Drama
Raina Von Waldenburg Associate Teacher
 Phone: 212 992 9355 Email: fervon@aol.com
 Office: 721 Broadway 3FL |
Education
B.F.A. in Acting from ETW
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College
Biography
RAINA VON WALDENBURG is a full-time faculty member at NYU. She has been teaching a
physical approach to acting based on the work of Jerzy Grotowski at NYU’s
Experimental Theatre Wing for the past fifteen years. Teacher, playwright,
director and actor, she received her MFA in creative writing from Goddard
College and her BFA in acting from New York University. Trained under Ryszard
Cieslak, Grotowski’s principal actor and protégée, and Steve Wangh, Raina has
taught numerous Master Classes in physical acting nationally and
internationally. Venues include: INTER-ACT (Austria), The Bali Conservatory
2007 (Bali), Delachenal Impro (France), The New School (NYC), Big Sur Theatre
Lab (Big Sur), the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (NYC), the
National Viewpoint Conference (NYC), Working Classroom (Albuquerque), Synaesthetic Theatre (NYC), Theatre For
The Forgotten: Changing Scenes, Inc. (NYC), Studio 5 (Brooklyn, NY), and the Metropolitan School for the Arts (Syracuse). She has worked
with ensembles developing material for performance at Working Classroom,
Metropolitan School for the Arts, Delachenal Impro, and New York University.
Raina has served as acting coach for the Broadway
production of Cirque Dreams: Jungle
Fantasy, Ben Curtis Entertainment and East 3rd Productions. She continues to teach RainaClass, her private acting classes in
NYC. Raina served as research assistant and editor for Steve Wangh’s book An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical approach to acting based on
the work of Jerzy Grotowski, published by
Vintage Press. Raina’s directing credits include NYU’s production of her
full-length play Das Kaspar Theatre, Safiya Henderson-Holmes’ Testimony at the New Federal Theatre, Sarah Schulman’s Promenade at PS122, and Killer in Love at Goddard
College, as well as assistant directing NYU’s productions of Dream Farm, Troilus and Cressida and Merchant of Venice. Her
acting credits include Laura in The
Father (La MaMa ETC.), Miss Rauch in Radio
Programme (La MaMa ETC.), Marilyn Robertson in My Friend Andrea in East Coast Artist’s production at NYU, Mother
[Andrea Yates] in 15 Seconds of Silence (American Place Theatre), Delphine in The Life of Spiders (The
Culture Project), Charlotte in The Last
Supper (La MaMa Etc.), Dantchika/Magda/Rohkol in Jude (Marilyn Monroe
Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute), Girl’s Mother/Zucco’s Mother/Elegant
Lady in Roberto Zucco (OHIO Theatre), Girl in MC Girl
(Living Theatre), Mouth in Not I
(NYU), Renee in Erostratus (Gene Frankel
Theatre), Mother/Madame in Roberto
Zucco (Currican Theatre), Linda in Just the Boys (Painted Bride),
and Nurse in Medea (Movement
Theatre International). Raina is also a published poet, visual artist and mother.