Guthrie Theater

Lead Teaching Artist: Candace Barrett
Program: Theater and the Healing Arts (TATHA)

Candace Barrett is the former executive director of the Children's Museum of Los Angeles and most recently the director of Mythica: The Center for World Mythology in St. Paul, Minn. She has held many positions in the arts world including director of the Young Conservatory at the American Conservatory Theater, founder and director of the Academy of Theater and Media Arts, associate professor of theater at Southern Methodist University, adjunct professor of theater at the University of Southern California, and assistant professor of acting and directing at San Francisco State University. She has been a member of the acting companies of the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the American Conservatory Theater, among others. Candace has also directed award-winning productions for the Reader's Theatre Project, University of Southern California and the American Conservatory Theater. She is currently a consultant and lead teaching artist with the Guthrie's Education Department.

Chris Carlson, Esq., is an actor, attorney, adjunct professor of law and teaching artist. He has presented at conventions and authored articles on the power of theatrical techniques and philosophies in forensic oratory ("Why Can't Lawyers Speak Persuasively Anymore," Law & Politics). Chris has founded NarrativePros to realize the goal of bringing artists and other professionals who rely on narratives together to learn from each other. Chris practices immigration law specializing in asylum and related relief. Chris has authored, directed and performed in oratorical training for executives (the co-founder of PUR water filters and 2002 candidate for governor; Pillsbury CEO), attorneys (Minnesota CLE, Clarion Legal, Hamline University School of Law CLE); Fortune 500 companies (Target Corporation, Anderson Windows, American Express, Honeywell, A.C. Nielson, Anderson Consulting), nonprofits (Center for Victims of Torture, Civil Society) as well as college and law students (University of Minnesota, Hamline University School of Law, College of St. Scholastica, Brown College). Chris's acting credits include appearances at the Guthrie in The Falls and most recently in Frank Theatre's The Pillowman. Other theater credits include Bug, Thirst Theater (co-founder), A Streetcar Named Desire, The Dumb Waiter, Corleone, Millennium According to Nostradumbass, The Tempest, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Flanagan's Wake, Our Town, Orphans, A Few Good Men, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Julius Caesar, Fiddler on the Roof, The Merchant of Venice; The Swan, On the Verge, Macbeth at the Jungle; Wellstone, To Kill A Mockingbird at the History Theatre; Prom, Cloud 9, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The Wizard of Oz, The Miser (understudy), The Velveteen Rabbit, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Treasure Island at the Children's Theater Company. Film/Television work includes Peacock, Abandon Me, Light & Darkness: The Rogue, Killer Movie, Climbing Trees, Older Than America, Subversion, Midnight Chronicles, Hinkleton, Arnold's Park, Test Tube, Factotum, Investigating Steven King's Kingdom Hospital, A Descent of Woodpeckers, Justice, Snowman, Here on Earth, The Chromium Hook and Drop Dead Gorgeous. Chris teaches extensively for the Guthrie and is an adjunct professor at Hamline University School of Law.

Nathaniel Fuller has acted with the Guthrie for the past 20 seasons, where he has appeared in more than 70 productions. Among his favorite roles are Nat Miller in Ah! Wilderness, Otto in The Magic Fire and Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. He has toured throughout the Midwest in Guthrie productions of Candida, K, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Molly Sweeney, Ah! Wilderness and the Guthrie's national tour of Othello. While at the Guthrie and on tour he has taught classes and conducted workshops in the craft of character acting, audition coaching, acting skills for public presentations, the art of the audience, Shakespearian verse interpretation, and Shakespeare and the spirit of leadership. Nathaniel has also acted at the Cricket Theater, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Theater 3, Drury Lane Dinner Theater, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival and the Los Angeles Free Shakespeare Festival. He earned his B.A. in English at Dartmouth College and attended graduate school at the University of Southern California's M.F.A. program for play directing.

After graduating from the University of Utah, Randy Reyes was so determined to break out of typecasting that he prepared himself with the broadest possible set of acting tools. He expanded his skills with diverse training that ranged from the improvisational movement class Viewpoints, to working with an Argentine puppet theater group, to graduate training at the Juilliard School, giving him an incredibly broad set of approaches he can bring to bear on an acting role. After Juilliard, he first appeared at the Guthrie in The School for Scandal and has returned for the last four productions of A Christmas Carol. In the realm of Shakespeare, Randy has appeared in the Guthrie's productions of The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream as Francis Flute and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and he toured as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

With a professional acting career spanning nearly three decades, Mark Rosenwinkel has appeared at most of the major Twin Cities theaters. Most recently at the Guthrie he has appeared in The Merchant of Venice, 1776 and as the Troll King in Peer Gynt. In addition to his work as an actor, Mark is an accomplished playwright, particularly of plays for young audiences, and his recent adaptation of Lois Lowry's novel The Giver premiered at Stages Theatre during the spring of 2008. Mark has extensive experience as a teacher of acting, improvisation and playwriting.