Studio Instructors: Kim Tobin and Philip Lehl
Kim is excited to be back in Houston after fourteen years away.
Throughout the years Kim has worked as an actor, director, teacher, producer and writer. Kim grew up in Houston , Texas where she studied acting/directing at the University of Houston . Part of her education and training there included working with Jose' Quintero, Edward Albee and Sidney Berger (Shakespeare). While studying in Texas she won an "Actress Excellence"
award at the annual Texas College Play Festival in 1992 for her portrayal of Sarah in Children of a Lesser God . In Texas she also appeared in productions of, Whose Life is it Anyway, Shadowbox, Steel Magnolias, Blind Date, Cabaret, Midsummer Night's Dream and Children's theater productions.
She moved to New York in the summer of 1993. During her years in New York she has had the privilege of studying and/or working with Gene Frankel, Seth Barrish, Lee Brock, Kevin Klein, F. Murray Abraham, George C. Wolfe, James Earl Jones, Kevin Klein and Marian Seldes to name a few. Kim was an officer of the New Mercury Theatre Company from 1994 to 1996 where she produced and acted (Sally) in the 1995 revival of Sam Shepard's, A Lie of the Mind . She was also Artistic Director of the New York theatre company; Blue Sphere East, the sister company to the award winning Los Angeles theatre company; Blue Sphere Alliance. Other favorite Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway credits include: Talk to me Like the Rain..., A Streetcar Named Desire, The Fifth of July, Fool For Love, Savage In Limbo, The Smell of the Crowd, Bed, Bawd & Beyond, Impassioned Embraces (Emotional Recall), Ctrl, Alt, Delete and Trust and most recently the Barrow Groups production Short Stuff Two and their production of her original One Woman Show , Inside Out. Kim also spent three and a half years in Los Angeles where she studied with Sandy Marshall and Larry Moss. Credits during her stay in LA include; The World Premiere of Children of Shame , The Interrogation, Masseur, Baby with the Bathwater, Check to Check, and The Foreigner . Kim can also been seen in the films; The Alarmist, The Big Lebowski and Sex Maniac as well as on Sunset Beach .
Kim has worked and studied continuously over the last 15 years with some of the greatest teachers and actors of our time. She is trained in the acting techniques of Konstantin Stanislavski and Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg, in addition to her training with the current leading teacher professionals in NYC and LA. She has taught Improvisation, script analysis and Scene Study classes from beginning to advanced levels over the last eight years.
My goal is to teach you not to inhibit who you are but to embrace it."
~Kim Tobin
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PHILIP LEHL has been a Houston-based professional actor and teacher since 2001.
He is a 2008-2009 Resident Company Member at the Alley Theatre, and has appeared there in over twenty productions over the last eight years. Favorite roles at the Alley include Michal in The Pillowman; Gail in Our Lady of 121st Street; Kerry Max Cook in The Exonerated; Young Housman in The Invention of Love; Horatio in Hamlet; Christopher Wren in The Mousetrap; and Bob Cratchit and Fred in A Christmas Carol..
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Roles at Stages Repertory theatre include: Bradley in Mr. Marmalade; Kenny in Lady; Cosme McMoon in Souvenir; Charlotte in I Am My Own Wife; Dominic in Amy’s View; Ensemble in Dirty Blonde; and The Narrator in The Pavilion.
He played Mickey in Blood Brothers on Broadway for a year, opposite Carol King, Helen Reddy, and Petula Clark. He was also in the Ensemble of the Kennedy Center and Broadway production of Robert Schenkken’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Kentucky Cycle.
Off Broadway, Philip was in Hundreds of Hats, the Howard Ashman review, at the WPA Theatre, directed by Michael Mayer; and created the role of Volodya in Polly Pen’s musical, Bed and Sofa.
He toured the country as Charles Clarke in the First National Tour of Titanic.
Other theatre credits include work at TUTS, the Houston Shakespeare Festival, Paul Hope’s BCCM, the McCarter Theatre, St. Louis Rep., Missouri Rep., Indiana Rep., Long Beach CLO, and Vermont’s Weston Playhouse.
Philip’s film and tv appearances include The Nanny, Martial Law, Hollywood Off-Ramp, Tripwire, Last Assassin, and Final Voyage.
Philip’s teaching experience includes scene study and audition classes at the Alley Theatre; Shakespearian Verse classes at and workshops at Stages Rep; as well as master classes presented at Drake University, Iowa State University, Evansville University, Texas A&M University, and University of Houston Downtown.
Philip was educated at Drake University, the National Theatre Institute, Moscow Art Theatre, and The Juilliard Drama Division.
He has studied acting with Morris Carnovsky, John Stix, Michael Langham, Michael Kahn, Gerry Guitierrez, William Coleman, Michael Barton, Steve Stettler, and Marian Seldes.
Voice and Speech teachers include Nancy Lane, Robert Neff Williams, Elizabeth Smith, Tim Monich, and Brooks Baldwin.
He studied Movement and Mask Technique with Moni Yakim, and Pierre LeFevre.
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