Ms. Gleason is a director, actor and teaching artist. Directing credits include projects with Benchmark Theatre, Off-Square Theatre Company, Miners Alley Playhouse, and the DCPA Education Department. She is a teaching artist with the DCPA Education Department and a former faculty member of The New York Film Academy and The Film Academy in Vienna, Austria. As an actor, Ms. Gleason has performed extensively throughout the United States and in Europe. Broadway credits include the U.S. premiere of The Pillowman and Noises Off. Off-Broadway credits include performances with The Roundabout Theatre Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Richard Maxwell’s NYC Players, The Kitchen, HERE Arts Center and many more. Regionally she has worked with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Playmakers Rep, Northern Stage, Off-Square Theatre and Remains Theatre, Chicago. European credits include The Hebbel Theatre, Berlin and Vienna’s English Theatre. Locally, she has performed with the Denver Center Theatre Company, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, Local Theater, Stories on Stage and THEATREWORKS. She is currently a member of the Arvada Center Black Box Repertory Company. Ms. Gleason studied at Stella Adler Conservatory, Shakespeare and Co. and with SITI (Suzuki Actor Training).
