Educator
Teaching Bio:
Kim Stauffer is a professional actor, director, educator, and member of Actors’ Equity Association. She specializes in actor training that is based in Stanislavski and Meisner techniques. Other areas of expertise include movement for actors, auditioning, and business/networking for actors. She is currently a faculty member at Stony Brook University's Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science as a Lecturer in Improvisation. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is an Associate Artist at Chester Theatre Company in Chester, MA. Her years of teaching include institutions such as Smith College, Williams College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and SUNY Albany where she served as Head of Acting.
Stauffer has a special interest in social justice and applied theatre. She was the Director of Barrington Stage Company’s Playwright Mentoring Project, which received the 2015 award for Creative Youth Development from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for the program’s work creating devised theatre with underserved youth and teens in the juvenile court system. At SUNY Albany, she directed the theatre program’s production of "Water by the Spoonful," which was awarded a Diversity Transformation grant in 2016 from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The production was done in collaboration with local organizations, such as the Addictions Care Center and Camino Nuevo, to facilitate community dialogue surrounding addiction and the opioid crisis.
Stauffer has performed as an actor in NYC and regionally (see "Actor" tab for credits and production photos).
Courses Taught:
Kim Stauffer is a professional actor, director, educator, and member of Actors’ Equity Association. She specializes in actor training that is based in Stanislavski and Meisner techniques. Other areas of expertise include movement for actors, auditioning, and business/networking for actors. She is currently a faculty member at Stony Brook University's Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science as a Lecturer in Improvisation. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is an Associate Artist at Chester Theatre Company in Chester, MA. Her years of teaching include institutions such as Smith College, Williams College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and SUNY Albany where she served as Head of Acting.
Stauffer has a special interest in social justice and applied theatre. She was the Director of Barrington Stage Company’s Playwright Mentoring Project, which received the 2015 award for Creative Youth Development from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for the program’s work creating devised theatre with underserved youth and teens in the juvenile court system. At SUNY Albany, she directed the theatre program’s production of "Water by the Spoonful," which was awarded a Diversity Transformation grant in 2016 from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The production was done in collaboration with local organizations, such as the Addictions Care Center and Camino Nuevo, to facilitate community dialogue surrounding addiction and the opioid crisis.
Stauffer has performed as an actor in NYC and regionally (see "Actor" tab for credits and production photos).
Courses Taught:
- Fundamentals of Acting
- Acting I (Stanislavski)
- Acting II (Meisner)
- Voice for the Actor
- Acting Styles
- Acting Shakespeare
- Movement for the Actor (Developmental Path, Laban, Viewpoints, Contact Improvisation)
