Theater Apprentice Program Faculty

Lowry Marshall has taught acting/directing courses and directed plays at Brown since 1986. She's active as a freelance director, actor, voice-over artist, and coach. In addition to an MFA from the Professional Actor Training Program of the Asolo Conservatory, she holds degrees in directing and English literature.

Lowry was artistic director of summer theatres in Michigan and North Carolina before coming to Rhode Island. She's served as director and/or dramaturg for more than two hundred plays and solo shows, including the national tour of El Grande De Coca-Cola and the world premier at the La Jolla Playhouse of the 2.5 Minute Ride, for which soloist Lisa Kron won an Obie Award.

Lowry is a playwright, lyricist, and script consultant. She's been a guest artist at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the London Academy of Theatre, and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Filler Up, the solo show she co-wrote with Toronto performance artist Deb Filler, has toured all over the world and was nominated in 2005 for a Helen Hayes award. It will have an extended run at the Stage Door Theatre in Fort Lauderdale, FL this spring and summer. Her play Waiting for the Termite Man was awarded the Ruby Lloyd Apsey Playwriting Prize, and she wrote book and lyrics for The Musical Winter's Tale.

For Brown, Marshall translated and adapted Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro, with a musical score by Jack Eric Williams. "Solo Performance," a course Lowry has been developing at Brown over the last decade, serves as a capstone experience for Brown writer/performers. In 2006, she directed Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate for the Playwrights Rep, and in 2007 she commissioned and directed Steven Levenson and Andrew Hertz' new musical Torah! Torah! Torah!

Mark Cohen, is Artistic Director of the pre-college TheatreBridge Company and offers a Meisner acting workshop for the Apprentice 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 The Shakespeare Theatre¹s 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. He's taught at Brown since 1993.

Carol Abizaid is a Movement Instructor for both the Apprentice and TheatreBridge Companies. She studied with contemporary dance masters Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Fred Benjamin, and Milton Myers. A 1984 graduate of Brown, Carol was the founder and CEO of World Arts, a performing arts studio in Soho, and has served on the faculty of NYU¹s Tisch School of the Performing Arts. Carol¹s choreography has been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Manhattan Center, and throughout Europe. She currently teaches dance in Brown¹s Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance and offers movement workshops at the Brown/Trinity Graduate Consortium.

Kym Moore is the Gerard Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance at Brown University where she teaches acting and directing. She has taught acting, directing and dramatic literature at across the US including Swarthmore, Hampshire, and Sarah Lawrence Colleges; and has served as guest director at Notre Dame University, Smith, Swarthmore, and Dartmouth Colleges. Professionally, Kym is a multidisciplinary stage director, writer and producer. Kym has directed plays off-Broadway and in regional theatres including Penumbra Theatre, HereArts Center, The Women’s Project, Boston Center for the Arts, Urban Stages, CAP 21, The Workshop Theatre and StageWest. She is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, as well as the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab. She has been nominated for the Alan Schneider Directing Award by the Theatre Communications Group. At the Women’s Project she was a member of the Directors Forum where she received the distinguished Artistic Leadership Fellowship. Her one-act play, The Date, won the Pen and Brush Award for Best Short Play in 2003. Pursuant to her interests in metaphysics, science and technology Kym is also the recipient of a Lemelson Foundation grant for the development of the “Brainmachine,” an interactive-biofeedback device that allows performers to control lights, sound, and video using brainwave signals in real time. As founding director of Frogs on the Water Theatre in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she produced new solo-performance works by Le Thi Diem Thuy, Collin Chase, Janice Simmons, formed socially responsible community outreach programs, and experimented with theatrical form combining fine art, film, dance and theatre into her unique style of performance. Kym has served on the Board of Directors of La MaMa E.T.C. She received an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Recent Guest Artists

Peter Nachtrieb, playwriting
Jennifer Hayley, playwriting
Steven Levenson, musical theatre
Andy Hertz, musical theatre
Logan Marshall-Green, auditioning for film and television
T.J. Paolino, acting for camera
Rhea Perlman, television performance
Mark Cohen, acting
The Workhorse Company
Members of the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Company
Paul Grellong, playwriting
Stephen Karam, playwriting
Brighde Mullins, playwriting
Alice Tuan, playwriting
Eva Nagorski, documentary