Carter Gill

About

Carter Gill (He/Him)

Based in NY and Dallas, actor & director Carter Gill is happy to be directing again at MMC, where he directed A Servant of Two Masters in 2017. Other directing credits include A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Ubu Roi, A Flea in Her Ear (Rider University), a workshop production of Skeleton in the Pantry (Manhattan Theatre Club), various company-created movement projects, The French Play, Othello (Southern Methodist University). Movement Direction: Clue, Our Town (Dallas Theatre Center), Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Telluride Theatre Company).

As a performer, Gill’s off-Broadway work includes Punchdrunk NYC’s Sleep No More, Commedia dell’Artichoke (Frances Black Productions), The Comedy Lab (Lincoln Center Theatre), workshops of new work at Playwrights Horizons, The Lark, Theatre for a New Audience and The Women’s Project, among others. Regional: The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Amphibian Stage, and Shakespeare Theatre Company (Helen Hayes Award nominee for Best Ensemble). Film and television: Harlan Coben’s Shelter, NBC’s Law & Order, CBS’s Person of Interest, AMC’s Turn: Washington’s Spies, TV Land’s Younger, Netflix’s Banana Split and Evil on CBS.

As an educator, he studied physical comedy and movement pedagogy, with a specialization in Clown and Commedia dell’arte, under the tutelage of Christopher Bayes for three years, apprenticing him at Juilliard and Yale School of Drama. Gill currently serves as a movement and physical acting professor at Southern Methodist University and New York University’s New Studio Broadway. He teaches directing at Marymount Manhattan College and has previously served as faculty at the University of North Texas, New York University’s Meisner Studio, Pace University and Rider University. Most recently, he’s lead masterclasses at Princeton University and Fordham University.

BFA in Directing: Southern Methodist University
MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.
www.cartergill.com / @carterpgill