About

• Mission

  Temple Repertory Theater, a company of artists closely associated with the Department of Theater at Temple University, is now is its second annual summer season, entertaining Philadelphia theatergoers throughout the month of July with exciting, character-driven theater that focuses squarely on the actor and the text.  By choosing two rarely-seen, dramatic masterworks in rotating rep—Sam Shepard’s Buried Child and Moliere’s Tartuffe—we are committing ourselves to new, daring stagings of classic works of drama.  For modern audiences.

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• Cast

  Temple Repertory Theater will feature a group of professional actors rotating in roles in both Three Sisters and Measure For Measure.  Each is currently enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Acting program at Temple University, a two-year program specifically designed for mid-career actors interested in pursuing an advanced degree.

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• Creative Team

  Dan Kern Artist Director, TRT; Director, Buried Child

  

  Winner of the Barrymore Award for Lantern Theater Company’s Skylight, and the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his direction of Juno and the Paycock.  An accomplished actor, Kern also won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of Leontes in The Winter’s Tale.  Dan also appeared in leading roles at the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, The American Conservatory Theatre, Missouri Rep and The Alabama Shakespeare Festival.  Film and TV appearances include Frasier, Profiler, The President’s Man, Star Trek: Voyagers, and the award winning short film, Me and the Big Guy.  Last season for TRT, he directed the critically-acclaimed staging of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and appeared in Measure for Measure.  He currently serves as Head of Acting at the Department of Theater at Temple University.

  Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey Director, Tartuffe

  

  Emmanuelle Delpech is an actor, teacher and director. She was classically trained at the Ecole Superieur d’Art Dramatique de la ville de Paris, and studied physical theatre at l’Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq.  She is currently a 2nd year MFA student in Directing at Temple University. A former member of Pig Iron Theatre Company, Emmanuelle has been a performer/co-creator of such productions as Gentlemen Volunteers, Flop!, Hell Meets Henry Halfway (Barrymore nomination for best supporting actress) and James Joyce is Dead and So Is Paris (Barrymore Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical). She created and performed Madame Douce-Amere, a wordless clown duet at the 2005 Philadelphia Lives Arts festival, which was also produced by 1812Productions at the Walnut street theatre in October 2006.  Emmanuelle directed Oedipus at FDR, an urban adaptation of Sophocles Greek tragedy “Oedipus at Colonus” at the FDR Skate park for the 2008 Philadelphia Live Arts festival. In June/July 2009, Emmanuelle performed with The Second City Chicago in Reverie directed by Dexter Bullard which was premiered at the “Just for Laughs” festival in Montreal. Emmanuelle worked for the Civilians’ new piece The Great Immensity to share her physical theater skills with director Steve Cosson and was assistant director for its first performance at the Princeton Atelier. She worked again with Steve Cosson as a mime consultant for Anne Washburn’s new play: A Devil at Noon, which premiered at the Humana Festival in Louisville in march 2011. In December 2010, The Philly Shakes Cabaret Series presented her adaptation of Marivaux’s La Dispute. Emmanuelle is happy to be directing Moliere’s Tartuffe for the Temple Repertory Theater as her thesis. She is thrilled to start working next fall on an original piece with James Ijames on the tradition of Blackface performances. Emmanuelle has taught at University of the Arts and Swarthmore College. The last 2 summers, she taught a Clown workshop for the Volcano Institute in Toronto. Emmanuelle currently teaches a 2semester Lecoq Class at Temple University for undergraduate and graduate students and is a faculty member of the Headlong Performance Institute: www.headlongperformanceinstitute.org and of the New Pig Iron School:  APT www.pigironschool.org.  Please check my website for more info: emmanuelledr.squarespace.com

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