Who We Are
Skip Greer
Skip is an actor, director and teacher, and was Artist in Residence/Director of Education at Geva Theatre Center for over 25 years. Roles at Geva include: Erik Blake in The Humans, Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, Arthur Przybyszewski, in Superior Donuts and the Stage Manager in Our Town. Skip has directed 28 shows at Geva, including Almost Maine, Red, Inherit the Wind, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Steel Magnolias, The Weir, Airness, Hard Cell, The Mountaintop, and Death of a Salesman. Other theaters that he has acted or directed at include: The Oregon Shakespearean Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, The Barrington Stage Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Indiana Rep Theatre, White Heron Theatre Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, Studio Arena, Syracuse Stage, Santa Cruz Shakespeare (where he directed King Lear to open the festival’s 25th Anniversary), and Gary Marshall’s Falcon Theatre, where he directed Charles Durning, Jack Klugman, Paul Dooley and Granville Van Deusan in the sold out Golf With Alan Shepard. Skip has toured Europe, Africa, Asia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and the Cook Islands teaching and performing theatre.
Brigitt Markusfeld
Brigitt was most recently seen treading the boards in Geva Theatres Center’s production of Steel Magnolias, as Truvy. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, To Kill a Mockingbird, You Can't Take It With You, Over the Tavern, A Christmas Story, Our Town, The Weir, Triumph of Love, The Illusion, Smell of the Kill are a few of the over 18 productions Brigitt has performed in at Geva Theatre Center. Other regional theatre credits include: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, at Indiana Rep Theatre, Richard III, Rumors, Charley’s Aunt, at Sacramento Theatre Company, I Remember Mama at American Conservatory Theatre, On the Verge at Marin Theatre Company, The Tempest, Comedy of Errors, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It at Valley Shakespeare Festival, Taming of the Shrew and Country Wife, at Grove Shakespeare Festival, and Stella and Lou and Paper Maker at CRT. Brigitt is a founding member of A Noise Within Theatre Co in Los Angeles: Way of the World, Coriolanus, Blood Wedding. TV credits: Picket Fences, Bold and the Beautiful, Tour of Duty, Second Chances. Brigitt has done national TV and radio commercials. She is currently an artist educator for Geva Theatre Center and teaches acting and acting for the camera at UR and RIT. She received her training and MFA at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
Don Kot
Don performs regularly as a pianist, vocal coach, arranger, and music director. At The Cleveland Institute of Music, he was awarded the Valedictory Prize and the Madame Gwendolyn Koldofsky Award. Don has been on the music staff of Lyric Opera Cleveland and was the pianist for master classes with Marilyn Horne, Elly Ameling, Gerard Souzay, Madeleine Milhaud, and Jan DeGaetani. He maintains a performing career as a collaborative pianist and has had performances broadcast over WXXI and WCLV radio. Don is Resident Music Director and Affiliate Artist at Geva Theatre Center where he celebrates his 22nd season! Some favorites include: Sister Act, Once, La Cage aux Folles, Hair, Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns, In the Heights, Little Shop of Horrors, All Your Questions Answered (world premiere),The Music Man, Five Course Love, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Urinetown Camelot, 1776, A Christmas Carol, and Convenience. He has performed Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, 45 Bleecker Street Theatre, Laurie Beechman Theatre, and at the Toronto Fringe Festival. Regional credits include The Music Man, The Best of Forbidden Broadway, Smokey Joe’s Café, Leader of the Pack, Honk!, and The Most Happy Fella. National touring productions: Fosse, Footloose, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, Mamma Mia and Hairspray. Don is the Coordinator of the Musical Theatre degree program at the State University of New York at Geneseo.
Carter Lewis
Carter is the former Playwright-in-Residence for Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught Introduction to Playwriting, Advanced Playwriting, Playwrights Workshop and Dramaturgy (’99-’21). He was Literary Manager & Playwright-in-Residence for Geva Theatre Center (‘95-’99) where he managed the literary office, created a multi-tiered new play program, taught playwriting, and had four plays on their mainstage. National honors include a Jerome Residency at the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis; NEA/TCG Residency Grant at Studio Arena Theatre; The Cincinnati Playhouse Rosenthal New Play Prize; the 2019 Playwriting Fellowship for the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis and a two-time nominee for the American Theater Critics Award. Published works include, Art Control, No Preying, A Geometric Digression of the Species, Soft Click of A Switch, An Asian Jockey In Our Midst and The One-Eyed Man Is King. Other plays include: Golf with Alan Shepard, Picasso Does My Maps, Women Who Steal, Men on the Take, American Storm by Integrity Out of Molly Brown, Kid Peculiar, Ordinary Nation, Civil Disobedience, Hit Story, Camden & Lilly, Evie’s Waltz, The Storytelling Ability of a Boy, The Cha Cha of a Camel Spider, The Americans Across the Street, The Hummingbird Wars, Camden & Lilly, Echo Location, Unlucky Nick, With, The Science of Leaving Omaha and Guys in Cabins. He has had over a dozen plays commissioned and has had approximately 200 productions nationwide. Carter is currently writing full time in St Louis, where he lives with his free-thinking chocolate lab, Vivian.
Danny Hoskins
Danny is an actor, director, teacher and playwright who has been working nationally and internationally for the past 27 years. He has served as Interim Director of Theatre at Elmira College, taught acting and voice at the University of South Carolina, developed and directed original works for young actors at the Alliance Theatre Company, and co-founded the South Carolina-based company, Pineapple Productions. Mr. Hoskins currently serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre at SUNY Brockport, where he’s been an adjunct professor for the past 15 years. He has also spent five years as Artistic Director and Director of Education at Rochester Children's Theatre and seven years with Blackfriars Theatre as Artistic & Managing Director. He has performed and directed at Hartford Stage Company, the Alliance Theatre, Geva Theatre, Festival Theatre of St. Criox, Kennesaw Stage, The Wings Theatre in NYC, Trustus Theatre and locally with Blackfriars Theatre, JCC CenterStage and Rochester Children’s Theatre, as well as touring nationally and internationally. As a playwright, he has penned five plays and one musical and currently serves as Executive Producer, writer and director of the children’s TV show, Imagination Station with Mrs. Kasha Davis. Mr. Hoskins holds an MFA from the University of South Carolina.
Tim Powers
Tim Powers is a voice actor from Los Angeles who has provided voice work for Disney, Netflix, Square Enix Games, Final Fantasy VII, and Exoprimal, as well as countless TV and radio commercials in the US and Canada.
Dawn Kellogg
Dawn has over 26 years experience marketing professional theatre both in the US and in the UK. With 13 years as a Marketing Director and Associate Producer for CV Productions in London, and 13 years as the Communications Manager at Geva Theatre Center. Dawn looks forward to working with the Actor's Studio Team to help Skip and Brigitt realize their dream of a professional actors studio for Rochester.