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 Masters in Fine Arts from Boston University College of Fine Arts--School of Theatre, a BA in Theatre Arts & 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, Eliante in The Misanthrope and Sybil in Private Lives at the New Repertory Theatre, Geraldine in What the Butler Saw and Daphne in Present Laughter at the Lyric Stage, and Annabelle in A Christmas Carol and Nora in Brighton Beach Memoirs 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. Her directing credits include Down Will Come Baby--a piece she created, directed and performed in at BU College of Fine Arts. At BU, she also directed Veronica Decides to Die and The Cherry Orchard. She co-directed The Wild Place with Jon Lipsky at the Central Square Theatre. Other directing credits include Fool for Love and Fifth of July at Clark University, 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, has taught at BU and Emerson College and has directed and taught teens and middle-schoolers. She is also co-director of the drama program at Summer Fenn Day Camp in Concord, MA.
	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.
	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.
	Anne Gottlieb - has appeared in numerous productions in Boston and professional tours to New York, London and Moscow’s Podium Festival. Locally, she has appreared at the Speakeasy Stage, New Repertory Theater, Gloucester Stage, and Shakespeare & Company among other venues. She produced, co-authored, and performed in the play Anam Cara: Two Women Fall into the Ancient Tale of Gilgamesh which toured to The Roy Hart Theatre in France. For her performances in Betrayal (The Nora Theatre) and in Antony and Cleopatra (Boston Theatre Works), she received the 2003 IRNE Award. Directing credits include Bartleby the Scrivener, The Actor’s Ensemble (New York), The Survivor, Boston Center for the Arts, Horton Foote Trilogy, Southwick Studio, 4.48 Psychosis with Adrianne Krystansky,Brandeis Festival of the Arts and Cyrano De Bergerac for M.I.T. She has taught Acting and Shakespeare at Boston College, Brandeis University, University of Rhode Island and the University of Southern Maine. She serves as a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University in Theatre: Acting and Collaborative Writing.
	Antonio Ocampo-Guzman - an actor, director and teacher from Bogotá, Colombia, currently serves on the faculty of the Department of Theatre at Northeastern University. Antonio trained with the Teatro Libre in Colombia and in voice and physical theater in England. He spent three years as an actor and an artist-manager at Shakespeare & Company, and in 1998, he completed training as a voice teacher with Kristin Linklater. He has directed plays for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, Dixon Place, Teatro Libre, Arizona State University, Florida State University, Tallahassee Little Theatre, York University, Emerson College, The Theatre Offensive, Stages Theatre Company, The Pato Farsante Company, and The British Council. Several of Antonio’s articles and essays about his experiences as a bilingual theatre artist have been published in, among others, American Theatre Magazine, the Voice & Speech Review, the Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia, Paso de Gato (Mexico), Back Stage East, Dramatics Magazine and the online journal Borrowers and Lenders. Antonio has also been on the faculty at Arizona State University, Florida State University, Emerson College and Boston College.
	Dossy Peabody - an award-winning actor and longtime professional actors' coach, she has appeared in films and television including Mermaids, Edge of Darkness, Amistad, The Crucible, The Proposition, The Kennedy's of Massachusetts, The Cheats, and Jenny's Song among others. Her local stage credits include Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Gloucester Stage Co., American Stage Festival, Theatre by the Sea, and Boston Playwright's Theatre. Dossy has taught at Emerson College, Wheelock Family Theatre, Gloucester Stage, N.S. Music Theatre, Endicott College, Lincoln School, Fayerweather School, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Waring School, Concord Youth Theatre, and is a renowned acting coach for stage and film actors of all levels of experience.
	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.
	Judy Wilson - lives and works as a teacher and actor/singer in both Europe and the United States. She is an affiliate voice and movement teacher with the Roy Hart Theatre in Maleragues, France. In the U.S. she played Lada in Letters from Sarajevo with Pilgrim Theatre and collaborated on and performed in the original play Anam Cara. In Europe she played Agave in an EU production of The Bacchae in Denmark and France, and toured with the Dublin-based company, "Artslab" in Greece, France and Ireland. In Boston, She teaches annually at Southwick Studio and has taught at Boston Conservatory, New Theatre Conservatory and the American Repertory Theatre.
	Jeannie Lindheim - is the founder and director of The Center for Creativity in Brookline where she is a Creative Life Coach. She ran her own theatre studio for 15 years and she also created the Hospital Clown Troupe, a non-profit volunteer group making hospital visits all over new England. She has taught as taught for the past 30 years-acting, movement, improvisation, creativity, auditioning and characterization techniques at a variety of educational institutions including: The Boston Conservatory of Music, UMass-Boston, Harvard University Law School, BU, BC, Lyric Stage. Simmons College, Lesley University,Antioch College, American University, George Washington University and The JFK Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.
	Will Luera - is the Artistic Director of ImprovBoston, Artistic Director of the Lowell Comedy Festival, Mainstage Director at ImprovAsylum, and Artistic Associate of the Chicago Improv Festival. He directs the Mainstage cast and develops the nationally renowned productions of Sitcom, Secret Society, Blue Screen, and Quest. He has appeared in numerous improv festivals around the world and has studied improvisation with ImprovOlympic, The Second City, The Annoyance Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade, and Keith Johnstone.

Southwick Studio Faculty