Alumni
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Roslyn Ruff
Is a Brooklyn based actress by way of Buffalo, New York. She has had the privilege of collaborating with director Ruben Santiago-Hudson on August Wilson's GEM OF THE OCEAN at The McCarter and American Conservatory Theaters, SEVEN GUITARS at the Signature Theatre, for which she won an Obie award for her performance, Naomi Wallace's THINGS OF DRY HOURS at the New York Theatre Workshop,receiving a Drama League nomination for distinguished performance and most recently August Wilson's JITNEY at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Other theatrical credits include standing by for Viola Davis in the 2010 Broadway revival of FENCES and the American premiere of Athol Fugard's COMING HOME at the Long Wharf Theater. Off Broadway she has also appeared in Love, Loss and What I Wore, Macbeth (TFANA) Then Heart is a Lonely Hunter (NYTW), The Cherry Orchard and Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (The Acting Company). Regionally she has performed at Berkeley Rep, The Kennedy Center, Indiana Rep, Geva Theater, Old Globe, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Alliance Theater, Yale Rep and The People's Light and Theater Company. Her film credits include SALT, Life During Wartime and Rachel Getting Married. This past season she played Nurse Sulla on A Gifted Man and has also appeared on The Big C, The Good Wife, The Jury and The Sopranos. Ms. Ruff holds a MFA from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
Dakin Matthews
Dakin Matthews, has a long and distinguished history of work in film, television, and theater, He has dramaturged Shakespeare for the country’s leading directors, including Jack O’Brien, Dan Sullivan, Darko Tresnjak, Michael Sexton, and John Rando, and has coached numerous actors in Shakespearean roles, including Denzel Washington, Neil Patrick Harris, and Camryn Manheim. A founding member of John Houseman’s influential Acting Company, Mr. Matthews has headed the Antaeus Company in Los Angeles, the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, and the California Actors Theatre. His film credits include roles in Nuts, Thirteen Days, and the Coen brothers’ remake of True Grit. His many TV appearances have made him familiar to fans of Dallas, Desperate Housewives,General Hospital, House, Jeff Foxworthy, The King of Queens, Murder She Wrote, NYPD Blue, The Practice, The West Wing, and Two and a Half Men. He is a member of both the Motion Picture and the Television Academies. He has appeared in over thirty feature films, TV movies, and miniseries, and made over three hundred appearances in episodic television, performing as a regular or recurring character in ten different series. He is an Emeritus Professor of English at California State University East Bay. He has also taught at Juilliard, ACT in San Francisco, USD/Globe MFA Program, the Actors Center in NY, the Antaeus Company, and CalArts. He has given workshops in Shakespearean verse-speaking around the world.
You can see him on Broadway this fall in WAITRESS.
Rosalyn Coleman Williams
Best known as an accomplished actor with numerous Broadway, film, and television credits, Rosalyn Coleman Williams is also the director of the award-winning short films Allergic To Nuts and Drawing Angel. Both films have been seen on several TV stations nationally and screened in more than 50 film festivals in the U.S. and around the world. Other film director credits include BFF, Moth to a Flame, Driving Fish, Broken, The Starter Marriage, Layla’s Mourning, What I Wouldn’t Give for a Good Cigar, Twisted, Ends & Beginnings, Three Weeks in Hell, Scrambled Softly and Would I Lie to You. She was also the director of the re-enactment portion in the documentary Black Sorority Project. Williams is co-host and co-creator of Everything Acting Podcast, an internet radio show that informs, inspires, and demystifies the actor’s journey. With more than 70,000 downloads every month from 25 countries, it is the number one podcast for acting in iTunes. Williams graduated cum laude with a BFA from Howard University and earned her MFA t the Yale School of Drama, where she received the prestigious Carol Dye Award, the only award given for acting. She is a member of New York Women in Film and Television and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio..
You can see her this fall back on Broadway in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
Andy Grotelueschen
Andy Grotelueschen has appeared Off-Broadway and around the world in Fiasco’s Into the Woods (Menier Chocolate Factory (London), Roundabout Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center, Old Globe; Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival and nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical), Twelfth Night (CSC), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Theatre for a New Audience, St. Clair Bayfield Award), Cymbeline (Theatre for a New Audience/Barrow Street Theatre), Measure for Measure (The New Victory Theater, Long Wharf Theatre) and The Imaginary Invalid (Old Globe). He also appeared on Broadway in Cyrano de Bergerac and Tootsie for which he received a Tony nomination. His other New York credits include Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre for a New Audience), the Cyclops in The Odyssey (Public Works at Delacorte Theater), and world premieres at 13P, The Exchange, and St. Ann’s Warehouse. Mr. Grotelueschen’s regional credits include Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Guthrie Theater, and all across the country with The Acting Company. He has appeared on television in Elementary, The Good Wife, The Good Cop and The Knick. His film credits include Still on the Road (PBS), Coin Heist (Netflix), Geezer, Land of Kings,and Tumorhead. He is a graduate of the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company M.F.A. Program in Acting.
You can see him on Broadway this fall in ASSASSINS.
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Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley with the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School, The Company has launched the careers of some 400 actors, including Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Mary Lou Rosato, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Toussaint, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, Lisa Banes, Jeffrey Wright, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Roslyn Ruff, Jimonn Cole, Kelley Curran, among many others, while bringing sophisticated theater to hundreds of communities from coast to coast.
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