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CURRICULUM VITAE FOR BONNIE N. RAPHAEL
305 Deepwood Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
(919) 969-9555
EDUCATION
B.A. in Speech and Theatre (including work in both theatre and speech pathology) Brooklyn College, New York, 1964.
M.A. in Theatre (minor concentration in oral interpretation) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, l965.
Ph.D. in Theatre (minor concentrations in voice pathology, dramatic literature and psychology) Michigan State University, East Lansing, l973.
Dissertation Title: "A Descriptive Study of the Relationship Between
The Demands of a Specific Characterization and Functional Voice Problems in the Male Actor"
SPECIAL TRAINING
Beginning and Advanced Workshops in Voice, Speech, Movement and Acting with Arthur Lessac, SueAnnPark and others--State University of New York at Binghamton--summers of l972 and l975. Honorary Certification as Master Teacher—2003.
Workshop in Voice, Speech, Movement, Acting and Shakespearean Text Analysis with Kristin Linklater, Tina Packer, John Broome and others--Shakespeare & Company--month of January, l980.
Alexander Technique with Goddard Binkley in Chicago (1976), with Chris Stevens in Charlottesville (1980), with Michael Johnson-Chase in Denver (1983-86) and with Saura Bartner in Chapel Hill (1997-2002). Feldenkrais Training with Anna Johnson-Chase in Denver (1984-86) and with Bill Hutchinson in Boston (1993-96). Some yoga training and meditation as well.
Singing Training with Gerald Tate in Denver (1983-85).
Intensive Workshops with Roy Hart Theatre members Saule Ryan and Carol Mendelsohn--Mars Hill, North Carolina--August, 1990; New York City-- September, l990; Boston--November, l990, March, l99l, October, l992, February, l993 and l994, and in the spring of l996; with Carol Mendelsohn and David Goldsworthy--Mars Hill, North Carolina--July, l99l, with Carol Mendelsohn and Robert Harvey--Celebration Barn Theatre, Maine--August, l996, and with Ellen Hemphill--Chapel Hill, l997-98.
Phonetics Workshop with Louis Colaianni--Howard Community College, Columbia, Maryland--January, 2002.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September, l997 through June, 2011
Voice, Speech, Dialects and Text teacher for the Professional Actor Training Program (MFA) at University of North Carolina (Head of Program December l997-August 2005. Coach for PlayMakers Repertory Theatre (Equity-LORT). Rank: Full Professor. Taught three- year sequence of courses in vocal production (Linklater, Lessac), speech (IPA, General American) stage dialects and text (Shakespeare and other heightened text) in the MFA curriculum.
Playmakers Productions Coached
“As You Like It” directed by Joe Haj
“Fences” directed by Serrett Scott
“Shipwrecked!” directed by Tom Quaintance
“Angels in America”—Parts I and II, directed y Brendon Fox
“Big River” directed by Joe Haj
“Pericles” directed by Joe Haj
“Blue Door” directed by Trezana Beverly
“Nicholas Nickleby”—Parts I and II, directed by Joe Haj and Tom Quaintance
“All My Sons” directed by Davis McCallum
“Romeo and Juliet” directed by Davis McCallum
“Crimes of the Heart” directed by John Feltch
“The Little Prince” directed by Tom Quaintance (twice)
“Doubt” directed by Drew Barr
“Top Dog/ Underdog” directed by Raelle Myrick
“Amadeus” directed by Joe Haj
“The Underpants” directed by Gene Saks
“Tuesdays with Morrie” directed by Joan Darling
“Stones in his Pockets directed by John Feltch
“The Bluest Eye” directed by Trezana Beverly
“The Illusion” directed by Joe Haj
“Front Page” directed by Gene Saks
“String of Pearls” directed by Trezana Beverly
“Frozen” directed by Drew Barr
“God’s Man in Texas” directed by Anthony Powell
“Cyrano de Bergerac” directed by Joe Haj
“A Prayer for Own Meany” directed by David Hammond
“Hobson’s Choice” directed by Blake Robison
“King Lear” directed by Mark Wing-Davey (2 versions)
“The Subject Was Roses” directed by Drew Barr
“Luminosity” directed by David Hammond
“Sunrise in my Pocket” directed by Jeffrey Hayden
“Proof” directed by Ted Shaffner
"The Laramie Project" directed by David Hammond
"The Man Who Came to Dinner" directed by Michael Sexton
"Art" directed by Ted Shaffner
"Playboy of the Western World" directed by John Dillon
"Our Town" directed by David Hammond
"Look Homeward, Angel" directed by Kent Paul
"An O. Henry Christmas" directed by Ted Shaffner
"Side Man" directed by Drew Barr
"Master Harold . . . and the Boys" directed by John Dillon
"All's Well that Ends Well" directed by David Hammond
"Constant Star" directed by Tazewell Thompson
"A Delicate Balance" directed by Nagel Jackson
"An O. Henry Christmas" directed by Ted Shaffner
"The Glass Menagerie" directed by Kent Paul
"W;t" directed by Drew Barr
"Hay Fever" directed by Eric Woodall
"The Tempest" directed by Tazewell Thompson
"Gross Indecency" directed by Loretta Greco
"Christmas Carol", a one-man version with Ray Dooley
"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" directed by Nagel Jackson
"As You Like It" directed by Tazewell Thompson
"Skylight" directed by John Rando
"Nutcracker" directed by Adam Versenyi
"Master Class", with Kathleen Widdoes, directed by Tazewell Thompson
"Mrs. Klein" directed by Andre Ernotte
"The Threepenny Opera" directed by Bart Sher
Selected Student Productions Coached
“Macbeth” directed by Matthew Arbour
“Romeo and Juliet” directed by David Hammond
“Metamorphosis” directed by Joe Haj
“The Ramayana”-- directed by John Dillon
“Hedda Gabler” directed by Julie Fishell
“Man and Superman” directed by Dede Corvinus
“Love’s Labors Lost” directed by David Hammond
“The Bacchae” directed by James Symons
“Hal and Falstaff” directed by David Hammond
and others
Summer 2009
Voice, Text and Dialects coach for “Hay Fever” directed by Bill Brown and for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” directed by John Langs at American Players’ Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
January-February 2009
Voice and Text Director for “Macbeth” directed by Gale Edwards at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.
Summer 2008
Voice, Text and Dialects coach for “Widowers’ Houses” directed by Ken Albers at American Players’ Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Summer 2007
Vocal Director for “Distracted” directed by Liz Diamond and for “Tartuffe” directed by Peter Amster and starring Anthony Heald at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.
Summer 2004, Winter, 2003 and Summer, 2000
Voice and Dialects Coach at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota:
"Hedda Gabler" directed by David Esbjornson (with Laila Robins)
“Three Sisters” directed by Joe Dowling
“Top Girls” directed by Casey Stangl
“Death of a Salesman” directed by Joe Dowling
Guest Teacher for Guthrie Theatre/University of Minnesota BFA Acting Program:
Spring Semester, 2003.
Seminar on Actors’ Use of Dialects for Guthrie Experience: August, 2004.
September, l986 through June, l997
Voice, Speech, Dialects and Text Coach for the American Repertory Theatre and teacher of voice, speech, dialects and text analysis for the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
(Also taught workshops for HarvardUniversity faculty and teaching assistants through the DanforthCenter for Teaching and Learning, and served on the Harvard University Commencement Parts committee whose focus is the selection and performance coaching of HarvardUniversity's student Commencement speakers.)
Productions Coached:
"The Wild Duck" directed by Francois Rochaix
"Woyzeck" directed by Marcus Stern
Revivals of Gozzi's "King Stag" (Andrei Serban production)
Robert Brustein's adaptation of "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" directed by Bob McGrath
"The Old Neighborhood" by David Mamet, with Tony Shaloub
"Man and Superman" with Cherry Jones directed by David Wheeler
"The Tempest" directed by Ron Daniels
"Buried Child" directed by Marcus Stern
"Tartuffe" (Robert Auletta adaptation) directed by Francois Rochaix
"SlaughterCity" by Naomi Wallace, directed by Ron Daniels
"Alice in Bed" by Susan Sontag, directed by Bob McGrath
"The Naked Eye" by Paul Rudnick, directed by Christopher Ashley
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" with Claire Bloom, directed by Ron Daniels
"The Oresteia" by Aeschylus (Robert Auletta adaptation) with Randy Danson directed by Francois Rochaix
"Waiting for Godot" directed by David Wheeler
"King Henry V" directed by Ron Daniels
"Demons" by Robert Brustein, directed by Francesca Zambello
"Accident" directed by Marcus Stern
"Threepenny Opera" directed by Ron Daniels
"Ubu Rock" directed by Andrei Belgrader
"Trojan Women: A Love Story" by Charles Mee, Jr. directed by Robert Woodruff for the A.R.T. Institute
"King Henry IV", Parts 1 and 2 directed by Ron Daniels
"What the Butler Saw" directed by David Wheeler
"The Cherry Orchard" with Claire Bloom, directed by Ron Daniels
"A Touch of the Poet" with Daniel J. Travanti directed by Joe Dowling
"The America Play" directed by Marcus Stern
"Hot and Throbbing" directed by Anne Bogart
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile" directed by David Wheeler
"Shlemiel the First" directed by David Gordon
"Agamemnon" and "The Libation Bearers" (Robert Auletta adaptation)
directed by Francois Rochaix for the A.R.T. Institute
"Black Snow" directed by Richard Jones
"Heartbreak House" directed by David Wheeler
"Dream of the Red Spider" directed by Ron Daniels
"Silence, Cunning, Exile" directed by Ron Daniels
"L.A. Plays" directed by Steve Maler
"The Caretaker" directed by David Wheeler
"Those the River Keeps" directed by David Rabe
"Cakewalk" with Elaine Stritch directed by Ron Daniels
"Macbeth" directed by Alvin Epstein
"Hamlet" with Mark Rylance directed by Ron Daniels
"Misalliance" directed by David Wheeler
"Orestes" (Charles Mee adaptation) directed by Tina Landau for the
A.R.T. Institute
"The Seagull" directed by Ron Daniels
"Hedda Gabler" directed by Adrian Hall
"Servant of Two Masters" directed by Andrei Belgrader
"The Homecoming" directed by David Wheeler
"Once in a Lifetime" directed by Anne Bogart
"When We Dead Awaken" directed by Robert Wilson
"The Writing Game" directed by Michael Bloom
"Steel" directed by Derek Walcott
"King Lear" with F. Murray Abraham directed by Adrian Hall
"Power Failure" with Christopher Lloyd directed by Michael Engler
"Bald Soprano/The Chairs" directed by Andrei Belgrader
"Twelfth Night" with Cherry Jones and Diane Lane directed by Andrei Serban
"Major Barbara" with Cherry Jones directed by Michael Engler
"The Father" with Christopher Lloyd, directed by Robert Brustein
"The Lost Boys" directed by Jerome Kilty
"Road to Nirvana" directed by Michael Bloom
Euripides' "Orestes" directed by Tina Landau for the A.R.T. Institute
"Caucasian Chalk Circle" directed by Slobodan Unkovski
"Serpent Woman" directed by Andrei Serban
"Platonov" directed by Liviu Ciulei
"Mastergate" directed by Michael Engler
"In Twilight: Tales from Chekhov" directed by Tina Landau
"Fun" and "Nobody" directed by David Wheeler
"The Miser" directed by Andrei Serban
"Life is a Dream" directed by Anne Bogart
"Peer Gynt" directed by Slobodan Unkovski for the A.R.T. Institute
"Right You Are (if you think you are)" directed by Robert Brustein
"Gillette" directed by David Wheeler
"Quartet" with Lucinda Childs directed by Robert Wilson
"Uncle Vanya" with Christopher Walken, directed by David Wheeler
"Big Time" directed by Steve Schachter
"'Tis Pity She's A Whore" directed by Michael Kahn
"Kaethchen Von Heilbronn" directed by Anne Bogart for the A.R.T. Institute
"Tonight We Improvise" directed by Robert Brustein
"The End of the World (With Symposium to Follow)" with Ken Howard, directed by Richard Foreman
"Sweet Table at the Richelieu" directed by Andrei Serban
"The Day Room" directed by David Wheeler
"The Good Woman of Setzuan" with Priscilla Smith, directed by Andrei Serban
"Archangels Don't Play Pinball" directed by Dario Fo
and several other plays.
September, 1982 through August, l986:
Voice, Speech and Dialects Coach for the Denver Center Theatre Company, teacher of vocal production at the National Theatre Conservatory (opened in October, l984), and research associate for the DenverCenter for the Performing Arts Recording and ResearchCenter.
Productions Coached:
"Quilters" directed by Barbara Damashek
"The Tempest" directed by Edward Payson-Call
"The Hostage" directed by Donovan Marley
"Arms and the Man" directed by Ed Hastings
"Of Mice and Men" directed by Richard Geer
"Spokesong" directed by Peter Hackett
"Cyrano de Bergerac" directed by Wally Chappel
"Taming of the Shrew" directed by Barbara Damashek
"The Three Sisters" directed by Edward Payson-Call
"Front Page" directed by Jerry Zaks
"Night of the Iguana" directed by Walter Schoen
"Romeo and Juliet" directed by Caroline Eves
"The Importance of Being Earnest" directed by John Broome
"Hamlet" with Daniel Davis directed by Allen Fletcher
"They Knew What They Wanted" with Michael Winters directed by James Moll
"Pericles" with Byron Jennings directed by Laird Williamson
Moliere's "Don Juan" with Byron Jennings directed by Garland Wright
“The Cherry Orchard” directed by Garland Wright
"The Emperor Jones" directed by Don McKayle
"Design for Living" directed by Allen Fletcher
"Pygmalion" with Annette Bening, directed by James Moll
and a number of other plays.
Also coached "Twelfth Night" for David Chambers at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in September, l985.
Summers of l979, l980, l981 and l983:
Voice Coach for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and Visiting Professor of Theatre, University of Colorado at Boulder. Taught intensive course in voice and speech for actors.
Productions Coached:
"Richard III" directed by Jack Clay
"Comedy of Errors" directed by David Knight
"Measure for Measure" directed by Leslie Reidel
"All's Well that Ends Well" directed by Michael Kahn
"Taming of the Shrew" directed by Tom Markus
"Julius Caesar" directed by Martin Cobin
"Hamlet" directed by Jack Clay
"King Henry V" directed by Gavin Cameron-Webb
"Love's Labour's Lost" directed by Daniel S. P. Yang
"King Lear" directed by Bill Glover
"King Henry IV, Part II" directed by Tom Markus
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" directed by Ronald Mitchell
September, l981 through June, l982:
Voice, Speech and Movement Coach for the Missouri Repertory Theatre (Patricia McIlrath, Artistic Director). Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Missouri, Kansas City. Taught beginning and advanced voice training and beginning and advanced stage movement in the MFA Acting and Directing curriculum, and speech for the theatre to undergraduates.
Productions Coached:
"A Christmas Carol" directed by James Asaad
"The Royal Family" directed by Albert Pertalion
"Loose Ends" directed by Francis Cullinan
"Crown of Thorns" directed by James Asaad
"Macbeth" directed by Norris Houghton
"Trouble in Chioggia" directed for the MFA program by Louis Fantasia
and a number of other plays.
September, l976 through June, 1981:
Assistant Professor, Department of Drama, University of Virginia. Taught Voice and Movement Training (two-year sequence) in the MFA acting curriculum. Taught undergraduate courses in Voice and Speech for the Actor, Movement for the Actor and Introduction to Acting and Directing. Taught graduate level courses in Stage Dialects and in Contemporary Acting and Directing Theory and Technique (from Stanislavski through avant-garde directors).
Productions Coached:
"The Three Sisters"
"The Bacchae"
"Butley"
"A Moon for the Misbegotten"
"Spring's Awakening"
"The Birthday Party"
"Love for Love"
"Old Times"
"Long Day's Journey into Night"
"Taming of the Shrew"
and a number of other plays.
Also coached "As You Like It" during this time for the Virginia Museum Theatre in Richmond.
Summer, l976:
Teacher at the Lessac National Summer Workshop at the StateUniversity of New York at Binghamton.
September, l973 through June, l976:
Assistant Professor of Dramatic Production, Northwestern University. Taught Voice for Performance, Training the Actor's Voice, Stage Dialects, Acting--Beginning Characterization. Special Assistant to the Dean, School of Speech for l975-76 academic year--undergraduate counseling and administration.
Productions Coached:
"Serjeant Musgrave's Dance"
"Man and Superman"
"The House of Blue Leaves"
"Romeo and Juliet"
"Love's Labour's Lost"
"The Magistrate"
"Summer and Smoke"
and a number of other plays.
Also coached "The Au Pair Man" for the Evanston Theatre Company during this time.
Summer, l973:
Visiting Professor, Department of Drama and Theatre, University of Georgia. Taught advanced workshop in acting voice and movement (with Jay E. Raphael), taught beginning acting and stage movement for University of Georgia Summer High School Institute.
September, l971 through June, l973:
Lecturer, Department of Theatre, Southern IllinoisUniversity. Taught voice and articulation for the actor.
Productions Coached:
"Waiting for Godot"
"The Balcony"
"The Stranger"
and a number of other plays.
September, l970 through June, 1971:
Instructor, School of Theatre, Ohio University. Taught Voice Training for the Actor, Stage Dialects, Acting, Oral Interpretation, tutorials with advanced acting students in the Professional Actor Training Program.
Productions Coached:
"Live Like Pigs"
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
"The Birds"
and a number of other plays.
Summer, l969:
Lecturer, MichiganStateUniversityExtensionCollege at Grand Rapids. Taught graduate-level course in teaching creative dramatics.
September, l965 through June, l967:
Lecturer, Department of Speech and Theater, BrooklynCollege. Taught required speech, voice and diction.
DIRECTING EXPERIENCE
"Butterflies Are Free" at the University of Virginia
"Jesse and the Bandit Queen" at the University of Virginia
"Twelfth Night" at the University of Virginia
"Once Upon A Mattress" at the University of Virginia
"Three Men on a Horse" at the Heritage Repertory Theatre (Summer,
l978)
ACTING EXPERIENCE
Zofia in "Tongue of a Bird" by Ellen McLaughlin for StreetSigns Theatre Company,Chapel Hill, North Carolina (2/00)
Mother in "In the Lake of the Woods", written and directed by Paul
Frellick (staged reading), Chapel Hill, North Carolina (10/99)
Ensemble Member in "Eulogy for a Warrior" for Archipelago Theater,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina (4/98)
Paula Strasberg in "Nobody Dies on Friday" by Robert Brustein (staged
reading) for American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(Spring, l997)
Natasha in "The Three Sisters" at the University of Virginia
Witch of Endor in "King David" for the University of VirginiaSchool
of Music
Flora Van Huysen in "The Matchmaker" at the University of Virginia