Angela Dohrmann - Teaching Artist

• Rocket Improv, Maplewood, NJ - 2018 - present - Instructor/Coach - Teenage FBI - by invitation, teenage improv troupe

• The Actors Camp, Mountainside, NJ - 2018 - present - Instructor/Director - Improv to Sketch for teen writers & performers

• ComedySportz, NYC, NY - 2014 - present - Instructor/Director - Short Form Improv 101, 201 & 301 for adults

• Artistic New Directions Theater, NYC, NY - 2013 - present - Course Creator/Instructor - Acting workshops for adults & teens

• Fairleigh-Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ - 2015-2017 - Adjunct Professor - Acting Theory for undergraduates

• Camp Koala - 2008-2011 - Course Creator/Instructor - Therapeutic Drama for bereaved children & teens,

as well a one-on-one mentoring, at this bereavement camp for kids and young adults


• Teaching Artist Partnership (TAP) Grant Recipient, PA Council on the Arts, Newport High School, Newport, PA - 2011-2012

Recipient of this prestigious grant which provided public speaking & performance training to underserved high school seniors in collaboration with their HS English instructor


 • Johns Hopkins Center, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA - 2003-2008

Course creator & Instructor - Comedy Studies: history of comedy, comedy writing (sketch, stand-up & storytelling),  and comedic performance training


• Migrant Education, Lincoln Intermediate Unit #12, Harrisburg, PA - 2002-2006

Course creator & Instructor - Improv & Clown - immigrant students learning the art of physical comedy in this highly popular, state funded arts course

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• AVIVA, Female Residential Treatment Ctr, Los Angeles, CA - 1993-96

On Camera Storytelling - originator of this popular course for the residents, all adjudicated teenage girls, whereby they wrote & shared their own stories for the camera


• York University, Toronto, ON, Canada - 1988-1989

Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Acting; Public Speaking; Research Assist. - Shakespeare’s First Folio


Relevant Professional Experience


 Owner/Operator - Two Acting Studios 

  • Improv(e) Studio, Carlisle, PA  - Improv for adults & teens  - 2010-2013

  • The Studio at OSU, Columbus, OH - Public Speaking, Camera Acting, 

Marketing for the Actor - 1999-2001



Improv Troupe Coaching- College & Professional

  • Rufus Khan - short-form improv troupe, The Player’s Theater, NYC   -             2016-present

  • Run With It! - long-form improv troupe, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA - 2007-2010

  • Townies - long & short-form troupe - John Hopkins Center - Founder  -   2003-2007


Poetry Out Loud, NEA & PA Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA - 2008-2012

           Chief District Administrator - Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation 



Education

• Tulane University, New Orleans– B.A.

• York University, Toronto- One year of 2 yr MFA

• University of London, UK –Honors program

• The Second City Conservatory Grad, Toronto

• Children’s Theater Co, Conservatory,  Mnpls, MN


References

Scotty Watson, Head of NYC Faculty, AND Theater Company, NYC, NY: scottywatsoncomedian@gmail.com, 917-841-6646

Paul O’Connor, Artistic Director, The Actors Camp, Mountainside, NJ: pauloconnor.vo@gmail.com, 908-419-3172

Elizabeth Dubin, Professor, Messiah College, : pauloconnor.vo@gmail.com, 908-419-3172