Terence Cranedonk

Terence Cranendonk is an actor, director, and playwright. He has directed productions of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, and a collection of Chekhov one-acts that he entitled I Now Pronounce You, at Lorain County Community College. Other directing credits include Brecht’s Good Woman of Setzuan and his own adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia. In 2012 he was an artist in residence in Bogota, Colombia, where he was invited by the Academia Superior des Artes de Bogota to direct a production of Nikolai Gogol’s Marriage (El Casamiento). While in Colombia, Terence also led workshops for students and professional actors, as well as performed his solo performance, I Dreamed of Rats. Terence was co-founder, performer, writer and director with Mustard Seed Theater Lab in New York City from 1986 to 1989.  From 1992 to 1999, Terence was a member of the New World Performance Laboratory, with whom he toured and performed throughout the Midwest, Europe and South America. From 1994 to 1999 he was Director of Cleveland Public Theatre’s Annual New Plays Festival.

As an actor, Terence has performed Off Broadway and regionally at venues such as the Kennedy Center, New York’s Public Theatre, Home for Contemporary Theatre, and Target Margin. Local performances include Death and the Maiden (with Mamai),The Gamblers and Confessions at Kennedy’s in Playhouse Square; Tear It Off at Convergence-Continuum; I Dreamed of Rats at CATAC; the Equity MPC production of Heartbreak House; A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Akron Symphony;Endgame, Ferdinand the Bull, and The Nutcracker at Cleveland Playhouse; Stars Fell All Night, The Hairy Ape, I Dreamed of Rats, Fable of the Cloister of Cemeteries,Woyzeck, and The Book of Saints and Martyrs at Cleveland Public Theatre; Crave with Theatre Ninjas; several installments of the Beyond the Score series with Cleveland Orchestra. In addition, Terence has taught acting, dramatic literature, and theatre history at The University of Akron, Cuyahoga Community College, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lake Erie College.

He received his BA in Theater Studies from Yale University, and his MA in Theatre Arts from The University of Akron. Terence also studied acting with the Polish Laboratory Theatre’s Ryszard Cieslak, as well as at the Michael Chekhov Studio, and is a graduate of the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre. In addition, Terence is a Certified Feldenkrais Method Practitioner, and teaches classes and workshops in the application of Feldenkrais Method to the performing arts.