- BADA Programmes: MIO (Acting/Shakespeare)
- Training: Juilliard School Drama Division (Group 1)
She currently teaches 2nd Year Acting at DGSD at Yale.
She is an actress, director, and teacher whose career has spanned 55 years. She trained at the Juilliard School Drama Division from 1968 to 1972 in its inaugural class, known as Group 1, under the direction of John Houseman and Michel Saint-Denis, and went on to become a founding member of The Acting Company.
She has performed in plays at major theaters throughout the US and internationally, among them the Yale Rep, the Guthrie, American Repertory Theater, the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, the Old Vic in London, and the Taganka Theatre in Moscow.
Among her directing credits are The Beaux Stratagem for the Pearl Theater, As You Like It at The Juilliard School, her original adaptation of Henry V: Crispian’s Day at the Boars Head for The Acting Company, and The Misanthrope for DGSD at Yale.
Throughout her career, she has taught acting in Shakespeare’s plays, early on in workshops and conservatories, among them Stella Adler, and the National Shakespeare. In the early 1990’s, she began teaching at NYU’s Tisch Grad Acting Program under Zelda Fichandler. From January 1998 to May 2016, she taught Acting Shakespeare at California Institute of the Arts, becoming in 2009 Co-Head of its BFA Acting Program, a position she held till her return to NYC in 2016. In January 2019, she joined the Faculty at DGSD Yale School of Drama, teaching acting in Shakespeare and plays of heightened text.
