Jeffrey Guyton
Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Acting, LASALLE College of the Arts
Jeffrey Guyton graduated from the University of Michigan in 1977, studied ballet at the Joffrey Ballet School, and worked as the movement coach and actor at the storied Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. There he received several awards including a Tyrone Guthrie grant to study stage combat in London, England. He completed work on a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Missouri in 1983 and established a lifelong career as an actor in the regional theater circuit in the United States and also performed in England, at the Watford Palace Theatre. He taught acting improvisation and technique at Cornell University from 2006 to 2016 while also performing plays there as a guest artist. He is a founding member of the The Cherry Arts Collective in Ithaca, NY and the president of the board of the The Gilgamesh Theatre Company in NYC. He is currently Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) Acting Programme at Lasalle College of the Arts. His mother, Joanne Guyton-Simmons was Associate Dean of Nursing at the Ohio Medical College and his wife, Jaehah is currently gracefully and successfully living with Parkinson’s Disease in Ithaca, NY and is a massage therapist. He thanks them both for supporting and educating him through his life and career in the theatre.
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