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I AM
Jackie Mishol.
A Theater Educator passionate about changing the way we approach acting, the actor, and the stories we tell
...and a recipient of the President of the United States's Volunteer Service Award
for dedication to the community and service through the arts.
for dedication to the community and service through the arts.
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"To the theatre we dream about!"Jackie is on a mission to make theater with heart! Her classrooms are led with empathy, ambition, and fearless exploration. She has successfully taught ages 3-adult, specializing in the education of the preschool, third-fifth grade, and high school age ranges.
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Experience:
*Current appointments or employment
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Established by President George W. Bush to honor volunteers that give hundreds of hours per year helping others through the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.
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Methods and Multi-Disciplinary Training
Jackie continues to train and use up-and-coming, fresh perspectives to engage and inspire her students to healthfully motivate learning and discovery. Most recently she trained with the Disney Musicals in Schools Program (2023-2024), an initiative of Disney Theatrical Group, to bring their latest methods and techniques for early success in musical theater to her students here in Pittsburgh, PA.
In addition to studies across the traditional and rigorous conservatory-style theater curriculum she had access to at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, she advocated to supplement her training wherever possible. She was simultaneously a work-study student at Carnegie Mellon's The Children's School - a laboratory school actively involved in preschool and kindergarten education, developmental research, and training - where she got early chances to share her love of the arts with young minds and impart her knowledge in topics of dance, movement, and theater while assisting the After-School Program Director. Curricularly, she added early studies in Child Developmental Psychology (through The Loomis Chaffee School's Department of Philosophy, Psychology & Religious Studies), and then collegiately additional topics that have helped inform her as a theater-maker, such as courses in Psychology, Dilemmas of Social and Cultural Anthropology, competitive Guided Independent Study under faculty mentorship regarding social networks, and in a collaborative studio setting explored the connection between Art and the Brain while integrating fine arts practice with the disciplines of biology, neuroscience and psychology.
Mishol understands that the whole person must be considered, not just the individual as "artist," and does her best to move through topics, texts, and classrooms practitioning with heart, and with care, to do no harm while fostering student's development of their own capable voices and stories.
In addition to studies across the traditional and rigorous conservatory-style theater curriculum she had access to at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, she advocated to supplement her training wherever possible. She was simultaneously a work-study student at Carnegie Mellon's The Children's School - a laboratory school actively involved in preschool and kindergarten education, developmental research, and training - where she got early chances to share her love of the arts with young minds and impart her knowledge in topics of dance, movement, and theater while assisting the After-School Program Director. Curricularly, she added early studies in Child Developmental Psychology (through The Loomis Chaffee School's Department of Philosophy, Psychology & Religious Studies), and then collegiately additional topics that have helped inform her as a theater-maker, such as courses in Psychology, Dilemmas of Social and Cultural Anthropology, competitive Guided Independent Study under faculty mentorship regarding social networks, and in a collaborative studio setting explored the connection between Art and the Brain while integrating fine arts practice with the disciplines of biology, neuroscience and psychology.
Mishol understands that the whole person must be considered, not just the individual as "artist," and does her best to move through topics, texts, and classrooms practitioning with heart, and with care, to do no harm while fostering student's development of their own capable voices and stories.
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Clearances.
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IN ADDITION to the above, Jackie Mishol is a successful and consistently working actor, singer-dancer, voiceover artist, and show director who has traveled and performed across the country. She acts for stage and screen regularly, does private coaching, and gives guest lectures + master classes for various institutions. She specializes in immersive, devised and interactive performance work, as well as finding contemporary voice in classical works. She won a regional BroadwayWorld Award in 2022.
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Areas of Expertise or Special Study
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CLASSICS (Greeks & Shakespeare)
Classic Acting Techniques, Instructor (Greeks) - CLO
Shakespeare Through Play, course Creator & Instructor - Steel City Shakespeare Company Shakespeare Monologue Coach - Steel City Shakespeare Co. CMU Coursework: Shakespeare (various), The Faust Legend: At Home & Abroad |
ACTING FOR CAMERA & VOICEOVER
Represented for Film/TV by The Talent Group
Classic Acting Techniques: Voice-over, Instructor - CLO (FY23, FY24) Private Acting Coach - Acting/Camera & go-to Acting for Film/TV class Substitute Teacher/Cover - CLO Pittsburgh Filmmakers School - Acting for Camera study |
DEVISED AND DOCUMENTARY DRAMA
Coursework and Qualifications, with supporting Collaborative Theater Experiences:
- Devised and Documentary Drama with Norman Frisch of The Wooster Group
- Devised Eco-Drama Special Study with Anne D’Zmura (Head of Directing California State University, Long Beach & Chair and Artistic Director of EPIC (Educational Performance in Community), Acted in End of Semester Showcase Performance
- Director’s Workshop, New Works Development Year-Long Course with Connie Grappo of Working Theater NYC ("Working Theater: Great theater should not be a luxury - focused on creating plays for, about and with the working people of New York City”), through Loomis Chaffee
- Activated Anamorphs (Performative Inhabitables and Interactive Prostheses), Acted in Multiple Community, team-devised Immersive & Interactive Performances
- Improvisational Acting I, II, III Special Study - Graduate Level Masters Coursework with Brenda Harger at CMU ETC
- Adaptation, Playwriting, Writing for the Web, Adaptation for the Stage
