STC Faculty
Not all students will receive direct training with each of these faculty members.
Faculty
Hernán Angulo
STC
Francesca Fernandez McKenzie
STC
Natalie Greene
STC
Jessica Holt
STC
Mark Jackson
STC
Biography
Mark Jackson is an award-winning theater maker whose work in theater, dance, and performance has been seen in the Bay Area at American Conservatory Theater’s M.F.A. Program, Art Street Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, The Cutting Ball Theater, Encore Theatre Company, EXIT Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Potrzebie Dance Project, San Francisco International Arts Festival, San Francisco State University, Shotgun Players, and Z Space; nationally at Studio Theatre (Washington, DC), The Catamounts (Denver), and Hunger & Thirst Theatre (New York City); and internationally at Arts International Festival IV (Japan), Edinburgh Festival Fringe and The Bread & Roses Theatre Company (UK), and English Theatre Berlin and Deutsches Theater Berlin (Germany). Jackson teaches regularly in the M.F.A., Summer Training Congress, and Studio A.C.T. programs, and is the director of Studio A.C.T. He has taught a variety of theater courses at schools and theaters in California and Berlin, Germany.
Jeremy Kahn
STC
Larissa Kelloway
STC
Peter J. Kuo
STC
James Mercer II
STC
Sara "Toby" Moore
STC
Jenny Nguyen Nelson
STC
Alejandra Maria Rivas
STC
M. Graham Smith
STC
Biography
M. Graham Smith is a San Francisco-based Director, Educator and Producer. He is an O’Neill/NNPN National Directing Fellow, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival FAIR Fellow and a proud Resident Artist at SF’s Crowded Fire. He grew up outside of New York City and has been based in San Francisco since 2004. He spent five years as Producer of Aurora Theater’s new play development program and festival The Global Age Project. He’s directed in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland Oregon, Washington DC, and in the San Francisco bay area. He directed the West Coast Premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera and won Bay Area Critics Circle Best Director for Truffaldino Says No at Shotgun Players. Recent productions include the World Premiere of Obie winner Christopher Chen’s Home Invasion, Kevin Rolston’s Deal with the Dragon at ACT & Edinburgh Fringe, Mia Chung’s You for Me for You at Crowded Fire, James Ijames’ White at Shotgun, and Kait Kerrigan's Father/Daughter at Aurora. During pandemic he directed his first full length film, a hip-hop musical adaptation of As You Like It with music and lyrics by Ryan Nicole Austin produced by ACT as well as “hold me the forgotten way’ audio cycle by Harrison David Rivers and produced by Tigerbear. His latest project is a new musical The Mortification of Fovea Munson at The Kennedy Center. You can find him online at www.mgrahamsmith.com
Laura Wayth
STC
Biography
Laura Wayth received her MFA from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre School Institute in Russia. Prof. Wayth has taught and coached contemporary and classical acting, voice, and musical theatre at Tufts University, the College of the Holycross, the University of Miami, the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire and Florida Atlantic University. She was a 2019-2020 Fulbright Senior Scholar to Poland, a 2011-2012 Senior Fulbright Scholar to Romania, and a 2002-2003 Fulbright Fellow to Russia. She has worked internationally as an acting teacher and coach in Italy, Morocco, China, Poland, and London. Prof. Wayth is the author of three books on Acting: A Field Guide to Actor Training, The Shakespeare Audition (Applause Books) and Breaking Down Your Script: A Step-by-Step Process for the Actor (Nick Hern Books). She is Professor of Acting and Coordinator of Actor Training at San Francisco State University and a guest acting instructor at the American Conservatory Theatre’s STC and Studio ACT.
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Jessica Holt
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Fran Astorga
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Kelsey Tremewan
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Hana Kadoyama
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Michael Anderburg
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