Edward Stanley & Blaire O'Leary

Teaches at The Barrow Group Acting School

Instructor: Edward Stanley

EDWARD STANLEY has been a member of the Barrow Group community since 2012. He's worked as an actor and spokesperson in theatre, television, commercials, industrials, voiceover, and print for over twenty five years. During his ten years in Los Angeles he worked primarily in television, with roles on Modern Family, Hot in Cleveland, The Comeback, and Desperate Housewives, among others. Edward has performed extensively on stage in his hometown of Boston, working with SpeakEasy Stage, Provincetown Rep, Boston Lyric Opera, and the Charles Playhouse, and spent two seasons in nearly twenty productions with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Recent credits include Mark Antony with the Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Oberon and Theseus with the Shakespeare Forum, and Duncan in Punchdrunk's Sleep No More.  Edward holds a BFA from Adelphi University, an MFA from the University of Alabama, and has studied with the National Theatre Studio in London.

Instructor: Blaire O'Leary

Blaire O’Leary is a New York based actor, producer, and teaching artist.  She joined The Barrow Group in 2011 as a member of the Apprentice Company.  NY theatre credits include work at HERE, 59E59, The Living Theatre, Governors Island, The Soho Playhouse, Queens Theatre, Dixon Place, Galapagos Arts Space, PopUP Theatrics, International Wow & Shrunken Shakespeare Company.  She is also co-founder of the Brooklyn based Exquisite Corpse Company, where she has produced and performed in both New York and nationally touring productions since 2012.  As a teaching artist, Blaire most recently joined the faculty of New Jersey Performing Arts Center's in-school residency program teaching Devised Theatre.    Blaire holds a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College.