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THERESA
HECK SEIBERT
Professor & Co-Area
Head Theatre Arts
103 Quirk Building
734.487.1152
tseibert@emich.edu
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Degrees
MFA—Acting, University of Wisconsin/Madison, 1981
BS—Theatre Arts, Eastern Michigan University, 1978
Professional Associations/Memberships
Actor’s Equity Association
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Screen Actors Guild
Representative Courses Taught
CTAR 158: Fundamentals of Acting
CTAR 358: Characterization
CTAR 457/ 557: Audition
CTAR 464: Acting Styles
CTAO 418/518: Performing Shakespeare I
CTAO 419/519: Performing Shakespeare II
CTAT 341 Acting for the Camera
Advising
Theatre Arts, major and minor
CMTA Comprehensive, major and minor (non-teaching)
Biography
Terry Heck Seibert is a professional actor, director and teacher
of acting. Terry has been seen Off-Broadway in Howard Korder’s
Episode 26 at the Lambs Theatre as well having extensive credits
in regional theatre. Out-of-state credits include roles at The
Alley Theatre in Houston, Cincinnati Playhouse, Center Repertory
Theatre in Walnut Creek, CA and Actors Theatre of St.
Paul where she was a resident company member; acting in plays ranging
from Stoppard to
Shakespeare to Chekhov.
Locally, she has been seen at the Performance Network, Tipping
Point Theatre, Purple
Rose Theatre, Meadowbrook, Michigan Shakespeare Festival and Jewish
Ensemble Theatre.
Representative roles include: Zlata in Eve Ensler’s Necessary
Targets, (Detroit Free Press
Award/ Best Featured Actress) Laura in Joe Zettlemaier’s
Language Lessons, (premiere, Detroit
Free Press and Wilde award nominations) Mary Sue in Jeff Daniel’s
Norma and Wanda,
(premiere: Detroit Free Press nomination and Wilde Award nomination)
Suzie in DON’T DRESS
FOR DINNER (The Dean Goodman Award for Acting Excellence in San
Francisco), Marty in
Circle Mirror Transformation, and Lady Bracknell in The Importance
of Being Earnest.
Terry and Gillian Eaton (former Royal Shakespeare Company member)
created a theatre
company called SHAKESPERIENCE. SHAKESPEARIENCE productions include
multiple
workshops, and full productions of Twelfth Night and Comedy of
Errors in which Terry
performed the roles of Viola and Adrianna (Detroit Free Press
Theatre Excellence
nomination). Directing credits at Eastern Michigan include Prelude
To A Kiss, Agnes of God,
Boy’s Life, Ladies of Lanford, The Good Doctor, The Glass
Menagerie, Brighton Beach Memoirs,
Bergman’s Nora and Joe Zettlemaier’s Night Blooming.
In 2003, Terry received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Eastern
Michigan University Alumni Association.
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