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Irwin Appel Associate Professor Teaching Schedule, Office Hours & Location
M 4-530 and T 130-3 (F09) Research Diploma (MFA equivalent), The Juilliard SchoolIrwin Appel is an Associate Professor of Theater and Director of the BFA Actor Training Program at UC Santa Barbara. He is also a professional director, Equity actor and composer/sound designer, and has performed with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Festival/LA, the New York, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, The Acting Company, Theatre For a New Audience, Hartford Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and other prominent regional theatres. Acting roles include: Prospero in The Tempest, Shylock in Merchant of Venice, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Kent in King Lear, Macbeth in Kabuki Macbeth, Matt in Talley's Folly, as well as the Emperor in a world premiere of Emperor’s New Clothes. Since arriving in Santa Barbara, he played the title role in Richard III, DeVere in The Beard of Avon, Frank in Molly Sweeney, Duke Senior and Duke Frederick in As You Like It, and won Santa Barbara Independent Awards for his portrayal of Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and the title role in Theatre Artists Group’s Timon of Athens. His directing credits throughout the United States include: The Tempest, Angels in America, Three Sisters, Pentecost, A View from the Bridge (SB Indy Award), The Cherry Orchard, Speed-the-Plow, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Crucible, The Countess, Madwoman of Chaillot, Sylvia and the world premiere of Brown Baby (SB Indy Award for his sound design). He has also served as composer/sound designer for the Oregon and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals, PCPA, Ensemble Theatre, Pan Asian Rep, Indiana Rep, and other regional and local theatres. His production of A View From the Bridge is currently running at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and in February, 2009 at UCSB, he will direct a world premiere translation of The Seagull by Libby Appel. Also, in February, he will be directing at the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Juilliard School. Contact
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