National Theater Institute
The National Theater Institute (NTI) is the O'Neill Center's credit-bearing 14-week intensive theater program for college-age students. Accredited by Connecticut College, NTI offers a comprehensive training curriculum, with classes in acting, directing, design, movement, playwriting, voice, singing, mask work, stage combat, yoga, tai chi, etc. Classes are seven days a week from 9 am to 10 pm, with a 7:30 am warm-up six days a week. International components include two-week seminars at London/Stratford-upon-Avon to train with Complicite or St. Petersburg, Russia to train at the St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy; a semester at the Moscow Art Theater is also a possibility.
The motto of NTI is "Risk, fail, risk again."
Current faculty:
- Rachel Jett (Artistic Director and Droznin Russian movement instructor)
- Donna DiNovelli (Playwriting)
- G. W. Mercier (Design)
- Jonathan Bernstein (Directing)
- Michael Cadman (Classical acting)
- Brian McManamon (Contemporary acting)
- David Jaffe (Chekhov acting)
- Marya Ursin (Yoga and Masks)
- David Chandler (Tai Chi and Stage Combat)
- Anne Tofflemire (Singing)
- Michelle Bach-Coulibaly (Movement and African dance)
- Preston Whiteway (Producing)
Guests:
- Elizabeth Hess
- Adam Bock (Playwright's Week)
- Colman Domingo
- Kim Weild
- Wendy C. Goldberg
- Stephen Fried
- Jeremy Cohen
- Rebecca Taichman
- Gisela Cardenas
- Greg Allen (Neo-Futurists)
- Per Brahe (Mask)
- Derron M. Wood
- Elaine Bromka (Acting for the Camera)
- Peg Denithorne
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