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Office Location: 503 Administration Building
Office Phone: 718-631-6344
E-Mail: mcuomo@qcc.cuny.edu
Following a year spent int he Office of Academic Affairs as a Faculty Fellow, Michele Cuomo was appointed as Assistant Dean in 2008. She became a member of the Queensborough Community College faculty in the Fall of 2003, and was promoted to the rank of associate professor five years later. Previous positions included of Head of Acting at The University of Mississippi and Interim Head of Acting at The University of Georgia, where she was also a member of the select Graduate Faculty. Ms. Cuomo earned the B.A. degree in English at the College of New Rochelle, and the M.F.A. degree in Acting at The Ohio State University. She is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, a Certified Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and an Experienced Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.
Presentations include: Witch Dance at Past Masters Symposium a The Centre for Performance Research in London; Fitzmaurice Voicework: A Journal of Private Sessions: Journals of Private Sessions at The Human Body Conference in Krakow Poland; Passion Play: Working With Heightened Texts at Voice and Speech Trainers (VASTA) 2005 conference in Glasgow, Scotland (co-presenter Krista Scott) as well as Bandha’s: Yoga Practices for Vocal Support at VASTA’s 2007 conference at the National Center of Voice and Speech in Denver Colorado (co-presenter Melanie Julian). She presently serves as VASTA Director of Conferences. She has held an adjunct and vocal coaching position at Marymount Manhattan College from 2003-2006, as well as stints guest teaching at Visible Theatre Company, Madlab Theatre and The Actors Weekend. Recent acting credits included roles in The Modern Theatre of Myth’s premier of The Other Wiseman by Greg Dinunzi under the direction of Georgia McGill in Berlin, Germany, The Living Theatre’s Enigma and Code Orange Cantata under the direction of Judith Malina and The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov directed by Arthur Adair at LaMama ETC.
The recipient of a PSC/CUNY research grant, Ms. Cuomo received support to write and perform her solo performance piece Unveiled in 2005; it was first presented in December 2005 at The Producer’s Club in a double bill with Warning Signs by Maggie Surovell. She has performed Unveiled at The Producer’s Club, Chashama, The Underground Series, Queensborough Community College, The Midtown International Theatre Festival (A New York Magazine “Top Pick:”) and at Madlab Theatre in Columbus OH, which was a grant recipient as part of a double bill entitled Burquas and Big Hair. Her full length play, Victoria will be presented at Madlab in February 2009.
Ms. Cuomo directed two CUNY students in a scene from Hippolytus which was performed in the Ancient Odeon of Paphos, Cyprus as part of the International Encounter and Festival of Theatre Schools, sponsored by Cyprus International Theatre Institute. She directed the departmental productions of The Glass Menagerie, The Laramie Project, Julius Caesar, Naomi in the Living Room, Romeo and Juliet and for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. In her capacity as Queensborough’s Drama Club Advisor, she has advised productions of The Young Playwright’s Festival, Hedwig and the Angry Inch , The Shape of Things, Keep It in the Family, and Kenny Blyden’s Variety Hour (2006) She coordinated and attended the yearly Drama Society trip to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF Region II) from 2004 to 2008, and directed staged readings each year for the National Playwrighting Program (NPP) there. In 2007 she was recognized for her contribution to the program with a “Spirit of the NPP Award” As a result of her association with the NPP, she was invited to direct the NYU Playwrighting program’s BFA Thesis Reading Searching fpr Spaulding Grey by Zac Kline as well as Subterranean by Therese Giacaposi as part of a Steinberg Grant. She has also served as a respondent to plays in the region for KCACTF Region II, and a reader for the National Playwrighting Program.
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