Graduate Studies: Professional Actor Training Program: Faculty
Core Faculty:
Ray Dooley (PATP Head, Teacher of Acting; Actor, PlayMakers Repertory Company) Ray Dooley has taught by example and in the studio for the Professional Actor Training Program since 1990. He has been a guest instructor for numerous universities and training programs including the University of Texas at Austin, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and the University of San Diego / Old Globe Theatre. 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; Huntington Theatre, Boston; 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 films, daytime dramas, and commercials. rdooley@email.unc.edu
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. raphael@email.unc.edu
Scott Ripley (Teacher of Acting; Actor, PlayMakers Repertory Company) Mr. Ripley has played leading roles on stages across the US and abroad, including La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theatre, Portland Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and for three years in the company of the American Repertory Theatre. He has also done film, television, commercial, and voice-over work in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Mr. Ripley has taught acting, improvisation, voice, and movement at Salem State College, Babson College, Northeastern University, Arizona State University, and Davidson College. He teaches acting at the Accademia dell'Arte, in Arezzo, Italy. scripley@email.unc.edu
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. cwt4885@email.unc.edu
