Brett Radke

Brett Radke is an actor, director and educator based in Winston-Salem and New York City. He is a Designated Linklater Teacher, a Certified Teacher in The Michael Chekhov Technique, and has performed off-Broadway, regionally and internationally. He has served on the faculty of Fordham University, Marymount Manhattan College, The City College of New York, Long Island University-Brooklyn/The New Group and The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.

As a teaching artist, Brett has worked with The Play Group Theatre, Broadway Bound Kids, Classic Stage Company, Great Lakes Theatre and Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory Outreach Program, and has apprenticed with Jeff Daniels’ acclaimed Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Michigan. Select acting credits include "The Comedy of Errors" (Classic Stage Company), "Everyday Afroplay" (The Bushwick Starr), "Armature" (Cleveland Public Theatre), "The Pitmen Painters" (The Beck Center for the Arts), "Tecumseh!" (Outdoor Drama), "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" (Performance Network), and "Medea" (The Little Globe Theatre, Ukraine). 

I strive to pass along a set of practical tools that will bridge the gap between the intangible and the tangible, allowing my students to cultivate bodies and voices that work in harmony with their hearts and imaginations.

Brett Radke

Awards, Recognitions & Honors

• Recipient of the Bob Hope Fellowship, Columbia University
• Recipient of the Gittlen Achievement Award in Acting, Oakland University
• Recipient "Best Thesis in the Arts" from the Honors College, Oakland University

Organizations

• Actors' Equity Association
• NAAT (National Alliance of Acting Teachers)
• VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association)
• ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education)