Carter Gill

Carter Gill (Co-Movement and Intimacy Coordinator)(he/him) is a movement director, actor, and educator based in New York and Dallas. He is Visiting Professor of Acting at SMU and has taught at Yale, NYU, Princeton, Marymount Manhattan College, Pace University, and Rider University. His teaching focuses on physical acting, movement, clown, and commedia dell’arte.

Stage credits include Sleep No More, Commedia dell’Artichoke, an original Off-Broadway commedia show co-created with Tommy Russell and Frances Black Projects, and work with Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Group, and Telluride Theatre Company. Film and television credits include Harlan Coben’s Shelter, Evil, Turn, Younger, Law & Order, Banana Split, and a recent feature from Amblin/Universal, directed by an Academy Award–winning filmmaker.

His movement and intimacy direction includes Clue and Our Town (Dallas Theater Center) and Hamlet (Telluride). His directing work includes The Government Inspector; Chris Bayes and Steve Epp’s adaptation of The Servant of Two Masters, Mr. Burns, Small Mouth Sounds, Ubu Roi, A Flea in Her Ear, A Doctor in Spite of Himself and The French Play, a new work by Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco.

Training includes a three-year physical comedy and movement pedagogy apprenticeship with Christopher Bayes and clown study at École Philippe Gaulier. He is currently completing certifications in Miller Voice Method and Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC). He holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Directing from SMU. www.cartergill.com | @carterpgill