Jef Awada
B.F.A. Emerson College, 1993; Certificate, Professional Training Program, DellíArte School of Physical Theatre, 2002; M.F.A. Performance Pedagogy, University of Pittsburgh, 2006; At Webster since 2006.
Jef has fifteen years of experience as an actor, movement coach, and teacher. His interest in international perspectives on movement training has led him to study traditional commedia dellíarte with John Rudlin, Suzuki technique with Yukihiro Goto, and Russian scenic movement with Andrei Droznin. Prior to earning his M.F.A. in Performance Pedagogy, Jef worked as an actor in New York and around the country. Highlights include: New Works festivals at P.S. 122 and The American Livingroom Series at HERE in New York City; co-founder/performer/writer of Scary Little Town, an ensemble-based sketch comedy troupe; Mr. Tumnus in Oregon Childrenís Theatre Drammy award winning The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe; Scrooge for the Traveling Lantern Theatre Company; The Wigmaker in Rashomon for the Pitt Repertory Theatre. As a movement director, Jef has coached ensembles in productions of Jarry's Ubu Roi, Brecht's The Exception and the Rule, the Capek brothers' The Insect Play and The Great River Shakespeare Festival in The Taming of the Shrew. In the classroom, he has designed and taught courses as varied as Acting for Animators at the Ringling College of Art and Design to Traditional Commedia Movement Styles for Russian students at the Shchukin Institute of the Vahktangov Theatre in Moscow.
