Jonathan Ziese
Actor & Educator

Jonathan Ziese Actor & EducatorJonathan Ziese Actor & EducatorJonathan Ziese Actor & Educator

Jonathan Ziese
Actor & Educator

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Teaching Philosophy

Double Double Toil and Trouble - Here We Are Now, Entertain Us

To understand Shakespeare, listen to The Weeknd.


I'm not kidding. I play "Save Your Tears" for my students because the verses are in the exact poetic meter that Shakespeare is famous for - iambic pentameter. (Likewise, the witches of MacBeth could chant to Nirvana). I find that if linked to things a student is already familiar with, even a topic as famously dense as Elizabethan verse can be made comprehensible.


Understandability is one of the four guiding values I use in my teaching.

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Below, you will find information about my education, courses I've taught, lectures I've given, and plays I've directed. If you'd like to download a full CV as a PDF click the link below.

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Education

MFA in Acting

B.A. in Asian Studies

B.A. in Theatre

The New School for Drama

New York City

grad. 2011

B.A. in Theatre

B.A. in Asian Studies

B.A. in Theatre

St. Olaf College

Northfield, Minnesota

grad. 2006

B.A. in Asian Studies

B.A. in Asian Studies

B.A. in Asian Studies

St. Olaf College
Northfield, Minnesota
grad. 2006

Courses Taught

Estrella Mountain Community College

Adjunct Professor: Fall 2018 - Present (Spring 2022)

  • Acting I – Theatre Performance/Production 112
  • Theatre Production I – Theatre Performance/Production 201AA
  • Introduction to Theatre – Theatre 111
  • Contemporary Cinema - Theatre and Film 210

Arizona State University

Faculty Associate: Fall 2019

  • Acting I: Fundamentals – Theatre Performance and Production 102

South Mountain Community College

Adjunct Professor: Fall 2018 - Fall 2019

  • Acting I – Theatre Performance/Production 112
  • Introduction to Theatre – Theatre 111

Phoenix Film Foundation

Youth camp Instructor: July 2019

  • "Acting for the Screen"

Additional Academic Experience

Guest Lecture - "Auditioning for the Camera"

for the course "Acting Concentration for Stage and Screen Seminar"

School of Film, Dance, and Theatre - Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ 2020 

Director - "Look Back in Anger"

a play by John Osborne

EMCC Performing Arts Center. Avondale, AZ 2021

Guest Lecture - "Gazing at Sartre: Dramaturgy of Existentialism"

for the EMCC company of "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre

EMCC Performing Arts Center - Avondale, AZ 2021

Without opinions and objectives one can represent nothing at all. Without knowledge one can show nothing.


Bertolt Brecht

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