Sharon Marie Carnicke
An expert on Russian ballet and theater, and the history and practice of acting
Associate Dean of Theater
Professor of Theater and Slavic Languages and Literature
USC School of Dramatic Arts
Contact at: (213) 740-2202, (213) 740-8686 or carnicke@usc.edu
Expertise:
- Russian ballet and theater
- acting on film
- acting history, practice and theory
- the Stanislavsky System for actors
- American Method acting, including the techniques of Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner
- performance festivals in Puerto Rico
- Author of Stanislavsky in Focus: Second Edition (2008)
- Co-author of Reframing Screen Performance (2008), Anton Chekhov: Four Plays and Three Jokes (2009) and The Theatrical Instinct: Nikolai Evreinov and the Russian Theatre (1989)
- Recipient of a Kennedy Center award for translation of Chekhov's The Seagull; an NEH for research on Stanislavsky's last work on acting, called Active Analysis; and an NSF with the Viterbi School of Engineering on the use of motion capture technology with Stanislavsky's Active Analysis
Foreign Languages:
Russian, French
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For biographical information go to:
http://theatre.usc.edu/faculty/carnicke.html
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