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Internationally-Known Master Acting Teachers Join USC Faculty
Pearson to Head MFA Acting;
Hunt Brings Suzuki Method to USC

USC’s Department of Theatre and Dance welcomes Professors Robyn Hunt and Steven Pearson from the University of Washington School of Drama. US News & World Report ranks Washington’s drama school number three in the nation. Said Department Chair Jim Hunter, “Robyn and Steven were attracted by the dynamically engaged community of artist/scholars that has been created here. We have much to be proud of and we should all feel encouraged by our prospects for the future.”


Steven Pearson joined the faculty of the USC Department of Theatre and Dance in the fall of 2006 as a Master Acting Teacher and serves as Head of the MFA Acting Program. Professor Pearson comes from the University of Washington School of Drama. Professor Pearson has acted and directed professionally in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe. A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University with degrees in acting and directing, and a 10-year student of Tadashi Suzuki, Professor Pearson was head of the Professional Act Training Program at the University of Washington from 1992 to 2003, and previously taught in and headed the acting program at the University of California, San Diego. He is an Artistic Director of the Pacific Performance Project, and recent professional work includes directing at On the Boards in Seattle, LaMaMa in New York, in Sibiu, Romania, in Chicago and Minneapolis; and acting in Seattle and Kyoto, Japan.

Robyn Hunt joined the faculty of the USC Department of Theatre and Dance in the fall of 2006 as a Master Acting Teacher. Professor Hunt comes from the University of Washington School of Drama. Professor Hunt received her training at UC/San Diego. A member of Actor’s Equity, Professor Hunt has acted professionally in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. She worked for over a decade with Tadashi Suzuki, performed in Tokyo and Kanazawa in Opium, a joint Pacific Performance Project/Theatre Group Tao under the direction of Kenji Suzuki, studied and performed in Kyoto under the direction of Shogo Ohta, and between 1994 and 2000 performed frequently at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, under the direction of Jon Jory. Professor Hunt was co-founder and first artistic director of the San Diego Public Theatre and co-heads the Pacific Performance Project in Seattle. In 2001, Professor Hunt received the UW Distinguished Teaching Award.

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