Artist-in-Residence – Acting
M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh
B.F.A., Howard University
Dip. Ed., Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (Jamaica School of Drama)
Courses taught:
- Introduction to Acting
- Intermediate Acting
- Special Studies: Acting Comedy
- Advanced Acting/Movement: Devising Performance Through Mask Work
- Advanced Practice in Acting: Double Mask: Playing Tragedy {Greek Performance} and Playing Comedy {Farce}
- Dramatic Literature: Caribbean Theatre
EMAIL: tduncan1@skidmore.edu
Teisha Duncan is an Actress, Educator, and Director. Her sphere of interest and continual study includes: Storytelling (in particular non-linear storytelling), Mask work and Puppetry- In Ritual and Performance, Caribbean Theatre: Cultural Forms in Performance, Theatre of Black Africa: Pre-Colonial African Performance and Post-Colonial Drama, Mythology in Theater, and Ancient Egypt – From Ritual Drama to Theater. As a performative scholar much of her research is reflected in her creative writing (poems and childrens stories), theatre making (directing/movement Choreography: puppetry) and pedagogical techniques in actor training.
Notable Acting credits: Disney’s The Lion King, Caroline or Change, Jungle in the Cities (Smpl Mchn), Do Wager (Atlantic Pacific Theatre Company), Sarafina, Tartuffe, The Secret Garden (Adventure Theatre), Working, The Black that I Am, The Bluest Eye, A Chorus Line, The Clown’s Macbeth, Company, One Love, A Christmas Carol and Lysistrata, among others.
Training:
- John Basil Shakespeare Summer Intensive (New York) Summer 2017
- Summer in Kemet (Egypt), 2008
- American Musical Theatre Institute, (Lugano Switzerland), Summer 2007