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Not My Fault- 2007

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Christmas 1933-2005

War Of The Worlds

Charlotte's Web

Dracula

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Christmas 1933-2006 show

Christmas Stories

Lincoln Weekend- 2008

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The Writer's Project

Spoon River Anthology

Heart Songs

Charlotte's Web goes West

Hammerstone

Broadway Showstoppers

Animal Farm- 2010

Collaborators

FOUNDER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Jeffrey Stocker

JEFFREY STOCKER
Professional Acting Coach for Stage and Film

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Jeffrey Stocker is the Founder and Director of the American Readers Theatre, a 501(3)c not-for-profit arts organization which promotes literacy; located in New York, Pennsylvania, and Oregon.


He opened his own acting studio in New York City in 1978, when he created a unique audition "cold-reading" acting technique for both stage and film.  As a professional director he has directed over 100 stage productions and readings in NYC at the National Arts Club, Players Club, Princeton Club, and City College of NY.  He has collaborated with award-winning playwrights Edward Albee and Christopher Durang.


Jeffrey Stocker has also been on the teaching faculty of the Joffrey Ballet School in NYC, the Portland Festival Ballet Studio in Oregon, and the Magnus Midwest Summer Dance Intensive, where he created a highly successful acting program called ACTING FOR THE DANCER.


As the prestigious National Arts Club in NYC, Mr. Stocker served for many years as the Chair of the Theatre Drama Committee, and has directed Frances Sternhagen, Joan Copeland, Cliff Robertson, and Tammy Grimes in numerous readings there. In 2010 he directed Olympia Dukakis in NYC in a new play written by Robert Anderson called “The Last Act Is A Solo”.

His acting clients can be seen today performing in Broadway and regional theaters, on television, and in motion pictures.  Among them are: Anne Nathan, Crista Moore, Christopher Innvar, Sean McDermott, Aiko Nakasome, Rory Culkin, and members from the casts of “Mama Mia”, “Grease”, “Phantom of the Opera”, “Chicago”. “Ragtime’. “Les Miserables” and “West Side Story”, just to name a few.


Most recently, Jeffrey Stocker has been awarded grants from the EITC grant in Pennsylvania, the NEA for the BIG READ, Christopher D. Smither's Foundation for the creation of the Theatre Workshop/teen alcohol awareness program, and the Noel Coward Foundation.

  

Currently, Jeffrey Stocker is the Artistic Director for the Presby Players in Port Jervis,  New York, the oldest community theater in New York State. He continues to teach acting, and direct readings and full productions throughout the country.

 


 



 Productions

The Last Act Is A Solo                                  Portland, Oregon …National Arts Club, NYC
The Cocktail Hour 
      (Starring Remak Ramsay)                      National Arts Club, NYC
Everyone Expects Me To Write Another “Streetcar”
     (Starring Jeremy Lawrence)                    National Arts Club, NYC
Love From Shakespeare to Coward
     (Starring Tammy Grimes)                       National Arts Club, NYC
Mr. Williams and Miss Wood
     (Starring Francis Sternhagen)                 National Arts Club, NYC
I Can’t Remember Anything
     (Starring Joan Copeland)                        National Arts Club, NYC
Backwards In High Heels
     (Starring Louisa Cabot)                          National Arts Club, NYC
The Zoo Story ( 50th Anniversary Reading
     in collaboration with Edward Albee)         National Arts Club, NYC
Durang/Durang                                          National Arts Club, NYC
The Rodgers & Hammerstein Songbook.       Presby Players, Port Jervis NY.
The Comedy of Life                                     Presby Players, Port Jervis N.Y
The Ladies of Spoon River                           Presby Players, Port Jervis N.Y
HeartSongs by Mattie Sepanek                    National Arts Club, NYC
Forevermore-Edgar Allen Poe                      Delaware Valley School District, PA
The Lincoln Letters                                     The Columns Museum, Milford PA
The Noel Coward Songbook                         National Arts Club, NYC
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.      The Columns Museum, Milford PA
The Grapes of Wrath….BIG READ                 Pike County Public Library, Mlford PA
American Talking Heads                              National Arts Club, NYC
Gift of the Magi                                          The Columns Museum, Milford PA
Our Town                                                  Grey Towers Heritage, Milford PA
Not My Fault
 (in collaboration with Christopher Durang).  National Arts Club, NYC
Christmas 1933                                          National Arts Club, NYC
Dracula                                                     Grey Towers Heritage, Milford PA
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof                                 National Arts Club, NYC
James Pinchot-The Father of Conservation    Grey Towers Heritage, Milford PA
Charlotte’s Web                                          Grey Towers Heritage, Milford PA;
                                                                National Arts Club, NYC
                                                                Beaverton Library, OR
War of the Worlds                                      Grey Towers Heritage, MilfordPA
Glass Menagerie                                        City College of NYC
Night Mother
   (Starring Kelly Bishop and Crista Moore).  National Arts Club, NYC
Kennedy’s Children                                    City College of NYC Grad. Honors Program
Real Queen of Hearts                                 National Arts Club, NYC
Sunday on the Rocks                                 National Arts Club, NYC
Hooters                                                    City College of NYC
Visitors Fom Chicago                                 National Arts Club, NYC
Ladies In Waiting                                      Acting Studio, NYC
The Bullpen                                              Acting Studio, NYC
Bedrooms                                                Acting Studio, NYC 
Visit To A Small Planet                              National Arts Club, NYC
Lovers and Other Strangers                       Acting Studio, NYC
Effect Of Gamma Rays                              Smithers Foundation, NYC
The VIP (with Cliff Robertson).                  Smithers Foundation, NYC
The Rainmaker                                         City College of NYC
Gift of the Magi                                        National Arts Club, NYC
The Mind with a Dirty Man                         National Arts Club, NYC
The Women                                             National Arts Club, NYC
Rapunzel                                                 Int'l Performing Arts Festival, Milford, PA
Rumors                                                   Acting Studio, NYC
Haunting of Hill House                              National Arts Club, NYC
Seven Year Itch                                       National Arts Club, NYC
Dracula                                                   National Arts Club, NYC
Blue Denim                                             National Arts Club, NYC
The Matchmaker                                      National Arts Club, NYC
The Runner Stumbles                               National Arts Club, NYC
Twelve Angry Men                                   City College, NYC
Counting The Ways
   (in collaboration with Edward Albee)      City College, NYC
Beautiful Bodies                                      National Arts Club, NYC
Chapter Two                                           Acting Studio, NYC
Of Mice and Men                                     City College, NYC
Lady House Blues                                   National Arts Club, NYC
Boy’s Life                                               National Arts Club, NYC
The Children’s Hour                                National Arts Club, NYC
That Championship Season                     National Arts Club, NYC
Steel Magnolias                                     National Arts Club, NYC
A Girl’s Guide To Chaos                          National Arts Club, NYC
Last Of The Red Hot Lovers                    National Arts Club, NYC
Butterflies Are Free                                National Arts Club, NYC
Dead People Aren’t Scary                       NYU Graduate Theatre/Dept. NYC
Wrong Turn at Lungfish                          National Arts Club, NYC
Sunday On The Rocks                            National Arts Club, NYC
The Dinner Party                                   Acting Studio, NYC
Blithe Spirit                                          National Arts Club, NYC
Kennedy’s Children                               City College, NYC
Hurlyburly                                            National Arts Club, NYC
Sorry Wrong Number/The Hitchhiker.     National Arts Club, NYC
William’s Last Chance                            Blue Heron Theatre, NYC
The Line That’s Picked Up 10,000 Babes  National Arts Club, NYC
Lips Together Teeth Apart                      National Arts Club, NYC
A Family Reunion                                  Blue Heron Theatre, NYC
Agnes of God                                        National Arts Club, NYC
The Blond                                             Blue Heron Theatre, NYC
The Sanctuary                                       Blue Heron Theatre, NYC
Gennareniello                                        NYU Graduate Dept., NYC
Three Women Dating Henry                   Princeton Club, NYC
Beautiful Bodies                                    National Arts Club, NYC
Murder Play                                         National Arts Club, NYC
Animal Farm                                        National Arts Club, NYC
La Ronde                                             National Arts Club, NYC
Bless Me Father                                   National arts Club, NYC
Bell, Book, and Candle                         National Arts Club, NYC
Einstein                                              Princeton Club, NYC
A Visit to A Small Planet                       National Arts Club, NYC
Christmas 1933                                   National Arts Club, NYC
Love Allways                                       National Arts Club, NYC
Love Of A Pig                                      National Arts Club, NYC
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof                          Smithers Foundation, NYC
Days of Wine and Roses                       Smithers Foundation, NYC
Taste Of Honey                                   Smithers Foundation, NYC
Key Exchange                                     National Arts Club, NYC
Christmas Carol                                  Presby Players, Port Jervis NY
Young Marrieds at Play                        Smithers Foundation
Storied Lives                                      National Arts Club, NYC
The Best Of Everything                       Princeton Club, NYC
A Delicate Matter                                Princeton Club, NYC
Sister Stories                                     National Arts Club, NYC
Jesus Christ Superstar                        Canton Cultural Center, Ohio
West Side Story                                 Canton Cultural Center, Ohio
Godspell                                            Barberton Summer Musical Festival, Ohio
The Boyfriend                                    Barberton Summer Musical Festival, Ohio
Jacque Brel Is Alive and Well               Akron Summer Theatre, Ohio
Star Spangled Girl                              Akron Summer Theatre, Ohio
The King and I                                   Canton Opera Guild, Ohio
George M                                          Barberton Summer Musical Festival, Ohio
Mame                                               Neil's New Yorker, Mt. Lakes, NJ
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown        Little Theatre, NYC
The Bad Seed                                    Little Theatre, NYC
The Legacy                                        Little Theatre, NYC
Entertaining Mr. Sloan                        Little Theatre, NYC

Positions Held
Barberton Summer Musical Theatre Festival, Ohio           Artistic Director 1974-76
Canton Urban Arts Festival, Ohio                                   Artistic Director 1977-78
Little Theatre on Riverside Drive, NYC                            Artistic Director 1979-80
Film Acting Studio, NYC                                                Founder/Director 1980-2009
Presby Players in Port Jervis, NY                                    Artistic Director 2002-Current
National Arts Club, NYC                                                Board of Governors, Chair of
                                                                                  Theatre/Drama 1982-Current
American ReadersTheatre, NYC, PA ,OR                         Founder/Director 1990Current

Grants Awarded

Richard L. Snyder Fund at the Greater Pike Community Foundation, Smithers Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, EITC Grant in PA,  and The Noel Coward Foundation.