Program Guest Artists

In addition to a faculty of prominent industry professionals, Tepper Semester students enjoy the extraordinary privilege of learning from accomplished artists in theater, film, dance and television. These guest artists teach master classes, offering undergraduate students a rare and valuable chance to learn firsthand from working professionals. Tepper students gain unprecedented opportunities to develop valuable ongoing relationships with exceptional artists in the industry.

Fall 2007 Artists

Guest artists from Fall 2007 included: members of Chicago's Steppenwolf company, Tony Award winning composer Adam Guettel, actor Jefferson Mays, actress Marsha Mason, and playwright Theresa Rebeck, in addition to the many professionals who participated in class discussions and master classes throughout the semester.

• Doug Abeles
  Writer (Saturday Night Live)
• Ian Barford
  Actor (August: Osage County)
• Alex Baze
  Writer (Saturday Night Live)
• Alex Beard
  Actor (A Feminine Ending)
• David Cady
  Commercial Casting Director, Donna DeSeta Casting
• Mike Cannon
  Actor (A Chorus Line)
• Keith Eric Chappelle
  Actor (Cyrano de Bergerac)
• Lilli Cooper
  Actor (Spring Awakening)
• Amefica El-Amin
  Actor (Cyrano de Bergerac)
• Christine Estabrook
  Actor (Spring Awakening)
• Richard Fisher
  Agent, Abrams Artists
• Kimberly Guerrero
  Actor (August: Osage County)
• Adam Guettel
  Composer (Light in the Piazza)
• Francis Guinan
  Actor (August: Osage County)
• Kate Guyton
  Actor (Cyrano de Bergerac)
• Conleth Hill
  Actor (The Seafarer)
• Ciaran Hinds
  Actor (The Seafarer)
• Zeljko Ivanek
  Actor, Theatre, Film, and Television
• Gillian Jacobs
  Actor (A Feminine Ending)
• Gayle Keller
  Casting Director, Feature Films, recently Law and Order: CI
• Melissa Lone
  Actor (A Chorus Line)
• Sean Mahon
  Actor (The Seafarer)
• Marsha Mason
  Actor, Theatre, Film, and Television
• Richard Masur
  Actor (A Feminine Ending)
• Mariann Mayberry
  Actor (August: Osage County)
• Jefferson Mays
  Actor (Pygmalion, I am My Own Wife)
• Kim Miscia
  Casting Director, Bowling/Miscia Casting
• Jim Norton
  Actor (The Seafarer)
• Joe Paulik
  Actor (A Feminine Ending)
• Theresa Rebeck
  Playwright (Mauritius)
• Krysta Rodriguez
  Actor (A Chorus Line)
• Mark Saks
  Casting Director, CBS, NBC Television
• Jason Sands
  Actor (A Chorus Line)
• Sandra Shipley
  Actor (Pygmalion)
• Jennifer Smith
  Actor (The Drowsy Chaperone)
• Alexander Sovronsky
  Actor (Cyrano de Bergerac)
• Will Taylor
  Actor (A Chorus Line)
• Consetta Tomei
  Actor (Cyrano de Bergerac)
• Troy West
  Actor (August: Osage County)
• Patrick Wetzel
  Actor (The Drowsy Chaperone)
• Remy Zaken
  Actor (Spring Awakening)

In addition to our regular guest artists, we schedule a series of special post-theater talk-backs for students to speak directly with artists after performances. Artists who have participiated in these post theater talk-backs during Fall 2007 include:

• Cast of Fuerzabruta
  Daryl Roth Theatre
• Paul Dano
  Actor (Things We Want at the New Group)
• Peter Dinklage
  Actor (Things We Want at the New Group)
• Josh Hamilton
  Actor (Things We Want at the New Group)
• Ethan Hawke
  Director (Things We Want at the New Group)
• Zoe Kazan
  Actor (Things We Want at the New Group)
• Pam MacKinnon
  Director (Peter and Jerry at Second Stage)
• Jonathan Marc Sherman
  Playwright (Things We Want at the New Group)
• Aaron Sorkin
  Playwright (The Farnsworth Invention)
• Ivo van Hove
  Director (The Misanthrope at New York Theatre Workshop)
• Jan Versweyveld
  Production Designer (The Misanthrope at New York Theatre Workshop)

Past Artists

• Brooks Ashmanskas
  Actor (The Producers, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me)
• John Barlow
  Broadway Press Representative
• Michael Blevins
  Actor (A Chorus Line, the Movie)
• Jason Robert Brown
  Composer/Lyricist (Songs for a New World, Last 5 Years, Parade)
• Kevin Cahoon
  Actor (The Wedding Singer)
• Aya Cash
  Actor (The Pain and the Itch)
• Alexander Chaplin
  Actor (Spin City)
• Bob Cline
  Casting Director
• Erin Davie
  Actor (Grey Gardens)
• Donna DeSeta
  Casting Director, Donna DeSeta Casting
• John Dias
  Associate Artistic Director, Public Theater
• Garret Dillahunt
  Actor (Deadwood)
• Peter Dubois
  Associate Producer, Public Theater
• Oskar Eustis
  Artistic Director, Public Theater
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  Actor (25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee, The Class)
• Felicia Finley
  Actor (The Wedding Singer)
• Lyndy Franklin
  Actor (A Chorus Line)
• Gary Gersh
  Partner, Innovative Artists Talent Agency
• Peter Gregus
  Actor (Jersey Boys)
• Michael Greif
  Director (Rent, Grey Gardens)
• Bill Haber
  Creative Artists Agency
• Beth Leavel
  Actor (The Drowsy Chaperone, 42nd Street, Crazy for You)
• Kristen Linklater
  Author/Master Voice Teacher, Linklater Technique
• Todd London
  Artistic Director of New Dramatists
• Mara Manus
  Executive Director, Public Theater
• Constantine Maroulis
  Actor (The Wedding Singer, American Idol)
• Gregory Mosher
  Producer and Director
• Jane Nichols
  Acting Teacher (Yale, Juilliard, Shakespeare & Co.)
• Austin Pendleton
  Actor, Playwright, Director, Teacher, Steppenwolf Company Member
• Lonny Price
  Director (110 in the Shade, Urban Cowboy, Master Harold… and the Boys)
• Harold Prince
  Legendary Director and Producer (Sweeney Todd, Follies, Company, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, A Little Night Music)
• Heather Purcell
  Actor (A Chorus Line)
• Andra Reeve
  Independent Casting Director, formerly Head of Primetime Casting/CBS
• Daniel Reichard
  Actor (Jersey Boys)
• Alison Rinzel
  Head of Primetime Casting/CBS
• Ilene Rosen
  Director of Marketing, Public Theater
• Mark Schegel
  Agent, Cornerstone Talent
• Sara Schmidt
  Actor (Jersey Boys)
• Tom Everett Scott
  Actor (The Little Dog Laughed, That Thing You Do!)
• Matthew Scott
  Actor (Jersey Boys)
• Stacy Seidel
  Casting Director
• Mark Simon
  Casting Director (Ragtime, The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• Daniel Swee
  Casting Director, Lincoln Center Theatre
• Yuka Takara
  Actor (A Chorus Line)
• Marty Vreeland
  Lighting Designer
• John Weidman
  Playwright (Assassins)
• Jim Wilhelm
  Agent, DGRW
• Randall Wreghitt
  Producer (Grey Gardens, Lt. of Inishmore, Little Women)
• Tony Yazbeck
  Actor (A Chorus Line)