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Gregory Wallace

Lloyd Richards Professor in the Practice

Gregory Wallace is an actor, director and teaching artist with almost fifty years of experience in the professional theater. His career includes numerous appearances in film, television, Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in regional theaters, where he has worked with some of the leading directors in the American theater, including John Doyle, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Carey Perloff, Mark Wing-Davey, Adrian Hall, Israel Hicks, Mark Lamos, Irene Lewis, Austin Pendleton, Bill Irwin, John Rando and many others. Mr. Wallace has performed in a variety of acting companies, including Ernie McClintock’s 127th Street Repertory Ensemble as well as a national tour with The Acting Company. From 1999-2011, he was a member of the resident acting company at American Conservatory Theatre, where his credits included performances in Clybourne Park, As You Like It,Travesties, Gem of the Ocean, A Doll’s House, The Three Sisters, Waiting for Godot, Master Harold… and the Boys, and Angels in America. While at A.C.T., he was a core faculty member in the M.F.A. Acting program, teaching such courses as Contemporary Scene Study, Acting Chekhov, and Heightened Language in Action. From 2011-2016, he served as Chair of Graduate Acting at the University of California, San Diego. He is the recipient of numerous awards including an Audelco Award for Best Actor, several San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle awards and an Honorary MFA from A.C.T. Mr. Wallace received his M.F.A. in Acting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

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gregory.wallace@yale.edu