Students I have helped to train are finding success across the country. Just to name a very few:
Montego Glover starring in MEMPHIS on Broadway, and leading the Chicago company of HAMILTON, John Patrick Hayden in Netflix's DAREDEVIL, Megan Boone starring in NBC 's THE BLACKLIST, Andre Holland starring on Broadway, in London, and feature films, SELMA,MOONLIGHT, Saxon Palmer with Theatre for a New Audience, Sarah Smith in AMERICAN HORROR STORY and her own theatre company in New Orleans, Sean Daniels, internationally respected director and artistic director at Merrimack Repertory and now at Arizona Theatre Company with a play currently running in NYC, Published and aspiring playwrights: Ian Mairs, PARTS UNKNOWN, OUR DAVID...among many others while founding his own production and training company, APEX THEATRE STUDIOS, Lisa Soland, WAITING ,Jason Chimonides, THE OPTIMIST., Jason Bayle, LONESOME TIME and numerous film credits including THE BIG SHORT,, Jenny Ballard, Artistic Director at Theatre Baton Rouge, Colt Neidhardt, Artistic Director PERSEVERANCE theatre company, Jo Hall, University professor and recently on National tour with THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG AT NIGHTTIME....among dozens of others all working in commercials, theatre, film, media industry or related fields: musicians, casting directors, agents, teachers, production artists,arts administrators....and the list goes on....
TRAINING POSITIONS HELD:
HEAD, BA PERFORMANCE, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
HEAD, UNDERGRADUATE PERFORMANCE, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
HEAD, MASTER OF FINE ARTS/ACTING
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
GRESDNA A. DOTY PROFESSOR
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE
George Judy taught for more than twenty years at Florida State University where he headed the B.A. performance program before coming to LSU where he headed the Undergraduate Performance Program before being named Head of the Master of Fine Arts program in Theatre. His students are currently appearing on Broadway, at regional theatres across the country and in the film and television industry as well as holding important positions as artistic directors, casting directors, and in arts management and training. Undergraduate students who studied with Professor Judy have been accepted into graduate programs at Julliard, Yale, NYU, Rutgers, Penn State, The Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware and many other fine conservatory programs across the country. He has been honored with a number of University Teaching Awards and was named a charter member of the President’s Council for Excellence in College Teaching during his tenure at Florida State University. He was recently invested as a Fellow of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center alongside such theatre luminaries as Michael Khan and William Esper. His credits as an actor, writer, director and educator include work with the Royal National Theatre Studio, London, The Asolo Theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Illinois Shakespeare Festival and twelve seasons with the Tony award winning Utah Shakespearean Festival. His award winning adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, published by Pioneer Drama, has been anthologized and performed across the country and he is currently completing a new book, Designing Life: A Practical Approach to Acting and Living. His highly praised adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House as well as a new musical version of Shakespeare’s Loves Labours Lost have premiered on the Swine Palace stage where he continues to develop new adaptations based on the works of Goldoni and Shakespeare. The past year has seen Professor Judy step down as Artistic Director at Swine Palace and away from the responsibilities of running an MFA program to focus more on his own work as an artist and author, but he continues to hold teaching and developing student artists as the center of his work. He has a steady schedule of workshops, coaching and mentoring both inside and outside the classroom. CLICK on the BUTTON in CONTACT for a full Curriculum Vitae.
