George Tynan Crowley is a teaching artist, performer, playwright and director. He holds an MFA in Directing (1990) from Yale School of Drama where he studied with Lee Breuer and was awarded the John Badham Award for Direct-ing. He has an MA in Performance Studies from Northwestern Univer?sity (studied with Frank Galati), and he studied acting in New York City with Uta Hagen. As an actor in regional theatre, he has played Gabe in Dinner with Friends (Best Actor, Sarasota Theatre Arts Award), Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency, Malcolm in Ten Unknowns, and Robert in Proof, all at Florida Studio Theatre. He has also performed with the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, CT, the Asolo, the Centen?nial Theatre in CT, Maine?s Public Theatre, the Colorado, New Jersey, and Princeton Shakespeare Festivals, the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, and the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, where he played Oscar Wilde in the East Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard?s "The Invention of Love." He has appeared in film and TV, including in Esther Bell's independent films, frequently on the Sundance Channel, Godass and Exist. He has also written 3 full-length plays and, in a semi-professional capacity, 3 plays for young people to encourage meditation, and he has taught playwriting and acting through the City University of New York system. He adapted scripts for "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Old Man and the Sea" and performed, as well, in the Hemingway piece, for Wynn Handman's Classics Series for The American Place Theatre. He has worked as a teaching artist in residencies in all New York's boroughs, through NYC?s ENACT, counseling-in-schools, the American Place Theatre, and, most recently, with a residency which encompassed Shakespeare and Steinbeck at JHS 189 in Queens under a special grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.

SHAKESPEARE, LANGUAGE AND STEINBECK
George Crowley brings in two other actors for an hour-and-a-half workshop presented three times in one school day, with a follow-up, introducing the class not only to iambic pentameter, and Shakespeare?s Romeo and Juliet, but to the concept of breath-work, language, rhythm, and playing actions and objectives (simplified Stanislavski) for 8th graders. The effect is galvanizing, and now children will look back on the Shakespeare they were taught in school with excitement and a desire to know more.

Gabrielle Hamilton,

Director of Education & Public Programs

718-463-7700 x239, ghamilton@flushingtownhall.org

JiYoung Kim, Education Coordinator

718-463-7700 x241. jkim@flushingtownhall.org