SCENE STUDY

Kyle Donnelly worked as a free-lance director in the American Regional Theatre for over 40 years at such venues as Arena Stage, Goodman, Roundabout, Steppenwolf, Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Huntington Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Old Globe, McCarter, and Willamstown among others. She was the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award by TCG for directing. She was the Associate Artistic Director at Area Stage from 1991-1998. She has also been a long time Acting teacher, from running her own studio in Chicago for 10 years to Head of the M.F.A. Acting program at UC, San Diego for 18 years. She is currently living in New York City and teaching her own professional studio acting and directing classes.

SCENE STUDY

Brad Fleisher is a working actor who was in Broadway’s “Golden Boy”, directed by Bartlett Sher through Lincoln Center, and starred in “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” with Robin Williams, directed by Moises Kaufman. He originated Doug in Rajiv Joseph’s “Gruesome Playground Injuries” with Selma Blair, played Billy in David Rabe’s “Streamers” at Roundabout, and worked on David Lindsay-Abaire’s “The Good People” at The Gefen in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UCSD’s graduate acting program. His Film/TV credits include “Walk Among the Tombstones”, “The Good Shepherd”, “Nurse Jackie”, “24”, “Prison Break”, “The Unit” and “Law and Order”. Additional credits include the title character in “Coram Boy” on Broadway at the Imperial Theater and “Pig Farm” at South Coast Rep and Roundabout.

Brad has taught Scene Study at previous sessions of The Red Door Retreat.

MOVEMENT

Dolores Carillo is a ballet teacher and private coach. She trained in NY at the American Ballet Theater and Joffrey Ballet. Upon moving to  Florence, Italy she continued at the Scuola di Danza Classica with Daria Collin.  After returning to NY she was a member of the Kaleria Fedicheva Ballet Company, Zawacki Ballet and Dance Theater of Long Island. She later went on to perform with the National Grand Opera including productions of La Traviata, Rigoletto and Aida.  After falling in love with Italy as a young artist Dolores has continued to return there throughout her career. She has taught master classes throughout Tuscany and worked with  Marco Batti at Atteneo della Danza.

ON CAMERA

Micah Hauptman is an American filmmaker, actor and the founding partner of Chaotik Media, a production and artist management company that focuses on creating “content that matters”, as a tool to enact social and political change. With over 50 acting credits, Micah’s most notably known for playing real-life documentary filmmaker and mountaineer David Breashears, in the disaster adventure-thriller film “Everest”, along with Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, and Jake Gyllenhaal, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, and released by Universal Pictures. His breakout role came playing August Hardwicke, a gang-member in FilmDistrict’s action-thriller “Parker” opposite Jennifer Lopez, Jason Statham and Nick Nolte, directed by Oscar nominated Taylor Hackford. On the TV side, he’s best known for his recurring role on Showtime’s “Homeland”.

Micah teaches On Camera workshops at The Red Door Retreat.

FOUNDER

Alexandra Vaccino is an actress, writer and photographer from New York. Recent credits include Molly Smith Metzler’s “Cry It Out”, directed by Christiane Seidel, the Audible series “Heads Will Roll” and Broadway Video’s “Above Average Presents.”

She is the co-founder of Bella Ciao Studio, a bi-coastal visual media company based in New York and LA. She has travelled all over with her camera, shooting fashion in Milan, headshots in New York and everything in between.

Alexandra is first and foremost a storyteller, whether on stage, behind her camera or through her writing. She recently finished her first feature.

FOUNDER

Born and raised in Milan, Francesco found his artistic home in New York City in 2006 where he still resides. He has worked in the performing arts for the better part of his life directing, producing and acting in multiple countries on both sides of the Atlantic.

He has been the co-artistic director of Axial Theater and the artistic director of TRES ARTIS and FIXITSOLIFE. Francesco is a member of the 2011 LINCOLN CENTER DIRECTORS LAB.

As a teacher, Francesco taught at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and is currently a faculty member at the IULM University and the Centro Teatro Attivo in Milan.