Actor/Acting teacher Marcia Haufrecht guest stars on The Sissy Gamache this Friday night LIVE!

Sept. 4, 2012 - PRLog -- Born and raised in Manhattan, Ms Haufrecht graduated from Performing Arts High School in 1954 as a dancer, and got her first job on Broadway in “Plain and Fancy” that same year, followed by a national tour with “Can Can”.

Involved in theatre her whole life, her interests and abilities broadened to include acting, playwrighting, directing and teaching.

As an actress she has appeared on Broadway, off, and off-off Broadway, as well as on television and film, in roles ranging from Tondeleyo in “White Cargo”, to Queen Elizabeth opposite Al Pacino in “Richard 111”. I have performed with Center Stage in Baltimore , The Boston Theater Company, Lincoln Center , The Public Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and La Mama. Most recently she has been seen in the film, “Daytrippers”, and on TV in “The Soprano’s” and “Law & Order”.

A published playwright, her plays have been produced at The Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Quaigh, The Common Basis Theatre (all in NYC) around the country in Woodstock, San Francisco, Texas, Florida, The Company of Angels and CSU Fullerton in California, as well as in Australia at La Mama in Melbourne and at the Kultur Im Gugg in Austria. As a director, she has worked on both revivals and original plays at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Actors Studio, The Common Basis Theatre and in Australia , Portugal , and Austria .

A student of Lee Strasberg’s and subsequently a teacher at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute (including NYU courses) for five years. She has also worked as an adjunct professor in the film graduate program at Columbia University for 2 years and taught and coached privately for over twenty five years and soon became one of New York's most sought after acting teachers. Her students have included Ellen Barkin, Alec Baldwin, Janine Turner, Debi Mazar, Loren Dean, David Duchovny, Uma Thurman, John Leguizamo. Most recently she has coached Harvey Keitel and has taught for several years in Australia , Austria and for the past ten years in Lisbon , Portugal . Ms Haufrecht is currently teaching at The New School for Social Research in The Actors Studio MFA program.

Ms Haufrecht is also a long standing member of The Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre and I am founder and artistic director of The Common Basis Theatre.