Thadd is a director, teacher, and designer whose theatrical interests range from Shakespeare to the Avant-Garde. Based in Virginia, Thadd has performed, directed, and taught for the American Shakespeare Center (1993-2005), and is the founder of the award-winning Foolery Theater (RIP) and Break Theater (ongoing!). For the last 25 years, he has led workshops in Shakespeare, movement and composition for high schools, colleges, and professional theaters in the US and abroad. Thadd has studied with Anne Bogart, Eugenio Barba, Double Edge Theater, Thomas Leabhart, Dah Teatr, and Wlodzimierz Staniewski of Poland’s Teatr Gardzienice, with a specific focus on researching training methods within ensemble work. He toured (2006-2009) with Odin Teatret’s experimental Ur-Hamlet production, with stops at the Ravenna festival in Italy, Grotowski festival in Wroclaw, and at Elsinore castle in Denmark.