Faculty Bios
Each summer the Camp Shakespeare faculty creates a unique curriculum aimed at optimizing students’ physical, intellectual and artistic development. All teaching artists are working professionals with training in classic theatre. (Teaching Artists are subject to change.)
Wyckham Avery is an affiliated teaching artist at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Avery has also worked with the American Shakespeare Center as an actor, director, manager and education coordinator for three national tours and a residency at the Folger. She has been a speaker at the Clemson Shakespeare Festival and Education and Outreach consultant for the Greenville Shakespeare Festival. Avery received her M.F.A. in acting from The Catholic University of America and completed training at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Recently she appeared in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew. Vanessa Buono is the School Programs Manager and Camp Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Purdue University, where she taught Intro to Acting and Voice for the Actor, and a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Maryland. She studied Shakespeare at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Buono recently relocated to Washington, D.C., from Los Angeles, where she appeared on American Dreams, ER and All of US and was a member of the improv troupe The Berubians. Dan Crane Dan Crane is an affiliated teaching artist with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Shakespeare Theatre Company credits include Lord Grey in Richard III and Hounslow in The Beaux Stratagem. As an actor Dan has worked at companies across the United States, including Imagination Stage (Maryland), Kitchen Theatre (New York), Idaho Shakespeare Festival (Idaho), PCPA Theaterfest (California) and Portland Center Stage (Oregon) to name a few. He is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, holds a B.F.A. from Ithaca College and an M.F.A. from the Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. Elizabeth Forte is a Master Teaching Artist at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She has appeared at Shakespeare Theatre Company in The Duchess of Malfi, Romeo and Juliet, Don Carlos, Coriolanus, The Country Wife and The Trojan Women. In D.C. she appeared in The Invention of Love and Far East (Studio Theatre) and Speaking in Tongues (Round House Theatre). Her regional credits include Triumph of Love (Cleveland PlayHouse); Pericles (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival); and more than 30 productions at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. She served as vocal and text consultant at the Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Catholic University and the University of Maryland. She currently teaches Acting and Voice at the University of Maryland College Park, and Baltimore County. She previously taught Voice and Speech at Catholic University and the Academy for Classical Acting. She is at present serving a second year as a Shakespeare’s Globe (London) Fellow and is finishing her dissertation on the early history of the Folger Theatre for the Theatre and Performance Studies PhD Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival and a B.A. from Illinois State University. George Grant is an affiliated teaching artist at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Shakespeare Theatre Company credits include The Tempest, Othello, Peer Gynt, The Merry Wives of Windsor as well as All's Well That Ends Well and The Merry Wives of Windsor at Carter Barron. Other regional performance credits include the Goodman Theatre and the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Grant received his BA in Theatre from Lawrence University and his MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University as a member of the inaugural class. Casey Kaleba recently joined the Shakespeare Theatre Company as an affiliated teaching artist after a decade of freelance work as a fight director. Recent work in the capital area includes Twelfth Night at Catholic University, As You Like It at the Folger Theatre, Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards with Rorschach Theatre, Fool for Love at the Bay Theatre, and the last two seasons with the National Players, in addition to lectures or demonstrations for the Kennedy Center and Folger Library. He is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors, Nordic Stagefight Society and Dueling Arts International as well as a graduate of the International Stunt School. He is currently working on his doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches stage combat and performance theory. Elizabeth Webster Duke is a member of the Resident Acting Company at The People’s Light and Theatre Company in Philadelphia, where she has performed in over thirty productions. She has also performed with The Kennedy Center, Fords Theatre, The Wilma Theatre, The Walnut Street Theatre, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The Bay Theatre and InterAct Theatre Company. She is a finalist for the F. Otto Haas Philadelphia Emerging Theatre Artist Award. She holds an MFA from The Academy for Classical Acting at The Shakespeare Theatre and teaches acting at George Washington University and Swarthmore College. |
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