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Jeannie-Marie Brown, M.F.A.
THEA-2100 Intro to Acting
THEA-2110 Acting Styles
THEA-3100 Stage Movement
THEA-3310 Intro to Directing
IDST-2500
Jeannie-Marie has a broad based theatrical vocabulary with experience as a professional actress, director, choreographer, and dancer. Performance credits include OFF Broadway, Off Off Broadway, Showcase, Regional, Summer Stock, Industrial, and Academic theatre. She remains an active member of Actors’ Equity Association and returns regularly to New York City to study and work on scholarship.
As a director, she focuses on redefining works from the past to better understand the future, as well as the development of new works. She seeks the means to foster intuition, develop technical expertise and discover avenues that ignite a passion for storytelling. In that, she finds it exciting to incorporate cross-disciplinary elements into her work to explore how we connect and/or disconnect in a media based world. Her preference is to explore the mythical, universal stories that transcend culture and connect us all. Her work utilizes movement-based methodology to define space and explore how technology informs or impairs our ability to communicate.
Jeannie-Marie sees the power of live theater as the creation of imaginary worlds that entertain but also provide us with the ability to see ourselves in relationship to others. At its best, theater is a humanizing force that draws strangers together to build community, challenge stereotypes, cultivate compassion, and provide perspective. Exploring ways to help the audience find that perspective is at the core of her work.
In May 2009, Jeannie-Marie directed St. Cloud by Vladimir Zelevinsky for the Boston Theatre Marathon representing Another Country Productions. Previous Boston credits include productions with Devanaughn Theatre, Another Country Productions at Playwrights’ Theatre, Stanley B. Productions at the Boston Center for the Arts, and Slam Boston produced by Another Country Productions. Additionally, she choreographed and performed a piece for the North Shore Civic Ballet Company.
Acting training includes The Stanislavski System with Sonia Moore and Boris Leskin at the American Center for Stanislavski Art Theatre in New York City. As well as, Meisner, Practical Aesthetics, Improv, Object and Physical Improvisation, Viewpoints, Suzuki Movement, Film, and Puppetry.
In New York City she studied voice with Soprano Luba Techersky, renowned protégé of Lotte Lehmann and Maria Callas. In Boston she studied voice with Mary Saunders, former Chair of the Voice division at the Boston Conservatory.
In New York City dance training includes work with Bob Audy, Melissa Hayden, Madame Darvash, Lori Klinger, Don Farnsworth, Luigi, Frank Hatchett, Charles Kelley, Phil Black and Randy Skinner.
In Boston, she studied directing with Marcus Stern, Associate Director, A.R.T./MXAT Institute and Scott Zigler, Director, A.R.T./MXAT Institute. |
