Gary Sloan Actor/Director/Author/Full Professor/Prison Practitioner AEA/SAG-AFTRA http://garysloan.net/Gary_Sloan/Home.html The Catholic University of America [Aug 2020] 994 Lehigh Drive Department of Drama Yardley, PA 19067 Washington, D.C. 20064 202-904-6841 [email protected] [email protected] Professional Profile Teaching • The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. (2001 - 2020) Rank: Professor • Visiting Fellow – Queens University Belfast, Fall, 2017 • The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYC/LA (1998-2001) • Ball State University, Muncie, IN (1995) • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (during MFA training) Acting • Regional theatre, Off-Broadway in New York, Los Angeles and throughout the U.S., the CZ Republic and Vienna, Austria. • 30 Shakespearean productions alongside contemporary credits ranging from Arthur Miller to David Mamet, Shaw to Pinter, Tennessee Williams to Keith Glover, Lillian Hellman to Jacquelyn Reingold and Brecht to Ken Ludwig. • Appeared on stage opposite such recognizable names as: Sigourney Weaver, Stacy Keach, Peter Gallagher, Pat Carroll, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, Fritz Weaver, Lynn Redgrave, Michael Learned, Stephen Spinella, Tom Hulce, Robert Prosky, Kathleen Chalfant, Dennis Boutsikaris, Rosemary Prinz, Tony Todd, Lea Michele and Hal Holbrook. • Recurring roles on daytime television shows including The Guiding Light, As The World Turns and General Hospital in New York and Los Angeles. Directing Productions at the Catholic University of America, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and Los Angeles, the Woodbourne N.Y. Correctional Facility and SCI Chester near Philadelphia, Off off Broadway showcases, waver theatre in LA, CUA Industry showcases NY/DC Online Virtual Presentations 2020; King Lear with Stacy Keach; Macbeth with Patrick Page for #Playsinthehouse Author In Rehearsal – In the world, in the room and on your own. Published by Routledge Ltd., Dec 2011 U.K, January 2012 U.S. “Could easily become the modern bible for our beginning theater actor today.” -Janet Zarish, Head of Acting, Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting - NYU Social Service/Applied Theatre • Prison Arts Foundation visiting artist – Belfast, Northern Ireland, Fall- 2017 • Rehabilitation through the Arts (RTA) fall 2013, spring 2014, spring 2016 at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, Woodbourne, N.Y. RTA was founded in Sing Sing in 1996. Today, RTA works in five New York State prisons with innovative programs in theatre, dance, creative writing, voice and visual arts. RTA is dedicated to using the creative arts as a tool for social and cognitive transformation behind prison walls. • Director, Scene Study – directed Scene Showcase with 14 prisoners Dec 21, 2013 • Production of Macbeth – director, costumer and lighting designer, June 2014 • Acting Workshop – three-week improvisation workshop on the craft of acting and how it relates to collaboration, job interviews and problem solving, Spring 2016 • Currently – Workshops and Directing 12 Angry Men (on hold); SCI Chester, Philadelphia • Theatre of the Oppressed intensive - workshop with Julian Boal – NYC, Spring 2017 – “Forum theatre” Administrative • Head of the M.F.A. Acting Program, 2003-2010 / Co-Head of M.F.A. Acting Program, CUA, 2016-2019 Restructured curriculum, supervised full time performance faculty and adjuncts, recruiting incoming company every three years, producing third year industry showcase as well as producing and directing CUActing tour to area high schools, homeless shelters and assisted living facilities. Teaching/advising/evaluating current M.F.A. candidates in the Acting Program. • Executive Director, Preservation Association for Tudor Hall (PATH), 1992-1996 PATH was dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the historic homestead of Junius Brutus Booth, Shakespeare’s birthplace in America. Board development, fundraising, finance, community/public relations, and events programming, including an Award ceremony and various educational colloquia Producing Experience related to PATH • The Discovered country – 1995 Colloquium concerning America and our Classical Acting Tradition – featuring “What Dreams May Come” Starring Lynn Redgrave • Macbeth Doth Come – A performance evening starring Stacy Keach • The Edwin Booth Award honoring Hal Holbrook (LA)– Key Note Speaker • Thirty minute video on Tudor Hall – narrated by Stacy Keach Education Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Wheaton College Wheaton, IL. Southern Methodist University Freshman Class President Dallas, TX. Bangladesh Brigade, relief work Director’s Colloquium participant All American Swimmer TCG National Audition Finalist Current Position / Professor - The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. [Accepted early retirement incentive to relocate to the Philadelphia area for family reasons. - Contract ends August 2020] Graduate level courses: DR 631 Graduate Acting II Stanislavski methodology utilized for scene preparation, which involves analysis of text to determine the actor's given circumstances, actions and objectives. It is the study of the playwright's work, exploring the actor's job from page to stage. The actor will continue to develop a personal rehearsal process, utilizing contemporary texts. DR 638 Performance Studio 1 Collaboration. The first year company of actors, directors and playwrights re-examine their creative impulses using improvisation to develop original material as a laboratory for increased freedom and collaboration during rehearsal. It is a course that will practice the art of rehearsing toward an actor’s independence, a director’s exploration of different techniques and a playwright’s skill to create within an ensemble. DR 639 Performance Studio 2 Building on the experiences of Performance Studio 1, this course emphasizes rehearsal techniques and procedures, specifically during the development of new play scripts. The elements of protocol and communication between playwright, director and actor are further explored, through the use of practical exercises and the creation of company-developed text. DR 670 Portfolio Evaluation Directed Study Designed for students entering our graduate degree program with considerable prior professional experience in the theatre who seek specific course credit for knowledge gained in their extra-institutional work. The student presents to the faculty a portfolio that provides comprehensive evidence of the skills and knowledge for which academic credit is being requested. The head of the program evaluates the portfolio and customizes a curriculum suitable to the professional student’s needs and also to fulfill the remaining credits toward the degree. DR 730 Graduate Acting 3 Modern drama and the rehearsal process: students continue developing their rehearsal process and script analysis as they explore the actor's actions and objectives from a broader range of monologues and scenes that are chosen from modern dramatists such as Chekhov, Strindberg and Ibsen. DR 731 Graduate Acting 4 Modern Drama and the rehearsal process: students continue developing their rehearsal process and script analysis as they explore the actor's actions and objectives from a broader range of monologues and scenes that are chosen from modern dramatists such as Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter and Albee. DR 738 Performance Studio 3 Styles in performance. The class will explore the presentational and representational performance with classical texts. It will introduce Greek Tragedy and continue into Shakespearean characterization utilizing Shakespeare’s sonnets, monologues and scenes. DR 739 Performance Studio 4 Restoration Comedy and Moliere. A continuation of Performance Studio 3 concluding the Shakespeare sequence and introducing the heightened style of performance necessary in Restoration comedy and Moliere. This work culminates in touring local high schools with a devised presentation for assemblies and class rooms. DR 838 Performance Studio 5 Solo performance: students will develop a one-person show, first by exploring existing solo performance projects and then entering research, rehearsal and production of their own performance piece. DR 839 Performance Studio 6 Internship and preparation for NY/DC showcase. Professional internship/understudy or acting job at a greater Washington, D.C. area theatre. Showcase preparation will involve experimenting with contemporary works by emerging American playwrights. Selected scenes will be rehearsed and produced as a "First Look" CUA Showcase in D.C., and New York City. DR 937 Audition Workshop The business of acting. This class concentrates on choosing contemporary and classical monologues best suited for an audition. It explores the audition process itself, how to find work and insights into the day to day workplace of theatre, television, film and commercials. The class will rehearse cold readings, creating showcases, voice-over techniques, agents, regional theatres, pictures and resumes, mailings and in general, life as a professional. Undergraduate level courses: • Undergraduate Acting 1 -Self-awareness: improvisation, monologue, rehearsal approaches. A mirror image of Graduate Acting 2 but a more basic approach with Stanislavski methodology utilized for scene preparation, which involves analysis of text to determine the actor's given circumstances, actions and objectives. It is the study of the playwright's work, exploring the actor's job from page to stage. The actor will continue to develop a personal rehearsal process, utilizing contemporary