Laura Shink
Co-Director
teaches Acting, Acting II, Advanced Scene Study, Voice & Movement, Audition Technique and Professional Development for the Theatre Department, as well as CI’s Finding Your Creative Voice. Acting credits include originating two roles for Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius and The Nest), as well as thirteen other World Premieres. She has appeared in new plays with The Lark, New Dramatists, Theatre Masters, Women’s Project & Productions, Playwright’s Collective, Huntington Theatre and the Denver Center’s New Play Summit. Off-Broadway credits include the NY Premiere of John Kolvenbach’s Love Song, opposite Ian Barford. She is the winner of the Elliot Norton Outstanding Actress Award, and Improper Bostonian's Best Female Performance (2012) and in 2019 shared the Elliot Norton Outstanding Production Award for The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (Boston Premiere). MFA, Brandeis University, BFA, Concordia University, three-year acting program, John Abbott College in Montreal.
Kristi Artinian
Co-Director
has spent her career in the study and practice of the work of William Shakespeare, and is thrilled to be at Suffolk University. Kristi's enthusiasm for Shakespeare began in elementary school and continued at NYU's Tisch School and Stella Adler Studio, and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She has worked alongside teachers at Shakespeare's Globe in London developing curriculum and running workshops, as well as a consultant for British company Punchdrunk, to bring their production Sleep No More to NYC. She loves directing and performing Shakespeare's work whenever she can, and spent the pandemic directing a fun version of Henry the 5th as performed by some of the finest actors she knows (including her co-director, Laura) ...and a group of classically trained puppets, available soon at UnraisedSpirits.com. She thanks her production team here at Suffolk, and her cast for their hard work and willingness to dive into the brilliance that is Shakespeare.
