Biography

Donna Snow is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Undergraduate Acting Program in the Theater Department at Temple University where she teaches voice and acting and also directs. She has played major roles Off-Broadway and regionally in such theaters as The Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theater, Syracuse Stage and The American Conservatory Theater. For Temple Theaters, she coached and produced the annual Festival of One-Acts and directed Top Girls, The Homecoming, The Time of Your Life, Uncle Vanya, The Illusion, Bloody Poetry and The Elephant Man. Awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award by the School of Communications and Theater, Ms. Snow was also the recipient of the Christian R. & Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. Senior Director for Undergraduate Advancement, she coaches students for graduate school auditions: seventy-eight of her students have been accepted into major graduate acting programs and thirty have enrolled in the top programs at Yale, NYU, Juilliard, UCSD, Brown, USC, Columbia, UCLA, ART-Harvard, ACT and the University of Washington. Ms. Snow has taught voice, acting and text analysis for The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Circle-in- the-Square in NYC and The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. She is a Master and founding member of Fitzmaurice Voicework. Currently serving as Chair of the Presentation Outreach Committee and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Voice Foundation, Ms. Snow also serves on the accreditation evaluation teams of the National Association of Schools of Theater and of the University/Resident Theater Association. Recently, she directed Marat/Sade and appeared in Oklahoma!, Brigadoon, Anything Goes and as the Stage Manager in Our Town at Temple Theaters and in The Sisterhood at Mauckingbird Theater. Since the summer of 2016, she has been performing and directing at the Bagaduce Theatre Company in Maine where she is an Associate Artist. Ms. Snow has an MFA in Acting from The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and a BA in English Literature with a minor in Theater from the University of Washington in Seattle. dsnow@temple.edu