TCU DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
FACULTY MEMBER

Lisa Dalton

Adjunct Instructor
B.A.-University of Maryland
Graduate Studies, American University
Screen Actors Guild
American Federation of Radio and Television Artists
Actors Equity Association
American Guild of Variety Artists
Film Independent

Lisa Dalton teaches Michael Chekhov’s Acting Techniques as an adjunct at TCU.  Since 1994, Lisa has been a Master Instructor of the Chekhov Theatre Institute at the University of Southern Maine; currently the only University endorsed Chekhov Technique Teacher Certificate Training Track worldwide. She was a co-founder of the International Michael Chekhov Association, administrating, teaching, directing and acting in Moscow, Berlin, and London. She was the Creator/Artistic Director of the first two Michael Chekhov International Workshops in the Americas, at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. She has been a guest teacher/adjunct at numerous Universities including The Sorbonne, NYU, Brooklyn College, Curry College, Maharishi University, Emerson and Central Connecticut State University. For eighteen years, Lisa taught at the American Film Institute with the Hollywood SAG Conservatory as well as at her studio, the Chekhov Connection Studio. She has judged numerous events including TV Emmy’s, Cable Ace Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Irene Ryan Preliminaries, International and State Thespian Festivals, and the Donna Reed Festival.

Lisa Dalton’s professional performance career includes co-founding and performing for 4 years with the Bond Street Theatre at La Mama in New York. Bond Street is known for it’s eco-socio multi-genre performances that integrate into its original plays extensive circus skills, combat, puppetry, mask, mime, vocal and instrumental music. Techniques focused on many European approaches including Grotowski, Le Coq, Polish Mime Theatre, Commedia ‘dell, Meyerholdt Biomechanics and Marital Arts.  With these skills Lisa was also a professional Stuntwoman and clown/comedienne for ten additional years on the east coast. Credits include Splash, Ghostbusters, F/X, Money Pit, The Last Dragon, Crocodile Dundee, Saturday Night Live, 4 Soap Operas, and numerous commercials. In Los Angeles, as an actress, Lisa’s TV credits include ER, Melrose Place, Dr. Quinn, and Carnivale, many more commercials, independent films and plays.  She is a recipient of the DramaLogue Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting. As a producer/director, awards include Houston Worldfest, Hollywood Film Festival, London Film Festival, and Petersburg Film Festival, working on over one hundred film, video and stage projects.