Faculty

Southwick Studio Faculty
	Andrea Southwick - Founder of Southwick Studio, Andrea has been a professional actor, director, teacher and coach for twenty years and has worked in many of the professional institutions in the Boston area. She holds a degree in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University and was graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York where she was also a selected member of their celebrated Production Company. Some of her local acting credits include Helen in And a Nightingale Sang and Eliante in The Misanthrope at the New Repertory Theatre, Geraldine in What the Butler Saw at the Lyric Stage, and Annabelle in A Christmas Carol at the Nickerson Theatre. She is a member of Actors' Equity, SAG and AFTRA and has performed in commercials and industrial films as well as appearing on network television. A few of her directing credits include The Fantasticks with the Gloucester Stage Co., Planet Girl at the Charlestown Working Theatre, Comedian Bill Campbell's one-man show, A Parenting Story, The Belle of Amherst at the Boston Baked Theatre, Ring Round the Moon at the New Rep Studio and All's Fair in Love, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Dining Room and Rimers of Eldritch with Southwick Studio. Andrea has been Director of Education at The New Repertory Theatre, was on the faculty of Emerson College's Performing Arts Dept., has taught at the Summer Fenn Drama Camp, and at The Voice Studio in Boston.
	Janet Tyndall - is a psychotherapist and local actress. She has taught at Summer Fenn Drama Camp in Concord for three years, taught drama at RJ Grey Junior High School (A-Block), and worked as a substitute teacher at Blanchard School. Janet has performed locally at the Alley Theater in Cambridge and most recently at Theatre III in Acton. She has a B.A. in theater from New York University and has studied with Andre Gregory, Stella Adler and at the H.B. Studios in New York.
	Naomi Bailis - has been a professional actor, director, teacher and producer for 16 years. She performed on Broadway in Tomorrow Was War, directed by Vanessa Redgrave. She has acted at New York`s Willow Cabin Theatre Co. and Circle in the Square Professional Workshop, the Alabama Shakespeare and Utah Shakespearean Festivals, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and American Stage Festival. Naomi has also acted in films, industrials and commercials, and has directed and produced at the professional, collegiate and high school levels. She is currently on the theatre faculty at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and has taught acting at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), Xavier University, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She holds an MFA from CCM, and graduated from the Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC.
	Curtis Miller - (core faculty member since 1995) director, actor and teacher in Boston since 1982, has directed many productions for such theatres as Lyric Stage, Triangle Theatre, New Theatre, as well as the highly acclaimed production of Xmas Files for Centastage for the past two years. He has collaborated on adaptations of The Tempest and Twelfth Night, and The Phantom Tollbooth for the stage. For Southwick Studio, Curt directed the production of Cementville and 4 one-acts in their Concert of Short Plays. Curt holds Masters degrees in Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University and in Education from Lesley University. He has also trained with Kristin Linklater and Shakespeare & Co. and with the British American Drama Association. Curt was previously on the faculty at The New Theatre Conservatory and is currently Drama Curriculum Coordinator at the Park School in Brookline.
	Ted Hewlett - has choreographed combat at the Kennedy Center, Syracuse Stage, Lincoln Center Institute, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Fulton Opera House, Merrimack Rep, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., and Boston Theatre Works. As a performer, he has fought on Broadway (Shogun,) film (Hook, Army of Darkness,) and television (Brush Up Your Shakespeare.) He is currently on the faculties of Emerson College and Brandeis University, where he teaches both stage combat and movement. He also team-teaches with his mentor Bob Walsh at Boston University, and will be teaching a series of master classes at the New England Conservatory. Ted is currently directing and fight directing a production of Macbeth for the Shakespeare Now Company.

Southwick Studio Faculty