Master Class with Katharine Cullison: Scene work from A Streetcar Named Desire

This master class introduces an approach to truthfully developing the technique needed to perform  Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Students will learn how to apply Uta Hagen’s method of preparing for the roles in this play and will delve into the intentions of the playwright and director to portray the complexities of human existence

Katharine Cullison ’81 is a New York-based stage, film, and television actress (AEA, SAG-AFTRA). In New York, Katharine trained in classical American realism with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof and continued to work closely with Anne Jackson and Austin Pendleton.

She’s performed off-Broadway at Theatre for the New City (in Playing Sinatra starring opposite Austin Pendleton) and HB Playwrights Foundation. Film credits include work with directors Woody Allen, Nora Ephron, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Penny Marshall, Oliver Stone, Elaine May, and Sidney Lumet. On London’s West End she played in Tom Stoppard’s Dirty Linen. Television includes appearances in All My Children and Law and Order. Recent work includes the role of Leah in the staged reading of Rogues and Vagabonds by Bernard Kops in London. Cullison received her bachelor's degree from Grinnell College in 1981 with a major in theatre and a minor in English.