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Kevin Crawford
MFA Program Director
Voice (Roy Hart)

Kevin Crawford is a founding member of the Roy Hart Theatre company, whose ground-breaking influence on contemporary Voice-work for theatre is internationally recognized. He toured extensively with the company for over twenty years, during which time the company received several prestigious prizes including an OBIE award in New York and the Prix Jean Vilar at The Printemps des Comédiens.

Kevin was a director of the troupe for a four-year period before moving to Ireland in 1993, where he was a full-time member of faculty at the School of Drama, Trinity College, on the Professional Actor Training program. In Ireland he taught and collaborated with a large number of theatre, dance and musical groups, and has been a guest facilitator at the Abbey (National Theatre). In 2001 he was awarded an MA in Voice Studies from Central School of Speech and Drama (London).

On his return to France in 2002 Kevin was appointed Visiting Lecturer at the Université d'Artois at Arras in the north of France, before joining Accademia dell'Arte as a founding member of faculty. Directorial credits include Wolf's Bride for Kuopio City Theatre (Finland) as well as The Bacchae and Oedipus for the Samuel Beckett Centre (Dublin). His current research focuses on the use of voice in the Greek and Shakespearean canon as well as on the voice in performing texts from the French classical tradition. He is also studying interdisciplinary links between movement and voice, particularly in relation to the Feldenkrais method. Recent collaborations with Marcello Bartoli have opened up research on the use of voice and text in mask work.





Claudia Schnürer
Movement, Acrobatics, Feldenkrais

Born in Germany, Claudia Schnürer is an acrobat, performer and bodyworker.

Claudia graduated from the Berlin circus school die Etage in 1996, after a three years of professional training. She became a multi-skilled performer, working in theatre, circus and variety nationally and internationally.

In 2004 she completed the four year professional training of the Feldenkrais-Method in Lewes, England, and subsequently works also as a Feldenkrais practioner giving individual lessons in functional integration and group lessons in awareness through movement.

In 2004 she graduated from a school for alternative medicine and received a diploma as a non medical therapist.

Claudia teaches acrobatics and movement since 1998; amongst others: since 2004 Berliner Schule für Schauspiel, a Berlin acting school, since 2005 giving intensive courses in the undergraduate program at Accademia dell Arte, Arezzo, Italy, facilitating workshops in Feldenkrais and acrobatics.

The Feldenkrais method is used as a playful and analytical exploration and a fine tuning of the body. Working on the base of body mechanics the method is addressing the nervous system, we re-learn how to learn. This approach allows students to enlarge their field of perception, opening up movement and imaginative potential.

In her own artistic life she combines dance, circus skills and theater. Since 1994 she toured through many european countries (D, CH, A, NL, B, GB, FR, SP, N, P) as well as inBuenos Aires- Argentina, Columbia and Puerto Rico.

The last five years she mainly performed as one half of the Duo Company Oko Sokolo (www.okosokolo.de) in international street theater festials with up to 70 shows per season. Their performance living room, in the style of the cirque nouveau, tells the story of a couple, their tenderness and their struggles and is partly danced on a tight wire.

Last but not least, she incorporated her favorite hobby, reading contemporary and classical poetry, to a new performance: The Room of Poetry (das Vorlesezimmer). In the middle of a public space, she creates a intimate room where the individual listener gets lyrical advise for the big questions of life.

Since January 2009 she is based in Arezzo and works for Accademia dell'Arte, teaching movement, acrobatics, the Feldenkrais method and directing the undergraduate theatre and dance program.





Marcello Bartoli
Acting, Commedia dell'arte

Marcello Bartoli began his professional acting career in 1967 collaborating with different theatres including the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and the Metastasio of Prato where he interpreted Arlecchino for the first time. With the Piccolo in Milan he toured internationally with Feruccio Soleri, performing various shows of the Commedia dell’Arte in the roles of Zanni, Brighella, and Pantalone.

In 1970 he was one of the principal founders of the Gruppo della Rocca where he performed numerous roles: Le Farse, Brecht, Clizia, Machiavelli, Perela’, Palazeschi, Candido, Voltaire, Schweyk, Brecht, Sogno di una notte di messa estate, Shakespeare, 23 Svenimenti, Cechov, Il mandate and Il suicida, Erdman, Il rinoceronte, Ionesco, various performances in the role of Ruzante and many others.

He left the Gruppo della Rocca in 1970 to collaborate with Roberto De Simone and Salvatore Accardo in the realization of Histoire du soldat and Pulcinella of Stravinski. With the Veneto Teatro he took leading roles in Piovana of Ruzante and Baruffe Chiozzotte of Goldoni under the direction of Gianfranco De Bosio.

Marcello played the principal roles at the Teatro di Roma for Bonaventura of Tofano and Pinocchio of Collodi in addition to Messer Nicia in the Mandragola of Machiavelli. With the Ipocirit he played in Uomo e gelantuomo of Eduardo De Filippo, directed by Ugo Gregoretti.

For the Institute of Ancient Drama in Siracusa he played Curculio and Truculento of Plautus and Il ciclope of Euripide for the director Giancarlo Sammataro and was the protagonist in the Acarnesi of Aristofanes and in Discolos of Menander.

In 1995 he founded the company I Fratellini, whose name was taken from the celebrated family of French clowns. The repertoire of the group is expressive of the bitter anguish that one finds in tragic farce that alternates with the comedy of clowning. Performances have included: The Chairs of Ionesco, Una burla riuscits of Kezich from the romance of Svevo, Il tempo al di la’del meare of Annalisa Bianco, the Diary of a Madman of Gogol, and Il guardiano of Pinter.

Directing: Marcello has directed numerous performances for the Teatro del Bruatto and for the Centro Internazionale di Drammaturgia di Fiesole. For the Festival dell’Olimpico di Vicenza he was asked by artistic director Glauco Mauri to direct and play in Zanni inamorato, based on the Commedia Dell’Arte and produced by the Piccionaia di Vicenza. For I Fratellini he directed Il tempo al di la’del mare. He directed and played in a one-man show, Moschi volanti, created in collaboration with Siro Ferrone and performed in numerous venues internationally including Café La Mama in New York.

Training: In Paris, Marcello trained extensively with Lecoq and worked on the technique of improvisation and the mask at the Teatre du Soleil with Arianne Mnouchkine and has studied acrobatics, clownery and circus arts for many years in Italy and abroad.

Teaching: Marcello regularly teaches acting and the techniques of the modern mask and the Commedia dell’Arte in Italy and internationally including: Paolo Grassi in Milano, Teatro di Roma, Stabile di Genova, Instituto del Dramma Anfico, as well as workshops in Switzerland, Bulgaria, Japan and the US.

Accolades: In 1998 Marcello Bartoli won the Italian “Maschera d’oro” for his professional achievements. Other winners have included Dario Fo and Feruccio Soleri.


Scott McGehee, PhD
Accademia dell'Arte Founding Director
History/Aesthetics

Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, he moved to Italy as a Fulbright Fellow in 1995 and has lived in Italy since. Scott received his Doctorate in European Intellectual History from Boston College in 1996, and is the President and Founding Director of Accademia dell'Arte.

The creative force behind the Accademia, he has been involved in education and the arts for over twenty-five years. Politically active, he continues to explore ways to make art relevant to a rapidly changing social environment.