Brown | Trinity Rep M.F.A. Programs in Acting and Directing

Stephen Berenson (Founding Director, Acting) was the program’s Director at its inception in 2001, remaining in that position for 16 years. A member of Trinity Rep’s resident acting company for 30 seasons, more recent roles have included Willy Loman, Death of a Salesman; Fagin, Oliver!; Feste, Twelfth Night; Shylock, The Merchant of Venice; Sydney, Absurd Person Singular; and Scrooge, A Christmas Carol. He has performed at The Kennedy Center, BAM, New York’s Town Hall, Dallas Theater Center, Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English, on tour in the US and Canada, and for three presidents at the White House. New York credits include William Gibson’s The Butterfingers Angel, Joe Keenan’s Close Enough for Jazz, revivals of Dead End and Men in White by Sidney Kingsley, and Bunthorne in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. He taught acting at Roundabout Theatre Conservatory, Rosetta LeNoire’s AMAS Repertory Theatre, and The Professional Children’s School, all in New York. He holds a Tutorial appointment at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he teaches a six-week summer course on British Theatre. He is a recipient of The New England Theatre Conference Teacher of the Year Award, The Mayor of Providence Citation For Excellence in the Arts, and Ten Chimneys’ Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship.