003.
Mark studied with Uta Hagen in New York for three years after receiving his BA in Drama from the University of Washington in Seattle. Mark performed professionally in film, television, Equity summer stock, dinner theatre and Shakespeare in the Park prior to his casting career. Before leaving New York, Mark directed commercial auditions for two years at Three of Us Studios where he studied commercial acting with Joan See. |
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