Sharon Marie Carnicke
- Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, USC School of Dramatic Arts
- Professor of Theater and Slavic Languages and Literature
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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