TheatreBridge and SeniorBridge Faculty

TheatreBridge - Six Weeks of Immersive Theatre Study for High School Students

Mark Cohen

Mark Cohen, Artistic Director, teaches acting for the TheatreBridge Company. He received his BA from Yale and trained in London at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama. Mark has an MA from Brown and an MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University. He was a professional actor, director and dance consultant in New York City. Mark currently directs and teaches acting at Boston University in Boston and has taught at Brown since 1993.

Constance Crawford

Constance Crawford is a core faculty member in the TheatreBridge Company. Connie received her BA from Vassar College and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. She trained with Uta Hagen at the HB Studios in New York City. During the 2006-2007 academic year in Brown's Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, Connie taught both TA-23 and Brown's freshman course TA-03 (Intro to Acting and Directing).

Carol Abizaid

Carol Abizaid is Movement Instructor for TheatreBridge and has studied with contemporary dance masters Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Fred Benjamin, and Milton Myers. A 1984 graduate of Brown University, she was the founder and CEO of World Arts, a performing arts studio in Soho, and has served on the faculty of NYU’s Tisch School of the Performing Arts. Carol’s choreography has been performed at Carnegie Hall and the Manhattan Center, and throughout Europe. She currently teaches dance at Brown’s Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance.

Recent Guest Artists:

  • Lowry Marshall, Playwriting
  • Paul Grellong, Playwriting
  • Stephen Karam, Playwriting
  • Alice Tuan, Playwriting
  • Logan Marshall-Green, Acting
  • Crystal Finn, Acting
  • Robin Galloway, Acting
  • Christopher Bayes, Clowning
  • Ted Hewlett, Sage Combat
  • Amelia Buescher, Mask
  • John Lloyd Young – Acting/Musical Performance
  • Jennifer Haley – Playwriting
  • Peter Nachtrieb - Playwriting
  • Andy Bragen - Playwriting
  • Stephen Karam - Playwriting
  • Steven Levenson - Playwriting
  • Andrew Hertz – Musical Theatre
  • Diana Fithian - Playwriting
  • Mia Rovegno - Directing
  • Ken Prestininzi – Directing