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Brian Mulligan

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Acting and Directing California State University, Long Beach

  • Recipient of Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity – Theatre Arts
  • Recipient of Dr. Gordon Graduate Scholarship Grant for Acting
  • Recipient of John L. Dales Scholarship from Screen Actors Guild FoundationThesis: “Uta Hagen’s Challenge”

Bachelor of Arts, English, Summa Cum Laude California State University, Los Angeles

Theatre Arts Diploma, Studio 58 at Vancouver College, Vancouver, BC

Improvisation Technique, Keith Johnstone, Vancouver, BC

Training

  Uta Hagen, Herbert Berghof,  Carol Rosenfeld

  • Hagen Teacher Training w/Carol Rosenfeld, HB Studio, New York, NY Improvisation Technique, Second City, Los Angeles, CA
  • Meisner Technique, William Alderson, William Alderson Studio, Los Angeles, CA Meisner Technique, William Esper, William Esper Studio, New York, NY
  • Scene Study and Technique, Uta Hagen, HB Studio, New York, NY (Recipient of Canada Council for the Arts Study Abroad Grant)

Teaching

  • 1996 - present  Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2014 - present  California State University, Long Beach, CA
  • 2014 - present University of Hawaii-Manoa
  • 2016 - present  HB Studio, New York, NY
  • 2016 - present Debbie Allen Dance Academy
  • 1991 - 1993 Riverside Shakespeare Acting Conservatory, New York, NY
  • 1989 - 1993 Nada Theatre, New York, NY

Lecturer

  • Fundamentals of Acting – Meisner Technique for Theatre Majors 
  • Fundamentals of Acting – Hagen Technique for Theatre Majors 
  • Introduction to ActingTheatre Today (lecture class) 
  • Applied Voice and Speech for the Actor 
  • Advanced Actor’s ProcessBeginning Movement
  • Audition Technique 
  • Improvisation 

Service

  • Advised Prof. Hugh O’Gorman, Head of Performance, on the training arc for undergraduate theatre majors; including, as a result of my thesis on Uta Hagen, the switch to A Challenge for the Actor as the primary text for Fundamentals of Acting –Hagen Technique.

  • Identified and utilized professional resources to initiate contact with Robert Gantzos (Neighborhood Playhouse) who guest lectured on the Meisner Technique at California State University, Long Beach, in November 2013 and April 2014.

  • Mentored fellow lecturers on their course and lesson plans for Fundamentals of Acting– Meisner Technique, and Fundamentals of Acting – Hagen Technique

 

 

Director and Founder

Improvisation Theatre Company performing Off-B’way and at Young Audiences, New York

Directing

  • Hollywood Fringe Festival 2011 Director Evolution of a Kiss – Winner, “Best of Fringe”
  • Impro!, New York, NY 1990-1996

Crossroads Middle & High School, Santa Monica, CA

  • Created the Drama Conservatory Improvisation Theater Program
  • Created a Shakespeare for the Actor Program

Selected Crossroads Directing Credits:

  • The Good Doctor by Neil Simon
  • The Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw
  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Middle School Players)Dust by Sarah Daniels
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Middle School Players)
  • As You Like It
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • The Hotel Play by Wallace Shawn