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Dennis Schebetta (R) as Lord Goring in Northeast Theater Ensemble's immersive AN IDEAL HUSBAND
Dennis (L) participating in Physical Theatre Workshop, IUGTE, Italy, 2016
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Heddatron by Elizabeth Meriwether, Skidmore College, 2022
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. He holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University and also trained in in the two-year Meisner program with master teacher William Esper in New York. His professional acting credits include Ensemble Studio Theater, Vital Theater, Pulse Ensemble Theater, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Genesius Guild Theater, Northeast Theatre Ensemble, Capital Rep, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 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 Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest all at Saratoga Shakespeare Company, An Ideal Husband at Northeast Theater Ensemble, 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. He has directed productions off-off Broadway at Ensemble Studio Theatre, 29th Street Rep, and Brass Tacks Theatre. Hisplays have been produced Off-Off Broadway, regionally and internationally. The short romantic comedy screenplay MY DATE WITH ADAM won the Steeltown Entertainment Film Factory Competition and premiered at The Three Rivers Film Festival in November. 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. 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, I have directed for City Theatre and 12 Peers Theater in Pittsburgh and my own play W@STE at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, AK. His plays HIPSTER IN LOVE and HALF FULL were included in the Bricolage Urban Sprawl Anthology of 10 Minute plays and my play 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.) 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. |
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