Shelley Mitchell,
founder and artistic director of ACSF is best known for her
internationally acclaimed performance of TALKING
WITH ANGELS:the true story of Gitta Mallasz.
She trained in New York City, primarily with Lee Strasberg
at the Actors Studio and in his private classes. Shelley Mitchell
is a graduate of the Circle in the Square Theater School and
New York University. She interned with Al Pacino on his original
production of Arturo Ui, and trained with Harvey Keitel, Ellen
Burstyn, Estelle Parsons, Irene Papas and many other incredible
but lesser known NYC stage actors. (more)
Her students are aggressively encouraged to train with the
highest level of professional film and theater work in mind.
Ms. Mitchell encourages those who can to transfer to New York,
L.A. London or to discover the world of independent film and
theater.
Shelley Mitchell has taught and performed at:
The California Institute of Integral Studies
Esalen Institute
Ca' Foscari- Venice, Italy
The Carl Jung Institutes of San Francisco and Chicago
The Institute of Noetic Science
The Mythic Journey Conference, Atlanta
The Magic Theater, San Francisco
A Traveling Jewish Theater, San Francisco
Exit Theater, San Francisco
Manhattan Theater Club, NYC
Milagro Theater, NYC
Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley
The Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival (more)
Robin Fontaine
Robin received her training in New York at Fordham University's
Directing Program under OBIE award-winner Lawrence Sacharow,
and then under Anne Bogart at the Saratoga International Theatre
Institute. She then moved on to the LA area, where she led
an ongoing experimental movement workshop, and assistant directed
the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's "Three Days
of Rain" at South Coast Repertory Theatre. In Sacramento,
she produced and directed "Deus ex Quanta", a darkly
comic exploration of quantum physics as it relates to homicide
investigation. In August of 1998, she began an eighteen-month
tour of Europe as a performer with English Eurythmy Theatre
in their latest collaborative performance piece, "Don't
I Know You? She recently directed a film version of Chekhov's
THE SEAGULL and is the director of "Talking With Angels"
which has been seen in San Francisco and New York since July
2001.
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