Our People

MARGARET EGINTON
MOVEMENT AND DANCE
American Repertory Theater
Margaret was resident movement coach for the American Repertory Theater from 1998-2002. She was the head of Movement and Dance for Actors at New York University/Atlantic Theater Practical Aesthetics Workshop (1987-1994). She has taught Movement and Dance for Actors at New York University/Experimental Theater Wing, The University of Iowa, and Yale University Undergraduate Theater Program. She has taught Acting at Harvard Extension School, the New College of Florida, and The University of Iowa, and co-teaches Practical Aesthetics Scene Study with Scott Zigler in summer workshops for Atlantic Theater. Margaret is the creator of Eginton Deep Flow Alignment, a movement training method for actors and others. She has been invited to teach workshops in this method at Moscow Art Theater School, Shepkin (Vakhtangov) School, Harvard Extension College, Principia College, New College of Florida, in Paris for the International Institute of the Performing Arts, The University of Bologna-Forli, Cesenatico, Rome, Vevey, and the Roy Hart Pedagogy Group in Melaragues, France. Ms. Eginton began her career as a leading dancer with the companies of Merce Cunningham, Stephen Petronio, Mary Overlie's original Viewpointing group, and Meg Eginton and Dancers. Her concert dance choreography was produced in New York by Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, Dance Chance, Dance Space, and P.S. 122, and in France and Italy. As a dancer/actor she starred on Broadway with Bill Irwin in Largely/New York. She acted in off-Broadway plays, including performances with Mabou Mines, Naked Angels, Manhattan Class Company, and the American Place Theater, and worked in film, commercials, and voiceovers. She has been a member of Equity, Sag, Aftra, and Agma. She has directed productions of Moliere, Goldoni, Duras, Mueller, Andreyev, Mamet, LaBute, Wilde, Fornes, Brenton, and Beckett. She has received many awards, grants, and honors including a Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award), two New York State Council for the Arts Choreography Grants, three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, two Iowa Arts Fellowships, two IRAM best director awards from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, as well as Handy and Weekly Planet nominations for her FSU/Asolo productions. She holds an MFA in Theater, a BA in Dance, and is an RSMT and RSME (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Registered Movement Therapist/ Educator). She served as Interim Director for the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in 2004-2005.

BRENDON FOX
SECOND YEAR ACTING
FSU/Asolo Conservatory
Brendon Fox is a teacher, director, and producer who has worked around the country at a number of prominent regional theaters, universities and training programs. He has taught and directed students at The Juilliard School, The University of Virginia, The University of Evansville, University of Northern Colorado, University of North Carolina, The Old Globe/University of San Diego Professional Actor Training Program, and the Academy of Classical Acting. He is a consultant and former Associate Producer for L.A. Theatre Works, directing many acclaimed radio plays for NPR and numerous national tours. He has worked as Associate Director at the Tony Award-winning Old Globe Theatre in Sand Diego for seven years. Regional directing credits include: Much Ado About Nothing with Dana Delany, Old Globe Theatre; Opus, Portland Center Stage;The Learned Ladies, Texas Shakespeare Festival; Angels in America, Playmakers Repertory Theatre; the L.A. premiere of The Lady With All the Answers, Pasadena Playhouse; As You Like It, Weston Theatre Company. He holds a BS in Performance Studies at Northwestern University and an MFA in Directing at UCLA.

JIMMY HOSKINS
BALLROOM DANCE
B.F.A., Drury College
Mr. Hoskins started studying tap dance at the age of six, and modern dance and ballet were to follow. He majored in Fine Arts at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri. His multi-faceted career has taken him from Ciro's in Hollywood with Mae West; to La Nouvelle Eve in Paris as a dancer; to the Upstairs at the Downstairs in New York City as a director. He began his professional career in a Latin ballroom dance with partner, Reina, Queen of the Mambo, and has since performed, directed, and choreographed in educational theatre, television, film, the corporate theatre, opera, nightclubs, and legitimate theatre. He has stage over 400 productions in this country and abroad. Over the past thirty years, he has taught period movement and dance. He was the movement specialist for the graduate and undergraduate programs at Penn State University, and the graduate program at FSU. His book, The Dances of Shakespeare, is published by Routledge, NYC, Richard P. Carlin, editor.

GREG LEAMING
DIRECTOR
FSU/ASOLO CONSERVATORY FOR ACTOR TRAINING; ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE
As Associate Director at Asolo Repertory Theatre, he has directed his own translation/adaptation of Pierre Hennekin and Maurice Veber’s Anything to Declare? as well as Boeing, Boeing, Hearts, The Imaginary Invalid, The Play’s The Thing and the world premiere of Jason Wells’ Men of Tortuga. For the FSU/Asolo Conservatory he has directed Pericles, Blue Window, Murder by Poe, The Mystery Plays and Two Gentlemen of Verona. He is the Curator of Asolo Rep’s UNPLUGGED new play series. He was the Director of Artistic Programming for Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT (1996-2001) and Acting Artistic Director (2001-2002). There he directed Arms and the Man, and the world premieres of Going Native by Steven Drukman, Abstract Expression by Theresa Rebeck, The Third Army by Joe Sutton, Syncopation by Alan Knee (also for George Street Theatre and Florida Stage Company), and An Infinite Ache by David Schulner (also for Stamford Theatre Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Merrimack Repertory Theatre). While Artistic Director of Portland Stage Company (1992-1996), he directed, among many other plays, the world premieres of Losing Father’s Body and Church of the Sole Survivor (both W. Alton Jones New Play Award winners), and the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s The Turn of the Screw. He was the Producing Director of Hartford Stage Company for the 1996-97 season, and was Associate Artistic Director for the same theatre from 1984 to1992. Others credits include Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Banyan Theatre Company, Shakespeare Sedona, Southwest Shakespeare, Stage West, Philadelphia Drama Guild and American Stage Festival. Mr. Leaming has devoted much time developing new plays with organizations including New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, Eugene O'neill Theater Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Gathering at Bigfork and Theatre of the First Amendment. He served as a panelist/observer for the Maine Arts Commission, Massachusetts Council for the Arts, Connecticut Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

ANDREI MALAEV-BABEL
FIRST YEAR ACTING
M.F.A., Vakhtangov Theater Institute
Andrei Malaev-Babel holds an M.F.A. from the renowned Vakhtangov Theater Institute in Moscow, Russia. He trained and worked under Alexandra Remizova, the actress-director and co-founder of the Vakhtangov Theater, Stanislavsky's student and Vakhtangov's protege. In 1985 Mr. Malaev-Babel co-founded the Moscow Chamber Forms Theater, one of the first private professional theater companies in Russia. He taught on the faculty of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and he currently serves on the board and as a member of the international faculty for MICHA, Michael Chekhov Association in New York City. Since 1997, Mr. Malaev-Babel served as the Producing Artistic Director for the Stanislavsky Theater Studio (STS), an award winning, internationally acclaimed company and conservatory in Washington, DC. For STS, he co-adapted, directed and/or played leading roles in productions based on such works as Goethe's Faust, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Chekhov's The Seagull, Neil Simon's The Good Doctor, Brian Friel's Fathers and Sons, Moliere's Le Malade Imaginaire, Gogol's Dead Souls and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. In 2000 he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award as an Outstanding Director for the STS production of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. Mr. Malaev-Babel's reputation as one of the leading experts on the Stanislavsky/Vakhtangov/Chekhov theater techniques brought him special engagements and commissions from such prestigious national institutions as The Kennan Institute of The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Smithsonian Institution and The World Bank. He is in demand nationally and internationally, conducting workshops, presenting and performing for conferences, festivals and theater programs. Mr. Malaev-Babel's one-man show Babel: How it was Done in Odessa was named among ten best productions in Baltimore in 2004. His Guide to the Psychological Gesture Technique was published in the 2003 Routledge edition of Michael Chekhov's seminal book, To the Actor. Mr. Malaev-Babel is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

MARK WHEATLEY
COORDINATOR OF LONDON THEATRE STUDIES
M.A., Cambridge University
Mr. Wheatley is an English writer who was brought up in and around London. He took his first degree and M.A. from Cambridge University and began his professional career making documentaries for the BBC. There followed a two-year spell writing for series and serials at the BBC (EastEnders) and some short plays for BBC Education before he began writing for the theatre. From 1990 to 1997, he was the principal writer/adaptor for Complicité and their Literary Manager. He has divided his time between playwriting and screenwriting ever since. He is also a teacher and has taught for many universities in both the UK and the US. He is currently working on a drama for BBC Films and a new play for the theatre.