Paul J. Soychak

Acting Resume

Height: 5’5"

Weight: 135 lbs.

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Brown

Voice: Tenor (A3 to A5)

Film:

Automatism Tim Proactive Productions

Skullcrusher Thug Edgewood Studios

Moving Targets Sergeant David Giancola Film

The Language of Kickball Devil Cleveland Film Festival

The Haven Mr. Pratt The Haven, L.L.C.

Swimming with Cows Chap SUNY Films Cover Girl

Blues Sammy NYU Film Festival

Unfortunate Coincidence Lead “Love and Bitterness"

Lead Fairbooth Films "I Am So Great... "

Lead The Changing of the Guard

Lead Student Films—VT

Television: Screwed Artie Off Center Productions

Measured Furrows Boy/Champlain Vermont ETV

A Matter of Opinion Bitter One Access Vermont

Theatre:

Scenes, Raps & Sounds: A Stephen Goldberg Retrospective

Don from Don and Tom and Artie from Screwed

The Flynn Space

One Take Productions

Burning Bridges Phil Spectrum The Flynn Space

One Take Productions

Don and Tom Don Contois Auditorium

One Take Productions

Kong Wash Russian Cabbie,

Wrestling Announcer

Club Metronome

One Take Productions

Rough Landing on a

Soft Cranium

Rubber Bud

Club Metronome

One Take Productions

Burning Bridges Phil Spectrum Club Metronome

One Take Productions

Desire Under The

Elves

Brick Green Candle Productions

End Zone Joseph One Take Productions

Screwed Artie The Off Center

Ivanov Borkhin Magellan Productions New

York City , NY

Whore Damon Expanded Arts

New York , NY

Big Al Sammy Zablocki Productions

New York , NY

Midsummer Night’s

Dream

Puck Champlain Arts Company

The Three Sisters Ferapont Moscow Art Theatre

Moscow , Russia

The Jubilee Shipoochin “

The Grapes of

Wrath

The Ensemble Carnegie Mellon University

Doctor Faustus Wrath/Devil “

Little Shop of

Horrors

Seymour A.R.T. Institute Boston

The Cherry Orchard Epikhodov “

Platonov The Man with No

Name

“

Oedipus Rex Tiresias/Chorus Royall Tyler Theatre —UVM

King Lear Fool “

The School for

Wives

Alain “

Our Town Joe/Si Crowell “

God & Death Bursitis/Al University Players

MASTER

HAROLD...and the

boys

Harold Balaganchik Productions

Burlington , VT

3 Masked Stories Storyteller “

Something Amazing Scientist First Night Burlington

Education: Carnegie Mellon University/Moscow Art Theatre School. Master of Fine Arts Degree

in Acting: Boston, MA; Pittsburgh, PA; and Moscow, RUSSIA. 1995

University of Vermont. Bachelor of Science Degree in Theatre/Biochemistry. Magna

Cum Laude (GPA 3.75). Burlington, VT. 1992

Training: Film Technique: Ellen Parks, Lis Orion, Mladen Kiselov, Nikitin

Mikhailkov

Commercial Technique: Bett Potazek

Voice & Dialect: Robert Parks, Robert Taylor, Peter Jack Tkatch, Bett

Potazek

Singing: Bill Reed, David Neiweem, Jodi Albright

Movement: Andre Droznin (Post Graduate), Robin Fawcett, Tim

Carryer

Combat: Andre Droznin (Russian), Tim Carryer (SAFD)

Rhythm: Victoria Santa-Cruz

Dance: Larissa Dmitrieva, Peggy Spina

Acting: Oleg Tabakov, Elisabeth Orion, Mladen Kiselov,

Adolph Shapiro, Mikhail Labonov, Barbara MacKenzie-

Wood, Roman Kozak, Alla Pakrovskaya, Robin Fawcett,

Belinda Boyd, Bett Potazek

Special Skills: Acrobatics & gymnastics; combat & movement choreography; Directing, Russian,

British, Oklahoma, New York, Southern & Vermont Dialects; French & Russian

Language; College Level Arts and Sciences Tutor, Computer Trainer, IT Consultant

PAUL J. SOYCHAK

Movement & Combat Choreographer Resume

Desire Under the Elves

by Robert Cole

Green Candle Theatre

Company

135 Pearl

Burlington, VT

Screwed

by Steven Goldberg

Steven Goldberg, Director

The Off Center for the

Dramatic Arts

Burlington, VT

End Zone

by Steven Goldberg

Steven Goldberg, Director

Flynn Theatre Productions

Burlington, VT

Heart of a Dog

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Off Center for the

Dramatic Arts

Balaganchik Productions

Burlington, VT

The Wash

by Jon Dorf

Expanded Arts

94 Plays in 94 Days Festival

Ludlow Street, New York

City

For Want of a Hero

by John Byrd

Disability in Media

Everywhere

Very Special Arts Vermont

St. Michael's College

Pterodactyls

by Nicky Silver

Balaganchik Productions

Primary Stages

New York, NY

Le Soiree du Fromage

by Company Members

Balaganchik Productions

Royall Tyler Theatre

Burlington, VT

The Bear

by Anton Chekhov

Directing Festival

Royall Tyler Theatre

Burlington, VT

Three Masked Stories

by Oscar Wilde and

Anonymous

First Night

Children's Section

Burlington, VT

MASTER HAROLD...and

the boys

by Athol Fugard

Balaganchik Productions

Company Tour

Burlington, VT

Answers

by Tom Topor

One Take Productions

135 Pearl

Burlington, VT 05401

Ivanov

by Anton Chekhov

Magellan Productions

Val Rader, Director

Ohio Theatre, NYC

Edmond

by David Mamet

Atlantic Theater Company

Burlington, VT

EDUCATION:

Master of Fine Arts Degree in Acting/Movement. Carnegie Mellon University/Moscow Art Theatre School. 1995.

Bachelor of Science Degree in Theatre/Biochemistry. University of Vermont (Magna Cum Laude), 1992.

SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE:

Combat/Movement Choreographer for NADA (NYC), One Take Productions, The Off Center for Dramatic Arts,

Magellan Productions, Atlantic Theatre Company, Balaganchik Productions and Expanded Arts.

SPECIFIC TRAINING:

Directing: Mladen Kiselov (Carnegie Mellon), Roman Kozak and Adolph Shapiro (MXAT), Robin Fawcett and

George Bryan (UVM)

Acting: Elisabeth Orion (Shakespeare), Oleg Tabakov and Alla Pokrovskaya (Stanislavsky), Mladen Kiselov

(Vakhtangoff), Robin Fawcett (Greek)

Movement: Andre Droznin (Russian), Barbara Carryer (Commedia Dell Arte), Robin Fawcett (Mask and Style)

Combat: Andre Droznin (Russian Style), Robin Fawcett (American Style), Tim Carryer and Willis Pendleton

(SAFD)

References available upon request

paul@paulsoychak.com

Paul J. Soychak

Directing Resume

Heart of a Dog

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Director/Producer Off Center for the

Dramatic Arts

Balaganchik Productions

Burlington, VT

On Borrowed Time

by Paul Osborne

Director Rhombus Gallery

Festival

Burlington, VT 05401

The Wash

by John Dorf

" Expanded Arts

94 Plays in 94 Days

Festival

Ludlow Street, New York

City

For Want of a Hero

by John Byrd

" Disability in Media

Everywhere

Very Special Arts

Vermont

Colchester, VT

Pterodactyls

by Nicky Silver

" Balaganchik Productions

Primary Stages

NYC

Le Soiree du Fromage

by Company Members

" Balaganchik Productions

New England Tour

The Bear

by Anton Chekhov

" Director’s Festival

Royall Tyler Theatre

Burlington, VT 05403

Master Harold...and

the boys

by Athol Fugard

Director/Producer Balaganchik Productions

Burlington, VT Tour

Contois Auditorium,

Club Metronome and

The Last Elm Cafe

Three Masked Stories

by Oscar Wilde, etc.

" First Night Productions

Jimmy Swift, Artistic

Director

Ivanov

by Anton Chekhov

Assistant Director Magellan Productions

Val Rader, Director

Ohio Theatre, NYC

Training

Master of Fine Arts Degree in Acting—Carnegie Mellon University/Moscow Art Theatre School

Bachelor of Science Degree in Theatre/Biochemistry—University of Vermont (Magna Cum Laude)

Directing: Mladen Kiselov (Carnegie Mellon), Roman Kozak and Adolph Shapiro (MXAT), Robin Fawcett and

George Bryan (UVM)

Acting: Elisabeth Orion (Shakespeare), Oleg Tabakov and Alla Pokrovskaya (Stanislavsky), Mladen Kiselov

(Vakhtangoff), Robin Fawcett (Greek)

Movement: André Droznin (Russian), Barbara Carryer (Commedia Dell Arte), Robin Fawcett (Mask & Style), Yann

Montelle (Clowning)

Combat: André Droznin (Russian Style), Tim Carryer and Willis Pendleton (SAFD)