Jennifer McCray Rincon
Director of Acting
Jennifer McCray Rincón received her BA in Theatre Studies from Yale University and an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama. She was recipient of an NEA Directing Fellowship at Playwright’s Horizons in NYC and a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Bogota, Colombia. After many years in New York, Ms. Rincón came to Denver as the Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory, where she remained from 1991 through 2008. At the DCPA Ms. Rincón taught acting in the 3-year MFA Acting program and directed over 100 productions including Equus, Othello, The Laramie Project, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, The 365 Project, and Monte Carlo. Ms. Rincon was the staff repertory director for The Acting Company out of Julliard, teaching and directing national touring productions of Shakespeare and other classical work. She teaches in English and Spanish.
Gary Grundei
Director of Music
Gary Grundei is an award-winning composer, pianist, sound designer, and teacher whose music has been heard at the Kennedy Center, Denver Center, New York Stage and Film, Boulder’s Chautauqua Community House, Naropa University, Vintage Theatre, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Occidental College, the Ohio State University, and various modern dance performances. He has worked with Bill Pullman, Meredith Monk, and Barbara Dilley among others, and is the founder of the experimental music ensemble, the living room project. He also writes for and plays with the band High Fiction.
He has performed original musicals and played gala events for the Denver Broncos and the Coors family. He has taught for many years at Naropa University in the undergraduate music and graduate theatre departments. He has performed completely original songs on ukulele and mandolin in Ireland and the US.
Robert Davidson
Director of Movement
Master teacher, musician, aerial dance performer and choreographer—has been Head of Movement at the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver since 1997. Prior to that he was director of his own aerial dance company, touring nationally and internationally, and receiving numerous grants and creative fellowships. Throughout his career he has collaborated with many diverse theatre directors and acting teachers on hundreds of classical and experimental projects. His expertise lies in teaching Skinner Releasing Technique, movement improvisation, and aerial dance on low-flying trapezes. A member of Who’s Who for life, he gardens passionately in Denver whenever the weather allows.