Assistant Professor
Musical Theater
Jeannie-Marie Brown has a broad-based theatrical vocabulary with experience as a professional actress, director, choreographer, and dancer. Performance credits include Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, Showcase, Regional, Summer Stock, Industrial, and Academic theatre. She remains an active member of Actors’ Equity Association, and returns regularly to New York City and Boston to study and work on scholarship.
As a director, she focuses on redefining works from the past to better understand the future, as well as the development of new works and musical theater. She finds it exciting to incorporate cross-disciplinary elements into her own work to explore how we connect and/or disconnect in a media-based world. She utilizes movement-based methodology to define space and explore how technology informs or impairs our ability to communicate.
In her work with students, she seeks to foster intuition, develop technical expertise, and discover avenues that ignite a passion for storytelling. She encourages students to explore the mythical, universal stories that transcend culture and connect us all.
In Boston, Ms. Brown studied directing with Marcus Stern, associate director, A.R.T./MXAT Institute, and Scott Zigler, director, A.R.T./MXAT Institute. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Her acting training includes the Stanislavski System with Sonia Moore and Boris Leskin at the American Center for Stanislavski Art Theatre in New York City. She has also studied Meisner, Practical Aesthetics, Improv, Object and Physical Improvisation, Viewpoints, Suzuki Movement, Film, and Puppetry.
In New York City, she studied voice with Soprano Luba Tcheresky, renowned protégé of Lotte Lehmann and Maria Callas. In Boston, she studied voice with Mary Saunders, former chair of the Voice division at the Boston Conservatory.
Her dance training in New York City includes work with Bob Audy, Melissa Hayden, Madame Darvash, Lori Klinger, Don Farnsworth, Luigi, Frank Hatchett, Charles Kelley, Phil Black, and Randy Skinner.
