Dara Silverman (908) 313 4268

dara.callie.silverman@gmail.com www.daracalliesilverman.com

Profi le Trained actor with additional experience in stage fight, playwriting, and

directing, with technical skills in stage management, costume design, and wardrobe. Trained in various styles of movement including ballet, tap, ballroom, and Israeli folk dance.

Education and Training Conservatory at Shakespeare & Company 2013 Shakespeare & Company: Intensive training in Linklater voice work, Shakespeare

text, movement, fight, clown, and rhetoric. Faculty: Dennis Krausnik, Tina Packer, Andrew Borthwick-Leslie, Kevin

Coleman, Tori Rhoades, Douglas Seldin, Michael Francis Toomey, Kristen Wold.

Bachelor of Science, Theater: Acting Concentration 2013

Skidmore College, Cum Laude. Minor in Religious Studies. Conservatory 2011 National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center: Intensive

training in classical, contemporary, and Chekhovian acting styles, directing, playwriting, design, collaborative development of new work, production, and fight.

Faculty: Stephen Brown-Fried, Jeff Janisheski, Donna DiNovelli, Elizabeth Rothan, Skip Mercier, Brian McManamon, Dr. David Chandler.

Directing Experience Director/Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company Fall 2015 Co-director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, directing Merry Wives of Windsor

at Mount Everett Regional High School.

Director/Teaching Artist, Capital Repertory Theatre Spring 2015 Three month residency at Albany High School, directing three student written

plays as part of the Albany High School Theater Ensemble’s Promising Playwrights Festival.

Director/Teaching Artist, Proctors Theater Spring 2015

Three month residency at Gordon Creek Elementary school in Ballston Spa, NY, directing fourth graders in their Greek myth plays.

Director/Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company December 2014 Weeklong residency at The Rashi School, co-directing student explorations of Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth with middle school students.

Director/Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company Fall 2014 Co-director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, directing Henry V at

Mount Everett Regional High School.

Directing Assistant, Shakespeare & Company Fall 2014 Assistant to Fall Festival directors (Enrico Spada and Emily Ehlinger) for Monument Mountain Regional High School’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Directing Lab, National Theater Institute Fall 2011 Directed final scenes from Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis under tutelage of Jeff Janisheski and guest teacher Erica Schmidt.

References Kevin Coleman, Director of Education and Founder (413) 448-3890

Shakespeare & Company Lezlie Lee, Senior Teaching Artist (413) 464-2591

Shakespeare & Company Douglas Seldin, Training Faculty and Senior Teaching Artist (203) 536-3845

Shakespeare & Company Dr. Victoria Rhoades, Training Faculty (412) 401-0557 University of Pittsburgh