Sharon Marie Carnicke

Expert on Russian ballet and theater, Stanislavsky System for actors, history and practice of acting
  • Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, USC School of Dramatic Arts
  • Professor of Theater and Slavic Languages and Literature
Office: (213) 740-8686

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