We’re lucky to have such inspiring academics at ASC. We’re excited to spotlight a number of new additions which were serving to our college students develop. Meet our instructors, Sarah Tolan-Mee, Joshua Moaney, and Sara Mountjoy-Pepka!

Sarah Tolan-Mee is an actor and director from NYC. She guides actors and artistic artists, together with Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows, and PEN award winners, in expressive embodiment. She is a protege of the nice motion trainer Moni Yakim and holds an MFA from Juilliard in Drama. Appearing contains: Martyna Majok’s queens (LCT3), Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play (13P) and Stage Kiss (The Goodman). Moreover, New Saloon’s Minor Character (Beneath the Radar), and Wallace Shawn’s A Thought In Three Elements (FRANK). Additionally together with Lucy Thurber’s Named (Rising Phoenix Rep), Kenneth Prestininzi’s Love within the Seventh Kingdom of Wrath (Dream Up Pageant) and Chaste (Lure Door), Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler (Andre Gregory). She has developed work with Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, NYTW, P73, The Roundabout, The Winery, The Lark, Main Levels, Denver Middle, and The Playwright’s Middle.

What’s your favourite a part of educating?

My favourite a part of educating is watching college students’ radically totally different processes, and seeing them come alive by exploration of method. The phrases “method,” “craft” or “talent” can sound overly mechanical, however I’ve discovered the other. Good method frees an actor, opens her creativeness, and creates an immediacy in her work. It’s breathtaking to witness actors actually experiment and to be in a room filled with people who find themselves prepared to make the leap into inventive course of. I like witnessing the magic of transformation and the dwelling laboratory nature of the classroom. I want extra rehearsal rooms included the daring of an ASC class.

Why ASC?

I like ASC’s combine of heat, rigor, and dedication to truthful, expansive performing.

BONUS: If you happen to weren’t an actor (or a trainer), what would you be?

If I weren’t an actor I might be a physicist. The drama of house and time!!!

Joshua Moaney is a Chicago-based actor and trainer. He graduated along with his MFA from The Theatre Faculty at DePaul College in 2013. Moaney’s stage credit embody theaters reminiscent of Remy Bumppo, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Lifeline Theatre, the place he’s additionally a educating artist.
Concurrently, Moaney works with The Lyric Opera of Chicago. His most up-to-date performing credit embody Le Comte Ory, Macbeth, Eranani, and Hearth Shut Up in My Bones.
On-camera credit embody Empire (Fox) and Chicago Med (NBC). Josh has additionally been seen in nationwide and regional commercials for manufacturers like Dicks Sporting Items, Goal, Kraft, ComEd, Huge Heaps, Room Place, Ace {Hardware}, and extra.

What’s your favourite a part of educating?

I study as a lot from my college students as they do from me. The keenness and pleasure they carry to the studio makes educating straightforward.

Sara Mountjoy-Pepka involves Chicago through Los Angeles and Seattle and may be very completely happy to be right here. As an actor, Sara loves all theater however has a selected focus in Shakespeare. Sara has loved working regionally with Nice River Shakespeare Pageant, Seattle Shakespeare/ Picket O, Montana Shakespeare within the Parks, Will Geer’s Theatrical Botanicum, and extra. An expert improviser, she was an organization member of the award-winning Impro Theatre in LA and Seattle’s Sudden Productions. Every with a particular deal with improvising full-length performs in traditional genres like Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Dorothy Parker. An organization member of Magic Circle Mime Firm, Sara spent 17 years miming throughout North America, Europe and Asia with the world’s finest symphony orchestras. Sara can also be a director, together with Impro Theatre/ Garry Marshall Theatre’s smash-hit Jane Austen Unscripted, and 7 sold-out seasons of The Improvised Era (within the type of Star Trek: TNG).

What’s your favourite a part of educating?

I benefit from the journey of determining what every pupil must thrive and shine. Generally, [a student] has a breakthrough their very top quality, and typically, you’re assessing and experimenting collectively for some time till out of the blue, one thing clicks.

Why ASC?

Simple – I began as a pupil right here and instantly felt this was neighborhood for me. I’ll proceed being a pupil at the same time as I step into educating…I used to be refreshing the grownup courses web page at this time!

BONUS: If you happen to weren’t an actor (or a trainer), what would you be?

A farmer. In one other life, I personal and run a self-sustaining natural farm within the Pacific Northwest with principally crops/ orchards and some completely happy hens. I can not emphasize the hole between the data it will take to succeed at that and the data I at the moment have, however my metropolis passion within the meantime is native plant gardening.