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Stephen Berenson is an American actor and teacher who was co-director of the Trinity Rep Conservatory and Founding Director of the Brown University / Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting & Directing.[1]
Career
[edit]Berenson made his New York debut in a revival of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End on May 4, 1978 (NYT: "Diving into their roles, the young actors steal the show: Stephen Berenson as the eager newcomer")[2] and appeared in High Button Shoes, Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, Men In White, William Gibson's The Butterfingers Angel[3] and Joe Keenan's Close Enough For Jazz (NYT: "vivid performers, especially Stephen Berenson, a small, bustling, energetic man with expressive eyes and a mobile face who often suggests a young Jack Gilford").[4]
Trinity Repertory Company
[edit]In 1989 Berenson moved to Providence, RI, where he became a member of the resident acting company at the Tony Award-winning Trinity Repertory Company, under artistic directors Anne Bogart, Richard Jenkins, Oskar Eustis, and Curt Columbus. He performed in over 80 productions in a wide variety of roles, from Puck to Shylock, from Frederick Fellowes in Noises Off to Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, from Herr Shultz in Cabaret to Bellomy in The Fantasticks, as well many world premieres and four seasons playing Scrooge in the theatre's yearly production of A Christmas Carol.[5]
Teaching and administration
[edit]With his husband, Brian McEleney, also a member of Trinity Rep's Acting Company and an award-winning director, Berenson was co-director of the Trinity Rep Conservatory, which eventually merged with Brown University to become the Brown/Trinity MFA Programs in Acting & Directing, where he was appointed Program Director (2002-2017) and a member of the Acting faculty, while McEleney was appointed Head of MFA Acting.[6]
Students that trained under their tenure between 1990 and 2021 include John Douglas Thompson, Jennifer Mudge, Liesl Tommy, Amanda Dehnert, Miriam Silverman, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Danny Mefford, Susannah Flood, Andrew Polec, Whitney White, and many others.[7]
In New York he taught at the AMAS Repertory Theatre, under the Artistic Directorship of Rosetta Le Noire, and at the Roundabout Theatre Conservatory.[8] He was a guest instructor at Princeton University and Master Acting Teacher for the Educational Testing Service.[9]
From 1985-2012 he was a member of The Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble in Middlebury, Vermont, where his Shakespearean roles included Feste, Shepherd's Son, Lucio, Dogberry, Friar Lawrence, and Polonius.[10]
In 2017 he was appointed to the Middlebury College faculty in residence at Lincoln College, Oxford.[11]
Later career
[edit]In 2021 he moved back to Manhattan with his husband but they returned to Providence to appear together in Trinity Rep's first production following the COVID-19 pandemic, Tiny Beautiful Things.[12] In New York they performed in Fuente Ovejuna at Theatre for a New Audience,[13] but the production was plagued by COVID closings throughout the run.
Awards and honors
[edit]His awards and honors include a 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship,[14] the New England Theatre Conference's Leonides A. Nikole Theatre Educator of the Year Award, and a Citizen Citation from Providence's Mayor David Cicilline, dated November 8, 2003, for "eminent and selfless commitment to the community through the promotion of cultural understanding and appreciation, heightening our awareness of the pressing issues of today through the theatre and with your tremendous and well-sharpened skills."[15]
Personal life
[edit]Berenson and McEleney celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2026.[16]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Bread Loaf School of English Catalog 2017" (PDF). Middlebury College. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Stage: 'Dead End,' 40 Years Later; 1935 Play Revived". The New York Times. 1978-05-05 – via TimesMachine.
- ↑ "Stephen Berenson". Trinity Repertory Company. Retrieved 2026-08-26."The Butterfingers Angel". AboutTheArtists.com. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ Wilson, John S. (1981-06-22). "Musical Revue: 'Close Enough for Jazz'". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Stephen Berenson". Trinity Repertory Company. Retrieved 2026-08-26.Day, Melissa A. (2018). "Death of a Salesman". The Arthur Miller Journal. 13 (2): 166. doi:10.5325/arthmillj.13.2.0166. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Death of a Salesman". Retrieved 2026-08-26 – via ProQuest."Trinity Rep's 'The Prince of Providence' portrait in light and darkness". The Boston Globe. 2019-09-17. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "The Providence Phoenix News/Features". Providence Phoenix. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Alumni". Brown/Trinity MFA Program. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Stephen Berenson". Brown/Trinity MFA Program. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Stephen Berenson Resume" (PDF). September 2022. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Faculty". Middlebury College. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Bread Loaf School of English Catalog 2017" (PDF). Middlebury College. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Stephen Berenson". Brown/Trinity MFA Program. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Stephen Berenson: A Brief History". Trinity Repertory Company. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Oxford Faculty". Middlebury College. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Trinity Rep Presents Tiny Beautiful Things". Trinity Repertory Company. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Trinity Rep's 'Tiny Beautiful Things' Demonstrates the Power of Theater to Connect, Heal". TheaterMirror. 28 January 2022. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Fuente Ovejuna". Theatre for a New Audience. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Fuente Ovejuna". Playbill. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Fuente Ovejuna to be Presented at Theatre for a New Audience". BroadwayWorld. 2023-03-29. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Power to the People of Fuente Ovejuna". BroadwayWorld. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Edelstein to Mentor 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows". Playbill. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Barry Edelstein to Mentor Lunt-Fontanne Fellows". BroadwayWorld. 2010-06-25. Retrieved 2026-08-26."Top Regional Actors Honored As Lunt-Fontanne Fellows, Join Redgrave For Master Class". BroadwayWorld. 29 April 2010. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
- ↑ "Stephen Berenson – Actor". Retrieved 2026-08-29.
- ↑ "Senate Journal" (PDF). Rhode Island General Assembly. 2016-05-10. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
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