Master of Fine Arts in Directing
Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA.
with Colleen Kelley (directing), Matt Davies (directing), Giles
Block (directing), Mary Coy (voice), Todd
Ristau (playwrighting), Paul Menzer (editing), Alan Armstrong
(dramaturgy), Allison Glenzer (Acting),
and Ralph Alan Cohen (pedagogy).
Thesis: A Late Dispatch from the Crucible of
Chaos: The Collaborative Process of Modern Play Development as
Reflected in The Ballad of Dido.
Master of Letters in Shakespeare and Performance
Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA.
with Ralph Alan Cohen (verse and rhetoric), Paul Menzer (textual
studies), Colleen Kelley (acting), JP
Scheidler (acting), and Roslyn Knutson (Shakespeare's theatre).
Thesis: Textual Necromancy: Performance as a
Model for Editing Early Modern Texts.
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and English
State University of New York College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY.
with Kimberley Bouchard (acting, directing, stage management), Nola
Rocco (acting), Susan Neal (acting),
Michael Williams (directing, theatre history), Clayton Horan (scene
design), Judith Weise (medieval,
classical, and renaissance literature), Gerald Ratliff (reader's
theatre, play analysis), Nil's Samuels
(American realism and romanticism), Paul Saint Amand (composition),
Anthony Boyle (composition),
Charles Marshall (data structures), and Barbara Nostrand (language
and machine theory).
Magna Cum Laude
Additional Training and Coursework
Directing Musicals with Marcia Milgrom Dodge. Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Instructor)
The Drama League.
Theatre and Globalization. Professor Christopher Balme (Instructor).
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen. Coursera.
The Data Scientist's Toolbox Prof. Jeff Leek, Prof. Roger Peng, Prof.
Brian Caffo (Instructors). Johns Hopkins University. Coursera.
Arts and Culture Strategy. Peter Frumkin and Mrs. Russell Willis Taylor
(Instructors). The
University of Pennsylvania and National Arts Strategies. Coursera.
Tambasco, Tony. “Tony Tambasco’s Review of Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen" (Review of Hedda Gabbler, by Henrik Ibsen (Directed by John Emro for the Modern Classics Theatre Co. of Long Island and BACCA) at the BACCA Arts Center in Lindenhurst, NY, 24 May 2026, 2 PM.) Sound Stages, 4 August 2026. https://soundstagesdotcom.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/tony-tambascos-review-of-hedda- gabler-by-henrik-ibsen/
Review of Brian Dykstra's Polishing Shakespeare (Directed by Margarett Perry for the Twilight Theatre Co. in Association with Kitchen Theatre Company) at 59E59 Theaters' Theater B in New York City, 12 July 2025. Shakespeare, 5 November 2025, DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2025.25733831.
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Ham.Net, Adapted by Sophia Carlin from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Directed by Sophia Carlin for Hamlet Isn't Dead) at Spit N Vigors' Blackbox at The Players Theatre in New York City, Streamed Live Digitally 1 February 2025 at 7pm." Shakespeare, 25 April 2025, DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2025.2490661.
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (Directed by Selina Cadell for Westbeth Entertainment, Mick Perrin Worldwide and John Gore) at the Greenwich House Theater in New York City, 20 February 2024." Shakespeare, 22 April 2024, DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2024.2339394
Tambasco, Tony. "Child's Play: The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Young People to Appropriate Shakespeare." Etudes, vol. 9, no. 1. December 2023. www.etudesonline.com/dec2023tambasco.html
Tambasco, Tony. "Combating White Supremacist Appropriations in Shakespeare's Politicized Representations." Theatre Symposium, vol. 30, 2023, pp. 29 — 39.
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men by Lucy Munro." Renaissance Quarterly, 75(4), 2023, pp. 1449 — 1450. DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2022.425
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of The Kit Marlowe Project." Early Modern Digital Review, vol. 5, no. 4, 2022, pp. 216 — 219. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v45i4.41389
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher (Directed by Jesse Berger for the Red Bull Theater) at New World Stages in New York City, Streamed Digitally 5 February 2022." Shakespeare, DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2022.2101512
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Shakespeare Republic." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, vol. 13, no. 2, 2020. borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/article/view/95/189
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions edited by George Rodosthenous." SDC Journal, Fall 2018/Winter 2019, pp. 45 — 46.
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of the Aquila Theatre's production of Sophocles' Philoctetes." Didaskalia, vol. 13, 2016, http://www.didaskalia.net
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris at the MSA Conference, 24th June 2013 (II)." The Marlowe Society of America Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 1, Fall 2013, pp. 6 — 7.
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage at the American Shakespeare Center." The Marlowe Society of America Newsletter, vol. 32, no. 1, Fall 2012, p. 4.
Other publicationsTambasco, Tony. "Review by Tony Tambasco: Modern Classics The Revolutionists." (Review of The Revolutionists, by Lauren Gunderson (Directed by Meredith Lynn Spencer for the Modern Classics Theatre Co. of Long Island and BACCA) at the BACCA Arts Center in Lindenhurst, NY, 8 March 2026, 2 PM.) Arts and Entertainment Compass, 9 March 2026. kaitlynsentertainmentcompass.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/review-by-tony-tambasco-modern-classics-the-revolutionists/
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of A View from the Bridge, by Arthur Miller (Directed by Emily Vaeth for the Modern Classics Theatre Co. of Long Island and BACCA) at the BACCA Arts Center in Lindenhurst, NY, 18 July 2025, 8 PM." Artium: Omni, 21 July 2025. nutsdotbolts.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/tony-tambascos-review-a-view-from-the-bridge-by-arthur-miller-directed-by-emily-vaeth-for-the-modern-classic-theatre-co-of-long-island-at-the-bacca-arts-center//
Tambasco, Tony. "Review of Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck (Directed by Marian Waller for the Modern Classics Theatre Co. of Long Island and BACCA) at the BACCA Arts Center in Lindenhurst, NY, 13 October 2024, 2 PM." Showtones, 27 October 2024. showtones.com/2024/10/27/guest-reviewer-tony-tambasco-discusses-modern-classics- theatre-co-s-john-steinbecks-of-mice-and-men/
Tambasco, Tony. "Turning the Page." Suffolk County Poetry Review, Edited by James P. Wagner (Ishwa), Local Gems Press, 2024, pp. 151—152.
Tambasco, Tony. "Reasons You Didn't Get the Job." Stage Directions Magazine, March 2019, pp. 16 — 17. http://stage-directions.com/
Tambasco, Tony. "Getting the Most out of Your Set Rental." Breaking Character Magazine, 11 August 2016, http://www.breakingcharactermagazine.com/?p=5534
Tambasco, Tony. Notes from the Breach. The Shakespeare Standard. The Shakespeare Standard. January 2012 - September 2014. Monthly column for electronic publication about performance and scholarship related to the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Available online at http:///www.theshakespearestandard.com
Tambasco, Tony. et al. The American Shakespeare Center's 2009 Blackfriars Conference Live Blog. The American Shakespeare Center. October 2009. Available online at http://ascblackfriars2009.blogspot.com/
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Vermont Stage. Northern New York Flair, June 2007, p. 11.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Parenting 101: The Musical at the Waterfront Theatre. Northern New York Flair, May 2007.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Childen of Men. Northern New York Flair, April 2007, p. 8.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. Northern New York Flair, February 2007, p. 6.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Apocalypto. Northern New York Flair, January 2007, p. 6.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Catalyst Theatre Co.'s The People Speak. Northern New York Flair, November 2006, p. 12.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Camelot at The Depot Theatre. Northern New York Flair, August 2006, p. 14.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land by John Crowley. Northern New York Flair, August 2006, pp. 10+.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Angels in America: Peristroika at Pendragon Theatre. Northern New York Flair, August 2006, p. 10.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of While We've Still Got Feet by David Budbill. Northern New York Flair, July 2006.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of One Act Play Festival at SUNY Potsdam. Northern New York Flair, June 2006, p. 8.
Tambasco, Tony. "SUNY Potsdam's One Act Play Festival." Northern New York Flair, May 2006, pp. 4+.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Dancing at Lughnasa at SUNY Potsdam. Northern New York Flair, May 2006, p. 4.
Tambasco, Tony. Review of Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg. Northern New York Flair, April 2006, p. 4.
Feeny-Williams, Rachel, host. "The Panel Presents." Theatrical Shenanigans Podcast., episode 9, Theatrical Shenanigans, 2 March 2024, theatricalshenanigans.podbean.com/e/the-panel-presents-episode-9-rachel-kim-loretta-tony/
Grasso, Nicholas. "Shakespeare in the Park back in Greenport village." The Suffolk Times. 4 August 2023. suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2023/08/shakespeare-in-the-park-back-in-greenport-village/
Haber, Gary. "'The Tempest' coming to Shorefront Park on Aug 3." The Long Island Advance. 19 July 2023. www.longislandadvance.net/stories/theres-a-storm-brewing,92953
Sansone-Braff, Cindi. "A Stellar Production of 'Capriccio Radio' at the BACCA Center" (review of Capriccio Radio). Smithtown Matters. 4 May 2023. www.smithtownmatters.com/long-island-theater/2023/5/4/theatre-review-capriccio-radio-at-bacca-center.html.
Crighton, Robert, host. "Discussing: Jack Straw with Tony Tambasco." The Beyond Shakespeare Podcast, episode 250, Beyond Shakespeare, 10 February 2023, beyondshakespeare.org/2023/02/10/discussing-jack-straw-with-tony-tambasco/.
"A new-look 'Mikado' comes to Bethpage." Mid-Island Times, 23 June 2022, www.midislandtimes.com/articles/a-new-look-mikado-comes-to-bethpage/.
Kostelec, Dan. "Shakespeare's Coffee Break." Facebook, uploaded by Shakespeare's Coffee Break, 14 April 2021, www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=452446616056386
Mulcahy, Lisa. "Get to know Tony Tambasco." Stage Directions Magazine. September 2018. p. 25.
Loschiavo, LindaAnn. "Anna Karenina Lives! Interview With Tony Tambasco, Director Of Bad Quarto." L'IDEA Magazine. 19 Oct. 2017. lideamagazine.com/anna-karenina-lives-interview-with-tony-tambasco-director-of-bad-quarto/
---. "Mae West To The Rescue In Russia. STAGE REVIEW: Anna Karenina Lives! By Germaine Shames." L'IDEA Magazine. 19 Oct. 2017. lideamagazine.com/mae-west-rescue-russia-stage-review-anna-karenina-lives-germaine-shames/
Eddy, Michael. "Muslin, Paint and Light." Stage Directions Magazine. April 2017. pp. 18 - 26.
Miller, Howard. Review of The Life and Death of Jack Straw. Talkin' Broadway. 7 November 2016. talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/11_07_16.html
---. Review of Hamlet, The First Quarto. Talkin' Broadway. 2 April 2016. talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/4_02_16.html
Fisher, Tanyia. Review of The Greenhouse Ensemble Ten Minute Play Soiree. Stage Buddy. 21 June 2016. stagebuddy.com/theater/theater-review/review-greenhouse-ensembles-ten-minute-play-soiree
Hudak, Ryan. "Ryan Hudak interviews Artistic Diretcor Tony Tambasco on Bad Quarto's production of The Taming of a Shrew. New York Theatre Review. 17 October 2015. newyorktheatrereview.blogspot.com/2015/10/ryan-hudak-interviews-artistic-director.html
Mellerup, Rick. "Liked, but Didn't Swoon Over I Love a Piano." The Sand Paper. 13 September 2013. Web.
Cofta, Mark. Review of The Merry Devil of Edmonton. City Paper. 12 September 2010.
Schlesinger, Lee. "Soundboard is a sound option for stage performances." Sourceforge Community Blog, 21 July 2010, sourceforge.net/blog/soundboard-is-a-sound-option-for-stage-performances/.
Crean, Elisabeth. "Getting Down Under" (Review of Our Country's Good). Seven Days. 26 March 2008. www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/getting-down-under/Content?oid=2133131.
---. "Southern Exposure" (Review of To Kill a Mockingbird). Seven Days. 7 May 2008. www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/southern-exposure/Content?oid=2133429.
Hallenbeck, Brent. Review of Closer. The Burlington Free Press. 20 October 2007. p. 1C.
Burns, Gail M. Review of The Bakerloo Theatre Project's Macbeth. Gail Sez. July 2007. Web.
---. Review of The Bakerloo Theatre Project's The Tempest. Gail Sez. July 2008. Web.
---. Review of The Bakerloo Theatre Project's Cherry Orchard. Gail Sez. July 2008. Web.
| Show | Role | Author | Producer / Company | Performance Venue | Location |
| The Remake |
Director | David L. Williams | PlayZoomers | streamed | online |
| "The Press Conference" (rehearsed reading) |
Director | Jeff Perlman | PlayZoomers | streamed | online |
| "Line" |
Director | Donald Steven Olson | PlayZoomers | streamed | online |
| "As Pat Glides On Into the Future" |
Director | Barry Weinberg | PlayZoomers | streamed | online |
| Anatomy of a Broken Love Affair | Director | Celia McBride | PlayZoomers | streamed | online |
| "Armchair Critic" | Director | Nicky Denovan | PlayZoomers | streamed | online |
| "As Pat Glides On Into the Future" (rehearsed reading) |
Director | Barry Weinberg | PlayZoomers | streamed | online |
| The Tempest | Director | William Shakespeare | Northeast Stage | Eastern Long Island tour | mutiple |
| Capriccio Radio | Director | Larry Rinkle | Modern Classics Theatre Co. of Long Island | BACCA | Lindenhurst, NY |
| Fun Home | Director | Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori | The Studio Theatre of Long Island | Manes Studio Theatre | Lindenhurst, NY |
| The Mikado: A Long Island Fantasy | Director/Choreographer | Gilbert & Sullivan | The G&S Light Opera Co. of Long Island | Long Island tour | multiple |
| Ion | Director | Plato | αgora θeoria | streamed | online |
| The Unnatural Combat (rehearsed reading) |
Director | Philip Massinger | Sweet Tea Shakespeare | streamed | online |
| "Fathers Playing Catch with Sons" | Director | Marty Madden | Almost Adults Productions | streamed | online |
| Stranded: Views from Quarantine | Assoc. Director with Phyllis Kaye | Stage Partners Playwrights | Pride Performing Arts | streamed | online |
| All About Image / We Are the Elite | Director | Marcina Zaccaria | The New York International Fringe Festival | The Kraine Theater | New York |
| The Comedy of Errors jr. | Director | Adapted from the play by William Shakespeare | The Bay Street Theater | The Bay Street Theater | Sag Harbor, NY |
| Gödel (staged reading) |
Director | William Hugel | William Hugel | Theater for the New City Cino Theater |
New York |
| Romeo and Juliet | Director | William Shakespeare | The Sheboygan Theatre Co. | Leslie W. Johnson Theatre | Sheboygan, WI |
| Anna Karenina Lives! | Director | Germaine Shames | Bad Quarto Productions | 48th St. Studio | New York |
| "Second Hand Life" | Director | Kim Catano | White Plains Performing Arts Center | White Plains Performing Arts Center | White Plains, NY |
| The Life and Death of Jack Straw | Director | anonymous | Bad Quarto Productions | 48th St. Studio | New York |
| "Rude Awakening" | Director | Geanice Gee | Leela NYC Theatre Festival | Goddard Riverside Bernie Wohl Center | New York |
| "Green Sound" | Director | John Patrick Bray | The Greenhouse Ensemble | Franciscan Community Center | New York |
| Hamlet, The First Quarto | Director | William Shakespeare (?) | Bad Quarto Productions | 48th St. Studio | New York |
| As You Like It | Co-Director with Jeremy Fiebig | William Shakespeare | Sweet Tea Shakespeare | Local Tour | Fayetteville, NC |
| The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto | Director | William Shakespeare (?) | Bad Quarto Productions | 48th St. Studio | New York |
| The SantaLand Diaries | Director | David Sedaris | Bad Quarto Productions | The Off Center / North End Studios | Burlington, VT |
| "Actor/Acted" | Director | Tom Block | Grex Group Theatre | Theatre 54: Shetler Studios | New York |
| Julius Caesar | Director | William Shakespeare | Sweet Tea Shakespeare | Local Tour | Fayetteville, NC |
| Camp Rock (selections) | Director | Faye Greenberg and Robert L. Freedman | Camp Walden | HHC Playhouse | Denmark, ME |
| My Fair Lady (selections) | Director | Lerner and Loewe | Camp Walden | HHC Playhouse | Denmark, ME |
| Bye Bye Birdie (Young Performers Ed.) | Director | Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, and Lee Adams | Camp Walden | HHC Playhouse | Denmark, ME |
| The Little Mermaid Jr. | Director | Menken, Ashman, Wright, and Slater | Camp Walden | HHC Playhouse | Denmark, ME |
| Guys and Dolls Jr. | Director | Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling | Camp Walden | HHC Playhouse | Denmark, ME |
| Cinderella Kids | Director | Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II | Camp Walden | HHC Playhouse | Denmark, ME |
| The Cronicle Historie of Henry the Fift | Director | William Shakespeare | Bad Quarto Productions | 48th St. Studio | New York |
| The SantaLand Diaries | Director | David Sedaris | Bad Quarto Productions | Tour | Burlington, VT; Jeffersonville, VT |
| The Ballad of Dido | Writer/Director | Tony Tambasco | Bad Quarto Productions | Tour | Philadelphia, PA; Staunton, VA |
| The Byron Project | Asst. Director to Matthew Davies | George Chapman | Mary Baldwin University Graduate Program in Shakespeare and Performance | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| As You Like It | Director | William Shakespeare | Weathervane Playhouse | Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Big River | Asst. Director to Brice Corder | William Hauptman and Roger Miller |
Weathervane Playhouse | Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Asst. Director to Matthew Davies | William Shakespeare | Mary Baldwin University Graduate Program in Shakespeare and Performance | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| Our Town | Director | Thornton Wilder | Stuart Hall School | King Theatre | Staunton, VA |
| The Vagina Monologues | Director | Eve Ensler | Bad Quarto Productions | Masonic Hall | Staunton, VA |
| The Second Shepherds' Play | Director | Anonymous | Bad Quarto Productions / Stuart Hall School | King Theatre | Staunton, VA |
| The Merry Devil of Edmonton | Director | Anonymous | Bad Quarto Productions | Tour (Blackfriars Playhouse and Philadelphia Fringe Festival) | Staunton, VA; Philadelphia, PA |
| The Producers | Asst. Director to Erika Twining | Mel Brooks | Weathervane Playhouse | Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| The Fairie Queen | Asst. Director to Amanda Devlin Knowlton | Henry Purcell | Mary Baldwin University Graduate Program in Shakespeare and Performance | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| The Second Shepherds' Play | Director | Anonymous | Stuart Hall School | King Theatre | Staunton, VA |
| An Experiment with an Air Pump | Director | Shelagh Stephenson | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| Closer | Director | Patrick Marber | Catalyst Theatre Co. | Waterfront Theatre | Burlington, VT |
| Just Friends | Assoc. Director with Veronica Lopez | Kathryn Blume | Catalyst Theatre Co. | University of Vermont | Burlington, VT |
| Noises Off | Asst. Director to George Pierce | Michael Frayn | Waterbury Festival Players | Waterbury Festival Playhouse | Waterbury, VT |
| Just Friends | Assoc. Director with Veronica Lopez | Kathryn Blume | Catalyst Theatre Co. | University of Vermont | Burlington, VT |
| I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change | Director | Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| "Not I" | Director | Samuel Beckett | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) | Director | Karel Čapek | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| "The Informer" | Director | Bertolt Brecht | Bunbury Theatre Co. | Bunbury Theatre | Jamestown, NY |
| The Threepenny Opera | Director | Bertolt Brecht | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Director | William Shakespeare | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Director | Dale Wasserman | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| The Second Shepherds' Play | Director | Anonymous | SUNY Potsdam | Blackbox Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| "What Where" | Director | Samuel Beckett | SUNY Potsdam | Blackbox Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| "The Field" | Director | Robert Spera | SUNY Potsdam | Blackbox Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
Workshop Leader
"Reasons You Didn't Get the Job." KCACTF Region 2 Conference, 17 Jan 2025. Pittsburgh, PA.
Instructor
Pride Performing Arts; Smithtown, NY
Instructor for "Introduction to Directing," and "Tuning the Actor's Instrument."
Instructor
Pride Performing Arts; Smithtown, NY
Instructor for "Introduction to Performing Shakespeare."
Guest Teaching Artist
The Bay Street Theater; Sag Harbor, NY
Guest teaching artist for "mini-mainstage" production class focussed on an adaptation of The Comedy of Errors. Over the
course of the week, I taught students ages 9 - 12 the basics of Shakespearean text, verse, and staging conditions, culminating in
a public performance on the main stage at the Bay Street Theater.
Guest Teaching Artist
Sheboygan Area School District; Sheboygan, WI
Guest teaching artist for multiple sections of 9th grade English classes studying Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Taught students about Shakespearean
language and staging conditions, and discussed how to use these as guides for reading the plays. Workshopped
scenes in class so they could experience the effect of some of these linguistic and staging conditions in their classrooms,
and to help prepare them for what they would see when they attended a student matinee of Romeo and Juliet (a
production that I directed for the Sheboygan Theatre Co.).
Guest Teaching Artist - "Staging Shakespeare's Verse."
Kids for Kids Productions, Inc.; Oakdale, NY
Workshop in learning to perform Shakespeare's plays with a working knowledge
of how verse and staging conditions can help an actor better understand
those plays and make meaningful acting choices for a mix of secondary school
and college students. Introduced students to
scansion techniques and the verse forms that Shakespeare deploys, and how
rhetorical figures can compliment verse. Also taught students to read the plays
with an understanding of staging conditions like universal lighting, audience
contact, and actor's patrs in mind.
Guest Teaching Artist - Windsock Camp - "Introduction to
Shakespeare's Verse and Staging Conditions."
Weathervane Theatre, Whitefield, NH
Taught a workshop in Shakespeare's verse and staging conditions
with theatre campers aged 8 - 12 using Romeo and Juliet
2.2 (the balcony scene) as an exemplar. Introduced students to
basic scansion techniques and how to use those in performance; as
well as the opportunities afforded by universal lighting, audience
contact, playing darkness, and how to use paraphrase to help
understand a Shakespearean play.
Guest Teaching Artist - Introduction to Theatre - "Playing
the Chorus in Medea"
University of Fayetteville, Fayetteville, NC
Taught workshop/lecture in ancient Greek theatre, focussing on
Euripides' Medea and how music and dance
may be used in the performance of the choral odes. Provided broad
overview of ancient Greek culture and
theatre in a brief introductory lecture.
Adjunct Professor of Communication - Introduction to Public
Speaking
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
Taught undergraduates how to properly organize and deliver public
speeches in civic, academic, and
ceremonial settings, with special focuses on classical rhetoric as
described by Aristotle and invitational
speaking as described by Cindy L. Griffin.
Teaching Fellow / Instructor - Intermediate
Composition
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
Taught undergraduates (primarily first semester freshmen) the
techniques of proper organization and
construction of academic research and writing.
Teaching Fellow / Lab Instructor - Introduction to Public
Speaking
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
Taught undergraduates how to properly organize and deliver public
speeches in civic, academic, and
ceremonial settings, with special focuses on classical rhetoric as
described by Aristotle and invitational
speaking as described by Cindy L. Griffin as a lab instructor for
Dr. Bruce Dorries' introductory public
speaking class
Guest Instructor - "The Shepherds' Waltz"
Nelson County Middle School, Lovingston, VA
Taught lessons on the influence of verse and rhetoric on stage
compositions to Nelson County Middle School students as part of their
annual Shakespeare Festival Day. Explored the role of Silvius and
Phoebe, who were cut from NCMS's production of As You Like
It, in act 5, scene 2.
Guest Instructor - "Playing with Gender Roles and Audience
Contact in Othello"
Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, VA
Taught Introduction to Composition students studying
Othello. Explored different
interpretations of Desdemona's power in act 2, scene 1.
Guest Lecturer - "Brush Up Your Middleton"
The American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA
Presented a combination lecture/workshop to help acquaint the general
public with Thomas Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One, and to
compare and contrast Middleton's and Shakespeare's comic styles.
Teaching Artist
Stuart Hall School, Staunton, VA
Taught Introduction to Theatre class to high school freshmen,
incorporating the works of Peter Brook, Bertolt Brecht, and Uta Hagen,
using Thornton Wilder's Our Town as a focus for the class,
mounting a production at the end of the marking period.
Guest Instructor
Nelson County Middle School, Lovingston, VA
Taught middle school students to find textual clues for building a
character and ways of playing these on stage as part of Nelson County
Middle School's annual Shakespeare Festival day.
Instructor of Acting
Creative Spirit Arts Center, Potsdam, NY.
Taught high school age students the foundational principles of
acting. Taught them to develop a sense of
the practice of acting, the process of observation, ways of expressing
themselves non-verbally on stage, script analysis for the actor.
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
State University of New York College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Taught undergraduates the principles of computer science. Established
CIS 100 as a survey of computer science course to introduce non-majors
to the principles of hardware and software design, algorithms,
operating systems, and programming.
Lab Assistant - Introduction to Data Structures
State University of New York College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Assisted Students enrolled in various sections of Introduction to Data
Structures (introduction to Computer Science for Computer Science
majors) by providing out of class tutoring and mentoring during
regular hours in the computer science lab. Occasionally graded written
assignments as requested by Computer Science faculty.
Teaching Assistant - Freshman Composition, Honors
State University of New York College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Assisted Dr. Judith Weise with preparing and grading assignments,
lecturing, and providing out-of-class tutoring and mentoring for the
honors section of Freshman Composition.
Teaching Assistant - Freshman Composition, Honors
State University of New York College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Assisted Dr. Roberta Schreyer with preparing and grading assignments,
lecturing, and providing out-of-class tutoring and mentoring for the
honors section of Freshman Composition.
Writing Center Tutor
State University of New York College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Tutored students of all disiciplines on basic principles of grammar
and structures of academic writing as part of the writing center
staff.
Facilitator. Can Theatre Still Be Theatre When We Aren't Sharing Physical Space? Creating Theatre in Virtual Spaces. Director's Gathering (online), 19 July 2026.
"'Child's Play:' The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Young People to Appropriate Shakespeare." 'Whither wander you?' New Directions in Premodern Performance, Premodern Performance Cultures online symposium, 8 July 2021.
"Political Shakespeare's Contribution to White Supremacy." Theatre Symposium 30: Theatre and Politics, SETC virtual conference. 10 April, 2021.
@tambascot (Tony Tambasco). "De-Canonizing Shakespeare." Making Connections: a Humanities Commons Twitter Conference (#HCTwitterConf19), Twitter, 18 July 2019, 12:20 p.m., twitter.com/i/moments/1153059023161372678.
Tambasco, Tony. "Marlowe's Poetic Genius: Influence of Vergil and Ovid in Dido, Queen of Carthage." The Marlowe Society of America International Marlowe Conference. June 25 - 28, 2013. Discussed Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage as a better reading of Vergil's Aeneid than most modern scholarship has allowed, and argued that Marlowe's play is better regarded as a straight-forward tragedy than an attempt to burlesque Vergil's epic.
Tambasco, Tony. "Bad Quartos: Beyond the Above." College English Association Annual Conference (Blackfriars Panel). March 29 - 31, 2012. Discussed how interrogating assumptions about the possible genesis of "bad quartos" as touring scripts by staging productions of them on tour can help theatre practitioners and scholars illuminate the place of "bad quartos" in the theatrical process.
Tambasco, Tony. "Textual Necromancy: Conjuring a Fringe Festival Performance from the Corrupt and Contradictory Text of The Merry Devil of Edmonton." Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. October 14 - 16, 2010. Discussed how performance can be used to fill in some of the gaps of the anonymous Merry Devil of Edmonton, and that ways that can help editors produce texts for non-performers.
Tambasco, Tony. "The Play's the Thing." English Graduate Student Association at UNC Charlotte Annual Conference. January 29, 2009. Discussed the post-structuralist nature of the performance of medieval texts, specifically using my 2009 production of The Second Shepherds' Play as a model.
Tambasco, T. (July 2008). "Tchaikovsky Remixed." Presentation given to the Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts on the use of open source software and creative commons licensed media in my sound design for Champlain College's 2008 production of Our Country's Good.
Tambasco, Tony. "One of These Things is Not Like the Other: An Examination of Human Social and Technological Conflict in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)." English Graduate Student Association at UNC Charlotte Annual Conference. January 6, 2006. Paper exploring the relevence of Čapek's early 20th century social commentary in the context of a 21st century theatrical production.
Tambasco, Tony, Judith Weise and Anthony Parcero. "Technological Enhancement and Design Changes: The Process of Migrating Computer-based Instruction of an 8th Century Poem to a 21st Century Environment." ACM SIGDOC/IPCC Conference. Sept 24 - 27, 2000. Paper detailing the challenges and opportunities in the migration of a hypercard version of The Dream of the Rood to a web-based platform.
| Show | Role | Supervisor | Producer / Company | Performance Venue | Location |
| 2024 — present | Assc. Production Manager & Rentals Manager | Brian Loesch, Production Manager | The Gateway | The Gateway Playhouse | Bellport, NY |
| 2015 — 2024 | Asst. Production Manager & Rentals Manager | Brian Loesch, Production Manager | The Gateway | The Gateway Playhouse and The Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts |
Bellport, NY |
| Sweet Charity | Production and Tour Manager | Paula Hammons Sloan, Director | Boebe Productions | National Tour | National Tour |
| Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
Production Stage Manager | Tara Bradway, Artistic Director | Adirondack Shakespeare Co. | Various | Adirondack Tour |
| The Byron Project | Stage Manager | Matthew Davies, Director | MBC Shakespeare and Performance | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| The 6th Bi-annual Blackfriars Conference | Stage Manager | Sarah Enloe, Director of ASC Education | The American Shakespeare Center | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Stage Manager | Matthew Davies, Director | MBC Shakespeare and Performance | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| Virginia Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest | Stage Manager | Sarah Enloe, Director of ASC Education | Poetry Out Loud | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| Regional Shakespeare Competition | Stage Manager | Sarah Enloe, Director of ASC Education | The English Speaking Union of the United States | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| Love, Janis; Boomermania: The Musical; Jon Peterson's Song Man, Dance Man; The Watercoolers; The Johnny Mercer Jamboree; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; Flanagan's Wake; Live with Cyndi Miller; Nunsense: Amen; ...and Stockings for the Ladies |
Production Manager | Christopher Kowalski, Producing Director | The Downstairs Cabaret Theatre | The Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, DCT 2, The DCT Center, Local Tours |
Rochester, NY |
| The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Stage Manager | Veronica Lopez, Director | Catalyst Theatre Co. | The Waterfront Theatre | Burlington, VT |
| Flying on the Bright Wings of Despair | Stage Manager | Stephen Goldberg, Writer/Director | One Take Productions | Varius | Montpelier, VT; Burlington, VT |
| The Author's Voice | Stage Manager | Richard Gonyea, Director | SUNY Potsdam | The Blackbox Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| Rough for Theatre II | Stage Manager | Bryan Higby, Director | SUNY Potsdam | The Blackbox Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| Show | Role | Author | Director | Producer / Company | Performance Venue | Location |
| Sweet Charity | Projection Designer | Neil Simon and Bob Fosse | Paula Hammons Sloan | Boebe Productions | National Tour | National Tour |
| Holly Jolly Holidazzle | Sound Designer / Engineer | Andrew Foote and Steve Steiner | Paula Hammons Sloan | Ocean Professional Theatre Co. | Ocean First Theater | Manahawkin, NJ |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Sound Designer / Engineer | James Rana | Gayle Stahlhuth | Ocean Professional Theatre Co. | Ocean First Theater | Manahawkin, NJ |
| Here's Killing You Kid | Sound Designer | Keith Schneider | Ocean Professional Theatre Co. | Captain's Inn | Forked River, NJ | |
| Blondes Still Have More Fun | Sound Designer / Engineer | Misty Rowe | Misty Rowe | Jersey Shore Entertainment | Heritage Point Ballroom | Barnegat, NJ |
| A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline | Sound Designer / Engineer | Dean Reagan | Misty Rowe | Ocean Professional Theatre Co. | Ocean First Theatre | Manahawkin, NJ |
| I Love a Piano | Sound Designer / Engineer | Irving Berlin | Paula Hammons Sloan | Ocean Professional Theatre Co. | Barnegat High School Theatre | Barnegat, NJ |
| Once on this Island | Sound Designer / Engineer | Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty | Jacques Stewart | Weathervane Theatre Co. | Weathervane Theatre | Whitefield, NH |
| Funny Money | Sound Designer | Ray Cooney | Steve Witting | Weathervane Theatre Co. | Weathervane Theatre | Whitefield, NH |
| Shrek | Sound Designer / Engineer | David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori | Jacques Stewart | Weathervane Theatre Co. | Weathervane Theatre | Whitefield, NH |
| Les Miserables | Sound Designer / Engineer | Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg | Cristin J. Hubbard and Jacques Stewart | Weathervane Theatre Co. | Weathervane Theatre | Whitefield, NH |
| Sing a Song of Sondheim | Sound Designer / Engineer | Jacques Stewart, Colin Keating, Stephen Sondheim | Francis Kelly | Weathervane Theatre Co. | Weathervane Theatre | Whitefield, NH |
| Circle Mirror Transformation | Sound Designer | Annie Baker | Nicole Lewis | Weathervane Theatre Co. | Weathervane Theatre | Whitefield, NH |
| Annie Get Your Gun | Sound Designer / Engineer | Irving Berlin, Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Peter Stone | Jacques Stewart | Weathervane Theatre Co. | Weathervane Theatre | Whitefield, NH |
| S'Wonderful | Sound Designer / Engineer | George & Ira Gershwin, Ray Roderick | Paula Hammons Sloan | Ocean Professional Theatre Co. | Ocean First Theatre | Manahawkin, NJ |
| Anything to Declare | Asst. Sound Designer to Eileen Smitheimer | Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Veber, Trans. by Greg Learning |
Steve Tague | UD Resident Ensemple Players | Roselle Center for the Arts | Newark, DE |
| The Weir | Asst. Sound Designer to Eileen Smitheimer | Conor McPherson | Leslie Reidel | UD Resident Ensemple Players | Roselle Center for the Arts | Newark, DE |
| The Good War | Sound Designer | David H. Bell and Craig Carnelia | Jen Bender | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Chicago | Sound Designer / Engineer | John Kander and Fred Ebb | Scott Keyes | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| The Sound of Music | Sound Designer / Engineer | Rodgers and Hammerstein | Brice Corder | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Big River | Sound Designer / Engineer | Hauptman and Miller | Brice Corder | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| The 39 Steps | Sound Designer | Rodgers and Hammerstein | John Hurley | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Little Shop of Horrors | Sound Designer / Engineer | Menken and Ashman | Brice Corder | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Plaid Tidings | Sound Designer / Engineer | Stuart Ross et al. | Brice Corder | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Hairspray | Sound Designer / Engineer | O'Donnell et al. | Erika Twining | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Alice in Wonderland | Digital Orchestrations | Tim Kelly | Brice Corder | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| The Producers | Sound Designer / Engineer | Mel Brooks | Erika Twining | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| My Fair Lady | Sound Designer / Engineer | Lerner and Loew | Erika Twining | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| The Secret Garden | Sound Designer / Engineer | Norman and Simon | Matthew Trombetta | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Into the Woods | Sound Designer / Engineer | Sondheim and Lapine | Matthew Trombetta | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| The Cemetery Club | Sound Designer | Ivan Menchell | Matthew Trombetta | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Sweet Charity | Sound Designer / Engineer | Neil Simon and Bob Fosse | Erika Twining | The Weathervane Playhouse | The Weathervane Playhouse | Newark, OH |
| Song Man, Dance Man | Lighting Designer | Jon Peterson | Jon Peterson | The Downstairs Cabaret Theatre | The Downstairs Cabaret Theatre | Rochester, NY |
| ...and Stockings for the Ladies | Scene Cordinator | Attila Clemann | Zach Frasier | The Downstairs Cabaret Theatre | DCT 2 | Rochester, NY |
| Cherry Orchard | Lighting Designer | Anton Chekhov | Ryan Howe | The Bakerloo Theatre Project | Rensselear Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY |
| The Tempest | Lighting Designer | William Shakespeare | William Addis | The Bakerloo Theatre Project | Rensselear Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Lighting and Scene Designer | Adapted from the Novel by Harper Lee | Kathleen Keenan | Lost Nation Theatre | City Hall Performing Arts Center | Montpelier, VT |
| Our Country's Good | Sound Designer | Timberlake Wertenbaker | Joanne Farrell | Champlain College | Flynn Space | Burlington, VT |
| The Imaginary Invalid | Lighting Designer | Moliere | Ryan Howe | The Bakerloo Theatre Project | Rensselear Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY |
| Macbeth | Lighting Designer | William Shakespeare | William Addis | The Bakerloo Theatre Project | Rensselear Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY |
| Twist in the Rising | Lighting Designer | Sarah Dawson Brock | Teresa Langston | Moxie Productions | Harwood Union High School | South Duxbury, VT |
| The Giver | Lighting and Sound Designer | Eric Cable | Neilson R. Jones | Confetti Stage | Joseph Bruno Theater | Troy, NY |
| Anyone Can Whistle | Scene and Lighting Designer | Sondheim and Laurence | Peter Boynton | Harwood Union High School | Harwood Union High School | South Duxbury, VT |
| Corpus Christi | Lighting and Sound Designer | Terence McNally | Neilson R. Jones | Confetti Stage | Joseph Bruno Theater | Troy, NY |
| The Eight: Reindeer Monologues | Sound Designer | Jeff Goode | Neilson R. Jones | Confetti Stage | Various | Local Tour |
| Frozen | Sound Designer | Bryony Lavery | Neilson R. Jones | Confetti Stage | Joseph Bruno Theater | Troy, NY |
| How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Lighting Designer | Loesser et al | Brian Crook | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| Alice in Wonderland | Sound Designer | Tim Kelly | Neilson R. Jones | Confetti Stage | Joseph Bruno Theater | Troy, NY |
| Final Jeopardy | Lighting Designer | Maura Campbell | Monica Callan | Moxie Productions | Harwood Union High School | South Duxbury, VT |
| M*A*S*H | Lighting Designer | Tim Kelly | Clifton Mills | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | Scene and Lighting Designer | Goodrich and Hackett | Matthew J. Kraft | The Bunbury Theatre Co. | The Bunbury Theatre | Jamestown, NY |
| The House of Blue Leaves | Scene Designer | John Guare | Lyndsey Jones | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| The Foreigner | Lighting Designer | Larry Shue | Matthew J. Kraft | The Bunbury Theatre Co. | The Bunbury Theatre | Jamestown, NY |
| Chicago | Sound Designer | Kander and Ebb | Brett Smock | The Papermill Theatre Co. | The Papermill Theatre | Lincoln, NH |
| Footloose | Sound Designer | Snow et al. | Brett Smock | The Papermill Theatre Co. | The Papermill Theatre | Lincoln, NH |
| Just Getting Even | Sound Designer | Matthew J. Kraft | Matthew J. Kraft | SUNY Potsdam | Blackbox Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| WASP | Sound Designer | Steve Martin | Jeremy Montroy | SUNY Potsdam | College Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| Show | Role | Author | Director | Producer / Company | Performance Venue | Location |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Leonato | William Shakespeare | Jeremy Fiebig | Sweet Tea Shakespeare | Fayetteville Botanical Gardens | Fayetteville, NC |
| Meet Ben Jonson | Ben Jonson | Michael Hirrel | Shannon Schultz | The American Shakespeare Center | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| A Game at Chess | The Fat Bishop | Thomas Middleton | Jeremy Fiebig | The American Shakespeare Center | The Blackfriars Playhouse | Staunton, VA |
| Desire, Desire, Desire | Stanley | Christopher Durang | Lekshmy Sankar | Clarkson University | Snell Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| The Birds | Messenger Bird | Aristophanes | Kimberley Bouchard | SUNY Potsdam | College Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| Lines of an Unknown Poet | Raymond Radiguet | Nola Rocco | Nola Rocco | SUNY Potsdam | College Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| Down and Out | The Poet | John Patrick Shanley | Bryan Higby | SUNY Potsdam | Blackbox Theatre | Potsdam, NY |
| Show | Director | Producer / Company | Performance Venue | Location |
| Maine Junction | Chris Forge | Foothills Arts Council | Rao Theater | Johnstown, NY |
| The Quintessence of Dust | Dalton Cross | SUNY Potsdam | Plays Across the Walls Festival | streamed |
| The True History of the Famous Duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr | Katy Mulvaney | The Incarnate Word Academy | The Incarnate Word Academy | Houston, TX |
| The Princess of America | Pete Bowers | Darkhorse Dramatists | Tri-Cities Opera Center | Binghamton, NY |
| The Ballad of Dido | Tony Tambasco | Bad Quarto Productions | Tour | Philadelphia, PA; Staunton, VA |
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