ABOUT PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Biographies
Yvonne
Erickson
Marc
Horwitz
Marlyn G. Robinson
Marianne
Angelella
Yvonne Erikson
is a professional actor and a long standing member of the Screen Actors
Guild (SAG), Actors Equity Association (AEA), and the American Federation
of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). She appeared at Center Stage
in Baltimore in Lady Windemere’s Fan and in their Young
Playwrights Festival for the past three years. Most recently she appeared
in Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom at the Studio
Theatre in Washington D.C. Film work has included principle roles in
Ladder 49, Mothman Prophecies, Lassie, and The Prince of
Tides. She also guest starred on T.V. shows such as Homicide,
Hack, and Matlock. Yvonne taught in the BFA Theatre program
at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, and is an alumnus
of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York
City as well as the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
Marc Horwitz
is co-founder of Performance Workshop Theatre and an Artistic Producing Director. His performances with the Company include the title roles in: Macbeth, Hamlet, Peer Gynt, Henry V, (Best Actor, New York International Festival of the Arts), The Playboy of the Western World, and The Puppetmaster of Lodz (Best Actor, City Paper 1995 and 2002). He was most recently seen as Frank Hardy in Faith Healer, Martin Doul in The Well of the Saints, performing two One-Man Shows, St. Nicholas, and [Un]told Stories; as Nicolas in One For The Road, and as Henry in The Real Thing. Marc received an Acting Fellowship from the British Theatre Association in London where he worked and trained with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, and The Old Vic Company. In New York, he was Artistic Director of The American Theatre Festival and Director of the Theatre Program at Long Island University, C.W.Post. Locally, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Maryland, College Park, a Guest Artist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and an Assistant Professor of Drama at Villa Julie College. He received his M.F.A. in acting from Temple University. A voice, diction, dialect specialist, and Linklater trainer, Marc has presented workshops and master classes throughout the United States. His readings of stories, poems, and letters of Edgar Allan Poe can be heard on the Maryland Public Television website, Knowing Poe.
Email: marc@performanceworkshoptheatre.org
Marlyn G. Robinson is co-founder of Performance Workshop Theatre and has been an Artistic Producing Director since 1976 when the acting company and theatre school was established in Bethlehem, PA. She has directed many outstanding plays for the Company including critically acclaimed productions of classics such as The Well of the Saints, Macbeth, The Playboy of the Western World and Peer Gynt; contemporary plays and new works of world theatre including our recent productions of St. Nicholas, One For the Road, The Real Thing, [Un]told Stories, Old Times, Paper Flowers, and the 1998-2001 Theatre In Dialogue Tours; and Shakespearean adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and Henry V. Her direction of our production of The Puppetmaster of Lodz won special notice in the Baltimore Sun and City Paper. A former Equity actress with extensive performance credits at university and regional companies, she has taught and directed throughout the mid-Atlantic States and has been nationally recognized for her workshops. Locally, she has been an acting instructor at the University of Maryland's Theatre Department, Baltimore County, and Villa Julie College's Department of Drama and Communication Arts. Marlyn received her M.A. in Dramatic Arts from Case Western Reserve University.
Email: marlyn@performanceworkshoptheatre.org
Marianne Angelella
has been teaching acting and creative drama in the Baltimore/D.C. area for nearly 10 years. She has taught and directed young actors at Performance Workshop Theatre, Fells Point Corner Theatre, Everyman, Pumpkin Theatre and the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, where she is both a teaching artist and a performer. Ms. Angelella's performance credits include:The Informer, Macbeth, The Puppetmaster of Lodz (Performance Workshop Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, Weird Sisters (BSF); Taking Sides, Hedda Gabler (Everyman Theatre); The Children's Hour (Everyman and Rep Stage); The Diary of Anne Frank, Life X 3 and Camille (Round House, u/s) She is a member of Actors' Equity Association.
