Art & Public Policy, Drama

Louis Scheeder Arts Professor Director, The Classical Studio Associate Dean of Faculty, TSOA Phone: 212 998 1805 Email: louis.scheeder@nyu.edu Office: 721 Broadway 1245

Education

B.A. Georgetown
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., New York University

Biography

Area: Classical Actor Training.  Founder and director of The Classical Studio, Louis Scheeder has taught at Tisch since 1989. He has directed on, off, and off-off Broadway, and at regional theatres in the U.S. and Canada. He served as Producer of Washington’s Folger Theatre Group, was associated with the Manitoba Theatre Centre, and worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. He has produced three off-Broadway shows, most notably Amlin Gray’s Obie-winner How I Got That Story.  He co-authored (with Shane Ann Younts of the Grad Acting Program) All The Words on Stage: A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare and contributed two chapters to Training of the American Actor. On behalf of the School, he has conducted acting workshops in Los Angeles, London, Havana, Johannesburg, and Cape Town.  He is a member of The Factory UK in London and a co-director of their ongoing “secret” Hamlet.  He also serves as Associate Dean of Faculty for the Tisch School of the Arts.