Irene Alby
Lecturer
Theatre
Irene Alby received her BFA in Theatre at Concordia University in Montreal, where she also studied three years at the Ecole de Mime Omnibus and participated in Pol Pelletier’s Dojo workshop. She worked with The Other Theatre from 1997 to 1999 and performed in Kaspar, Year Zero and Human Collision/Atomic Reaction, which was presented at the Festival de Théâtre des Amériques in 1999 and won the Montreal English Critics Circle Award for Best Direction and Best Production.
She received her MFA in Acting at Columbia University where she studied under Kristin Linklater, Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart and Nikolaus Wolcz. New York credits include: Aase in Peer Gynt directed by Andrei Serban, The Dancing Fox with the Mettawee River Theatre and Andrei Serban’s Benvenuto Cellini at the NY Metropolitan Opera. In addition to teaching she is currently the Managing Director and a founding artist of the Glacity Theatre Collective (GTC), a professional theatre company in Toledo, Ohio. GTC credits include performing Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Kate in Breathing Corpses.
Office
Center for Performing Arts
Room 2042
Phone
419.530.2254
Fax
419.530.8439
E-Mail
irene.alby@utoledo.edu
