Dr. Marcia Ferguson, actor, director and educator, has worked as a theatre artist in Philadelphia regional theatre and with various arts organizations, including the Wilma Theatre, the Painted Bride, Act II Playhouse, Irish Heritage, Paper Doll Ensemble, the Mediums, Juniper productions, the Daedalus String Quartet, the Arthur Ross Gallery, the Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and many others. She has trained with Meredith Monk, Pig Iron, and the London International School of Performing Arts, and has co-created, performed in and/or directed seven original productions for Edinburgh and Philadelphia Fringe festivals. She has acted and directed in theatre and film in Los Angeles, New York, Rome, and Tokyo. In addition to her interest in directing site-specific and traditional productions of canonical and experimental plays (Beckett, Ionesco, Aeschylus, Ruhl, Synge, Churchill, Mee, and others), she is dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to theatre-making, co-creating original performances, and facilitating multi-disciplinary work. She teaches theatre at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs undergraduate productions, and serves on the boards of several Philadelphia arts organizations. She has published two books and several articles on theatre and other subjects.

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