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Repertory Company
Anne Fielding,
Director
Anne Fielding had the honor to attend
Aesthetic Realism classes taught by Eli Siegel beginning
in 1953, and she studies now in professional classes
for consultants and associates taught by Class Chairman
Ellen Reiss.
In 1956, she married the late Sheldon Kranz, Aesthetic
Realism consultant, editor and poet, whose poems appear
in the book Personal and Impersonal: Six Aesthetic
Realists.
She is teacher of the bi-weekly Aesthetic Realism
& Acting class at the Foundation, and one of
the instructors—with colleagues, Barbara Allen,
flutist and Edward Green composer—of the Opposites
in Music class.
Ms. Fielding was born in New York City; graduated from
the School of Performing Arts where she studied with
Sidney Lumet; later studied acting with Michael Howard
and musical comedy with Charles Nelson Reilly. She is
a member of Actors’ Equity and AFTRA, and one
of the authors of the book Aesthetic Realism: We
Have Been There (“I Believe This About Acting.”)
She taught acting based on Aesthetic Realism at the
HB Studio in Manhattan.
Anne Fielding is an Obie Award-winner for Distinguished
Performance for the role of Sasha in the first American
production of Chekhov’s Ivanov, which
she was invited to recreate for the CBC television production
of the play in Toronto. She has appeared on TV both
here and in Canada, and for two seasons was with the
American Shakespeare Festival Company in Stratford,
Connecticut, where she appeared in Antony &
Cleopatra, starring Katherine Hepburn; The
Winter’s Tale; Richard II, starring
Richard Basehart, and Henry IV, Part I, starring
Roy Scheider, Hal Holbrook, and Sada Thompson . She
played the role of Juliet in the New York Shakespeare
Festival school tour, directed by Joseph Papp, and Hermia
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Central
Park.
Off-Broadway at the Greenwich Mews Theatre, Ms. Fielding
portrayed Mary Boyle in Juno & the Paycock
by Sean O’Casey. Other off-Broadway productions
include Montserrat by Lillian Hellman; The
Beaver Coat, by Gerhardt Hauptmann; Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw; and in summer theatre she
played The Girl in The Fantastiks. Anne Fielding
created the role of Doris Diminish in the musical Goodbye
Profit System, by Martha Baird and Tom Shields,
at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
Ms. Fielding is a consultant with the trio There Are
Wives, and with her colleagues Barbara Allen and Pauline
Meglino , teaches the monthly Aesthetic Realism
and Marriage class.
Among roles Ms. Fielding has played in productions
by the Aesthetic Realism Theatre ompany of Eli Siegel’s
lectures on the drama are: Nora in Ibsen’s A
Doll’s House; Othello, in Shakespeare’s
Othello; Lady Sneerwell and Sir Peter Teazle
in Sheridan’s The School for Scandal;
Petruchio in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the
Shrew; Arnolphe in Moliere’s The School
for Wives; Fay Fromkin in Arthur Kober’s
Having Wonderful Time; Cassius in Julius
Caesar; the Nurse in Strindberg’s The
Father.
Bennett Cooperman
Bennett Cooperman is an Aesthetic Realism
consultant and actor. He graduated from Syracuse University’s
College of Visual and Performing Arts in 1976 with a
degree in acting.
Mr. Cooperman has had a lifelong love
for acting, singing and dancing. At Syracuse Stage,
he appeared in Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo
opposite Howard Da Silva, and in Bye Bye Birdie.
At the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Mass.,
he appeared in William Inge’s Summer Brave
-- a re-write of Inge’s earlier Picnic
-- and the musical Carnival.
Mr. Cooperman was a featured player on
the daytime television series The Edge of Night.
As part of his theatrical training, he attended the
Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.
“I’m very grateful for what
Aesthetic Realism is teaching me about the relation
of life and art,” says Mr. Cooperman. An Aesthetic
Realism consultant since 1987, he and his colleagues
give consultations to people from as young as five years
old to men in their sixties. In public seminars at the
Aesthetic Realism Foundation, Mr. Cooperman has spoken
about the lives and work of important, loved actors
in history—each in relation to a central question
of men’s lives. For example:
• What Makes a Man’s Life
Large or Small?—includes a discussion of the
great 19th century actor, Edwin Forrest
• True Pride: How Can We Have It—taking
up the life and work of Al Jolson
• Does Our Anger Make Us Stronger or Weaker?—the
wonderful Jackie Gleason can help us to answer that
question
In productions by the Aesthetic Realism
Theatre Company, Mr. Cooperman has appeared as Iago
in Shakespeare’s Othello, both Cassius
and Brutus in Julius Caesar, Caliban in The
Tempest and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. He has portrayed Mr. Puff in Sheridan’s
The Critic and Charles Surface in The School
for Scandal. He enacted the role of Wat Tyler in
Robert Southey’s play of that name, and has been
on the boards as the servant, Alain, in Moliere’s
School for Wives.
Mr. Cooperman is a director of the monthly
Saturday evening presentations at the Aesthetic Realism
Foundation. He lives in New York City with his wife,
Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman.
Timothy
Lynch
Timothy Lynch is an actor and a labor leader—President
of Teamsters Local 1205, representing working men and
women throughout metropolitan New York. A union official
for more than 16 years, he has spoken publicly about
Aesthetic Realism as both the greatest training an actor
can obtain and the education every union official needs
most. He’s grateful to have learned from Aesthetic
Realism that art and life are really inseparable. The
justice to lines, a character, the playwright’s
intent, which makes for good acting, is deeply the same
as the justice all human beings deserve—including
economic justice. An actor wants to represent a character
truly; and whenever a union has a success, workers will
feel that their “representative” did in
some fashion truly represent what they were hoping for.
Mr. Lynch has appeared in many Off Broadway shows and
in regional theatre, as well as in a variety of daytime
television series and commercials. His New York theatre
credits include The Lower Depths, Invitation
to a March, Abercrombie Apocalypse, Out
of the Frying Pan, The Moon Is Blue, and
the American premiere of Ibsen’s little known
Love’s Comedy. With the Aesthetic Realism
Theatre Company he has played such diverse roles as
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Marc Antony, and Sir Toby
Belch; Sheridan’s comic characters Sir Joseph
Surface, Mr. Snake, and Don Farolo Whiskerondos; and
more.
He has been invited to sing labor songs on many union
picket lines, and to sing the great labor song Solidarity
Forever before many thousands of union leaders
and activists from around the country at Teamster conferences,
as well as the national anthem broadcast live on international
television before the first ever unionized boxing match
in Las Vegas.
Mr. Lynch has studied at the New York Academy of Theatrical
Arts, the Stella Adler Conservatory, the New York Theatre
Workshop and the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. Before
becoming a Teamsters official, he was an active member
of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, and
American Federation of Radio and Television Artists.
He’s very proud to be married to poet and critic
Ellen Reiss, the Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism.
Derek
Mali
Born in New York City , educated at Buckley
School and Groton School; attended Yale and New York
University, and graduated from Denison University with
a BFA Degree in Theatre. Worked in theatre as stage
manager, company manager and general manager; co-managed
40 to 50 shows including MacBird, America
Hurrah, Your Own Thing and Bob &
Ray: The Two And Only.
Member of Actors Equity and ATPAM (Association
of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers). Has taught
Aesthetic Realism in consultations for over 30 years
and presented seminars on such subjects as “Justice
& Comfort: What's the Relation?,” “How Much Should
a Man Care For—Besides Himself,” ”Do We Know What's
Best in Us?--& What's Worst?” Has acted in many
roles with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company and
has operated offset printing presses since 1973.
Carol McCluer
Carol McCluer was born in New Orleans but grew up in
Brea, California. A graduate of CUNY with a degree in
Education and Theatre, she began singing and acting
professionally in 1973; appeared on the Julie Andrews
Show; as a backup singer for Robert Goulet in Las
Vegas; in a cabaret act; and toured South America with
the recording group "Love and Kisses." She
has performed in television specials, national TV commercials,
voiceovers, regional theatre, and played “Melanie
Sawyer” on the soap opera All My Children,
where she had the pleasure of working with Gwen
Verdon.
Since 1989 Carol McCluer has worked with the Aesthetic
Realism Theatre Company, playing roles such as Nora
Helmer in A Doll's House; Ophelia in Shakespeare’s
Hamlet: Revisited; Lady Cunegonde in “Evil
Seen Beautifully; or, Voltaire’s Candide”
and Viola in "Absurdity in a Dukedom;
or, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night."
Ms. McCluer is a member of the Screen Actors Guild,
the Society for Children's Book Writers & Illustrators,
and the Professional Legal Trainers Group.
A director of Saturday Night Dramatic Presentations
at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, she is studying
to teach Aesthetic Realism in classes taught by Class
Chairman Ellen Reiss; is an avid reader and a software
trainer.
Ann Richards
Born in Oswego, New York, Ann Richards studied acting
in children’s classes at Oswego State University.
A graduate of Binghamton University with a degree in
theatre, Ms. Richards studied stage movement with Christopher
Katt, comparative drama with George Wellwarth , and
classical singing and acting, appearing in Guys
and Dolls, Loot, La Ronde, Kiss
Me Kate, and the English language premiere of the
Latin American underground drama The Story of A
Kidnapping. After summer and dinner theatre in
Rhode Island and upstate New York in plays such as Company,
Damn Yankees, Gypsy, The Roar of the Greasepaint,
and A Little Night Music, she moved to New
York in 1979. She has studied acting with Julie Bovasso
and Anne Fielding, and singing with Felix Knight and
Carrie Wilson.
A member of the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation
of Radio and Television Artists and Actor’s Equity,
Ms. Richards appeared off Broadway at the WPA Theatre
in Album opposite Kevin Bacon. She was Connie
Dayton in the daytime series Another World
and has appeared in many television commercials. She
has performed in Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company musical
presentations, including The Great Fight of Ego
vs. Truth! Songs about Love, Justice, & Everybody's
Feelings.
Ms. Richards has taught theatre to children, directing
Grease, Alice in Wonderland, The
Wizard of Oz. At state and national educational
conferences she has spoken on the value of the Aesthetic
Realism method in teaching dramatic literature as well
as in finding the drama in all aspects of the English
curriculum. She teaches at Norman Thomas High School.
Ms. Richards is married to writer and educator Christopher
Balchin.
Karen Van
Outryve
Poet, consultant, and actress Karen Van
Outryve began her study of Aesthetic Realism with its
founder Eli Siegel in 1968. “ Like many actors,"
she says, "I often wished I felt in life the way
I did onstage. When I heard ‘The resolution of
conflict in self is like the making one of opposites
in art,’ I knew I had to study Aesthetic Realism.
That study has made my life better than I ever dreamed
possible—and also enabled me to be a true artist.”
With the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company,
Ms. Van Outryve has performed a variety of roles--from
the drama of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, to
the comedy of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oscar Wilde.
She is married to architect Anthony Romeo, and they
are the parents of Alessandra Romeo. As a family, they
are active in both community and national concerns,
and are founding members of Housing: a Basic Human Right,
advocating a nationwide solution to hunger and homelessness.
Carrie Wilson
An Aesthetic Realism Consultant, Carrie
Wilson teaches the class “The Art of Singing:
Technique and Feeling.” She is a graduate of Barnard
College, and of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of
the Theatre where she studied with Sanford Meisner.
From 1969-1978 she studied Aesthetic Realism with its
founder Eli Siegel, attending some of his great lectures
on Shakespeare, Sean O'Casey, and Ibsen.
Ms. Wilson appeared off-Broadway in The Pinter
Plays, and originated the part of Miss O in the
Carmines-Fornes musical Promenade. Off-off
Broadway, she created the role of Tina Schwartz in the
Baird-Shields musical Goodbye Profit System.
With the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company she has appeared
as Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew; Desdemona
in Othello; Titania in A Midsummer Night's
Dream; Lady Teazle in Sheridan's The School
for Scandal; Tilburina in The Critic;
Agnes in Moliere's School for Wives; Laura
in Strindberg's The Father; Magda in Sudermann's
Magda; and Henrietta Brewster in Susan Glaspell's
Suppressed Desires, and has sung in such productions
as American Ethics, American Song; Ethics
Is a Force: Songs about Labor, and more.
A mezzo-soprano, she attended the Goldovsky Opera Institute,
and was featured artist in a Rachmaninoff program at
Lincoln Center Library, under the auspices of Mrs. Serge
Koussevitzky and the Musician's Club of New York, for
which she was also soloist in the New York premiere
of Julian Orbon's Tres Cantigas del Re at the
Spanish Institute. She recently sang music by Sir Edward
Elgar, including from “The Dream of Gerontius,”
at a conference on the composer at the University of
Birmingham, UK, and also sang the music of Marcabru
at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference at
the Centre d’Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance
in Tours, France. In 2007 she presented recitals of
British and North American music in Rosario, Argentina,
accompanied by her husband, composer Edward Green. Together
they also presented a paper at Ithaca College as part
of a symposioum on Music and Lifelong Learning, entitled
"Aesthetic Realism and the Art of Singing."
She has done film and television voiceovers for Imagery
Film.
Ms. Wilson is a member of the National Association
of Teachers of Singing, Actor's Equity, the National
Association for Music Education, and the Lyrica Society
for Word-Music Relations. She is included in Who's
Who in American Art, Who's Who of American
Women, and Who's Who in the World.
Click
here to read Ms. Wilson's letter published in USA TODAY
on 4/24/09!
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