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Julian Stetkevych is an actor and teacher of acting, voice, and movement at CNU. He has a B.A. in Sociology from The University of Chicago, an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater, and an M.F.A. in Performance Pedagogy from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also taught and directed for two years before coming to CNU. During his eight years in New York City, he acted for and worked with Classic Stage Company, Playwright’s Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Theatre 1010, Packawallop Productions, and Oxford Shakespeare Co., among others. Regionally, he has appeared at the American Conservatory Theater, The Steppenwolf Theater, and Theo Ubique in Chicago. Most recently at Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk in The Thanksgiving Play and Sense & Sensibility. He was a teaching artist for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, teaching at schools around the New York City area and their summer program in the Hudson Valley.
He is a member of the professional union Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Southeastern Theatre Conference and has presented at their annual conferences. He is also certified through the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA) and a Certified Teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique through the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium.
At TheaterCNU he has directed An Enemy of the People by Arthur Miller, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Antigone by Sophocles, Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare, and The Proposal by Anton Chekhov. He has also served as vocal and dialect coach on several productions on campus and professionally.