PATP Faculty

Joan Darling (Teacher of Acting), winner of both the Emmy and the Directors Guild of America awards, was one of the first women in America to direct film and television. She was the original director of the groundbreaking show Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and her feature film, First Love, was named as one of the year's ten best by CBS. She directed the "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show which was named by the New York Times "the funniest half-hour in television history" and selected as the number one television episode of all time by TV Guide. She was nominated for an Emmy award for her work as Dorothy Parker in Woven in a Crazy Plaid. A highly regarded and gifted teacher, she teaches and serves as a creative advisor at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Lab each summer. She has taught at Cal Arts, the University of Southern California film school, and Carnegie Mellon University. Joan is directing Tuesdays With Morrie for PlayMakers Repertory Company in the 2006-2007 season.

Ray Dooley (PATP Head, Teacher of Acting) Mr. Dooley is a principal actor with PlayMakers Repertory Company, and has played leading roles in theatres in New York, throughout the United States and abroad, including Circle in the Square, CSC Repertory Company (OBIE Award, Distinguished Performance, Peer Gynt), Yale Repertory Theatre; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Hartford Stage Company; American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, CT; Center Stage, Baltimore; Huntington Theatre, Boston; Pittsburgh Public Theatre; the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Canada, among many others. In January 2006 Mr. Dooley traveled to Vienna's English Theatre, Vienna, Austria, to play Father Flynn in the European premier of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer and Tony-Winning Doubt. He has appeared in numerous television films, daytime dramas, and commercials, and appeared opposite Seth Green and Brad Rowe in the feature film Stonebrook.

Bonnie Raphael (Teacher of Voice and Speech, coach for PlayMakers Repertory Company) has taught and coached at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, Northwestern University, the University of Virginia and elsewhere. She has coached productions at the American Repertory Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, the Missouri Repertory Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center, the Denver Center Theatre, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, working with directors such as Garland Wright, Andrei Serban, Robert Brustein, Michael Kahn, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson, David Esbjornson, Robert Woodruff and Jerry Zaks. She has a PhD in theatre with minor concentrations in voice pathology, psychology and dramatic literature and has been trained by Arthur Lessac, Kristin Linklater, and members of the Roy Hart Theatre. In addition, she has studied Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Technique, singing and yoga.

Craig Turner (Teacher of Movement, coach for PlayMakers Repertory Company) has taught in actor training programs at Penn State University, University of Missouri at Kansas City, University of Washington, Ohio University, Boston University, California Institute of the Arts, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival Conservatory and the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center Theatre. He has been a member of the Society of American Fight Directors and is a founding member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. He is a Certified Master Practitioner and Modeler of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He has published articles on juggling, mime, movement theory, martial arts and masking process and is co-author of the book Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay.