Brooklyn College Mary Beth Easley Adjunct Assistant Professor, Audition Technique and Scene Study Mary Beth earned her BFA from Southwest Missouri State University and her MFA in Acting and Directing from the University of Georgia. She is a recipient of the Charles Revson Directing Fellowship, which allowed her to study Shakespearean reinterpretation with A.J. Antoon, British comedy with Bryan Murray, George Bernard Shaw with Stephen Porter, and Samuel Beckett with Nagle Jackson. Focusing on new play development, intercultural theatre expression, and outreach to under-represented communities, Ms. Easley has been directing plays and teaching acting in New York City for over twenty years. Her private clients have appeared on and off-Broadway, and in television and film. Her directing has been featured at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Circle Rep, The Women's Project, Home For Contemporary Theatre and Art, La MaMa, ETC, Jeune Lune Theatre of Minneapolis, and Iowa Repertory Theatre. She has been on the faculties of the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, the New American Theatre School, the University of Iowa, and the Academy of Film and Television (Minneapolis). Brooklyn College Faculty Brooklyn College