Shelley Mitchell,
founder and artistic director of ACSF is best known for her
internationally acclaimed performance of TALKING
WITH ANGELS:the true story of Gitta Mallasz.
She trained in New York City, primarily with Lee Strasberg
at the Actors Studio and in his private classes. Shelley Mitchell
is a graduate of the Circle in the Square Theater School and
New York University. She interned with Al Pacino on his original
production of Arturo Ui, and trained with Harvey Keitel, Ellen
Burstyn, Estelle Parsons, Irene Papas and many other incredible
but lesser known NYC stage actors. (more)
Her students are aggressively encouraged to train with the
highest level of professional film and theater work in mind.
Ms. Mitchell encourages those who can to transfer to New York,
L.A. London or to discover the world of independent film and
theater.
Shelley Mitchell has taught and performed at:
The California Institute of Integral Studies
Esalen Institute
Ca' Foscari- Venice, Italy
The Carl Jung Institutes of San Francisco and Chicago
The Institute of Noetic Science
The Mythic Journey Conference, Atlanta
The Magic Theater, San Francisco
A Traveling Jewish Theater, San Francisco
Exit Theater, San Francisco
Manhattan Theater Club, NYC
Milagro Theater, NYC
Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley
The Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival (more)
Christy Frunch is an East Coast natie who transplanted to San Francisco in 1995. She is a specialist in the Laban technique and has a Laban Movement Analysis Certification through the New York's Laban Institute for Integrated Movement Studies.
Her core philosophy celebrates people as performers and performers as people, highlighting all that is vulnerable yet indefatigable in us through movement that is casually exact, emotionall fluid, and musically precise. More info at Funschdance.org .
