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Dennis Schebetta (L) as George in Northeast Theater Ensemble's immersive WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (with Janet Kimlicko as Martha; Photo by Britt McFadden)
Dennis (R) participating in Summer Sling Stage combat workshop, NYC, 2023
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Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley, Skidmore College, 2024 (Photo: Sue Kessler)
WHO I AM
 SILENT SKY, Skidmore College, 2022
Dennis Schebetta is an actor, director, and writer in film and theater. He is currently Assistant Professor of acting and directing at Skidmore College where he teaches directing and all levels of acting including Meisner technique, Shakespeare and acting for the camera. He holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University and also trained in the two-year Meisner program with master teacher William Esper in New York. His professional credits include Ensemble Studio Theater, Vital Theater, Pulse Ensemble Theater, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Adirondack Theater Festival, Genesius Guild Theater, Northeast Theatre Ensemble, Capital Rep, Pittsburgh Playhouse, City Theater, The Hiawatha Project and Off the Wall Theater.
Most recently, he is the co-author (with John Basil) of Building a Performance: An Actor's Guide to Rehearsal, published by Rowman & Littlefield and available now! Recent stage acting credits include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and An Ideal Husband at Northeast Theater Ensemble, The Hatmaker's Wife at Theatre Voices, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest all at Saratoga Shakespeare Company. Other regional credits include August: Osage County at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and Shining City at Off the Wall Theater. Film credits include My Date with Adam, Mulligan, Before the 4th, Abduction, All-Sight, Monongahela, Black Kerchief, Roses are Red and The Dark Knight Rises. Dennis is enthusiastic about developing new works (his own or others) and has worked as a director or dramaturg over the years. He has directed productions off-off Broadway at Ensemble Studio Theatre, 29th Street Rep, and Brass Tacks Theater. Off-Off Broadway, he directed the world premieres of Neena Beber’s Part of the Story at 29th Street Rep and Seth Kramer’s PRELUDE TO THIRTY-FIVE. Regionally, he has directed for the Next Act New Play Festival at Capital Rep, AMERICAN SOLDIER at Albany Civic Theater, and new play readings at City Theatre in Pittsburgh. His plays have been produced Off-Off Broadway, regionally and internationally. DOG PARK OR SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN MAGNUSON is published in Ten 10-Minute Plays, and DISTANCE and DECOMPOSITION are published by Original Works. The play BURNING BOTTICELLI premiered in the 8th Annual New York Fringe Festival, starring Broadway’s original "Gigi" and Mizuo Peck (A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM). (Read the review here.) The short romantic comedy screenplay MY DATE WITH ADAM won the Steeltown Entertainment Film Factory Competition and premiered at The Three Rivers Film festival. The film has won Best Comedy Short in the High Desert Film Festival and has been an official selection of New Filmmakers LA, New Filmmakers NYC, The Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, The Phoenix International Film Festival, 4th Annual Robot Film Festival, Landlocked Film Festival, and the Sci-Fi London Film Festival. Watch the full short film MY DATE WITH ADAM here: youtu.be/qsuUqnFVKnc?si=oY6aiIv_ozZ0_xYP. He's a proud member of Actor's Equity Association and The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. and served as the first Regional Representative in Seattle from 2007 - 2010. Dennis currently resides in upstate New York with his family and enjoys playing harmonica and guitar in the area, seeing concerts, practicing qigong and tai'chi'chuan, walking the trails, and golfing. 
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MY DATE WITH ADAM, directed by Dennis Schebetta, 2013
AMERICAN SOLDIERS by Matt Morillo, directed by Dennis Schebetta, Albany Civic Theater, 2020
DOG IN THE MANGER by Lope De Vega, director, UP Stages, 2015
AGAMEMNON, director, University of Pittsburgh, 2014