​Dara Callie Silverman 

Education and Training

Master of Fine Arts, 2021

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, with Distinction

Conservatory style training program, featuring training in acting, voice, movement, singing, speech, and fight.

Faculty: Alex Taylor, Roger Bartlett, Polly Hudson, Dave McKenna, Robert Miles, Clifford Milner, Lise Olson, Francoise Walot, Simon Ratcliffe, Andrew Potter, Jennifer Mitchell, Sarah Jane Ashford, Colin Lang, Ellen Hartley, John Adams, Lynn Farleigh

Conservatory, 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.

Faculty: Lary Opitz, Douglas Seldin, Carolyn Andersen, Alma Becker, Phil Soltanoff, Will Bond, Kate Kelly Bouchard.

National Theater Institute, 2011

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, Kim Weild, Donnie Mather.

Teaching Experience: Theatrical

Program Designer, Director, and Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Summer 2019

Designed and ran Riotous Youth Extended Days: the two-hour enrichment program after the Riotous Youth day concluded.

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Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Spring 2019

Director of Hamlet at two local elementary schools

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Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Spring 2019

Director of A Midsummer Night's Dream, at local elementary school

Director/Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Fall 2018

Director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, directing Hamlet at Taconic High School.

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Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Summer 2018

Teacher in Shakespeare & Company’s youth summer program, Riotous Youth.

Director/Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Fall 2017

Director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, directing Pericles at Taconic High School.

Guest Teacher, Albany High School, 2017

Five month residency at Albany High School, guest-teaching once-weekly International Baccalaureate drama classes.

Director/Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Fall 2016

Director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, directing Henry IV part I at Berkshire Waldorf High School.

Director/Teaching Artist, Albany High School, Spring 2016

Three month residency at Albany High School, directing three student-written plays as part of the Albany High School Theatre Ensemble’s Promising Playwrights Festival.

Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, January 2016

Weeklong residency at The Rashi School, directing student explorations of Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth with middle school students.

Director/Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Fall 2015

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.

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.

Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, December 2014

Weeklong residency at The Rashi School, facilitating student explorations of Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth with middle school students.

Assistant Teacher, Boston College, Fall Semester 2014

Assistant to fight teacher Douglas Seldin in classes teaching both unarmed fight and found weapon skills.

Director/Teaching Artist, Shakespeare & Company, Fall 2014

Director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, directing Henry V at Mount Everett Regional High School.

Guest Artist, Westfield High School, Spring 2014

Exploration of Othello outside of the English classroom.

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.

Teaching Artist, Joseph Henry Elementary School, Spring 2013

Teacher in four week introductory acting class as part of an after-school enrichment program, teaching children aged eight to twelve years old in Galway, NY.

Teaching Experience: Other

Registered Substitute Teacher, Pittsfield Public Schools, 2015-2019

Substitute teacher, covering classes K-12.

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Senior Girls’ Division Director, Lake Greeley Camp, Summer 2015

Managed division of thirteen to fifteen year old girls at co-ed, overnight, general interest summer camp.  Responsibilities included conflict resolution, parent

phone calls, special event set-up and break down, cabin inspections, and more.  Guest taught stage fight classes in camp drama department.

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Tutor and Aide, Spring 2014

Individual after school enrichment and support for a middle school student with autism.

Teacher, Temple Emanu-El, 2002-2009

Taught Israeli folk dance to children aged five through twelve (secular).

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Resume PDF and references available upon request

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