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derek lucci

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EDUCATION

Yale School of Drama
New Haven, CT - MFA Acting, 2003
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
London, UK - Certificate - Acting Shakespeare, 1996
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH - BA English/BA Theater, 1994

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

New York University, TISCH School of the Arts 2008 – 2016
Head of Primary Actor Training

Head of Primary Actor Training, Playwrights Horizons Theater School (PHTS) 2014 – 2016
Faculty, Playwrights Horizons Theater School 2012 – 2014
Adjunct Faculty, Experimental Theater Wing (ETW) 2008 – 2012

Developed and taught a comprehensive, progressive and unique program of study at PHTS that focused on individual, partnered and group training over the span of one academic year. This curriculum was then grown to encompass the entire two-year Primary Training period required at NYU/Tisch.
Lead ongoing collaboration between faculty and administration, refining the curriculum of a two-year progression in actor training for all students at PHTS.
Headed the initiative to recruit, hire and train first year Acting Faculty.
Directed up to three main stage productions each year for PHTS.
Appointed as formal mentor and advisor of advanced student projects in directing, adaptation, soloperformance and directing-ones-own-writing (PHTS and ETW) – highly sought after by students.
Instructed third and fourth year students in Advanced Acting (ETW), working with students of disparate training backgrounds and vocabularies (Meisner, Adler, Mamet, Grotowski etc.) Classwork focused on acting process, scene study and solo performance, generating project work out of the class work.
Served as Artistic Reviewer of applicants for all studios at NYU, TISCH School of the Arts: interview, audition and work with prospective students of Acting and Directing, New York and national tour.

Selected Directing and Project work NYU/Tisch:

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf - (Cast of 54) The White Box Theater/ NYC / 2016
• The Thornton Wilder Project - (Cast of 17) The Robert Moss Theater / NYC / 2015
• Elizabeth Costello - (Cast of 1) The Robert Moss Theater / NYC / 2015
• Uncle Vanya - (Cast of 50) The Robert Moss Theater / NYC / 2015
• The Tempest - (Cast of 5) The Robert Moss Theater / NYC / 2014
• Angels in America - (Cast of 48) The Robert Moss Theater /NYC / 2014
• The Uncle Vanya Project - (Cast of 36) The White Box Theater / NYC / 2013
• Three Sisters - (Cast of 18) The Robert Moss Theater / NYC / 2013

University of Oklahoma, Peggy Helmerich School of Drama 2017

Peggy Helmerich Visiting Professor

Department of Drama – Visiting Professor, Acting
Department of Classics and Letters, Department of English, Guest Lecturer, Searching for Hamlet

FREELANCE COACHING & INSTRUCTION 2003 – Present

NYU January-Term and Summer-Term Classes 2009 – May 2016

David Foster Wallace Intensive / Playing non-performance text
Shakespeare Intensive I, Shakespeare Intensive II
Concentrated short courses in Acting I, Acting II
Global Modern Scene Study from Georg Buchner to Franz Xaver-Kroetz
Open Scene Study, Advanced Open Scene Study for Returning Students

Acting Coach - New York, NY May 2003-2016

Private actor coaching for TV/Film/Theater
Grad School and Conservatory Auditions, placements include: The Julliard School; NYU Tisch; Yale; Columbia; RADA (UK), Study Abroad Intensives Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam

AFFILIATED EXPERIENCE

ACTING & DIRECTING

Cannes Film Festival; Law & Order, NBC; Law & Order, Criminal Intent, NBC; Williamstown Theater Festival, Williamstown MA; The Shakespeare Theater, Washington D.C.; The O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference, Waterford CT; Yale Repertory Theater and Summer Cabaret at Yale, New Haven CT; Primary Stages, NYC; Classic Stage Company, NYC; Target Margin, NYC; Clubbed Thumb, NYC; Naked Angels, NYC; All Seasons, NYC, Ripe Time, NYC; Dancespace, NYC; The Kitchen, NYC; Pick-up Performance Company, NYC. National and regional commercial campaigns including Dunkin Donuts, Dentyne Ice, Burger King, AOL, AMC Movie Minute, National Aquarium, voiceovers and industrials.

WRITING

Being Liverpool – Storywriter - FOX SPORTS, New York, NY (2012)
Six part Documentary series for the FOX NETWORK, Scott Boggins producer. Groundbreaking televisiondocumentary series revealing the inner workings of the Liverpool Football Club (LFC) - following the team from the end of the 2011-12 season through the removal of longtime superstar player/manager Kenny Dalglish through the hiring of his replacement Brendan Rogers and his summer long re-positioning of the LFC training toward the 2012-2013 British Premiere League season.

ADAPTATION

Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee / solo performance / The Robert Moss Theater NYC / 2015
Agape Agape – William Gaddis / solo performance / City Center NYC / P.S.1 NYC / Yale / 2009-12
King Lear – Shakespeare / adapted for four actors / Yale University / 2002
Richard II – Shakespeare / solo performance / Yale University / 2002 – solo performance
The Grand Inquisitor – Dostoyevsky / solo performance /Yale University / 2001 – solo performance
Inferno – Dante / Pinsky / adapted for four actors / Yale University / 2000

Guest artist / other

Guest Lecturer - UMASS, Amherst– Amherst, MA 2007, 2008
• Master class and Lecture / Solo Performance
Yale School of Drama, Summer Conservatory for Actors - New Haven, CT 2002
• Teacher of acting, scene study, play analysis, improvisation, mentoring
St. Paul’s School, Advanced Studies Program - Concord, NH 1994
• Teacher of Shakespeare for Performance / Residential Coordinator / Mentor
Bishop Brady High School – Concord, NH 1995/96
• Guest Artist – Acting Teacher/Director – Concentration on Brecht and Moliere One-Acts
Alliance for the Progress of Hispanic Americans - Manchester, NH 1996
• Instructor: Acting / Situational Play Making / Improvisation / Commedia

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Actor’s Equity Association (AEA) - 1997 to present
Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) – 1999 to present
Paradigm Talent and Literary Agency, NY / LA - Representation 2003 to present

FILM & TELEVISION

THE CHALKBOARD CHRONICLES
WALK AWAY RENEE (Cannes 2001)
LAW & ORDER
LAW & ORDER
LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT
AFTER THE FALL
CADMIUM GREEN DEEP
GOODNIGHT KISS

Spalding Gray
Dr. Sutherland
U.S.D.A. Neil Tyler
Dr. Covington
Phil Brookings
Quentin
Man
Marc

T. Judd/J.Wolf, dirs.
Jonathan Caouette, dir.
Darnell Martin, dir.
Joan Stein, dir.
Frank Prinzi, dir.
Alix Pearlstein, dir.
Emmy Grinwis, dir.
Robert Spinak, dir.

NEW YORK THEATRE

217 BOXES of DR. HENRY ANONYMOUS
OLD COMEDY
ARMED AND NAKED IN AMERICA
CRIES AND WHISPERS
UNCIVIL WARS
AMICI ASCOLTATE
ARISTOPHANES IN BIRDONIA
BROOKLYN
OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS (What Then)
BETROTHED
THE STENDHAL SYNDROME
PAY-PER-KILL
ONE SAX – LEIGHT RAIN
ROME
HAMLET

Alfred A. Gross
Xanthias
Amici Ascoltate
David
Callas
Joe
Stan Laurel
Armbruster
Bahktiyor
Chonen
Leo/Young Man/Hector u/s
The Host
Jaguar Jesus
Whit
Hamlet

Pick-Up Performance/NYC/Ain Gordon, dir
CSC/David Herskovitz, dir
Naked Angels/The Duke/Evan Yionoulis, dir.
City Center NYC/Mike Donahue, dir.
The Kitchen/David Gordon, dir.
59 E 59th / Evan Yionoulis, dir.
Danspace Project/David Gordon, dir.
Brooklyn Lyceum/Ain Gordon, dir.
The Ohio Theater/Trip Cullman, dir.
The Ohio Theater/Rachel Dickstien dir.
Primary Stages/Leonard Foglia, dir.
All Seasons Theater/Warren Leight, dir.
Vital Theater/Todd Lundquist, dir.
NY Fringe Festival/Herman Farrell, dir.
Public Domain Theater/John Edwards, dir.

REGIONAL THEATRE

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN
ON THE RAZZLE
MEDEA/MACBETH/CINDERELLA
HEAVEN
BETTY’S SUMMER VACATION

Hovstad
Parker
The Head Waiter
First Witch
Jimmy (us)
Mr. Vanislaw (us)

ShakespeareTheatre/Kjetil Bang-Hansen, dir.
Williamstown/Moises Kaufman, dir.
Williamstown/David Jones, dir.
Yale Rep./Bill Rauch/Tracy Young, dir. Yale Rep./Evan Yionoulis, dir.
Yale Rep./Doug Hughes, dir.

NATIONAL COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGNS

Dentyne Ice (2015) Dunkin’ Donuts (2003), AOL (2004), Burger King (2005), Nat. Aquarium (2007) American Movie Classics (AMC) “Movie Minute” Voice Over Interstitials (2007)

education

Yale School of Drama – MFA - Acting
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – Diploma – Acting Shakespeare
University of New Hampshire – BA English / BA Theater

Fencing – foil, epee, saber, rapier/dagger, one/two handled broadsword, katana, Shoalin Kenpo, Yoga, Golf, Theatersports 3 yrs.