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Sharon Marie Carnicke

Professor of theatre critical studies and professor of theatre and Slavic languages
  • USC School of Dramatic Arts
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Office: (213) 740-8686
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Expertise Summary

Expert on Russian ballet and theater, Stanislavsky System for actors, history and practice of acting

Expertise

  • Russian ballet and theater
  • acting on film
  • acting history, practice and theory
  • Stanislavsky system for actors
  • American method acting, including the techniques of Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner
  • performance festivals in Puerto Rico

Languages

  • Russian
  • French

Additional Information

  • Master teacher of Stanislavsky’s techniques internationally
  • Author of Stanislavsky in Focus: Second Edition (2008)
  • Co-author of Reframing Screen Performance (2008), Anton Chekhov: Four Plays and Three Jokes (2009) and The Theatrical Instinct: Nikolai Evreinov and the Russian Theatre (1989)
  • Recipient of a Kennedy Center award for translation of Chekhov’s The Seagull; an NEH for research on Stanislavsky’s last work on acting, called Active Analysis; and an NSF with the Viterbi School of Engineering on the use of motion capture technology with Stanislavsky’s Active Analysis