Skye Bronfenbrenner

About

Skye Bronfenbrenner is currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts with specialties in Movement and Theatrical Intimacy Education at Marymount Manhattan College. She is a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and works as a fight, intimacy, and movement director for theatre, musical theatre, and opera. She holds an MFA in Theatre from the University of Houston where she later taught Movement for the Actor in the BFA program. She has taught movement and stage combat for Houston Grand Opera’s Butler Studio and YAVA programs, Rice University, the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and as a teaching artist for the Alley Theatre. Her fight, intimacy, and movement director credits include Torera off Broadway at the WP Theatre, Vanessa at Williamstown Theatre Festival and Heartbeat Opera, the world premiere of Intelligence at Houston Grand Opera, Drunk Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet off Broadway, as well as various credits at Catastrophic Theatre, Rec Room Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, the University of Houston, and Rice University. As a performer she toured with the national tours of Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, and the international tour of Shrek the Musical with regional credits such as Stages Theatre, Houston Shakespeare Festival, and the Fireside Theatre. She believes in making bold and visceral work safely and that theatre is above all a collaborative process.