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
- Advanced Acting
- Workshop Productions
- Special Studies: Comedy, Building Solo Performance, Devising Performance Through Mask Work and Puppetry and Musical Theater
- Dramatic Literature: Caribbean Theater
- Disability and Theater
EMAIL: tduncan1@skidmore.edu
Teisha Duncan is an actress, educator, and director whose work is rooted in storytelling, movement, and performance traditions from around the world. Her ongoing areas of study and curiosity include storytelling, mask work and puppetry in ritual and performance, Caribbean theatre, with a particular interest in how culture, religion, and spirituality shape theatrical storytelling, pre-colonial African performance traditions and post-colonial African drama, Ancient Egyptian mythology, ritual, and early theatrical traditions, and disability and theatre.
Selected Acting Credits: Disney’s The Lion King, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Color Purple, Last Stop on Market Street, Caroline, or Change, In the Jungle of Cities, Do Wager, Sarafina!, Tartuffe, The Secret Garden, Working, The Black That I Am, The Bluest Eye, A Chorus Line, The Clown’s Macbeth, Company, One Love, A Christmas Carol, and Lysistrata.
Most Recent Directing Credits: Keely and Du and After Jane (Skidmore College), Wait until Dark, Jersey Boys, Murder on the Orient Express, The Conference of the Birds, *The Legend of the Rolling Calf, *The Children from the Blue Mountain, *Always the Sheep, and *El Mito or The Myth of my Pain.
Play readings are indicated with an asterisk (*)
Selected Movement Direction and Puppet Choreography: Somewhere- (Skidmore College), Wiley and the Hairy Man (Southern Arkansas University), Little Shop of Horrors and Baltimore (University of Pittsburgh).
Intimacy and Violence
Layla’s Room, For a Limited Time Only (The Bread Play), Grippy Sock Vacation, A Blizzard of Gardening Books, And Baby Makes Seven, The Chaparral (Skidmore Theater Student Labs/Black Box); and Heddatron (Skidmore Theater Mainstage).
Training:
John Basil Shakespeare Summer Intensive (New York) Summer 2017
Summer in Kemet (Egypt), 2008
American Musical Theatre Institute, (Lugano Switzerland), Summer 2007