Dennis is proud to announce that the book Objectives, Obstacles and Tactics in Practice, edited by Valerie Clayman Pye and Hilary Haft Bucs, which features his chapter "Money in Your Pocket: Meisner, Objectives, and the First Six Lines" is now available, published by Routledge. You can purchase a copy of the book directly on Amazon.

Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice is the first book that compiles practical approaches of the best practices from a range of practitioners on the subject of working with Stanislavski’s "objectives," "obstacles," and "tactics."

The book offers instructors and directors a variety of tools from leading acting teachers, who bring their own individual perspectives to the challenge of working with Stanislavski’s principles for today’s actors, in one volume. Each essay addresses its own theoretical and practical approach and offers concrete instructions for implementing new explorations both in the classroom and in the rehearsal studio.

In "Money in your Pocket", Dennis takes  Meisner’s famous Repetition exercise further, connectingimprovisation to the first six lines of scene work. By having students approach their scene as “an improvisation with text,” he takes the pressure off the student perfecting the character objective, and focuses on play, which in this case is throwing “snowballs.” Schebetta explores William Esper’s perspective, “a good objective is like money in your pocket,” which means “objectives are not something you can act … but actions are the specific building blocks of behavior upon which you achieve (or don’t achieve) your objective.”

Dennis is excited to be directing the contemporary play American Soldiers by Matt Morillo at Albany Civic Theater.  Performances begin January 30th and run until February 16, 2020.

In this dramatic and funny play, the patriarch of a politically prominent family in Long Island, who is also a Vietnam veteran, struggles to hold his family together when his eldest daughter, an Army veteran, returns home from deployment in Iraq. Through a tug-of-war of morals and conformity, long buried resentments and scars are revealed, forcing the father to confront painful memories he believed were buried. 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please go to the ACT website.

Dennis is excited to make his acting debut with the Northeast Theatre Ensemble in their site specific and immersive production of An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, playing the witty Lord Goring.  Directed by Dr. Krysta Dennis, the production runs three weekends, Thursdays through Sundays, from April 11-28. Thursday through Saturday performances take place at 7:30 pm; Sunday shows are at 3 pm. Performances are inside the historic Ten Broeck Mansion in Albany, built in the 1790s.

Guests will arrive for Sir Robert Chiltern's evening party, be handed champagne and then move from room to room as the play progresses.

Seating and tickets are limited due to the nature of the performance venue, so purchasing tickets in advance is required. Tickets can be purchased online here.

According to Oscar Wilde, "Sooner or later, we shall all have to pay for what we do." But, he adds,  "No one should be entirely judged by their past."

If a young man makes a mistake early on in his political career, should he be held accountable for it twenty years later? Wilde tackles this question with his trademark wit and style in "An Ideal Husband." NorthEast Theatre Ensemble will be bringing this delightful 1893 play to life in an immersive site-specific performance at Ten Broeck Mansion in Albany. This environmental production will take place in various spaces throughout the mansion, so come prepared to move around and enjoy cocktails, a party at the Chilterns' house, and tea with some formidable (even ruthless) women.

Ten Broeck Mansion is located at 9 Ten Broeck Place in Albany. Parking is available in the mansion's lot. The performance space is ADA accessible, but please notify us in advance so we can make sure you are properly accommodated.

Dennis is excited to be part of a local project shooting in October, a TV Pilot called MULLIGAN, serving as the Extras Casting Director.

​Created and written by local actor, Patrick Cannon, the TV pilot is being helmed by Steve Parys (Gone, Outsiders, Concussion) and produced by Ashley Kate Adams (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Royal pains) of AKA Studio Productions and Jim Kierstead (Broadway’s Kinky Boots, Waitress, The Great Comet of 1812) of Kierstead Productions, Inc. So far the project has garnered support and involved over 40 local professionals. 

Read more here in the Pittsburgh Triblive feature story.

Mulligan is a story of family, addiction, redefining home and the pursuit of redemption: "Upon release from a two-year stint in jail, fallen golf prodigy and Pittsburgh native, Jack O’Mally, accepts a job at his brother’s Driving Range and Miniature Golf Course. Jack finds himself at the confluence of his past, present and future. "

Dennis is pleased to announce that he has been cast in the short film, Before the 4th, directed by Eric Lorenz and starring Tenique Mathieu. Filming will begin this July with a premiere date scheduled for next year.

Dennis will be playing one of the lead roles, Grant, a father to a bi-racial girl who is adjusting to a new life after moving to Pittsburgh from New York City. The short film handles racial tensions in a comedic, yet warmhearted way as we see things through the eyes of this loving family. Dennis is also pleased to be able to strut his guitar skills in this film!

More information can be found on the IMDB page. 

Dennis is performing as Black Stache in the UP Stages production of Peter and the Starcatcher by Ricke Elice based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, i n the Charity Randall Theater, from March 30 to April 9th. This fun, rollicking prequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan has been wowing audiences since its debut on Broadway many years ago. 
For tickets and more information, please click here.
From the website: "When starcatcher-in-training Molly meets an orphan boy longing for a home, they embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Based on the novel by comedian Dave Barry and author Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatcher is a swashbuckling, grownup prequel to Peter Pan that will hook you from the beginning with its action and humor, and soon your imagination will take flight all the way past the second star on the right and straight on till morning."

Dennis is proud to announce that he will be attending the HBMG Foundation's 2017 National Winter Playwright Retreat in Creede, Colorado, in cooperation with Creede Repertory Theatre (CRT).

Dennis will be attending the week of January 8th through the 14th and will be developing his play with music Soldier Song, which he did a workshop of in October of 2016.

​For more information and to see all the writers attending this year, please check out this link.

From the HBMG Foundation website: "Nestled between the cliffs of this winter wonderland is a LORT D Theatre boasting some of the best performances in the United States. But CRT only has a summer performance season, so the Foundation and CRT want to use the serenity and creative energy of the Rocky Mountain winters to set the stage for new play development. Last winter, 30 playwrights from across the U.S. accepted our invitation for an extraordinary creative retreat."